This is very good.

If blue states and cities had a peacetime bond drive to outlast this administration, that “debt” could be purchased by a progressive administration too. Same with complementary currencies of all kind. Whether it’s money or debt is politics, not economics.

Wide spread understanding of money as a public utility not a finite zero sum fight with billionaires.

That is all that endogenous money really is: the courage to issue it, met by a public capacity that has already rehearsed its legitimacy. moneyontheleft.org/2025/09/18/t...

"Today’s challenge is to remember that history and mobilize it—to see in Greenbacks, war bonds, Blue Bonds, and complementary currencies not oddities of fiscal history, but usable precedents for democratic survival."

Mayoral front-runner Assemblymember @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social joined striking workers in a show of solidarity at their Bronx picket line on Monday. The only mayoral candidate visiting that morning, Mamdani vowed to continue to fight alongside the workers.

We relaunched our canvassing operation a month ago— and our volunteers already surpassed 235k doors knocked, including 39,700 this past weekend. There's a hunger in our city for a new kind of politics and it's motivating people to participate at a scale they never have before.

That, in a nutshell, is the kind of radical, insightful, and necessary way of thinking being advanced in this piece by @moneyontheleft.bsky.social. I welcome more of us on the Left to join in the radical task of advancing how to make money & credit serve our ends. moneyontheleft.org/2025/08/24/h...

the cat is out of the bag. @citizenactionny.org is endorsing @delgadoforny.bsky.social. Glad to be in Syracuse with 100+ citizen action members making the announcement. Let’s go.

New Yorkers deserve a Governor who will fight for us—who will push back on Trump, not cut deals with him, and make our state safer and more affordable for all of us. That’s why we’re proud to endorse Antonio Delgado @delgadoforny.bsky.social for Governor!

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Our labor creates vast wealth, but private banks create the most of the money used to control who owns and uses that very wealth. Understanding this system in order to change it is a central task that we on the Left must undertake if we are to defeat fiscal fascism and replace it with socialism.

What politics can become! Democrats need to abandon austerity politics and begin embracing let’s get to work and everyone can help approach. We are capable of building and delivering so much!

This campaign has produced the best ads/content of any Democratic campaign I’ve covered since Obama ‘08 and it’s not really close.

✨New (Old) Episode!✨ moneyontheleft.org/2025/09/02/t... We are proud to publish a remastered version of our third episode (ever!) with Fadhel Kaboub, now with new a transcript & art. Please listen, read & share! 🎧 👩‍💻 🙌

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Phonebanked for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for NYC mayor tonight and felt hopeful to speak with so many people excited to vote for him and volunteer. Lots of ways to volunteer and get involved: www.zohranfornyc.com

A stunning finding 😉 efficient should be banned from education- effective is the word that likely leads to more successful achievement of our missions.

This is all exciting work and also calls for us to be leading such projects in our classrooms as well. We are all points/credit creators! moneyontheleft.org/the-uni-curr...

✨New essay!✨ How can a scavenger hunt be a form of insurgent fiscal policy? This weekend's #ZcavengerHunt ran on endogenous credit, not tax dollars, creating circuits of care & coordination. It’s a rehearsal for how we provision public life from the ground up. Read more here!

The time is now!

In addition to creating a joyous event, Zohran Mamdani just showed the stupidity of Fox News's "Crime is so bad in New York City, people are afraid to go out in the street or take the subway!!!"

Who wants the New York State government to convene this year to #TaxTheRich, pass #NY4All and #DignityNotDetention? ✅ People who work for a living ❌ People who own things for a living ✅ Zohran Mamdani ❌ Cuomo clown car ✅ Candidate for governor Antonio Delgado ❌ Candidate for governor Kathy Hochul

I had thought that MMT was basically defunct as an intellectual project, but this smart and interesting piece suggests that there is still some life in it after all. moneyontheleft.org/2025/08/13/b...

💥 NY RESIDENTS: Your donation gets matched 6-to-1! That means $5 = $35 for our campaign. Help us hit our goal and fuel this people-powered movement. secure.actblue.com/donate/ad4ny...

“…the reparative frame…is simple: it dignifies both technocratic craft & movement pedagogy as distinct forms of credit…It asks us 2 re-value strategies written off in the heat of political split, & re-read losses as rehearsals.” @willbeamon.substack.com @nharnie.bsky.social @nathantankus.bsky.social

✨New Essay!✨ @greenbackbetter.bsky.social argues we should rethink the binary of “official” vs. “unofficial” money. He proposes a more useful lens: democratic & publicly responsible monetary practices versus rogue & publicly irresponsible ones. Please 👩‍💻 and 🙌!

“…a different horizon: one where new currencies, like Unis or Blue Bonds, work precisely by making their embeddedness in public infrastructure visible and contestable—expanding the field of fiscal coordination rather than evading it.” HT @greenbackbetter.bsky.social CC @nathantankus.bsky.social

Hypothesis: If money is a designed human construct, then we can design experiments that test various design elements to yield alternative outcomes.

Thrilled to see this exchange published alongside some brilliantly generative analysis. So much of the worldmaking vision of the Black radical tradition dances implicitly around a framework of public credit or endogenous money creation. The challenge, it seems, is to tease that out more explicitly.

“We need credit infrastructures that are open, democratic, and resilient. Not credit as a judgment, but credit as a commitment. Not a test of worthiness, but a project of shared responsibility.” Yes! Well done Will Beaman! moneyontheleft.org/2025/07/31/a...

I think reforming public money is the kind of experimentation that is needed. Talk about connecting promises to results and building relationships from given contexts that have the potential to melt coalition tensions moneyontheleft.org/2025/07/28/i...

The Democratic establishment confuses triangulation with leadership and treats stability as a virtue in and of itself. There’s a chasm between what we say and what we deliver. We continue asking voters to show up while we refuse to show up for them. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

Delgado for Gov!

“Complementary currencies do not introduce a new kind of value. They enlarge the democratic value systems that already exist—and allow wider scales of recognition and inclusion in the infrastructures we need to live.” Terrific piece.

Make time for this as soon as you can. We must understand the current iteration of totalitarian creep as mutually dependent with a proposed radical revision to the monetary order. We need alternatives. This is one. One that centers schools & other public goods.

✨ New essay by the MotL Collective! ✨ The work of left organizing has value. It's time we built systems that recognize & expand this value. Our latest essay explores complementary currencies as tools to build movements that can't be starved out by austerity. Please read & share! 👩‍💻 🙌

New! 👩‍💻 ✨Accounting Identities or Accounting Analogies?✨ MMT begins with a simple premise: it's just accounting. Government deficit=non-government surplus. But is this identity or analogy? @greenbackbetter.bsky.social explores the deeper social entanglements & capacities hiding in our ledgers.

How to New York Times-Proof Mamdani’s Playbook: Turning Coalition Specifics into Fiscal Possibilities

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Important discussion. Important paper. Especially now, as state violence cascades into open legitimacy crises and dollar hegemony lurches toward its death throes. Time to rethink our money myths—especially the notion that behind money creation necessarily stands the man with the gun.

This conversation traces the development of Rob’s long-standing interest in theories of trust from his doctoral research in literary studies towards an increasing fascination with the topic of money which eventually led him to MMT, neochartalism and the Money on the Left project.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s post-victory video mapped a real voter coalition. What if we talked about city budgets with the same radical specificity? @greenbackbetter.bsky.social's new essay explores how to cut the "fiscally responsible" red tape and show what our cities can actually do.

"‪@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social‬’s style of vivid coalition storytelling hints at something urgent. Imagine if his next video did for the city’s fiscal fabric what he just did for his voter base: named it, mapped it, showed how easily it could be recombined into new forms of shared work and care."

Tremendous thanks to Steve Grumbine for having @wilbenjamin.bsky.social and I on the Macro N Cheese podcast to discuss *Blue Bonds.* 1/

Why do people even believe such nonsense? It’s such a weird story with so little evidence.

MotL 81 is live! 🗣️ ✨ Legal & Political Foundations of Capitalism with Jamee K. Moudud ✨ moneyontheleft.org/2025/07/01/l... Please listen & share! 🎧 🙌 *Transcript forthcoming

The phrase “institutions matter” is a common refrain among economists. For Jamee K. Moudud, however, this proposition doesn’t go far enough, leaving a host of problematic assumptions unquestioned. Explore Moudud's critical solution in our new episode. moneyontheleft.org/2025/07/01/l...