Dougald Lamont
@dougaldlamont.bsky.social
Recovering politician, writer, editor. Orwell-Keynesian.
Read my stuff here: https://dougaldlamont.substack.com
Read my stuff here: https://dougaldlamont.substack.com
At the heart of our current mainstream economics, there is an extremely serious error about the concept of money.
#economics #reform #capitalism #neoliberalism #neoclassical
#economics #reform #capitalism #neoliberalism #neoclassical
The Fatal Mistake at the Heart of Neoliberal Capitalism
The most fundamental decisions in our society - life and death decisions that are shaping the future - are based in beliefs which are flatly contradicted by the facts.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM
At the heart of our current mainstream economics, there is an extremely serious error about the concept of money.
#economics #reform #capitalism #neoliberalism #neoclassical
#economics #reform #capitalism #neoliberalism #neoclassical
This headline and the article are both based in a serious mistake in reasoning.
When you are looking for a needle in a haystack, you cannot treat needles and hay as equally important.
That is what the google tool, CBC and @cbcqueenspark.bsky.social have done.
The analysis is worthless.
When you are looking for a needle in a haystack, you cannot treat needles and hay as equally important.
That is what the google tool, CBC and @cbcqueenspark.bsky.social have done.
The analysis is worthless.
Trump is named 1,500 times in the Epstein document dump. Here's why that number doesn't matter | CBC News
Donald Trump's name appears at least 1,500 times in documents from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein made public Wednesday by Republicans in the U.S. Congress, according to an AI-assisted search of the ma...
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November 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
This headline and the article are both based in a serious mistake in reasoning.
When you are looking for a needle in a haystack, you cannot treat needles and hay as equally important.
That is what the google tool, CBC and @cbcqueenspark.bsky.social have done.
The analysis is worthless.
When you are looking for a needle in a haystack, you cannot treat needles and hay as equally important.
That is what the google tool, CBC and @cbcqueenspark.bsky.social have done.
The analysis is worthless.
Aurora borealis
November 12, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Aurora borealis
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And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
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November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
Make America Achieve Its Goal Weight of -209 Pounds.
Planes won’t need gas and Americans all have to be tethered to weights to keep from flying into the atmosphere.
DOGE has been replaced by ACME
Planes won’t need gas and Americans all have to be tethered to weights to keep from flying into the atmosphere.
DOGE has been replaced by ACME
Dr. Oz Says Americans Will Lose '135 Billion Pounds' With Weight Loss Drugs Cost Cut
YouTube video by Newsweek
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November 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Make America Achieve Its Goal Weight of -209 Pounds.
Planes won’t need gas and Americans all have to be tethered to weights to keep from flying into the atmosphere.
DOGE has been replaced by ACME
Planes won’t need gas and Americans all have to be tethered to weights to keep from flying into the atmosphere.
DOGE has been replaced by ACME
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If I ran Jersey Mike's, I'd hire that guy who threw a Subways sandwich at the cop. He could say if it had been a Jersey Mike's sub he would have held on to it. The ad writes itself.
November 7, 2025 at 4:02 AM
If I ran Jersey Mike's, I'd hire that guy who threw a Subways sandwich at the cop. He could say if it had been a Jersey Mike's sub he would have held on to it. The ad writes itself.
How The Economist & The Globe and Mail Are Getting Canada's Economy so Utterly Wrong
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How The Economist & The Globe and Mail Are Getting Canada's Economy so Utterly Wrong
Canadians hoping for clarity or facts on the economy are out of luck. They're getting right-wing fairy tales instead.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:04 AM
How The Economist & The Globe and Mail Are Getting Canada's Economy so Utterly Wrong
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Michael Wolff was threatened with a lawsuit by Melania Trump. He is countersuing and needs money to pay lawyers. Donate here.
Michael Wolff was threatened with a lawsuit by Melania Trump. He is countersuing and needs money to pay lawyers. Donate here.
Donate to Help Michael Wolff in His Legal Fight Against Melania Trump, organized by Michael Wolff
My name is Michael Wolff. I’m the author of four books about … Michael Wolff needs your support for Help Michael Wolff in His Legal Fight Against Melania Trump
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November 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Michael Wolff was threatened with a lawsuit by Melania Trump. He is countersuing and needs money to pay lawyers. Donate here.
Michael Wolff was threatened with a lawsuit by Melania Trump. He is countersuing and needs money to pay lawyers. Donate here.
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Tough On Crime Unless They're Tories: The Shameful Hypocrisy of Pierre Poilievre and the CPC on Criminal Justice
Tough On Crime Unless They're Tories: The Shameful Hypocrisy of Pierre Poilievre and the CPC on Criminal Justice
Conservatives love to posture about being tough on crime, as long as it's someone else committing it. When it's one of their own, well, they can be Premier or advisor to the Prime Minister.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Tough On Crime Unless They're Tories: The Shameful Hypocrisy of Pierre Poilievre and the CPC on Criminal Justice
"The Map that Shows How Big Cuts to the U.S. Budget Will Create a Lose-lose Dynamic for Republicans"
I wrote this nearly a year ago.
I wrote this nearly a year ago.
The Map that Shows How Big Cuts to the U.S. Budget Will Create a Lose-lose Dynamic for Republicans
Slashing federal investments in transfers, social security and medicare means that states that voted Republican will be hurt the most
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October 30, 2025 at 2:06 AM
"The Map that Shows How Big Cuts to the U.S. Budget Will Create a Lose-lose Dynamic for Republicans"
I wrote this nearly a year ago.
I wrote this nearly a year ago.
Marc Andreesen selling AI social media bots you can orchestrate actions on thousands of social accounts.
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Michel de Cryptadamus (@cryptadamus)
new startup idea from Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz’s a16z¹: a tool to let you control thousands of bots that act "as human as possible" because “control is all you need”
¹ Owners of large stakes ...
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October 29, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Marc Andreesen selling AI social media bots you can orchestrate actions on thousands of social accounts.
substack.com/@cryptadamus...
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Dawkins is one of the most overrated scientific hacks ever.
His entire claim to fame for "the selfish gene" has not been borne out by evidence.
His entire claim to fame for "the selfish gene" has not been borne out by evidence.
The premier journal Nature long favored research from white, male scientists. Its mission statement in 1870: "to aid Scientific men."
That meant missing out on excellent research. It's tried to recognize other voices in recent years.
Here comes the backlash. www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
That meant missing out on excellent research. It's tried to recognize other voices in recent years.
Here comes the backlash. www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
Nature journal accused of abandoning science for social justice
The publisher has defended its efforts to boost the diversity of researchers after it came under attack from Richard Dawkins and other academics
www.thetimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Dawkins is one of the most overrated scientific hacks ever.
His entire claim to fame for "the selfish gene" has not been borne out by evidence.
His entire claim to fame for "the selfish gene" has not been borne out by evidence.
This is an absolute travesty, but that's the point.
At 2 a.m., the Alberta legislature passed a bill that will force 51,000 teachers back to work, impose a four-year contract and use the notwithstanding clause to stave off a legal challenge and suspend teacher bargaining at the local level. It includes fines for Ts and the ATA if they defy it. #AbLeg
Striking Alberta teachers forced back to work by fast-tracked legislation, notwithstanding clause | CBC News
Bill 2 passed early Tuesday morning after a long night for lawmakers in the provincial legislature. Premier Danielle Smith’s government introduced the legislation the day before.
www.cbc.ca
October 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
This is an absolute travesty, but that's the point.
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At 2 a.m., the Alberta legislature passed a bill that will force 51,000 teachers back to work, impose a four-year contract and use the notwithstanding clause to stave off a legal challenge and suspend teacher bargaining at the local level. It includes fines for Ts and the ATA if they defy it. #AbLeg
Striking Alberta teachers forced back to work by fast-tracked legislation, notwithstanding clause | CBC News
Bill 2 passed early Tuesday morning after a long night for lawmakers in the provincial legislature. Premier Danielle Smith’s government introduced the legislation the day before.
www.cbc.ca
October 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
At 2 a.m., the Alberta legislature passed a bill that will force 51,000 teachers back to work, impose a four-year contract and use the notwithstanding clause to stave off a legal challenge and suspend teacher bargaining at the local level. It includes fines for Ts and the ATA if they defy it. #AbLeg
Ronald Reagan's Speech Gets Tariffs Wrong
Listening to Ronald Reagan's economic ideas got us where we are today: a massive economic crisis.
#elbowsup #canada #tariffs #Trump
Listening to Ronald Reagan's economic ideas got us where we are today: a massive economic crisis.
#elbowsup #canada #tariffs #Trump
Ronald Reagan's Speech Gets Tariffs Wrong
Tariffs didn't cause the Depression as Reagan claims. The economic policies he recommended did: as the Black Tuesday crash later that year showed.
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October 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Grandaddy of Trickle Down was no economic genius.
October 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Grandaddy of Trickle Down was no economic genius.
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Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."
October 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."
Reaganomics and the economic policies that make them up are responsible for 50 years of growing inequality and the current economic crisis.
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October 26, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Reaganomics and the economic policies that make them up are responsible for 50 years of growing inequality and the current economic crisis.
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Here’s my piece open.substack.com/pub/dougaldl...
For God’s sake, just because Trump is a delusional maniac doesn’t make Reagan right on the economy.
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October 26, 2025 at 2:13 AM
For God’s sake, just because Trump is a delusional maniac doesn’t make Reagan right on the economy.
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Ontario's Ad Featuring Ronald Reagan about tariffs may trigger Trump, but it's totally the wrong lesson for #canada.
If you want to learn about #Reagan and economics, you should be listening to Bruce Bartlett, not Milton Friedman.
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If you want to learn about #Reagan and economics, you should be listening to Bruce Bartlett, not Milton Friedman.
@bartlettb.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social
Canada, Free Trade, and What Ronald Reagan Got So Wrong (and Right) About the Economy
Donald Trump just cut off trade talks with Canada because Ontario ran an ad featuring Reagan – but one of Reagan’s smartest advisors has a different take.
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October 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Ontario's Ad Featuring Ronald Reagan about tariffs may trigger Trump, but it's totally the wrong lesson for #canada.
If you want to learn about #Reagan and economics, you should be listening to Bruce Bartlett, not Milton Friedman.
@bartlettb.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social
If you want to learn about #Reagan and economics, you should be listening to Bruce Bartlett, not Milton Friedman.
@bartlettb.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social