tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66487682024-02-28T13:16:29.924-06:00Negative Outlook?anything to help advance the causeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4375125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-51001231857020587112019-10-15T18:28:00.000-05:002019-10-15T18:28:22.469-05:00Bernie and socialism
Bernie Wants You to Own More of the Means of Production by Matt Bruenig
Bernie Sanders finally embraces socialism by Ryan Cooper
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-84127632158944613982019-10-09T08:52:00.003-05:002019-10-09T08:52:52.438-05:00working class whisperersChris Arnade, Maximillian Alvarez, Sarah Smarsh, Hillbilly Elegy guy, New York Times reporters/ media people after Trump's election.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-81711653703295670242019-09-22T13:36:00.002-05:002019-09-22T13:36:48.052-05:00more Warren versus BernieStill lefties call for unity while the media goes banana over the news that Warren has pulled into first in Iowa. Meanwhile they ignore how Bernie is still doing well in other states.
It is complicated I agree. What is motivating Warren voters? Just as there is the idea that many Biden supporters are backing him out of fear over Trump - they feel he is the most electable and just want to beat Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-39094103522155926262019-09-17T13:43:00.001-05:002019-09-22T13:23:16.827-05:00Sanders vs. WarrenIt's weird, over the past couple days there's a growing sense among both Warren and Bernie supporters that Warren might win the primary. The proximate cause is probably Biden dropping in the polls with Warren rising. But in some polls Sanders is still doing well. I guess I don't full understand the cause.
What could happen is that enough people want to block Bernie that they outnumber his Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-51815527192934861332019-06-11T11:24:00.000-05:002019-06-11T11:24:18.599-05:00 Leonard Burman, Lizard BrainThe Tax Policy Center's dubious scholarship on who "deserves" welfare by Carl Beijer
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-60445137038652019462019-06-09T09:28:00.003-05:002019-06-09T09:33:32.894-05:00A Cross-Atlantic Plan to Break Capital’s Control
A Cross-Atlantic Plan to Break Capital’s Control by Peter Gowan and Mathew Lawrence
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-78258910319314910872019-06-01T10:59:00.002-05:002019-06-01T11:00:40.639-05:00interview with Tim Heideckerinterview with Tim Heidecker
BLVR: What’s a movie you’ve loved recently?
TH: They’re all the kids’ movies, because I have a five-year-old. I’m not kidding when I say that Paddington 2 is the best movie I’ve seen in a long time. It’s so clever and funny. I’m not kidding. Watch it. First of all, everyone in the movie is a great, accomplished actor. It looks like Wes Anderson, but Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-10671535963197265822019-04-22T15:30:00.002-05:002019-04-22T15:31:16.914-05:00‘Stop Sanders’ Democrats Are Agonizing Over His Momentum‘Stop Sanders’ Democrats Are Agonizing Over His Momentum by Jonathan Martin (4.16.19)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/16/us/politics/bernie-sanders-democratic-party.html
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-31343552500234501142019-03-29T15:26:00.001-05:002019-03-29T15:26:18.162-05:00Lil Nas X - Old Town Road (I Got My Horses in the Back)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-77234929446566684602019-03-19T13:03:00.003-05:002019-03-19T13:05:08.599-05:00Andrew Yang538 piece on Yang
Some on the left HATE him. Why? b/c of the UBI? They pin everything on his alt right following.
Yang is the only 2020 candidate thus far to put a universal income front and center, and his campaign says it’s been key to attracting support. But it’s probably not a strong enough issue to propel Yang to victory on its own. A Gallup poll from 2017 found the concept to beUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-86654902516396826152019-03-16T10:45:00.002-05:002019-03-16T10:45:28.806-05:00MMT, campaigns and unionsMMT Takes Center Stage – and Orthodox Economists Freak by William Black
Warren is the MMT campaign and Sanders is the dem socialist one (even though Sanders hired Kelton for 2016. She's no longer advising Sanders).
If neoliberals want to define as “socialism” an effective government that produces markets in which honest people prosper and we imprison or at least drive from the markets Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-59467500684489006212019-03-12T21:11:00.001-05:002019-03-12T21:11:07.230-05:00People's Republic of Walmartbought the book today by authors Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski.
The People's Republic of Walmart: how late-stage capitalism gives way to early-stage fully automated luxury communism by Cory DoctorowCould Walmart Be a Model for a Socialist Future? by Peter Frase
We already live in a planned economy – we just need to take the steering wheel by Laurie Macfarlane
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-71220623811886142072019-03-11T06:02:00.001-05:002019-03-11T06:02:31.290-05:00MMT & foreign exchange markets(more random thoughts sorry)
which reminds me of Mosler’s earlier comment above on ISLM – i.e. that it applies to a fixed exchange rate model)
Fixed exchange rate means what? Central bank will buy and sell to maintain rate of exchange.
Sterilize important concept. Central bank would "sterilize" gold inflows to maintain value of money relative to gold.
Bond vigilantes. Chinese Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-29964813216230083552019-03-08T19:06:00.001-06:002019-03-11T05:46:47.953-05:00inflation(random thoughts sorry)
In reference to price-gouging, Bernie Sanders say drug companies raise price to "what the market will bear."
At a certain point, people will stop paying higher prices and other priorities for spending are put ahead of the new high price. Sanders want to move drug prices down to what people can afford.
Inflation as it relates to demand, businesses will raise price if Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-31022002542284905992019-02-21T16:05:00.002-06:002019-02-21T16:07:08.282-06:00childcare: Warren's plan and Family Fun PackFamily Fun Pack by Matt Bruenig
Notes on Elizabeth Warren’s Child Care Proposal by Matt Bruenig
The Glaring Hole in Elizabeth Warren’s Childcare Plan by Bryce Covert
The inescapable problem with Elizabeth Warren's child-care plan by Ryan Cooper
Democrats for Family Values by Paul Krugman
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-32298076493231213232019-02-16T14:40:00.001-06:002019-02-16T14:40:43.544-06:00Midnight City & socialismUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-53708811268816428722019-02-15T11:11:00.003-06:002019-02-15T11:11:49.094-06:00Amazon pulls out of QueensIn reality it looked like Queens was going to renege on the original deal and Amazon decided it was all or nothing.
NYTimes reported on Feb. 5:
Mr. Gianaris has consistently rejected that characterization, adding that the letter said nothing about state subsidies. But he also said on Tuesday that, given Amazon officials’ recent comments that they would oppose unionization, he would not sign Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-43307051042093315332019-02-07T21:07:00.005-06:002019-02-07T21:07:46.399-06:00Green New Deal and corporate globalizationFree trade as idealized by those who successfully pushed in recent decades is a very good thing. It binds nations together making us all better off and less likely to go to war. It raises productivity as nations do what they are good etc. etc. etc. But even those who pushed free trade like Bill Clinton and Paul Krugman and Brad DeLong have admitted that it create losers. Academic and corporate Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-46436520196521043852019-01-04T11:52:00.001-06:002019-01-04T11:52:15.863-06:00Ready to StartUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-91981799011875103722018-12-14T15:48:00.001-06:002018-12-14T15:48:20.148-06:00multiverse and Hope Punk / sci-fiJamie Peck tweets:
Books I recommended today: The Dispossessed by Ursula le Guin and the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. At its best, sci-fi helps us envision what revolution and post-capitalist society might actually look like. Plus: more fun than Marx!
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-84520730838553054942018-12-13T13:34:00.000-06:002018-12-13T13:34:15.387-06:00How the “golden straitjacket” led to “yellow vests”:The French Protests Do Not Fit a Tidy Narrative by Matt Taibbi
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-74982351104034893052018-12-12T15:11:00.001-06:002018-12-12T15:11:56.116-06:00Yemen, farm bill, Planned ParenthoodBad news about Yemen, but surprisingly good news about the Farm bill and Planned Parenthood. Senate Democrats kept Republicans from cutting SNAP from the Farm bill and prevented them from attaching work requirements. The Supreme Court (really Roberts and Kavanaugh) decided to let a lower court ruling stand that would allow Planned Parenthood to receive Medicaid funds.
"Lawmakers in Louisiana andUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-43390013874076213072018-12-11T14:32:00.001-06:002018-12-11T14:32:33.370-06:00multiverse a third timeAnother post about the multiverse. I found a new podcast (for me) by Chalie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz - both writers whose writing I've enjoyed before - called Our Opinions are Correct.
Here's an episode titled "We're in the wrong timeline."
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-36834207971299082022018-12-11T10:49:00.000-06:002018-12-11T10:49:00.487-06:00non-evangelical white working classThe foundation of Trump's coalition is cracking
by Ronald Brownstein, CNN
(CNN) -- Cracks have emerged in Donald Trump's hold on his core constituency of white working class voters, new data from the 2018 election reveal.
Though Republican candidates almost everywhere registered large margins among white voters without a college degree, Democrats ran much more competitively among Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-58555539295352506082018-12-10T17:44:00.001-06:002018-12-10T17:44:03.266-06:00The Irish backstopThe Irish backstop
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