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Good evening!

New at The Evening Constitutional, the latest installment of my Constitutional Perspectives series. Today we're talking all about the federal union!

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Federalism, Part II: The Union
Welcome back to Constitutional Perspectives! Today I'm continuing my discussion of federalism, one of the great defining structural features of the American constitutional system. Last time, I gave y...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Chicago come through, No Kings there abc7chicago.com/post/no-king...
October 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Lev Menand is blistering here. Must listen. Meeting the moment. Incredible stuff from @weisenthal.bsky.social and @tracyalloway.bsky.social on Odd Lots.

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Lev Menand on Trump’s Attempt to Fire the Fed’s Lisa Cook — Odd Lots
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August 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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This is great because it's not just a liberal defense of central bank independence - first, a revelation about Trump's will to absolute power legitimized by a Supreme Court he put together
August 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Is money really a "medium of exchange"? This article challenges one of the most fundamental concepts in economics, arguing that we should see money as a collective project and a means of payment guaranteed by a community.
Money is Not a Medium of Exchange
by Jens Martignoni With this brief provocation, Jens Martignoni develops a suggestion first put forth in an essay published in the International Journal of Community Currency Research (IJCCR). Ther…
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August 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
One good thing would come of this. It would clearly demarcate the end of post-postmodernism and the beginning of post post-postmodernism.
I fully expect Trump to award himself the Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievement Award.
August 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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"By holding the ... two faces of sovereignty together, we can see how rogue and publicly irresponsible currencies cut across the official/unofficial divide."
The Unofficial Lives of Public Money
by Will Beaman Recent Money on the Left proposals for endogenous credit campaigns—like Unis or Blue Bonds—often run headlong into an unspoken but deeply rooted distinction between “official” and “u…
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August 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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The Supreme Court never said money equals speech. The Citizens United ruling said government can't restrict spending money specifically on disseminating political speech. Those are not the same. The vast majority of money is not spent spreading expression. Treating them as the same isn't helping.
August 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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MotL 81 is live! 🗣️

✨ Legal & Political Foundations of Capitalism with Jamee K. Moudud ✨

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Please listen & share! 🎧 🙌

*Transcript forthcoming
July 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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We're still doing our best to track it all.

Trump's trade war timeline:
Trump's trade war timeline 2.0: An up-to-date guide
President Donald Trump has started his second term in office with momentous plans to change US trade policy to achieve various economic and nontrade related aims. Below is a timeline that tracks the d...
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July 31, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Things are so bad, the planet is calling for Batman.
July 27, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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"MMT reveals that our lives are already held together by a web of overlapping credits and obligations, none of them exactly the same, all of them linked by analogy."
Accounting Identities or Accounting Analogies?
by Will Beaman Most people’s first exposure to Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) comes with a gentle promise: It is just accounting. The government’s deficit is the non-government sector’s surplus, by s…
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July 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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If you don't already, watch Colbert. He is a man with no more f*cks left to give. And it's glorious.

Check out this song parody from last night's show: Mike Johnson Delays House Epstein Vote Until September
July 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Money on the Left is joined by Andrés Arauz, candidate for the Ecuadorian presidency, heterodox economist, and outspoken advocate for the creation of the “Sur.”
Money & Solidarity in Latin America w/ Andrés Arauz
Money on the Left is joined by Andrés Arauz, recent candidate for the Ecuadorian presidency, heterodox economist, and outspoken advocate for the creation of the “Sur.” The Sur is a complementary cu…
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July 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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An appreciation of modern money theory and the potential of endogenous credit creation may help to renew the Black University movement in our time.
Modern Money & the Black University Concept
Money on the Left: History, Theory, PracticeVol. 1, No. 1 (2024)ISSN 2833-051X Modern Money & the Black University Concept By Andrew J. Douglas Abstract Recent efforts to rethink the university…
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July 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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When you think of crypto, or finance more generally, think of an incredibly bloated trucking sector. It has the same impact in being a huge drain on the economy, except truckers aren't awful people like the finance and crypto bros cepr.net/publications...
“Crypto” Is Silicon Valley Speak for Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
Lawmakers are advancing crypto-friendly bills after receiving hundreds of millions in industry donations, risking more financial inefficiency and future bailouts while offering minimal public benefit.
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July 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Check out our conversation with Steve Grumbine about Blue Bonds. Episode drops tomorrow, Saturday 7/5 at 8 am Eastern.
July 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Since 2020, the Money on the Left Editorial Collective has been arguing for a new approach to university finance that we call the ‘uni’ proposal. Here are links to our essays and interviews related to this project.
The Uni Currency Project: Resource Page
Since 2020, the Money on the Left Editorial Collective has been arguing for a new approach to university finance that we call the ‘uni’ proposal. Below are links to our essays and interviews relate…
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June 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
“Yesterday, as everybody knows, [was the] first day of hurricane season,” Richardson said. “I didn’t realize it was a season.”

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FEMA Scraps New Hurricane Plan and Reverts to Last Year’s — The Wall Street Journal
Agency’s leader suggested he recently learned there was an annual hurricane season
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June 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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This is the best team crossover video I've ever seen.
May 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Jakob Feinig shows how the relation between money users & money-issuing governments changed from British colonial North America to today's United States, discussing how popular movements reshaped money-creating institutions, and how their opponents attempted to silence them.

A must read!
Moral Economies of Money | Stanford University Press
For much of American history, large numbers of people claimed that money was a public good and asserted the right to shape money creation practices. If popular knowledge about money creation was once ...
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May 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Along with everything else, Trump has threatened to put 50 percent tariffs on the EU, which would basically shut down trans-Atlantic trade. Many people have noted that (a) the EU has very low tariffs on US goods (b) much of the EU surplus in goods is offset by a deficit in services. But ...
May 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Astonishing. Bravo!
May 22, 2025 at 7:02 AM
“For too long legislatures have been ensnared by the deceptions of sound finance, which cloak the cruelties of fiscal constraint in a false morality of sacrificial rectitude.”
Blue states face a stark choice: They can become managers of Trumpian austerity, and struggle to keep up with the enormous pain and anger this foments. Or, they can beget prosperous blue bond economies that save lives, motivate voters, and model politics for the post-Trump era.
Blue Bonds: A Fiscal Strategy for Overcoming Trump 2.0
The Trump Administration has plunged the United States into a constitutional crisis. The President’s destructive executive orders and Elon Musk’s aggressive interventions in state agencies an…
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May 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM