How financial parasites and debt destroy the global economy. Professor Hudson continues the discussion on the financialization of capital and its global effects.KILLING THE HOST exposes how finance insurance and real estate the FIRE sector have gained control of the global economy at the expense of industrial capitalism and governments. The FIRE sector is responsible for todays economic polarization the 1 vs. the 99 via favored tax status that inflates real estate prices while deflating the real economy of labor and production. The Great 2008 Bailout saved the banks but not the economy and plunged the U.S. Irish Latvian and Greek economies into debt deflation and austerity. This book describes how the phenomenon of debt deflation imposes austerity on the U.S. and European economies siphoning wealth and income upward to the financial sector while impoverishing the middle class.