Alex Martin
alexmartin196.bsky.social
Alex Martin
@alexmartin196.bsky.social
Climate finance policy, Americans for Financial Reform, previously
Congressional fellow w/ Sen. Brian Schatz, fellow at the National Academies of Sciences, physical chemistry PhD from NYU. Views my own.
Injury? Why did he come out?
April 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
it's a meme from I think you should leave

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY2x...
Oh my god! He admit it!
YouTube video by podowski
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Private insurers are still making profits off of their homeowners lines in California, at least through 2023 (sources in our release).

Yes, rates need to go up because of climate change. They have been, and insurers have been raking it in.
February 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
it's pronounced finance Madison and it only happens in nyc which is a climate haven
February 11, 2025 at 11:48 PM
"Powell predicts a time when mortgages will be impossible to get in parts of US"

finance.yahoo.com/news/powell-...
February 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
He says there was lots of opposition and then cites the Chamber of Commerce and NAM as evidence.

This is deregulation to serve an extremely small number of people at the expense of everyone else.
February 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I expected policy changes at the Fed under Trump-Musk, but halting climate economic research and education is a new low.

“It’s the first time in my life I’ve had a set of students who uniformly wanted to learn something and were told that they weren’t allowed to do that,” Dr. Tufano said.
Trump’s Executive Orders Leave Imprint on the Fed
The central bank has halted hiring to align with a White House directive and pulled back its work on climate change.
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
A bold statement to make just as the agency leaves an international climate risk coordination group and cracks down on climate economics research.
February 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Reposted by Alex Martin
Being an (almost) one man agency dedicated to FOIAing the Federal Reserve takes a lot of time, effort and expertise. I really would rather not paywall this stuff, so take out a paid subscription. Plus, I also do contemporary economic analysis.

www.crisesnotes.com#/portal/signup
Notes on the Crises
Analysis by Nathan Tankus of Money, Macroeconomics and Market Governance (with a focus on the Federal Reserve)
www.crisesnotes.com
November 20, 2024 at 3:05 PM