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Letters from an American, December 7, 2022

More security documents were found in trump’s possession by a trump discovery team. Maybe his mind is so fried, he is forgetting? Doubtful. trump’s lawyers insist trump still has presidential immunity even though out-of-office. A new crook emerges in Jared Kushner enlisting the aid of foreign interests to pressure another foreign country for donations to bail out his over-leverage property. Gangland style family. A new battle in SCOTUS, can state...

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Yanis Varoufakis rebuts Greek oligarch’s suing of MERA25 MP for exposing war profiteering

Speech by MeRA25 leader and MP Yanis Varoufakis on the occasion of the parliamentary debate on the lifting of Kleon Grigoriadis' legal immunity, following a lawsuit by shipowner and media mogul Yiannis Alafouzos. The reason? Kleon exposed in parliament Alafouzos' profiteering, transporting Putin’s oil while his TV channel SKAI criticises the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Click 'cc' to enable English captions. SUPPORT US --------------------- Join DiEM25: https://diem25.org/join...

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Göte Kildén In Memoriam

Göte Kildén In Memoriam En av den svenska arbetarrörelsens stora kämpar, Göte Kildén, har gått ur tiden. Göte var i slutet på 1960-talet med och grundade den svenska sektionen av Fjärde Internationalen och var partiordförande i Socialistiska Partiet fram till 1991. I tjugofem år arbetade han  på Volvo Lastvagnar och ledde facklig opposition inom Metall.  Vila i frid min vän. [embedded content]

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Neoliberal economics, Big Pharma and pandemics

from Imad Moosa   The spread of the virus has been aided by the neoliberal drive to privatise everything under the sun, including healthcare. Forty years of the privatisation of public health institutions (allegedly in the name of efficiency and for the benefit of consumers) has resulted in a disastrous situation as private healthcare providers have no commercial interest in preparing for or preventing emergencies. The spread has been aided by the lack of staff and material...

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David vs Goliath

It's me against Blackrock. The former is predicting a recession like "we've never seen before," while I say 2023 will be an economic boom. Trade and invest using the concepts of MMT. Get a 30-day free trial to MMT Trader. https://www.mmteconomics.com/ Mike Norman Twitter https://twitter.com/mikenorman Mike Norman Economics: https://mikenormaneconomics.blogspot.com/ Understanding the Daily Treasury Statement video course....

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The misuse of mathematics in economics

The misuse of mathematics in economics Many American undergraduates in Economics interested in doing a Ph.D. are surprised to learn that the first year of an Econ Ph.D. feels much more like entering a Ph.D. in solving mathematical models by hand than it does with learning economics. Typically, there is very little reading or writing involved, but loads and loads of fast algebra is required. Why is it like this? … One reason to use math is that it is...

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The Russian Oil Price Cap Isn’t as Simple as It Seems — Yves Smith

Yves here. This post describes some of the too-obvious signs that the notorious Russian oil price cap was not terribly well thought out. I have to confess I had forgotten that I had learned back in 2008, during the debate over the big oil price runup in the first half of that year, that Saudi oil price sales were based not on spot but an average of specified futures prices to impede manipulation. It appears similar mechanisms are widely used now. The article below discusses how pricing is...

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