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JSIS UW / PSCC / ILCPS / Red May Seattle / + / new law applying citizen / Trade Finance Energy & IPE / thoughts (barely) ‘my own’
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NEW PIECE: Since early on this crisis I've thought about the fastest warning signs of mass payment failure or mass impoundment. I pursued "deep background" calls with former or current Federal Reserve/Treasury/Banker informants to find out. This is the result

www.crisesnotes.com/how-can-we-k...
How Can We Know if Government Payments Stop? An Exploratory analysis of Banking System Warning Signs
Notes on the Crises pivoted on February 1st into around the clock coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025. Today is Day Twenty Two Read Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Par...
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February 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
great coverage from @katyaschwenk.bsky.social on the up-and-down stream crises surrounding the Colorado River drought as US development, especially in Phoenix AZ, continues to crash into the discounted future of groundwater.

www.levernews.com/the-american...
The American Dream (Water Not Included)
Real estate developers are running a dark-money campaign to overturn new housing rules — and ignore basic laws of nature.
www.levernews.com
February 9, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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It’s just hard to know what to say right now but me and @70sbachchan.bsky.social wrote some stuff about what on earth the “rest of world” does now wrt trade, development, aid. Plus, some media thoughts.
buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...
Organizing around and without the US
Hello readers, We skipped last week's newsletter to focus on getting the "Polycrisis 2025" year opener newsletter out on Phenomenal World. It came out around...
buttondown.com
February 8, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Baltimore! Next Tuesday I'll be riffing with Sandeep Vaheesan at @redemmas.org on his new (fantastic) book Democracy In Power about the history - and future- of public ownership for electricity and everything else we need popular control over in the climate crisis. redemmas.org/events/sande...
Sandeep Vaheesan presents "Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States" in conversation w/ Patrick Bigger
Private money, public good, and the original fight for control of America’s energy industry.
redemmas.org
February 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Me & the Pearl River Pooches Gang.
January 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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In diesen düsteren Zeiten braucht es dringend eine neue Debatte über Wirtschaftspolitik und greifbare Alternativen zum Neoliberalismus & zum Aufstieg der extremen Rechten.

Deshalb haben wir @surplusmagazin.bsky.social gegründet!

Adam Tooze @mauricehoefgen.bsky.social @lukasscholle.bsky.social
January 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Excellent informed discussion of bond markets from the maestro @tobyn.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/0397...
What’s up with bond yields?
From borrowers to sorrowers
www.ft.com
January 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Here by unpopular demand
December 21, 2024 at 7:00 PM