Brian Judge
@realbrianjudge.bsky.social
an absolute must-read from @jamesmeek.bsky.social in @lrb.co.uk. it illuminates the cultural, political, and economic cross-currents that define the present more clearly than anything else I've read this year. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4....
James Meek · Ten-Foot Chopsticks: The North-East Transition
The ghost of the industrial revolution haunts Britain. The language of today’s politicians, of unlocking and...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
an absolute must-read from @jamesmeek.bsky.social in @lrb.co.uk. it illuminates the cultural, political, and economic cross-currents that define the present more clearly than anything else I've read this year. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4....
the AI bubble popping will also be a reckoning for passive investing,
index funds and ETFs. there are a lot of people out there with no idea that market cap-weighting means 8% of their 401k is in NVDA.
index funds and ETFs. there are a lot of people out there with no idea that market cap-weighting means 8% of their 401k is in NVDA.
November 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
the AI bubble popping will also be a reckoning for passive investing,
index funds and ETFs. there are a lot of people out there with no idea that market cap-weighting means 8% of their 401k is in NVDA.
index funds and ETFs. there are a lot of people out there with no idea that market cap-weighting means 8% of their 401k is in NVDA.
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Now unpaywalled: Fred Block on remaking finance.
Can the millions held in bank deposits, corporate equities, and bonds be used instead to provide for society’s most pressing needs?
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/can-...
Can the millions held in bank deposits, corporate equities, and bonds be used instead to provide for society’s most pressing needs?
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/can-...
Can We Remake Finance? - Dissent Magazine
We have witnessed the destructive effects of financialization. Can the millions held in bank deposits, corporate equities, and bonds be used instead to provide for society’s most pressing needs?
www.dissentmagazine.org
July 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Now unpaywalled: Fred Block on remaking finance.
Can the millions held in bank deposits, corporate equities, and bonds be used instead to provide for society’s most pressing needs?
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/can-...
Can the millions held in bank deposits, corporate equities, and bonds be used instead to provide for society’s most pressing needs?
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/can-...
Reposted by Brian Judge
The California Legislature passed a state budget today that relies more on borrowing than spending cuts to close a projected $12 billion deficit, aiming to push off difficult decisions about priorities even as that gap is only expected to grow in future years. cal.news/4la8P7A
📸 Fred Greaves
📸 Fred Greaves
June 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The California Legislature passed a state budget today that relies more on borrowing than spending cuts to close a projected $12 billion deficit, aiming to push off difficult decisions about priorities even as that gap is only expected to grow in future years. cal.news/4la8P7A
📸 Fred Greaves
📸 Fred Greaves
If the problem is capitalism, then the solution is to assert democratic control over the economy. If the problem is liberalism, then the problem is the possibility of democratic control itself.
Very humbled to be reviewed by Fred Block alongside @itsmccarthy.bsky.social in @dissentmag.bsky.social!
Very humbled to be reviewed by Fred Block alongside @itsmccarthy.bsky.social in @dissentmag.bsky.social!
Fred Block reviewed The Master's Tools for @dissentmag.bsky.social. He contrasts my book, which identifies radical forms of economic democracy as the solution to our political crisis, with another, which argues such democracy is an impossibility. In typical form, he has interesting things to say!
May 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
If the problem is capitalism, then the solution is to assert democratic control over the economy. If the problem is liberalism, then the problem is the possibility of democratic control itself.
Very humbled to be reviewed by Fred Block alongside @itsmccarthy.bsky.social in @dissentmag.bsky.social!
Very humbled to be reviewed by Fred Block alongside @itsmccarthy.bsky.social in @dissentmag.bsky.social!