David Fields
@ProfDavidFields
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Classical-Keynesian Institutionalist Political Economist @MonetaryBlog | @RealProgressUS | @utahvanguard https://t.co/wsfrOnC3o6
Salt Lake City, UT
Joined February 2020
The victory of @ZohranKMamdani in New York City is a breath of progressive fresh air. To help ensure that he commits to his promises, I offer some constructive criticism. https://t.co/5oSpkZZaN4 Yours truly, @utahvanguard
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Big Real Estate & the mainstream media roll out the false narrative that economists hate rent control. In fact, 32 top economists wrote a letter fully supporting rent control, saying anti-rent control arguments are outdated and wrong. Rent control works!
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A group of 32 prominent economists find that rent control is an effective tool to protect middle- and working-class tenants.
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And more ugly facts about YIMBYs in California. Activists in California call them, for good reason, "Corporate YIMBYs." https://t.co/dTQW1d5Cds
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‼️"Empire's Last Hurrah" (w/ @DrJillStein, @infinite_jaz, @UbaiAboudi)‼️ Did Zohran's victory speech make even third party skeptics like me hopeful about his commitment to anti-establishment militancy? Might a new UN Resolution, "Uniting for Peace," evade the U.S. veto &
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@JamesMelville The UK gov doesn't have a "black hole", they issues its own currency called the pound, cannot run out of it and this economic illiteracy of thinking the gov has to balance its budget at all costs is how you brainwash the public into believing austerity is what's best for them.
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ICE detained this non verbal special needs man in Little Village.Chicago and they were extremely violent with him when he’s unable to speak to them or let them know he’s an American citizen! They’re going to be sued for this one and I pray he’s okay! 🤬🔥
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“Before a revolution happens, it is perceived as impossible; after it happens, it is seen as having been inevitable.” - Rosa Luxemburg
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108 years ago today, the Bolshevik revolution changed the course of history. For the first time, the working class seized and held state power, building a new kind of society where the wealth belonged to the people. Learn more about this earth-shaking event in a 3-part course
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CODEPINK Chicago activists confronted CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss tonight, interrupting her public event shouting: “THE BLOODY GENOCIDE IN PALESTINE IS ON YOUR HANDS.” Weiss — who has openly described herself as a “Zionist fanatic” — is now the most powerful editorial figure
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So, anyway, now you can ignore the neoliberal propagandists who tell you that hi-tech isn't reducing employment but moving people on to higher-paid jobs. We were told the same lie during 80s deindustrialisation, when I watched real wages flatline and whole communities collapse.
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In the middle of the night, Israeli settlers stormed a Palestinian home in Mukhmas, east of Ramallah.
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a right-wing tech billionaire running to The Free Press to lament capitalism not working for young people is the ultimate “we’re all trying to find the guy who did this” thing ever
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