John Cassidy
@JohnCassidy
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Staff Writer @NewYorker. New book: "Capitalism & Its Critics: A History from the Industrial Revolution to A.I." An "intelligent beach read"--the Telegraph.
New York City
Joined September 2009
With apologies to Netflix and all the talented content creators it finances, I loved this line in @TheEconomist's review of Capitalism and Its Critics: "Still, several enjoyable evenings might be spent with Netflix off and Mr Cassidy’s new book open." https://t.co/F2dGY8VcOE
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Good to see at least one DC political commentator, @EdwardGLuce, keeping an eye on the ball.
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When historians assess this age of American populism, Silicon Valley’s plutocrats will surely be judged its winners
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📊 The Brexit majority hasn’t just slipped 👉it’s vanished. Completely. This chart from Peter Kellner/YouGov shows: • 5 million 2016 voters have died • New young voters back Rejoin by 5:1 • 29% of Leave voters now want to rejoin • Net result: Rejoin 19.8m vs Stay Out 11.7m
9 years on, Brexit no longer has a mandate. The Leave majority has literally died out. New analysis shows: 🔹 +8 million majority now want to rejoin 🔹 Brexit has shrunk the UK economy by 8% 🔹 Only 25% of Leave voters think it was a success 🔹 The 2025 “reset” fixes less than
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🚨PSA Lawmakers: Please do NOT support @JakeAuch's "Parents Over Platforms." It's a @Google influenced bill masquerading as a child safety bill. Dangerous! Vote for the much stronger App Store Accountability Act. @BasedMikeLee @SenMikeLee @RepJames @RepGusBilirakis @JonHaidt
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This is why Elon Musk’s X platform was fined by the EU. Elon refused to follow the regulations that every other platform has to adhere to in the EU. This is not a “free speech” issue.
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OK, but what if South Africa refuses to take you back?
Remigration is the normal position
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The East India Co., the Luddites, Marx/Engels, Henry George, Karl Polanyi and more--all in 28 minutes! I was delighted to be invited on the excellent @EconoFactOrg podcast to speak about how my book Capitalism and Its Critics relates to current events. https://t.co/tdBYwrpCXH
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John Cassidy of The New Yorker joins EconoFact Chats to discuss his latest book, Capitalism and its Critics.
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Undercovered aspect of the anti-European Trump National Security Strategy: the influence of tech barons.
Friendly reminder that weakening Europe is official US doctrine now (the latest US security strategy says so). With the EU, the US faces an (almost) equal partner in negotiations. Negotiating with single European countries is advantageous for the US. Weakening the EU is against
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Friendly reminder that weakening Europe is official US doctrine now (the latest US security strategy says so). With the EU, the US faces an (almost) equal partner in negotiations. Negotiating with single European countries is advantageous for the US. Weakening the EU is against
The tyrannical, unelected bureaucracy oppressing the people of Europe are in the second picture
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The *first* thing Trump’s FTC did was quietly shutter a public inquiry into surveillance pricing that Chair Lina Khan launched. Hear what she has to say about new evidence out this morning that shows surveillance pricing may be raising the prices you pay for groceries.👇
EXCLUSIVE: We uncovered a secret corporate scheme to raise grocery prices. We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items. The scary part? It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too. Our months-long
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New: The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
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Trump: I’d have “no problem” releasing the video of the second Venezuela boat strike. Trump, 5 days later: I never said that. This is ABC fake news.
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The East India Co., the Luddites, Marx/Engels, Henry George, Karl Polanyi and more--all in 28 minutes! I was delighted to be invited on the excellent @EconoFactOrg podcast to speak about how my book Capitalism and Its Critics relates to current events. https://t.co/tdBYwrpCXH
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John Cassidy of The New Yorker joins EconoFact Chats to discuss his latest book, Capitalism and its Critics.
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Nearly 300k likes for a repost by the world's richest man of a total lie perpetrated by a known extremist. This is very close to representing shouting 'fire' in a crowded cinema
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This website in the past 48 hours has been like watching a remedial version of SPECTRE convene a meeting in real time.
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Kremlin says US national security strategy document ‘largely consistent' with Russia's vision. Never in my life did I expect to read a headline saying this!
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Spokesman Peskov says Moscow hopes this could be 'modest guarantee' that they'll be able to continue joint constructive work on finding settlement in Ukraine - Anadolu Ajansı
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🚨 NEW: One of the largest COVID-19 vaccine studies ever (28 MILLION people in France) just dropped. Results? • 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 • 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality • No increase in 4-year mortality • Vaccinated people had lower risk of death
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This is so funny - Dmitriev talking about free speech. X is banned in Russia Facebook is banned in Russia Instagram is banned in Russia LinkedIn is banned in Russia Signal is banned in Russia Discord is banned in Russia Snapchat is banned in Russia
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Elon Musk and the Russians agree that Europe should remain divided and weakened so they are easier to manipulate and conquer.
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