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Hall’s scholarship more crucial now than ever

Libertarians dreamed of the zone as a way to escape the state but it became the favored tool of state capitalism; now the same has happened with crypto.

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

They’re calling it Gaddafimaxxing

There’s an unprecedented power grab unfolding in the US. An authoritarian coalition led by Trump & a network of oligarchs. Far from chaotic, each move is part of a wider strategy. Here’s how to understand & fight back. 🧵 🖋️ @rmabud.bsky.social @brusselermel.bsky.social shorturl.at/H0f6v

I humbly offer my assistance to the EU and the French Republic to address this crisis

It’s Easy to see that Risk Parity only works with The Devil in a Blue Dress.

“Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.” -Bobby Sands x.com/AidanSimardo...

What should plans for economic democracy look like today? And what is the best way to pursue projects for economic democracy in practice? Join Dr Robin Archer and @neilwarner.bsky.social on Monday to mark fifty years of the Meidner plan.

Talked to an HVAC guy who's working two jobs to pay rent. He has no savings and worries about retirement. Tariffs have made it hard for him to import parts. Then this big strong guy who never cries, he said, he said to me, "I just wish Trump's signature was on the dollar." Then he burst out crying.

This has been a LONG time in works: my paper on how dollar hegemony is a form of international law-making power. It includes a long methodological/theoretical section on why strong versions of the 'law constitutes political economy' aren't convincing papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

A couple weeks ago, I gave a talk at the New School on Arjun Jayadav's and my forthcoming book, Against Money. Here is an edited version of the talk as a long blog post. jwmason.org/slackwire/at...

Ms Rachel’s got better politics - and a better theory of Politics - than most people in American public life and it’s not really close

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

What a time to put in our worst 45 mins of the season. Awful error from Kepa for the 1st, far too passive defensively for the 2nd, but City had been well on top after the break and the pressure they put us under paid off. Very, very disappointing after a fairly solid 1st half. We deserved nothing

Eid Mubarak, New York.

if there's one conclusion that the study of both labor history and imperialism converge on, it is that the richest people in the world are happy to burn money on control, power, impunity. and the "everything is about profit" version of anti-capitalism does not survive serious contact with either

Not a single dollar more for this illegal war.

These imbeciles started this ridiculous war for no reason and with no plan. They let the most craven tech/VC assholes lay waste to our institutions for the lols and now they’re gonna try and tell us we have to spend whatever it takes. No war but class war!

Looking for accessible, high-quality, carefully-documented data on wealth #inequalities, levels, composition, and trends? Explore the GC Wealth Project. The extensive data can be visualized and/or downloaded. @stone-lis.bsky.social 👇👇👇

It would be nice if people remembered this piece of wisdom from the greatest economics tweet in history (and the one I am most insanely jealous of not having written, especially because it was a reply to me).

As we hear today about Q4 growth being downgraded & 3.1% core inflation, a reminder about how wildly unserious our National Conversation™️ about Joe Biden’s economy was in 2022-23:

Again.

You have to make sacrifices for the very clear and articulated objectives of our War in Iran that is also not a war that we’ve also already won

🧵 Jake Goss and I have a new paper where we study how legalized mobile sports betting affects consumer credit and how betting spills across state lines into places where it’s still illegal. newyorkfed.org/research/staff_reports/sr1184

And then I, Jake Tapper, will host Republicans after the vote to lie about the war & platform the view that Democrats are voting against the troops. I have no agency of my own. I am but a humble mirror reflecting public opinion & conveying The Questions that Must Be Asked of The Democrats.

Send this fucking psychopath to The Hague

Send this fucking psychopath to The Hague

You know @kkdumez.bsky.social warned us about this shit

If after reading @gelliottmorris.com's excellent piece on how most voters are non-ideologues you want to know how these non-ideologues still reason about politics in a halfway predictable way - we have a paper on that: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Fiscal consolidation lowers real output, raises the unemployment rate and increase income inequality. Contractionary effects stronger during recessions; supports the Keynesian view that periods of weakness are not suitable for consolidation efforts. Blog summary of our research:

every time one of these markets dissembles and parses and weasels their way out of paying people on a technicality my heart grows three sizes like the grinch. i love to watch these people get scammed on crypto and nfts and gambling. they deserve it and it's funny and it's not my problem at all

Beyond insane

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

The idea that “Israel got us into this war” is fairly common among my global politics students. It takes a bit of discussion to identify that many, many members of the MAGA coalition have been agitating for war with Iran for years. “But Trump is an isolationist?” being the common rejoinder

everything else aside, it's so funny that the picture is of him posting. all he ever wants to do. terminally online

Sobering new figures on financial precarity in midlife Britain from our high-quality cohort data.

Sir Kale Starmer 🥬

Sky reporting that the pants pooping is going to be the story of the night

So the UK’s doing stop the steal that’s fun

Quite surprising release from the french administration today: https://github.com/datagouv/datagouv-mcp Dunno if this is the first MCP server released officially by a country, but nonetheless, this is a great move.

Your regular reminder that everything went to hell at precisely the moment that we lost the Starman z"l

So for these guys it’s like having a Tamagotchi that’s sometimes their slave and also is destroying the planet?

Grad students, postdocs, and junior faculty: it’s the 7th annual American Political Economy Summer Academy May 31-June 1. Free travel and lodging (“it’s free real estate”) www.americanpoliticaleconomy.org/events/summe...

Look I know it’s important to let yourself enjoy things and not allow these assholes to infiltrate every experience/emotion you have but this is just so fucking embarrassing

It's so cool that the fbi is basically the make a wish foundation for one podcaster

holy lmfao nate