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Here's the first in a series about the anti competitive trade practices driving legal cannabis in Washington into non viability for many operators. https://t.co/5OGBbeXt3y

✨ MotL 85 is live! ✨ We are joined by David I. Backer, associate professor of education policy at Seton Hall U., to discuss his new book: As Public as Possible: Radical Finance for America’s School. *Link below!

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@Pat_Garofalo They've really embraced the dead internet theory as a goal for the whole world instead of a warning.

The same people who swear that the sole reason prices of some things are high is because of government intervention into the market, will also express naive confusion when you point out how they can, have, and do use that power to curb unfair pricing schemes. It's a choice.

I believe Tyson's decision to shut down its Lexington, Nebraska plant instead of selling it is a PLOY to manipulate cattle and beef markets in violation of our antitrust laws. 🧵

Dan Osborn is right. By mothballing its giant meatpacking plant in Lexington, NE, instead of selling it to a competitor, Tyson is practically committing arson to manipulate the market into a place where cattle prices are low, beef prices are high, and the entrenched meatpackers

@TheGlobalWarmer We’ve lost so much. We’re nearing the end of what there is to lose.

Also remember, vacant is a distinct status from unoccupied. Many high end condos (not rentals) are largely unoccupied as the owners only stay there periodically if at all. These units were once numerous rentals that turned into large units, financial assets and vacation stays.

@scientificecon @ProfSteveKeen What Steve Keen and Richard Werner are showing, in different ways, is that the real fault line in economics is not “Keynes vs. Monetarists” but models vs. balance sheets. Once you enforce double-entry bookkeeping, three things become painfully clear: 1. Most textbook

There's a lot of these people. They don't have an alternative. We must work to provide it. By building social housing that builds voluntary interdependence between community we will literally be building a different society to live in.

Public banks and these non market housing models can work together to empower us to build new, and rework existing, infrastructure to community oriented and ecologically necessary ends. They can do so by leveraging existing home equity of those who want off the treadmill.

Housing prices are predicated on income/wealth inequality and bank leverage. To unwind that we need alternatives and off ramps for the majority of the country who lives in and is financially dependent on home equity. Non market solutions must understand and obviate this paradigm.

For multifamily that means acquisition and development of limited equity coops and publicly owned housing, ideally funded by public banks. Single family homes are well served by the community land trust model. Both acquisition and new development is needed to fix things.

This means building with non market logics where the goal is lower input costs so the occupant (owner/tenant) can have a lower price. That means we need firms that are ordered by that logic. We need financing, regulations, and insurance tailored to distinct non market logics.

Everyone in the system, at every firm, knows this and acts accordingly. Development, construction management, consolidated supply chains make this price coordination very simple and nearly built in. We need competition from a different set of logics to keep markets in check.

To elaborate on this, the goal of market development is to get your input costs as low as possible and your output costs (housing price) as high as possible. No one is working to lower prices for the occupant, at any point in the supply chain. That's not a logic that is used.

There is no amount of housing we need to build to make housing affordable for everyone. We need institutions and mechanisms for non market housing to become as significant in the ecosystem as market housing in order to tame leveraged speculation. We need decommodification.

It's kind of wild that people think the people that set build costs don't know what house prices are doing and adjust their prices accordingly. Costs to build are set by choices, if you've been a part of that process you'd know ideas about costs driving prices are not so clear.

Katie Wilson, Seattle’s newly elected mayor, has embraced a city-owned startup designed to emulate Vienna’s social housing model, which involves a public developer building housing designed to be permanently affordable. https://t.co/NRrcw3qC1Z