@xkonstantinidis.bsky.social
Associate professor of economics, University of Massachusetts Boston. Χάρης Κωνσταντινίδης.
Μπαντής για Τεττέη – Καρέτσα: “Άραγε, πίσω από αυτό το γκολ πόσες ιστορίες ανθρώπων να κρύβονται;”
16.11.2025 07:12 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The statute banning "unconscionable" business practices in NYC is really powerful, I was told about it a couple weeks ago
www.semafor.com/article/11/1...
A last minute reminder: we are hiring in health economics this year (JOE ad linked below). Review of applications begins November 15!
13.11.2025 15:34 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Tax the rich. Billionaire tears not pictured.
13.11.2025 12:58 — 👍 3297 🔁 385 💬 43 📌 30i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
10.11.2025 00:56 — 👍 24008 🔁 5422 💬 406 📌 215
If guaranteeing essentials sounds radical, it speaks to how far we have drifted from democracy‘s core promises. Markets will not beat back the far right. An antifascist economics might. Mamdani provides a playbook for democrats around the world.
My latest
It’s quite impressive how Mamdani has pulled almost every Dem into his coalition, not him into theirs. He keeps the door open for everyone but true enemies (Adams, Cuomo) & rather than try to extort a Hochul into a promise, he just puts her onstage & lets the popular will confront her. Amazing.
26.10.2025 23:47 — 👍 2750 🔁 527 💬 17 📌 11
A federal prosecutor who resisted President Trump’s demands to bring charges against Letitia James, the New York state attorney general, was fired along with her deputy on Friday evening, according to three people familiar with the matter.
18.10.2025 02:10 — 👍 310 🔁 126 💬 35 📌 13
Lina Khan on stage at the podium
"We have an economy where a handful of modern-day robber barons wield extraordinary power. They hold enormous control over our paychecks, our bills, our time, and our futures.
...But the good news is that nothing about any of this is inevitable." - Lina Khan
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
This is pretty embarrassing. @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, what do you think?
12.10.2025 19:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just noting that this reporting is from the correspondent for that radical rag...The Economist
05.10.2025 00:58 — 👍 345 🔁 95 💬 2 📌 0UNTIL IT'S DONE, Ep. 2
When the Brownsville Clinic opened in 1916, it was the first birth control center in America. Its very existence felt impossible. For young women, it was a lifeline.
109 years later, the Clinic is long closed—but Brownsville mothers are still struggling.
Zohran Mamdani thinks access to healthy food should be a public good. RFK JR.'s MAHA coalition thinks it’s a matter of personal responsibility.
@rajpatel.org on our broken food system and the real roots of American unwellness:
Fed governor Lisa Cook listed contested home as vacation property on.ft.com/46hiIu7
13.09.2025 00:22 — 👍 256 🔁 67 💬 22 📌 18Incredible. Trump drags the reputation of a highly regarded economist, first Black woman to be a Fed gov, thru the mud claiming she committed mortgage fraud. But the documents his appointee to run Fannie & Freddie got for him & that he said showed fraud don’t actually say that.
13.09.2025 00:35 — 👍 6418 🔁 1995 💬 286 📌 65
I’m a proud UC Berkeley graduate and I am appalled and angered by this McCarthyism. Judith Butler—just to cite one example— is not an antisemite but a principled philosopher devoted to justice for all, not just particular populations.
12.09.2025 20:33 — 👍 94 🔁 25 💬 3 📌 2"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
The tech oligarchs at this event are the weak men in the “weak men create hard times…” meme
06.09.2025 15:03 — 👍 1580 🔁 268 💬 42 📌 8
Zohran and Bernie smiling at the front of the parade.
Zohran with members of PSC-CUNY.
Zohran, Bernie and Tish James with their arms around each other.
Zohran with members of UFT.
There’s power in unity — and in a union.
A morning of solidarity and celebration at the NYC Labor Day Parade. #UnionStrong
it is always worth remembering that vance made a conscious decision to be a person of low character. he has eagerly contorted himself into evil for the sake of what amounts to a whiff of power.
06.09.2025 16:11 — 👍 12262 🔁 2238 💬 280 📌 90
The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents.
In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
NEW PIECE: Powell and the Federal Reserve System has already failed to meet the moment and not defending Lisa Cook will seal both Powell's and the Fed's fate.
www.crisesnotes.com/powell-will-...
Just received this statement from Lisa Cook:
"President Trump purported to fire me 'for cause' when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022."
This is the make or break moment for Powell's @federalreserve.gov. If they do not defend Lisa Cook and treat her as still on the Board, the fight over the Fed as an independent agency will officially be over. see my Friday piece.
www.crisesnotes.com/trump-vs-pow...
Vouchers, budget cuts, and federal attacks on the US Dept. of Education are starving our schools. A new @epi.org report shows that these attacks threaten our children’s futures.
Imagine how bright our future would be if we fully funded every child’s education.
www.epi.org/publication/...
