Abolish fiscal rules and the agencies that enforce them? Galbraith makes the case. (This is for you too, 🇬🇧)
"The budget process cultivates and perpetuates the idea that smaller deficits are better than large ones..." 1/
The deficit is the natural position of the state budget.
It's neither a mistake nor a mistake.
It's a reflection of private savings and the external deficit.
The real scandal ? That our leaders still haven't understood this.
mmt-france.org/2025/07/19/the…
So let me get this straight,
The FBI, the justice department, and every Republican in congress are working together to protect a pedophile, and that pedophile is the President of the United States?
How is this not the biggest scandal in American history?
In light of France saying they’ll recognize Palestine, here are the countries in Green that do recognize Palestine. The countries that don’t - of course it’s the ‘West.’
1. Now it a good time to learn about Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and why it is the only approach to economics that tells us that saving the world and the people in it is possible.
Get off the "never ending growth is the aim", "we can't afford to save the planet",
Sound of Klaxon going off!
Warning! We have entered full BS Authoritarian territory:
nbcnews.com/business/econo…
When the stats don't support the narrative, change the person doing the stats...
Yeah. That'll work...
I hope people are starting to understand that Trump is engineering a Great Depression.
The idea is to depress asset values so that his buddies can buy everything up for 20 cents on the dollar.
Wisconsin town hall erupts against Republican representative Bryan Steil due to his support for Israel's Genocide of Gaza. He’s booed off stage & had to end the event
$130000 was his price to sell his soul to AIPAC etc
Americans are FINALLY waking up
Trump’s federal takeover of D.C. isn’t about safety, it’s about distracting Americans from, high prices, a bad jobs report, a falling economy, and the Epstein files.
washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/…
This is why the Dems are in shambles = they gave up the politics of FDR, which for the man’s faults and failings, not only saved America from authoritarianism, but actually radically enhanced American democratic life. billmoyers.com/story/year-fdr…
🇧🇷🤝🇨🇺Based Lula:
A Mexican journalist tells Lula that "Cuba is in ruin because of its dictatorship and not because of the blockade" and Lula replies:
"If Cuba did not have the US blockade, it would be a Norway, a Holland, a Switzerland ... because its people are qualified.”
This team is much more talented than Gabe Kapler had in 2022 or 2023 and they’re playing much worse than either of those teams. Bob Melvin needs to be out of a job. #SFGiants
BREAKING:
The Oakland Athletics STILL belong in Oakland and anyone that gives them a cent in Sacramento only enables the issue.
#ForceFisherOut #BoycottTheHomelessAthletics
J.D. “JUST DANCE” VANCE, WHO NOBODY LIKED UNTIL TRUMP PICKED HIM OUT OF THE "BARGAIN BIN" IN THE WALMART CLEARANCE SECTION, WENT ON FOX TO TRASH ME, GAVIN C. NEWSOM, AMERICA'S MOST POPULAR GOVERNOR. THE DANCING QUEEN CAN’T STOP! I LIVE RENT-FREE IN HIS HEAD (VERY TINY SPACE,