Geoff Coventry
@geoffcoventry.bsky.social
Former renewable energy entrepreneur (Tradewind Energy, Savion). #MMT / #PublicMoney / #Climate / #PoliticalEconomy
www.modernmoneybasics.com
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Still upset about no power of the purse language. You truly do hate to see it. The Trump admin undertook the most expansive set of illegal budgetary actions of any president in history, and broadcast as loudly as possible they’d keep doing it, and nothing. Budgetary lawlessness.
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Still upset about no power of the purse language. You truly do hate to see it. The Trump admin undertook the most expansive set of illegal budgetary actions of any president in history, and broadcast as loudly as possible they’d keep doing it, and nothing. Budgetary lawlessness.
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We know this because he told us.
The reality is the government was shut down the first day Trump entered office. We just didn't talk about it that way.
The only real leverage Dems had is on appropriations. Schumer screwed that up in February/March for FY 26. It imperiled his political support.
The reality is the government was shut down the first day Trump entered office. We just didn't talk about it that way.
The only real leverage Dems had is on appropriations. Schumer screwed that up in February/March for FY 26. It imperiled his political support.
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
We know this because he told us.
The reality is the government was shut down the first day Trump entered office. We just didn't talk about it that way.
The only real leverage Dems had is on appropriations. Schumer screwed that up in February/March for FY 26. It imperiled his political support.
The reality is the government was shut down the first day Trump entered office. We just didn't talk about it that way.
The only real leverage Dems had is on appropriations. Schumer screwed that up in February/March for FY 26. It imperiled his political support.
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Some thoughts on the CR/minibus.
1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins.
Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.
1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins.
Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Some thoughts on the CR/minibus.
1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins.
Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.
1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins.
Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.
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“Reading money as credit rather than debt reorients obligation from forced detention in the past to newly visible capacities & responsibilities that organize repair in the present.”
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The Paradox of Political Thrift
By Will BeamanDemocratic endorsement politics around Zohran Mamdani continue to bend in ways that feel at once familiar and strange. A spokesman for House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries brushed off Senato…
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November 9, 2025 at 12:56 AM
“Reading money as credit rather than debt reorients obligation from forced detention in the past to newly visible capacities & responsibilities that organize repair in the present.”
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“Public investment, viewed as deficit spending from the standpoint of the cautious investor, was in fact surplus creation for the public as a whole.
From the macro perspective, savings were not depleted but provisioned by spending.”
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From the macro perspective, savings were not depleted but provisioned by spending.”
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The Paradox of Political Thrift
By Will BeamanDemocratic endorsement politics around Zohran Mamdani continue to bend in ways that feel at once familiar and strange. A spokesman for House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries brushed off Senato…
moneyontheleft.org
November 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
“Public investment, viewed as deficit spending from the standpoint of the cautious investor, was in fact surplus creation for the public as a whole.
From the macro perspective, savings were not depleted but provisioned by spending.”
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social
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From the macro perspective, savings were not depleted but provisioned by spending.”
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"[A] job guarantee is the ultimate disenshittifier of work."
The enshittification of labor
Pavlina Tcherneva, getting her peanut butter in my chocolate.
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November 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"[A] job guarantee is the ultimate disenshittifier of work."
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Fadhel Kaboub exposes the tranquilizing drugs that reproduce the colonial traps in less than two minutes at the ChangeNow Summit in Paris (April 2025). Take a listen: youtu.be/0N6GZL87cn4
Fadhel Kaboub exposes the tranquilizing drugs that reproduce colonial traps in less than 2 minutes
YouTube video by Fadhel Kaboub
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November 9, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Fadhel Kaboub exposes the tranquilizing drugs that reproduce the colonial traps in less than two minutes at the ChangeNow Summit in Paris (April 2025). Take a listen: youtu.be/0N6GZL87cn4
"but the episode alarmed civil rights groups"...
No, it alarms the vast majority of people, NYT
No, it alarms the vast majority of people, NYT
“..’There’s a baby in the back!’ an onlooker shouted. Minutes later, someone cried out, ‘They’re about to drive!’
“.. Another agent, wearing body armor and carrying a rifle, got into the passenger seat ..”
@nytimes.com #ICE
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“.. Another agent, wearing body armor and carrying a rifle, got into the passenger seat ..”
@nytimes.com #ICE
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November 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM
"but the episode alarmed civil rights groups"...
No, it alarms the vast majority of people, NYT
No, it alarms the vast majority of people, NYT
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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✨ New Essay! ✨
@mattseybold.bsky.social agues that the new Mamdani administration ought to fund CUNY to develop its own public, open-source educational technology. The result stands to socialize the means of knowledge production for collaborative use across the entire US higher education system.
@mattseybold.bsky.social agues that the new Mamdani administration ought to fund CUNY to develop its own public, open-source educational technology. The result stands to socialize the means of knowledge production for collaborative use across the entire US higher education system.
Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production (Let CUNY Socialize EdTech for All of Us)
by Matt Seybold This essay originally appeared on Matt Seybold’s The American Vandal Substack. We are grateful for his generous permission to republish it here. An understandable response to …
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November 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
✨ New Essay! ✨
@mattseybold.bsky.social agues that the new Mamdani administration ought to fund CUNY to develop its own public, open-source educational technology. The result stands to socialize the means of knowledge production for collaborative use across the entire US higher education system.
@mattseybold.bsky.social agues that the new Mamdani administration ought to fund CUNY to develop its own public, open-source educational technology. The result stands to socialize the means of knowledge production for collaborative use across the entire US higher education system.
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Big thx to @mattseybold.bsky.social for giving us permission to re-publish this urgent piece on the @moneyontheleft.bsky.social website. It's time for big ideas & transformative projects!
✨ New Essay! ✨
@mattseybold.bsky.social agues that the new Mamdani administration ought to fund CUNY to develop its own public, open-source educational technology. The result stands to socialize the means of knowledge production for collaborative use across the entire US higher education system.
@mattseybold.bsky.social agues that the new Mamdani administration ought to fund CUNY to develop its own public, open-source educational technology. The result stands to socialize the means of knowledge production for collaborative use across the entire US higher education system.
Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production (Let CUNY Socialize EdTech for All of Us)
by Matt Seybold This essay originally appeared on Matt Seybold’s The American Vandal Substack. We are grateful for his generous permission to republish it here. An understandable response to …
moneyontheleft.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Big thx to @mattseybold.bsky.social for giving us permission to re-publish this urgent piece on the @moneyontheleft.bsky.social website. It's time for big ideas & transformative projects!
Sovereignty is selfish & exclusionary
Sovereignty is a crude and destructive figure for the messiness of democratic co-governance and accountability, EXHIBIT A.
Out with sovereignty, in with responsibility.
Out with sovereignty, in with responsibility.
Trump: On November 5th 2024, the American people reclaimed our government, restored our sovereignty. We lost a little bit of sovereignty last night in New York, but we will take care of it, don't worry about it.
November 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Sovereignty is selfish & exclusionary
No shit
Who could have foreseen this except everyone?
New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field.
In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.
By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.
By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
No shit
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NEW PIECE: I finally unveil the deep segregationist Georgia relationships of Fed Chair Bill Martin I dug up over the course of researching my (now set aside) book on the Federal Reserve: Picking Losers. Its a labyrinthine story so grab a coffee & Subscribe
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BOMBSHELL: 1951-1970 Federal Reserve Chair Bill Martin Was a Committed Segregationist
This is a Premium piece of Notes on the Crises.
Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook was born and raised in Milledgeville Georgia, about a 100 miles away from Atlanta. She also shares a birth year with...
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October 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
NEW PIECE: I finally unveil the deep segregationist Georgia relationships of Fed Chair Bill Martin I dug up over the course of researching my (now set aside) book on the Federal Reserve: Picking Losers. Its a labyrinthine story so grab a coffee & Subscribe
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"...a single bitcoin purchase can take around 500,000x more energy than a credit card purchase..."
Wrote a post about arguments for using stablecoins to promote economic equality with @scpartners.bsky.social. Also offers a very basic primer on what they are. socialcapitalpartners.ca/stablecoins-...
Hype or help? Can crypto and stablecoins solve economic inequality?
Some cryptocurrency advocates are promoting the use of stablecoins as a common currency, arguing that this new currency could help the cost-of-living crisis and promote economic equality – particularl...
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October 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
"...a single bitcoin purchase can take around 500,000x more energy than a credit card purchase..."
Finally getting to this one. These distinctions do matter, and the sooner the media catches up, the better.
ICYMI I wrote about this tariff revenue WIC issue. The "paying the troops" thing was breaking as I was finalizing my piece and I'll cover next week. It likely will revise the conclusion of this piece.
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October 20, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Finally getting to this one. These distinctions do matter, and the sooner the media catches up, the better.
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My latest from @hyperallergic.com is on Trump’s proposed triumphal arch—& why looking at the structure’s history symbolizing imperialism & subjugation + its reception (Napoleon, Hitler) is important. NB: the ecclesiastical architectural firm pitching this structure. hyperallergic.com/1050375/the-...
The Arch of Trump’s Triumph and Downfall
Triumphal arches have been used for imperialistic ends since Roman antiquity, and the president’s latest proposal is no exception.
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October 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
My latest from @hyperallergic.com is on Trump’s proposed triumphal arch—& why looking at the structure’s history symbolizing imperialism & subjugation + its reception (Napoleon, Hitler) is important. NB: the ecclesiastical architectural firm pitching this structure. hyperallergic.com/1050375/the-...
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✨New Essay!✨
In this wide-ranging piece, @greenbackbetter.bsky.social reads “political capital” as coordinative credit, rather than backward-looking debt. From here, he outlines a new “finance franchise” in which publics extend polyvocal capacities to political leaders.
Please read👩💻 & share! 🙌
In this wide-ranging piece, @greenbackbetter.bsky.social reads “political capital” as coordinative credit, rather than backward-looking debt. From here, he outlines a new “finance franchise” in which publics extend polyvocal capacities to political leaders.
Please read👩💻 & share! 🙌
The Paradox of Political Thrift
By Will BeamanDemocratic endorsement politics around Zohran Mamdani continue to bend in ways that feel at once familiar and strange. A spokesman for House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries brushed off Senato…
moneyontheleft.org
October 13, 2025 at 9:55 PM
✨New Essay!✨
In this wide-ranging piece, @greenbackbetter.bsky.social reads “political capital” as coordinative credit, rather than backward-looking debt. From here, he outlines a new “finance franchise” in which publics extend polyvocal capacities to political leaders.
Please read👩💻 & share! 🙌
In this wide-ranging piece, @greenbackbetter.bsky.social reads “political capital” as coordinative credit, rather than backward-looking debt. From here, he outlines a new “finance franchise” in which publics extend polyvocal capacities to political leaders.
Please read👩💻 & share! 🙌
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My latest for @moneyontheleft.bsky.social ✨✨✨
From paradoxes of political thrift to theorizing a new “Finance Franchise,” based not on legal sovereignty but on rehearsed public capacities.
Please read and share if you like it! 🙏
From paradoxes of political thrift to theorizing a new “Finance Franchise,” based not on legal sovereignty but on rehearsed public capacities.
Please read and share if you like it! 🙏
✨New Essay!✨
In this wide-ranging piece, @greenbackbetter.bsky.social reads “political capital” as coordinative credit, rather than backward-looking debt. From here, he outlines a new “finance franchise” in which publics extend polyvocal capacities to political leaders.
Please read👩💻 & share! 🙌
In this wide-ranging piece, @greenbackbetter.bsky.social reads “political capital” as coordinative credit, rather than backward-looking debt. From here, he outlines a new “finance franchise” in which publics extend polyvocal capacities to political leaders.
Please read👩💻 & share! 🙌
The Paradox of Political Thrift
By Will BeamanDemocratic endorsement politics around Zohran Mamdani continue to bend in ways that feel at once familiar and strange. A spokesman for House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries brushed off Senato…
moneyontheleft.org
October 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
My latest for @moneyontheleft.bsky.social ✨✨✨
From paradoxes of political thrift to theorizing a new “Finance Franchise,” based not on legal sovereignty but on rehearsed public capacities.
Please read and share if you like it! 🙏
From paradoxes of political thrift to theorizing a new “Finance Franchise,” based not on legal sovereignty but on rehearsed public capacities.
Please read and share if you like it! 🙏
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🚨 NEW
“Nobody’s Girl: The Voice of Virginia Giuffre”
A survivor’s words — shared ahead of her memoir’s release.
Long thread
🧵 ⬇️
“Nobody’s Girl: The Voice of Virginia Giuffre”
A survivor’s words — shared ahead of her memoir’s release.
Long thread
🧵 ⬇️
October 15, 2025 at 11:21 PM
🚨 NEW
“Nobody’s Girl: The Voice of Virginia Giuffre”
A survivor’s words — shared ahead of her memoir’s release.
Long thread
🧵 ⬇️
“Nobody’s Girl: The Voice of Virginia Giuffre”
A survivor’s words — shared ahead of her memoir’s release.
Long thread
🧵 ⬇️
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"[Democratic Public Finance] ... asserts that money is an unlimited and disputable public good which can always be reorganized to serve people and the environment."
Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City
Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …
moneyontheleft.org
October 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"[Democratic Public Finance] ... asserts that money is an unlimited and disputable public good which can always be reorganized to serve people and the environment."
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As debates over monetary policy and central bank independence intensify, Levy is bringing the discussion to Capitol Hill with the launch of our new series.
Join us Nov 19 for "Rethinking the Federal Reserve’s Policy Framework and Independence."
connect.bard.edu/register/Lev...
Join us Nov 19 for "Rethinking the Federal Reserve’s Policy Framework and Independence."
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October 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Spread the word
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🏛️ Pleased to launch our new Capitol Hill Series.
We're convening congressional staffers, policymakers, and the public to examine critical economic issues with a distinguished panel of experts.
Registration is required.
Save your spot and join us in DC. connect.bard.edu/register/Lev...
We're convening congressional staffers, policymakers, and the public to examine critical economic issues with a distinguished panel of experts.
Registration is required.
Save your spot and join us in DC. connect.bard.edu/register/Lev...
As debates over monetary policy and central bank independence intensify, Levy is bringing the discussion to Capitol Hill with the launch of our new series.
Join us Nov 19 for "Rethinking the Federal Reserve’s Policy Framework and Independence."
connect.bard.edu/register/Lev...
Join us Nov 19 for "Rethinking the Federal Reserve’s Policy Framework and Independence."
connect.bard.edu/register/Lev...
October 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
🏛️ Pleased to launch our new Capitol Hill Series.
We're convening congressional staffers, policymakers, and the public to examine critical economic issues with a distinguished panel of experts.
Registration is required.
Save your spot and join us in DC. connect.bard.edu/register/Lev...
We're convening congressional staffers, policymakers, and the public to examine critical economic issues with a distinguished panel of experts.
Registration is required.
Save your spot and join us in DC. connect.bard.edu/register/Lev...
"using tariff money"
Apparently they think they've found foreign issuers of the US currency...
Apparently they think they've found foreign issuers of the US currency...
TRUMP SAYS HE IS CONSIDERING TAXPAYER REBATES OF $1,000 TO $2,000 USING TARIFF MONEY
October 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
"using tariff money"
Apparently they think they've found foreign issuers of the US currency...
Apparently they think they've found foreign issuers of the US currency...