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Caracol DSA @caracoldsa.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

As a caucus of DSA, we aim to promote a degrowth vision within and beyond the org. Here are our condensed Points of Unity, outlining the vision we carry in our work. Learn about Degrowth and the caucus at CaracolDSA.org!

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Alicia 🌹 @theeconrebel.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I don't think AI is delivering on that high productivity it over overpromised

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Alicia 🌹 @theeconrebel.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

If the federal minimum wage had tracked the inflation-adjusted growth in average worker productivity since 1968, it would be roughly $27 today.

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acemaxx analytics @acemaxx.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

#Urea and #ammonia are critical components of #nitrogen fertilizers and #sulfuric acid is an essential input for producing phosphate fertilizers, chart #JPMorganAM

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Elise Gould @elisegould.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Today's jobs report was much weaker than expected. Payroll jobs fell 92k in Feb, and revisions to Dec data show a loss of 17k jobs. Average job growth over the last 3 months now under 6k. Household survey population controls indicate a significant drop in the labor force. #NumbersDay #EconSky

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Alicia 🌹 @theeconrebel.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Excellent video by Professor Ryan Woodgate debunking monetarism: Inflation is NOT "too much money chasing too few goods" youtu.be/x2l2rmsYmrw?...

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Inflation is NOT “too much money chasing too few goods”

YouTube video by Econoclastic - Prof. Ryan Woodgate

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Fadhel Kaboub @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Join us if you are in Mexico City this week at UNAM - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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Alicia 🌹 @theeconrebel.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

After learning a bit about differential equations, I was able to figure out how to build a Lotka–Volterra model, also known as a predator-prey system, demonstrating the non-linear dynamics between the population of hares and coyotes.

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lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I don’t think Trump firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics will help this.

Maybe We Shouldn't Blame the BLS
Participation in economic surveys has collapsed since the pandemic
/ Response Rate to BLS Current Population Survey

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Alicia 🌹 @theeconrebel.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Get ready for frequent power outages thanks to Trump killing the renewable energy tax credit, which will decimate our energy capacity while artificial intelligence, data centers, and crypto mines are projected to take up too much of the energy supply.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I generally correct people when they call me an economist but I also sign stuff like this when people insist I "count". So what do people think, have I done enough econ writing to accept the label economist even though I have no such credential? www.thenation.com/article/econ...

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Economists Support Zohran Mamdani’s Plan for New York City

Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral platform is a practical blueprint to tackle some of New York City’s most pressing problems.

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Alicia 🌹 @theeconrebel.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" will slash resources for households in the bottom 50 percent while the top 10 percent receive permanent tax cuts. This is class warfare!

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Ayanna Pressley @ayannapressley.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

"Trump Accounts" would do nothing to close the wealth gap in America. Congress should reject them & instead pass Baby Bonds—a serious, inclusive, & economically sound proposal for advancing economic justice. @darrickhamilton.bsky.social & I explain why: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Opinion | ‘Trump accounts’ will save kids? Republicans can’t be serious.

Baby bonds are a wealth-building tool that’s inclusive, equitable and grounded in solid economics.

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The Lever @levernews.com · 11/06/2025

The debt & deficit matter - but not for the reasons you probably think they do. Sirota's fascinating discussion with economist @stephaniekelton.bsky.social about the Trump tax cut bill, the credit downgrade, inflation, and what you should actually keep your eye on.

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Everything You Think About The Deficit Is Wrong

Every major agency has downgraded America’s credit rating. Economist Stephanie Kelton explains why it matters — but not for the reasons you think.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 12/06/2025

Trump's immigration approval has fallen 6 points on net this week www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I've updated this chart with the 2024 SHED survey data and it confirms what I thought when I wrote my analysis in November- more people were worse off than better off from the previous year and this is the single best guide to the election. www.crisesnotes.com/one-election...

"Compared to 12 months ago, would you say that you (and your family) are better off, the same, or worse off financially?"

net better off. 2020- +1. 2021 +6. 2022 -15. 2023 -11. 2024 -6.

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Alicia 🌹 @theeconrebel.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

The Trump Account is not a proper solution to the childcare crisis. Instead of investing in universal childcare, the GOP is pushing a tax-deferred trust account, benefiting the wealthy while working families struggle with the high cost of living to afford to make such deposits.

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Alicia 🌹 @theeconrebel.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

House Energy & Commerce Committee Republicans gave a massive gift to Big Tech, leaving American citizens vulnerable to exploitation and abuse from AI technology such as deepfakes and algorithmic price-fixing software. www.levernews.com/republicans-...

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Republicans Aim To Enshrine Rental Price-Fixing

After a lobbying surge, rent-tech giant RealPage is set to score a nationwide reprieve from crackdowns on how it’s price-gouging renters and fueling the housing crisis.

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Alicia 🌹 @theeconrebel.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Happy International Workers' Day! In our global opposition to right-wing authoritarianism, we concurrently challenge the exploitative nature of capitalist labor practices. Let us remain unified and resolute in our pursuit of working-class liberation. Workers of the world, unite!

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Alicia 🌹 @theeconrebel.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Logistics are going to be so fucked whenever tariffs are removed or lowered

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Alicia 🌹 @theeconrebel.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I'm currently multi-tasking, I have four tabs open in Google Chrome; one half is basically yuri manga and fanfiction, and the other half is heterodox economics blogs.

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Unlearning Economics @unlearnecon.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Thomas Sowell on homelessness in Intellectuals and Society. This man is a fucking idiot.

Homelessness is another area where much of the media filters what kind of reality gets through to their audience. During his time at CBS News, Bernard Goldberg noticed the difference between what he saw on the street and what was being broadcast on television:

In the 1980s, I started noticing that the homeless people we showed on the news didn’t look very much like the homeless people I was tripping over on the sidewalk.

The ones on the sidewalk, by and large, were winos or drug addicts or schizophrenics. They mumbled crazy things or gave you the evil eye when they put paper coffee cups in your face and “asked” for money. . . .

But the ones we liked to show on television were different. They looked as if they came from your neighborhood and mine. They looked like us. And the message from TV news was that they didn’t just look like us—they were like us! On NBC, Tom Brokaw said that the homeless are “people you know.”

If the homeless tend to be sanitized in television news, businessmen tend to be demonized in movies and television dramas, as another study found:

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Alicia 🌹 @theeconrebel.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Outside of a few select goods that may see price hikes, wouldn't the more prominent firms absorb the costs of tariffs within their margins? It was evident during the first trade war when most retailers had absorbed much of the higher import prices by earning lower profit margins.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 13/04/2025

US consumers are showing increasing signs of financial stress as they brace for higher prices from the Trump’s administration’s tariffs on imports, raising concerns about a crucial driver of the US economy www.ft.com/content/539c...

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Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Rethinking the state isn’t about mimicking the logic of start-up culture–rapid iteration, disruption and scaling to increase profits. Rather than learning how to win at all costs, governments need to learn how to collaborate, share, and diffuse better practices Latest w @rainerkattel.bsky.social ⬇️

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Governments Are Not Startups | by Mariana Mazzucato & Rainer Kattel - Project Syndicate

Mariana Mazzucato & Rainer Kattel explain why ongoing efforts to run the state like a business are doomed to fail.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Today is the Trump Tariff crisis's Lehman Brothers failure moment. If you want me on TV or your major media outlet, signal me at NathanTankus.01 or email at crisesnotes@gmail[dot]com

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CerberusXt @cerberusxt.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Good morning Bluesky !

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Economic Policy Institute @epi.org · 08/04/2025

@sanders.senate.gov & @bobbyscott.house.gov just reintroduced the Raise the Wage Act to ⬆️ the federal min wage to $17/hr by 2030 This increase would impact 15% of the US workforce—over 22 million people—and the average affected worker would make an additional $3,200/yr www.epi.org/publication/...

Infographic titled "Raise the Wage Act: Raising the federal minimum wage to $17/hr by 2030"

15% of the U.S. workforce would get a raise

That's 22,247,000 workers!

$17/hr would mean the average worker would make $3,200 more

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 07/04/2025

Wealthy Americans own most stocks => policy-induced fall in expected profits of public firms => lower equity prices directly impacts their wealth most. Less wealthy loss mostly thru defined-contribution pensions. Total wealth ⬇️ estimated: 5.5% for wealthiest 1% 4.5% for next 9% 3% for bottom 90%

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Alicia 🌹 @theeconrebel.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Trump's auto tariffs are pushing up used car prices.

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Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

The growth of Mexico City over what was once lake Texcoco is an extraordinary episode in the history of urbanism.

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

It will be great, so great, for the American people to finally get to sit in factories for long hours day and night screwing tiny screws. Just great. You can ask Chinese Foxconn workers how much they love it. 🤯

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Alicia 🌹 @theeconrebel.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

China needs to obtain dollars before buying treasury bonds, which they do through trading with the issuer of the dollar, the United States. This is how global trade works. Also, as the issuer of dollars, the United States does not need to "borrow" from China to buy its exported goods.

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Alicia 🌹 @theeconrebel.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Trump claims he wants to bring back manufacturing, yet his policies have only worsened things for manufacturers. He is now threatening to withhold investments already promised to chipmakers. Trade isolationism and removing subsidies are not how you promote reindustrialization.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Gavin Newsom’s next podcast guest should be a tariff.

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Alicia 🌹 @theeconrebel.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Wall Street investors some of the most low IQ brain dead mfs

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Alicia 🌹 @theeconrebel.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Trump's "reciprocal" tariffs are going to make groceries more expensive. Since 2020, the US has been importing more agricultural commodities than exporting, meaning we are heavily reliant on global trade.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

If the U.S. had an opposition party that opposition party would have a bill rolling back these tariffs and radically reducing executive discretion over tariffs already written and would be targeting individual republican congresspeople to pressure them into voting for the bill

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Alicia 🌹 @theeconrebel.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Here's the WH calculation on tariffs Export - imports / -4 * 0.25 * imports So basically, trade deficit / imports...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Your April Fools' Day reminder that trickle-down economics is the greatest trick of all. It's nothing more than a cruel hoax designed to enrich corporations and the super-rich at your expense. Don't fall for it.

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The NDP in Canada's election are proposing price caps on a basket of grocery essentials, windfall profit taxes and a price watchdog. Serious proposals to protect people's cost of living from the US trade war. www.ctvnews.ca/federal-elec...

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NDP promise an ‘emergency price cap’ on grocery essentials, Singh heading to B.C.

This morning, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh announced his plan to make food more affordable for Canadians at a time when tariffs are impacting prices.

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Alicia 🌹 @theeconrebel.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Do not let the state dictate who we are. We are not going to put ourselves back in the closet. We must be visible. We must be strong. Happy Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️

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GDP Dynamics @gdpdynamics.com · 28/03/2025

“In fact, there is not a single key technology behind the iPhone that has not been State-funded.” -Mariana Mazzucato

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