Scott Ferguson
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@moneyontheleft.bsky.social
is leading the way on how to finance more public needs/goods without falling into neoliberalism's usual traps. Here,
@publicporpoise.bsky.social
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describe how a public bank + public bonds can create a positive "loop."
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Bright D Limm 임대중
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Tree canopy coverage of 30% is a worthy goal. The limiting factor (as usual) is funding, with the cost ~$500M. This is yet another reason we must work to bring even more people into our
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Will Beaman
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It would be great if Graeber’s commentary in “Bullshit Jobs” was about how the jobs people and communities want don’t exist, rather than a libertarian diatribe about how public employment always metastasizes into bullshit.
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Matt Seybold
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When you get your first paper set from a new class and they are filled with awkward sentence constructions, sloppy quote integrations, ham-fisted transitions, and homonymic language errors.
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Rob Hawkes
about 13 hours ago
“Unless we are open to new approaches to university finance, we will remain trapped by the austere logics that are destroying our cherished institutions. Unless we are willing to act imaginatively and fearlessly to save our universities now, we will soon find that there is nothing left to save.”
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UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance
by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…
https://moneyontheleft.org/2025/01/16/uk-universities-in-crisis-time-to-transform-higher-ed-finance/
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Rob Hawkes
about 13 hours ago
The vandalism disguised as “budget responsibility” continues.
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Susan H
about 19 hours ago
Excited to welcome
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to the CTRG annual conference!
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Daytona Slim
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There’s a union buster conference going down in Tampa…Ybor no less. My great grandfather was a unionized cigar roller in Ybor back when it was still a Spanish/Italian/Cuban neighborhood. Union busters can go to hell.
#UnionBustingIsDisgusting
#unionstrong
#1u
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The Onion Has a New Plan to Take Over Infowars
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/infowars-alex-jones-the-onion.html
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Will Beaman
about 24 hours ago
The phrase “complementary currency” suggests a binary with official currency that is descriptively wrong. The dollar is already a hybrid of credit forms, created and retired through different institutions, tied to different obligations, and coordinated through public design. 1/
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Will Beaman
2 days ago
Then I got really lucky hehe. We can turn the screw again to think about how the historiographer/author/eye is an infrastructural achievement with its own history rather than an outside or purely immanent position as it is often romanticized
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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller
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history is unfixed; reactivating the archive - even from absence, or destruction, or silence (so many archives are hollows/negative spaces/chiaroscuro to begin with) - is always possible: the animating force is the speaking/compositing eye of the historiographer, i.e. narrative (or apophenia).
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Will Beaman
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It’s more like history’s backstage
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Will Beaman
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There is no dustbin of history. For better and for worse, archives can always be reactivated in new combinations
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Benjamin Wilson
2 days ago
talking about it as a commodity. Neutral - this is monetary silencing.
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Benjamin Wilson
2 days ago
So glad we have an experiment to tell us that we can raise the minimum wage. What a relief.
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social
has monetary experiments ready to go and many scales.
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Money on the Left
3 days ago
Cohosts Natalie Smith and Will Beaman discuss mutual aid, highlighting the potentials of its often neglected monetary and linguistic dimensions.
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26 – Mutual Aid By Any Other Name (NEW TRANSCRIPT!)
Cohosts Natalie Smith and Will Beaman discuss mutual aid, highlighting the potentials of its often neglected monetary and linguistic dimensions. Reading against Dean Spade’s interpretation of…
https://moneyontheleft.org/2021/08/28/26-mutual-aid-by-any-other-name/
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Money on the Left
3 days ago
“Money is … treated either as a false identity or as a site of identity’s failure. I want to start from a different premise.”
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The Ontology of the Monetary Image: Référance and Reconstruction
By Will Beaman Money is often introduced in critical theory as a problem. It appears as the medium that makes unlike things commensurable by reducing them to sameness, the abstraction that removes …
https://moneyontheleft.org/2026/03/14/the-ontology-of-the-monetary-image-referance-and-reconstruction/
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Money on the Left
3 days ago
Establishing a public bank that regularly purchases municipal debt would not only significantly expand a city’s fiscal capacity to support its communities and environs, but also reclaim regional public finance from a parasitical and punishing bond market.
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Out of the Shadows: Public Banking for Municipal Finance
By Tyler Suksawat & Scott Ferguson Editor’s Note: The following essay, originally published on March 3, 2026, offers a foundational theoretical framework for what has since been concretized as …
https://moneyontheleft.org/2026/03/03/out-of-the-shadows-public-banking-for-municipal-finance/
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Money on the Left
3 days ago
Check out our virtual pamphlet!
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Introducing: The Seattle Loop
We are thrilled to share a sneak peek at the Seattle Loop, a fiscal strategy for generating public money for urgent needs in and beyond the city of Seattle. The Strategy: By establishing a municipa…
https://moneyontheleft.org/2026/03/31/introducing-the-seattle-loop/
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Money on the Left
3 days ago
We recount the events surrounding Elon Musk & the DOGE boys’ unconstitutional takeover of the Treasury’s Bureau of Fiscal Service, while explicating the right-wing theory of the “unitary executive” that underwrites such actions.
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Digitizing the Fisc with Rohan Grey
Rohan Grey, Assistant Professor of Law at Willamette University, joins Money on the Left to discuss his urgent new paper, “Digitizing the Fisc.” During our conversation, we recount the …
https://moneyontheleft.org/2025/04/01/digitizing-the-fisc-with-rohan-grey/
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Money on the Left
3 days ago
Defending the CFPB
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Defending the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with Tyler Creighton
In this episode, we speak with Tyler Creighton about the ongoing struggle to save the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from defunding and closure at the hands of Russell Vought in the se…
https://moneyontheleft.org/2026/02/01/defending-the-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-with-tyler-creighton/
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Will Beaman
3 days ago
Thanks for reading!! The other motive here is displacing the profit and tax revenue financing mechanisms in the first place, to enable direct money creation rooted in real capacities. It’s a “non-reformist reform” in that other sense too!
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Benjamin Wilson
3 days ago
Why would you trust orthodox economists? None predicted the GFC and there explanations for economic activity are rooted in Newtonian physics. So much so money is not even defined or indexed in their textbooks. It is conservative pseudo science with historical links to fascism & white supremacy
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Money on the Left
3 days ago
Become the Loop
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The Seattle Loop: Reclaiming the Public Interest
By Tyler Suksawat & Scott Ferguson A palpable, but indecisive enthusiasm permeated a recent Seattle arts forum, revealing a city desperate for a future that no one quite knows how to build, let…
https://moneyontheleft.org/2026/04/08/the-seattle-loop-reclaiming-the-public-interest/
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Money on the Left
3 days ago
“Capitalization remains a necessary legal and institutional procedure in this arrangement, but it no longer serves as the first conceptual question or the primary political bottleneck.”
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The Feasibility Loop: When the Market Has No Idea
By Will Beaman Proposals for public banking are typically met with a predictable set of feasibility concerns: whether sufficient capital can be assembled, whether deposits can be secured, and wheth…
https://moneyontheleft.org/2026/04/09/the-feasibility-loop-when-the-market-has-no-idea/
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Money on the Left
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“Under the usual bond-market model, public investment is judged through the willingness of private investors to hold municipal debt at a given yield. The Loop points in a different direction.”
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How Cities Can Evaluate Public Investment Without Bond Markets
By Will Beaman A series of recent articles from Money on the Left has argued that cities can sell municipal bonds to their own public banks, reclaiming public finance from private bond markets and …
https://moneyontheleft.org/2026/04/03/how-cities-can-evaluate-public-investment-without-bond-markets/
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Bright D Limm 임대중
3 days ago
There is a way to radically loosen Wall Street's grip on cities' finances—if we are bold enough to envision and organize for it.
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social
of
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social
helps us envision an alternative way to "rate" public bonds.
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Seattle, welcome to the Fellowship of the Loop. It’s going to be quite a journey.
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Asif Kapadia Taking Over From Michael Apted to Conclude Landmark Brit Docuseries ‘7 Up’
The groundbreaking UK series 7 Up, that since 1964 has captured the lives of a group of Brits every seven years, is to conclude with 70 Up
https://variety.com/2026/tv/global/asif-kapadia-conclude-landmark-brit-docuseries-7-up-1236724388/
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Money on the Left
4 days ago
"We view the city’s central public bank as a foundational infrastructure that allows labor unions, housing advocates, and arts and culture coalitions to fashion their own distinct loops according to unique needs."
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The Seattle Loop: Reclaiming the Public Interest
By Tyler Suksawat & Scott Ferguson A palpable, but indecisive enthusiasm permeated a recent Seattle arts forum, revealing a city desperate for a future that no one quite knows how to build, let…
https://moneyontheleft.org/2026/04/08/the-seattle-loop-reclaiming-the-public-interest/
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Inevitable automation meets the terrors of unemployment: the Toy Story franchise is back.
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‘Toy Story 5’ Debuts Enchanting CinemaCon Footage: Woody and Buzz Lightyear Fight Over Who Can Save the Toys From Digital Extinction
'Toy Story 5' shares two scenes at CinemaCon, which show Buzz and Woody taking on Lilypad, a digital threat to their friends.
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/toy-story-5-pixar-cinemacon-footage-buzz-woody-fight-1236723954/#recipient_hashed=d02720c28d85e98f98772f1f3351f004bbf74f1073b6c1b36460374dee578f47&recipient_salt=168e188bdb359a486e3b034520bb5744c0a736dd47d83150319ce1a002b964ba&utm_medium=email&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_campaign=newsalert&utm_content=676948_04-16-2026&utm_term=311544?utm_medium=&utm_source=&utm_campaign=&utm_content=&utm_id=
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Mary Joy
4 days ago
When I looked at Bluesky this morning there were posts about a new book in law and culture or law and humanities and I thought I bookmarked it but apparently not. Did anyone else see a new book on law and culture (I think edited)?
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Dr Aliette Ventéjoux
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#Gatsby
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Attention Film Studies folx: in our new essay, we also offer a critical reading of Hans Richter’s experimental short film, Inflation (1928).
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In addition to arguing that “inflation” is a deeply misleading term, we model a practice of reading modernist texts that draws out money’s contestability as a capacious public medium of provisioning across all spheres of collective life, past & present.
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McKenna Schueler
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My latest roundup of reported activity by Florida’s union busters and the employers in Florida that hire them:
caringclassrevolt.substack.com/p/busted-wha...
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Busted: What Florida’s union busters have been up to | April 2026 (Part 1)
A round-up of reported activity by Florida's union avoidance consultants and employers in Florida that hire them.
https://open.substack.com/pub/caringclassrevolt/p/busted-what-floridas-union-busters-cdc?r=dxyr2&utm_medium=ios
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Erin Reed
5 days ago
1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people. The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Montana Supreme Court Rules Its Constitution Entirely Protects Trans Citizens In Landmark Ruling
The ruling will have enormous impacts for transgender residents in the state.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/montana-supreme-court-rules-its-constitution
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We can and should be doing this. If it makes investment bankers quiver with fear, we’re on to something.
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Money on the Left
5 days ago
The legal system is designed to make money appear private, scarce & bound to so-called “market forces.” Yet the Seattle Loop reveals that money is public, inexhaustible & always open to democratic innovation.
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The Seattle Loop: Reclaiming the Public Interest
By Tyler Suksawat & Scott Ferguson A palpable, but indecisive enthusiasm permeated a recent Seattle arts forum, revealing a city desperate for a future that no one quite knows how to build, let…
https://moneyontheleft.org/2026/04/08/the-seattle-loop-reclaiming-the-public-interest/
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Will Beaman
5 days ago
If we read these as messages about the quality of provisioned work and social infrastructure, rather than as “false claims” about employment rates or the price of some basket of goods, then the issues Will Stancil raises can be put in dialogue with other issues. We deserve better social media too!
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Will Beaman
5 days ago
The issue is “the economy” isn’t really a separate sphere—It’s a lived arrangement of work, infrastructure, media, and public life that shapes dignity, belonging, etc. People are often reacting to that arrangement, even when conventional economic language and indicators cannot show this.
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Officials understand the need for public banking, but are they willing to fight tooth and nail to achieve it?
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How Public Banks Can Meet Public Needs — Shelterforce
Amid federal funding cuts, the idea of public banks is gaining ground as a tool for states and localities to finance community development.
https://shelterforce.org/2026/04/15/how-public-banks-can-meet-public-needs/?fbclid=IwdGRjcARN6VpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEejn_hUi6oXh_kvThnAJyc0xi8oniWs1874DXigd7UyKHBwIp7SfmQSndHas4_aem_qqaKwhxMwg-iVG2Iq-iXwA
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Reparative Internationalism
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Reparative Internationalism
Toward an International Democratic Public Finance Framework By Will Beaman The liberal international order faces a crisis of legitimacy, and the struggle to define its aftermath is already being or…
https://moneyontheleft.org/2026/03/25/reparative-internationalism/
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How stupid does the Times think its readers are? How about some more honest headlines: “Corporate America Beats War Inflation by Inflating Prices” “Firms Passing War Costs to Workers & Consumers” “Raising Prices Raises Prices”
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Corporate America Aims to Preserve Profit Streak During War in Iran
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/business/economy/companies-profits-prices-iran-war.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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6 days ago
OMG too real
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