The Economist #1 on the State Department’s new banned subscriptions list - ahead of the New York Times. - ThreadSky

mcpli.bsky.social • 4 days ago

The Economist #1 on the State Department’s new banned subscriptions list - ahead of the New York Times.

Reposted from Dave Keating

The US State Department is forcing all of its employees to cancel subscriptions to any Trump-unfriendly media.

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pattleship.bsky.social•4 days ago

If they told Trump it carried the Big Mac index they would have been fine.

markstahl.bsky.social•4 days ago

I had a friend who worked at the UN. They were required to read international journalism (like the like The Economist) as part of their job.

insidejoke.bsky.social•4 days ago

Obviously a profoundly woke Marxist publication.

insidejoke.bsky.social•4 days ago

I mean when you really think about what were Marx and Engels if not economists? Clearly a gateway publication.

umbrarchist.bsky.social•4 days ago

Marx used the word 'depreciation' 35 times in the first two volumes of Das Kapital. Automobiles were not invented until after he died.

When have you heard economists discuss the annual depreciation of automobiles purchased by American consumers?

How much since Sputnik?