An interesting article by our Masters student, Darren Quinn. arena.org.au/private-equi...

The big problem for US Artificial Intelligence service providers is that the current Administration has dealt the final blow on US as a trustworthy partner. China and US are viewed now as the same 'trustworthy' tech providers (data gathering, spying etc). So people will start adopting the cheaper...

It will be the law of the jungle. Market analysts are already predicting that rich countries will outbid poor countries for scarce oil and gas supplies. This means energy famine for the Global South. Link: www.ft.com/content/6ca1...

What the orange guy wants is another puppet .

We have a new preprint out for open review at Ocean Science, which discusses the evidence for the #AMOC already slowing. 🌊 If you have any comments, counter-arguments, or things we may have missed - please post them there! (Or here.) Thanks! egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

To defeat the extreme right an economics for the common people is indispensable. Honored to be part of a new Global Council for progressive economics under the leadership of @mazzucatom.bsky.social and Spain‘s Minister of the Economy @carloscuerpo.bsky.social. Spain’s success is showing the way.

The Hormuz dance... #StraitOfHormuz #oil #hormuz #fossilfuels #Iran #America #israel #Trump #Wallstreet #petrol @cartoonmovement.com @cartooningforpeace.bsky.social @joop.nl

My interview with Green Central Banking on how the US war on Iran is proof that renewables are the best inflation-protection tool and why we need more public investment in R&D in material science research to find alternatives to petrochemical inputs greencentralbanking.com/2026/04/17/u...

With Trump you know with everything he says that more likely than not, the opposite is true.

Pope Leo seems to have a clear view that money is secondary to real resources. In his visit to Angola "The Pope sharply criticized patterns of exploitation directed at Africa.". Angola is vastly rich in terms of minerals and raw materials but is stuck in a poverty institutional frame.

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.

Of course

New study: most climate models underestimate the decline of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC. The AMOC is on course to slow by more than 50% by the end of the century. 🌊 Very likely the AMOC will then be past the tipping point for full shutdown. 😨 us.cnn.com/2026/04/16/c...

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Central banks will raise interest rates to fix it all.

Many high-cost drugs trigger court battles. But Keytruda is one of the starkest symbols of a dysfunctional global system that disproportionately hurts poorer countries with limited health care budgets and little negotiating power with Big Pharma. Learn more:

It is a profound irony when the nation under attack feels more empathy for the attacker's citizens than the attacking government itself.

Do you ever look around and wonder why even the liberal world ignores climate change? Well, one part of the answer is surely the fact that banks do not price tipping points. time.com/article/2026...

“real potential for the strongest El Niño event in 140 years.....All models and observations are pointing in the same direction: a very strong El Niño with significant impacts on global climate" It's coming folks And it looks like being a whopper www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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The journal Nature Climate Change is celebrating its 15th birthday by looking back at highlights from this time. I'm honored that our 2015 paper "Exceptional twentieth-century slowdown in Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation" is the first in the series 🌊: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New study finds the "canary in the coal mine" for the #AMOC: a consistent decline of the western overturning circulation, down from 20 to 15 Sv during 2004-2023 at 26° N. 🌊 AMOC "could be at or near a critical tipping point, potentially leading to its collapse". www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Portugal is really doing very well in one or two indicators these days:

Without stronger climate action, nearly 28% of the global population could face hot-dry extremes over five times more often by 2090, with the greatest impacts in low-income, tropical regions.

The countries hardest hit by the energy crisis are low in income and high in import dependency for fossil fuels, for example Morocco and the Philippines. They have nothing to do with this illegal war, yet their economies and livelihoods are being destroyed.

Price stability is fiscal policy, not monetary policy. If there aren't enough resources at a given point in time, fiscal policy should provide more potential output (production) or alternatives for those scarce resources. E.g. electrification or public transports instead of fossil based transports.

Don't miss #MMT scholar Patricia Pino's online talk next week! Designing a Counter-Inflationary Job Guarantee for the United Kingdom: Political Economy, Constraints, and Trade-offs Tuesday 7th April 🇦🇺 9:00pm AEST 🇨🇳 7pm CST 🇬🇧 12pm BST 🇪🇺 1pm CEST 🇺🇲 🇨🇦 7am EDT events.humanitix.com/patricia-pin...

The lesson of the previous energy crisis: Price interventions have to stop ripple effects before they start. This is about buying time for emergency adjustments. European democracies cannot afford another round of falling real wages and war profiteering. @wsj.com Link: www.wsj.com/economy/glob...

MMT friends, and others who are interested, are invited to join Modern Money Lab online if you can on 7th April, to hear economist Patricia Pino talk about the design of a national job guarantee for the UK. events.humanitix.com/patricia-pin...

It was a long winter but No Kings Spring has arrived in Chicago. #NoKings

Another interesting overview based on a real case scenario (UK), where the difference between monetary sovereignty and resources sovereignty is outlined. And to what extent they are linked. No capitalist country is 100% sovereign today because all countries depend on imports (my statement).

Get your butts out of the couch people!!!

6:49am: sudden spike in oil futures trading. no news. no announcement. nothing public. 7:05am: trump announces a pause on iran strikes. markets move. someone knew. 16 minutes early. $580 million in contracts. the corruption is staggering.

US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds US, top carbon emitter in history, has "a lot of responsibility" for causing ‘substantial’ harm globally, scientist says www.theguardian.com/environment/...

China won’t let market prices driven by war news rip apart its economy.

Virginia lawmakers passed a new bill that lets people use small plug-in #solar panels on #balconies to make some of their own electricity ☀️🔌. These portable panels can produce limited power (around 1,200 watts), helping renters and apartment residents lower energy bills without big construction 🏙️💡.

Don't miss the Juice Media content. It's always a great few minutes well spent.

The world energy shock is coming — it will deepen inequality in ways we've seen before. Our new @newstatesman1913.bsky.social piece argues that without urgent government action, the Strait of Hormuz crisis will ripple through our economies and rip apart our societies. Here's why. 1/

Here we go again: This is what war profiteering looks like. Refinery margins are being pushed to the sky again. We need windfall profits taxes for oil extraction and margin caps along the value chain all the way to the gas stations.

On which online platforms do you see the most mis- and disinformation? And on which topics? This and other questions are answered in a major analysis of 3.3 million posts by Science Feedback. Be aware and vigilant - don't get fooled by misinformation! science.feedback.org/second-measu...

And attempts to manipulate you with fossil fuel ads is not just something from the past. Check out these current examples: heated.world/p/how-fossil...

I have studied China for years and have been banging the drum for buffer stocks in essentials like food and energy with Western policy makers. The response was always some version of market fundamentalism: it’s not efficient, it distorts prices etc. Well, here we are. peri.umass.edu/publication/...

If you would like to get involved with a very worthwhile campaign group (or another one) in the USA, might I recommend this offspring of Modern Money Lab: www.modernmoneylab.org

The new job market. The AI does the team work, it only needs a human to supervise and tweak the output.

Somehow the Reserve Bank thinks ships will sail through the Strait of Hormuz more quickly if they hike Australian interest rates. All they are doing is adding to the pain for low income earners of the higher petrol prices and ensuring unemployment rises (more paid). Their decision defies reason.

How do billions in "anonymous" crypto turn into cold, hard cash? 💸 Join us and @opencorporates.bsky.social on March 26 to see the methodologies behind the #CoinLaundry investigation. Register now: buff.ly/yzCffyK #Crypto #AML #InvestigativeJournalism #FinCrime

Oh go to HELL, @microsoft.com. The tattered remains of the masks are off, I guess, and they're happy to be purely the enemies of all of us who care about....anything other than profit. www.distilled.earth/p/microsofts...

Científicos del ICTA-UAB cuestionan el dogma del capitalismo: es posible un alto grado de bienestar sin crecimiento económico @aljosaslamersak.bsky.social explica a @publico.es que hay que priorizar la redistribución de la riqueza y la producción de recursos básicos www.publico.es/sociedad/m-a...

In case you thought "at least this horrific war is getting us out of fossil fuels", here is what it's been doing to stock market shares: Fossil fuels +25% since new year. Renewables flat. Relative profitability is what ultimately matters for a transition. @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social

The tech ninjas that were sent by the richest guy in the world to dirty their own hands. For absolutely no reason other than an insane ideological disarray.