I wrote about the K Hive calling the feds on me for Mehdi Hasan’s platform: Zeteo zeteo.com/p/tweet-chicag…

There will be no Palestinian-American voices on stage at the United Center here in Cook County — home to the largest Palestinian population in America.

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Looks good: Forthcoming: "Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI" by John Cassidy:

Fascinating story by Steve LeVine on how China has come to dominate EV battery materials and what this means for US efforts to compete. theinformation.com/articles/the-e…

Stating the obvious here but will the US defense department declare that the rubble created by 2000 lb US bombs in Gaza is also an environmental catastrophe, albeit of a different order of magnitude.

My piece in The Economist today, arguing that countries like Pakistan need to overcome their fear of debt restructuring Keeping up the fiction that they don't need it is only increasing the risk of a default & social strife, while mortgaging the future of their populations. A 🧵

San Francisco State University is divesting from Lockheed Martin, Palantir, Caterpillar, and Leonardo (an Italian defense company) in response to student demands. middleeasteye.net/news/san-franc…

Ok . . . can we just say Phenomenal World called dibs on the photo. And just one quote from the PW piece: "As Anwar Shaikh has written: "'Capital requires the state and the state requires… the proper functioning of capital.'"phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ever-…

1. The Biden admin wants to "responsibly manage" the rivalry with China. But it's relying upon coercive policies like sanctions and export controls that are inherently unmanageable. US officials are also framing policies in ways that drive escalation. We're on a worrying path.

Country platforms are the latest derisking vehicle, a fresh attempt to coordinate public private partnerships for investibility via Bretton Woods conditionality #wallstreetconsensus

Netanyahu: Israel Has Created a New Standard for Urban Warfare. In a few months, Israel destroyed all of Gaza's universities, most hospitals, schools, & service centers, 75% of its infrastructure, and residential units, killing or injuring 10% of the population & displacing 90%.

A Palestinian bids farewell to his daughters who were killed in an Israeli air strike in the Nusairat refugee camp.

The most obvious feature of global imbalances (see right graph) is that the US consistently drives the story. Yet the prevailing US policy view is that other parties (China today) must reduce their trade surpluses. Less appreciated is that the international monetary hierarchy

"Taking money seriously": JW Mason's fantastic opening lecture at the finance summer school, now on Phenomenal World.

It's the one-year-and-one-week anniversary of this essay, which, I am glad to say, seems to have held up pretty well!phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the-i…

A new analysis by Icrict out now on why developing countries should sign on to the United Nations corporate minimum tax and not the OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives one.