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William Blair Santos Allen
@willballen.bsky.social
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Retired consultant in international macro finance and capital markets. Converted to MMT as truth.

Now humble second career as lover of all things nautical and USCG licensed Master Mariner.

Finally doing something socially productive? .. more

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William Blair Santos Allen @willballen.bsky.social · 1h
Any chance of renewing this free link for those of us on US west coast? Thanks!

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William Blair Santos Allen @willballen.bsky.social · 1h
Trump will love Pahlavi as new king of Iran. As did previous US conservatives when their Iranian leader in the 1950s to install his father, the first Shah.

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William Blair Santos Allen @willballen.bsky.social · 2h
Sorry typo. Meant $50,000.10

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William Blair Santos Allen @willballen.bsky.social · 2h
Bag was worth 10 cents so technically he took $10,000.10.

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William Blair Santos Allen @willballen.bsky.social · 2h
I love these historical links. I had always struggled to find relevance of Schumpeter beyond “creative destruction” but you brought it home. Thanks!

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William Blair Santos Allen @willballen.bsky.social · 19h
I think Donald watched the film Ice Station Zebra a few too many times.

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William Blair Santos Allen @willballen.bsky.social · 23h
Before 1978 state usary laws often limited credit card rates to 18%. I don’t remember any shortage of cards and consumers seemed to be doing fine. How is it that most rates are now 28% or higher and that is ok? Can we view Visa /Mastercard as a monopoly ?

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William Blair Santos Allen @willballen.bsky.social · 1d
Pelo menos 50% de nós — talvez mais — não somos Trump e desprezamos o que ele está a fazer.

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William Blair Santos Allen @willballen.bsky.social · 1d
You mean the Venezuelans aren’t feeling the love from Donald? Imagine that!

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 1d

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2d
Something I always wondered is how it would be covered if America became a dictatorship

This is it

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William Blair Santos Allen @willballen.bsky.social · 3d
Kavanaugh Killings

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William Blair Santos Allen @willballen.bsky.social · 3d
Kavanaugh Killings > Kavanaugh Stops

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William Blair Santos Allen @willballen.bsky.social · 3d
Ah yes, but global warming will turn that Greenland glacier into the ideal green meadow with surrounding mountain fortress walls for the progeny of the tech bros to live out their dreams.

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William Blair Santos Allen @willballen.bsky.social · 3d
Kernan and Eisen both need to go.

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William Blair Santos Allen @willballen.bsky.social · 4d
I doubt the Russian public knew anything about the sub. But there was always a good chance Comrade Donnie would blink.

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William Blair Santos Allen @willballen.bsky.social · 4d
Was just easier to apprehend and divert near British isles than mid Atlantic.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d
What really drives U.S. foreign policy?

Listen to what Bernie Sanders had to say 20 years ago.

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William Blair Santos Allen @willballen.bsky.social · 4d
DJT is the only signer on that commercial bank deposit, I figure.

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William Blair Santos Allen @willballen.bsky.social · 5d
Monetizing Regime Change prospect.org/2026/01/05/v...
Monetizing Regime Change - The American Prospect
It is trivially easy for administration officials to use prediction markets to bet on the policies they authorize. We may have just seen it in Venezuela.
prospect.org

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William Blair Santos Allen @willballen.bsky.social · 5d
On one of these Bolsonaro trips to the hospital I expect there to be a quick diversion over to US embassy for asylum and escape.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5d
January 6, 2021 was the most shameful day in American history. It should live in infamy, as should the traitor who refused to accept the election results and incited the attack on the U.S. Capitol — Donald J. Trump.

Reposted by Stephen M. Walt, Axel Bruns, Jesse H. Kroll , and 11 more

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 5d
A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

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Expresso @jornalexpresso.bsky.social · 5d
António José Seguro, um referencial de dignidade e decência
António José Seguro, um referencial de dignidade e decência
expresso.pt

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William Blair Santos Allen @willballen.bsky.social · 6d
Love the Galbraith quote: ‘This feature of investor behavior – what Galbraith called “the extreme brevity of the financial memory” – is complicated by the crowd psychology that accompanies speculation.’

Reposted by William A. Allen, Thomas Masterson

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Levy Institute @levyecon.bsky.social · 6d
On December 10, the Fed lowered rates—again.

Our final policy note of 2025 argues that the Fed isn’t fighting inflation; it’s managing class power. Read the latest from scholars Nersisyan and Wray, who show what the data actually say.

www.levyinstitute.org/publications...
The Fed Lowered Rates Again. Is It Really a Surprise? – Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
The whole world was watching on December 10, 2025 to finally find out what the Fed was going to do. Big money bets were placed—would the Fed leave rates unchanged...more
www.levyinstitute.org

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William Blair Santos Allen @willballen.bsky.social · 6d
stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/my-brief-r...
My Brief Remarks at the Annual ASSA Meeting
Today is the final day of the Allied Social Science Association’s (ASSA) annual meetings.
stephaniekelton.substack.com

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John P. Hussman, Ph.D. @hussmanjp.bsky.social · 6d
January comment is up! 🐳
www.hussmanfunds.com/comment/mc26...
How the Bubble Manipulates Time - Hussman Funds
The defining feature of every bubble is the same: a growing inconsistency between the long-term returns that investors expect in their heads - based on extrapolation of the past, and the long-term ret...
www.hussmanfunds.com

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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 7d
Intriguing theory that it wasn't Trump but US nat security that initiated attack on Venezuela, for critical minerals rather than oil

renegaderesources.pro/p/the-venezu...
The Venezuelan Oil Narative is PURE THEATRE
The Real Reason the Pentagon Approved Venezuela: Critical Minerals and Adversary Expulsion
renegaderesources.pro

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William Blair Santos Allen @willballen.bsky.social · 9d
This is so tragic.