The End of the American Experiment. 1776 to 2025. Via UNFTR Media YouTube Channel @UNFTR youtu.be/zBUxIa_5cuM?...

Yanis Varoufakis: Technofeudalism and the Death of Capitalism Via Glenn Diesen YouTube Channel @GDiesen1 youtu.be/PFRrTuVyhNg?...

Israel's Pressure Campaign Against Charlie Kirk (w/ Max Blumenthal) via The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel @ChrisHedgesChannel youtube.com/watch?v=mzBa...

“Growing up, I was heavily into sports, and you're given these slogans: ‘It doesn't matter whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.’ I realized that was a lie. You could be the worst-behaving character in the world. If you won, it didn't matter.” www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

Bill Black: Myerson's Ode to Crony Capitalism Via @dollarsandsense.bsky.social www.dollarsandsense.org/bill-black-m...

Former Goldman Sachs CEO during 2008 crash says markets are ‘due’ for a crisis: ‘It doesn’t matter that you can’t see where it’s coming from’ Via @yahoofinance.com finance.yahoo.com/news/former-...

Perhaps these kinds of crazy valuations for highly suspect, debatable investments (e.g. Winklevoss/Gemini, et al) are because we are pumping $1T+ in interest payments on the debt into the economy? Via @yahoofinance.com finance.yahoo.com/news/gemini-...

A shadow central bank based on a Trump stablecoin: Is this as bad as this conversation makes it sound @rohangrey.bsky.social?

Deep dive with Chris Cuomo on the Trump family stablecoin grift. Do not sleep on this issue. We don't have much time to stop the Senate from passing the last two crypto bills that could privatize monetary policy. Related - if this issue is your jam follow Molly @molly.wiki White.

The bitcoin of AI grifts. A relative few within the financial system benefit. AI is being setup to be just another parasitical force robbing the whole. How will this improve or even stablize society or any social system for that matter? Via @yahoofinance.com finance.yahoo.com/news/oracle-...

Is capitalism the correct economic system for a world where human labor is obsolete, replaced by AI, AGI, Superintelligence? Via @yahoofinance.com www.yahoo.com/news/article...

AI, AGI, Superintelligence: What is the point of life? Just genetic dynasties of their megalomaniacal founders? Via @yahoofinance.com www.yahoo.com/autos/ev-and...

“He redefines currency as a tax credit…showing that the government, as a monopoly issuer, sets the price level through its spending. Thus, unemployment and price instability are political choices, not economic necessities.“ via @thinkbrics.bsky.social thinkbrics.substack.com/p/the-moneta...

More people need to understand that finance is destroying the US. Much of the ~$US 37T in US Debt is held by these global asset managers because it’s collateral for them and the overnight @federalreserve.gov Fed Funds Rate pays 4.33%, GUARANTEED!! investingintheweb.com/blog/largest...

Maybe we need to widen the definition of what a paid human job is and who/what creates that job within a better economics framework. Pavlina Tcherneva @ptcherneva.bsky.social discusses that in: The Case for a Job Guarantee: bookshop.org/beta-search?... finance.yahoo.com/news/labor-m...

Why does the US equate health insurance with healthcare? Like education, shouldn’t healthcare be a public good @petergeorgescu.bsky.social?

Financial Capitalism is destroying the fabric of our social system, a civil society, which is what the capital is derived from in the first place. Via www.gsb.stanford.edu www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/cap...

Blood money…only in the US, where insurance is very profitable healthcare. “During the second quarter of 2025, UnitedHealth Group Incorporated (NYSE:UNH) returned $4.5 billion to shareholders in the form of dividends and share repurchases.” Via @yahoofinance.com finance.yahoo.com/news/unitedh...

It’s financial capitalism. Everything (people, places, things, ideas) abstracted to units of account then mostly distributed to a relative few by Wall Street. Your discipline is a decades long partner helping to obfuscate that fact. As but a humble layperson, I don’t think I’m alone in my thinking.

Encapsulates MAGA/Republican, Blood-and-Soil, nationalistic, neoliberal, tech bro, military industrial, regressive, financial capitalism.

While US companies seek moats/patents around closed-source AI IP to maximize profits, China’s targeting its AI models as open source, encouraging app development. Reminds me of ARPANET’s open standard protocol, TCP/IP for the Internet. Via @scmpnews.bsky.social www.scmp.com/tech/big-tec...

Death panels and Blood money: Warren Buffett Via @reuters.com www.reuters.com/business/hea...

On the other site @stephaniekelton.bsky.social wrote: Link to quoted piece: www.chinabankingnews.com/p/chinese-ec...

Our political economy needs a better option than just: 1) MAGA/Republican: Blood-and-Soil, nationalistic, neoliberal, tech bro, military industrial, regressive, financial capitalism Or 2) Establishment/Democratic: neoliberal, tech bro, military industrial, regressive, financial capitalism

The world and its human inhabitants can only afford war in order for a few sociopathic humans to dominate and subordinate all branding its conquest with a unit of finance. How can those humans ever hope to achieve something like this without crushing all? thetravelbible.com/the-europe-u...

Blood-and-Soil Neoliberalism — Dissent Magazine “Quinn Slobodian: I would define the alt-right, or the far right, as an attempt to undo the efforts of egalitarian liberal humanism over the last 200 years…” Via @dissentmag.bsky.social www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

“Authoritarian regimes have had a long history of targeting intellectuals that don’t agree with them.” “…it often begins with attempts to discredit the intellectuals as unpatriotic…, it usually ends with execution or imprisonment.” An exception via @bigthink.com: bigthink.com/politics-cur...

How Refining Works Lesson 1 Via @mrglobaltoo.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=1nrf...

Maher/Will—legacy red-baiting, McCarthyist, 1950s Republicans—think line-workers are communists because they want more than just survivial. AOC, Bernie, Mamdani aren’t communists either. They’re progressives, started by republicans T. Roosevelt and R. La Follette. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_Mo...

It was in the article you shared! Did you even read it? They’re not registered, they’re eligible. Major difference.

Echoes of Stalin in Trump’s sacking Bureau of the Labor Statistics chief Via Professor Steve Keen profstevekeen.substack.com profstevekeen.substack.com/p/echoes-of-...

Unless we start pouring investment into human education and healthcare, rather than Wall Street and Silicon Valley Tech, it will be game over for critical thinking and humanity as we knew it.

@wbmosler.bsky.social Trump correctly understands. If only corporate Democrats would engage with you, @stephaniekelton.bsky.social, et al to also understand that combined with #mmt, they could change humanity for the best! Via @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

Mayor @cavalierjohnson.bsky.social city.milwaukee.gov/mayor, it would be great if Milwaukee’s streetcar, “The Hop” thehopmke.com, connected to its major university, UW Milwaukee uwm.edu, like Kansas City’s streetcar @kcstreetcar.org connects to its major university @umkc.bsky.social. 🚊

Goldwater sounds like a member of today’s mainstream Democratic Party establishment which is every bit as responsible for Trump as are the Republicans.

Finance, Insurance, Real Estate: FIRE is about to destroy our long journey towards a kinder, gentler, civil society and the sustainability of our planet’s system. Replacing Trump is not enough. To rid humanity of his survival of the fittest ideology, people together must take the power from FIRE!

Do we live in a world where all life is precious or just whatever our political economic system says is precious? Via lifeafterfilm.com/screenings vimeo.com/1084080115?f...

The Challenges of CRISPR: Risks, Off-Target Effects, and Regulation #crispr Via molecularsciences.org/content/the-... finance.yahoo.com/news/crispr-... Via @yahoofinance.com

As you know, Wall Street (aka, the free market) is not a friend of working class America, @aoc.bsky.social. Democrats must find a way to see that it is the primary political problem dividing the country and stay laser focused on it. finance.yahoo.com/news/wall-st... Via @yahoofinance.com

The idiocracy is fed this type of pure propaganda that bitcoin is anything but a charlatan’s scheme: “Vanguard Goes Big on Crypto, Thanks to the Index-Fund Boom It Unleashed.” Via: @yahoofinance.com finance.yahoo.com/news/vanguar...

Marissa Armas of @cbsnewstexas.bsky.social is a true journalist who boldly and bravely holds power accountable by persistently asking tough questions until the truth is known! Thank you! Via www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/p...

At about the 3:00 minute mark, Shimon Prokupec holds the feet of Mayor Joe Herring, Kerrville, TX to the fire 🔥. Via @cnn.com youtu.be/xptneI2W3io?...

I literally just read a passage from Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death" earlier today about the NYT reporting of Reagan, all the way back in 1983, and it seems that news reporting of the news has only gotten worse.

Free online and very short ;) moslereconomics.com/wp-content/u...

Clinton, Obama, and corporate Dems ran/still run cover for Wall Street monopolists allowing them to deceptively use finance and economics to commodify social and environmental systems, splintering then reassembling the pieces as $US balances in millionaire/billionaire wealth accounts. 🧵

Saudis appear to be adjusting prices upward to compensate for $US depreciation:

@wbmosler.bsky.social, could you share any thoughts generally on his comments and specifically on $USD vis-à-vis oil? youtu.be/He__t362JL8?... via @mrglobaltoo.bsky.social

My favorite interview is from 16 years ago with bank regulator, Bill Black, exposing the fraud perpetrated on Main Street. He opens by saying, “…the wholesale greed and blatant transgressions of Wall Street has reminded us that the best way to rob a bank is to own one… .” youtu.be/Rz1b__MdtHY

“As a result of this audit, we now know that the Federal Reserve provided more than $16 trillion in total financial assistance to some of the largest financial institutions and corporations in the United States and throughout the world,” said Sanders. www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releas...

“First, some background on Sachs. The term “shock policy” really originated with Milton Friedman who used the term “shock policy”. It was first applied to Chile by the so-called – Chicago Boys – who studied at the University of Chicago under Friedman and then… .” billmitchell.org/blog/?p=29888