What are the main takeaways from our paper “Wealth of Two Nations,” on the historical evolution of the U.S. racial wealth gap? Check out this new Institute for New Economic Thinking video where I walk through our findings! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

The second thing I did on day one at the new office was talk about asset managers on camera (the first was dusting). Gabbie Spielberg and More Perfect Union produced an excellent 15-min primer.

as someone regularly driven mad by the lack of trains from western mass to Boston & such slow NY service... I am very excited to read this report public rail around MA & public universal afterschool & summer camp are my self-interested goals for when we win

I have a new, very short note out: "Is Private Credit 'So 2022'? withoutwarningresearch.com/p/is-private-c…

Your Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, allied friends are not ok. For a year we’ve been told our lives don’t matter, we’ve seen children just like ours massacred, crushed to death, heads blown off, watching parents burn and starve to death. All w/US weapons. The anguish is indescribable

It’s easier to stop sending the Israel government weapons to conduct its genocidal wars than it is to evacuate every American in Lebanon.

CPE value prop.

Israel killed Fatima today in South Lebanon.

so are President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, who are "working tirelessly for a ceasefire" going to continue to send bombs to someone who won't talk to them about a ceasefire?

TODAY AT 4PM ET!! Join PERI and UMass Econ. Dept for the first of two lectures by Prof. Anwar Shaikh. In-person at Gordon Hall, UMass Amherst or via Zoom. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. For more information: For more info: bit.ly/AnwarShaikhLec…

Great piece by Jonah Crane. The new world is here. There's no going back. The New Deal reg architecture & industrial mindset can't handle Silicon Valley's unbundling & embedding of finance in Millenial & Gen Z material culture. openbanker.beehiiv.com/p/jonahcrane?u…

today I needed to re-read Naomi Klein's words: "we want freedom from the project that commits genocide in our name" theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

59 + 4 (to be delivered). That is the number of Verso books that we have at home. Academia and activism will suffer a major injury if Verso Books is forced to close. (+ my new book would not be published) Pledge to help & more info 👇

Rising home insurance rates are killing homeowners, and making it impossible to build affordable housing. We need solutions at the scale of the crisis. Our latest Climate & Community Institute report calls for *holistic* public interventions rooted in justice—and research. climateandcommunity.org/research/share…

Chair of global public health at U of Edinburgh says 335k dead by end of year in Gaza is a conservative estimate; half a million equally plausible. This is if the killing, malnourishment, maiming, deprivation stops in december which we currently have no reason to think it will

The forum for Finance and Society's latest issue examines Brett Christophers' 'Our Lives in Their Portfolios', starting with a contribution from Lenore Palladino: cup.org/4eiYlPF #OpenAccess #Finance

We got it done!!!🥳🥳🥳

Boom. Another $100 million for mixed-income public development in local revolving loan funds. Excited to see this tool used by Boston Housing Auth. to make their redevelopments even bigger and better.

Imagine living under this. You wouldn't accept this for yourself, for your friends and family. We can't accept it for theirs either.

The point is that we should not despair. We should stand firm against imperial violence and genocide.