The private equity industry, as @gmorgenson and ⁦@JoshRosner⁩ show, is a giant, predatory, rent-extraction machine. In @curaffairs I argue that massively expanding social security is the best way to get rid of it.

RT @SilvermanJacob: Maybe we should've nationalized Silicon Valley Bank.

What do you want to know?.

RT @TheStalwart: The 2-10 curve is at its steepest since May 22.

If Trump succeeds in ousting Cook, whose term runs to 2038, it would give his nominees control of the board of governors. The board will also decide whether to renew appointments for the presidents of the 12 regional Feds at the end of February 2026.

Long-dated US government debt sold off on Tuesday as investors worried that Donald Trump’s attempted firing of a Federal Reserve governor could undermine faith in the world’s most important central bank.

RT @NewLeftEViews: What could possibly go awry?

RT @proffwolff: Sorry if you "completed" Zohran's scavenger hunt and got chai and a meet-n-greet you actually missed the last clue which le….

RT @mcmansionhell: 50 years of economic policy re asset inflation have ensured that this is not going to happen even if we have another rec….

RT @marxforcats: At this valuation, the price to produce an undergraduate essay using ChatGPT is around $3,500, about the same rate an adju….

RT @paulmrenfro: I’m not teaching my US since 1965 grad course until next fall, but I just couldn’t help myself. Here are the books I’m thi….

RT @enoughformethx: Yet another carbon copy right-winger in the making who sets themselves up as a moderating influence on the left that th….

RT @proffwolff: very common in whaling.

RT @strangerous10: March for Palestine rally over Brisbane's Victoria Bridge is absolutely huge. Thank you to all Australians in Brisbane &….

RT @IliasAlami: A truly incredible book. It seamlessly weaves together economic geography, critique of political economy, and autobiographi….

RT @jdcmedlock: I don't think we should expect the welfare state to reduce pre-transfer poverty (that is to say, poverty before taking into….

RT @jonathansmucker: I know a guy who isn't struggling to register voters or raise money. He's the Democratic nominee for Mayor of NYC, may….

RT @m_aslany: After 2.5 years of research & writing, “Harvest”, my first non-fiction podcast on the crisis of the global countryside – prod….

Central Park is public, the conservancy not so much. ⁦@mfriedrichnyc⁩ chronicles his failure to gain admittance to the conservancy gala, and the creeping privatization of NYC’s parks. ⁦@nyreviewofarch⁩

RT @SilvermanJacob: Why didn't the NYT report these payments when they saw them in July? Also "a bold departure from political norms" just….

RT @DavidFBrand: I analyzed NYC's evictions data for @WNYC and @Gothamist and found there were at least 11,253 from Jan 1 to Aug 15. That….

RT @paulmrenfro: