@matthiasamrhein.bsky.social
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In this paper, independent researcher Jim Farmelant argues that the theories of economist Ronald Coase, when combined with Marxian economics, can provide new insights when applied to contemporary debates on socialist planning. www.indep.network/paper-argues...
Paper Argues for Synthesis of Ronald Coase’s and Marx’s Economic Theory To Analyse Socialist Planning
In this paper, independent Jim Farmelant argues that the views of economist Ronald Coase of his youth when he was a socialist and his early economic writings, when combined with Marxian economics…
www.indep.network
January 23, 2026 at 3:13 AM
In this paper, independent researcher Jim Farmelant argues that the theories of economist Ronald Coase, when combined with Marxian economics, can provide new insights when applied to contemporary debates on socialist planning. www.indep.network/paper-argues...
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Apparently there’s yet another Zaid Jilani piece in the Times saying “stop caring so much about race” and for once I actually read it and what’s so striking is it’s so lazy. With the exception of, I believe, one reference to a recent election, every line could have been written the same since 2014.
January 22, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Apparently there’s yet another Zaid Jilani piece in the Times saying “stop caring so much about race” and for once I actually read it and what’s so striking is it’s so lazy. With the exception of, I believe, one reference to a recent election, every line could have been written the same since 2014.
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tbh I think this is true but also the budget constraint has to be considered here: regulatory reform is free to revenue-positive, while public investment can be extremely expensive. Important to remember given the current politics of taxation, future deficits, and demographic pressures
Second: broadly speaking, you can increase supply through regulatory reform, public investment, or both. Think of these as complementary tools. Regulation isn't intrinsically good or bad; it's an instrument, or rather a category of instruments. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
Lessons from YIMBYism: Taking “Abundance” Back to Its Fundamentals
Lessons from YIMBYism examines how supply-side reforms, public investment, and state capacity can make progressive social policy work as intended.
rooseveltinstitute.org
January 21, 2026 at 7:23 PM
tbh I think this is true but also the budget constraint has to be considered here: regulatory reform is free to revenue-positive, while public investment can be extremely expensive. Important to remember given the current politics of taxation, future deficits, and demographic pressures
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New from me: A brief for @rooseveltinstitute.org on the logic of YIMBY policymaking and its applicability to other domains. What principles underlying the YIMBY agenda are transferrable to thinking about energy, healthcare, and other areas? Short 🧵 to follow. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
Lessons from YIMBYism: Taking “Abundance” Back to Its Fundamentals
Lessons from YIMBYism examines how supply-side reforms, public investment, and state capacity can make progressive social policy work as intended.
rooseveltinstitute.org
January 21, 2026 at 3:52 PM
New from me: A brief for @rooseveltinstitute.org on the logic of YIMBY policymaking and its applicability to other domains. What principles underlying the YIMBY agenda are transferrable to thinking about energy, healthcare, and other areas? Short 🧵 to follow. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
Turn off the oil taps
fuck you, asshole
Trump: Canada lives because of the U.S., Carney remember that when you make your next statement
January 21, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Turn off the oil taps
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One of the funny* things about the Jenrick defection is his articles basically amount to "Reheated Thatcherism and bungs to pensioners have broken Britain, and that's why I'm joining the Reheated Thatcherism and Bungs to Pensioners Party".
Don't know if this sort of rhetoric has caught up with the fact that Reform's base are the most dependent on welfare of any party's
January 21, 2026 at 10:14 AM
One of the funny* things about the Jenrick defection is his articles basically amount to "Reheated Thatcherism and bungs to pensioners have broken Britain, and that's why I'm joining the Reheated Thatcherism and Bungs to Pensioners Party".
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Maybe Bessent will call this “irrelevant”, too. 🤡
ECB's Koch: I see a marginal move away from US treasury investments
January 21, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Maybe Bessent will call this “irrelevant”, too. 🤡
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When Europe is threatened by fascist imperialist from the east and the west, only these brave few boldly asked “but what about my CAP subsidised beef monopoly“
January 21, 2026 at 12:12 PM
When Europe is threatened by fascist imperialist from the east and the west, only these brave few boldly asked “but what about my CAP subsidised beef monopoly“
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Microsoft, we gotta be honest, this all sounds like a "you" problem
Microsoft CEO says AI “risks becoming a speculative bubble unless its use spreads beyond big tech companies and wealthy economies.” Brother you’re the one building this dogshit, we’re three years and hundreds of billions in, how have you not worked it out?
www.ft.com/content/2a29...
www.ft.com/content/2a29...
January 20, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Microsoft, we gotta be honest, this all sounds like a "you" problem
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I keep coming back to the fact that while Denmark did a ton of fucked up shit to Greenland in the past, they legit made restitution for it, including a major ongoing expenditure of resources. a practically unique example of a former empire trying to do right by a *nonwhite* former colony
Genuinely insane we are living in a world where the Danish have to deploy a battlegroup to protect themselves against America. Makes my blood turn molten, honestly
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January 20, 2026 at 10:19 PM
I keep coming back to the fact that while Denmark did a ton of fucked up shit to Greenland in the past, they legit made restitution for it, including a major ongoing expenditure of resources. a practically unique example of a former empire trying to do right by a *nonwhite* former colony
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The year is 2030 in San Diego
I live on the 6 floor of an ADU in someone's backyard
I go to the front yard to get a coffee and pastry from one of the several ACUs there.
I hop on the MTS trolley, to go to my job in an AOU in someone's backyard.
I finish out the day in the ACU bar in my front yard
I live on the 6 floor of an ADU in someone's backyard
I go to the front yard to get a coffee and pastry from one of the several ACUs there.
I hop on the MTS trolley, to go to my job in an AOU in someone's backyard.
I finish out the day in the ACU bar in my front yard
LA faces nearly the same political constraints as San Diego (high interest rates, tariffs, California law).
Yet SD has managed to increase housing construction by 10% over the past three years, while LA has dropped by 33%.
LA's leaders are failing its residents.
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Yet SD has managed to increase housing construction by 10% over the past three years, while LA has dropped by 33%.
LA's leaders are failing its residents.
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
San Diego shows what happens when a city actually lets builders build
Why does San Diego lead California in apartment construction?
www.latimes.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:24 PM
The year is 2030 in San Diego
I live on the 6 floor of an ADU in someone's backyard
I go to the front yard to get a coffee and pastry from one of the several ACUs there.
I hop on the MTS trolley, to go to my job in an AOU in someone's backyard.
I finish out the day in the ACU bar in my front yard
I live on the 6 floor of an ADU in someone's backyard
I go to the front yard to get a coffee and pastry from one of the several ACUs there.
I hop on the MTS trolley, to go to my job in an AOU in someone's backyard.
I finish out the day in the ACU bar in my front yard
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Valorizing the South as an untapped source of working class Democrats is northern Leftist tourist crap.
January 20, 2026 at 3:27 AM
Valorizing the South as an untapped source of working class Democrats is northern Leftist tourist crap.
Great analysis of the current far-right movement, and it seemingly applies to Central Europe as well. The far-right Northwestern Europe deserves a similar assessment, because I think the religious element is less potent. www.liberalcurrents.com/remigration-...
Remigration, Recolonization, Rechristianization, Restoration: How Some of America’s Most Extreme Christian Nationalists See the New (Old) World Order
On the right's masculine, white nationalist, and theocratic framework.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 20, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Great analysis of the current far-right movement, and it seemingly applies to Central Europe as well. The far-right Northwestern Europe deserves a similar assessment, because I think the religious element is less potent. www.liberalcurrents.com/remigration-...
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Read this excellent piece.
Buckle is right. Liberalism is alive and well -- in fact, more popular & more activist than any time since Reagan.
Liberals did not become fascists. Conservatives became fascists.
Liberalism did not die. The center-right died so the far-right might live.
Buckle is right. Liberalism is alive and well -- in fact, more popular & more activist than any time since Reagan.
Liberals did not become fascists. Conservatives became fascists.
Liberalism did not die. The center-right died so the far-right might live.
January 20, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Read this excellent piece.
Buckle is right. Liberalism is alive and well -- in fact, more popular & more activist than any time since Reagan.
Liberals did not become fascists. Conservatives became fascists.
Liberalism did not die. The center-right died so the far-right might live.
Buckle is right. Liberalism is alive and well -- in fact, more popular & more activist than any time since Reagan.
Liberals did not become fascists. Conservatives became fascists.
Liberalism did not die. The center-right died so the far-right might live.
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here’s my latest:
Trump’s repeated references to Canada becoming a 51st state should be worrying enough, but the strategy released by his administration makes it very clear they’re coming directly for Canadian Arctic sovereignty via the Northwest Passage. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/20/o...
Trump’s repeated references to Canada becoming a 51st state should be worrying enough, but the strategy released by his administration makes it very clear they’re coming directly for Canadian Arctic sovereignty via the Northwest Passage. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/20/o...
Trump will use the Greenland argument to grab Canada's Northwest Passage
A 1988 agreement between Canada and the United States about the sea lane left its legal status largely undecided, allowing both countries to assert their respective positions. But now, thanks to US Pr...
www.nationalobserver.com
January 20, 2026 at 1:33 PM
here’s my latest:
Trump’s repeated references to Canada becoming a 51st state should be worrying enough, but the strategy released by his administration makes it very clear they’re coming directly for Canadian Arctic sovereignty via the Northwest Passage. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/20/o...
Trump’s repeated references to Canada becoming a 51st state should be worrying enough, but the strategy released by his administration makes it very clear they’re coming directly for Canadian Arctic sovereignty via the Northwest Passage. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/20/o...
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Warp speed was happening whether he wanted it to or not, that isn’t true for pepfar
January 20, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Warp speed was happening whether he wanted it to or not, that isn’t true for pepfar
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People need to stop posting that myth about Trident being unusable without a US say so. It's literally just not true.
January 20, 2026 at 8:57 AM
People need to stop posting that myth about Trident being unusable without a US say so. It's literally just not true.
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it’s just so crazy to see it happen in real time
January 19, 2026 at 8:01 PM
it’s just so crazy to see it happen in real time
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In Dec 2025, new business applications fell 7% month-over-month, but they're still up 8% year-over-year.
Notably, there's been something unusual going on with business applications spiking except for businesses with planned wages, which are down 23% YoY.
Source: www.census.gov/econ/bfs/cur...
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Notably, there's been something unusual going on with business applications spiking except for businesses with planned wages, which are down 23% YoY.
Source: www.census.gov/econ/bfs/cur...
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January 14, 2026 at 3:15 PM
In Dec 2025, new business applications fell 7% month-over-month, but they're still up 8% year-over-year.
Notably, there's been something unusual going on with business applications spiking except for businesses with planned wages, which are down 23% YoY.
Source: www.census.gov/econ/bfs/cur...
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Notably, there's been something unusual going on with business applications spiking except for businesses with planned wages, which are down 23% YoY.
Source: www.census.gov/econ/bfs/cur...
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What were the main causes behind the collapse of the United States back in the mid- to late 2020s?
Here's my overview:
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/why-the-us-c...
Here's my overview:
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/why-the-us-c...
Why the US Collapsed
I wrote this a few years from now…
Historians, political analysts, and much of the general public around the world have long discussed why the United States of America collapsed in the mid- to late 2...
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu
January 13, 2026 at 9:09 PM
What were the main causes behind the collapse of the United States back in the mid- to late 2020s?
Here's my overview:
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/why-the-us-c...
Here's my overview:
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/why-the-us-c...
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In the end the biggest enemy of the contrarian centrist and edgelord socialist is the Cringe Lib who is often gender coded by both respective parties
January 13, 2026 at 12:40 PM
In the end the biggest enemy of the contrarian centrist and edgelord socialist is the Cringe Lib who is often gender coded by both respective parties
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“.. The whole country will be like — you want to know the truth? It’ll be like Detroit. .. Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she’s your president.”
- 11/10/24
- 11/10/24
Trump’s Detroit trip to put manufacturing back in focus amid US factory job slump reut.rs/4qQGi9B
Trump’s Detroit trip to put manufacturing back in focus amid US factory job slump
President Donald Trump will visit Detroit on Tuesday to refocus attention on U.S. manufacturing and his efforts to tackle high consumer costs, shifting from recent foreign flashpoints to the economic anxieties gripping U.S. households.
reut.rs
January 13, 2026 at 11:24 AM
“.. The whole country will be like — you want to know the truth? It’ll be like Detroit. .. Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she’s your president.”
- 11/10/24
- 11/10/24
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a number of european cities & orgs look for space for new housing like this... understanding where opportunities are and leaning heavily into them w/ policies, incentives, etc.
in hamburg - space for nearly 50k homes in aufstockungen or in existing attic spaces
www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/hamb...
in hamburg - space for nearly 50k homes in aufstockungen or in existing attic spaces
www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/hamb...
Immobilien Hamburg: Neue Studie – hier wäre Platz für fast 47.000 Wohnungen
Laut der Analyse gibt es gerade in Hamburg noch sehr viel ungenutztes Potenzial. Wo der zusätzliche Wohnraum entstehen könnte.
www.abendblatt.de
January 12, 2026 at 4:07 PM
a number of european cities & orgs look for space for new housing like this... understanding where opportunities are and leaning heavily into them w/ policies, incentives, etc.
in hamburg - space for nearly 50k homes in aufstockungen or in existing attic spaces
www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/hamb...
in hamburg - space for nearly 50k homes in aufstockungen or in existing attic spaces
www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/hamb...
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Indeed. Sadiq absolutely right on that aspect:
January 12, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Indeed. Sadiq absolutely right on that aspect: