#Economic

Andrés Pertierra

ASPertierra

Reading this for my historiography paper and genuinely learning a lot, but it’s also reminding me about how little I understand how credit has functioned historically and how frequently it

Andy Slavitt @ 🏡🇺🇸

ASlavitt

TODAY: Trump is doing something about the pandemic.Today he’s filing a brief in the Supreme Court to end the ACA & take health care coverage away from 20 million people.

Fair Fight

fairfightaction

Georgia has failed to manage the COVID crisis. Here are the facts: *Georgia’s largest hospital is full. *Georgia ranks 5th nationally for the highest daily reported cases per capita. *Yesterday,

Anne Rice

AnneRiceAuthor

I wonder: what are Trumpers really feeling now, those Americans who love him & show up for him, and believe in him? Are they ashamed of his fraudulent claims, &

Has Jeff Bezos Decided To End World Hunger?

HasBezosDecided

Feel like I see this a lot so gonna clarify something:The socialist nations of the 20th Century, such as the Soviet Union, Cuba, Vietnam, Burkina Faso, China and others, were

Pawel Adrjan

PawelAdrjan

Job postings in the 4 largest Western European capitals are well below their pre-pandemic levels.Lukas Kleine-Rueschkamp (@OECD_local) and I looked at what these trends might mean for city labour markets

Melissa Murray

ProfMMurray

WOW. Who's elitist now? A little on community college. I grew up in a small in city in FL. The local community college was an economic engine of our community,

Peter Easton

peter102746

Perhaps I'm being snobbish, given my academic background (biochem, nuclear physics/economics), but I have a very hard time accepting that sociology is a science in the physical sciences meaning of

Your Friendly Butch Anarchist

butchanarchy

The Founding Fathers hated and feared actual democracy and constructed the U.S. system of governance in order to prevent democracy from ever existing here, and here’s a thread of them

DQ

DavidQuang

1/ A NEW WORLD ORDER called Bretton Woods monetary system was formed in 1944 where Gold linked to USD, became the world currency. But in the 1960s, fundamental flaws of

Arrush Adityadev

Arrushadityadev

Breaking!Now 'WATER' is a traded commodity! Transparent Gold?-Where does it trade?Chicago Mercantile Exchange-CME on Monday began dealing in water futures tied to Nasdaq Veles California Water Index.-Index will measure the

Solidarity Is not a Market Exchange

decolonialcommi

The colonized person “must wage war on both levels,” insisted Fanon. Since historically they influence each other, any unilateral liberation is incomplete, and the gravest mistake would be to believe

Alan Levinovitz

AlanLevinovitz

"capitalism": n. a slur that stands in for specific features of an exchange system that result in disempowerment, oppression, or scarcity"socialism": n. a slur that stands in for specific features

David Roberts

drvolts

But that's the wrong way to think about it. The nationalism, anti-intellectualism, xenophobia, resentment, cruelty, & lust for authoritarianism did not, at some point, displace conservatism. They are simply what

Patterson Foundation

ThePattersonFdn

(thread) 5 Nuggets for work in long-term disaster 1 Stay optimistic. Believe in where we are going. Give power to communities that are addressing and facing these issues. We can't

unseen1

unseen1_unseen

I'm not one to doom& gloom and I don't like to do it. But, I would be remiss if I didn't point out that things can get really bad on

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