John Quiggin
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Economist & blogger @ http://johnquiggin.com, http://crookedtimber.org. http://johnquiggin.substack.com/?utm http://mstdn.social/@johnquiggin I repost my content, using the #repost hashtag. You can go to settings/filters to avoid seeing the same post.
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The Express is right to say that this is a disaster for Starmer, who has continued to chase the Tory dream of "cakeism" (getting all the benefits of EU membership while staying out), and added a side helping of humble pie, crawling to Trump for favors and getting kicked in return

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I've got 40 years of work invested in #Apple, and now they've gone evil. No easy way to shift, so for the moment I've just shelved all plans to buy anything new. I was really looking forward to an iPhone 17.

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Solutions will only be reached when universities are treated as a public service, like schools and hospitals, rather than as a set of quasi-private entities subject to half-hearted regulation
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John Burn-Murdoch asks: Has the world passed peak social media? At a minimum, Musk has killed Xitter and Meta is in decline. And, as the article says, we must be near saturation point with short-form video.
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Indeed, I make this very point a bit further on
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The long retreat from public housing yet another failure of neoliberalism. "Social housing" at best a partial substitute
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Long article on the failure of #Labor's #HAFF scheme gets to the point right near the bottom, quoting Greens' Senator Pocock "“It would have been better for the government to directly fund the construction of social and affordable housing" #auspol

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The PM wants to build homes like the one he grew up in. These days, it's harder
It takes a long time to build anything at all in Australia's dysfunctional housing market, even for the federal government, but Labor's social housing fund is inching towards an impact.
www.abc.net.au
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I support the version with individual accounts at central banks
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There is none. "Digital" really means "unregulated".
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"We must keep an open mind about stablecoins and financial innovation." On the contrary we should keep a suspicious mind, alert to the fact that the great majority of financial innovations are scams. Try them out on a small scale and with close supervision
Technology, Payments, and the Rise of Stablecoins
Technology, data, and changing societal values are reshaping how people and institutions move money and trade financial assets
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"The window is short. Standards are being written right now — in Washington, Brussels, Beijing". But rather than going it alone, we should be joining Brussels, to protect ourselves against the evil empire. #AI
Australia’s AI choice: Standards setter or technology taker?
If Australia adopts artificial intelligence built to foreign specifications, we tacitly accept an invisible leash.
www.lowyinstitute.org