In the US at least, the housing crisis is really a crisis of social policy. The privatization of worker pensions (many service workers have nothing) and inadequacy of social security has forced us all to look to private housing wealth as our only stable source of longterm security.

'Over the past forty years, housing has been financialized. Vast amounts of debt are collateralised by real estate, making mortgages by far the largest assets on banks’ balance sheets. 1/

Dit is waarom alleen links met de hernieuwde missie van volkshuisvesting de wooncrisis kan oplossen. Voor een toekomst waarin wonen weer echt een grondrecht voor iedereen is.

"Ending the housing crisis requires attacking one of the foundations of neoliberal capitalism: the idea that we are all little, budding capitalists just waiting for the opportunity to invest in financial markets." graceblakeley.substack.com/p/building-m...

Kysytään mihin kukaan ihminen tarvitsee miljardien omaisuuksia. Vähemmälläkin saisi kaikki ne huvijahdit, hulppeat kiinteistöt ja yksityislentokoneet. Ei, nämä superrikkaat tarvitsevat miljardinsa koska niillä pääsee ohittamaan demokraattisen päätöksenteon ja muodostamaan maailmasta mieleisensä.

Catch up on this weeks @boldpolitics.bsky.social with @graceblakeley.substack.com! We talk power, wealth and community organising. youtu.be/ojrrTf_SD0M?...

Definitely Zack you should employ @graceblakeley.substack.com as the @greenparty.org.uk economist.

NEW 🚨| Today, we announce a new data collaboration with @wiserd-research.bsky.social's UnionMap. Our map will know show data about how strong the trade union movement is in the local area of that strike. Check it out now: strikemap.org 🧵1/5 #StrikeMap

Me after reading #vulturecapitalism by @graceblakeley.substack.com

"It’s absolutely hilarious that a nominally ‘libertarian’ government is being bailed out by the largest and most powerful state in the world. It just goes to show – capitalism cannot survive without the state." open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

💬 "What I see with the Greens right now is really exciting." Economics expert @graceblakeley.substack.com speaking on Zack Polanski's @boldpolitics.bsky.social podcast. We agree. Come join us 👇 Join.greenparty.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social

Brilliant discussion with the fab @graceblakeley.substack.com on everything from growth to inequality, power & community organising, & how capitalism is actually a “system based on centralised planning & control rather than free markets”, where big biz is protected from consequences of failure👇

How could mainstream media improve politics shows to allow for more constructive conversations? Grace Blakeley explains why she's had enough television.

Grace Blakeley is brilliant. And here's an episode of everything from the economy to how to tackle inequality. A huge conversation that's ultimately about power. And how do we organise & empower communities? 👇🏼

youtu.be/ojrrTf_SD0M?... #boldpolitics - #labour raise taxes but not living standards - with @zackpolanski.bsky.social and @graceblakeley.substack.com #votegreen 💚

"For as long as billionaires exist, they will continue to treat our governments like piggy banks. From lobbying against climate action, to funding powerful think tanks, to donating to political parties, their fortunes give them a veto over the future." graceblakeley.substack.com/p/why-we-nee...

With Labour's approval of a second runway at Gatwick airport - and Reeves and Starmer pursuing growth at all costs - we NEED @graceblakeley.substack.com in our lives to explain why certain types of growth don't benefit most of us

This really was fantastic. I loved Grace’s book which I listened to recently, maybe the best book I’ve heard/read in a decade. Keep them coming @zackpolanski.bsky.social & @graceblakeley.substack.com

"For as long as billionaires exist, they will continue to treat our governments like piggy banks. From lobbying against climate action, to funding powerful think tanks, to donating to political parties, their fortunes give them a veto over the future." graceblakeley.substack.com/p/why-we-nee...

"Households in the top 10% of the income distribution now account for half of all consumer spending in the US - an astonishing concentration of purchasing power, which suggests that the long-term foundations of US economic growth are unsustainable." graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-us-eco...

Damn. This post from @graceblakeley.substack.com is so on 🎯

Brilliant piece by @graceblakeley.substack.com graceblakeley.substack.com/p/isolation-...

Read on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

NEW RELEASE: PERSPECTIVES JOURNAL NO. 4 Bringing clarity amid a moment of obscurity, issue no. 4 of Perspectives Journal offers progressive answers on housing, public sector cuts, and the new neoliberal status quo. Read now at perspectivesjournal.ca

Congratulations to our re-elected Coordinating Team members: Erik Edman, Ivana Nenadović & Francesca Martinez, and a big warm welcome to the newly elected @graceblakeley.substack.com, Danielle Maisano & Lucille Cornelius!

Meet the team that will help build our resistance and fight for a just, peaceful Europe. Onward, to build power and reclaim our future! Including the newly elected @graceblakeley.substack.com, Lucille Cornelius and Danielle Maisano.

Dagens nyhedsbrev fra @graceblakeley.substack.com er virkelig værd at læse. Glæder mig til hendes næste bog!

“If you succeed, you feel like a winner; and if you fail, you feel like a loser. This thinking is functional to a capitalist system that treats human beings as disposable.” @graceblakeley.substack.com on the voice in your head. open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

Market ideology teaches us to blame ourselves for failing in a rigged economy. Perversely, doing so also makes us feel more in control. Read: open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

As someone who grew up on a small farm in the middle of nowhere, nothing brings me greater anxiety than living in a place, even a big city, that has no local food infrastructure.

“Until we confront the climate emergency and the corporate capture of our food system, inflation will remain a permanent feature of daily life.“ Read my latest on the structural causes of food price inflation open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

"The US became a lawyerly society because it became a monopoly capitalist society – not the other way around (as people like Klein and Wang might argue). The inefficiency and corruption evident in US society flows from the structure of the capitalist economy." open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

"In 20223, the US added 6 GW of new wind installations, while China added 76 GW. In the same year, China built two thirds of the world’s wind and solar plants." Read my review of Dan Wang's breakneck on Substack open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

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Excellent: "coordinated divestment campaigns can work – not as symbolic gestures, but as instruments of real political pressure." #BDS #Divestment #Palestine #Gaza

The White House’s furious response to the decision by Norway’s SWF to divest from Caterpillar over its support for Israeli war crimes tells us something important: divestment works. And it works even more effectively in a democratic financial system. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/divestment...

Trump is trying to restructure global capital to ensure that more of it flows back into the imperial core

Looking forward to this in #Cornwall this Saturday - great speakers include @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social, Gillian Burke, and now also the brilliant @graceblakeley.substack.com! Free for Green Party members, suggested £5 donation for non-members - book your place: www.eventbrite.com/e/cornwall-g...

Trust-Busting, Trump style open.substack.com/pub/gracebla... Another essential, insightful piece from @graceblakeley.substack.com

“This is not trust-busting in the name of democracy, competition, or workers. It is trust-busting as geopolitical cudgel: a way to harness private capital for imperial ends.” open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

Excellent piece by @graceblakeley.substack.com about the power dynamics within international trade. This is something Jayati Ghosh has been pointing out for a number of years & how it is not taught in mainstream economics. Have a read. #EconSky graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-state-...

"It's not that the US has suddenly switched from free trade to protectionism under Trump. Instead, the changing balance of power at the global level has shifted the calculus of US imperialism." My review of @triofrancos.bsky.social Extraction graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-state-...

Our membership numbers are going up and up. Time to turn our country around. Join.greenparty.org.uk

What do Trump's attacks on the Fed mean for central bank independence? Read: open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

'A rigorously researched and well-argued book that offers clear and practicable solutions to the water crisis in the UK. Westminster politicians will not tackle the crisis effectively unless pressured by us as citizens organised into a social movement for water reform.' @graceblakeley.substack.com

"The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous... its object is not victory, but to keep the very structure of society intact." - George Orwell

Great power politics, climate breakdown, and rising nationalism are all feeding the military-industrial complex. And the military-industrial complex feeds all these trends right back. open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

Peace is Bad for Business @graceblakeley.substack.com graceblakeley.substack.com/p/peace-is-b...

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