summers is such a uniquely corrosive force in democratic politics. it beggars belief that he has been so central to left-of-center economic policy for such a long time given his absolutely rancid beliefs and conduct

I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices

I cannot emphasize enough how many people are dead today who wouldn't be if any of these fucking journalists had done actual fucking journalism instead of serving the ruling class

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

1-manufacture low-cost generic medicine
2-trigger price-gouging rules with a state of emergency on grocery costs
3-investigate unfair pricing
4-hire a deputy mayor for affordability
5-enforce shrinkflation and misleading unit prices
6-disqualify city contractors that use deceptive pricing

Like, if your concrete analysis is "um, stocks seem overvalued" (with which I agree!), then why have you forced so many graduate students to work through all those Euler equations?

The problem from their point of view is that rapid decarbonization requires public, collective decisions about the organization of production, in a way that threaten capital-owners' authority over both the production process and the political system.

Abundance types get very worked up about left Nimbys, anti-gentrification activists, etc. But this is deeply misleading when it comes to the actual politics of housing, at least in New York. Opposition to new housing comes overwhelmingly from the Right.

As economists- and those goes for heterodox as well as mainstream- we tend to assume that one firm equals one production process. But as in the case of Starbucks stores, the lines of corporate authority and ownership sometimes cut across the organization of production in unpredictable ways.