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Jakob Feinig
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Happy 62nd Bday to the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom!
The most pro worker policy is also the best alternative to the NAIRU. The Job Guarantee ends precarious work and unemployment, improves state budgets, controls demand driven inflation, &more share.google/1SaM1CqYkhCa...
August 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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What happens when you're drawn to MMT, only to have a jarring realization: that many in the community reject the idea that money is based on trust?

In our new episode, @robbhawkes.bsky.social discusses this exact moment and his work to build a new theory of trust for neochartalism.
(Un)conditional Openness: Towards a Neochartalist Theory of Money and Trust
In this special episode, Rob Hawkes joins Scott Ferguson and Will Beaman to discuss his new article “(Un)conditional Openness: Towards a Neochartalist Theory of Money and Trust,” which was recently…
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July 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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videotroph.bsky.social
Tremendous thanks to Steve Grumbine for having @wilbenjamin.bsky.social and I on the Macro N Cheese podcast to discuss *Blue Bonds.*

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Episode 335 - Bonding Against Austerity: Can States Offset Federal Cuts? with Ben Wilson & Scott Ferguson
With federal budgets promising austerity, could states help themselves? Ben Wilson and Scott Ferguson are proposing 'Blue Bonds.’
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July 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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moneyontheleft.bsky.social
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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videotroph.bsky.social
Please message me if you'd like to take a look at a PDF.
June 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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videotroph.bsky.social
Don't miss it. 👀
moneyontheleft.bsky.social Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · May 29
Coming soon to earbuds near you.
May 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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videotroph.bsky.social
"If we could say that it was Reagan 1.0, Bush 2.0, it’s Trump 3.0 in the unitary executive theory waves."

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May 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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videotroph.bsky.social
We at @moneyontheleft.bsky.social created a Blue Bonds Press Kit. Check it out! 👀
moneyontheleft.bsky.social Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · May 24
MotL proudly presents:

✨ Blue Bonds: A Press Kit ✨

Blue Bonds are an emergency municipal bond initiative designed to protect Democratically controlled “Blue” states and municipalities from federal fiscal sabotage.

Get your questions answered here.
Blue Bonds: A Press Kit
Executive Summary Blue Bonds are an emergency municipal bond initiative designed to protect Democratically controlled “Blue” states and municipalities from federal fiscal sabotage. Blue Bonds are n…
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May 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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videotroph.bsky.social
I'm thrilled to share our latest article for the MotL journal! Here, Rob Hawkes does important work rethinking the bases of social trust by affirming the fundamental publicness of monetary systems & eschewing the anti-social assumptions baked into exchange theories of "calculated risk." Must read!
moneyontheleft.bsky.social Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · May 21
New Journal Article! 🗣️

✨ (Un)conditional Openness: Towards a Neochartalist Theory of Money and Trust ✨

moneyontheleft.org/2025/05/21/u...

Affirming from money’s irreducible publicness, @robbhawkes.bsky.social‬ theorizes trust as at once conditional & unconditional openness.

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May 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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I'm biased, but this is the best art in the MOTL series. Hale Woodruff, "Gate to the Campus" [Spelman College], 1935, black-and-white linocut.

Come for the art, stay for the endogenous money creation.
moneyontheleft.bsky.social Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · May 6
"Money is a boundless public utility, and it is created internally [or 'endogenously'] based on the institutions that have been designed to create those forms."

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May 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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videotroph.bsky.social
Honored to participate in this upcoming workshop on "The Black University and Community Currencies" at Morehouse College this Friday. If you're in the Atlanta area, please consider attending.
ajdouglas.bsky.social Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · Apr 22
As cruelty-is-the-point despots impound university funding, as AAA-rated rich schools turn to bond markets, the rest of us need to imagine alternative models of university finance—and reimagine the university in the process.

The Black University and Community Currencies

Apr 25 @ Morehouse College
THE BLACK UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY CURRENCIES April 25, 2025 | 10am to 2pm African American Hall of Fame Lunch Provided JARED BALL, Morgan State University DELMAN COATES 95, Our Money Campaign SCOTT FERGUSON, University of South Florida KAMAU FRANKLIN, Community Movement Builders BENJAMIN WILSON, SUNY Cortland THE BLACK UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY CURRENCIES APRIL 25, 2025 | MOREHOUSE COLLEGE In the late 1960s, in the context of the Black Power movement and amid calls to develop Black Studies programs at many US colleges and universities, Black student activists and radical intellectuals sought to imagine a more revolutionary "Black University," an institution or network of institutions dedicated entirely to Pan-African study and research. This workshop will revisit the theory and vision of the Black University. It will foreground questions of political economy-ranging from the theoretical critiques of capitalism and empire that Inspired the Black University concept to more practical questions about financial viability and the "business model" of a revolutionary Black institution. And it will consider how an emerging school of heterodox economic thinking what has come to be known as modern money theory-might inform a renewal of the Black University and Its commitment to Black community building. This comes at a time of great crisis in US higher education especially at HBCUs. Students are unsustainably indebted, encouraged to think of their education as little more than a private economic transaction or "return on investment." Schools, increasingly desperate for funding, are made to compete for private capital, often in ways that compromise their ability to serve even the nominally progressive aspects of their missions. Surrounding neighborhoods have become little more than sites of extraction, sources of low-wage labor and opportunities for land speculation, otherwise walled off from the very institutions they are made to sustain. More broadly democratic questions about what kind of society the university is meant to serve or what kind of society we want an education for are rarely if ever addressed. Meanwhile, fascism's dramatic resurgence is renewing questions about whether Black institutions can rely on even minimal support from white society. In many ways, we appear to…
April 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Workshop « From Croesus to Nakamoto, how currencies emerge : between (…) - Triangle - UMR 5206 Workshop « From Croesus to Nakamoto, how currencies emerge : between (…) - Triangle - UMR 5206 [() TestNe doit pas s'afficher, mais ajouté pour la synthèse vocale
13 mars 2025 : 09h30 - 14 mars 2025 : 17h15
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March 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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moneyontheleft.bsky.social
Much like 19th-century canal, railroad, and mining companies, as well as 21st – century financial technology and cryptocurrency companies, gaming giants are engaging in private monetary governance.

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March 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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geoffcoventry.bsky.social
If you're in the public policy game looking for how to design a post-Trump society, reimagining public money needs to be at the center of your thinking. #econsky #publicpolicy #publicmoney
moneyontheleft.bsky.social Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · Mar 1
"The money question is up for grabs for the first time in nearly a century. […] Breaking monetary silence, the uni movement revives moral possibilities that are inherent in communities, institutions, and the people who inhabit them."
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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March 1, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Money on the Left speaks with Pavlina Tcherneva, Professor of Economics at Bard College and leading scholar of–-and advocate for—Modern Monetary Theory.
Economic Democracy with Pavlina Tcherneva
Money on the Left speaks with Pavlina Tcherneva, Professor of Economics at Bard College and leading scholar of–-and advocate for—Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). Many of our listeners will be familiar…
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February 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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geoffcoventry.bsky.social
Very important.
No "back to normal".
Only an improved social ordering can lead us out of this mess.
videotroph.bsky.social videotroph @videotroph.bsky.social · Feb 9
In addition to resisting the dismantlement of the federal bureaucracy with all of our might, now is a critical time to begin imagining & designing new, post-neoliberal public infrastructures for the post-Trump era.
February 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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moneyontheleft.bsky.social
MotL 76 is live! 🗣️

✨Odious Debt w/ @edjonesc.bsky.social ✨

We speak with Corredera about his important new book, Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2024).

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February 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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New Essay! 🗣️

✨ Money is Not a Medium of Exchange ✨

Contra the "exchange" paradigm linked to myths of barter, Jens Martignoni argues that we must reconceive money as an inherently collective project and rethink monetary functions as resulting from political design.

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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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January 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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moneyontheleft.bsky.social
"Put succinctly, we argue that the logic of sovereignty is not only violent, it is also outright false."
Money & the Limits of Sovereignty
by Scott Ferguson Money on the Left is proud to republish this talk by Scott Ferguson. It was initially presented at the request of Real Progressives on September 4, 2021. We reproduce the presenta…
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January 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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mpeterf.bsky.social
Is that the best single-sentence description of a monetary system, ever?
January 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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moneyontheleft.bsky.social
Episode 75 is live! 🔊

✨ Community Currencies w/ Jens Martignoni ✨

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January 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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As always this time of year, it’s not too late to read @videotroph.bsky.social’s Declarations of Dependence (222 pages) and/or @feinig.bsky.social’s Moral Economies of Money (208 pages).

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Declarations of Dependence - Nebraska Press
Declarations of Dependence rethinks the historical relationship between money and aesthetics in an effort to make critical theory newly answerable to politic...
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December 27, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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MAGA, the Job Guarantee, and Post-Neoliberal Public Knowledge
The surge of far-Right populism is enabled by a particular form of public knowledge – one shaped by the assumption that we are all part of a mechanism we can neither understand nor change: The Market....
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December 28, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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videotroph.bsky.social
Nietzschean fabulation can often play a generative role in critical theory, but here Amin Samman’s invocation of the Nietzschean lie licenses lazy research & sloppy argumentation.

See the thread below, if you’re interested in details. 1/🧵

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Amin Samman–Capital of Lies
This article is part of the b2o: an online journal Special Issue "The Gordian Knot of Finance".  Capital of Lies Amin Samman What metaphors should we use to talk about finance? There are many provocat...
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December 14, 2024 at 3:54 PM
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🔊MotL 74 is live!🔊

✨Law & Political Economy w/ Martha McCluskey✨

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*Transcript forthcoming
December 2, 2024 at 12:10 PM