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In 1967, Michael Hudson was handed a memo
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The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire

In 1967, Michael Hudson was handed a memo by a former State Department employee

In 1967, Michael Hudson was handed a memo by a former State Department employee

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In 1967, Michael Hudson was handed a memo
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by a former State Department employee.
Duration
8 seconds
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17
Timestamp in Movie
00:38:28
Uploaded
Oct 30, 2025
Genres
documentary
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Movie Summary

How Britain transformed from an imperial power to a financial power.
- In 1967, I was given - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:22
- In 1967, I was given
The State Department, through Chase, asked me - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:13
The State Department, through Chase, asked me
The plan was to organize offshore banking centers - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:08
The plan was to organize offshore banking centers
And the hot money wouldn't come directly into Chase, - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:09
And the hot money wouldn't come directly into Chase,
What happened was that the Latin American criminals, - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:20
What happened was that the Latin American criminals,
- [Narrator] By moving offshore dollars back - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:11
- [Narrator] By moving offshore dollars back
- Every country looks to its foreign exchange rate. - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:06
- Every country looks to its foreign exchange rate.
The foreign exchange rate is not only imports and exports. - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:05
The foreign exchange rate is not only imports and exports.
It's capital movements, and if you look - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:15
It's capital movements, and if you look
What goes up and down are called errors and omissions. - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:05
What goes up and down are called errors and omissions.
What the United Nations and the IMF call errors - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:07
What the United Nations and the IMF call errors
It's the reason that it's omitted is they don't like - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:07
It's the reason that it's omitted is they don'...
In the 1930s, Roy Ovid Hall, - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:13
In the 1930s, Roy Ovid Hall,
I was told, in Washington, the argument was, - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:07
I was told, in Washington, the argument was,
"It's just, we don't look at it." - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:11
"It's just, we don't look at it."
You don't call it criminal inflow and outflow. - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:06
You don't call it criminal inflow and outflow.
- [Narrator] In the 1960s and '70s, Britain was faced - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:08
- [Narrator] In the 1960s and '70s, Britain was faced
Money was flowing out, - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:07
Money was flowing out,
Britain realized that it too could support the value - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:12
Britain realized that it too could support the value
But just as in the United States, - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:07
But just as in the United States,