William Blair Santos Allen
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William Blair Santos Allen
@willballen.bsky.social
Retired consultant in international macro finance and capital markets. Converted to MMT as truth.

Now humble second career as lover of all things nautical and USCG licensed Master Mariner.

Finally doing something socially productive?
Smokey and the Bandit captures a lot of southern culture I grew up with. Driving to Texarkana to smuggle Coors beer to Deep South was a thing. Did it myself a couple of times.
November 12, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Yes. I grew up in a ready mix concrete company family. We had both types of trucks. Listen to my father and grandfather correcting people all the time. Unfortunately I guess I picked up the habit!
November 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Well since I know you are a word person, here goes: They are “ready mix concrete” trucks not cement trucks! Cement is a dry powder and is transported typically by a dry bulk trailer (no mixer). Concrete is the wet mix of cement, sand, and. aggregate. Love your channel!
November 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I think this video was one of your best yet!
November 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Disagree. I think health care is a right.
November 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Ken Galbraith is sorely missed!
November 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Trump would know all about losing liquidity. All kinds of liquids, apparently.
November 7, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Now now. Easy guys! The only way to tell if Trump is lying is to see his lips moving.
November 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Surprise myself to agree with you. Euro isn’t working. But I come at it from opposite spectrum. MMT explains why lack of currency sovereignty by country leads to failure. Euro has miserably failed most countries save Germany and the Netherlands.
November 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
You sure that is a pound cake? It is a pile of… something?
November 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Yes this is excellent. Should be required reading!
November 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Right. They have to be sold to UAE and reexported to China in order to provide a grift for Trump’s Middle East buddies.
November 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Not surprised given how much CMG bragged on CNBC after pandemic that they could (and did) raise prices as much as they wanted. I stopped eating there because of those callous interviews.
November 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Whew! I thought you were threatening to show up naked.
October 31, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Close female friends of parents were always “tias” (aunts) and close male friends “tios” (uncles). Portuguese American family
October 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I’m not sure in what world Rogoff should be described as a “centrist economist”?
October 28, 2025 at 1:58 AM
1950 Night to Remember with Kenneth Moore is the only Titanic movie worth watching.
October 26, 2025 at 2:10 AM