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Cameron Vaské

@cameronvaske.bsky.social
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Economics, politics, governance, and IR. Eternal optimist who thinks we can fix this. Zillennial. Sometimes I think I know things. Real human writer, professional toe-stubber. Views my own, but I don’t mind sharing them.

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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good morning. US bond yields continue to spike to highs not seen since 2007. That’s the interest on US debt getting more expensive. Interest is already the 2nd highest spending category of the budget. You pay that in taxes and again in inflation when we print to pay the rest. Have a good day.
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No, we could just actually address the fact that we don’t have to pick between infinite indebtedness due to overspending and infinite indebtedness due to tax cuts for those that need it less.
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When we expand the money supply faster than the economy grows (which is almost always for decades), we create inflation. That destroys the value of your wages and savings. That creates wealth and income inequality. That helps create credit bubbles. We need sound money.
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here comes the lobbying for regulatory capture.
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
How are you going to pay for it without printing money, @abdulelsayed.bsky.social?
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” — Mark Twain
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The result of these Cantillon effects is that, without anybody doing anything for any other motive other than normal, everyday economic activity (good or evil) we systematically and structurally make the rich richer and the poor poorer relative to each other—even as a rising tide lifts all boats.
thecommonwealthperspective.substack.com
Cantillon's Ghost Would Like a Word With You About Wealth Inequality
The modern-day debate around wealth inequality is missing a core cause of wealth concentration: the creation of new money.
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cleaning my small apartment in the city. Got nostalgic listening to The Chainsmokers (feat. Halsey). (You know the one. “We ain’t never getting older.”) Worked my ass off at the bar the last two days. Good hard work. Not what I went to school for. But then we learned nothing really is.
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pretty much.
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Barchart @barchart.com · 24/09/2026
JUST IN 🚨: U.S. 10-Year Treasury Yield jumps to highest level since the run-up to the Global Financial Crisis
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Good morning. Inflation wasn’t a problem for several hundred years. Then we began manipulating the money supply and debasing the currency. Cumulative Estimated CPI U.S. dollar inflation since 1940: 2,292.7% $1.00 in 1940 would have bought you the same as $23.93 today. Have a great day.
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
One of the few places I’d just nod along with @rbreich.bsky.social. Cheap credit enables companies to leverage way higher buying power than they actually have in assets and hard cash. Sound money fixes that so we can actually have free markets. It’s not about villains. It’s about incentives.
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good morning. The USD has lost 30% of its purchasing power in 2020. Much of that came from increasing the money supply (M2) before then. We’re still seeing inflation from M2 expansion over that period. Sept. 2020 M2: $18.66 trillion July 2026 M2: $23.22 trillion Increase: 24.4% Have a good day.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
CNN statement: @cnn.com
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The Economist @economist.com · 19/09/2026
Finance does not offer many sure bets. One, for the past few decades, has been that most rich-world sovereign bonds are safe. Today, as public debts mount, that is under threat
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Markets are waking up to the rich world’s reckless borrowing
Governments are still, alas, asleep
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Respect for a free press is not contingent on the President’s whim. This is some deeply illiberal shit.
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/09/2026
‘A man threatened to shoot me’: the abuse pushing UK councillors out of politics
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‘A man threatened to shoot me’: the abuse pushing UK councillors out of politics
Exclusive: Survey finds 78% of councillors feel at risk in their roles, with 52% saying intimidation has risen in past year
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.” — Benjamin Franklin
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I think the part of me that belongs to Gen Z is nihilistic because people in my society don’t think for themselves and arbitrarily value authority without any basis for credibility other than brand.
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Oh yeah, brilliant. “If you do this, I’ll shoot us both in the foot.”
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
See, this is how you know nobody has run the numbers. Because this pays for the deficit for maybe 8 months before you’re back at square one.
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is not about children. It’s about surveillance.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 15/09/2026
Iran war cost hits $38 billion, forecast to rise $3 billion a month, CBO says reut.rs/46Keegt
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Iran war cost hits $38 billion, forecast to rise $3 billion a month, CBO says
The six-month-old U.S. war against Iran has cost $38 billion so far and ​that amount is projected to rise by $3 billion a month, Congress' nonpartisan bookkeeper reported on Tuesday, as the Trump administration ‌searches for ways to end the conflict and reopen the vital Strait of Hormuz.
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yeahp.
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hard to make the “Warsh is a puppet” argument now, too.
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Fed’s mandate is “price stability” and “controlled” inflation. Here’s how that’s going.
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
They specifically want to charge as illegal what he already did, which had no regulations on it to make it illegal at the time, but would be illegal in future if CLARITY passed. And because they can’t retroactively charge him, they’re leaving it unregulated. So now, he can do it again.
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This feels timely to re-up. “I want you to make better arguments against cryptocurrencies—if that is the position you hold—because then we have a better and more informed debate.”
thecommonwealthperspective.substack.com
“Not All Crypto” | Make Better Arguments About Cryptocurrencies (Part 1)
Digital currencies and cryptocurrencies aren't all the same, and that matters if you want to argue effectively for or against them without sounding ridiculous.
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Axios @axios.com · 15/09/2026
JUST IN: Massie moves to impeach Pete Hegseth over Iran War
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Massie moves to impeach Pete Hegseth over Iran War
It's a dramatic escalation in Massie's months-long push to rein in the administration's war powers.
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Define money, please. I can’t wait to hear this.
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don’t think a single person on this site realizes that CLARITY would have made Trump’s crypto activity no longer permitted by regulation. As in illegal.
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
*Sigh* yeah… This is just… 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Footgun moment.
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Or… … and hear me out… the Democrats locked down on party lines.
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Welp. CLARITY failed under possibly the dumbest argument possible: “Crypto is unregulated, therefore we shouldn’t regulate it.” Having trouble seeing this as anything less than pro-bank lobby and issue preservation for Democrats among voters who ill-understand cryptocurrencies.
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is a terrible day for Americans who believe in affordability, actually.
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“We’re not in a world of Kennedys and Eisenhowers at the moment, we’re in a world of presidents that can’t get out a full sentence properly or are just grifting in public, or both.” More or less, Lyn Alden is describing the “revenge of macro” world in this interview episode of “What Bitcoin Did.”
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We Haven’t Seen an Economy Like This in 80 Years | Lyn Alden
YouTube video by What Bitcoin Did
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
U.S. debt just keeps getting more expensive. Interest on the federal debt is more than defense spending and Medicare. And it just went up in price. Have a good day.
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Said it before, but it’s truer now: The midterms and 2028 are going to be way more about affordability than any party is currently measuring.
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
When you hear about the latest CPI report, ignore this because the inflation isn’t primarily lending-driven—it’s fiscal. We’re spending so much we print more money to pay for it. More money chasing the same goods = inflation = CPI goes up. Interest rate hikes may happen, but that won’t cool much.
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Now would be a good time for the left to read The Big Print. Cuz it’s a-comin’.
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The Big Print: What Happened To America And How Sound M…
Most Americans — and people worldwide — understand that…
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Kobeissi Letter: Net interest, social security, medicare, healthcare spending, and veterans' benefits currently consume 98.4% of total federal government receipts, near the highest proportion on record.
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I can be a grumpy sassy Zilennial. But you know what? I just busted my ass at work today bussing tables, hauling ice, and putting on a smile. Everyone was loud. Messy. Tipsy. And I still came out of it with a smile. Why? Because they were kind. Excited. Human. Engaged.
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What do Josh Barro, @rbreich.bsky.social, @mcuban.bsky.social, @pkrugman.bsky.social, and the editorial board of @washingtonpost.com all have in common? They all believe “crypto has no intrinsic value.” I agree. The problem: nothing else does, either.
thecommonwealthperspective.substack.com
Crypto Commentary with No Intrinsic Value
Lighting the bonfire of strawman arguments that claim “crypto has no intrinsic value.” Spoiler alert: nothing has intrinsic value.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 12/09/2026
If you’re confused about the difference between “age verification,” “age estimation,” “age assurance,” and “age gate” — you’re not alone. Let’s help you make sense of it all. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Age Verification, Estimation, Assurance, Oh My! A Guide to the
Age verification, age assurance, age estimation, age gating—they get thrown around interchangeably, but they technically mean different things. And those differences matter a lot when we're talking
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Breaking: France’s sovereign debt financing That makes the U.S., the U.K., France, Germany, Japan… and more at critical highs not seen in decades.
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
👀
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
That’s not good.
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Cameron Vaské @cameronvaske.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ouch.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/09/2026
NEW: A new audit by the U.S. Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General found a lack of training for post office staff, deficiencies in how ballots were tracked and errors leading to delays. Experts say it raises questions ahead of the midterms.
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U.S. Postal Service Failed to Properly Handle Some Ballots During This Year’s Primary Elections, Audit Finds
An inspector general’s audit found a lack of training for post office staff, deficiencies in how ballots were tracked and errors leading to delays. Experts say it raises questions ahead of the midterm...
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