#  @3DPrintahouse Twiggy Gerstenschlagger Twiggy Gerstenschlagger posts on X about money, countries, debt, israel the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [---------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::951625420004261888/interactions)  - [--] Week [---] +195% - [--] Month [-----] +5.80% - [--] Months [------] +258% - [--] Year [------] -23% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::951625420004261888/posts_active)  ### Followers: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::951625420004261888/followers)  - [--] Week [---] +2.40% - [--] Month [---] +3.20% - [--] Months [---] +38% - [--] Year [---] +129% ### CreatorRank: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::951625420004261888/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) [countries](/list/countries) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [us election](/list/us-election) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [stocks](/list/stocks) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) **Social topic influence** [money](/topic/money), [countries](/topic/countries), [debt](/topic/debt), [israel](/topic/israel), [elon musk](/topic/elon-musk), [inflation](/topic/inflation), [china](/topic/china), [currency](/topic/currency), [insurance](/topic/insurance), [iran](/topic/iran) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@mcsquared34](/creator/undefined) [@matthewstoller](/creator/undefined) [@michaelxpettis](/creator/undefined) [@elonmusk](/creator/undefined) [@relearningecon](/creator/undefined) [@atlcworker](/creator/undefined) [@simondixontwitt](/creator/undefined) [@tyillc](/creator/undefined) [@shaahina](/creator/undefined) [@andresintheory](/creator/undefined) [@reedwilsonshow](/creator/undefined) [@xenonate](/creator/undefined) [@inhumansoflate1](/creator/undefined) [@davidsirota](/creator/undefined) [@esther1010](/creator/undefined) [@hdselecta](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@onechancefreedm](/creator/undefined) [@financelancelot](/creator/undefined) [@ft](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [PetroDollar (XPD)](/topic/petrodollar) [Reserve (RSV)](/topic/reserve) [Bitcoin (BTC)](/topic/bitcoin) [Dogecoin (DOGE)](/topic/doge) [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/google) [IOTA (IOTA)](/topic/iota) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "@ProfSteveKeen Had Keynes' bancor been instituted instead of the US dollar the story would have been totally different today. The US would have either collapsed or moved towards socialism" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1812974744062599582) 2024-07-15T22:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@profwolff Thanks Prof Wolff. Americans are so ignorant of political economy and its necessary connection to geopolitics. This ignorance functions as a sort of engine that generates hate fear and anxiety and repels all attempts at learning" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1813678614292115571) 2024-07-17T20:54Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@matthewstoller There really is no way to make life better except to purge the Democratic Party completely or create a real labor party. The Democrats are the party of Marie Antoinette and the Republicans are the party of the descendants of Southern slaveholders. Time for America to get sober" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1814342332654714909) 2024-07-19T16:51Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@mschoenbachler @matthewstoller The problem is the Democratic Party is a fraud. They are the party of the upper crust. America needs a true party of the working class" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1814342928715653244) 2024-07-19T16:53Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@NakedHedgie It's not just banks. It's also the collateral that banks use to lend against. Oil is a big one of course but it's also real estate" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1814363257836281874) 2024-07-19T18:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@mtracey In fairness do you criticize the American "left" for being silent when the Supreme Court decided that making sleeping in public by homeless people illegal is legal under the Constitution Why is the "left" silent when it comes to the homeless and the working poor" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1814369022575513860) 2024-07-19T18:37Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@mtracey Did you Michael Tracey do any reporting on the Supreme Court's decision. It happened just a couple of weeks ago" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1814369217250205773) 2024-07-19T18:38Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@mtracey My wording is awkward. The Supreme Court ruled that local governments outlawing homeless people sleeping in public is legal under the Constitution" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1814369875533635596) 2024-07-19T18:41Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@BMStudebaker @underverse @Alex__1789 If this election has any value to the left it will be in revealing that the Democratic Party is not the left. The seriousness of the possibility of a complete collapse of the country as we know it is undeniable. Just wanting a return to normal is not enough" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1814464738476126444) 2024-07-20T00:57Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@ZephyrTeachout @matthewstoller If anyone of consequence in the Democratic Party were made of the fabric you speak of Trump would not have won in [----] and would be a distant memory by now. Kamala like everyone else is corporate" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1815500674966355972) 2024-07-22T21:34Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@RogSparksKB @istorijska @michaelxpettis No we have banks filled with loan contracts. The borrowers are the ones saddled with debt. The economy's money supply consists of loan principle spent into the society. It doesn't contain interest. This means there's always deflationary pressure - a shortage of money" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1815905518860525884) 2024-07-24T00:23Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@jsjxjdndjixjevs @DougLain The US Supreme Court ruled it is constitutional to make sleeping in public by the homeless illegal. Where was the American "left" when this ruling was made only a few weeks ago Nowhere in sight. Why Because there is no American left. These protestors are just future Democrats" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1816173451947958376) 2024-07-24T18:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@profwolff When the Supreme Court ruled it was Constitutional to make homeless sleeping in public space illegal no one on the "left" cared. This is not an aberration. The "left" in the U.S. cares only about identity same as the right wing. They are both [--] sides of the same coin" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1816508077136335120) 2024-07-25T16:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@DougLain The power of Trump's base is scary. They are the small and medium sized businesses and the workers they employ. I read somewhere that most workers in the U.S. are employed by small businesses. The D's (and mainstream GOP) are the institutional soldiers" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1816514664291090632) 2024-07-25T16:43Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@bureaucatliu Bhutan but before its recent embrace of modernity via China's investment (that I know nothing about just skimming the news). The Bhutan I imagine and hope exists is the one people like Keanu Reeves love" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1816572205838533041) 2024-07-25T20:32Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@LeeHawkins_144 @wbmosler [--] If the wealthy paid their fair share of taxes no borrowing would occur and no interest payments would occur. Our infrastructure needs would be met by the taxes paid and government spending could be targeted towards productivity and social needs" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1816833988335386827) 2024-07-26T13:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@BMStudebaker Ok. Why not You must not believe that the working class lives under a false consciousness. People who see our political economy as a meritocracy also dont agree with me. If you dont mind Id really like to know a little more about why you disagree" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1816996630379254090) 2024-07-27T00:38Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@michaelxpettis @jhv85 Another Question: can you explain or link to a source where I can learn how West Germany used the unification of East and West Germany to create a beggar thy neighbor relationship between Germany and the rest of the EU" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1817302910755361081) 2024-07-27T20:55Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@ClarityConquest @afalkhatib If these people were truly a sign of America's leftwing they would have been organizing around issues of poverty and exploitation that have been rampant in America for ages. Where were the American "left" when the Supreme Court made homelessness illegal a few weeks ago" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1818303122315383137) 2024-07-30T15:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@DougLain Instead of reinventing itself Trump and certainly the GOP would love to turn the US into Greece after the Troika destroyed them. Permanent austerity no petrodollar fiscal deficit blank checks. Poor houses and gruel for those not competitive in the workplace" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1818774418522599461) 2024-07-31T22:23Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@BadSocialisms This is a very bad post. You are going too far. You are one step away from calling for mass murder. Do you really want that" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1818831321076007097) 2024-08-01T02:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@buffsoldier_96 Few people are humble enough to admit their own ignorance. Social media is like a dance club in the 1980s where everyone is vogueing. Theres such a strong underlying desire for substance that cant break through (yet)" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1819157165443371190) 2024-08-01T23:44Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@Salem_GeorgeJ @mcsquared34 Price in capitalism has no relation to cost of production. Therefore the entire system is predicated on money supply. Money has no cost of production. Its keystroked into a computer. Land has no cost of production. All the land that will exist has already been created" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1819385275065258251) 2024-08-02T14:50Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@TiredDermatolol @ZHumbug @DougLain The value of ideas and the institutions that voice them is fast becoming worthless. Academia social media whatever the source. Its all an echo chamber. The closer the world gets to seismic shift in political economy the more life becomes a dream; a parable from antiquity" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1819485059193471071) 2024-08-02T21:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@Micaheadowcroft @michaelxpettis The best free market solution to this problem is to combine an updated Henry George abolition of all rents and monopolies with Keynes original design of Bretton Woods (bancor International Clearing Union etc)" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1819835938757075175) 2024-08-03T20:41Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@JohnRileyPoway @uncleFredsTweet @john Riley listen to Tennessee Ernie Ford singing [--] Tons" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1821154450767032580) 2024-08-07T12:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@michaelxpettis Post 5/12 seems out of place. In post 4/12 you were describing how surplus countries could deal with weak demand from deficit countries (the US)" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1821650958109053258) 2024-08-08T20:53Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@michaelxpettis @berthofmanecon @Brad_Setser This point on which way causality runs is very important. Michael Hudson and Y. Varoufakis believe that global wealth since the end of Bretton Woods has been created by US deficit spending & resulting issuance of US Treasuries which soak up excess savings domestically & abroad" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1821653918125887827) 2024-08-08T21:05Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@michaelxpettis @berthofmanecon @Brad_Setser Both Hudson and Yanis V. believe the post Bretton Woods system is a rentier system that is so by design not because surplus nations are engaging in beggar thy neighbor policies. Michael P. if my description of them is accurate how do you" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1821654945885470808) 2024-08-08T21:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@michaelxpettis This is where it becomes apparent that compound interest creates a toxic need for continuous growth. Michael Hudson and others who criticize the rent seeking aspects of capitalism have a good point" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1823777485651370193) 2024-08-14T17:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@matthewstoller @TaliaRinger Matt do you think Kanye West is an outlier or is he representative of something significant" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1824193643659530472) 2024-08-15T21:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@YaBoiHakim You cant compare Algeria and Israel/Palestine. Apples and oranges. Zak Cope is just disgusted with the emergence of virtue signalers posing as the left. If the # of Gaza protesters reflected the size of the left then wed be approaching Marxist revolution by now" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1824255832638308668) 2024-08-16T01:24Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@strike_dr I'm sorry Mass Strike. I'm a big fan of yours but I disagree. Hamas & Hezbollah are proxies for Iran. Iran has spent billions of dollars of "aid" to the Palestinians which was in reality spent on digging tunnels and creating a terrorist army" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1824498275912913066) 2024-08-16T17:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@strike_dr The Palestinian people have never spoken for themselves. They need to stop being controlled by outside countries and demand what is rightfully theirs. They will gain so much more this way than they ever could by being proxies for other nations" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1824500930915500088) 2024-08-16T17:38Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@InvestorsFriend @ProfSteveKeen Understanding political economy from the point of view of the fictitious commodities of land and money sheds light on how people invest. Since you didn't recognize the truth in what I wrote I'm going to guess that your focus is equities and micro not macro. Watch more S. Keen" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1824828640946737253) 2024-08-17T15:20Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@tyillc @e_blyler @matthewstoller Very interesting. Makes a lot of sense. Can you give me a link to more info on this A name of a writer perhaps I'd like to learn more on this" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1824874898617184457) 2024-08-17T18:24Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@matthewstoller @Noahpinion Noah's true colors shine bright with his words "regular Americans." Translation: the poor slobs who do all the work can't pay their bills have no savings are saddled with debt earlier generations didn't have and pay high taxes so the "propertied class" doesn't have to" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1824881877074764176) 2024-08-17T18:51Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@InvestorsFriend @ProfSteveKeen The offshoring of manufacturing meant that countries exporting to the US would have dollar surpluses after meeting expenses at home. They would buy our Treasuries as a safe haven for those surpluses. The US top earners would do the same (instead of paying that money as taxes)" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1825215738698981804) 2024-08-18T16:58Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@InvestorsFriend @ProfSteveKeen McDonald's isn't in the hamburger business. McDonald's is in the real estate business. McDonald's is a landlord. Ok done. Sorry to write so much" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1825220675856105880) 2024-08-18T17:18Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@tortleodoom @JustJunk15 @mohammadis4340 @baum_p @failninjaninja @OGAride @nytimes So little tiny Israel that is always one step away from being bombed to smithereens by Muslims is actually the global empire that rules the world The global reserve currency is the Israeli shekel Come on man. Wake up. I responded to you because your post had logic. Think" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1825263954194559037) 2024-08-18T20:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@InvestorsFriend @ProfSteveKeen There you go. People like Steve Keen Warren Mosler Stephanie Kelton Michael Hudson and so many more are political economists not macro economists. They recognize the world is in trouble and so do I. I'm not an investor so my concerns have zero overlap with yours" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1825277194869854422) 2024-08-18T21:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@InvestorsFriend @ProfSteveKeen The problem is what people call the deep state which is just another way of saying empire. What both the left and the right get wrong is that it's hard to correct the steering of the ship because all of the trade surplus countries like China Germany Japan etc" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1825278027460153442) 2024-08-18T21:06Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@Inhumansoflate1 Absolutely and it gets worse from there. The insurance industry is parasitical. The higher the valuation of your property the more you want to insure that property against loss. Insurance companies want those premiums from Americans who are afraid of losing their property" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1825643899588595759) 2024-08-19T21:19Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@endPACsNOW @HenMazzig If you were Israel what would you do Would you allow people to murder you your family and community Or would you fight back Consider the difference in size population and wealth between Israel and its enemies. Would you do everything possible to defend your people" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1825670791775527375) 2024-08-19T23:06Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@endPACsNOW @HenMazzig Iran and the other Muslim countries won't allow the Palestinians to govern themselves. It's not Israel that is preventing them. The Palestinians are pawns in a power game. Today it is Iran that is using the Palestinians more than any other country. 1" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1825672603865907339) 2024-08-19T23:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@mcsquared34 Actually the Supreme Court approved making homelessness illegal. Those tents are in violation of the law and will be destroyed by the police. Insane. And you would think the American "left" cared. They don't. It's only reasonable to conclude that the "left" is a fashion statement" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1825924327176368357) 2024-08-20T15:54Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@RelearningEcon The truth of this quote shows how poor the modern world is. GDP has replaced shiny metals. The size of GDP matters because the higher the GDP the greater the number of contracts written in that currency which tilts the balance of accumulation in your favor" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1825952528498045267) 2024-08-20T17:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@FrohnmayerJon @boudicca_uk2024 @afalkhatib Don't you see the elephant in the room. It isn't an occupation. The Palestinian people have never led themselves in their struggle against Israel. It's always been outside parties - first the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Hitler then Stalin/USSR then the Arab nations then Iran" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1826070664077275504) 2024-08-21T01:35Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@berningman16 The Democratic Party has become the modern version of the old Rockefeller Republican Party of the mid 20th c. The Republicans have become the old Dixiecrat party of George Wallace. Whats important for the working class is that FDRs party of the New Deal no longer exists" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1826626071955157448) 2024-08-22T14:22Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@StevenHailAus The cost of not understanding the truth of Steven Halls comment is to willfully make your country poorer. Its practically treasonous. To use nursery school ideas of money as an adult means this issue is a trigger for something deeper. It belongs on the psychoanalysts couch" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1826633309889462641) 2024-08-22T14:51Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@strike_dr This is the type of issue along with free healthcare and education that protesters should be in the streets marching for. 50% of retiring boomers have no pension or savings. Seniors = the fastest growing group in the homeless population. This is how revolutions start-relevance" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1826775728136094121) 2024-08-23T00:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@FreeForNow78 @mcsquared34 When your parents were young housing in America was on avg 25% of income University was free or close to it. Taxes were low on working people and small businesses were thriving. Today opportunity exists for the few not the many. Youre living in a fantasy world" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1826797736722924021) 2024-08-23T01:44Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@CarnivalAce @PamphletsY China has sovereign money. The US dollar is private property" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1826823388083413320) 2024-08-23T03:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@Alex73183550 @DougLain They are just taking the Soviet policy towards Israel as the word of god without bothering to learn how and why that policy was a Cold War tactic just as US policy towards Israel was" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1827145412370690513) 2024-08-24T00:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@Alex73183550 @DougLain Every single iota of Israel's history has been forged by Machiavelli. The fools here on Twitter don't understand this. How could they Old school Marxists haven't had an original thought for half a century (I'm exaggerating) and young people who claim " [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1827146037431062660) 2024-08-24T00:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@Alex73183550 @DougLain What do you mean Marxists support self determination of Palestine Does this mean the elimination of Israel Be clear in your words. "Socialists" on Twitter and on American streets protesting were ecstatic when Hamas butchered innocent Israelis on October [--]. This is Marx" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1827154837936460076) 2024-08-24T01:23Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@DougLain A large number of Trump supporters want New Deal policies. Its the Dems who wont allow it" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1827346718112801013) 2024-08-24T14:06Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@mcsquared34 I remember a reporter on one of the mainstream TV channels in [----] telling the viewers that Nancy Pelosi's kids were good friends with Trump's kids" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1827534403553083584) 2024-08-25T02:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@StarrsTwinkles @FareedZakaria Sean it seems like your work overlaps with Michael Pettis' work - savings glut beggar thy neighbor trade policy etc. Have you ever thought of collaborating with Michael 1" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1827536844591947942) 2024-08-25T02:41Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@NervousNeander1 @RossCol89474735 What freedom do you have You are literally one misfortune away from bankruptcy every single day you live. You must have insurance pay bogus taxes and fees and more often than not work in a stupid job with jerks. Freedom" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1827876402579812457) 2024-08-26T01:11Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@MilitantHobo @NervousNeander1 @RossCol89474735 What country are you talking about and what time period I have been talking of Medieval England and France" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1828075367615119854) 2024-08-26T14:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@imageofDanny @mcsquared34 No you wouldnt. You can always go to a different lender. Your credit score follows you like a giant birthmark on your forehead" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1829182219988152541) 2024-08-29T15:40Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@xTheReapersSon @strike_dr I suspect you are lying or exaggerating. All asset markets are crazy now. Nothing is performing like a snowball rolling down a mountain. Individuals can time the market but that isn't you. Your avatar screams immature wannabe. Prove me wrong. Tell me what sector you're in" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1829205867419578831) 2024-08-29T17:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@blakeflayton It's all part of the identity politics of the Democratic Party we've seen since they created Woke to squash Bernie Sanders in the [----] Democratic Primaries. The added complication is you also have GOP populists who are anti Israel. Populist right + Woke bourgeois left = danger" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1829207827468185750) 2024-08-29T17:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@xTheReapersSon @strike_dr Compound interest is why capitalism is in trouble. Go to simple interest and capitalism becomes utopia. So buy debt is that the case" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1829212056228450524) 2024-08-29T17:38Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@xTheReapersSon @strike_dr Assuming you are making 5% on your savings account in order to make $30000 a month you would need a principal of $7200000. So how did a working class guy make $7200000 in [--] years keeping in mind interest rates have only been high since the inflation from COVID" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1829215405526921355) 2024-08-29T17:51Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@xTheReapersSon @strike_dr Dont put your money in the market unless you really trust the person handling your money. You can open a [--] month CD from a bank at maybe 4.25%. As long as you are under the FDIC maximum your money is safe. Be careful with your savings. Life is scary" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1829233373832777908) 2024-08-29T19:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@SMosek2112 @Inhumansoflate1 Interesting that Poland is experiencing the same bourgeois crap as the US. Your young people must be angry at the status quo like here. I imagine the extreme right wing has a large following there" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1829288885391901042) 2024-08-29T22:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@SMosek2112 @Inhumansoflate1 The American [--] party - one empire formula is finally imploding. Everyone knows something is wrong. Party loyalists still blame the other side but even these people know the problems are deeper. Its hard to compare the US to other countries because of asymmetry due to dollar" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1829294811528204601) 2024-08-29T23:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@bureaucatliu Don't hold your breath. Change can only come when the entire empire collapses. Until then no one wants to be the whistleblower who says the emperor is naked" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1829628721478975876) 2024-08-30T21:14Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@rdxpvumkzekdlq @blakeflayton directly and indirectly yes. And western Europe" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1829674903924302229) 2024-08-31T00:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@rdxpvumkzekdlq @blakeflayton No one who knows the subject has ever said "real communism has never been tried." Your use of the word "cope" suggests you only recently started shaving. Have a nice day" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1829681335474000165) 2024-08-31T00:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@shaahin_a What's your take from these graphs. The US is random compared to the others. Is this significant I imaging Germany China & Japan have clear industrial policies whereas the US has none. This is a function of the petrodollar that exports inflation including wages" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1829863838130270461) 2024-08-31T12:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@RelearningEcon Super hilarious. Like Ayn Rand living off of Social Security payments What hypocrites" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1829891100737413522) 2024-08-31T14:36Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@SMosek2112 @Inhumansoflate1 I believe Grossman is correct. Capital has been consolidating via mergers and acquisitions because profit rates are continuously falling. It's unavoidable. Along with M & A speculation has been the other way in which capitalist productivity has been replaced. 6" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1829968754526339287) 2024-08-31T19:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@SMosek2112 @Inhumansoflate1 The rent seeking from currency monopoly monopoly of terms of trade monopoly of land and natural resources etc. All this is coming to a head. I don't know if socialism will come after the next depression. I don't believe we are ready yet. I might not be for another [--] years. 2" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1829977819977564508) 2024-08-31T20:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@SMosek2112 @Inhumansoflate1 Again you are conflating engineering with economics. I know the complaints of former Soviet citizens. I get it. You have to think beyond your personal experience. And really let's be honest. The adults in Poland who had reason to complain are very old. 1" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1829980269644018165) 2024-08-31T20:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@SMosek2112 @Inhumansoflate1 Your opinions about life in Poland then were no doubt formed from the observations of a young person not a worker. Remember this. Your experience is not the same as the next persons. Don't fall into the personal anecdote trap" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1829980796595192253) 2024-08-31T20:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@SMosek2112 @Inhumansoflate1 I used to teach English as a second language to Soviet immigrants in New York City in the 1980's and 90's. One of my students was a minister of finance in Albania. I have heard countless hours of testimony. My best friend's wife is Polish" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1829981301459288535) 2024-08-31T20:35Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@SMosek2112 @Inhumansoflate1 What you are calling socialism wasn't socialism. It was an attempt to solve social problems using central planning. 1" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1829987116367167780) 2024-08-31T20:58Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@JonSylt @shaahin_a Wage stagnation is bad. Housing price stagnation is good. Germanys wage stagnation was what made W. Germanys capitalists enthusiastic about reunification and the creation of the eurozone. 1" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1830013017288765492) 2024-08-31T22:41Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@JonSylt @shaahin_a I need to learn more about how reunification and the eurozone enabled Germany to exploit the rest of Europe. It came to a head with the PIGS crisis in the early 2010s. Greeces Yanis Varoufakis was David Germany and the Troika were Goliath" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1830013810217988382) 2024-08-31T22:44Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@dobther @RelearningEcon Social media is the modern Tower of Babel. Both choices are bad. This is how civilization has been able to be built on the backs of working people. The many are weak the few hold power in proportion to the weakness of the many. Strength is not what it seems though. 1" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1830292890003636262) 2024-09-01T17:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@K_AminThaabet What do you think is the reason that the Palestinian people haven't taken control of their sovereignty They let others control them whether it be other Arab states or power hungry individuals like the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Assuming I'm accurate why is this" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1831365620954493013) 2024-09-04T16:16Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@danielstan004 @RelearningEcon Not in capitalism. Money is credit. Distribution precedes production. Investment precedes savings. Counter-intuitive but only because the starting point is a fictitious commodity - money" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1831736804686303405) 2024-09-05T16:51Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@Teh_Snowflake @Inhumansoflate1 The point of wealth is that it forces others to do what you want. The world isn't obliged it is forced. If it wants to do something else it needs to struggle fight. You can't be friends with the thing that wants to subjugate you" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1831759842148806897) 2024-09-05T18:22Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@Tyler_A_Harper @lphammond 100% true. Universities are the public face projecting benevolence. That is only the financial tip of the iceberg. The holding company behind the university is an agglomeration of equity and debt ruthless bottom line. EDU is a total fraud" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1832162263492399431) 2024-09-06T21:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@RyLazChi @Inhumansoflate1 If it had been only a veneer of private property German manufacturers would have been state owned. They werent. The powerful German businesses are huge multinationals today. Had Germany been socialist there goods would have been labeled manufactured by Germany" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1832577440842977482) 2024-09-08T00:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@StillShakinIt @Inhumansoflate1 Its anti Hitler. The reason he put it up (Im guessing) is so many confused leftists believe Nazi Germany was socialist. This is going to increase too. American conservatives are now rewriting history saying that Hitler was not the bad guy of WW2 but that Churchill was" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1832578382871327183) 2024-09-08T00:35Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@pyradius @MattBruenig @JustinWolfers If Im not mistaken Singapore has a land value tax along the lines of what Henry George called for. Tax away rents untax productivity. This is how capitalism should be. Instead we all talk about what hand we should use to pull rabbits out the hat" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1832806733325992176) 2024-09-08T15:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@TiemanMichaelA @RelearningEcon Interesting Why regional banks Are you thinking "real economy" productivity vs financial growth in blue states" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1832826187699105904) 2024-09-08T16:59Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@nickuva @LynAldenContact @texan77581 The Twin Deficits fiscal & trade are why the surplus was so hard to achieve. It was counter productive because the deficits are the liquidity the wealthy use to accumulate more wealth. By extension the deficits are how the working class earn income in this trickle down econ" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1833185856581955952) 2024-09-09T16:49Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@mcsquared34 We need a mass strike. I often call Americans weak but I'm speaking of older generations and the "middle class" opportunists. The younger Americans who slack are the only sane generation we have" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1833221183988170820) 2024-09-09T19:09Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@largo35839158 Wow. You are really pissed off. Well dont let me get in the way. Also the anti Semitic guy youre arguing with is hopeless. They all are. Its a growing problem that might become ugly in the next [--] years" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1833227732949286969) 2024-09-09T19:35Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@UncleScottiepoo @Banglaphile @LittleMammith Youre wrong. Denmark is more appealing to Americans than the other way around" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1833265073030369749) 2024-09-09T22:03Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@towel_old @Banglaphile @LittleMammith New York is the melting pot of the US. Most of America is full of racial and ethnic tension. New York City is always tense due to having to hustle so hard 24/7" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1833266445007929746) 2024-09-09T22:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@1DimeOfficial They are similar to the Evangelicals of the 1980's promising Trumpsters they can keep their guns and Bibles while pledging allegiance to a Frankenstein cut & stitch form of different forms of socialism. No theoretical core to them outside of regurgitating old Soviet ideas" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1833301969017921593) 2024-09-10T00:30Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@andresintheory He also doesn't understand the Twin Deficits drive the global dollar economy. The US has to deficit spend - a lot. Otherwise the rest of the world's economies will contract or worse. All this is baked into the US dollar because it is the global reserve currency" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1833310537922629932) 2024-09-10T01:04Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@JohnBelushi17 @drinkingworter Older Americans who are bought into the system must rationalize the fact that they cant rebel. The middle class is the seat of conservatism. The conveyor belt from youth to middle class & vested is broken. The young know it. This is what I was trying to say" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1833345448645452214) 2024-09-10T03:23Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@wutangclan98 @ftblmadsx @UncleScottiepoo @Banglaphile @LittleMammith In [----] or [----] CNBC hardly a socialist news co. Reported that over 70% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Since then weve learned that over 50% have less than $1k in savings 50% of retiring boomers have NO pension & the majority of new homeless are these boomers" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1833566489913311348) 2024-09-10T18:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@wutangclan98 @ftblmadsx @UncleScottiepoo @Banglaphile @LittleMammith Americans live off of credit. Credit is how the U.S. maintains the money supply domestically and globally" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1833568642090602562) 2024-09-10T18:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@wutangclan98 @ftblmadsx @UncleScottiepoo @Banglaphile @LittleMammith You also have to realize that since [----] the economics of all countries has been radically distorted. The best example is Germany. The single most impactful metric is housing costs. All countries are suffering. I imagine households in Denmark have debt in proportion to this" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1833573465992937578) 2024-09-10T18:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@OffGridTech_net @BladeoftheS You miss the point completely. You just described what American non profits do. Finland is not corrupt like the US. The Fins don't worship money like Americans do. If you lived in Finland you would be able to live off grid so much more easily than you do here" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1833939564836139322) 2024-09-11T18:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@Wizard_of_Ouzo @michaelxpettis So taxpayers money would be redistributed via better financing conditions sounds like the govt would supply consumer loans and business loans. Is this correct Does the govt lend directly" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1834200847305085263) 2024-09-12T12:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@Wizard_of_Ouzo @michaelxpettis Totally interesting. Do you have a recommendation of who I should read or watch to learn more about how Chinas banking and finance work" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1834202483691839828) 2024-09-12T12:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@LanaLarge231742 @RideoutTim @StephanieKelton And on top of everything you correctly said the dollar is the global reserve currency which can only occur via the Twin Deficits. No deficit Global contraction or worse. The debt crisis is a deliberate lie to keep Americans from demanding more for the taxes we pay" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1834295324229107745) 2024-09-12T18:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@mcsquared34 Well said. Time is the only thing we have to sell them ultimately. Its like the Justin Timberlake movie In Time" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1834296095863963965) 2024-09-12T18:20Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@DougLain The black voters who cross over understand the same things you are seeing about the Ds: they pander to minorities but really represent the snobby PMC and monopoly capital. Trumpism started with movement conservatism in the early 70s then Newt T party Ted Cruz etc" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1834677152668676105) 2024-09-13T19:34Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@ThomasC40902822 @JeremyWard33 You are doing yourself no favors. Google it. Go ask any college professor. Ask any Muslim. Ask any Palestinian. Who are you to say Palestinians themselves dont know about their own land" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1834975335462371613) 2024-09-14T15:19Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@MomLook123 These expenses are what are called economic rents. They do not pay for costs of production but rather for maintenance of a layer of society that can only be called parasites. Its a vestigial holdover from the 19th c. that needs to end" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1835050444067901704) 2024-09-14T20:18Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@owlonbranch Neutral in the sense that Keynes' currency the bancor wouldn't have been able to buy or sell anything between people inside any country. It would have only been able to be used to buy and sell between countries. The US said no and insisted on using the dollar. 4" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1835373197631643834) 2024-09-15T17:40Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@owlonbranch France in particular would exchange their dollars obtained from the Vietnam War (Vietnam was a French colony) and the US' Fort Knox was losing its gold reserves. The only way the US could keep its empire going was for the $ to remain the global reserve currency . 7" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1835374745883193644) 2024-09-15T17:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@owlonbranch But the rest of the world had a decreasing need for dollars and for US lending so Nixon closed the gold "window" and all the currencies of the world instantly became "free floating" as they are today. No tie to gold. The role of the US as lender flipped and now. 8" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1835375236075974805) 2024-09-15T17:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@ihatejazzmusic @ImpossibleBob @shaahin_a Fair enough. Scarcity in civilization has occurred along two paths. First there was money creation & credit all issued by the state. The state would periodically cancel debts if they were too much of a burden on citizens. Over time the creditors in society shifted from 1" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1835819469895012477) 2024-09-16T23:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@PoWplease @JohnRad15 @RussCote @AthopeMarie @PerBylund Central banking is the core of capitalism. You and the rest of the libertarian capitalists are living in a fantasy world" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1836143716366463428) 2024-09-17T20:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@PoWplease @JohnRad15 @RussCote @AthopeMarie @PerBylund You are young and have no knowledge of political economy. What any particular asset does has no bearing on this topic. FYI I been in small discussion groups with very young large holders of Bitcoin back around [----]. Im aware of its story. Dont argue history from ignorance" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1836151432656912781) 2024-09-17T21:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@ihatejazzmusic @jadex_the @ImpossibleBob @shaahin_a The internet has a lot of young ideological fans who believe their economic philosophy is true & everyone elses false. No one understands that the difference between ideologies hinges on what position one takes on critical either/or issues. 2" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1836340168116052118) 2024-09-18T09:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@ihatejazzmusic @jadex_the @ImpossibleBob @shaahin_a Purple Ninja is what is called an Austrian. Its also called libertarian. These are the core of todays Republican Party who believe capital (property) is sacred and is the foundation of civilization. They believe that truth and reality are static & never changing. 3" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1836341393620443198) 2024-09-18T09:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@ihatejazzmusic @jadex_the @ImpossibleBob @shaahin_a Then there is Keynes Henry George Silvio Gesell and others. All people who have shaped the world of political economy. I learned about all of these economists on my own and as part of an informal reading group. I studied philosophy in college so I started with a background" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1836344312017154468) 2024-09-18T09:59Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@PafkoBosh @BenBurgis They targeted a terrorist group in Lebanon that is a proxy army for Iran. Are you saying you believe the US is a satellite of Iran and that Americans should bow to Allah" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1836839807290593565) 2024-09-19T18:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@PafkoBosh @BenBurgis You are not alone. Both the right wing & the left wing believe in this conspiracy theory. Its false. Israel has been at war with Islam since its inception in [----]. Arab countries and Iran have continuously bombed Israel day after day year after year since [----]. 1" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1836846730777673928) 2024-09-19T19:16Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@PafkoBosh @BenBurgis Israel had and has absolutely no guarantees that the US wont stab them in the back one day. This is the function of groups like AIPAC - to make sure the US never does this. If the Muslim countries believe the U.S. will no longer have Israels back they will 5" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1836849279207625214) 2024-09-19T19:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@PafkoBosh @BenBurgis They will launch an all out attack on Israel. This is why Iran wants nukes. In this context dont you think Israel has a right to defend itself In addition the US & world today are completely global. Henry Fords America was not. All countries and institutions 6" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1836849776727400895) 2024-09-19T19:28Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@Loren_Ipsomme @headi420 @1WhiteRabbitt this is why Marxist countries have all out produced capitalist countries - the only real constraints r physical not legal. Capitalism is a legal construct based on law of private property. Feudal hierarchies transferred to manufacturing in the 19th c. & to finance in the 20th" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1837116723704566137) 2024-09-20T13:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@donaldp1917 @Jonas_Thiel_ @NeatAlfonzo 2) Zionism provides refuge to Jews who would otherwise be persecuted from the Middle East and beyond. Jews in Iraq Iran etc no longer have to live in fear. They can protect themselves and will no matter what. No one is going to take Israel away from them. No one" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1837205645944099206) 2024-09-20T19:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@Jonas_Thiel_ @donaldp1917 @NeatAlfonzo Spell it out. What do you disagree with" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1837206421714391432) 2024-09-20T19:05Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@varnvlog .global depression worse than the 1930's. This is very different from stagnation which is like a period where growth is low velocity of money is slow etc. [----] is seen as an event where banking and land values plummet which is far worse than stagnation. 2" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1837208141852815593) 2024-09-20T19:12Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@varnvlog Yes stagnation does not equal unemployment. Japan is our model here. But the Georgists are worth keeping an eye on. They are mostly a bunch of right wing Philistines but there is an underlying truth to the corrosive effect of rent seeking" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1837208731446124569) 2024-09-20T19:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@mcsquared34 This is the important thing to understand: economic "health" means capital is doing well. People are not part of the equation. Labor is but it's tied to consumer debt which allows capital to exploit even more because debt makes up for the difference" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1837303487832502761) 2024-09-21T01:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@JohnnyArgent @mcsquared34 .at the same time as doing this it will follow that the wealthy will no longer be wealthy and hence their ability to capture govt. will vanish. Private wealth of the type that is created in an economy of private property is sadistic. 3" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1837535592348836253) 2024-09-21T16:53Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@s_embree1515 @JohnnyArgent @mcsquared34 Corporate takeover started in the early 17th century" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1837544030562840682) 2024-09-21T17:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@IndianaModerate @hedgehodgefax @mcsquared34 Scandinavia used to be and might still be the best model for capitalism which is what they are - capitalist welfare states. Their standard of living tangibly and intangibly is much higher than that of the US unless you are in the top 80%" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1838627013562601617) 2024-09-24T17:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@IndianaModerate @hedgehodgefax @mcsquared34 Socialism has never existed in civilization. It existed in pockets during pre-history. You are jabbering anti communist propaganda from the Cold War" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1838640172474196282) 2024-09-24T18:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@IndianaModerate @mcsquared34 Who cares" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1838648693924176017) 2024-09-24T18:36Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@IndianaModerate @mcsquared34 Economics is very rigorous. You dont learn it from contractors. The education you received at the age of [--] has absolutely nothing in common with a liberal arts degree from a good small private university" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1838649291277041997) 2024-09-24T18:38Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@IndianaModerate @mcsquared34 [--] yr old kids at good private schools write position papers on foreign and/or domestic policy - from the point of view of other countries not the U.S. these are schools that educate future senators and presidents. If you want to engage in a conversation" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1838649902747763064) 2024-09-24T18:41Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@IndianaModerate @mcsquared34 If you want to engage in conversation about macro economics or political economy you have to aspire to be insightful and knowledgeable. You dont learn these things at your grandmas side" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1838650265588666392) 2024-09-24T18:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@IndianaModerate @mcsquared34 Look all the best. You are not someone capable of learning precisely bc you are not curious. Your background shows that you think passing a school test means you know something. This is what the public school system in America wants you to believe. Its garbage. So long" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1838651022513786969) 2024-09-24T18:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@IndianaModerate @mcsquared34 No. Economics is about law" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1838651290618093905) 2024-09-24T18:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@varnvlog Ignorance yields massive dividends. It renders one immune to attack by anybody they dont share assumptions with. Its a positive feedback loop which in political economy means big trouble ahead" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1838693316373696516) 2024-09-24T21:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@BladeoftheS Data begins Oct [----] when Iran began its proxy war against Israel. Both Hamas & Hezbollah are Iran's proxy armies. The sentiment against Israel is misplaced. The history of attacks against it by Muslim countries since day [--] speaks for itself. Problem is no one knows the history" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1838980179168813560) 2024-09-25T16:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@chineseciv @michaelxpettis You study China. Please tell us what you think about this. Does China have poverty Everyone tells a different story about China according to their ideological bias. Its maddening" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1839275347990188237) 2024-09-26T12:06Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@commonism_now Very interesting. At the core I am a believer in the truths Wilhelm Reich worked on. There is overlap between Ruhle and Reich. I think I remember Reich mentioning Ruhle in his earlier writings. I recommend reading The Mass Psychology of Fascism written in 1933" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1839383667157975278) 2024-09-26T19:16Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@commonism_now You have to read Reich with a huge grain of salt. I can't tell you how many times I threw his books down in anger. It's worth the fight though" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1839384001267794163) 2024-09-26T19:18Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@mcsquared34 And yet no protesters in the streets. Those bonds represent unpaid taxes by the 1% that instead has been converted into debt that we the working class have to pay. The capitalist class pays subhuman wages no taxes and loans money to their gov that we have to repay" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1839410416063291847) 2024-09-26T21:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@HarshithReads @WokePryor @spectrehauntin9 Thanks for helping me. Sorry for the long delay. I have a question: What is the need in Marx's writing to differentiate btwn labour and labour power Where do we see the use of that distinction" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1839455786415620473) 2024-09-27T00:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@_parasocial @TaliaRinger You are being very coy very cutesy. The issue Israel and all Jews face is very dangerous. The fake left wingers provide wind to the backs of the antisemitic right wingers. They are the real threat and the fake left helps them" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1839693717801697718) 2024-09-27T15:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@_parasocial @TaliaRinger Go to the Twitter X page of former Democratic congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. Go to the disgusting right wing finance site Zerohedge. Read the comments. ZH is read widely by people in finance. Its disgusting but true. Tucker Carlson. Blah blah blah" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1839695785266470996) 2024-09-27T15:57Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@varnvlog @YouTube And where are the protesters on this issue Any mass gatherings of young people on the streets with bull horns Any takeover of university campuses Does America have an actual left I don't think so" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1839844925040472320) 2024-09-28T01:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@jackieaus @thewebbie @ja4just100723 Lula is not a far left dictator. It's a shame he is on the wrong side of the Israel/Hamas issue. He's a scumbag but not a far left dictator" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1840074335630889140) 2024-09-28T17:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@mikewinddale @shaahin_a No it isnt. Economics began with the assumptions mentioned firmly in place. Capitalism is historical. It emerged. Its not axiomatic" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1840214277535199415) 2024-09-29T02:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@mikewinddale @shaahin_a No. Political economy is classical economics and political science. It was expunged from academia bc it was a threat to the emerging dominance of capital; of private property. The abandonment of the labor theory of value and the marginal revolution enabled economics" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1840232354251485540) 2024-09-29T03:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@filipwinter @BladeoftheS In a country like Norway this is doable. Not in the US. We are as laissez faire as can be. Capital is the only concern. Americans believe that people owe thanks to the "job creators" meaning Americans don't understand what private property is what capital is and so on" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1840427357695246668) 2024-09-29T16:24Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@1DimeOfficial Corporate media have nothing to do with this. The partnership btwn the US & Israel is from the Cold War & petrodollar empire. Had Arab countries & Iran not been so hateful of Jews thered not have been a need for US protection" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1840905494224920638) 2024-10-01T00:04Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@1DimeOfficial The media are the voice of empire. Protecting Israel is in the Empires interest. Peace in the Middle East is against US interests. Israel knows this. The US is only a friend of it gets something in return" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1840906283135668497) 2024-10-01T00:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@1DimeOfficial Radical Islam serves US empire bc it creates a need for American force. This is the core of the problem. The US has been sponsoring radical fundamentalism both Muslim & Christian since the end of Bretton Woods. This is when the conservatives took over both the US & Israel" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1840907600126157008) 2024-10-01T00:12Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@BladeoftheS Iron Dome is programmed to deliberately let pass missiles that will land on empty areas. This is why you see the barrage of missiles in the air. I think only one missile got thu to a populated area and its shrapnel killed a Palestinian" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1841237329287299445) 2024-10-01T22:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Brilliant speech in a debate with Nancy Pelosi by a young English student at Oxford. He gets it. Populism isn't a threat to democracy. Populism IS democracy. Nancy Pelosi did not like what I had to say. Populism is not a threat to democracy. Democrat elites like her are. Watch my full Oxford Union speech from the debate with her: https://t.co/ZNm8maNZjy Nancy Pelosi did not like what I had to say. Populism is not a threat to democracy. Democrat elites like her are. Watch my full Oxford Union speech from the debate with her: https://t.co/ZNm8maNZjy" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1841249384928801128) 2024-10-01T22:50Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@RoaredThat @SpencerJJoseph The problem I was identifying in my tweet was the pro terrorist protesters who claim to be the left but don't care one iota about poverty. This is the real defining quality of socialism: economics. Civil rights mean nothing if they aren't combined with eliminating poverty" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1841509333156110626) 2024-10-02T16:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@commonism_now Good point. The right wing's concerns have institutional support. Their grievances almost always benefit the capitalist class. The left in our lifetimes has always played the role of tree hugging gay baby whale loving unicorns. Since Trump and Bernie arrived in [----] " [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1841872812388053398) 2024-10-03T16:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@commonism_now .since Trump & Bernie arrived in [----] the formula has changed. The "left" is now an agent of power. They still haven't got the new role down pat but they are learning. As new generations assume their positions time will help fuse the "left" to capital" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1841873539281899742) 2024-10-03T16:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@shaahin_a In the 19th c. wages in the US were on average higher than England and Europe in large part bc of the ability to say no to the employer and homestead out west. Georgist Free Land Opportunity seeks to open land that has approximately zero market value for this purpose" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1842588410189689123) 2024-10-05T15:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@shaahin_a No taxes and no services. Just raw land. The more tech advances the more this option becomes not only possible but attractive" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1842588733503381777) 2024-10-05T15:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@Big_Tweet_Pete @mcsquared34 Do you think the ratio of CEO to worker pay is too high today During the Post War economic boom years the ratio was very low. Life for many was great. The standard of living in the US then was the highest in the history of civilization. Now Inequality is at 19th c. levels" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1842608129709879374) 2024-10-05T16:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@WumaoTimes With all due respect this is not true. Jews Armenians and other minorities in the Middle East have been persecuted by Muslims for centuries. I'm a total anti-capitalist. But I'm not a Machiavellian. The vilification of Zionism has become pure Machiavelli. It's wrong" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1842936597152485710) 2024-10-06T14:34Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@elaifresh @CydeWeys @Noahpinion That isn't why Hamas attacked. The Palestinian leadership in all its forms has never wanted to accept Israel so how could they possibly accept a [--] state solution. The obstacle is the Palestinians not the Israelis. This fight is religious not political" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1843094271538385232) 2024-10-07T01:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@CryptoPupil4 @elaifresh @Noahpinion Don't forget that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem worked closely with Hitler to carry out the Holocaust" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1843095773355049029) 2024-10-07T01:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@jarjoh @CydeWeys @elaifresh @Noahpinion If you don't understand the context then you do. You also probably need a sermon on how the collapse of Bretton Woods created the right wing partnership between the US the Shah of Iran Saudi Arabia and Israel. All determining factors in this conversation" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1843342810583609436) 2024-10-07T17:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@AngryatMayfair @ProfHall1955 The attacks Israel endured day after day year after year by Arab/Muslim nations and terrorists created a need for Israel to partner w/the U.S. That partnership was forged by the neoliberal turn of Washington DC & the Petrodollar" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1843616206298984545) 2024-10-08T11:35Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@AngryatMayfair @ProfHall1955 Not only Israel but the Shah of Iran and Saudi Arabia as well. All right wing or at least neoliberal. This is the context that gave birth to Netanyahu and todays Likud party. The constant violence in the region ensured Israels need for protection which is what the US wanted" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1843617130056491170) 2024-10-08T11:39Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@William79735801 @HardlyTimes Your answer is like a cop who says You can do this the easy way or the hard way. This amounts to intimidation violence and murder. And the goal is not even socialist revolution but rather your idea of justice that will not be shared by everyone only the few. No thanks" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1844056170744713691) 2024-10-09T16:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@moghaoui @Paleo_Goat Thanks. Your words are what I hope to be true but I have no way of knowing. Most people I know are biased one way or the other and only argue their bias. Thanks again. Are you living there Middle East) Have family or friends there What informs you" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1844123219059671098) 2024-10-09T21:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@Noahpinion Noah the country is failing. Not that Trump is the solution. He isnt. But neither are todays Democrats. FDRs New Deal is the solution. Keynes original Bretton Woods is the solution. Playing political games as youre doing now is part of the problem" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1844715723337134266) 2024-10-11T12:24Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@bluemonkey1994 @EffectKuleshov Not true. Israel has always wanted a [--] state solution but the Palestinians are the ones who don't. Israel gives tons of money in aide but all that money is sent to the billionaire leadership of Hamas Hezbollah and so forth" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1844807451343802813) 2024-10-11T18:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@Mr_D_Compton @EffectKuleshov If that is the case then you shouldn't expect Israel to be the guinea pig. How about you campaign to make your country dismantle itself What you are doing is called moral hazard only in your case it's about sovereignty and not about finance" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1844807967981600823) 2024-10-11T18:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@bluemonkey1994 @EffectKuleshov Netanyahu is a right wing ass. Im not talking about him. Im talking about the existence of Israel apart from him. Israels right wing came to power bc the Arab countries continuously tried to conquer it. After a point the left couldnt oppose the right wing any longer" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1844838133155946969) 2024-10-11T20:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@bluemonkey1994 @EffectKuleshov The U.S. wanted the Arab nations to push Israel away from the USSR and into Americas arms. Hatred of Jews by the surrounding countries meant Israel needed help. In exchange the petrodollars hegemony was sealed along with Saudi Arabia and the Shah of Iran" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1844838735990477232) 2024-10-11T20:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@korenwolfscribe @bureaucatliu They didnt intentionally lose. They are the PMC party. Thats why they lost" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1845224723442995713) 2024-10-12T22:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@BattlementLK What Leftists are you talking about The Left is protesting for Hamas and Hezbollah everyday" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1845482910054228279) 2024-10-13T15:13Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@nir_ @DrEoinOCleirigh If you've ever been to Ireland you'll find out it's one of the most racist antisemitic countries on earth. I remember reading in the 90's that the [--] countries that sold the most copies of Hitler's Mein Kampf were Ireland and Japan" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1845529287589523574) 2024-10-13T18:17Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@buffsoldier_96 There are so many self proclaimed experts on Marxist theory on the internet who push the idea that the situation in Israel/Palestine is the equivalent to the French in Algeria. Its cosplay fantasy. Everyone wants to be the romantic hero" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1846270215287427335) 2024-10-15T19:21Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "@TheMadMenshevik What about you What do you like or dislike about him" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1846669170441666899) 2024-10-16T21:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@TheMadMenshevik You might know better than me but I was under the impression that it was Tsipras that sold them out not Yanis. I really like Costas Lapavitsas. He's a straight shooter" [X Link](https://x.com/3DPrintahouse/status/1846693186103624016) 2024-10-16T23:22Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@TheMadMenshevik Most of my info is from Yanis V & Michael Hudson on the one hand and Keynesian/Post Keynesians like Michael Pettis and a former blogger named Ed Harrison who now writes for Bloomberg. Post Keynesians are a good starting point and Yanis/MH are good ending points" [X Link](https://x.com/NoMoreRentiers/status/1846726531441181001) 2024-10-17T01:34Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@mcsquared34 The idea that income and wealth are two separate things is the first clue into understanding why capitalism is really wage slavery" [X Link](https://x.com/NoMoreRentiers/status/1847303622968664224) 2024-10-18T15:47Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@TheMadMenshevik @StephanieKelton It's not just conservatives. There are tons of newbies to the left and not so newbie that are total anti Semites. It's a social institution of culture on planet earth. Look at all the young Marxist Leninists. Most/many hate Jews. It's fun for the left & the right" [X Link](https://x.com/NoMoreRentiers/status/1847343972274037181) 2024-10-18T18:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@ManhttanMetsFan @mcsquared34 Understanding why they are different in capitalism is the important thing. At the end of your life how much wealth will your total lifetime income create" [X Link](https://x.com/NoMoreRentiers/status/1847384711079059704) 2024-10-18T21:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@digging4fire @mcsquared34 No ones whining. Take a walk through downtown Philadelphia Chicago or St. Louis. Drive through the Midwest rust belt where roadkill is always a menu option" [X Link](https://x.com/NoMoreRentiers/status/1847385181176672331) 2024-10-18T21:12Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@ManhttanMetsFan @mcsquared34 Yes and understanding that difference is crucial for understanding that capitalism is doctored up wage slavery" [X Link](https://x.com/NoMoreRentiers/status/1847394752682938377) 2024-10-18T21:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@ManhttanMetsFan @mcsquared34 I forgot to say that wealth is so much more than simply savings. Squirrels save. Capitalists get a return on investment ie unearned income" [X Link](https://x.com/NoMoreRentiers/status/1847395595591287065) 2024-10-18T21:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@ManhttanMetsFan @mcsquared34 Really Anyone Do you trade How much time do you spend doing research" [X Link](https://x.com/NoMoreRentiers/status/1847414817700639056) 2024-10-18T23:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@ManhttanMetsFan @mcsquared34 Thats not capitalism. Thats a society of fools who dont realize that their parents had it so much better than they do. That 401k should be a pension 100% contributions from your employer. Healthcare should be dirt cheap. Wages should be 30/hr on avg. the list goes on. E" [X Link](https://x.com/NoMoreRentiers/status/1847417705453813858) 2024-10-18T23:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@ManhttanMetsFan @mcsquared34 Equities make up a tiny fraction of the financial markets. It's almost all debt. What is debt All debt is engineered. The private ownership of the means of production starts with the one thing that is key to all else. Money. So tell me how is money created" [X Link](https://x.com/NoMoreRentiers/status/1847423817066364989) 2024-10-18T23:45Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@SwampCommunist @Greynxgga69 Yes that's true. Bernie committed infanticide with his "revolution" to support Hillary. Where are the protests now The Supreme Court just ruled it's constitutional to make homelessness illegal Min wage in the U.S. is $7.25/hr. I'll stop pestering you. I'm just very pessimistic" [X Link](https://x.com/NoMoreRentiers/status/1847438013636153739) 2024-10-19T00:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@Jmichaelnorwood @mcsquared34 Better at what" [X Link](https://x.com/NoMoreRentiers/status/1848006918410834025) 2024-10-20T14:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@ATLCWorker The fact is that business has never been able to employ everyone at a living wage. If it did capitalism would collapse. Poverty and fear are core ingredients of capitalism" [X Link](https://x.com/NoMoreRentiers/status/1848095767090930068) 2024-10-20T20:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@TheMadMenshevik The late baby boomers who are entering retirement today make up the largest cohort of new homeless in America. They couldn't save for retirement bc they didn't have enough income. I think it's a little over 50% of new retirees have no pension and no savings" [X Link](https://x.com/NoMoreRentiers/status/1848098212324004236) 2024-10-20T20:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@TheMadMenshevik I look at the lack of savings pension and the extremely high rate of homelessness of the late boomers as a catastrophic failure and hence I use the world collapse. I don't know where you live but when I go to areas where the PMC don't live I see a lot of poverty" [X Link](https://x.com/NoMoreRentiers/status/1848101578424868961) 2024-10-20T20:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@TheMadMenshevik What am I denying I'm guessing you are saying that I am denying that Joe Biden has done a good job. I'm not. But he hasn't solved our problems and I think it's wrong to expect him to have done that. Bernie could have lived up to expectations. Biden has exceeded expectations" [X Link](https://x.com/NoMoreRentiers/status/1848116234224853383) 2024-10-20T21:37Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@TheMadMenshevik You buy into the argument that absolute poverty has gone down because of capitalism and therefore instead of complaining people should be happy Are you serious You do realize you are an old school Republican" [X Link](https://x.com/NoMoreRentiers/status/1848133729060798559) 2024-10-20T22:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements Limited data mode. 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@3DPrintahouse Twiggy GerstenschlaggerTwiggy Gerstenschlagger posts on X about money, countries, debt, israel the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [---------] engagements in the last [--] hours.
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"@ProfSteveKeen Had Keynes' bancor been instituted instead of the US dollar the story would have been totally different today. The US would have either collapsed or moved towards socialism"
X Link 2024-07-15T22:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@profwolff Thanks Prof Wolff. Americans are so ignorant of political economy and its necessary connection to geopolitics. This ignorance functions as a sort of engine that generates hate fear and anxiety and repels all attempts at learning"
X Link 2024-07-17T20:54Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@matthewstoller There really is no way to make life better except to purge the Democratic Party completely or create a real labor party. The Democrats are the party of Marie Antoinette and the Republicans are the party of the descendants of Southern slaveholders. Time for America to get sober"
X Link 2024-07-19T16:51Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@mschoenbachler @matthewstoller The problem is the Democratic Party is a fraud. They are the party of the upper crust. America needs a true party of the working class"
X Link 2024-07-19T16:53Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@NakedHedgie It's not just banks. It's also the collateral that banks use to lend against. Oil is a big one of course but it's also real estate"
X Link 2024-07-19T18:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@mtracey In fairness do you criticize the American "left" for being silent when the Supreme Court decided that making sleeping in public by homeless people illegal is legal under the Constitution Why is the "left" silent when it comes to the homeless and the working poor"
X Link 2024-07-19T18:37Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@mtracey Did you Michael Tracey do any reporting on the Supreme Court's decision. It happened just a couple of weeks ago"
X Link 2024-07-19T18:38Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@mtracey My wording is awkward. The Supreme Court ruled that local governments outlawing homeless people sleeping in public is legal under the Constitution"
X Link 2024-07-19T18:41Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@BMStudebaker @underverse @Alex__1789 If this election has any value to the left it will be in revealing that the Democratic Party is not the left. The seriousness of the possibility of a complete collapse of the country as we know it is undeniable. Just wanting a return to normal is not enough"
X Link 2024-07-20T00:57Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@ZephyrTeachout @matthewstoller If anyone of consequence in the Democratic Party were made of the fabric you speak of Trump would not have won in [----] and would be a distant memory by now. Kamala like everyone else is corporate"
X Link 2024-07-22T21:34Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@RogSparksKB @istorijska @michaelxpettis No we have banks filled with loan contracts. The borrowers are the ones saddled with debt. The economy's money supply consists of loan principle spent into the society. It doesn't contain interest. This means there's always deflationary pressure - a shortage of money"
X Link 2024-07-24T00:23Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@jsjxjdndjixjevs @DougLain The US Supreme Court ruled it is constitutional to make sleeping in public by the homeless illegal. Where was the American "left" when this ruling was made only a few weeks ago Nowhere in sight. Why Because there is no American left. These protestors are just future Democrats"
X Link 2024-07-24T18:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@profwolff When the Supreme Court ruled it was Constitutional to make homeless sleeping in public space illegal no one on the "left" cared. This is not an aberration. The "left" in the U.S. cares only about identity same as the right wing. They are both [--] sides of the same coin"
X Link 2024-07-25T16:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@DougLain The power of Trump's base is scary. They are the small and medium sized businesses and the workers they employ. I read somewhere that most workers in the U.S. are employed by small businesses. The D's (and mainstream GOP) are the institutional soldiers"
X Link 2024-07-25T16:43Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@bureaucatliu Bhutan but before its recent embrace of modernity via China's investment (that I know nothing about just skimming the news). The Bhutan I imagine and hope exists is the one people like Keanu Reeves love"
X Link 2024-07-25T20:32Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@LeeHawkins_144 @wbmosler [--] If the wealthy paid their fair share of taxes no borrowing would occur and no interest payments would occur. Our infrastructure needs would be met by the taxes paid and government spending could be targeted towards productivity and social needs"
X Link 2024-07-26T13:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@BMStudebaker Ok. Why not You must not believe that the working class lives under a false consciousness. People who see our political economy as a meritocracy also dont agree with me. If you dont mind Id really like to know a little more about why you disagree"
X Link 2024-07-27T00:38Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@michaelxpettis @jhv85 Another Question: can you explain or link to a source where I can learn how West Germany used the unification of East and West Germany to create a beggar thy neighbor relationship between Germany and the rest of the EU"
X Link 2024-07-27T20:55Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@ClarityConquest @afalkhatib If these people were truly a sign of America's leftwing they would have been organizing around issues of poverty and exploitation that have been rampant in America for ages. Where were the American "left" when the Supreme Court made homelessness illegal a few weeks ago"
X Link 2024-07-30T15:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@DougLain Instead of reinventing itself Trump and certainly the GOP would love to turn the US into Greece after the Troika destroyed them. Permanent austerity no petrodollar fiscal deficit blank checks. Poor houses and gruel for those not competitive in the workplace"
X Link 2024-07-31T22:23Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@BadSocialisms This is a very bad post. You are going too far. You are one step away from calling for mass murder. Do you really want that"
X Link 2024-08-01T02:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@buffsoldier_96 Few people are humble enough to admit their own ignorance. Social media is like a dance club in the 1980s where everyone is vogueing. Theres such a strong underlying desire for substance that cant break through (yet)"
X Link 2024-08-01T23:44Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@Salem_GeorgeJ @mcsquared34 Price in capitalism has no relation to cost of production. Therefore the entire system is predicated on money supply. Money has no cost of production. Its keystroked into a computer. Land has no cost of production. All the land that will exist has already been created"
X Link 2024-08-02T14:50Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@TiredDermatolol @ZHumbug @DougLain The value of ideas and the institutions that voice them is fast becoming worthless. Academia social media whatever the source. Its all an echo chamber. The closer the world gets to seismic shift in political economy the more life becomes a dream; a parable from antiquity"
X Link 2024-08-02T21:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@Micaheadowcroft @michaelxpettis The best free market solution to this problem is to combine an updated Henry George abolition of all rents and monopolies with Keynes original design of Bretton Woods (bancor International Clearing Union etc)"
X Link 2024-08-03T20:41Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@JohnRileyPoway @uncleFredsTweet @john Riley listen to Tennessee Ernie Ford singing [--] Tons"
X Link 2024-08-07T12:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@michaelxpettis Post 5/12 seems out of place. In post 4/12 you were describing how surplus countries could deal with weak demand from deficit countries (the US)"
X Link 2024-08-08T20:53Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@michaelxpettis @berthofmanecon @Brad_Setser This point on which way causality runs is very important. Michael Hudson and Y. Varoufakis believe that global wealth since the end of Bretton Woods has been created by US deficit spending & resulting issuance of US Treasuries which soak up excess savings domestically & abroad"
X Link 2024-08-08T21:05Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@michaelxpettis @berthofmanecon @Brad_Setser Both Hudson and Yanis V. believe the post Bretton Woods system is a rentier system that is so by design not because surplus nations are engaging in beggar thy neighbor policies. Michael P. if my description of them is accurate how do you"
X Link 2024-08-08T21:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@michaelxpettis This is where it becomes apparent that compound interest creates a toxic need for continuous growth. Michael Hudson and others who criticize the rent seeking aspects of capitalism have a good point"
X Link 2024-08-14T17:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@matthewstoller @TaliaRinger Matt do you think Kanye West is an outlier or is he representative of something significant"
X Link 2024-08-15T21:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@YaBoiHakim You cant compare Algeria and Israel/Palestine. Apples and oranges. Zak Cope is just disgusted with the emergence of virtue signalers posing as the left. If the # of Gaza protesters reflected the size of the left then wed be approaching Marxist revolution by now"
X Link 2024-08-16T01:24Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@strike_dr I'm sorry Mass Strike. I'm a big fan of yours but I disagree. Hamas & Hezbollah are proxies for Iran. Iran has spent billions of dollars of "aid" to the Palestinians which was in reality spent on digging tunnels and creating a terrorist army"
X Link 2024-08-16T17:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@strike_dr The Palestinian people have never spoken for themselves. They need to stop being controlled by outside countries and demand what is rightfully theirs. They will gain so much more this way than they ever could by being proxies for other nations"
X Link 2024-08-16T17:38Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@InvestorsFriend @ProfSteveKeen Understanding political economy from the point of view of the fictitious commodities of land and money sheds light on how people invest. Since you didn't recognize the truth in what I wrote I'm going to guess that your focus is equities and micro not macro. Watch more S. Keen"
X Link 2024-08-17T15:20Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@tyillc @e_blyler @matthewstoller Very interesting. Makes a lot of sense. Can you give me a link to more info on this A name of a writer perhaps I'd like to learn more on this"
X Link 2024-08-17T18:24Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@matthewstoller @Noahpinion Noah's true colors shine bright with his words "regular Americans." Translation: the poor slobs who do all the work can't pay their bills have no savings are saddled with debt earlier generations didn't have and pay high taxes so the "propertied class" doesn't have to"
X Link 2024-08-17T18:51Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@InvestorsFriend @ProfSteveKeen The offshoring of manufacturing meant that countries exporting to the US would have dollar surpluses after meeting expenses at home. They would buy our Treasuries as a safe haven for those surpluses. The US top earners would do the same (instead of paying that money as taxes)"
X Link 2024-08-18T16:58Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@InvestorsFriend @ProfSteveKeen McDonald's isn't in the hamburger business. McDonald's is in the real estate business. McDonald's is a landlord. Ok done. Sorry to write so much"
X Link 2024-08-18T17:18Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@tortleodoom @JustJunk15 @mohammadis4340 @baum_p @failninjaninja @OGAride @nytimes So little tiny Israel that is always one step away from being bombed to smithereens by Muslims is actually the global empire that rules the world The global reserve currency is the Israeli shekel Come on man. Wake up. I responded to you because your post had logic. Think"
X Link 2024-08-18T20:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@InvestorsFriend @ProfSteveKeen There you go. People like Steve Keen Warren Mosler Stephanie Kelton Michael Hudson and so many more are political economists not macro economists. They recognize the world is in trouble and so do I. I'm not an investor so my concerns have zero overlap with yours"
X Link 2024-08-18T21:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@InvestorsFriend @ProfSteveKeen The problem is what people call the deep state which is just another way of saying empire. What both the left and the right get wrong is that it's hard to correct the steering of the ship because all of the trade surplus countries like China Germany Japan etc"
X Link 2024-08-18T21:06Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@Inhumansoflate1 Absolutely and it gets worse from there. The insurance industry is parasitical. The higher the valuation of your property the more you want to insure that property against loss. Insurance companies want those premiums from Americans who are afraid of losing their property"
X Link 2024-08-19T21:19Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@endPACsNOW @HenMazzig If you were Israel what would you do Would you allow people to murder you your family and community Or would you fight back Consider the difference in size population and wealth between Israel and its enemies. Would you do everything possible to defend your people"
X Link 2024-08-19T23:06Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@endPACsNOW @HenMazzig Iran and the other Muslim countries won't allow the Palestinians to govern themselves. It's not Israel that is preventing them. The Palestinians are pawns in a power game. Today it is Iran that is using the Palestinians more than any other country. 1"
X Link 2024-08-19T23:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@mcsquared34 Actually the Supreme Court approved making homelessness illegal. Those tents are in violation of the law and will be destroyed by the police. Insane. And you would think the American "left" cared. They don't. It's only reasonable to conclude that the "left" is a fashion statement"
X Link 2024-08-20T15:54Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@RelearningEcon The truth of this quote shows how poor the modern world is. GDP has replaced shiny metals. The size of GDP matters because the higher the GDP the greater the number of contracts written in that currency which tilts the balance of accumulation in your favor"
X Link 2024-08-20T17:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@FrohnmayerJon @boudicca_uk2024 @afalkhatib Don't you see the elephant in the room. It isn't an occupation. The Palestinian people have never led themselves in their struggle against Israel. It's always been outside parties - first the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Hitler then Stalin/USSR then the Arab nations then Iran"
X Link 2024-08-21T01:35Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@berningman16 The Democratic Party has become the modern version of the old Rockefeller Republican Party of the mid 20th c. The Republicans have become the old Dixiecrat party of George Wallace. Whats important for the working class is that FDRs party of the New Deal no longer exists"
X Link 2024-08-22T14:22Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@StevenHailAus The cost of not understanding the truth of Steven Halls comment is to willfully make your country poorer. Its practically treasonous. To use nursery school ideas of money as an adult means this issue is a trigger for something deeper. It belongs on the psychoanalysts couch"
X Link 2024-08-22T14:51Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@strike_dr This is the type of issue along with free healthcare and education that protesters should be in the streets marching for. 50% of retiring boomers have no pension or savings. Seniors = the fastest growing group in the homeless population. This is how revolutions start-relevance"
X Link 2024-08-23T00:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@FreeForNow78 @mcsquared34 When your parents were young housing in America was on avg 25% of income University was free or close to it. Taxes were low on working people and small businesses were thriving. Today opportunity exists for the few not the many. Youre living in a fantasy world"
X Link 2024-08-23T01:44Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@CarnivalAce @PamphletsY China has sovereign money. The US dollar is private property"
X Link 2024-08-23T03:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@Alex73183550 @DougLain They are just taking the Soviet policy towards Israel as the word of god without bothering to learn how and why that policy was a Cold War tactic just as US policy towards Israel was"
X Link 2024-08-24T00:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@Alex73183550 @DougLain Every single iota of Israel's history has been forged by Machiavelli. The fools here on Twitter don't understand this. How could they Old school Marxists haven't had an original thought for half a century (I'm exaggerating) and young people who claim "
X Link 2024-08-24T00:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@Alex73183550 @DougLain What do you mean Marxists support self determination of Palestine Does this mean the elimination of Israel Be clear in your words. "Socialists" on Twitter and on American streets protesting were ecstatic when Hamas butchered innocent Israelis on October [--]. This is Marx"
X Link 2024-08-24T01:23Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@DougLain A large number of Trump supporters want New Deal policies. Its the Dems who wont allow it"
X Link 2024-08-24T14:06Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@mcsquared34 I remember a reporter on one of the mainstream TV channels in [----] telling the viewers that Nancy Pelosi's kids were good friends with Trump's kids"
X Link 2024-08-25T02:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@StarrsTwinkles @FareedZakaria Sean it seems like your work overlaps with Michael Pettis' work - savings glut beggar thy neighbor trade policy etc. Have you ever thought of collaborating with Michael 1"
X Link 2024-08-25T02:41Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@NervousNeander1 @RossCol89474735 What freedom do you have You are literally one misfortune away from bankruptcy every single day you live. You must have insurance pay bogus taxes and fees and more often than not work in a stupid job with jerks. Freedom"
X Link 2024-08-26T01:11Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@MilitantHobo @NervousNeander1 @RossCol89474735 What country are you talking about and what time period I have been talking of Medieval England and France"
X Link 2024-08-26T14:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@imageofDanny @mcsquared34 No you wouldnt. You can always go to a different lender. Your credit score follows you like a giant birthmark on your forehead"
X Link 2024-08-29T15:40Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@xTheReapersSon @strike_dr I suspect you are lying or exaggerating. All asset markets are crazy now. Nothing is performing like a snowball rolling down a mountain. Individuals can time the market but that isn't you. Your avatar screams immature wannabe. Prove me wrong. Tell me what sector you're in"
X Link 2024-08-29T17:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@blakeflayton It's all part of the identity politics of the Democratic Party we've seen since they created Woke to squash Bernie Sanders in the [----] Democratic Primaries. The added complication is you also have GOP populists who are anti Israel. Populist right + Woke bourgeois left = danger"
X Link 2024-08-29T17:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@xTheReapersSon @strike_dr Compound interest is why capitalism is in trouble. Go to simple interest and capitalism becomes utopia. So buy debt is that the case"
X Link 2024-08-29T17:38Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@xTheReapersSon @strike_dr Assuming you are making 5% on your savings account in order to make $30000 a month you would need a principal of $7200000. So how did a working class guy make $7200000 in [--] years keeping in mind interest rates have only been high since the inflation from COVID"
X Link 2024-08-29T17:51Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@xTheReapersSon @strike_dr Dont put your money in the market unless you really trust the person handling your money. You can open a [--] month CD from a bank at maybe 4.25%. As long as you are under the FDIC maximum your money is safe. Be careful with your savings. Life is scary"
X Link 2024-08-29T19:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@SMosek2112 @Inhumansoflate1 Interesting that Poland is experiencing the same bourgeois crap as the US. Your young people must be angry at the status quo like here. I imagine the extreme right wing has a large following there"
X Link 2024-08-29T22:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@SMosek2112 @Inhumansoflate1 The American [--] party - one empire formula is finally imploding. Everyone knows something is wrong. Party loyalists still blame the other side but even these people know the problems are deeper. Its hard to compare the US to other countries because of asymmetry due to dollar"
X Link 2024-08-29T23:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@bureaucatliu Don't hold your breath. Change can only come when the entire empire collapses. Until then no one wants to be the whistleblower who says the emperor is naked"
X Link 2024-08-30T21:14Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@rdxpvumkzekdlq @blakeflayton directly and indirectly yes. And western Europe"
X Link 2024-08-31T00:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@rdxpvumkzekdlq @blakeflayton No one who knows the subject has ever said "real communism has never been tried." Your use of the word "cope" suggests you only recently started shaving. Have a nice day"
X Link 2024-08-31T00:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@shaahin_a What's your take from these graphs. The US is random compared to the others. Is this significant I imaging Germany China & Japan have clear industrial policies whereas the US has none. This is a function of the petrodollar that exports inflation including wages"
X Link 2024-08-31T12:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@RelearningEcon Super hilarious. Like Ayn Rand living off of Social Security payments What hypocrites"
X Link 2024-08-31T14:36Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@SMosek2112 @Inhumansoflate1 I believe Grossman is correct. Capital has been consolidating via mergers and acquisitions because profit rates are continuously falling. It's unavoidable. Along with M & A speculation has been the other way in which capitalist productivity has been replaced. 6"
X Link 2024-08-31T19:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@SMosek2112 @Inhumansoflate1 The rent seeking from currency monopoly monopoly of terms of trade monopoly of land and natural resources etc. All this is coming to a head. I don't know if socialism will come after the next depression. I don't believe we are ready yet. I might not be for another [--] years. 2"
X Link 2024-08-31T20:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@SMosek2112 @Inhumansoflate1 Again you are conflating engineering with economics. I know the complaints of former Soviet citizens. I get it. You have to think beyond your personal experience. And really let's be honest. The adults in Poland who had reason to complain are very old. 1"
X Link 2024-08-31T20:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@SMosek2112 @Inhumansoflate1 Your opinions about life in Poland then were no doubt formed from the observations of a young person not a worker. Remember this. Your experience is not the same as the next persons. Don't fall into the personal anecdote trap"
X Link 2024-08-31T20:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@SMosek2112 @Inhumansoflate1 I used to teach English as a second language to Soviet immigrants in New York City in the 1980's and 90's. One of my students was a minister of finance in Albania. I have heard countless hours of testimony. My best friend's wife is Polish"
X Link 2024-08-31T20:35Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@SMosek2112 @Inhumansoflate1 What you are calling socialism wasn't socialism. It was an attempt to solve social problems using central planning. 1"
X Link 2024-08-31T20:58Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@JonSylt @shaahin_a Wage stagnation is bad. Housing price stagnation is good. Germanys wage stagnation was what made W. Germanys capitalists enthusiastic about reunification and the creation of the eurozone. 1"
X Link 2024-08-31T22:41Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@JonSylt @shaahin_a I need to learn more about how reunification and the eurozone enabled Germany to exploit the rest of Europe. It came to a head with the PIGS crisis in the early 2010s. Greeces Yanis Varoufakis was David Germany and the Troika were Goliath"
X Link 2024-08-31T22:44Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@dobther @RelearningEcon Social media is the modern Tower of Babel. Both choices are bad. This is how civilization has been able to be built on the backs of working people. The many are weak the few hold power in proportion to the weakness of the many. Strength is not what it seems though. 1"
X Link 2024-09-01T17:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@K_AminThaabet What do you think is the reason that the Palestinian people haven't taken control of their sovereignty They let others control them whether it be other Arab states or power hungry individuals like the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Assuming I'm accurate why is this"
X Link 2024-09-04T16:16Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@danielstan004 @RelearningEcon Not in capitalism. Money is credit. Distribution precedes production. Investment precedes savings. Counter-intuitive but only because the starting point is a fictitious commodity - money"
X Link 2024-09-05T16:51Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@Teh_Snowflake @Inhumansoflate1 The point of wealth is that it forces others to do what you want. The world isn't obliged it is forced. If it wants to do something else it needs to struggle fight. You can't be friends with the thing that wants to subjugate you"
X Link 2024-09-05T18:22Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@Tyler_A_Harper @lphammond 100% true. Universities are the public face projecting benevolence. That is only the financial tip of the iceberg. The holding company behind the university is an agglomeration of equity and debt ruthless bottom line. EDU is a total fraud"
X Link 2024-09-06T21:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@RyLazChi @Inhumansoflate1 If it had been only a veneer of private property German manufacturers would have been state owned. They werent. The powerful German businesses are huge multinationals today. Had Germany been socialist there goods would have been labeled manufactured by Germany"
X Link 2024-09-08T00:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@StillShakinIt @Inhumansoflate1 Its anti Hitler. The reason he put it up (Im guessing) is so many confused leftists believe Nazi Germany was socialist. This is going to increase too. American conservatives are now rewriting history saying that Hitler was not the bad guy of WW2 but that Churchill was"
X Link 2024-09-08T00:35Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@pyradius @MattBruenig @JustinWolfers If Im not mistaken Singapore has a land value tax along the lines of what Henry George called for. Tax away rents untax productivity. This is how capitalism should be. Instead we all talk about what hand we should use to pull rabbits out the hat"
X Link 2024-09-08T15:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@TiemanMichaelA @RelearningEcon Interesting Why regional banks Are you thinking "real economy" productivity vs financial growth in blue states"
X Link 2024-09-08T16:59Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@nickuva @LynAldenContact @texan77581 The Twin Deficits fiscal & trade are why the surplus was so hard to achieve. It was counter productive because the deficits are the liquidity the wealthy use to accumulate more wealth. By extension the deficits are how the working class earn income in this trickle down econ"
X Link 2024-09-09T16:49Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@mcsquared34 We need a mass strike. I often call Americans weak but I'm speaking of older generations and the "middle class" opportunists. The younger Americans who slack are the only sane generation we have"
X Link 2024-09-09T19:09Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@largo35839158 Wow. You are really pissed off. Well dont let me get in the way. Also the anti Semitic guy youre arguing with is hopeless. They all are. Its a growing problem that might become ugly in the next [--] years"
X Link 2024-09-09T19:35Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@UncleScottiepoo @Banglaphile @LittleMammith Youre wrong. Denmark is more appealing to Americans than the other way around"
X Link 2024-09-09T22:03Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@towel_old @Banglaphile @LittleMammith New York is the melting pot of the US. Most of America is full of racial and ethnic tension. New York City is always tense due to having to hustle so hard 24/7"
X Link 2024-09-09T22:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@1DimeOfficial They are similar to the Evangelicals of the 1980's promising Trumpsters they can keep their guns and Bibles while pledging allegiance to a Frankenstein cut & stitch form of different forms of socialism. No theoretical core to them outside of regurgitating old Soviet ideas"
X Link 2024-09-10T00:30Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@andresintheory He also doesn't understand the Twin Deficits drive the global dollar economy. The US has to deficit spend - a lot. Otherwise the rest of the world's economies will contract or worse. All this is baked into the US dollar because it is the global reserve currency"
X Link 2024-09-10T01:04Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@JohnBelushi17 @drinkingworter Older Americans who are bought into the system must rationalize the fact that they cant rebel. The middle class is the seat of conservatism. The conveyor belt from youth to middle class & vested is broken. The young know it. This is what I was trying to say"
X Link 2024-09-10T03:23Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@wutangclan98 @ftblmadsx @UncleScottiepoo @Banglaphile @LittleMammith In [----] or [----] CNBC hardly a socialist news co. Reported that over 70% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Since then weve learned that over 50% have less than $1k in savings 50% of retiring boomers have NO pension & the majority of new homeless are these boomers"
X Link 2024-09-10T18:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@wutangclan98 @ftblmadsx @UncleScottiepoo @Banglaphile @LittleMammith Americans live off of credit. Credit is how the U.S. maintains the money supply domestically and globally"
X Link 2024-09-10T18:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@wutangclan98 @ftblmadsx @UncleScottiepoo @Banglaphile @LittleMammith You also have to realize that since [----] the economics of all countries has been radically distorted. The best example is Germany. The single most impactful metric is housing costs. All countries are suffering. I imagine households in Denmark have debt in proportion to this"
X Link 2024-09-10T18:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@OffGridTech_net @BladeoftheS You miss the point completely. You just described what American non profits do. Finland is not corrupt like the US. The Fins don't worship money like Americans do. If you lived in Finland you would be able to live off grid so much more easily than you do here"
X Link 2024-09-11T18:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@Wizard_of_Ouzo @michaelxpettis So taxpayers money would be redistributed via better financing conditions sounds like the govt would supply consumer loans and business loans. Is this correct Does the govt lend directly"
X Link 2024-09-12T12:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@Wizard_of_Ouzo @michaelxpettis Totally interesting. Do you have a recommendation of who I should read or watch to learn more about how Chinas banking and finance work"
X Link 2024-09-12T12:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@LanaLarge231742 @RideoutTim @StephanieKelton And on top of everything you correctly said the dollar is the global reserve currency which can only occur via the Twin Deficits. No deficit Global contraction or worse. The debt crisis is a deliberate lie to keep Americans from demanding more for the taxes we pay"
X Link 2024-09-12T18:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@mcsquared34 Well said. Time is the only thing we have to sell them ultimately. Its like the Justin Timberlake movie In Time"
X Link 2024-09-12T18:20Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@DougLain The black voters who cross over understand the same things you are seeing about the Ds: they pander to minorities but really represent the snobby PMC and monopoly capital. Trumpism started with movement conservatism in the early 70s then Newt T party Ted Cruz etc"
X Link 2024-09-13T19:34Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@ThomasC40902822 @JeremyWard33 You are doing yourself no favors. Google it. Go ask any college professor. Ask any Muslim. Ask any Palestinian. Who are you to say Palestinians themselves dont know about their own land"
X Link 2024-09-14T15:19Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@MomLook123 These expenses are what are called economic rents. They do not pay for costs of production but rather for maintenance of a layer of society that can only be called parasites. Its a vestigial holdover from the 19th c. that needs to end"
X Link 2024-09-14T20:18Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@owlonbranch Neutral in the sense that Keynes' currency the bancor wouldn't have been able to buy or sell anything between people inside any country. It would have only been able to be used to buy and sell between countries. The US said no and insisted on using the dollar. 4"
X Link 2024-09-15T17:40Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@owlonbranch France in particular would exchange their dollars obtained from the Vietnam War (Vietnam was a French colony) and the US' Fort Knox was losing its gold reserves. The only way the US could keep its empire going was for the $ to remain the global reserve currency . 7"
X Link 2024-09-15T17:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@owlonbranch But the rest of the world had a decreasing need for dollars and for US lending so Nixon closed the gold "window" and all the currencies of the world instantly became "free floating" as they are today. No tie to gold. The role of the US as lender flipped and now. 8"
X Link 2024-09-15T17:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@ihatejazzmusic @ImpossibleBob @shaahin_a Fair enough. Scarcity in civilization has occurred along two paths. First there was money creation & credit all issued by the state. The state would periodically cancel debts if they were too much of a burden on citizens. Over time the creditors in society shifted from 1"
X Link 2024-09-16T23:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@PoWplease @JohnRad15 @RussCote @AthopeMarie @PerBylund Central banking is the core of capitalism. You and the rest of the libertarian capitalists are living in a fantasy world"
X Link 2024-09-17T20:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@PoWplease @JohnRad15 @RussCote @AthopeMarie @PerBylund You are young and have no knowledge of political economy. What any particular asset does has no bearing on this topic. FYI I been in small discussion groups with very young large holders of Bitcoin back around [----]. Im aware of its story. Dont argue history from ignorance"
X Link 2024-09-17T21:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@ihatejazzmusic @jadex_the @ImpossibleBob @shaahin_a The internet has a lot of young ideological fans who believe their economic philosophy is true & everyone elses false. No one understands that the difference between ideologies hinges on what position one takes on critical either/or issues. 2"
X Link 2024-09-18T09:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@ihatejazzmusic @jadex_the @ImpossibleBob @shaahin_a Purple Ninja is what is called an Austrian. Its also called libertarian. These are the core of todays Republican Party who believe capital (property) is sacred and is the foundation of civilization. They believe that truth and reality are static & never changing. 3"
X Link 2024-09-18T09:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@ihatejazzmusic @jadex_the @ImpossibleBob @shaahin_a Then there is Keynes Henry George Silvio Gesell and others. All people who have shaped the world of political economy. I learned about all of these economists on my own and as part of an informal reading group. I studied philosophy in college so I started with a background"
X Link 2024-09-18T09:59Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@PafkoBosh @BenBurgis They targeted a terrorist group in Lebanon that is a proxy army for Iran. Are you saying you believe the US is a satellite of Iran and that Americans should bow to Allah"
X Link 2024-09-19T18:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@PafkoBosh @BenBurgis You are not alone. Both the right wing & the left wing believe in this conspiracy theory. Its false. Israel has been at war with Islam since its inception in [----]. Arab countries and Iran have continuously bombed Israel day after day year after year since [----]. 1"
X Link 2024-09-19T19:16Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@PafkoBosh @BenBurgis Israel had and has absolutely no guarantees that the US wont stab them in the back one day. This is the function of groups like AIPAC - to make sure the US never does this. If the Muslim countries believe the U.S. will no longer have Israels back they will 5"
X Link 2024-09-19T19:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@PafkoBosh @BenBurgis They will launch an all out attack on Israel. This is why Iran wants nukes. In this context dont you think Israel has a right to defend itself In addition the US & world today are completely global. Henry Fords America was not. All countries and institutions 6"
X Link 2024-09-19T19:28Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@Loren_Ipsomme @headi420 @1WhiteRabbitt this is why Marxist countries have all out produced capitalist countries - the only real constraints r physical not legal. Capitalism is a legal construct based on law of private property. Feudal hierarchies transferred to manufacturing in the 19th c. & to finance in the 20th"
X Link 2024-09-20T13:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@donaldp1917 @Jonas_Thiel_ @NeatAlfonzo 2) Zionism provides refuge to Jews who would otherwise be persecuted from the Middle East and beyond. Jews in Iraq Iran etc no longer have to live in fear. They can protect themselves and will no matter what. No one is going to take Israel away from them. No one"
X Link 2024-09-20T19:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@Jonas_Thiel_ @donaldp1917 @NeatAlfonzo Spell it out. What do you disagree with"
X Link 2024-09-20T19:05Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@varnvlog .global depression worse than the 1930's. This is very different from stagnation which is like a period where growth is low velocity of money is slow etc. [----] is seen as an event where banking and land values plummet which is far worse than stagnation. 2"
X Link 2024-09-20T19:12Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@varnvlog Yes stagnation does not equal unemployment. Japan is our model here. But the Georgists are worth keeping an eye on. They are mostly a bunch of right wing Philistines but there is an underlying truth to the corrosive effect of rent seeking"
X Link 2024-09-20T19:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@mcsquared34 This is the important thing to understand: economic "health" means capital is doing well. People are not part of the equation. Labor is but it's tied to consumer debt which allows capital to exploit even more because debt makes up for the difference"
X Link 2024-09-21T01:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@JohnnyArgent @mcsquared34 .at the same time as doing this it will follow that the wealthy will no longer be wealthy and hence their ability to capture govt. will vanish. Private wealth of the type that is created in an economy of private property is sadistic. 3"
X Link 2024-09-21T16:53Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@s_embree1515 @JohnnyArgent @mcsquared34 Corporate takeover started in the early 17th century"
X Link 2024-09-21T17:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@IndianaModerate @hedgehodgefax @mcsquared34 Scandinavia used to be and might still be the best model for capitalism which is what they are - capitalist welfare states. Their standard of living tangibly and intangibly is much higher than that of the US unless you are in the top 80%"
X Link 2024-09-24T17:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@IndianaModerate @hedgehodgefax @mcsquared34 Socialism has never existed in civilization. It existed in pockets during pre-history. You are jabbering anti communist propaganda from the Cold War"
X Link 2024-09-24T18:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@IndianaModerate @mcsquared34 Who cares"
X Link 2024-09-24T18:36Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@IndianaModerate @mcsquared34 Economics is very rigorous. You dont learn it from contractors. The education you received at the age of [--] has absolutely nothing in common with a liberal arts degree from a good small private university"
X Link 2024-09-24T18:38Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@IndianaModerate @mcsquared34 [--] yr old kids at good private schools write position papers on foreign and/or domestic policy - from the point of view of other countries not the U.S. these are schools that educate future senators and presidents. If you want to engage in a conversation"
X Link 2024-09-24T18:41Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@IndianaModerate @mcsquared34 If you want to engage in conversation about macro economics or political economy you have to aspire to be insightful and knowledgeable. You dont learn these things at your grandmas side"
X Link 2024-09-24T18:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@IndianaModerate @mcsquared34 Look all the best. You are not someone capable of learning precisely bc you are not curious. Your background shows that you think passing a school test means you know something. This is what the public school system in America wants you to believe. Its garbage. So long"
X Link 2024-09-24T18:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@IndianaModerate @mcsquared34 No. Economics is about law"
X Link 2024-09-24T18:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@varnvlog Ignorance yields massive dividends. It renders one immune to attack by anybody they dont share assumptions with. Its a positive feedback loop which in political economy means big trouble ahead"
X Link 2024-09-24T21:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@BladeoftheS Data begins Oct [----] when Iran began its proxy war against Israel. Both Hamas & Hezbollah are Iran's proxy armies. The sentiment against Israel is misplaced. The history of attacks against it by Muslim countries since day [--] speaks for itself. Problem is no one knows the history"
X Link 2024-09-25T16:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@chineseciv @michaelxpettis You study China. Please tell us what you think about this. Does China have poverty Everyone tells a different story about China according to their ideological bias. Its maddening"
X Link 2024-09-26T12:06Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@commonism_now Very interesting. At the core I am a believer in the truths Wilhelm Reich worked on. There is overlap between Ruhle and Reich. I think I remember Reich mentioning Ruhle in his earlier writings. I recommend reading The Mass Psychology of Fascism written in 1933"
X Link 2024-09-26T19:16Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@commonism_now You have to read Reich with a huge grain of salt. I can't tell you how many times I threw his books down in anger. It's worth the fight though"
X Link 2024-09-26T19:18Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@mcsquared34 And yet no protesters in the streets. Those bonds represent unpaid taxes by the 1% that instead has been converted into debt that we the working class have to pay. The capitalist class pays subhuman wages no taxes and loans money to their gov that we have to repay"
X Link 2024-09-26T21:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@HarshithReads @WokePryor @spectrehauntin9 Thanks for helping me. Sorry for the long delay. I have a question: What is the need in Marx's writing to differentiate btwn labour and labour power Where do we see the use of that distinction"
X Link 2024-09-27T00:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@_parasocial @TaliaRinger You are being very coy very cutesy. The issue Israel and all Jews face is very dangerous. The fake left wingers provide wind to the backs of the antisemitic right wingers. They are the real threat and the fake left helps them"
X Link 2024-09-27T15:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@_parasocial @TaliaRinger Go to the Twitter X page of former Democratic congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. Go to the disgusting right wing finance site Zerohedge. Read the comments. ZH is read widely by people in finance. Its disgusting but true. Tucker Carlson. Blah blah blah"
X Link 2024-09-27T15:57Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@varnvlog @YouTube And where are the protesters on this issue Any mass gatherings of young people on the streets with bull horns Any takeover of university campuses Does America have an actual left I don't think so"
X Link 2024-09-28T01:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@jackieaus @thewebbie @ja4just100723 Lula is not a far left dictator. It's a shame he is on the wrong side of the Israel/Hamas issue. He's a scumbag but not a far left dictator"
X Link 2024-09-28T17:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@mikewinddale @shaahin_a No it isnt. Economics began with the assumptions mentioned firmly in place. Capitalism is historical. It emerged. Its not axiomatic"
X Link 2024-09-29T02:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@mikewinddale @shaahin_a No. Political economy is classical economics and political science. It was expunged from academia bc it was a threat to the emerging dominance of capital; of private property. The abandonment of the labor theory of value and the marginal revolution enabled economics"
X Link 2024-09-29T03:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@filipwinter @BladeoftheS In a country like Norway this is doable. Not in the US. We are as laissez faire as can be. Capital is the only concern. Americans believe that people owe thanks to the "job creators" meaning Americans don't understand what private property is what capital is and so on"
X Link 2024-09-29T16:24Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@1DimeOfficial Corporate media have nothing to do with this. The partnership btwn the US & Israel is from the Cold War & petrodollar empire. Had Arab countries & Iran not been so hateful of Jews thered not have been a need for US protection"
X Link 2024-10-01T00:04Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@1DimeOfficial The media are the voice of empire. Protecting Israel is in the Empires interest. Peace in the Middle East is against US interests. Israel knows this. The US is only a friend of it gets something in return"
X Link 2024-10-01T00:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@1DimeOfficial Radical Islam serves US empire bc it creates a need for American force. This is the core of the problem. The US has been sponsoring radical fundamentalism both Muslim & Christian since the end of Bretton Woods. This is when the conservatives took over both the US & Israel"
X Link 2024-10-01T00:12Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@BladeoftheS Iron Dome is programmed to deliberately let pass missiles that will land on empty areas. This is why you see the barrage of missiles in the air. I think only one missile got thu to a populated area and its shrapnel killed a Palestinian"
X Link 2024-10-01T22:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Brilliant speech in a debate with Nancy Pelosi by a young English student at Oxford. He gets it. Populism isn't a threat to democracy. Populism IS democracy. Nancy Pelosi did not like what I had to say. Populism is not a threat to democracy. Democrat elites like her are. Watch my full Oxford Union speech from the debate with her: https://t.co/ZNm8maNZjy Nancy Pelosi did not like what I had to say. Populism is not a threat to democracy. Democrat elites like her are. Watch my full Oxford Union speech from the debate with her: https://t.co/ZNm8maNZjy"
X Link 2024-10-01T22:50Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@RoaredThat @SpencerJJoseph The problem I was identifying in my tweet was the pro terrorist protesters who claim to be the left but don't care one iota about poverty. This is the real defining quality of socialism: economics. Civil rights mean nothing if they aren't combined with eliminating poverty"
X Link 2024-10-02T16:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@commonism_now Good point. The right wing's concerns have institutional support. Their grievances almost always benefit the capitalist class. The left in our lifetimes has always played the role of tree hugging gay baby whale loving unicorns. Since Trump and Bernie arrived in [----] "
X Link 2024-10-03T16:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@commonism_now .since Trump & Bernie arrived in [----] the formula has changed. The "left" is now an agent of power. They still haven't got the new role down pat but they are learning. As new generations assume their positions time will help fuse the "left" to capital"
X Link 2024-10-03T16:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@shaahin_a In the 19th c. wages in the US were on average higher than England and Europe in large part bc of the ability to say no to the employer and homestead out west. Georgist Free Land Opportunity seeks to open land that has approximately zero market value for this purpose"
X Link 2024-10-05T15:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@shaahin_a No taxes and no services. Just raw land. The more tech advances the more this option becomes not only possible but attractive"
X Link 2024-10-05T15:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@Big_Tweet_Pete @mcsquared34 Do you think the ratio of CEO to worker pay is too high today During the Post War economic boom years the ratio was very low. Life for many was great. The standard of living in the US then was the highest in the history of civilization. Now Inequality is at 19th c. levels"
X Link 2024-10-05T16:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@WumaoTimes With all due respect this is not true. Jews Armenians and other minorities in the Middle East have been persecuted by Muslims for centuries. I'm a total anti-capitalist. But I'm not a Machiavellian. The vilification of Zionism has become pure Machiavelli. It's wrong"
X Link 2024-10-06T14:34Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@elaifresh @CydeWeys @Noahpinion That isn't why Hamas attacked. The Palestinian leadership in all its forms has never wanted to accept Israel so how could they possibly accept a [--] state solution. The obstacle is the Palestinians not the Israelis. This fight is religious not political"
X Link 2024-10-07T01:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@CryptoPupil4 @elaifresh @Noahpinion Don't forget that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem worked closely with Hitler to carry out the Holocaust"
X Link 2024-10-07T01:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@jarjoh @CydeWeys @elaifresh @Noahpinion If you don't understand the context then you do. You also probably need a sermon on how the collapse of Bretton Woods created the right wing partnership between the US the Shah of Iran Saudi Arabia and Israel. All determining factors in this conversation"
X Link 2024-10-07T17:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@AngryatMayfair @ProfHall1955 The attacks Israel endured day after day year after year by Arab/Muslim nations and terrorists created a need for Israel to partner w/the U.S. That partnership was forged by the neoliberal turn of Washington DC & the Petrodollar"
X Link 2024-10-08T11:35Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@AngryatMayfair @ProfHall1955 Not only Israel but the Shah of Iran and Saudi Arabia as well. All right wing or at least neoliberal. This is the context that gave birth to Netanyahu and todays Likud party. The constant violence in the region ensured Israels need for protection which is what the US wanted"
X Link 2024-10-08T11:39Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@William79735801 @HardlyTimes Your answer is like a cop who says You can do this the easy way or the hard way. This amounts to intimidation violence and murder. And the goal is not even socialist revolution but rather your idea of justice that will not be shared by everyone only the few. No thanks"
X Link 2024-10-09T16:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@moghaoui @Paleo_Goat Thanks. Your words are what I hope to be true but I have no way of knowing. Most people I know are biased one way or the other and only argue their bias. Thanks again. Are you living there Middle East) Have family or friends there What informs you"
X Link 2024-10-09T21:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@Noahpinion Noah the country is failing. Not that Trump is the solution. He isnt. But neither are todays Democrats. FDRs New Deal is the solution. Keynes original Bretton Woods is the solution. Playing political games as youre doing now is part of the problem"
X Link 2024-10-11T12:24Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@bluemonkey1994 @EffectKuleshov Not true. Israel has always wanted a [--] state solution but the Palestinians are the ones who don't. Israel gives tons of money in aide but all that money is sent to the billionaire leadership of Hamas Hezbollah and so forth"
X Link 2024-10-11T18:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@Mr_D_Compton @EffectKuleshov If that is the case then you shouldn't expect Israel to be the guinea pig. How about you campaign to make your country dismantle itself What you are doing is called moral hazard only in your case it's about sovereignty and not about finance"
X Link 2024-10-11T18:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@bluemonkey1994 @EffectKuleshov Netanyahu is a right wing ass. Im not talking about him. Im talking about the existence of Israel apart from him. Israels right wing came to power bc the Arab countries continuously tried to conquer it. After a point the left couldnt oppose the right wing any longer"
X Link 2024-10-11T20:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@bluemonkey1994 @EffectKuleshov The U.S. wanted the Arab nations to push Israel away from the USSR and into Americas arms. Hatred of Jews by the surrounding countries meant Israel needed help. In exchange the petrodollars hegemony was sealed along with Saudi Arabia and the Shah of Iran"
X Link 2024-10-11T20:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@korenwolfscribe @bureaucatliu They didnt intentionally lose. They are the PMC party. Thats why they lost"
X Link 2024-10-12T22:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@BattlementLK What Leftists are you talking about The Left is protesting for Hamas and Hezbollah everyday"
X Link 2024-10-13T15:13Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@nir_ @DrEoinOCleirigh If you've ever been to Ireland you'll find out it's one of the most racist antisemitic countries on earth. I remember reading in the 90's that the [--] countries that sold the most copies of Hitler's Mein Kampf were Ireland and Japan"
X Link 2024-10-13T18:17Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@buffsoldier_96 There are so many self proclaimed experts on Marxist theory on the internet who push the idea that the situation in Israel/Palestine is the equivalent to the French in Algeria. Its cosplay fantasy. Everyone wants to be the romantic hero"
X Link 2024-10-15T19:21Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"@TheMadMenshevik What about you What do you like or dislike about him"
X Link 2024-10-16T21:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@TheMadMenshevik You might know better than me but I was under the impression that it was Tsipras that sold them out not Yanis. I really like Costas Lapavitsas. He's a straight shooter"
X Link 2024-10-16T23:22Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@TheMadMenshevik Most of my info is from Yanis V & Michael Hudson on the one hand and Keynesian/Post Keynesians like Michael Pettis and a former blogger named Ed Harrison who now writes for Bloomberg. Post Keynesians are a good starting point and Yanis/MH are good ending points"
X Link 2024-10-17T01:34Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@mcsquared34 The idea that income and wealth are two separate things is the first clue into understanding why capitalism is really wage slavery"
X Link 2024-10-18T15:47Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@TheMadMenshevik @StephanieKelton It's not just conservatives. There are tons of newbies to the left and not so newbie that are total anti Semites. It's a social institution of culture on planet earth. Look at all the young Marxist Leninists. Most/many hate Jews. It's fun for the left & the right"
X Link 2024-10-18T18:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@ManhttanMetsFan @mcsquared34 Understanding why they are different in capitalism is the important thing. At the end of your life how much wealth will your total lifetime income create"
X Link 2024-10-18T21:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@digging4fire @mcsquared34 No ones whining. Take a walk through downtown Philadelphia Chicago or St. Louis. Drive through the Midwest rust belt where roadkill is always a menu option"
X Link 2024-10-18T21:12Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@ManhttanMetsFan @mcsquared34 Yes and understanding that difference is crucial for understanding that capitalism is doctored up wage slavery"
X Link 2024-10-18T21:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@ManhttanMetsFan @mcsquared34 I forgot to say that wealth is so much more than simply savings. Squirrels save. Capitalists get a return on investment ie unearned income"
X Link 2024-10-18T21:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@ManhttanMetsFan @mcsquared34 Really Anyone Do you trade How much time do you spend doing research"
X Link 2024-10-18T23:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@ManhttanMetsFan @mcsquared34 Thats not capitalism. Thats a society of fools who dont realize that their parents had it so much better than they do. That 401k should be a pension 100% contributions from your employer. Healthcare should be dirt cheap. Wages should be 30/hr on avg. the list goes on. E"
X Link 2024-10-18T23:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@ManhttanMetsFan @mcsquared34 Equities make up a tiny fraction of the financial markets. It's almost all debt. What is debt All debt is engineered. The private ownership of the means of production starts with the one thing that is key to all else. Money. So tell me how is money created"
X Link 2024-10-18T23:45Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@SwampCommunist @Greynxgga69 Yes that's true. Bernie committed infanticide with his "revolution" to support Hillary. Where are the protests now The Supreme Court just ruled it's constitutional to make homelessness illegal Min wage in the U.S. is $7.25/hr. I'll stop pestering you. I'm just very pessimistic"
X Link 2024-10-19T00:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Jmichaelnorwood @mcsquared34 Better at what"
X Link 2024-10-20T14:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@ATLCWorker The fact is that business has never been able to employ everyone at a living wage. If it did capitalism would collapse. Poverty and fear are core ingredients of capitalism"
X Link 2024-10-20T20:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@TheMadMenshevik The late baby boomers who are entering retirement today make up the largest cohort of new homeless in America. They couldn't save for retirement bc they didn't have enough income. I think it's a little over 50% of new retirees have no pension and no savings"
X Link 2024-10-20T20:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@TheMadMenshevik I look at the lack of savings pension and the extremely high rate of homelessness of the late boomers as a catastrophic failure and hence I use the world collapse. I don't know where you live but when I go to areas where the PMC don't live I see a lot of poverty"
X Link 2024-10-20T20:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@TheMadMenshevik What am I denying I'm guessing you are saying that I am denying that Joe Biden has done a good job. I'm not. But he hasn't solved our problems and I think it's wrong to expect him to have done that. Bernie could have lived up to expectations. Biden has exceeded expectations"
X Link 2024-10-20T21:37Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@TheMadMenshevik You buy into the argument that absolute poverty has gone down because of capitalism and therefore instead of complaining people should be happy Are you serious You do realize you are an old school Republican"
X Link 2024-10-20T22:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
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