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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

But “egregious concentrations of market power in finance” now vex the American economy and progressives have spent too much time defending Dodd-Frank. Read the kicker here: 17/end

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We’re going to need new ideas for how to de-monopolize the payment system. Happily, there are smart thinkers and lawmakers already on the case. I’ve got a list, here’s a selection: 14/17

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today, monopolization is a problem across finance: payments, bank size, the rise of the non-bank sector, asset managers, municipal bonds, investment banking services, credit scoring and so on. 12/17

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sen. Ted Kaufman warned us: “Chastened regulators may try in the coming years to be harder on the megabanks. But even if they do, history has shown us that the tango will reach the end of the dance floor, and the big banks will execute the turn and lead again.” 8/17

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Dodd-Frank failed to bend the curve away from our steady march toward financialization." The economy "responds to the imperatives of Wall Street...rather than people’s desire to lead dignified lives with reasonable material comfort in a meaningfully democratic society.” 3/17

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I got polled by some sleazy outfit that was testing attack lines against @mayor.nyc.gov ZM Anyone know the source?

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

"This rhetoric about taxing the rich is the first step American society can make towards taming our oligarchs because it represents collective understanding of what needs to be done to preserve our democracy." moneytrust.substack.com/p/we-are-bei...

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

This is not an ad! It's a warning about the impact of premium credit cards on small businesses and consumers Hat tip @protectborrowers.bsky.social indebt.substack.com/p/mega-bank-...

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

So Trump is either a wannabe ee cummings or just a bad German student.

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Hey, Wall Street Journal ... Some serious Professor of the Obvious shit here

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Some news: I have a new job. I am now the Senior Fellow for Antimonopoly and Finance @demandprogress.bsky.social. It's a labored title but interesting work. I'm researching, writing, and advocating on issues at the intersection of monopoly power and Wall Street.

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Biden was sooooo OUT OF IT when president!

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

"I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong," is fantastic: "Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact. But the real fun was had by the illustrator that made Marc Andreessen's head more bullet-like than it already is. www.wired.com/story/silico...

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Breaking: Elon Musk makes in-kind contribution to Mamdani campaign

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

After praising Indivisible, we get this line: 2/3

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Despite all the evidence hitherto, Harris though the plutocrats would side with democracy and not autocracy.

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

This woman proudly and loudly agreed with Nimbee! 2/2

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Hey look, it’s @thenimbee.bsky.social coming to make sure there’s no more building on University Ave. 1/2

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Does this make for a sub-optimal outcome for the prosecutors? Lettuce celebrate!

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Translation from German ... Europe groveling before Trump: "Please be careful so that you don't slip where I've been drooling before you."

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

If you have your knickers in a knot about Zohran Mamdani's idea for muncipal grocery stores, calm down and read this little paragraph:

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Whoever wrote this: You are awesome!

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Right-wing media can't decide on their line: Is LA a shithole or did big-man Trump shut down the shitshow? Laughable.

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Trump is such a patriot he doesn't know the difference between V-E day and raising the flag on Iwo Jima. This mistake = F on your exam, Donny

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Somebody tell little Marco that Germany also once surveilled (and banned) the Communist Party. It has a legally prescribed and very careful process for screening out extremist parties. Not the American way, but you know what: Germany is not the United States!

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The headline in the Financial Times, which much of the world outside the United States, especially in Europe, will see. Tell me again how this guy's faux-swagger makes us look tough and respected?

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

"generalized failure of courage" Also known as COWARDICE: Republicans, Wall Street, corporate America. Elites in general.

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The idea that #Bitcoin is some sorta safe haven was always bonkers. When more people have more money to play with, it goes up. But when the economic outlook darkens, as it is, it goes down. Because it means less money to gamble with.

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

This phrase could be the slogan of our own American popular front: from center-right to far left.

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Looks like we have to consider that the nation's CEOs are dumb or willfully blind ... They didn't expect tantrums from Trump?! They expected careful, strategic thinking form Trump?! Speechless.

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

DOGE doesn't know WHY the IRS has a bigger IT department than a typical midsize bank ... Is this a joke? Is there humor I'm missing here? BECAUSE TAX COLLECTION IN THE LARGEST ECONOMY IN THE WORLD IS COMPLEX, CHALLENGING AND CANNOT AFFORD TO BREAK DOWN IN ANY WAY!!!

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Trump at the Kennedy Center: He wants the power that jibes with this gesture, location, and vibe ... The sort of power that the founders of this country did NOT want the president to have.

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

These assholes want "diversity and inclusion"?!

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Hennie. We had "Hennie," (she was a hen, duh) the matriarch of the flock. Knew her name. Came running when she heard you. Produced lotsa eggs. She's the only one who got a burial with honors. In our backyard. In a shoebox. RIP, Hennie. 9/10

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Bonding. My children and I scavenged most of the materials to build our own coop from dumpsters and other discarded bits of lumber. Kids learned how to use a nail gun and a table saw - safely. My daughter caulked the seams of the roof wearing a pink dress! 2/10

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I'd entrust my life to this Polish foreign minister before I would to Elon Musk - or a SpaceX rocket

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Future German chancellor Friedrich Merz is off to a GREAT start. Hard to underestimate the importance of this step: - More money for military - Massive injection of investment All through borrowing.

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

If the Atlanta Fed is even CLOSE to correct, this is like a searing recession that came on overnight.

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Sooner or later, this sorta thing bites, right? I mean, shit.

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