#  @ProfHall1955 Steve Hall Steve Hall posts on X about money, inflation, investment, debt the most. They currently have [------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::1736788266391605248/interactions)  - [--] Week [------] -56% - [--] Month [-------] -10% - [--] Months [---------] +136% - [--] Year [---------] +108% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::1736788266391605248/posts_active)  - [--] Month [--] -43% - [--] Months [---] +87% - [--] Year [---] +15% ### Followers: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::1736788266391605248/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +0.07% - [--] Month [------] +4.20% - [--] Months [------] +57% - [--] Year [------] +142% ### CreatorRank: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::1736788266391605248/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) [countries](/list/countries) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [stocks](/list/stocks) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [currencies](/list/currencies) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [financial services](/list/financial-services) **Social topic influence** [money](/topic/money), [inflation](/topic/inflation), [investment](/topic/investment), [debt](/topic/debt), [china](/topic/china), [israel](/topic/israel), [in the](/topic/in-the), [currency](/topic/currency), [finance](/topic/finance), [argentina](/topic/argentina) **Top assets mentioned** [BlackRock Inc (BLK)](/topic/blackrock) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "@malcolm_reavell @premnsikka Technically you're right. But tax does help to control inflation maximise fiscal space redistribute income and adjust consumer behaviour. It's also a highly emotive concept - once the motivation for a revolution. We have to ease our way out of this gently and cleverly" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1743558333561208906) 2024-01-06T09:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "For decades the US/UK Israel lobby boxed clever subtly cancelling its critics behind the scenes and dismissing any sightings as the work of 'conspiracy theorists'. Now it's out in the open swinging wildly and displaying its entrenched power before all. Tonight marks the end of @MehdiHasanShow and @MehdiRHasan's time with MSNBC. Thank you for watching us week after week over the past three years. https://t.co/LPybcWmFTf Tonight marks the end of @MehdiHasanShow and @MehdiRHasan's time with MSNBC. Thank you for watching us week after week over the past three years. https://t.co/LPybcWmFTf" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1744452505755426823) 2024-01-08T20:14Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Shash is the defence editor of The Economist. Before you believe his claim that bombing the Houthis won't cause escalation check out a book called Liberalism at Large. Since [----] every prediction The Economist has made has been completely wrong. #houthis" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1745577885690188023) 2024-01-11T22:46Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Israel apologist quotes Irgun terrorist as she refuses to acknowledge the authority of the International Court of Justice. Irgun took part in the Deir Yassin massacre. The entitled narcissist who can do no wrong is above the law. Today in the Hague the Jews are on trial again. Instead of turning our backs on our accusers because we have nothing to apologize for and no one to apologize to we swear again that we are here for no reason Once again we have taken on the role of prisoners on trial: we Today in the Hague the Jews are on trial again. Instead of turning our backs on our accusers" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1745593138645745669) 2024-01-11T23:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Just watched most of the ICJ proceedings. The Israeli case is pathetic. Empty rhetoric about 'shock' 'feelings' and 'belittling us'. Far worse than mass-murdering thousands of children and families eh Travesty if this goes against SA. #ICJ #genocide" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1745873827140083995) 2024-01-12T18:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Latest from Paul 'Spook' Mason. US/UK bombing Yemen because they're true socialists protecting working-class sailors. In his tiny brain it's not an Empire it's a trade union Rubbish Jeremy. The strikes were a last resort after terrorists repeatedly attacked working class seafarers. Do the right thing and support those risking their lives to keep civilian ships safe from terrorism 👇🏽 Rubbish Jeremy. The strikes were a last resort after terrorists repeatedly attacked working class seafarers. Do the right thing and support those risking their lives to keep civilian ships safe from terrorism" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1745875031047983546) 2024-01-12T18:26Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@cymrurouge To suffer more misery when the BoE raises interest rates the only tool it uses to combat essentially cost-push inflation. Yet Japan implemented a ZIRP in [----]. Despite disinformation from neoliberals it maintained high employment and low rents/mortgages while GDP grew in 2023" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1746134380823621684) 2024-01-13T11:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Me on UK economics identity politics geopolitics and what have you interviewed by @DerbyChrisW on why I joined The Workers Party of Britain @WorkersPartyGB led by @georgegalloway @dai_alectic @battleforeurope and @toby00green also get a mention" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1746238012554383700) 2024-01-13T18:29Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@DrWhoBritish @winlow_s @DerbyChrisW @WorkersPartyGB @georgegalloway @dai_alectic @battleforeurope @toby00green Read their ten-point programme and tell me what you don't agree with Power-brokers of the future" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1746245298488308168) 2024-01-13T18:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The upside is that excessive lying has virtually killed cancel culture on social media. The downside is that everyone mistrusts what everyone else says. Truth is a needle in a haystack" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1746831139623317931) 2024-01-15T09:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@fredzannarbor @ghostofchristo1 Social media can be used to advance discussions but it can also be used to convey basic points and attract initial interest to debates" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1746870188601971167) 2024-01-15T12:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@wales_steve @ProfSteveKeen Absolutely. Shorter supply chains make sense on every level. The global free movement of capital goods and labour has been a disaster for the environment the working classes and democracy" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1748650144168284438) 2024-01-20T10:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The world needs to surgically remove American neoliberal economics from its politics. Would the leaders of a nation founded on hatred of the state and its fiscal/taxation powers do anything else but blame the state and its fiscal/taxation powers for inflation and recession" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1748659593427685707) 2024-01-20T10:51Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "People like Frank help to make the left unelectable in nations with majority white and mixed populations. This caricature reeks of contempt and renders the real issues of imminent mass unemployment and loss of manufacturing capacity relatively unimportant. "I was a skilled steel worker. Now I'm delivering parcels for minimum wage self employed no rights. It stinks. Think we'll lose the house. Vote Brexit they said save Steel. Vote Boris they said save Steel. I'll still vote tory again - I don't trust Labour" https://t.co/3bj1Ba20pJ "I was a skilled steel worker. Now I'm delivering parcels for" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1749399873848303791) 2024-01-22T11:53Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@ER_Roberts_ We've seen variations of this since the 1960s. Youth sub-cultures were often led by middle-class political entrepreneurs like Malcom McLaren Joe Strummer and Tony Wilson who got rich on the back of the working-class's loss of cultural authenticity and political representation" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1749516885056512227) 2024-01-22T19:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Was pleased to endorse this. Very much worth a read if you're interested in the luxury consumer culture and corruption nexus. Blows away the 'luxury as w/class resistance' flapdoodle. @ghostofchristo1 @winlow_s @johnpmerrick" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1749793649842344283) 2024-01-23T13:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@cymrurouge @KnotweedRail Indeed. She's talking nonsense. Austerity is the result of the political decision to control the money supply reduce aggregate demand reduce deficits and debt and control inflation. Taxing the wealthy does a better job but they prefer to punish workers and small businesses" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1749881438688698443) 2024-01-23T19:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@dai_alectic Biggest shareholder is Czech billionaire Daniel Ketnsk who controls the group Vesa Equity Investment. Ketnsk also has stakes in Sainsbury's and West Ham United. We've sold off our country to foreign investors" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1750256589301232075) 2024-01-24T20:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@dai_alectic That's not a conspiracy it's a standard short-selling routine. If he's not doing it he's the only one who isn't. He doesn't have to provoke them just get wind of trouble sell off some shares to send out negative market signals and Bob's your uncle" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1750283764549181767) 2024-01-24T22:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@dai_alectic Here's another one who got caught. Insider trading info can make the short selling really lucrative. The rot is oozing out of the woodwork now" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1750285060207485415) 2024-01-24T22:30Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Despite some disappointment this is a win for South Africa their case against Israel in the ICJ. Details and sensible comments from @battleforeurope" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1750950126040895506) 2024-01-26T18:33Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "#MMT economists who argue for low taxes are wrong. The best way would be to tax the unearned income of the unproductive finance insurance and real estate sector to create fiscal space for inflation-proof public investment in energy utilities services and reindustrialisation" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1751201326128574747) 2024-01-27T11:11Z [---] followers, 12.1K engagements "@tonywestonuk 1/2 Normally in a healthy economy yes but the UK doesn't have one. Private investors won't fund clean energy infrastructure public services manufacturing reshoring NHS etc. to the extent we need. The extended transitional fiscal space required now will need more taxation" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1751986024052392197) 2024-01-29T15:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@tonywestonuk 2/2 1/3 of the country is derelict and suffering from underemployment and a host of other issues. If we try to apply #MMT principles in partnership with a reluctant globalist private sector we'll end up like Bulgaria but with half the adult population on a m/wage jg programme" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1751987190362443990) 2024-01-29T15:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Why Labour will fail. I'm not an '#MMT activist' but every sentence in this piece by a Labour MP is wrong. He doesn't even know that the 'Nobel Prize in Economics' doesn't exist or that QE and fiscal spending are different operations. Complete ignorance" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1752644917430526336) 2024-01-31T10:48Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Makes you wonder when even the Financial Times admits that only governments and not private investors can fund a better future. $3 trillion needed for basic infrastructure renewal. Yet Labour and Tories bang on about 'fiscal responsibility' and big up the City financiers" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1752833345103200660) 2024-01-31T23:16Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Three years ago The Economist wrote about the incursion of the big global investment companies into the UK rental market. Funneling money into their pockets as usual much of which will be siphoned out of the country. Barely a squeak from the Labour Party" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1753013670915789150) 2024-02-01T11:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@northernmnkey @catherinerowett @SimonPartridge @joycemcm @dai_alectic Yes but also more recently horribly right. I'm not sure we understand what 'debt' is" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1753069062966710671) 2024-02-01T14:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@northernmnkey @catherinerowett @SimonPartridge @joycemcm @dai_alectic Labour won't. I'm being hypothetical. But coz the bankers are crocodiles it's the only way. As the BRICS grow in power and we start to look like Bulgaria they'll set an example. We can never predict political convulsions. It was the best of times it was the worst of times" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1753086994207350822) 2024-02-01T16:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@northernmnkey @catherinerowett @SimonPartridge @joycemcm @dai_alectic Usually. Would the holders of fixed-rate securities want to devalue their stash Would it be in the interests of the countries from which we import huge amounts Is it worth the risk Or do we just want to keep on slowly sinking" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1753102717591937468) 2024-02-01T17:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@missgripper_ photoshop" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1753117851865567544) 2024-02-01T18:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@northernmnkey @SimonPartridge @RichardJMurphy @dai_alectic @catherinerowett The British hard left have always hated Labour. What's remarkable now is the Keynesian centre-left - an alliance of democratic socialists and social democrats - that was once the heart of Labour now hate the PLP. Progressive neoliberalism killed socialism and conservatism" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1753431217586700423) 2024-02-02T14:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@SimonPartridge @northernmnkey @RichardJMurphy @dai_alectic @catherinerowett Yes but to be international you need sovereign nations. Inter-nation-al. Globalism after the abandonment of capital controls disempowered nations and democratic politics altogether. But not authoritarian politics. BRICS rising. Tectonic geopolitical shift already under way" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1753436451151220877) 2024-02-02T15:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@SimonPartridge @northernmnkey @RichardJMurphy @dai_alectic @catherinerowett The other members - [--] new ones this month and about [--] applications in process - certainly look to China because of its high growth since the [----] reforms. The next hurdle is de-dollarization and a mutual reserve currency" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1753562522181828848) 2024-02-02T23:34Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "FT coming clean. We're on the road to a multipolar world. Defying sanctions and overcoming inflation Russia grows with central bank spending. Western finance capitalism is a fear-cult removed from reality. Wake up Dorothy you're back in Kansas" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1753709839916667268) 2024-02-03T09:19Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@SimonPartridge @northernmnkey @RichardJMurphy @dai_alectic @catherinerowett Yeah it's good I like the localist vision. But the state and the central bank are still the issuer of sovereign currency. Even if private local banks were retained to issue loans currency issue interest rates tax and reserve accounts would still need to be centrally managed" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1753856946849960153) 2024-02-03T19:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@northernmnkey @catherinerowett @SimonPartridge @RichardJMurphy @dai_alectic That's what I said. More from the middle classes. Taxes don't 'raise' anything - they take money out of circulation and create fiscal space for investment that can renew infrastructure and increase productivity" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1754090807651426426) 2024-02-04T10:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@northernmnkey @catherinerowett @SimonPartridge @RichardJMurphy @dai_alectic It depends on sustainable growth and productivity. Increase productivity manage demand reduce prices short of deflation and adjust taxes according to the inflationary limit. If we invest wisely and restore economic health taxes can come down" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1754094026158952499) 2024-02-04T10:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@shaahin_a Don't bother with his book. Pop-science. He stumbled on a way to (sometimes) predict large-scale improbable events in options trading and tried to turn it into a philosophy. He's a fraud but neoliberal media love people who tell us that global markets can host the American Dream" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1754116468575220213) 2024-02-04T12:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Overrated banker boy owned by @ProfSteveKeen. Taleb stumbled on a way to (with luck) predict improbable events in options trading then tried to turn it into a philosophy. The neoliberal media love people who claim global markets host the American Dream. @nntaleb Do the accounting Taleb. The deficit creates the funds used to buy government bonds. There's no borrowing involved so long as you're financing bonds in your own currency. https://t.co/sLBHTuOGLe @nntaleb Do the accounting Taleb. The deficit creates the funds used to buy government bonds. There's no borrowing involved so long as you're" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1754117702904316061) 2024-02-04T12:20Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@CheekyMark1917 Tried and tested more than 'brilliant'. Post-war mid-wit liberal philosophy has been little more than an attack on the straw monster of 'authoritarianism'. Because they don't know what they're wishing for they'll get something like what they don't wish for" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1754134427779604708) 2024-02-04T13:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@CheekyMark1917 Currently researching how the Axial Age arose from the chaos of the Bronze Age collapse. Including Confucianism. Prophets rejected caprice of the Gods and looked to the everyday moral practice of those managing to live together without too much hostility. Time for a rerun" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1754156362932576506) 2024-02-04T14:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@northernmnkey @OfSymbols @SimonPartridge @BanGaoRen @dai_alectic Since the social media explosion Corbyn Covid Ukraine Gaza and the David Miller legal victory the 'conspiracy theory' - a term invented by the CIA in [----] after the Kennedy murder to discredit inquiries into coordinated ideological activity - accusation is now wearing thin" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1755590886053011569) 2024-02-08T13:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@conrad_father It's meaningless gobbledygook. 'Fiscal risks' If he's talking about inflation and money-market vigilantes he should say so and state his case clearly. He doesn't know what he's talking about" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1755651379312341051) 2024-02-08T17:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Property tycoon & former Tory donor thinks Starmer is the boy Neoliberal press back on board. Mandelson back on board. Green investment cancelled. Inflation scare stories flying around. Loyalty to Israel restated. Getting the picture yet @UKLabour Exclusive Property tycoon Tory donor Nick Candy says its time for a change of government to Labour praises Keir Starmers engagement with business blasts years of Tory infighting Speaking to @BloombergUK @flacqua In the City podcast https://t.co/WqRVkLw5Ki Exclusive Property tycoon Tory donor Nick Candy says its time for a change of government to" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1755661324879544710) 2024-02-08T18:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@SimonPartridge @northernmnkey @BanGaoRen @OfSymbols @dai_alectic Historically it takes a deep dive into poverty and social disorder. It's nonsense that 'inflation' caused the rise of Nazism - it was conquered by [----]. The causal context was [--] yrs of economic collapse after the '29 crash & a weak divided left. Let's hope it doesn't take that" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1755664837189791860) 2024-02-08T18:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@Merlin67684223 Yes. I think the fundamental cause is that as recent events - crash austerity Corbyn smear Covid Ukraine energy crisis Gaza BRICS rising - have revealed neoliberalism's tissue of lies the system's ideologues have become more desperate and outlandish every day" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1755690972229312783) 2024-02-08T20:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@ghostofchristo1 @conte_hal Yes it's in very bad hands in some places. But the PMC thrive on the democratic deficit. That's enough evil populism from me for one day" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1756641352027107741) 2024-02-11T11:28Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@SimonPartridge @slyowusu @RnaudBertrand @dai_alectic @northernmnkey Foreign direct invstment. Policy banks are like the regional banks the Corbynites were promising. China is a big place - different regions at different stages of development with different needs. Many transportation problems - huge rift valleys and sinkholes after deforestation" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1756680292281012321) 2024-02-11T14:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The 21st century's first true monster ready to strike again. Already nearly [------] killed and injured but as the world says NO Netanyahu still plans to level Rafah with half of Gaza's remaining population crammed into it. #GazaGenocide @DerbyChrisW" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1756728422334660814) 2024-02-11T17:14Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@malcolm_reavell That's just the central bank overruling the state - since it was made 'independent' it plays for the markets. One of the first things the Blairites did in 1998" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1757051096441233765) 2024-02-12T14:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "35% of the Tory cabinet and 40% of Labour's shadow cabinet are funded by pro-Israel lobbyists. Call this what it is - hugely disproportionate influence by a foreign state - and they smear you as an 'anti-Semite'. #BoycottLabour #ItWasAScam @DerbyChrisW https://www.youtube.com/watchv=cmRvjqjii5M https://www.youtube.com/watchv=cmRvjqjii5M" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1757356581761536081) 2024-02-13T10:50Z 10.4K followers, 25.4K engagements "@arisroussinos In [----] the UK had a [---] million trade surplus despite under-investment since [----] when its post-war industrial growth curve flattened. Despite the Austin Allegro - it wasn't that bad all 70s cars were crap - deindustrialisation is the greatest threat to our national security" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1757358857767023104) 2024-02-13T10:59Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@BanGaoRen @flying_rodent I'm interested in why the Turkeys Voting for Christmas meme mutated into the Leopard's Party meme. Boredom Novelty I dunno" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1757726495718420911) 2024-02-14T11:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "If we allow Guido to stand in judgement as the arbiter of sophistication - or anything else for that matter - it really is the end of civilization as we know it. #BoycottLabour" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1757727532026093746) 2024-02-14T11:24Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@dai_alectic UCU. The Swappy/pomo cultural studies alliance versus Blairite electronic engineers. Two stopped clocks there I tell you" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1757888641500594305) 2024-02-14T22:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "'Incidents' that include waving a Palestinian flag and 'causing discomfort'. Comparing this to the mass slaughter in Gaza is both ludicrous and reprehensible. The Israel lobby is dismantling itself in full public view. #GazaGenocide @WorkersPartyGB Hamas' [--] October attack was a global call to attack Jews. Here's what it produced in the UK - a 589% surge in anti-Semitic incidents according to @CST_UK mainly abusive behaviour. Anyone celebrating it as an "act of resistance" that needs to be "globalised" - wake up 👇🏽 https://t.co/Z1pUc10XEt Hamas' [--] October attack was a global call to attack" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1758052726343086109) 2024-02-15T08:56Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@Mattburns82 @turnbullissimo @ProfSteveKeen @andyverity @RichardJMurphy @UKLabour Won't come on the scale we need. They're interested mainly in big stuff in low-wage developing economies. Even Germany will struggle now despite being the investors' European 'shock absorber' since [----]. But just watch them in Ukraine after the war. Fink is rubbing his hands" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1759902212010942827) 2024-02-20T11:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@SimonPartridge @leftnotlabour @faniaoz The majority of Palestinians have 'aboriginal' indigenous land rights according to the UN definition. The current refugees are from families who were violently thrown off their land by Zionists. Are you suggesting they should be slaughtered and bombed out of Gaza" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1760279011467382904) 2024-02-21T12:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "This is why NATO should be disbanded. The US and Israel are the real threats to peace in this world. If they want to take on Russia China & Iran let them get on with it. They would happily see Europe in ruins fighting their proxy wars. @WorkersPartyGB NATO gives Ukraine a 'green light' to cross Russia's red line NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Ukraine has the right to use Western weapons to defend itself against Russia even if that includes attacking targets within Russia's borders. https://t.co/fllbhKyvlN NATO gives Ukraine a 'green light' to cross Russia's red line NATO" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1761313184353280209) 2024-02-24T08:52Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@cymrurouge Mick has no understanding of geopolitics or economics. When Reeves returned from Wall St. to start blathering about 'fiscal responsibility' it was obvious that Labour will keep the UK in neoliberalism's pocket. Labour are done whether they win or lose" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1761471019104014787) 2024-02-24T19:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Do not mess with Israel If you do we'll massacre all the civilians who live near you blow up their houses schools and hospitals inflict starvation and disease on them and post ghoulish videos on Twitter about it. #GazaMassacare #Gaza_Genocide Do not mess with Israel https://t.co/KvLWLLa9rM Do not mess with Israel https://t.co/KvLWLLa9rM" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1761527548658209154) 2024-02-24T23:04Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@ProfSteveKeen @MacroAlf This is good but in many cases of inflationary spikes don't supply shortages and price rises precede the issue of real-economy money in the causal chain" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1761691288494084587) 2024-02-25T09:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Tired of centrist drivel on this site. Compared to 1945-1979 Corbyn's deficit spending/investment plans were quite cautious. They weren't 'radical' enough to deter voters. He lost because of Blairite skullduggery media attacks cultural posturing and his own weakness. #Corbyn" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1761697078399340835) 2024-02-25T10:18Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Reeves wants the police to deal with anyone who criticizes Israel. In other words to behave like the Gestapo or the Thinkpol. Democracy I don't think so. @WorkersPartyGB @DerbyChrisW #GazaGenocide Bad news for anyone who has anti Israel thoughts. This ghoul is coming for you. See her dogwhistle racism speech below. Bad news for anyone who has anti Israel thoughts. This ghoul is coming for you. See her dogwhistle racism speech below" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1761865300868309258) 2024-02-25T21:26Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@battleforeurope Milei's 'budget balancing' has already caused a 3% contraction and increased poverty from [--] to 60%. Inflation is expected to skyrocket to 250% and the IMF has already told him he needs another $5 billion loan to stop the country going under. More dollar-denominated debt to pay" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1762612987355934893) 2024-02-27T22:57Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Economically illiterate journalists are a menace. The myth that taxes pay for public spending is bad enough but claiming we pay off the national debt with them is stupid. Bonds/debt are complex but nonsense like this doesn't help our understanding. #MMT Just received my annual tax summary showing where and how the government spends its income. I think we can agree that debt interest is a problem now. https://t.co/vBEmtemCvg Just received my annual tax summary showing where and how the government spends its income. I think we can agree that debt interest is a problem now." [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1762794246422061140) 2024-02-28T10:57Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@Acruelpastime @simonmaginn It helps central banks set interest rates. But central banks should operate with a zero interest rate policy which would make the whole practice unnecessary" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1762950688500318231) 2024-02-28T21:19Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@stuartshakesby @HenricCont Henric is an ideologue like all libertarians driven by a visceral hated of the state. Just mute him he's not worth the effort. Yes as long as banks do their job a balance is best. This is useful" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1762973645628965186) 2024-02-28T22:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@jamesdean0770 They do lower aggregate demand but they struggle to do it with that sort of precision. The main functions are taking currency out of circulation to combat inflation (far gentler than raising interest rates) and maintain fiscal headroom redistribution and altering behaviour" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1762989318287602163) 2024-02-28T23:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@PerKurowski Yes some nations are debt zombies for specific reasons usually based on the need to pay down debts in foreign currencies. Even paying them off quickly would risk deflation. Global neoliberalism is an extractive trap. Read @ProfSteveKeen on this" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1763142323808960943) 2024-02-29T10:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Great win for @georgegalloway. The neoliberal duopoly is broken. Well done to everyone in @WorkersPartyGB For our post-election entertainment we can sit back and watch the Guardianistas and the Thatcherites joining hands in a communal meltdown" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1763474927443730449) 2024-03-01T08:02Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Factual statistics are antisemitic. Another fact is that we have to go back a long way to find a politician as knowledgeable honest morally upright and pro-working class as @DerbyChrisW. @WorkersPartyGB GB News : What a horrible comparison by Chris Williamson. Jacob Rees Mogg is absolutely right with his response. @DerbyChrisW @tomhfh @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @GBNEWS #rochdale https://t.co/G4ZtjaZs3g GB News : What a horrible comparison by Chris Williamson. Jacob Rees Mogg is absolutely right with his response. @DerbyChrisW @tomhfh @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @GBNEWS #rochdale https://t.co/G4ZtjaZs3g" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1763492715822489820) 2024-03-01T09:13Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Look closely right now. After #Rochdale what can you see The fake conservatives liberals leftists postmodernists liberal feminists libertarian Marxists etc. all joining hands in a mass meltdown. Why Because they're all neoliberals in disguise that's why. @WorkersPartyGB" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1763527810490994699) 2024-03-01T11:32Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@geeceevee @cymrurouge Put in context briefly here but I would recommend readding through Johnston's book 'Zizek's Ontology'" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1763646585496367270) 2024-03-01T19:24Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Paul wants the spooks to arrest @georgegalloway victor in a fair election despite incessant media defamation in the name of 'democracy'. Meanwhile unelected @RishiSunak prepares for a crackdown against 'civil unrest'. Just let that sink in. #Rochdale 5/ .if he uses Parliament to push Russian TV-style disinfo - we need a united cross-party militant defence of democracy: the National Security Act [----] does not exempt MPs from its provisions . 5/ .if he uses Parliament to push Russian TV-style disinfo - we need a united cross-party militant defence of democracy: the National Security Act 2023" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1763852601009832442) 2024-03-02T09:03Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Predictably the neoliberal establishment is spewing out scurrilous lies about @georgegalloway. Populist demagogue far right hard left etc. But back in the day his party's policies wouldn't have troubled any politician from Tony Benn to Harold Macmillan. @WorkersPartyGB" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1763886522678272369) 2024-03-02T11:18Z 10.4K followers, 29K engagements "@DrWhoBritish @winlow_s @georgegalloway @WorkersPartyGB Safety The IDF have just shot [---] Palestinians outside an aid truck ffs. My Jewish pals tell me they don't feel unsafe at all. The WP is not about identity it's about the economic rebuilding we suggested in the final chapter. Read the programme" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1763892454598599058) 2024-03-02T11:41Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Oh wonderful. Back to proper politics as I remember it. Watching @georgegalloway shred this twitching mass media minion without breaking into a sweat is glorious. @WorkersPartyGB @skytv #RochdaleByElection #Rochdale Oh my gosh watch the whole thing. This is how you should talk to mainstream journalists. https://t.co/q2HAGDjDlo Oh my gosh watch the whole thing. This is how you should talk to mainstream journalists. https://t.co/q2HAGDjDlo" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1763917408723435735) 2024-03-02T13:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Diogenes the Cynic used to wander around in the daylight with a lamp. When asked why he replied "I am looking for an honest man." Well after a long wait we can throw away the lamp. Welcome back George @georgegalloway @WorkersPartyGB" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1764020585980379590) 2024-03-02T20:10Z 10.4K followers, 14.4K engagements "@robertwoolley @ProfSteveKeen @georgegalloway @WorkersPartyGB Hi Robert I'm older than you and remember him and other honest people too in a proper Labour Party. Now stop your juvenile smearing and take a hike bonny lad" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1764030884380877151) 2024-03-02T20:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements ""The more illegitimate a power is the more it will perceive even the tiniest challenge to its rule as an existential threat". Good from @battleforeurope on Sunak's hysterical reaction to @georgegalloway's election. #RochdaleByElection @WorkersPartyGB" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1764041645786382387) 2024-03-02T21:34Z [---] followers, 11.7K engagements "@half_Job_Rob @WorkersPartyGB @garyseconomics @RichardJMurphy Rob you don't understand macroeconomics. The amount of currency in circulation and its relationship to aggregate demand depends on supply of goods and services. What you're taking about is a 'deficit'. All modern economies run deficits and can do up to the point of inflation" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1764277424596856884) 2024-03-03T13:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@half_Job_Rob @WorkersPartyGB @garyseconomics @RichardJMurphy And of course if we use a specific amount of currency to invest in the production of goods and services we expand supply to allow higher aggregate demand which in turn requires more currency in circulation. Private investment works in a similar way" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1764278349801627679) 2024-03-03T13:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@Petercookwahook @half_Job_Rob @WorkersPartyGB @garyseconomics @RichardJMurphy I think they've still got it. It's the government's overdraft account at the central bank which never needs to be paid back. They can use it any time interest rates and bond yields get too high. More accounting black arts. 😂" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1764286298418741508) 2024-03-03T13:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@half_Job_Rob @Petercookwahook @WorkersPartyGB @garyseconomics @RichardJMurphy Not 'hand in hand' - the former is a reaction to the latter. It depends what we do with currency. If we invest in productive activity to increase supply create jobs boost aggregate demand and introduce fairer progressive taxation to combat inflation we can reboot the economy" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1764423144343740656) 2024-03-03T22:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "They didn't "die in chaos" they were deliberately shot and killed by the IDF. There has never been a 'quality press' in this country. Just a gutter press and a gutter press with a posh accent. @WorkersPartyGB #GazaMassacare @guardian "die in chaos" https://t.co/SxJYU2VRf3 "die in chaos" https://t.co/SxJYU2VRf3" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1765421700521382115) 2024-03-06T16:58Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@Nickle1011 @seledka_vodka @WorkersPartyGB @guardian Of course what happened is that the IDF were firing over their heads to warn them but Hamas flew in on paragliders with magnetic ray guns bent the bullets down into the crowd to sacrifice a few Palestinians and blame it on innocent Israel. Fiendishly clever" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1765710420755558711) 2024-03-07T12:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Hi @RachelReevesMP. Just a quick note to say that there is actually a magic money tree. It's called the Consolidated Fund. We put it on steroids after WWII to grow back the economy without causing runaway inflation. You're welcome. @DerbyChrisW" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1765713797707100522) 2024-03-07T12:19Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@wales_steve @RachelReevesMP @DerbyChrisW Absolutely. As Ha-Joon Chang reminded us even the basic demand-supply reaction is mediated by human decisions. Neoliberalism's project was founded on the principle of replacing elected politicians with corporations bankers and asset managers in the decision-making process" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1765724811802640529) 2024-03-07T13:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Oh yes nearly forgot. Even the BBC let it slip out a little while ago. A currency-issuing government 'borrowing' from its own central bank is nothing like a household borrowing from the local payday loan shark. #MMT @DerbyChrisW" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1765868718779687220) 2024-03-07T22:34Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@ProfSteveKeen explains step-by-step how governments create money. Not a 'theory' or 'perspective' but how the system works. Take homes: government deficit doesn't create a liability private money-creation = disaster in 1830s USA. #MMT @WorkersPartyGB" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1766456825472303237) 2024-03-09T13:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The USA is not only supplying arms to Israel but underwriting its shaky bonds to continue wars that are expected to run well into the future. Free market Don't make me laugh. #Gazaagenocide #Zionism @DerbyChrisW @Tracking_Power" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1767238811564531776) 2024-03-11T17:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Good from @rohangrey. Politicians/media like to value private investment over public investment. They're both about spending and resources. Over 90% of currency issue is bank credit so why does public investment always get the blame for inflation #MMT Listen to @rohangrey explaining about inflation. Inflation is always everywhere a lack of real resources and lack of productive capacity phenomenon and not the monetary phenomenon. What really matters is how and on what the money has been spent and not where the money will come https://t.co/SR7WaruAYl Listen to @rohangrey explaining about" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1767602331330220308) 2024-03-12T17:23Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Paper written by #MMT economists accepted by House of Lords committee discussing public finance. If neoliberalism has to die by a thousand cuts this is one of them. @spatchcockable" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1767845867053048125) 2024-03-13T09:31Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@northernmnkey @sarahollando552 @spatchcockable Do you understand the pros and cons of currency devaluation or why the export economies selling regularly to the 6th largest economy might intervene in a currency war Do you understand anything Second mute coming soon" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1768231192367706509) 2024-03-14T11:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Is there a way to prevent the foreign exchange traders attacking and devaluing a national currency Soft measures such as capital controls and central bank intervention can help. But this is how Iran do it. Is this really why we're taught to hate #MMT" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1768239620867666211) 2024-03-14T11:35Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@toby00green @battleforeurope @bixhiribarren @ewaldeng Good article. But we should emphasize further that currency devaluation is not some organic process. Who manipulates supply and demand on the Forex markets to make the oil cheaper and who dumps unpayable loans on them with false promises of domestic growth Global financiers" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1768252367026135273) 2024-03-14T12:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@haniefhaider @rohangrey It's more about manipulating bonds' function in setting interest rates. It's not about keeping governments on the straight and narrow. It's about threatening them denying their sovereignty and scaring them away from public investment" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1768330642830352764) 2024-03-14T17:37Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "By devaluing the peso by 50% deranged cokehead Milei has doubled inflation to 250%. This was predictable yet libertarian gnat-brains commenting below @battleforeurope's article still blame 'state money printing'. How do we get rid of these #MMT Milei Argentinas self-styled anarcho-capitalist president enjoys an almost Christ-like status among heterodox conservatives and MAGA rightists almost on a par with Trump himself. But Milei has actually very little in common with Trump. My latest: https://t.co/8bec1us6Uf Milei Argentinas self-styled anarcho-capitalist president enjoys an almost" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1769414501521150337) 2024-03-17T17:24Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@Jorge_Econopata @battleforeurope If that's true and he's engineered a crisis so the Yanks can send in the cavalry he's even crazier than I thought" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1769432868164456481) 2024-03-17T18:37Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "'Cut borrowing or face a debt crisis" warns Carstens. In other words stop using sovereign currency to crowd out our private lenders or we'll bid up your interest rates and attack your currencies. We need rid of these people. Financial revolution. #MMT" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1769824785171619969) 2024-03-18T20:34Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Starmer with one of his real pals. Apparently it's antisemitic to call elite globalist Mike Bloomberg - net worth $106 billion earned largely from selling tips and algorithms to elite global financiers - an elite globalist. You must use their words not yours. #starmerout" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1770400177553047730) 2024-03-20T10:41Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "BoE conning us to take the glory. As supply recovers & inflation falls cutting the interest rate just after tax cuts & just before a 14% energy price cut sustains the myth that inflation is driven by aggregate demand & money supply and not price rises" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1770762746209964117) 2024-03-21T10:41Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "My guess was wrong. BoE hold base rate at 5.25%. Tax cuts & their fear of inflation have overwhelmed the fact that they're punishing businesses workers & borrowers. If the energy price cuts help them lower inflation to 3% they'll still take the credit" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1770810774342050292) 2024-03-21T13:52Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Honduran president Xiaomi Castro defies the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes tells Silicon Valley investors threatening to bankrupt the country to shove off and forges links with China. Hopefully first of many. @WorkersPartyGB https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/03/the-era-of-corporate-dominance-of-international-trade-is-coming-to-an-end-say-85-international-economists.html https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/03/the-era-of-corporate-dominance-of-international-trade-is-coming-to-an-end-say-85-international-economists.html" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1771277077183942964) 2024-03-22T20:45Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@PaulRChase @Kaz4Wokingham @DerbyChrisW @iealondon She said "an insurance-based system like most other countries" before contrasting it favorably against an individually disincentivizing "socialized system". Utter rubbish. She's a free-market ideologue one of the Mises cult that has consigned half this country to dereliction" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1771578444574335011) 2024-03-23T16:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "A free-market economist claimed Labour overspent on the NHS. They also say government overspending causes inflation. Inflation under Labour 1997-2008 was lower than under Thatcher/Major. Free-market economists are serial liars. #MMT @WorkersPartyGB" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1771590377046200437) 2024-03-23T17:30Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@thisweb 'The markets' aka central bankers and bond traders reacted against her promise to increase welfare spending through the inevitable tough time as she cut taxes to attract private investment. She would have failed but a socialist programme would have elicited the same reaction" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1771833585130971598) 2024-03-24T09:37Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Remember this. When private lenders crashed the economy in [----] after inflating the housing market and forcing people into unpayable debt they disproved neoliberalism's founding principle: the private sector runs the economy better than the democratic state. #MMT @WorkersPartyGB" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1771901483170054585) 2024-03-24T14:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Yes but Labour won't do it. Easy gig - promise to nationalise investors sell off value plummets offer them some bonds and tell them to shove off. Oh dear they might have to invest in something productive @WorkersPartyGB will do it vote for us 💡@unitetheunion is calling for a return to public ownership of our energy infrastructure so that we can bring down customers bills & supply British industry with cheaper energy. #Energy #Profiteering https://t.co/xhvmQTfBmV 💡@unitetheunion is calling for a return to public ownership of our energy infrastructure so that we can bring down customers bills" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1773646544178176191) 2024-03-29T09:41Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@northernmnkey @SimonPartridge @lukeakehurst @dai_alectic @joycemcm As I've said I'm not a pure 'MMTer' but surely you've worked out that the broad heterodox positions have exposed neoclassical economics as a belief system rather than a bona fide model If your fear of currency devaluation is anything to go by I'm not sure you're getting it" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1774719046962864368) 2024-04-01T08:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@SimonPartridge @lukeakehurst @dai_alectic @joycemcm @northernmnkey I'll guarantee that Hutton will fly at dusk like the Owl of Minerva as usual. The publicity reveals he'll be arguing for public investment and regulation. Just read our chapter 'A Return to Economics' and Fazi and Mitchell's 'Reclaiming the State' for more depth and detail" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1774720788605591848) 2024-04-01T08:49Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@northernmnkey @SimonPartridge @lukeakehurst @dai_alectic @joycemcm What you've been taught is a belief-system - the likes of Friedman and Greenspan knew that - and an unreflexive MMT is in danger of that for sure. I've warned MMT leaders about it. But the fact is that the neoclassical model is shot through with lies. It's a fear-cult" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1774723281314078961) 2024-04-01T08:59Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@SimonPartridge @BanGaoRen @northernmnkey @lukeakehurst @dai_alectic @joycemcm @catherinerowett @Melissa_Benn @suzannezeedyk @williamnhutton @StephanieKelton Well done Simon" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1774877057983422558) 2024-04-01T19:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@fencepostgod @EvanCull @conrad_father @mikecosgrove That's right so the central bank is always the originator but its relationship to the banks which it trusts to asses creditworthiness - trust lost during the sub-prime crisis of course - adds a pull dynamic" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1775184886514491455) 2024-04-02T15:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "How did a "roadside bomb planted by Hamas" go through the roof of the @WCKitchen car Expecting people to believe absurdity of this magnitude is a symptom of psychosis. #GazaGenocide #AidWorkers" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1775255179786621116) 2024-04-02T20:13Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@WilfThomas3 @georgegalloway @derbychris @jeremycorbyn @WorkersPartyGB Polymath. Sociologist social/economic historian and political theorist who worked in criminology departments Unlike you I'm quite generous with my time when it comes to beginners with unpublished PhDs. I have nothing to learn from you. Do one. https://independent.academia.edu/SteveHall42 https://independent.academia.edu/SteveHall42" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1775466501425803606) 2024-04-03T10:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@witandwhiz The elite's most effective strategy was to discredit and dismiss all who pointed out institutional infiltration by a loose alliance of neocons libertarians and Zionists as 'conspiracy theorists' a term coined by the CIA in [----]. That's now failing" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1776168881238765829) 2024-04-05T08:43Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Western neoliberals decry Islam because its moral codes still place some restrictions on financial activity. So did early Christianity and Judaism but they were loosened during various reforms. These wars are financiers' wars. #Islamophobia #GazaGenocide #BANKSTERS #debt #WWIII" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1776545182277607903) 2024-04-06T09:39Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "'Entrepreneur and investor' tells retired British Major-General and multiple campaign veteran @Charlie533080 that he's not qualified to criticise IDF officers' lack of control over their soldiers. #GazaGenocide #IDF @WorkersPartyGB @Charlie533080 What do you think youre seeing here Do you know whether or not there Hamas fighters shooting from that building Do you know whether or not this is covering fire before other troops enter the building Do you have the combat experience to tell whats going on here https://twitter.com/MikiMullor/status/1776562549485351210t=1fgEb9At_c5KJZYS5HbxVw&s=19" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1776582682295603502) 2024-04-06T12:08Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Straw waits until Israel 'loses the moral high ground' before calling out the atrocities in Gaza. The political class are experts in (eventually) being right for the wrong reasons. #GazaGenocide Ex UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw: "Things have gone far too far in Israel and Gaza and there isn't in my view any doubt at all that Israel is breaching international law" "You can just see it on the ground in Gaza and it's a tragedy for Israel as well because they've https://t.co/KzG4drYaq0 https://twitter.com/Kahlissee/status/1777073289195630863t=HmaBoC6dxekgHkZfaaMPpw&s=19 Ex UK Foreign Secretary" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1777240496588337594) 2024-04-08T07:42Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "How private equity investors suck the life out of real economies. Institutionalised global vampirism facilitated by neoliberal governments. https://leftfootforward.org/2024/04/private-equity-is-predatory-capitalism-with-a-long-trail-of-destruction/ https://leftfootforward.org/2024/04/private-equity-is-predatory-capitalism-with-a-long-trail-of-destruction/" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1777242471669399983) 2024-04-08T07:49Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The IDF have inserted 'Hamas' into the headline and every sentence of the summary of their report into the killing of [--] aid workers. [---] aid workers have been killed aid reduced to a trickle. Israel has become a dark Gothic parody of itself. #GazaFamine Results of the IDF investigation into the killing of the [--] humanitarian workers from the Word Central Kitchen (WCK). Things are not what they seemed to be. ⚠BREAKING⚠ IDF has revealed that Hamas PURPOSELY drew fire to the WCK truck. 🔥At around [--] pm the IDF noticed https://x.com/GOPIsrael/status/1777320253694910893 Results of the IDF" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1777645528538288558) 2024-04-09T10:31Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@SebPillon @wesstreeting The Labour Party have colluded in the promotion of fake neoliberal economics since [----]. A currency-issuing government can never be 'short of money'. Increasing the supply of goods and services to meet demand in one sector is not inflationary" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1777649014369828903) 2024-04-09T10:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Yellen threatening China with sanctions coz it's out-producing them. What did the US & UK expect when we deindustrialised over [--] yrs and allowed Wall St & CoL investors to pump capital into the Far East to line their pockets We are led by greedy fools. The US is a wounded dying bull bleeding out from its own self-inflicted wounds. First Yellen pleads with China to stop being so productive and efficient because the US can't compete on a level playing field. Then Yellen threatens China with sanctions over cooperation with https://t.co/mIk6uVdEpG" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1777652658733461525) 2024-04-09T10:59Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@Jorge_Econopata The neoliberal EU will never change its rules on state subsidies fiscal spending and productive allocation. Spain and other med countries would be better off leaving and joining BRICS" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1777757907804619249) 2024-04-09T17:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@JonSylt I don't think it's 'most'" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1777769789122847197) 2024-04-09T18:45Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@richard_morland @wesstreeting I'm not sure you understand what 'productivity' means. It includes services. Funding the NHS increases productivity and the tax/NI required to take M1 out of circulation and control inflation. The pound is not pegged to a more valuable currency. The UK is nothing like Argentina" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1777774998725263441) 2024-04-09T19:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@richard_morland @wesstreeting You've simply repeated what I've just said. The NHS along with other services and utilities requires productive investment. Issuing currency for such investment will not trigger inflation. You haven't listened to a word I've said so I'm not wasting any more time on this" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1777833095472754739) 2024-04-09T22:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The moment Corbyn lost. Public image is crucial. Hodge's false accusation of antisemitism gave him a chance to fight back against the virulent media campaign. He should have insisted the NEC suspend her and sued the backside off her. But he chose not to. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jul/18/labour-party-to-take-action-against-mp-who-called-corbyn-a-racist https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jul/18/labour-party-to-take-action-against-mp-who-called-corbyn-a-racist" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1777973910954287137) 2024-04-10T08:16Z 10.4K followers, [----] engagements "@northernmnkey @SimonPartridge @RichardJMurphy 'We' won't destroy the value of our money & there's no such thing as 'the markets'. Price-gougers in cahoots with corrupt politicians currency speculators dumping/shorting s & bond vigilantes attempting to bid up interest rates will try. But there are ways of heading them off" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1778002822560092208) 2024-04-10T10:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@northernmnkey @SimonPartridge @RichardJMurphy I think the tone might change if you stopped being a snarky little so-and-so and offered something positive rather than your tiresome interrogation. Landslide for George No chance. Moving towards a power-broking coalition with others Possible worth trying" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1778021753509286281) 2024-04-10T11:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@northernmnkey @SimonPartridge @RichardJMurphy How do we decide how big the deficit should beUnemployment is low but most of the jobs are low-paid and insecure. Households are struggling. Have you heard of the term 'underemployment' If so how do we solve this problem" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1778035296099094609) 2024-04-10T12:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@northernmnkey @SimonPartridge @RichardJMurphy How do we incentivise the big money to come in when global fund managers make far higher returns in low-currency low-wage low-tax poorly regulated developing economies run by corrupt politicians" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1778082555138347208) 2024-04-10T15:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@northernmnkey @SimonPartridge @RichardJMurphy The Chinese 'debt bomb' is a myth. The government doesn't owe anything to anybody apart from its own central bank. Last I looked CPI inflation running at 0.5%" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1778361712674050285) 2024-04-11T09:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@sharpeleven @cross_flag Fine with me" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1778363454912377179) 2024-04-11T10:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "1/ [--] #NHS only lost its #1 position in [----] after [--] years of Tory underfunding. X is full of posters with "tax is theft" or "governments are crime syndicates" on their profiles telling us privatization would be better. This fanatical mindset is capable of destroying nations" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1778509523407299030) 2024-04-11T19:44Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "2/2 These posters often claim that privatised or hybrid services are better. Europe's best Norway is state-funded and free plus a paltry [---] per year NI user fee making up the 'privatised' component compared to the UK average of about [---]. Libertarians just lie" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1778510516811411706) 2024-04-11T19:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "I've always hated snitching it's so low-grade but I've reluctantly reported this direct slur on my character from organised smear campaigners. This is the way things are done now it seems. I'm also speaking to a lawyer. Feel free to report it if you want" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1779440653190979758) 2024-04-14T09:24Z 10.4K followers, 14.6K engagements "@mickbognor I'm hearing the same from a few others too Mick. The tide is turning against them though. Millions now call out the current Israeli regime and the western Zionist lobby on social media" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1779478486953898173) 2024-04-14T11:55Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Never been convinced by the 'Israel is aligned with Western imperialism' trope. US neocons don't run an 'empire' but a militarily enhanced extraction machine. They want the oil & gas the Zionists want their own ethnostate. Michael Hudson agrees #Zionism https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/04/michael-hudson-the-truth-about-the-destruction-of-the-palestinians.html https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/04/michael-hudson-the-truth-about-the-destruction-of-the-palestinians.html" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1779853033393803671) 2024-04-15T12:43Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@Merlin67684223 @mcmullenshny Yes but I said the neocon 'empire' post-1980 which was concerned with the developing world. And don't forget even after WWII the 'aid' was a loan package extracting compound interest if not raw materials. They never give owt for nowt the Yanks" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1779874213681091017) 2024-04-15T14:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "David Blanchflower is a nice chap and a decent economist. But the fact he has to ask this question shows he either doesn't know or refuses to believe just how much Western politicians are compromised and controlled by private capital. #MMT @WorkersPartyGB https://x.com/D_Blanchflower/status/1781497557501223319 I am serious why doesnt @UKLabour let @thameswater go bust and wipe out share holders bosses and those who stupidly loaned the debt and presumably did pretty well. Unclear why they deserve compensation given the amount of sewage they have spewed it out" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1781626313545060493) 2024-04-20T10:09Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Max Azzarello's manifesto. Misrecognizes the source of our woes as a nebulous fascist conspiracy. What neoliberalism hides from us is its root in the harnessing of diffuse fear greed narcissism and sociopathy. RIP Max you were a good man. #MaxAzzarello https://x.com/CensoredMen/status/1781396191135056283 🚨📑#BREAKING: The Manifesto of The Man Who Self-Immolated Outside Trump's NYC Trial THREAD 🧵 1/9 https://t.co/AJ4Uo9UDyU https://x.com/CensoredMen/status/1781396191135056283 🚨📑#BREAKING: The Manifesto of The Man Who Self-Immolated Outside Trump's NYC Trial THREAD 🧵 1/9" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1781632239337345222) 2024-04-20T10:33Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@georgemkeynes @jewssf Yes almost iconic I would say" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1781702312215425365) 2024-04-20T15:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@manxmayhem @D_Blanchflower @thameswater Corporate bonds aren't risk free. Schedule nationalisation value plummets give them a few lm gov bonds as compensation" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1781807138806907211) 2024-04-20T22:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@manxmayhem @malcolm_reavell @RachelReevesMP Oh lordie. She thought she could entice private investment with tax cuts. It had nothing to do with 'affording' them because they don't determine government spending. What do you think they are bags of potatoes" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1782036924456194250) 2024-04-21T13:21Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Milei's Argentina looks intent on becoming a US client state dependent on dollar loans and NATO 'protection' while Colombia Bolivia and Venezuela look to join BRICS. #BRICS https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/04/musical-chairs-in-latin-america-argentina-applies-to-become-global-partner-of-nato-while-colombia-expresses-interest-in-joining-brics.html https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/04/musical-chairs-in-latin-america-argentina-applies-to-become-global-partner-of-nato-while-colombia-expresses-interest-in-joining-brics.html" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1782038475816009764) 2024-04-21T13:27Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Western media expectation of Ukraine have moved from 'drive them out' to 'counter-offensive to take back some territory' to 'halt the Russian advance' to 'slow the Russian advance'. Lie upon lie costing thousands of lives. #UkraineRussiaWar https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68868399 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68868399" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1782085109975552054) 2024-04-21T16:32Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Walk into a demo the wrong way wearing a kippah deliberately bump into marchers get shouted at get it on camera and spin it to prove Jews aren't safe in antisemitic London. Does this Falter lad think we're all bloody stupid #Zionism #ItWasAScam https://twitter.com/JamesEFoster/status/1782302988725285335t=fUbwnk-0KdOG1Ld9LnsQfg&s=19 I have watched the thirteen minute clip thats on @SkyNews & its a totally different encounter to the one Gideon Falter (@GideonFalter) has reportedThe narrative thats been pushed is not accurate. - Former Met Police Chief Superintendent Dal Babu" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1782314475086811614) 2024-04-22T07:44Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Between them economic neoliberals and postmodern cultural relativists have ruined parts of the UK. Only a firm alliance of economic socialists traditional feminists and moderate cultural conservatives can turn this around. @georgegalloway @OborneTweets https://unherd.com/2024/04/how-vice-consumed-blackpool/ https://unherd.com/2024/04/how-vice-consumed-blackpool/" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1782705110973301144) 2024-04-23T09:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "And I might add the 'economic neoliberals' are not just the Tories Reform and Lib Dems but also post-Corbyn Labour under Starmer and Reeves. None of these hopeless neoliberal clients can address this decline. @UKLabour @LibDems @reformparty_uk #MMT @WorkersPartyGB" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1782713679613460569) 2024-04-23T10:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@battleforeurope Hayek decided that markets are unmanageable and self-correcting. He was the leading figure amongst early neoliberals. During their first 'general meeting' they vowed to crush the nexus of the state and its citizens especially the organised working class. https://www.perlego.com/book/3494871/the-walter-lippmann-colloquium-the-birth-of-neoliberalism-pdf https://www.perlego.com/book/3494871/the-walter-lippmann-colloquium-the-birth-of-neoliberalism-pdf" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1782758591910322439) 2024-04-23T13:09Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Proof that nobody is more deeply offended by the juvenile transparent and insidious political weaponization of antisemitism than actual Holocaust survivors. #ItWasAScam https://x.com/TheCanaryUK/status/1782683229109002749 Holocaust survivors expose pro-Israel lobbyist Gideon Falters smearing of pro-Palestine protestors. @wrightismight looks at what on earth has been going on #GideonFalter #MetPolice https://t.co/kNOuSbNoJi https://x.com/TheCanaryUK/status/1782683229109002749 Holocaust survivors expose pro-Israel lobbyist Gideon Falters smearing of pro-Palestine protestors. @wrightismight" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1783053661142212918) 2024-04-24T08:41Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "85% of MPs have no idea how the fiat money system works. Only 5% of Labour MPs have any awareness at all. 19% of Tories have some idea which allows them to lie and manipulate public opinion more effectively. #MMT @WorkersPartyGB @SimonPartridge @winlow_s https://positivemoney.org/2017/10/mp-poll/ https://positivemoney.org/2017/10/mp-poll/" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1783074995494649887) 2024-04-24T10:06Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "The class struggle is real but the fundamental struggle is between creditor and debtor. For millennia creditors have manipulated law to work for them. Ecuador & Honduras have defied the ICSID. If all nations joined them there would be a true revolution. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/04/another-country-just-dealt-another-big-blow-to-the-global-isds-system.html https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/04/another-country-just-dealt-another-big-blow-to-the-global-isds-system.html" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1783449361487102450) 2024-04-25T10:53Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "As corrupt neoliberal culture slides into permanent decline choosing friends and colleagues becomes more difficult. Remember - only decent thoughtful people are capable of long periods of contentment in material life and discontentment in political life. #Socialism2024" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1783807516587049023) 2024-04-26T10:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@SimonPartridge @RichardJMurphy It would be a start. The problem is they would have reduced powers to deal with attacks from the currency traders and bond vigilantes. Neoliberalism hasn't given us an easy gig" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1783814674116436246) 2024-04-26T11:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@SimonPartridge @fencepostgod @RichardJMurphy @dai_alectic Neoliberal infiltration of all institutions Simon. Dissenters are fearful of losing their reputations and jobs. Uni econ depts were their great prize - total domination. I agree with @ProfSteveKeen that they should be closed down. https://twitter.com/dad_climate/status/1772302441016389791 According to Steve Keen - Economics departments in universities should be shut down - assuming Exeter has one of these @JamesGDyke https://twitter.com/dad_climate/status/1772302441016389791 According to Steve Keen - Economics departments in" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1783851227362562349) 2024-04-26T13:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "There are no 'economic laws'. Every honest thinker knows this. There are only decisions made by humans. Even supply and demand - if a price drops it's a decision to constrict supply not a natural law. What informs decisions Creditors' greed. That's all. https://rwer.wordpress.com/2024/04/26/the-non-existence-of-economic-laws-2/ https://rwer.wordpress.com/2024/04/26/the-non-existence-of-economic-laws-2/" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1783920185151283681) 2024-04-26T18:04Z [---] followers, 10.1K engagements "@EstablishmentR3 No. Most liberals lean left on specific issues usually cultural and confused combinations of right and left on others usually geopolitical and economic. The Dems are a neoliberal party as are all other mainstream parties. The traditional left is dead and in need of rebirth" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1784209539010580971) 2024-04-27T13:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@EstablishmentR3 Propagandist You predicted it The disaster of neoliberalism was predicted by a number of thinkers as its ideology revealed itself in the 1930s. Biden is an irrelevant minion. You're not up to this. Please go away" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1784219796201963975) 2024-04-27T13:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "On economic laws and decisions. The 'law' of inflation is allegedly the rate of rising prices caused by too much money in circulation. Decide to remove housing costs from the CPI to suit financiers and the rate is entirely different. Current #economics is bullshit all of it" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1784489123723591804) 2024-04-28T07:45Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "This Jewish student claims to have been 'stabbed in the eye' by a pro-Palestine demonstrator a couple of days ago. A remarkable recovery. Actually last week I was decapitated by Margaret Hodge but I'm alright now. Thank God for the #NHS. #Zionists https://twitter.com/0rf/status/1784221477144863004t=BQt10gkWvD7UoGSpWV3ARA&s=19 WOW: The Jewish student who claims she was "stabbed in the eye" previously testified to Congress to shame Yale for not giving her a security escort.🤔 "That's just the beginning" 🧵 1/5 https://t.co/tzzujNhazg" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1784499725896413325) 2024-04-28T08:27Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@dai_alectic I didn't get where I am today by not knowing who CJ is https://www.youtube.com/watchv=drlPbIWAz-E https://www.youtube.com/watchv=drlPbIWAz-E" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1784676029874761890) 2024-04-28T20:08Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Universalism means sharing an ethics and ontology which would have to be the outcome of some sort of consensus. For neoliberals it means adopt our ethics and ontology otherwise we'll invade your country and murder you. #universalism #neoliberalism" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1784715749660999707) 2024-04-28T22:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "On economic laws and decisions. An empirical experiment. For one year let's employ everyone and invest in production/services. Let's increase effective demand but DECIDE to keep prices stable and accept moderate profits and returns. What would happen to the LAW of inflation" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1784857298407485734) 2024-04-29T08:08Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Of course the investors and asset managers would hate us for disproving their LAW and tell the currency traders and bond traders to attack our currency bid up our interest rates and ruin our economy. But that would be their DECISION wouldn't it" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1784858377903915354) 2024-04-29T08:12Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@peter_storey62 @sharpeleven @guardian @johnharris1969 True and since the corporate takeover in [----] some of their actual political journalists have been even worse. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/24/the-awful-truth-is-dawning-putin-may-win-in-ukraine-the-result-would-be-catastrophe https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/24/the-awful-truth-is-dawning-putin-may-win-in-ukraine-the-result-would-be-catastrophe" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1784893801363882150) 2024-04-29T10:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@bea_johanssen @dcjohnson Every hyperinflation in history has been caused by foreign debt service collapsing the exchange rate. The problem almost always has resulted from wartime foreign currency strains not domestic spending. https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-venezuela-myth-keeping-us-from-revolutionizing-our-economy/ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-venezuela-myth-keeping-us-from-revolutionizing-our-economy/" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1784986975512010781) 2024-04-29T16:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "In other words each time a country goes democratic socialist America and the money traders will attack its currency. Every hyperinflation in history has been caused by foreign debt service collapsing the exchange rate. not domestic spending. #MMT https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-venezuela-myth-keeping-us-from-revolutionizing-our-economy/ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-venezuela-myth-keeping-us-from-revolutionizing-our-economy/" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1784988099593797812) 2024-04-29T16:48Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "I'm not an 'MMTer' but interested in various heterodox economic positions. However #MMT should be our first port of call because it provides us with knowledge of the monetary/fiscal financial operations we need to reboot economies and control inflation. https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/04/29/it-really-is-time-that-politicians-took-note-of-modern-monetary-theory/ https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/04/29/it-really-is-time-that-politicians-took-note-of-modern-monetary-theory/" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1785634238387114300) 2024-05-01T11:35Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@indosinchak @meadwaj I must admit that FX market attacks rather than bond vigilantes aren't addressed adequately in the heterodox stable. Bonds are temporal asset swaps but I can't see FX being tamed without capital exchange controls. They were a central plank of Keynesianism. Anyone brave enough" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1785665204568604920) 2024-05-01T13:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "No @georgegalloway didn't say that at all. He said he doesn't want teachers pushing ideas about sexuality that some parents don't believe are normal and that he doesn't want kids sexualized at school. @AyoCaesar is another professional mass media liar. https://x.com/AyoCaesar/status/1785747034093289953 NEW: in an interview with @novaramedia George Galloway repeatedly says that gay relationships aren't "normal" and children shouldn't be taught to think that they are. Full interview out on Sunday at 3pm. https://t.co/2LglbkAMnY https://x.com/AyoCaesar/status/1785747034093289953 NEW: in an" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1785754024110625142) 2024-05-01T19:31Z 10.4K followers, 30.8K engagements "@JonesCathr253 @georgegalloway @AyoCaesar The prejudice is also in schools. Diverse prejudices amongst teachers about sexuality religion politics and myriad cultural issues. Leave it out let the kids come to it themselves" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1785810937082995196) 2024-05-01T23:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The left need to write this simple Keynesian truth of EFFECTIVE DEMAND on the back of their hands. Everyday people regularly spend money which stabilises and grows the economy. The rich hoard most of theirs and transfer it abroad. @WorkersPartyGB https://twitter.com/ProfSteveKeen/status/1785686032769245290t=5HBrybMMvpOkiHx2fplE2Q&s=19 Japan's Slowing GDP Due to Wealth Concentration https://t.co/5I1xPEFd25 https://twitter.com/ProfSteveKeen/status/1785686032769245290t=5HBrybMMvpOkiHx2fplE2Q&s=19 Japan's Slowing GDP Due to Wealth Concentration https://t.co/5I1xPEFd25" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1785944733698646344) 2024-05-02T08:09Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@meadwaj @RedCaz4Corbyn You're right that he wants rid of the dreadful patronizing liberal-pomo PMC. Inviting them to smear him precisely when the majority are seeking a more explicit populist route smearing has been exposed as a scam and the PMC is a palpable political failure will win many hearts" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1786129208877453624) 2024-05-02T20:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@meadwaj @dr_places I know but for everyday folk 'normal' just means 'ordinary' or 'everyday'. It doesn't carry the connotation of 'normative' a norm imposed by an oppressive authority. This is why the progressive liberal PMC can't get across to folk. https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-death-of-the-left https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-death-of-the-left" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1786135273455153570) 2024-05-02T20:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@dr_places @meadwaj I agree that the way some of the professional middle class celebrate and promote different sexualities can push at the boundaries of sexualization. The best way out of this is to leave the whole issue to parents. It's none of the PMC's business. We need to focus on the economy" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1786139112593822190) 2024-05-02T21:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@meadwaj @dr_places A phobia is an irrational uncontrollable fear of something. I'm sure Christian symbolism was once powerful enough to induce something like that in some its followers but I'm not sure about now. I think the liberal-progressive fear of populism is closer to phobia" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1786140007951896604) 2024-05-02T21:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@meadwaj @dr_places James I don't know whether you see yourself as part of the progressive liberal PMC. If you do you've lost and it's your own fault. People are totally sick of weaponized identity politics. Even the creepy idiots at Spiked understand that" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1786144735360389461) 2024-05-02T21:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@harris4491 @JonesCathr253 Yes. Since [----] when they were spooked by Labour's huge electoral victory and intensified after [----] when the French riots terrified them. https://twitter.com/ProfHall1955/status/1786306929897136323t=rFUpW5K7zB_3Ckoo1b4aqA&s=19 The pomo left placed the working class under the shaming regime of minority activists. Neoliberals placed them under the brutal logic of the market. The result was alienation anxiety and a resurgence of unpredictable populism. Can the left be resurrected https://t.co/v6oYl0Sjky" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1786341924606996915) 2024-05-03T10:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@SimonPartridge @redrumlisa @dai_alectic Simon we've been trying to get our hands on the levers of power since the early C20. The middle class won't let us anywhere near them because the moment they do we cease to be their followers and servants which at the end of the day is what they really want" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1786468683772031446) 2024-05-03T18:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@SimonPartridge @redrumlisa @dai_alectic I'm talking about the middle class individuals who operate the smaller levers of power in all institutions. They systematically block the sort of thought and action that can challenge concentrated financial and corporate power. It would be more than their jobs are worth not to" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1786675949552968080) 2024-05-04T08:35Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@SimonPartridge @redrumlisa @dai_alectic . and most of the people Dan is talking about are lower middle-class and working-class made good. On the whole - there are of course exceptions - the legacy middle class (the 'PMC') is a genuine political obstacle" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1786676431411396915) 2024-05-04T08:37Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@SimonPartridge @redrumlisa @dai_alectic That's a fundamental problem. They're scared of the workers which is a product of decades of indoctrination about 'populism'. The working class broadly conceived is the vast majority. They're already hiding behind their wagons and have been there for a very long time" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1786684547167297809) 2024-05-04T09:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@SimonPartridge @redrumlisa @dai_alectic @joycemcm @suzannezeedyk Couldn't agree more. But first the middle class PMC must accept that the majority of the shared leadership must be selected from the majority a la [----] - i.e. working class (broadly conceived) rather than parachuting 24-yr old 2:1 gender studies graduates into parliament" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1786686028868108517) 2024-05-04T09:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@SimonPartridge @redrumlisa @dai_alectic @northernmnkey 1/2 Basically economic. More democratic state control of the 'commanding heights' of the economy worker representation on all big business job guarantee start-ups for small/medium businesses and co-ops without making the mistake of an unworkable central command economy" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1786721496150188285) 2024-05-04T11:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@SimonPartridge @redrumlisa @dai_alectic @northernmnkey 2/2 Most important nationalization of central bank and heterodox-informed policies to fend off globalist currency speculators & bond vigilantes & end dollar domination. It would mean BRICS trade deals. This is the hard bit. The US bombs weaker nations that threaten to do this" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1786722485246849205) 2024-05-04T11:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "FAKE LEFT MEDIA INSTRUCTION MANUAL by @AyoCaesar (age 14) How to Smear (1/2) [--]. Target genuine socialist (eg @georgegalloway) [--]. Feign interest and invite for interview [--]. Trawl through recording [--]. Pick out polysemic word on sensitive topic (eg 'normal' and 'homosexuality')" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1786736171533402422) 2024-05-04T12:34Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "How to Smear (2/2) [--]. Saturate social media with clip of polysemic word [--]. Emphasize worst meaning (eg normal as 'healthy' not 'typical') [--]. Emphasize opposite to spook vulnerable group (eg 'unhealthy' not 'minority') [--] Encourage uber-woke idiots to join in. [--]. Smear complete" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1786737594585293309) 2024-05-04T12:40Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@simonmaginn @Nammy65147113 @novaramedia @AyoCaesar He didn't call you not normal' in that way. Your fear won't allow you to accept that. Why didn't they talk about his economic policies and push out those soundbites Go away and join the lib dems will you" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1786741495363489862) 2024-05-04T12:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "For anyone with a basic understanding of how modern fiat money economies work there's not one single reason why the NHS cannot be properly funded to meet rising demand without causing inflation or hiking up taxes. There's no shortage of money. #MMT #NHS https://x.com/danielgoyal/status/1786741349158473828 The exodus of doctors and nurses is going to get substantially worse - No respect - Terrible working conditions - Wages are rubbish - and we have to witness patients dying due to lack of resources Im sorry but we all have our limits https://x.com/danielgoyal/status/1786741349158473828 The" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1786744845005947065) 2024-05-04T13:09Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@simonmaginn @Nammy65147113 @novaramedia @AyoCaesar Effectively yes. You only show dogs affection Enough. Mute" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1786747147540439045) 2024-05-04T13:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@steb84a @georgegalloway Of course he is the whole world is homophobic and antisemitic. You're not paranoid we're all out to get you" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1786836442091581859) 2024-05-04T19:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Meltdown. Dershowitz is losing it. Threatening student protesters with 'offensive lawfare' and 'bankruptcy'. One by one the traditional Zionist weapons are seizing up and misfiring. https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1786811534926074285 Pro-Israeli Zionist Alan Dershowitz vows he will engage in "massive offensive lawfare" against allegedly '"anti-Semitic" Pro Palestine student protesters. He threatens to have their dorm rooms taken away take their cars and boomboxes and "bankrupt" them. He says this is https://t.co/Hil8MDp2ZS https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1786811534926074285 Pro-Israeli Zionist Alan" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1786862188407189766) 2024-05-04T20:55Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Pro-Palestine supporters arrested under the Terrorism Act for having a banner with a dove on it. Now released but once again the pro-Zionist bias embedded in UK institutions shown in stark relief. https://twitter.com/CamdenPalestine/status/1786893177930092767t=I6riJyNvM_OEBkUA_XWyBA&s=19 Our people have been arrested under the Terrorism Act for artwork depicting a universally recognised symbol of peace at UCL's protest camp. This is an outrageous escalation of politically motivated state repression against peace activists. We demand their immediate release https://t.co/HlwLB1X8iF" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1787022439760761002) 2024-05-05T07:32Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@Marek_2011 I know I was referring to the principle of individual freedom in general. It's a good thing mostly but nothing justifies mass murder" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1787086068103197084) 2024-05-05T11:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@RSlack60 @ZounaidOsman @DerbyChrisW @giles_fraser They've just closed down Al Jazeera and they've murdered independent journalists in Gaza. You're believing propaganda Richard - fatal" [X Link](https://x.com/ProfHall1955/status/1787469999688273959) 2024-05-06T13:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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Social Influence
Social category influence finance countries travel destinations automotive brands celebrities stocks technology brands currencies social networks financial services
Social topic influence money, inflation, investment, debt, china, israel, in the, currency, finance, argentina
Top assets mentioned BlackRock Inc (BLK)
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Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"@malcolm_reavell @premnsikka Technically you're right. But tax does help to control inflation maximise fiscal space redistribute income and adjust consumer behaviour. It's also a highly emotive concept - once the motivation for a revolution. We have to ease our way out of this gently and cleverly"
X Link 2024-01-06T09:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"For decades the US/UK Israel lobby boxed clever subtly cancelling its critics behind the scenes and dismissing any sightings as the work of 'conspiracy theorists'. Now it's out in the open swinging wildly and displaying its entrenched power before all. Tonight marks the end of @MehdiHasanShow and @MehdiRHasan's time with MSNBC. Thank you for watching us week after week over the past three years. https://t.co/LPybcWmFTf Tonight marks the end of @MehdiHasanShow and @MehdiRHasan's time with MSNBC. Thank you for watching us week after week over the past three years. https://t.co/LPybcWmFTf"
X Link 2024-01-08T20:14Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Shash is the defence editor of The Economist. Before you believe his claim that bombing the Houthis won't cause escalation check out a book called Liberalism at Large. Since [----] every prediction The Economist has made has been completely wrong. #houthis"
X Link 2024-01-11T22:46Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Israel apologist quotes Irgun terrorist as she refuses to acknowledge the authority of the International Court of Justice. Irgun took part in the Deir Yassin massacre. The entitled narcissist who can do no wrong is above the law. Today in the Hague the Jews are on trial again. Instead of turning our backs on our accusers because we have nothing to apologize for and no one to apologize to we swear again that we are here for no reason Once again we have taken on the role of prisoners on trial: we Today in the Hague the Jews are on trial again. Instead of turning our backs on our accusers"
X Link 2024-01-11T23:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Just watched most of the ICJ proceedings. The Israeli case is pathetic. Empty rhetoric about 'shock' 'feelings' and 'belittling us'. Far worse than mass-murdering thousands of children and families eh Travesty if this goes against SA. #ICJ #genocide"
X Link 2024-01-12T18:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Latest from Paul 'Spook' Mason. US/UK bombing Yemen because they're true socialists protecting working-class sailors. In his tiny brain it's not an Empire it's a trade union Rubbish Jeremy. The strikes were a last resort after terrorists repeatedly attacked working class seafarers. Do the right thing and support those risking their lives to keep civilian ships safe from terrorism 👇🏽 Rubbish Jeremy. The strikes were a last resort after terrorists repeatedly attacked working class seafarers. Do the right thing and support those risking their lives to keep civilian ships safe from terrorism"
X Link 2024-01-12T18:26Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@cymrurouge To suffer more misery when the BoE raises interest rates the only tool it uses to combat essentially cost-push inflation. Yet Japan implemented a ZIRP in [----]. Despite disinformation from neoliberals it maintained high employment and low rents/mortgages while GDP grew in 2023"
X Link 2024-01-13T11:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Me on UK economics identity politics geopolitics and what have you interviewed by @DerbyChrisW on why I joined The Workers Party of Britain @WorkersPartyGB led by @georgegalloway @dai_alectic @battleforeurope and @toby00green also get a mention"
X Link 2024-01-13T18:29Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@DrWhoBritish @winlow_s @DerbyChrisW @WorkersPartyGB @georgegalloway @dai_alectic @battleforeurope @toby00green Read their ten-point programme and tell me what you don't agree with Power-brokers of the future"
X Link 2024-01-13T18:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The upside is that excessive lying has virtually killed cancel culture on social media. The downside is that everyone mistrusts what everyone else says. Truth is a needle in a haystack"
X Link 2024-01-15T09:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@fredzannarbor @ghostofchristo1 Social media can be used to advance discussions but it can also be used to convey basic points and attract initial interest to debates"
X Link 2024-01-15T12:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@wales_steve @ProfSteveKeen Absolutely. Shorter supply chains make sense on every level. The global free movement of capital goods and labour has been a disaster for the environment the working classes and democracy"
X Link 2024-01-20T10:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The world needs to surgically remove American neoliberal economics from its politics. Would the leaders of a nation founded on hatred of the state and its fiscal/taxation powers do anything else but blame the state and its fiscal/taxation powers for inflation and recession"
X Link 2024-01-20T10:51Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"People like Frank help to make the left unelectable in nations with majority white and mixed populations. This caricature reeks of contempt and renders the real issues of imminent mass unemployment and loss of manufacturing capacity relatively unimportant. "I was a skilled steel worker. Now I'm delivering parcels for minimum wage self employed no rights. It stinks. Think we'll lose the house. Vote Brexit they said save Steel. Vote Boris they said save Steel. I'll still vote tory again - I don't trust Labour" https://t.co/3bj1Ba20pJ "I was a skilled steel worker. Now I'm delivering parcels for"
X Link 2024-01-22T11:53Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@ER_Roberts_ We've seen variations of this since the 1960s. Youth sub-cultures were often led by middle-class political entrepreneurs like Malcom McLaren Joe Strummer and Tony Wilson who got rich on the back of the working-class's loss of cultural authenticity and political representation"
X Link 2024-01-22T19:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Was pleased to endorse this. Very much worth a read if you're interested in the luxury consumer culture and corruption nexus. Blows away the 'luxury as w/class resistance' flapdoodle. @ghostofchristo1 @winlow_s @johnpmerrick"
X Link 2024-01-23T13:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@cymrurouge @KnotweedRail Indeed. She's talking nonsense. Austerity is the result of the political decision to control the money supply reduce aggregate demand reduce deficits and debt and control inflation. Taxing the wealthy does a better job but they prefer to punish workers and small businesses"
X Link 2024-01-23T19:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@dai_alectic Biggest shareholder is Czech billionaire Daniel Ketnsk who controls the group Vesa Equity Investment. Ketnsk also has stakes in Sainsbury's and West Ham United. We've sold off our country to foreign investors"
X Link 2024-01-24T20:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@dai_alectic That's not a conspiracy it's a standard short-selling routine. If he's not doing it he's the only one who isn't. He doesn't have to provoke them just get wind of trouble sell off some shares to send out negative market signals and Bob's your uncle"
X Link 2024-01-24T22:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@dai_alectic Here's another one who got caught. Insider trading info can make the short selling really lucrative. The rot is oozing out of the woodwork now"
X Link 2024-01-24T22:30Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Despite some disappointment this is a win for South Africa their case against Israel in the ICJ. Details and sensible comments from @battleforeurope"
X Link 2024-01-26T18:33Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"#MMT economists who argue for low taxes are wrong. The best way would be to tax the unearned income of the unproductive finance insurance and real estate sector to create fiscal space for inflation-proof public investment in energy utilities services and reindustrialisation"
X Link 2024-01-27T11:11Z [---] followers, 12.1K engagements
"@tonywestonuk 1/2 Normally in a healthy economy yes but the UK doesn't have one. Private investors won't fund clean energy infrastructure public services manufacturing reshoring NHS etc. to the extent we need. The extended transitional fiscal space required now will need more taxation"
X Link 2024-01-29T15:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@tonywestonuk 2/2 1/3 of the country is derelict and suffering from underemployment and a host of other issues. If we try to apply #MMT principles in partnership with a reluctant globalist private sector we'll end up like Bulgaria but with half the adult population on a m/wage jg programme"
X Link 2024-01-29T15:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Why Labour will fail. I'm not an '#MMT activist' but every sentence in this piece by a Labour MP is wrong. He doesn't even know that the 'Nobel Prize in Economics' doesn't exist or that QE and fiscal spending are different operations. Complete ignorance"
X Link 2024-01-31T10:48Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Makes you wonder when even the Financial Times admits that only governments and not private investors can fund a better future. $3 trillion needed for basic infrastructure renewal. Yet Labour and Tories bang on about 'fiscal responsibility' and big up the City financiers"
X Link 2024-01-31T23:16Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Three years ago The Economist wrote about the incursion of the big global investment companies into the UK rental market. Funneling money into their pockets as usual much of which will be siphoned out of the country. Barely a squeak from the Labour Party"
X Link 2024-02-01T11:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@northernmnkey @catherinerowett @SimonPartridge @joycemcm @dai_alectic Yes but also more recently horribly right. I'm not sure we understand what 'debt' is"
X Link 2024-02-01T14:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@northernmnkey @catherinerowett @SimonPartridge @joycemcm @dai_alectic Labour won't. I'm being hypothetical. But coz the bankers are crocodiles it's the only way. As the BRICS grow in power and we start to look like Bulgaria they'll set an example. We can never predict political convulsions. It was the best of times it was the worst of times"
X Link 2024-02-01T16:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@northernmnkey @catherinerowett @SimonPartridge @joycemcm @dai_alectic Usually. Would the holders of fixed-rate securities want to devalue their stash Would it be in the interests of the countries from which we import huge amounts Is it worth the risk Or do we just want to keep on slowly sinking"
X Link 2024-02-01T17:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@missgripper_ photoshop"
X Link 2024-02-01T18:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@northernmnkey @SimonPartridge @RichardJMurphy @dai_alectic @catherinerowett The British hard left have always hated Labour. What's remarkable now is the Keynesian centre-left - an alliance of democratic socialists and social democrats - that was once the heart of Labour now hate the PLP. Progressive neoliberalism killed socialism and conservatism"
X Link 2024-02-02T14:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@SimonPartridge @northernmnkey @RichardJMurphy @dai_alectic @catherinerowett Yes but to be international you need sovereign nations. Inter-nation-al. Globalism after the abandonment of capital controls disempowered nations and democratic politics altogether. But not authoritarian politics. BRICS rising. Tectonic geopolitical shift already under way"
X Link 2024-02-02T15:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@SimonPartridge @northernmnkey @RichardJMurphy @dai_alectic @catherinerowett The other members - [--] new ones this month and about [--] applications in process - certainly look to China because of its high growth since the [----] reforms. The next hurdle is de-dollarization and a mutual reserve currency"
X Link 2024-02-02T23:34Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"FT coming clean. We're on the road to a multipolar world. Defying sanctions and overcoming inflation Russia grows with central bank spending. Western finance capitalism is a fear-cult removed from reality. Wake up Dorothy you're back in Kansas"
X Link 2024-02-03T09:19Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@SimonPartridge @northernmnkey @RichardJMurphy @dai_alectic @catherinerowett Yeah it's good I like the localist vision. But the state and the central bank are still the issuer of sovereign currency. Even if private local banks were retained to issue loans currency issue interest rates tax and reserve accounts would still need to be centrally managed"
X Link 2024-02-03T19:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@northernmnkey @catherinerowett @SimonPartridge @RichardJMurphy @dai_alectic That's what I said. More from the middle classes. Taxes don't 'raise' anything - they take money out of circulation and create fiscal space for investment that can renew infrastructure and increase productivity"
X Link 2024-02-04T10:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@northernmnkey @catherinerowett @SimonPartridge @RichardJMurphy @dai_alectic It depends on sustainable growth and productivity. Increase productivity manage demand reduce prices short of deflation and adjust taxes according to the inflationary limit. If we invest wisely and restore economic health taxes can come down"
X Link 2024-02-04T10:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@shaahin_a Don't bother with his book. Pop-science. He stumbled on a way to (sometimes) predict large-scale improbable events in options trading and tried to turn it into a philosophy. He's a fraud but neoliberal media love people who tell us that global markets can host the American Dream"
X Link 2024-02-04T12:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Overrated banker boy owned by @ProfSteveKeen. Taleb stumbled on a way to (with luck) predict improbable events in options trading then tried to turn it into a philosophy. The neoliberal media love people who claim global markets host the American Dream. @nntaleb Do the accounting Taleb. The deficit creates the funds used to buy government bonds. There's no borrowing involved so long as you're financing bonds in your own currency. https://t.co/sLBHTuOGLe @nntaleb Do the accounting Taleb. The deficit creates the funds used to buy government bonds. There's no borrowing involved so long as you're"
X Link 2024-02-04T12:20Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@CheekyMark1917 Tried and tested more than 'brilliant'. Post-war mid-wit liberal philosophy has been little more than an attack on the straw monster of 'authoritarianism'. Because they don't know what they're wishing for they'll get something like what they don't wish for"
X Link 2024-02-04T13:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@CheekyMark1917 Currently researching how the Axial Age arose from the chaos of the Bronze Age collapse. Including Confucianism. Prophets rejected caprice of the Gods and looked to the everyday moral practice of those managing to live together without too much hostility. Time for a rerun"
X Link 2024-02-04T14:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@northernmnkey @OfSymbols @SimonPartridge @BanGaoRen @dai_alectic Since the social media explosion Corbyn Covid Ukraine Gaza and the David Miller legal victory the 'conspiracy theory' - a term invented by the CIA in [----] after the Kennedy murder to discredit inquiries into coordinated ideological activity - accusation is now wearing thin"
X Link 2024-02-08T13:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@conrad_father It's meaningless gobbledygook. 'Fiscal risks' If he's talking about inflation and money-market vigilantes he should say so and state his case clearly. He doesn't know what he's talking about"
X Link 2024-02-08T17:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Property tycoon & former Tory donor thinks Starmer is the boy Neoliberal press back on board. Mandelson back on board. Green investment cancelled. Inflation scare stories flying around. Loyalty to Israel restated. Getting the picture yet @UKLabour Exclusive Property tycoon Tory donor Nick Candy says its time for a change of government to Labour praises Keir Starmers engagement with business blasts years of Tory infighting Speaking to @BloombergUK @flacqua In the City podcast https://t.co/WqRVkLw5Ki Exclusive Property tycoon Tory donor Nick Candy says its time for a change of government to"
X Link 2024-02-08T18:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@SimonPartridge @northernmnkey @BanGaoRen @OfSymbols @dai_alectic Historically it takes a deep dive into poverty and social disorder. It's nonsense that 'inflation' caused the rise of Nazism - it was conquered by [----]. The causal context was [--] yrs of economic collapse after the '29 crash & a weak divided left. Let's hope it doesn't take that"
X Link 2024-02-08T18:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Merlin67684223 Yes. I think the fundamental cause is that as recent events - crash austerity Corbyn smear Covid Ukraine energy crisis Gaza BRICS rising - have revealed neoliberalism's tissue of lies the system's ideologues have become more desperate and outlandish every day"
X Link 2024-02-08T20:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@ghostofchristo1 @conte_hal Yes it's in very bad hands in some places. But the PMC thrive on the democratic deficit. That's enough evil populism from me for one day"
X Link 2024-02-11T11:28Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@SimonPartridge @slyowusu @RnaudBertrand @dai_alectic @northernmnkey Foreign direct invstment. Policy banks are like the regional banks the Corbynites were promising. China is a big place - different regions at different stages of development with different needs. Many transportation problems - huge rift valleys and sinkholes after deforestation"
X Link 2024-02-11T14:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The 21st century's first true monster ready to strike again. Already nearly [------] killed and injured but as the world says NO Netanyahu still plans to level Rafah with half of Gaza's remaining population crammed into it. #GazaGenocide @DerbyChrisW"
X Link 2024-02-11T17:14Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@malcolm_reavell That's just the central bank overruling the state - since it was made 'independent' it plays for the markets. One of the first things the Blairites did in 1998"
X Link 2024-02-12T14:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"35% of the Tory cabinet and 40% of Labour's shadow cabinet are funded by pro-Israel lobbyists. Call this what it is - hugely disproportionate influence by a foreign state - and they smear you as an 'anti-Semite'. #BoycottLabour #ItWasAScam @DerbyChrisW https://www.youtube.com/watchv=cmRvjqjii5M https://www.youtube.com/watchv=cmRvjqjii5M"
X Link 2024-02-13T10:50Z 10.4K followers, 25.4K engagements
"@arisroussinos In [----] the UK had a [---] million trade surplus despite under-investment since [----] when its post-war industrial growth curve flattened. Despite the Austin Allegro - it wasn't that bad all 70s cars were crap - deindustrialisation is the greatest threat to our national security"
X Link 2024-02-13T10:59Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@BanGaoRen @flying_rodent I'm interested in why the Turkeys Voting for Christmas meme mutated into the Leopard's Party meme. Boredom Novelty I dunno"
X Link 2024-02-14T11:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"If we allow Guido to stand in judgement as the arbiter of sophistication - or anything else for that matter - it really is the end of civilization as we know it. #BoycottLabour"
X Link 2024-02-14T11:24Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@dai_alectic UCU. The Swappy/pomo cultural studies alliance versus Blairite electronic engineers. Two stopped clocks there I tell you"
X Link 2024-02-14T22:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"'Incidents' that include waving a Palestinian flag and 'causing discomfort'. Comparing this to the mass slaughter in Gaza is both ludicrous and reprehensible. The Israel lobby is dismantling itself in full public view. #GazaGenocide @WorkersPartyGB Hamas' [--] October attack was a global call to attack Jews. Here's what it produced in the UK - a 589% surge in anti-Semitic incidents according to @CST_UK mainly abusive behaviour. Anyone celebrating it as an "act of resistance" that needs to be "globalised" - wake up 👇🏽 https://t.co/Z1pUc10XEt Hamas' [--] October attack was a global call to attack"
X Link 2024-02-15T08:56Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Mattburns82 @turnbullissimo @ProfSteveKeen @andyverity @RichardJMurphy @UKLabour Won't come on the scale we need. They're interested mainly in big stuff in low-wage developing economies. Even Germany will struggle now despite being the investors' European 'shock absorber' since [----]. But just watch them in Ukraine after the war. Fink is rubbing his hands"
X Link 2024-02-20T11:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@SimonPartridge @leftnotlabour @faniaoz The majority of Palestinians have 'aboriginal' indigenous land rights according to the UN definition. The current refugees are from families who were violently thrown off their land by Zionists. Are you suggesting they should be slaughtered and bombed out of Gaza"
X Link 2024-02-21T12:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"This is why NATO should be disbanded. The US and Israel are the real threats to peace in this world. If they want to take on Russia China & Iran let them get on with it. They would happily see Europe in ruins fighting their proxy wars. @WorkersPartyGB NATO gives Ukraine a 'green light' to cross Russia's red line NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Ukraine has the right to use Western weapons to defend itself against Russia even if that includes attacking targets within Russia's borders. https://t.co/fllbhKyvlN NATO gives Ukraine a 'green light' to cross Russia's red line NATO"
X Link 2024-02-24T08:52Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@cymrurouge Mick has no understanding of geopolitics or economics. When Reeves returned from Wall St. to start blathering about 'fiscal responsibility' it was obvious that Labour will keep the UK in neoliberalism's pocket. Labour are done whether they win or lose"
X Link 2024-02-24T19:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Do not mess with Israel If you do we'll massacre all the civilians who live near you blow up their houses schools and hospitals inflict starvation and disease on them and post ghoulish videos on Twitter about it. #GazaMassacare #Gaza_Genocide Do not mess with Israel https://t.co/KvLWLLa9rM Do not mess with Israel https://t.co/KvLWLLa9rM"
X Link 2024-02-24T23:04Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@ProfSteveKeen @MacroAlf This is good but in many cases of inflationary spikes don't supply shortages and price rises precede the issue of real-economy money in the causal chain"
X Link 2024-02-25T09:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Tired of centrist drivel on this site. Compared to 1945-1979 Corbyn's deficit spending/investment plans were quite cautious. They weren't 'radical' enough to deter voters. He lost because of Blairite skullduggery media attacks cultural posturing and his own weakness. #Corbyn"
X Link 2024-02-25T10:18Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Reeves wants the police to deal with anyone who criticizes Israel. In other words to behave like the Gestapo or the Thinkpol. Democracy I don't think so. @WorkersPartyGB @DerbyChrisW #GazaGenocide Bad news for anyone who has anti Israel thoughts. This ghoul is coming for you. See her dogwhistle racism speech below. Bad news for anyone who has anti Israel thoughts. This ghoul is coming for you. See her dogwhistle racism speech below"
X Link 2024-02-25T21:26Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@battleforeurope Milei's 'budget balancing' has already caused a 3% contraction and increased poverty from [--] to 60%. Inflation is expected to skyrocket to 250% and the IMF has already told him he needs another $5 billion loan to stop the country going under. More dollar-denominated debt to pay"
X Link 2024-02-27T22:57Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Economically illiterate journalists are a menace. The myth that taxes pay for public spending is bad enough but claiming we pay off the national debt with them is stupid. Bonds/debt are complex but nonsense like this doesn't help our understanding. #MMT Just received my annual tax summary showing where and how the government spends its income. I think we can agree that debt interest is a problem now. https://t.co/vBEmtemCvg Just received my annual tax summary showing where and how the government spends its income. I think we can agree that debt interest is a problem now."
X Link 2024-02-28T10:57Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@Acruelpastime @simonmaginn It helps central banks set interest rates. But central banks should operate with a zero interest rate policy which would make the whole practice unnecessary"
X Link 2024-02-28T21:19Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@stuartshakesby @HenricCont Henric is an ideologue like all libertarians driven by a visceral hated of the state. Just mute him he's not worth the effort. Yes as long as banks do their job a balance is best. This is useful"
X Link 2024-02-28T22:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@jamesdean0770 They do lower aggregate demand but they struggle to do it with that sort of precision. The main functions are taking currency out of circulation to combat inflation (far gentler than raising interest rates) and maintain fiscal headroom redistribution and altering behaviour"
X Link 2024-02-28T23:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@PerKurowski Yes some nations are debt zombies for specific reasons usually based on the need to pay down debts in foreign currencies. Even paying them off quickly would risk deflation. Global neoliberalism is an extractive trap. Read @ProfSteveKeen on this"
X Link 2024-02-29T10:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Great win for @georgegalloway. The neoliberal duopoly is broken. Well done to everyone in @WorkersPartyGB For our post-election entertainment we can sit back and watch the Guardianistas and the Thatcherites joining hands in a communal meltdown"
X Link 2024-03-01T08:02Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Factual statistics are antisemitic. Another fact is that we have to go back a long way to find a politician as knowledgeable honest morally upright and pro-working class as @DerbyChrisW. @WorkersPartyGB GB News : What a horrible comparison by Chris Williamson. Jacob Rees Mogg is absolutely right with his response. @DerbyChrisW @tomhfh @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @GBNEWS #rochdale https://t.co/G4ZtjaZs3g GB News : What a horrible comparison by Chris Williamson. Jacob Rees Mogg is absolutely right with his response. @DerbyChrisW @tomhfh @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @GBNEWS #rochdale https://t.co/G4ZtjaZs3g"
X Link 2024-03-01T09:13Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Look closely right now. After #Rochdale what can you see The fake conservatives liberals leftists postmodernists liberal feminists libertarian Marxists etc. all joining hands in a mass meltdown. Why Because they're all neoliberals in disguise that's why. @WorkersPartyGB"
X Link 2024-03-01T11:32Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@geeceevee @cymrurouge Put in context briefly here but I would recommend readding through Johnston's book 'Zizek's Ontology'"
X Link 2024-03-01T19:24Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Paul wants the spooks to arrest @georgegalloway victor in a fair election despite incessant media defamation in the name of 'democracy'. Meanwhile unelected @RishiSunak prepares for a crackdown against 'civil unrest'. Just let that sink in. #Rochdale 5/ .if he uses Parliament to push Russian TV-style disinfo - we need a united cross-party militant defence of democracy: the National Security Act [----] does not exempt MPs from its provisions . 5/ .if he uses Parliament to push Russian TV-style disinfo - we need a united cross-party militant defence of democracy: the National Security Act 2023"
X Link 2024-03-02T09:03Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Predictably the neoliberal establishment is spewing out scurrilous lies about @georgegalloway. Populist demagogue far right hard left etc. But back in the day his party's policies wouldn't have troubled any politician from Tony Benn to Harold Macmillan. @WorkersPartyGB"
X Link 2024-03-02T11:18Z 10.4K followers, 29K engagements
"@DrWhoBritish @winlow_s @georgegalloway @WorkersPartyGB Safety The IDF have just shot [---] Palestinians outside an aid truck ffs. My Jewish pals tell me they don't feel unsafe at all. The WP is not about identity it's about the economic rebuilding we suggested in the final chapter. Read the programme"
X Link 2024-03-02T11:41Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Oh wonderful. Back to proper politics as I remember it. Watching @georgegalloway shred this twitching mass media minion without breaking into a sweat is glorious. @WorkersPartyGB @skytv #RochdaleByElection #Rochdale Oh my gosh watch the whole thing. This is how you should talk to mainstream journalists. https://t.co/q2HAGDjDlo Oh my gosh watch the whole thing. This is how you should talk to mainstream journalists. https://t.co/q2HAGDjDlo"
X Link 2024-03-02T13:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Diogenes the Cynic used to wander around in the daylight with a lamp. When asked why he replied "I am looking for an honest man." Well after a long wait we can throw away the lamp. Welcome back George @georgegalloway @WorkersPartyGB"
X Link 2024-03-02T20:10Z 10.4K followers, 14.4K engagements
"@robertwoolley @ProfSteveKeen @georgegalloway @WorkersPartyGB Hi Robert I'm older than you and remember him and other honest people too in a proper Labour Party. Now stop your juvenile smearing and take a hike bonny lad"
X Link 2024-03-02T20:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
""The more illegitimate a power is the more it will perceive even the tiniest challenge to its rule as an existential threat". Good from @battleforeurope on Sunak's hysterical reaction to @georgegalloway's election. #RochdaleByElection @WorkersPartyGB"
X Link 2024-03-02T21:34Z [---] followers, 11.7K engagements
"@half_Job_Rob @WorkersPartyGB @garyseconomics @RichardJMurphy Rob you don't understand macroeconomics. The amount of currency in circulation and its relationship to aggregate demand depends on supply of goods and services. What you're taking about is a 'deficit'. All modern economies run deficits and can do up to the point of inflation"
X Link 2024-03-03T13:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@half_Job_Rob @WorkersPartyGB @garyseconomics @RichardJMurphy And of course if we use a specific amount of currency to invest in the production of goods and services we expand supply to allow higher aggregate demand which in turn requires more currency in circulation. Private investment works in a similar way"
X Link 2024-03-03T13:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Petercookwahook @half_Job_Rob @WorkersPartyGB @garyseconomics @RichardJMurphy I think they've still got it. It's the government's overdraft account at the central bank which never needs to be paid back. They can use it any time interest rates and bond yields get too high. More accounting black arts. 😂"
X Link 2024-03-03T13:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@half_Job_Rob @Petercookwahook @WorkersPartyGB @garyseconomics @RichardJMurphy Not 'hand in hand' - the former is a reaction to the latter. It depends what we do with currency. If we invest in productive activity to increase supply create jobs boost aggregate demand and introduce fairer progressive taxation to combat inflation we can reboot the economy"
X Link 2024-03-03T22:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"They didn't "die in chaos" they were deliberately shot and killed by the IDF. There has never been a 'quality press' in this country. Just a gutter press and a gutter press with a posh accent. @WorkersPartyGB #GazaMassacare @guardian "die in chaos" https://t.co/SxJYU2VRf3 "die in chaos" https://t.co/SxJYU2VRf3"
X Link 2024-03-06T16:58Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@Nickle1011 @seledka_vodka @WorkersPartyGB @guardian Of course what happened is that the IDF were firing over their heads to warn them but Hamas flew in on paragliders with magnetic ray guns bent the bullets down into the crowd to sacrifice a few Palestinians and blame it on innocent Israel. Fiendishly clever"
X Link 2024-03-07T12:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Hi @RachelReevesMP. Just a quick note to say that there is actually a magic money tree. It's called the Consolidated Fund. We put it on steroids after WWII to grow back the economy without causing runaway inflation. You're welcome. @DerbyChrisW"
X Link 2024-03-07T12:19Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@wales_steve @RachelReevesMP @DerbyChrisW Absolutely. As Ha-Joon Chang reminded us even the basic demand-supply reaction is mediated by human decisions. Neoliberalism's project was founded on the principle of replacing elected politicians with corporations bankers and asset managers in the decision-making process"
X Link 2024-03-07T13:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Oh yes nearly forgot. Even the BBC let it slip out a little while ago. A currency-issuing government 'borrowing' from its own central bank is nothing like a household borrowing from the local payday loan shark. #MMT @DerbyChrisW"
X Link 2024-03-07T22:34Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@ProfSteveKeen explains step-by-step how governments create money. Not a 'theory' or 'perspective' but how the system works. Take homes: government deficit doesn't create a liability private money-creation = disaster in 1830s USA. #MMT @WorkersPartyGB"
X Link 2024-03-09T13:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The USA is not only supplying arms to Israel but underwriting its shaky bonds to continue wars that are expected to run well into the future. Free market Don't make me laugh. #Gazaagenocide #Zionism @DerbyChrisW @Tracking_Power"
X Link 2024-03-11T17:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Good from @rohangrey. Politicians/media like to value private investment over public investment. They're both about spending and resources. Over 90% of currency issue is bank credit so why does public investment always get the blame for inflation #MMT Listen to @rohangrey explaining about inflation. Inflation is always everywhere a lack of real resources and lack of productive capacity phenomenon and not the monetary phenomenon. What really matters is how and on what the money has been spent and not where the money will come https://t.co/SR7WaruAYl Listen to @rohangrey explaining about"
X Link 2024-03-12T17:23Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Paper written by #MMT economists accepted by House of Lords committee discussing public finance. If neoliberalism has to die by a thousand cuts this is one of them. @spatchcockable"
X Link 2024-03-13T09:31Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@northernmnkey @sarahollando552 @spatchcockable Do you understand the pros and cons of currency devaluation or why the export economies selling regularly to the 6th largest economy might intervene in a currency war Do you understand anything Second mute coming soon"
X Link 2024-03-14T11:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Is there a way to prevent the foreign exchange traders attacking and devaluing a national currency Soft measures such as capital controls and central bank intervention can help. But this is how Iran do it. Is this really why we're taught to hate #MMT"
X Link 2024-03-14T11:35Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@toby00green @battleforeurope @bixhiribarren @ewaldeng Good article. But we should emphasize further that currency devaluation is not some organic process. Who manipulates supply and demand on the Forex markets to make the oil cheaper and who dumps unpayable loans on them with false promises of domestic growth Global financiers"
X Link 2024-03-14T12:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@haniefhaider @rohangrey It's more about manipulating bonds' function in setting interest rates. It's not about keeping governments on the straight and narrow. It's about threatening them denying their sovereignty and scaring them away from public investment"
X Link 2024-03-14T17:37Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"By devaluing the peso by 50% deranged cokehead Milei has doubled inflation to 250%. This was predictable yet libertarian gnat-brains commenting below @battleforeurope's article still blame 'state money printing'. How do we get rid of these #MMT Milei Argentinas self-styled anarcho-capitalist president enjoys an almost Christ-like status among heterodox conservatives and MAGA rightists almost on a par with Trump himself. But Milei has actually very little in common with Trump. My latest: https://t.co/8bec1us6Uf Milei Argentinas self-styled anarcho-capitalist president enjoys an almost"
X Link 2024-03-17T17:24Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@Jorge_Econopata @battleforeurope If that's true and he's engineered a crisis so the Yanks can send in the cavalry he's even crazier than I thought"
X Link 2024-03-17T18:37Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"'Cut borrowing or face a debt crisis" warns Carstens. In other words stop using sovereign currency to crowd out our private lenders or we'll bid up your interest rates and attack your currencies. We need rid of these people. Financial revolution. #MMT"
X Link 2024-03-18T20:34Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Starmer with one of his real pals. Apparently it's antisemitic to call elite globalist Mike Bloomberg - net worth $106 billion earned largely from selling tips and algorithms to elite global financiers - an elite globalist. You must use their words not yours. #starmerout"
X Link 2024-03-20T10:41Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"BoE conning us to take the glory. As supply recovers & inflation falls cutting the interest rate just after tax cuts & just before a 14% energy price cut sustains the myth that inflation is driven by aggregate demand & money supply and not price rises"
X Link 2024-03-21T10:41Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"My guess was wrong. BoE hold base rate at 5.25%. Tax cuts & their fear of inflation have overwhelmed the fact that they're punishing businesses workers & borrowers. If the energy price cuts help them lower inflation to 3% they'll still take the credit"
X Link 2024-03-21T13:52Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Honduran president Xiaomi Castro defies the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes tells Silicon Valley investors threatening to bankrupt the country to shove off and forges links with China. Hopefully first of many. @WorkersPartyGB https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/03/the-era-of-corporate-dominance-of-international-trade-is-coming-to-an-end-say-85-international-economists.html https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/03/the-era-of-corporate-dominance-of-international-trade-is-coming-to-an-end-say-85-international-economists.html"
X Link 2024-03-22T20:45Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@PaulRChase @Kaz4Wokingham @DerbyChrisW @iealondon She said "an insurance-based system like most other countries" before contrasting it favorably against an individually disincentivizing "socialized system". Utter rubbish. She's a free-market ideologue one of the Mises cult that has consigned half this country to dereliction"
X Link 2024-03-23T16:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"A free-market economist claimed Labour overspent on the NHS. They also say government overspending causes inflation. Inflation under Labour 1997-2008 was lower than under Thatcher/Major. Free-market economists are serial liars. #MMT @WorkersPartyGB"
X Link 2024-03-23T17:30Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@thisweb 'The markets' aka central bankers and bond traders reacted against her promise to increase welfare spending through the inevitable tough time as she cut taxes to attract private investment. She would have failed but a socialist programme would have elicited the same reaction"
X Link 2024-03-24T09:37Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Remember this. When private lenders crashed the economy in [----] after inflating the housing market and forcing people into unpayable debt they disproved neoliberalism's founding principle: the private sector runs the economy better than the democratic state. #MMT @WorkersPartyGB"
X Link 2024-03-24T14:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Yes but Labour won't do it. Easy gig - promise to nationalise investors sell off value plummets offer them some bonds and tell them to shove off. Oh dear they might have to invest in something productive @WorkersPartyGB will do it vote for us 💡@unitetheunion is calling for a return to public ownership of our energy infrastructure so that we can bring down customers bills & supply British industry with cheaper energy. #Energy #Profiteering https://t.co/xhvmQTfBmV 💡@unitetheunion is calling for a return to public ownership of our energy infrastructure so that we can bring down customers bills"
X Link 2024-03-29T09:41Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@northernmnkey @SimonPartridge @lukeakehurst @dai_alectic @joycemcm As I've said I'm not a pure 'MMTer' but surely you've worked out that the broad heterodox positions have exposed neoclassical economics as a belief system rather than a bona fide model If your fear of currency devaluation is anything to go by I'm not sure you're getting it"
X Link 2024-04-01T08:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@SimonPartridge @lukeakehurst @dai_alectic @joycemcm @northernmnkey I'll guarantee that Hutton will fly at dusk like the Owl of Minerva as usual. The publicity reveals he'll be arguing for public investment and regulation. Just read our chapter 'A Return to Economics' and Fazi and Mitchell's 'Reclaiming the State' for more depth and detail"
X Link 2024-04-01T08:49Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@northernmnkey @SimonPartridge @lukeakehurst @dai_alectic @joycemcm What you've been taught is a belief-system - the likes of Friedman and Greenspan knew that - and an unreflexive MMT is in danger of that for sure. I've warned MMT leaders about it. But the fact is that the neoclassical model is shot through with lies. It's a fear-cult"
X Link 2024-04-01T08:59Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@SimonPartridge @BanGaoRen @northernmnkey @lukeakehurst @dai_alectic @joycemcm @catherinerowett @Melissa_Benn @suzannezeedyk @williamnhutton @StephanieKelton Well done Simon"
X Link 2024-04-01T19:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@fencepostgod @EvanCull @conrad_father @mikecosgrove That's right so the central bank is always the originator but its relationship to the banks which it trusts to asses creditworthiness - trust lost during the sub-prime crisis of course - adds a pull dynamic"
X Link 2024-04-02T15:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"How did a "roadside bomb planted by Hamas" go through the roof of the @WCKitchen car Expecting people to believe absurdity of this magnitude is a symptom of psychosis. #GazaGenocide #AidWorkers"
X Link 2024-04-02T20:13Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@WilfThomas3 @georgegalloway @derbychris @jeremycorbyn @WorkersPartyGB Polymath. Sociologist social/economic historian and political theorist who worked in criminology departments Unlike you I'm quite generous with my time when it comes to beginners with unpublished PhDs. I have nothing to learn from you. Do one. https://independent.academia.edu/SteveHall42 https://independent.academia.edu/SteveHall42"
X Link 2024-04-03T10:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@witandwhiz The elite's most effective strategy was to discredit and dismiss all who pointed out institutional infiltration by a loose alliance of neocons libertarians and Zionists as 'conspiracy theorists' a term coined by the CIA in [----]. That's now failing"
X Link 2024-04-05T08:43Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Western neoliberals decry Islam because its moral codes still place some restrictions on financial activity. So did early Christianity and Judaism but they were loosened during various reforms. These wars are financiers' wars. #Islamophobia #GazaGenocide #BANKSTERS #debt #WWIII"
X Link 2024-04-06T09:39Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"'Entrepreneur and investor' tells retired British Major-General and multiple campaign veteran @Charlie533080 that he's not qualified to criticise IDF officers' lack of control over their soldiers. #GazaGenocide #IDF @WorkersPartyGB @Charlie533080 What do you think youre seeing here Do you know whether or not there Hamas fighters shooting from that building Do you know whether or not this is covering fire before other troops enter the building Do you have the combat experience to tell whats going on here https://twitter.com/MikiMullor/status/1776562549485351210t=1fgEb9At_c5KJZYS5HbxVw&s=19"
X Link 2024-04-06T12:08Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Straw waits until Israel 'loses the moral high ground' before calling out the atrocities in Gaza. The political class are experts in (eventually) being right for the wrong reasons. #GazaGenocide Ex UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw: "Things have gone far too far in Israel and Gaza and there isn't in my view any doubt at all that Israel is breaching international law" "You can just see it on the ground in Gaza and it's a tragedy for Israel as well because they've https://t.co/KzG4drYaq0 https://twitter.com/Kahlissee/status/1777073289195630863t=HmaBoC6dxekgHkZfaaMPpw&s=19 Ex UK Foreign Secretary"
X Link 2024-04-08T07:42Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"How private equity investors suck the life out of real economies. Institutionalised global vampirism facilitated by neoliberal governments. https://leftfootforward.org/2024/04/private-equity-is-predatory-capitalism-with-a-long-trail-of-destruction/ https://leftfootforward.org/2024/04/private-equity-is-predatory-capitalism-with-a-long-trail-of-destruction/"
X Link 2024-04-08T07:49Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The IDF have inserted 'Hamas' into the headline and every sentence of the summary of their report into the killing of [--] aid workers. [---] aid workers have been killed aid reduced to a trickle. Israel has become a dark Gothic parody of itself. #GazaFamine Results of the IDF investigation into the killing of the [--] humanitarian workers from the Word Central Kitchen (WCK). Things are not what they seemed to be. ⚠BREAKING⚠ IDF has revealed that Hamas PURPOSELY drew fire to the WCK truck. 🔥At around [--] pm the IDF noticed https://x.com/GOPIsrael/status/1777320253694910893 Results of the IDF"
X Link 2024-04-09T10:31Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@SebPillon @wesstreeting The Labour Party have colluded in the promotion of fake neoliberal economics since [----]. A currency-issuing government can never be 'short of money'. Increasing the supply of goods and services to meet demand in one sector is not inflationary"
X Link 2024-04-09T10:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Yellen threatening China with sanctions coz it's out-producing them. What did the US & UK expect when we deindustrialised over [--] yrs and allowed Wall St & CoL investors to pump capital into the Far East to line their pockets We are led by greedy fools. The US is a wounded dying bull bleeding out from its own self-inflicted wounds. First Yellen pleads with China to stop being so productive and efficient because the US can't compete on a level playing field. Then Yellen threatens China with sanctions over cooperation with https://t.co/mIk6uVdEpG"
X Link 2024-04-09T10:59Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@Jorge_Econopata The neoliberal EU will never change its rules on state subsidies fiscal spending and productive allocation. Spain and other med countries would be better off leaving and joining BRICS"
X Link 2024-04-09T17:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@JonSylt I don't think it's 'most'"
X Link 2024-04-09T18:45Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@richard_morland @wesstreeting I'm not sure you understand what 'productivity' means. It includes services. Funding the NHS increases productivity and the tax/NI required to take M1 out of circulation and control inflation. The pound is not pegged to a more valuable currency. The UK is nothing like Argentina"
X Link 2024-04-09T19:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@richard_morland @wesstreeting You've simply repeated what I've just said. The NHS along with other services and utilities requires productive investment. Issuing currency for such investment will not trigger inflation. You haven't listened to a word I've said so I'm not wasting any more time on this"
X Link 2024-04-09T22:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The moment Corbyn lost. Public image is crucial. Hodge's false accusation of antisemitism gave him a chance to fight back against the virulent media campaign. He should have insisted the NEC suspend her and sued the backside off her. But he chose not to. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jul/18/labour-party-to-take-action-against-mp-who-called-corbyn-a-racist https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jul/18/labour-party-to-take-action-against-mp-who-called-corbyn-a-racist"
X Link 2024-04-10T08:16Z 10.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@northernmnkey @SimonPartridge @RichardJMurphy 'We' won't destroy the value of our money & there's no such thing as 'the markets'. Price-gougers in cahoots with corrupt politicians currency speculators dumping/shorting s & bond vigilantes attempting to bid up interest rates will try. But there are ways of heading them off"
X Link 2024-04-10T10:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@northernmnkey @SimonPartridge @RichardJMurphy I think the tone might change if you stopped being a snarky little so-and-so and offered something positive rather than your tiresome interrogation. Landslide for George No chance. Moving towards a power-broking coalition with others Possible worth trying"
X Link 2024-04-10T11:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@northernmnkey @SimonPartridge @RichardJMurphy How do we decide how big the deficit should beUnemployment is low but most of the jobs are low-paid and insecure. Households are struggling. Have you heard of the term 'underemployment' If so how do we solve this problem"
X Link 2024-04-10T12:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@northernmnkey @SimonPartridge @RichardJMurphy How do we incentivise the big money to come in when global fund managers make far higher returns in low-currency low-wage low-tax poorly regulated developing economies run by corrupt politicians"
X Link 2024-04-10T15:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@northernmnkey @SimonPartridge @RichardJMurphy The Chinese 'debt bomb' is a myth. The government doesn't owe anything to anybody apart from its own central bank. Last I looked CPI inflation running at 0.5%"
X Link 2024-04-11T09:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@sharpeleven @cross_flag Fine with me"
X Link 2024-04-11T10:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"1/ [--] #NHS only lost its #1 position in [----] after [--] years of Tory underfunding. X is full of posters with "tax is theft" or "governments are crime syndicates" on their profiles telling us privatization would be better. This fanatical mindset is capable of destroying nations"
X Link 2024-04-11T19:44Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"2/2 These posters often claim that privatised or hybrid services are better. Europe's best Norway is state-funded and free plus a paltry [---] per year NI user fee making up the 'privatised' component compared to the UK average of about [---]. Libertarians just lie"
X Link 2024-04-11T19:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"I've always hated snitching it's so low-grade but I've reluctantly reported this direct slur on my character from organised smear campaigners. This is the way things are done now it seems. I'm also speaking to a lawyer. Feel free to report it if you want"
X Link 2024-04-14T09:24Z 10.4K followers, 14.6K engagements
"@mickbognor I'm hearing the same from a few others too Mick. The tide is turning against them though. Millions now call out the current Israeli regime and the western Zionist lobby on social media"
X Link 2024-04-14T11:55Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Never been convinced by the 'Israel is aligned with Western imperialism' trope. US neocons don't run an 'empire' but a militarily enhanced extraction machine. They want the oil & gas the Zionists want their own ethnostate. Michael Hudson agrees #Zionism https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/04/michael-hudson-the-truth-about-the-destruction-of-the-palestinians.html https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/04/michael-hudson-the-truth-about-the-destruction-of-the-palestinians.html"
X Link 2024-04-15T12:43Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@Merlin67684223 @mcmullenshny Yes but I said the neocon 'empire' post-1980 which was concerned with the developing world. And don't forget even after WWII the 'aid' was a loan package extracting compound interest if not raw materials. They never give owt for nowt the Yanks"
X Link 2024-04-15T14:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"David Blanchflower is a nice chap and a decent economist. But the fact he has to ask this question shows he either doesn't know or refuses to believe just how much Western politicians are compromised and controlled by private capital. #MMT @WorkersPartyGB https://x.com/D_Blanchflower/status/1781497557501223319 I am serious why doesnt @UKLabour let @thameswater go bust and wipe out share holders bosses and those who stupidly loaned the debt and presumably did pretty well. Unclear why they deserve compensation given the amount of sewage they have spewed it out"
X Link 2024-04-20T10:09Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Max Azzarello's manifesto. Misrecognizes the source of our woes as a nebulous fascist conspiracy. What neoliberalism hides from us is its root in the harnessing of diffuse fear greed narcissism and sociopathy. RIP Max you were a good man. #MaxAzzarello https://x.com/CensoredMen/status/1781396191135056283 🚨📑#BREAKING: The Manifesto of The Man Who Self-Immolated Outside Trump's NYC Trial THREAD 🧵 1/9 https://t.co/AJ4Uo9UDyU https://x.com/CensoredMen/status/1781396191135056283 🚨📑#BREAKING: The Manifesto of The Man Who Self-Immolated Outside Trump's NYC Trial THREAD 🧵 1/9"
X Link 2024-04-20T10:33Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@georgemkeynes @jewssf Yes almost iconic I would say"
X Link 2024-04-20T15:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@manxmayhem @D_Blanchflower @thameswater Corporate bonds aren't risk free. Schedule nationalisation value plummets give them a few lm gov bonds as compensation"
X Link 2024-04-20T22:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@manxmayhem @malcolm_reavell @RachelReevesMP Oh lordie. She thought she could entice private investment with tax cuts. It had nothing to do with 'affording' them because they don't determine government spending. What do you think they are bags of potatoes"
X Link 2024-04-21T13:21Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Milei's Argentina looks intent on becoming a US client state dependent on dollar loans and NATO 'protection' while Colombia Bolivia and Venezuela look to join BRICS. #BRICS https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/04/musical-chairs-in-latin-america-argentina-applies-to-become-global-partner-of-nato-while-colombia-expresses-interest-in-joining-brics.html https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/04/musical-chairs-in-latin-america-argentina-applies-to-become-global-partner-of-nato-while-colombia-expresses-interest-in-joining-brics.html"
X Link 2024-04-21T13:27Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Western media expectation of Ukraine have moved from 'drive them out' to 'counter-offensive to take back some territory' to 'halt the Russian advance' to 'slow the Russian advance'. Lie upon lie costing thousands of lives. #UkraineRussiaWar https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68868399 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68868399"
X Link 2024-04-21T16:32Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Walk into a demo the wrong way wearing a kippah deliberately bump into marchers get shouted at get it on camera and spin it to prove Jews aren't safe in antisemitic London. Does this Falter lad think we're all bloody stupid #Zionism #ItWasAScam https://twitter.com/JamesEFoster/status/1782302988725285335t=fUbwnk-0KdOG1Ld9LnsQfg&s=19 I have watched the thirteen minute clip thats on @SkyNews & its a totally different encounter to the one Gideon Falter (@GideonFalter) has reportedThe narrative thats been pushed is not accurate. - Former Met Police Chief Superintendent Dal Babu"
X Link 2024-04-22T07:44Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Between them economic neoliberals and postmodern cultural relativists have ruined parts of the UK. Only a firm alliance of economic socialists traditional feminists and moderate cultural conservatives can turn this around. @georgegalloway @OborneTweets https://unherd.com/2024/04/how-vice-consumed-blackpool/ https://unherd.com/2024/04/how-vice-consumed-blackpool/"
X Link 2024-04-23T09:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"And I might add the 'economic neoliberals' are not just the Tories Reform and Lib Dems but also post-Corbyn Labour under Starmer and Reeves. None of these hopeless neoliberal clients can address this decline. @UKLabour @LibDems @reformparty_uk #MMT @WorkersPartyGB"
X Link 2024-04-23T10:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@battleforeurope Hayek decided that markets are unmanageable and self-correcting. He was the leading figure amongst early neoliberals. During their first 'general meeting' they vowed to crush the nexus of the state and its citizens especially the organised working class. https://www.perlego.com/book/3494871/the-walter-lippmann-colloquium-the-birth-of-neoliberalism-pdf https://www.perlego.com/book/3494871/the-walter-lippmann-colloquium-the-birth-of-neoliberalism-pdf"
X Link 2024-04-23T13:09Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Proof that nobody is more deeply offended by the juvenile transparent and insidious political weaponization of antisemitism than actual Holocaust survivors. #ItWasAScam https://x.com/TheCanaryUK/status/1782683229109002749 Holocaust survivors expose pro-Israel lobbyist Gideon Falters smearing of pro-Palestine protestors. @wrightismight looks at what on earth has been going on #GideonFalter #MetPolice https://t.co/kNOuSbNoJi https://x.com/TheCanaryUK/status/1782683229109002749 Holocaust survivors expose pro-Israel lobbyist Gideon Falters smearing of pro-Palestine protestors. @wrightismight"
X Link 2024-04-24T08:41Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"85% of MPs have no idea how the fiat money system works. Only 5% of Labour MPs have any awareness at all. 19% of Tories have some idea which allows them to lie and manipulate public opinion more effectively. #MMT @WorkersPartyGB @SimonPartridge @winlow_s https://positivemoney.org/2017/10/mp-poll/ https://positivemoney.org/2017/10/mp-poll/"
X Link 2024-04-24T10:06Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"The class struggle is real but the fundamental struggle is between creditor and debtor. For millennia creditors have manipulated law to work for them. Ecuador & Honduras have defied the ICSID. If all nations joined them there would be a true revolution. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/04/another-country-just-dealt-another-big-blow-to-the-global-isds-system.html https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/04/another-country-just-dealt-another-big-blow-to-the-global-isds-system.html"
X Link 2024-04-25T10:53Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"As corrupt neoliberal culture slides into permanent decline choosing friends and colleagues becomes more difficult. Remember - only decent thoughtful people are capable of long periods of contentment in material life and discontentment in political life. #Socialism2024"
X Link 2024-04-26T10:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@SimonPartridge @RichardJMurphy It would be a start. The problem is they would have reduced powers to deal with attacks from the currency traders and bond vigilantes. Neoliberalism hasn't given us an easy gig"
X Link 2024-04-26T11:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@SimonPartridge @fencepostgod @RichardJMurphy @dai_alectic Neoliberal infiltration of all institutions Simon. Dissenters are fearful of losing their reputations and jobs. Uni econ depts were their great prize - total domination. I agree with @ProfSteveKeen that they should be closed down. https://twitter.com/dad_climate/status/1772302441016389791 According to Steve Keen - Economics departments in universities should be shut down - assuming Exeter has one of these @JamesGDyke https://twitter.com/dad_climate/status/1772302441016389791 According to Steve Keen - Economics departments in"
X Link 2024-04-26T13:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"There are no 'economic laws'. Every honest thinker knows this. There are only decisions made by humans. Even supply and demand - if a price drops it's a decision to constrict supply not a natural law. What informs decisions Creditors' greed. That's all. https://rwer.wordpress.com/2024/04/26/the-non-existence-of-economic-laws-2/ https://rwer.wordpress.com/2024/04/26/the-non-existence-of-economic-laws-2/"
X Link 2024-04-26T18:04Z [---] followers, 10.1K engagements
"@EstablishmentR3 No. Most liberals lean left on specific issues usually cultural and confused combinations of right and left on others usually geopolitical and economic. The Dems are a neoliberal party as are all other mainstream parties. The traditional left is dead and in need of rebirth"
X Link 2024-04-27T13:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@EstablishmentR3 Propagandist You predicted it The disaster of neoliberalism was predicted by a number of thinkers as its ideology revealed itself in the 1930s. Biden is an irrelevant minion. You're not up to this. Please go away"
X Link 2024-04-27T13:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"On economic laws and decisions. The 'law' of inflation is allegedly the rate of rising prices caused by too much money in circulation. Decide to remove housing costs from the CPI to suit financiers and the rate is entirely different. Current #economics is bullshit all of it"
X Link 2024-04-28T07:45Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"This Jewish student claims to have been 'stabbed in the eye' by a pro-Palestine demonstrator a couple of days ago. A remarkable recovery. Actually last week I was decapitated by Margaret Hodge but I'm alright now. Thank God for the #NHS. #Zionists https://twitter.com/0rf/status/1784221477144863004t=BQt10gkWvD7UoGSpWV3ARA&s=19 WOW: The Jewish student who claims she was "stabbed in the eye" previously testified to Congress to shame Yale for not giving her a security escort.🤔 "That's just the beginning" 🧵 1/5 https://t.co/tzzujNhazg"
X Link 2024-04-28T08:27Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@dai_alectic I didn't get where I am today by not knowing who CJ is https://www.youtube.com/watchv=drlPbIWAz-E https://www.youtube.com/watchv=drlPbIWAz-E"
X Link 2024-04-28T20:08Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Universalism means sharing an ethics and ontology which would have to be the outcome of some sort of consensus. For neoliberals it means adopt our ethics and ontology otherwise we'll invade your country and murder you. #universalism #neoliberalism"
X Link 2024-04-28T22:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"On economic laws and decisions. An empirical experiment. For one year let's employ everyone and invest in production/services. Let's increase effective demand but DECIDE to keep prices stable and accept moderate profits and returns. What would happen to the LAW of inflation"
X Link 2024-04-29T08:08Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Of course the investors and asset managers would hate us for disproving their LAW and tell the currency traders and bond traders to attack our currency bid up our interest rates and ruin our economy. But that would be their DECISION wouldn't it"
X Link 2024-04-29T08:12Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@peter_storey62 @sharpeleven @guardian @johnharris1969 True and since the corporate takeover in [----] some of their actual political journalists have been even worse. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/24/the-awful-truth-is-dawning-putin-may-win-in-ukraine-the-result-would-be-catastrophe https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/24/the-awful-truth-is-dawning-putin-may-win-in-ukraine-the-result-would-be-catastrophe"
X Link 2024-04-29T10:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@bea_johanssen @dcjohnson Every hyperinflation in history has been caused by foreign debt service collapsing the exchange rate. The problem almost always has resulted from wartime foreign currency strains not domestic spending. https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-venezuela-myth-keeping-us-from-revolutionizing-our-economy/ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-venezuela-myth-keeping-us-from-revolutionizing-our-economy/"
X Link 2024-04-29T16:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"In other words each time a country goes democratic socialist America and the money traders will attack its currency. Every hyperinflation in history has been caused by foreign debt service collapsing the exchange rate. not domestic spending. #MMT https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-venezuela-myth-keeping-us-from-revolutionizing-our-economy/ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-venezuela-myth-keeping-us-from-revolutionizing-our-economy/"
X Link 2024-04-29T16:48Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"I'm not an 'MMTer' but interested in various heterodox economic positions. However #MMT should be our first port of call because it provides us with knowledge of the monetary/fiscal financial operations we need to reboot economies and control inflation. https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/04/29/it-really-is-time-that-politicians-took-note-of-modern-monetary-theory/ https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/04/29/it-really-is-time-that-politicians-took-note-of-modern-monetary-theory/"
X Link 2024-05-01T11:35Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@indosinchak @meadwaj I must admit that FX market attacks rather than bond vigilantes aren't addressed adequately in the heterodox stable. Bonds are temporal asset swaps but I can't see FX being tamed without capital exchange controls. They were a central plank of Keynesianism. Anyone brave enough"
X Link 2024-05-01T13:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"No @georgegalloway didn't say that at all. He said he doesn't want teachers pushing ideas about sexuality that some parents don't believe are normal and that he doesn't want kids sexualized at school. @AyoCaesar is another professional mass media liar. https://x.com/AyoCaesar/status/1785747034093289953 NEW: in an interview with @novaramedia George Galloway repeatedly says that gay relationships aren't "normal" and children shouldn't be taught to think that they are. Full interview out on Sunday at 3pm. https://t.co/2LglbkAMnY https://x.com/AyoCaesar/status/1785747034093289953 NEW: in an"
X Link 2024-05-01T19:31Z 10.4K followers, 30.8K engagements
"@JonesCathr253 @georgegalloway @AyoCaesar The prejudice is also in schools. Diverse prejudices amongst teachers about sexuality religion politics and myriad cultural issues. Leave it out let the kids come to it themselves"
X Link 2024-05-01T23:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The left need to write this simple Keynesian truth of EFFECTIVE DEMAND on the back of their hands. Everyday people regularly spend money which stabilises and grows the economy. The rich hoard most of theirs and transfer it abroad. @WorkersPartyGB https://twitter.com/ProfSteveKeen/status/1785686032769245290t=5HBrybMMvpOkiHx2fplE2Q&s=19 Japan's Slowing GDP Due to Wealth Concentration https://t.co/5I1xPEFd25 https://twitter.com/ProfSteveKeen/status/1785686032769245290t=5HBrybMMvpOkiHx2fplE2Q&s=19 Japan's Slowing GDP Due to Wealth Concentration https://t.co/5I1xPEFd25"
X Link 2024-05-02T08:09Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@meadwaj @RedCaz4Corbyn You're right that he wants rid of the dreadful patronizing liberal-pomo PMC. Inviting them to smear him precisely when the majority are seeking a more explicit populist route smearing has been exposed as a scam and the PMC is a palpable political failure will win many hearts"
X Link 2024-05-02T20:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@meadwaj @dr_places I know but for everyday folk 'normal' just means 'ordinary' or 'everyday'. It doesn't carry the connotation of 'normative' a norm imposed by an oppressive authority. This is why the progressive liberal PMC can't get across to folk. https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-death-of-the-left https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-death-of-the-left"
X Link 2024-05-02T20:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@dr_places @meadwaj I agree that the way some of the professional middle class celebrate and promote different sexualities can push at the boundaries of sexualization. The best way out of this is to leave the whole issue to parents. It's none of the PMC's business. We need to focus on the economy"
X Link 2024-05-02T21:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@meadwaj @dr_places A phobia is an irrational uncontrollable fear of something. I'm sure Christian symbolism was once powerful enough to induce something like that in some its followers but I'm not sure about now. I think the liberal-progressive fear of populism is closer to phobia"
X Link 2024-05-02T21:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@meadwaj @dr_places James I don't know whether you see yourself as part of the progressive liberal PMC. If you do you've lost and it's your own fault. People are totally sick of weaponized identity politics. Even the creepy idiots at Spiked understand that"
X Link 2024-05-02T21:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@harris4491 @JonesCathr253 Yes. Since [----] when they were spooked by Labour's huge electoral victory and intensified after [----] when the French riots terrified them. https://twitter.com/ProfHall1955/status/1786306929897136323t=rFUpW5K7zB_3Ckoo1b4aqA&s=19 The pomo left placed the working class under the shaming regime of minority activists. Neoliberals placed them under the brutal logic of the market. The result was alienation anxiety and a resurgence of unpredictable populism. Can the left be resurrected https://t.co/v6oYl0Sjky"
X Link 2024-05-03T10:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@SimonPartridge @redrumlisa @dai_alectic Simon we've been trying to get our hands on the levers of power since the early C20. The middle class won't let us anywhere near them because the moment they do we cease to be their followers and servants which at the end of the day is what they really want"
X Link 2024-05-03T18:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@SimonPartridge @redrumlisa @dai_alectic I'm talking about the middle class individuals who operate the smaller levers of power in all institutions. They systematically block the sort of thought and action that can challenge concentrated financial and corporate power. It would be more than their jobs are worth not to"
X Link 2024-05-04T08:35Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@SimonPartridge @redrumlisa @dai_alectic . and most of the people Dan is talking about are lower middle-class and working-class made good. On the whole - there are of course exceptions - the legacy middle class (the 'PMC') is a genuine political obstacle"
X Link 2024-05-04T08:37Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@SimonPartridge @redrumlisa @dai_alectic That's a fundamental problem. They're scared of the workers which is a product of decades of indoctrination about 'populism'. The working class broadly conceived is the vast majority. They're already hiding behind their wagons and have been there for a very long time"
X Link 2024-05-04T09:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@SimonPartridge @redrumlisa @dai_alectic @joycemcm @suzannezeedyk Couldn't agree more. But first the middle class PMC must accept that the majority of the shared leadership must be selected from the majority a la [----] - i.e. working class (broadly conceived) rather than parachuting 24-yr old 2:1 gender studies graduates into parliament"
X Link 2024-05-04T09:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@SimonPartridge @redrumlisa @dai_alectic @northernmnkey 1/2 Basically economic. More democratic state control of the 'commanding heights' of the economy worker representation on all big business job guarantee start-ups for small/medium businesses and co-ops without making the mistake of an unworkable central command economy"
X Link 2024-05-04T11:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@SimonPartridge @redrumlisa @dai_alectic @northernmnkey 2/2 Most important nationalization of central bank and heterodox-informed policies to fend off globalist currency speculators & bond vigilantes & end dollar domination. It would mean BRICS trade deals. This is the hard bit. The US bombs weaker nations that threaten to do this"
X Link 2024-05-04T11:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"FAKE LEFT MEDIA INSTRUCTION MANUAL by @AyoCaesar (age 14) How to Smear (1/2) [--]. Target genuine socialist (eg @georgegalloway) [--]. Feign interest and invite for interview [--]. Trawl through recording [--]. Pick out polysemic word on sensitive topic (eg 'normal' and 'homosexuality')"
X Link 2024-05-04T12:34Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"How to Smear (2/2) [--]. Saturate social media with clip of polysemic word [--]. Emphasize worst meaning (eg normal as 'healthy' not 'typical') [--]. Emphasize opposite to spook vulnerable group (eg 'unhealthy' not 'minority') [--] Encourage uber-woke idiots to join in. [--]. Smear complete"
X Link 2024-05-04T12:40Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@simonmaginn @Nammy65147113 @novaramedia @AyoCaesar He didn't call you not normal' in that way. Your fear won't allow you to accept that. Why didn't they talk about his economic policies and push out those soundbites Go away and join the lib dems will you"
X Link 2024-05-04T12:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"For anyone with a basic understanding of how modern fiat money economies work there's not one single reason why the NHS cannot be properly funded to meet rising demand without causing inflation or hiking up taxes. There's no shortage of money. #MMT #NHS https://x.com/danielgoyal/status/1786741349158473828 The exodus of doctors and nurses is going to get substantially worse - No respect - Terrible working conditions - Wages are rubbish - and we have to witness patients dying due to lack of resources Im sorry but we all have our limits https://x.com/danielgoyal/status/1786741349158473828 The"
X Link 2024-05-04T13:09Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@simonmaginn @Nammy65147113 @novaramedia @AyoCaesar Effectively yes. You only show dogs affection Enough. Mute"
X Link 2024-05-04T13:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@steb84a @georgegalloway Of course he is the whole world is homophobic and antisemitic. You're not paranoid we're all out to get you"
X Link 2024-05-04T19:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Meltdown. Dershowitz is losing it. Threatening student protesters with 'offensive lawfare' and 'bankruptcy'. One by one the traditional Zionist weapons are seizing up and misfiring. https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1786811534926074285 Pro-Israeli Zionist Alan Dershowitz vows he will engage in "massive offensive lawfare" against allegedly '"anti-Semitic" Pro Palestine student protesters. He threatens to have their dorm rooms taken away take their cars and boomboxes and "bankrupt" them. He says this is https://t.co/Hil8MDp2ZS https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1786811534926074285 Pro-Israeli Zionist Alan"
X Link 2024-05-04T20:55Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Pro-Palestine supporters arrested under the Terrorism Act for having a banner with a dove on it. Now released but once again the pro-Zionist bias embedded in UK institutions shown in stark relief. https://twitter.com/CamdenPalestine/status/1786893177930092767t=I6riJyNvM_OEBkUA_XWyBA&s=19 Our people have been arrested under the Terrorism Act for artwork depicting a universally recognised symbol of peace at UCL's protest camp. This is an outrageous escalation of politically motivated state repression against peace activists. We demand their immediate release https://t.co/HlwLB1X8iF"
X Link 2024-05-05T07:32Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@Marek_2011 I know I was referring to the principle of individual freedom in general. It's a good thing mostly but nothing justifies mass murder"
X Link 2024-05-05T11:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@RSlack60 @ZounaidOsman @DerbyChrisW @giles_fraser They've just closed down Al Jazeera and they've murdered independent journalists in Gaza. You're believing propaganda Richard - fatal"
X Link 2024-05-06T13:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
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