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YouTube video by Notes on the Crises Nathan Tanks the Economy:An Oral History of 100 Days of DOGE w/ Nathan Tankus @deathpanel

Posted a Youtube video of my interview with @deathpanel.bsky.social on the @crisesnotes.bsky.social channel. I will try to more regularly post audio &/or video interviews on my youtube channel (&, as a reminder, I'm monetized now so watching the youtube videos help)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWdv...

Feminized labor exploitation patterns have spread beyond their original categories. When real grievances can't be understood through available discourse, they get articulated incoherently. This delegitimizes the grievances themselves. Their dismissal then entrenches their reactionary interpretation.

The fear of Al-Bundification—of being downwardly mobile, of being trapped in alienating, demeaning, feminized service work—was best understood as an expression of failed masculinity was central to Trump's appeal in 2016. It's currently being repackaged for a new generation.

Last few minutes is the best thing I’ve ever seen

Just Another Administrative Agency: Preserving Central Bank Discretion Without Illusions The extensive “Notes on the Crises Investigative Journalism Source Wish List” can be found here. All listed items are important to me. As always, Sources can contact me over email or over signal (a se...

NEW PIECE: I've decided to finally publish a piece from four years ago that is unfortunately very relevant today: defending the Federal Reserve's status as an independent agency doesn't require embracing the ideology of "central bank independence"

www.crisesnotes.com/just-another...

3 essential newsletters for a finance crash course:
Nathan Tankus, www.crisesnotes.com
Adam Tooze, Chartbook
Tracy Alloway & Joe Wiesenthal, Odd Lots.

Got us through Wall Street Crash, Euro Crisis, Covid Crash, and now just fantastic on the wreckage of the global dollar during Trump Crash.

What do I mean by useful?

MMT has worked *very* well as a model for understanding both the trajectory of the real economy and markets for my entire career. Economists that used other approaches regularly over-estimated inflation for example. For over a decade, not as part of a dynamic shock.

saturday morning seems like exactly when ppl are chilling at home and scrolling/reading

This was great

Congrats!!

He teaches at umass amherst, but his videos were stupid any way

I think this thread is absolutely right and would add that people in established democracies have completely forgotten what the concept of popular legitimacy is. We think legitimacy is procedural but it’s actually contingent and that’s literally the founding idea of this country.

Je suis Khalil The fate of the detained Columbia University graduate is a test of how easily Trump can slide into lawlessness

Je suis Khalil

https://www.ft.com/content/bcd39cd0-9995-4409-b525-853cdcdb98bf

Yeah I mean if groypers can ascend to the White House I probably overestimate the damage that subculture nonsense does to DSA

don't threaten me with a good time

The challengers soundtrack is fire but idt I heard that one. I like the style/genre of nine inch nails but only really like the first album and a few songs since

Radiohead was my fav band before October 7 lol

He’s the lead guitar of Radiohead!

Jonny is my goat, the Israel stuff is such a bummer tho

Important read. Again, the big picture is that this is WILDLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL & A TOTAL ARTICLE I FAILURE & these people should be in jail & no one who swore oaths should follow their orders & every journalist should be asking Speaker Johnson & SML Thune why the hell they're violating their oaths.

i mean none of those defeats were anywhere near comprehensive which is why each win is more devastating than the last

Bernie has his limitations that the left has to overcome but a lot of the dsa stuff is just going backwards from him instead of forward

Yeah those ppl aren’t very good at like expressing socialism/their politics in a way that is concrete or relevant to people outside leftist political subculture

Banner Image of piece, link at the end of thread

EMERGENCY PIECE: Elon Musk Wants to Get Operational Control of the Treasury’s Payment System. This Could Not Possibly Be More Dangerous. Worse, exclusive new information revealed here explicate how Musk’s actions relate to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent

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Haven’t fully switched over but enough to delete twitter from my phone

tbh he's always been one of the less insufferable op-ed columnists there