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ICYMI: Weekend reading on the DPA’s past, present and future as a powerful anti-inflation tool 👇

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NEW🗞️: The Defense Production Act sometimes gets narrowly cast as mainly a national security law. But as I show in a Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator paper, the DPA actually has a long history as an anti-inflation law. 🧵(1/8)

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

these people are hopeless. i hope they all get tea partied next year

submitted 4 days ago • 413 comments

Unskewed polls, but for GDP…

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Any Democratic postmortem advising the party to be nicer to the wealthy and corporations, during a time when kleptocrats are pillaging government watchdogs and social insurance programs, is going to age like absolute milk over the next 4 years.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

The most delicate snowflakes ever

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Musk currently putting in the work to make that group much less small and much more vocal

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Largest egg producer saw its profits jump 82 percent last fall 🤔 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/b...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Building our critical infrastructure around the product of a private company invites extortion of the kind that, in this case, we have already seen from this same company & its CEO (Musk) against Ukraine in its struggle against the Russian invasion. Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice...

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

Democrats in Congress should propose a bill banning DOGE staff from entering any federal building. Make Republicans oppose it.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Like many of Trump's ploys to claw back or freeze Biden admin funding, this may not hold up in court. But hopefully Democrats learn the lesson that they really need to find a way to get stuff built faster to avoid this kind of rug-pull in the future. heatmap.news/electric-veh...

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"If state governments can find the political will to seize his assets and destroy the basis of his wealth, they should. If foreign governments can, they should do the same." www.liberalcurrents.com/elon-musk-is...

submitted 32 days ago • 22 comments

Snipping one part of this to again note: it seems very few members of Congress realize what their lives are going to be like in the near future when Trump/Musk rip out some of these gears that run the America machine. They will face angry mobs everywhere they go, including their homes.

submitted 33 days ago • 86 comments

A good way to understand why wealth inequality is a problem is, if some idiot says "no regulations should exist" you just laugh at him, but if that idiot has $400 billion then it's an existential crisis for America.

submitted 33 days ago • 45 comments

“Climate change is upending the basic assumption that Americans can continue to build wealth and financial security by owning their own home. In a sense, it is upending the American dream.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/o...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

We need a 99% wealth tax on all assets over $300 billion

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

A billionaire executive swings to the right after getting annoyed by his pesky employees and the government electing to enforce the law against his businesses. How novel! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/o...

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Mean Tweets and Cheap Eggs not exactly panning out thus far.

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Republicans gonna Republican www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

“Other governments are waiting with bated breath for us to pare back our grants, loans and tax credits so they can use the same tools to sweet-talk the next generation of factories to their shores.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/o...

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NIMBYs, your moment to shine has arrived

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💯

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The future of these now frozen climate grants & loans will depend on whether the courts opt to enforce contract law and/or constitutional separation of powers against Trump. www.ft.com/content/fcaf...

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

One day we’ll look back at this & marvel that we pretended this was a terrible economy & Biden’s economic policies were a failure

submitted 49 days ago • 11 comments

Can you really “withdraw” from a made-up job?

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

There was an alternative to landing on the graveyard of incumbent governments in the wake of inflation. Mexico and Spain have demonstrated to the world how stabilizing the prices of essentials can pay back - economically and politically. My first @foreignaffairs.bsky.social

submitted 53 days ago • 8 comments

Or maybe Biden's model wasn't post-neoliberal enough... As I've written, Biden's industrial strategy was sorely needed to better the economic fortunes of abandoned America. Turning that ship around (& reaping the political dividends) takes more than 4 years. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

The heart of this @dylanmatt.bsky.social critique of the Biden presidency kinda whiffs on Build Back Better. In retrospect, it's clear that Biden's revealed prioritization was climate, followed by whatever else bare Dem majorities in Congress could coalesce around. www.vox.com/politics/394...

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

"Some low-income households are 'using crypto gains to take out new mortgages.' When crypto prices go down, those families’ homes are going to be at risk." This is going to end very badly. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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