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Friends –– David Adler, Anton Jäger and I are restarting our 'Eurotrash' podcast. Our first ep back is actually an important one, with David reporting from the Global Sumud Flotilla currently en route to Gaza, bearing aid and being attacked by drones. Listen in!

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Is it the inability or unwillingness of an elite overcommitted to Atlanticism to formulate foreign policy without the US? Or fear of US-Israeli coercion through the tech-security nexus? Or a flailing political centre placating right populists at home? Or is there a simpler ideological explanation?

We ask why most European states have so committed themselves to participating in Israel's campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing:

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Friends –– David Adler, Anton Jäger and I are restarting our 'Eurotrash' podcast. Our first ep back is actually an important one, with David reporting from the Global Sumud Flotilla currently en route to Gaza, bearing aid and being attacked by drones. Listen in!

www.patreon.com/posts/15-eur...

One point: central bank independence was the core tenet of neoliberalism, but it was the rise of market-based finance and the deflationary bias in fiscal policy, key features of the neoliberal era, that forced central banks into a position that made political backlash inevitable.

This is a great article on Central Bank "Independence" jacobin.com/2025/08/cent...

Deeply appreciate you not using Gary Oldman’s Smiley from that awful film adaption.

Hear hear

Lev Menand is blistering here. Must listen. Meeting the moment. Incredible stuff from @weisenthal.bsky.social and @tracyalloway.bsky.social on Odd Lots.

overcast.fm/+AA5AWNdOBV0

Incisive writing here on the "central bank independence" that Trump is undermining.

Can't help but think about this from a climate perspective, as climate policymaking, like inflation, suffers from a time inconsistency and credibility problem. What would a "climate Fed" do?

A refreshing take on the myth of central bank independence: The Long Twilight of Central Bankism jacobin.com/2025/08/cent...

Financial or fiscal domination?
That's the question.
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And: stop fretting about ‘independence’ and ‘fiscal dominance’, but the following dynamic: gov surrenders fiscal policy discretion to CB, while CB follows the lead of the out of control drunk that is the market-based financial system—financial dominance all the way down. Basically the UK.

“Since the Great Recession, central banks have been under siege from some variant of populism while propping up the financial system practically alone.”

@newlefteviews.bsky.social on the attacks on Lisa Cook and the fed, the convenient myth of independence, and a recent history of central banking.

Re: Trump v Fed: Some (very hastily written and heavily edited) reflections on the nature of central bank–government interdependence in the era of crisis and how financial- not fiscal dominance is what should be keeping us up at night. Also Powell is Thomas Becket.

jacobin.com/2025/08/cent...

And: stop fretting about ‘independence’ and ‘fiscal dominance’, but the following dynamic: gov surrenders fiscal policy discretion to CB, while CB follows the lead of the out of control drunk that is the market-based financial system—financial dominance all the way down. Basically the UK.

One point: central bank independence was the core tenet of neoliberalism, but it was the rise of market-based finance and the deflationary bias in fiscal policy, key features of the neoliberal era, that forced central banks into a position that made political backlash inevitable.

Re: Trump v Fed: Some (very hastily written and heavily edited) reflections on the nature of central bank–government interdependence in the era of crisis and how financial- not fiscal dominance is what should be keeping us up at night. Also Powell is Thomas Becket.

jacobin.com/2025/08/cent...

Asking once again:

By the way: you could have predicted all of this if you had spent just one day some where in the West Bank at any point this century. Nothing that is happening now would have come as a great surprise to you.

So thankful I can express myself and explore my passions through art

Does this site enable group chats now?

Jaw-dropping reporting by Haaretz www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Love hurts man