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A woman on the till in Tesco thanked me for choosing her and not the self serve option. It landed hard. Never really gave it much thought. A simple choice I'm free to make. We can change things for the better in easy, peaceful ways sometimes.

Gun violence is a uniquely American problem. Over 150 mass shootings in 2026 — and we're not even halfway through the year. On Gun Violence Awareness Day, we remember the countless people lost to gun violence in this country and commit to keeping up the fight to end it.

From John Plender's FT column: "At the same time, Treasury funding is increasingly reliant on shorter-term securities, which means constant rollover risk. With US public debt approaching its highest ever level, this combination sounds like the very ... 1 of 2

UAW endorses Abdul El-Sayed in major boost for Michigan Senate bid www.metrotimes.com/news/uaw-end...

The EU is developing plans to cut taxes on renewable energy and make electricity systems more flexible as high costs continue to weigh on the region’s economy

“…if markets stumble it creates a much more dramatic impact on the economy than we would have seen before. I refer to it as a Jenga tower that’s top-heavy. As you remove support from the bottom, the tower becomes more fragile. To me, that’s a very fragile economy.” english.elpais.com/economy-and-...

How Europe revived a city Britain had written off EU investment helped turn a Merseyside in decline into a growing regional economy. This is one insider's account westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/europe/...

The world’s ten richest people — almost all Americans — saw their collective net worth increase by $220 billion in May. These ten people are now worth a combined $2.9 trillion. The bottom 50% of U.S. households, is worth $4.3 trillion. Wondering if inequality is out of control?

"The cruelty remains the point and the thing about regimes like this one is they never seize searching for people to subjugate. They are always looking for new enemies and if they can't find them they will always try to make them." - @jamellebouie.net Watch 👇

Delinquencies are up across loan categories since 2024. About 13% of credit card balances, and 10% of student loan balances are currently delinquent. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart.

Elon about to run off with everyone's 401k in the most obvious pump and dump of all time like a heel cashing in his Money in the Bank briefcase.

George Santos called me after my story revealing federal investigations into his suspected market manipulation on Kalshi. And he said: "This story is going to get you a gun in your face." Then he lied about it. www.npr.org/2026/06/04/n...

Free newsletter: The dawn of token-based-billing has shown that generative AI doesn’t have a return on investment. It's too unpredictable, too unreliable, you can't easily measure the cost of tasks, and organizations are already pulling back. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-doesnt-have-roi/

Here are four of the books we recommend in our new podcast. Two that look at Prebisch, one that deals with the 'infant industry' argument & one that looks at ideas. #EconSky @cacrisalves.bsky.social @devikadutt.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social @surbhikesar.bsky.social @johncassidysays.bsky.social

Apropos of the ongoing debate, here is the PWT GDP per capita figures for both EU-27 and EU-15 countries relative to US. Using current PPP (Krugman), constant national prices (Aghion et al.), and the chained PPP (which I prefer).

Wow, this is frightening. First DJT put nepo baby Pulte in as head of National Intelligence (ZERO natsec experience) and now this. Plus Pulte is only doing NatInt PART TIME! He's keeping his old job too - for 210 days wo needing approval. #natsecsky #econsky #MAGA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

32yrs ago these 3 Movies were playing in Cinemas at the same time.

"All this effort on the part of DHS to keep people from seeing into the facilities, and to keep those trapped inside from describing what is happening there, suggests that ICE feels that they have something to hide," writes @moiradonegan.bsky.social.

Delighted to have won #TenToTheTop and win a smart speaker. It was nice to be able to share with listeners our podcast as well. We can now officially say it has featured on Radio 2 and the Vernon Kay show! #EconSky podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

1/19 Over the last several years, Alexander Matros and I have been on a very strange journey. We started with a technical idea about contest theory, and ended up with a paper about institutions. Let's try the power of #EconSky - please like and repost!

While Americans are getting squeezed by rising costs, Trump wants as much as $200 BILLION more for his war with Iran. That’s on top of his $1.5 TRILLION defense budget request. How much is this war really costing Americans? I’m pressing for answers.

J. Bradford DeLong: "I am surprised how few people know what a bad person and bad economist Kevin Hassett is." #econsky #finsky braddelong.substack.com/p/re-the-tru...

D Bergholt, @furlanetto.bsky.social, N Maffei-Faccioli, & E Pappa compare the evolution of labour's share of income in Europe & the US. In Europe there was a sizeable decline between 1980-2000, but the US experienced gradual decline with a sharp fall after 2000. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

With Europe exporting a large surplus of savings outside the continent each year, Olivier Garnier identifies the problem not so much as capital flight, but insufficient development of equity savings, with European capital markets too narrow and fragmented. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

Just completed a congressional oversight visit with members of the New Jersey delegation. Delaney Hall should be shut down. This is not America.

“I’ve been eating BBQ since before Ken Paxton’s first indictment” is a great joke. I’d love to see Talarico swap out the punchline each time he tells it. “…since before Ken Paxton cheated on his wife” “…since before Ken Paxton was impeached by his own party” There are hundreds of options.

The Protesters At Delaney Are Protesting FOR Decent,Non Filthy Food,And Access To Healthcare, For The "Inmates".......

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Come out and Protest Trumps Birthday, It’s Patriotic! No Kings

It's crazy how we have both the World Cup and America 250 this year, and almost no one cares about them because this regime has wholly sucked the joy out of even momentous national events.

Could Stephen Colbert Save PBS? Inside the Campaign Working to Make It Happen latenighter.com/news/stephen...

NET MIGRATION HAS FALLEN BY 82% SINCE ITS PEAK YET NEARLY HALF OF BRITONS INCORRECTLY BELIEVE ITS ACTUALLY INCREASED It’s a shocking indictment of the abject failure of UK news shows youtu.be/WuSKdLtKHCs?...

“There is a logic, in our current world, of having administration-connected people involved in big economic projects or investments,” says a former senior US official in the region. “It is unsavoury but so much of my country’s politics is unsavoury these days.” #MoralCompass #PoliSky #EconSky

The old "what happens when the wind stops?" excuse is dying. Plunging battery costs, sodium-ion storage, and clever tech like "agrivoltaics" (farming under solar panels) are proving we can run the grid on clean power around the clock. 🔋🌾

The betting odds on Hormuz "reopening" (defined as 60 transit calls/day, 7 day mov avg) is pretty much as low as ever #EconSky @kalshiofficial.bsky.social econbrowser.com/archives/202...

ROSENBERG, on that downward GDP revision to 1.6%: “.. Strip out the swing from the federal government reopening and the contribution from non-farm inventories, and that headline GDP number would have only been +0.8% QoQ annualized.”

🇧🇷 Brasil condena decisão dos EUA de classificar PCC e CV como organizações terroristas e chama família Bolsonaro de "falsos patriotas envolvidos com o crime organizado" Em nota, o Planalto disse que a medida americana é "arbitrária" e alertou para riscos à soberania nacional eao sistema financeiro

Recently accepted by #QJE: “Why Doesn't the United States Have National Health Insurance? The Political Role of the American Medical Association,” by Alsan (@marcellaalsan) and Neberai (@yneberai.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

For those interested, here's the essential reading (no paywall): paulkrugman.substack.com/p/challengin...

Ken Paxton is throwing everything he has at us. He’s called me a radical leftist. He’s called me a fake Christian. He’s even called me a vegan! I’m an 8th generation Texan — I've been eating BBQ since before Ken Paxton’s first indictment.

Neue Analyse: Was ist eigentlich mit den Überschüssen der "guten Jahre" passiert, dass "wir" nun dem Gürtel enger schnallen sollen?

Massachusetts is now the first state to certify a rideshare driver union after granting Lyft and Uber drivers' collective bargaining rights. This is the largest new private-sector union in over 85 years. 70,000 workers are now represented by the App Drivers Union.

The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds. Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.

I was watching Tom Hanks WWII last night and was struck at the German People being surprised at how quickly they transformed into a war country following a dictator. I'll bet THEIR liberals wrote lots of strongly worded letters and waited for midterm elections, too.

Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America.  He embodies the broken system we’re running against. It’s time to come together: The People vs. Ken Paxton