Adam Daniel-Wayman
@adwayman.bsky.social
i've used twitter for 14 years so it's too late to pretend i'm not into this
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In response to the reappearance of MMT, I have, somewhat reluctantly, written up where the current crop of 'pop MMT' goes wrong.
The short version: yes the central bank issues money; no this doesn't change anything.
criticalfinance.org/2025/12/19/w...
The short version: yes the central bank issues money; no this doesn't change anything.
criticalfinance.org/2025/12/19/w...
What’s wrong with MMT?
As Marc Lavoie and John Quiggin have noted, there are ‘two MMTs’. Scholars such as Randy Wray, Eric Tymoigne and Scott Fulwiler have contributed to debates on monetary economics, instit…
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December 19, 2025 at 10:34 AM
In response to the reappearance of MMT, I have, somewhat reluctantly, written up where the current crop of 'pop MMT' goes wrong.
The short version: yes the central bank issues money; no this doesn't change anything.
criticalfinance.org/2025/12/19/w...
The short version: yes the central bank issues money; no this doesn't change anything.
criticalfinance.org/2025/12/19/w...
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Labor markets weakness is all about uncertainty, not AI.
www.richmondfed.org/research/nat...
www.richmondfed.org/research/nat...
December 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Labor markets weakness is all about uncertainty, not AI.
www.richmondfed.org/research/nat...
www.richmondfed.org/research/nat...
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The photographer on that boat was Christopher Anderson, who, 25 years later, snapped the famous photos of the Trump administration for Vanity Fair.
December 18, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The photographer on that boat was Christopher Anderson, who, 25 years later, snapped the famous photos of the Trump administration for Vanity Fair.
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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social preaching the true and correct anti-contractarian anti-nationalist gospel.
www.liberalcurrents.com/they-were-al...
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They Were All Our Ancestors
Nationalism chooses sides in the most awful family drama of all time. It sides with the evildoers, and never with their victims, and teaches you to do the same.
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December 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social preaching the true and correct anti-contractarian anti-nationalist gospel.
www.liberalcurrents.com/they-were-al...
www.liberalcurrents.com/they-were-al...
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imagine how incredibly insufferable I’d be if I spent all my time sighing heavily about how stupid and ignorant the public is just because they’re afraid of drones and how they can be misused
this is exactly what some AI boosters sound like to me
this is exactly what some AI boosters sound like to me
December 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
imagine how incredibly insufferable I’d be if I spent all my time sighing heavily about how stupid and ignorant the public is just because they’re afraid of drones and how they can be misused
this is exactly what some AI boosters sound like to me
this is exactly what some AI boosters sound like to me
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you cannot just guilt the public out of hating and fearing AI
December 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
you cannot just guilt the public out of hating and fearing AI
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I indeed would have more sympathy for the AI industry writ large around public perception if there hadn’t been years now of genuinely constant attempts at the highest level to make everyone who isn’t an upper-level manager terrified that AI will destroy their livelihoods
December 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I indeed would have more sympathy for the AI industry writ large around public perception if there hadn’t been years now of genuinely constant attempts at the highest level to make everyone who isn’t an upper-level manager terrified that AI will destroy their livelihoods
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Asian-American Actresses Describe Struggle Of Constantly Being Typecast As Sherlock Holmes
December 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Asian-American Actresses Describe Struggle Of Constantly Being Typecast As Sherlock Holmes
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This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
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Man, the Bluesky Wrapped 2025 is pretty brutal
December 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Man, the Bluesky Wrapped 2025 is pretty brutal
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"Liberal" does not mean, as some of its supposed friends think, a permanent equivocation about "both sides." Nor does it mean, as some of its critics believe, a weak-kneed unwillingness to fight. Yet working out just what it does mean, just what it is liberals fight for, requires ongoing thought.
December 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
"Liberal" does not mean, as some of its supposed friends think, a permanent equivocation about "both sides." Nor does it mean, as some of its critics believe, a weak-kneed unwillingness to fight. Yet working out just what it does mean, just what it is liberals fight for, requires ongoing thought.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com is intellectually serious, philosophically pluralistic, and politically responsible. Above all it is a voice for liberal principles, at a time when that is urgently needed but frustratingly difficult to find.
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Donate to The Liberal Currents Startup Fund, organized by Adam Gurri
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December 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com is intellectually serious, philosophically pluralistic, and politically responsible. Above all it is a voice for liberal principles, at a time when that is urgently needed but frustratingly difficult to find.
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Ultimately you're not going to independent-professions your way out of a completely fucked polity. You have to do the work of politics to create respect for professional competence but accountability to the people's representatives. It's a tense balance and it takes ongoing support to keep going
November 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Ultimately you're not going to independent-professions your way out of a completely fucked polity. You have to do the work of politics to create respect for professional competence but accountability to the people's representatives. It's a tense balance and it takes ongoing support to keep going
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Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Ordering a matcha latte at the cafe then sitting down and pulling something out of my tote bag, everyone internally groans. I reveal it’s the print edition of Liberal Currents, the mood immediately shifts and all the patrons and employees line up to shake my hand and thank me for my good opinions.
November 26, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Ordering a matcha latte at the cafe then sitting down and pulling something out of my tote bag, everyone internally groans. I reveal it’s the print edition of Liberal Currents, the mood immediately shifts and all the patrons and employees line up to shake my hand and thank me for my good opinions.
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My co-author Becky Chao crushed it on her first (!) podcast appearance, discussing affordability across all the things, ideas, paradigms, and policies.
Neon Liberalism (entering its second season) #53: Join Samantha and guest Becky Chao, Director of Policy and Research at the Economic Security Project, as they talk about the never-ending conflict between YIMBYs and anti-YIMBYs—and how we can get beyond it. www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...
Neon Liberalism #53: Beyond Abundance?
Join Samantha and guest Becky Chao, Director of Policy and Research at the Economic Security Project, as they talk about the never-ending conflict between YIMBYs and anti-YIMBYs—and how we can get bey...
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
My co-author Becky Chao crushed it on her first (!) podcast appearance, discussing affordability across all the things, ideas, paradigms, and policies.
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I’m a big fan of Liberal Currents, whose work I’ve found particularly invigorating over this last year.
To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 is that. Help us grow our voice. www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
Donate to The Liberal Currents Startup Fund, organized by Adam Gurri
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November 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I’m a big fan of Liberal Currents, whose work I’ve found particularly invigorating over this last year.
pledge drive time! liberal currents has put in years of hard work developing a sensibility, voice, and community that mean a lot more than the contrarian sensibilities of media startups. very excited to see them moving to a new level.
To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 is that. Help us grow our voice. www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
Donate to The Liberal Currents Startup Fund, organized by Adam Gurri
To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. Liberal Currents is that. Help… Adam Gurri needs your support for The Liberal Currents Startup Fund
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November 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
pledge drive time! liberal currents has put in years of hard work developing a sensibility, voice, and community that mean a lot more than the contrarian sensibilities of media startups. very excited to see them moving to a new level.
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It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own
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Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
everything about the questions asked in this section about residential retail exhausts me! inertial conservatism will fight tooth and nail to preserve euclidean zoning.
Up now: corner stores. The original recommendation to allow small retail uses within neighbourhoods was watered down at committee, but the recommendation to allow retail uses along designated major streets remains. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...
Agenda Item History 2025.PH25.3
Agenda Item History 2025.PH25.3
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November 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
everything about the questions asked in this section about residential retail exhausts me! inertial conservatism will fight tooth and nail to preserve euclidean zoning.
darkly fascinating episode in hegseth's pentagon where the purge of women reaches into special operations and you get retired maga seals being profanely shocked pikachu about it.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
Pentagon Pete Accused of Forcing Out SEAL Team Six Heroine
The Navy captain’s orders were revoked just days before she was supposed to take over a new command.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:56 AM
darkly fascinating episode in hegseth's pentagon where the purge of women reaches into special operations and you get retired maga seals being profanely shocked pikachu about it.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
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books have no tech tree, no fog of war
November 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
books have no tech tree, no fog of war