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Tremendous thanks to @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social for re-posting "The Utopia of Refusal," our recently published critical engagement with Graeber's writings & legacy. Sharing critical work like ours demonstrates the Institute's spirit of openness & generosity. Much appreciated!
Will Beaman and Scott Ferguson critique some of Graeber’s basic assumptions about money
Note: David Graeber leaves behind a rich and complex body of work that remains influential for leftist thought and practice. Since his passing in 2020, however, most assessments of his work have been ...
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December 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Tremendous thanks to @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social for re-posting "The Utopia of Refusal," our recently published critical engagement with Graeber's writings & legacy. Sharing critical work like ours demonstrates the Institute's spirit of openness & generosity. Much appreciated!
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my book is officially out! you can get it here! www.aspublicaspossiblebook.com
As Public As Possible: Radical Finance for America's Public Schools | David Backer
Education expert David I. Backer argues for radically expanding the "public" in public schools. Discover a concrete set of policies to provide a truly public education for all, regardless of wealth an...
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December 8, 2025 at 1:43 AM
my book is officially out! you can get it here! www.aspublicaspossiblebook.com
The “new age of American capitalism” is apparently the government giving children money to prop up the stock market and then calling it philanthropy.
You can’t make this stuff up.
You can’t make this stuff up.
December 5, 2025 at 1:17 AM
The “new age of American capitalism” is apparently the government giving children money to prop up the stock market and then calling it philanthropy.
You can’t make this stuff up.
You can’t make this stuff up.
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We are joined by David I. Backer, associate professor of education policy at Seton Hall University, to discuss his new book: As Public as Possible: Radical Finance for America’s Schools (The New Press, 2025).
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December 4, 2025 at 12:09 PM
We are joined by David I. Backer, associate professor of education policy at Seton Hall University, to discuss his new book: As Public as Possible: Radical Finance for America’s Schools (The New Press, 2025).
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Excellent conversation on the framing of neoliberal public finance vs democratic public finance.
MotL 84 is live! 🔊
✨Democratic Public Finance✨
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Billy Saas & Scott Ferguson are joined by Will Beaman to discuss Money on the Left’s framework for what we call “Democratic Public Finance."
Please listen 🎧 & share 🙌 !
*Transcript forthcoming
✨Democratic Public Finance✨
moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/01/d...
Billy Saas & Scott Ferguson are joined by Will Beaman to discuss Money on the Left’s framework for what we call “Democratic Public Finance."
Please listen 🎧 & share 🙌 !
*Transcript forthcoming
November 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Excellent conversation on the framing of neoliberal public finance vs democratic public finance.
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Good evening!
New at The Evening Constitutional, the latest installment of my Constitutional Perspectives series. Today we're talking all about the federal union!
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New at The Evening Constitutional, the latest installment of my Constitutional Perspectives series. Today we're talking all about the federal union!
eveningconstitutional.net/federalism-p...
Federalism, Part II: The Union
Welcome back to Constitutional Perspectives!
Today I'm continuing my discussion of federalism, one of the great defining structural features of the American constitutional system. Last time, I gave y...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Good evening!
New at The Evening Constitutional, the latest installment of my Constitutional Perspectives series. Today we're talking all about the federal union!
eveningconstitutional.net/federalism-p...
New at The Evening Constitutional, the latest installment of my Constitutional Perspectives series. Today we're talking all about the federal union!
eveningconstitutional.net/federalism-p...
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October 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Chicago come through, No Kings there abc7chicago.com/post/no-king...
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Lev Menand is blistering here. Must listen. Meeting the moment. Incredible stuff from @weisenthal.bsky.social and @tracyalloway.bsky.social on Odd Lots.
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Lev Menand on Trump’s Attempt to Fire the Fed’s Lisa Cook — Odd Lots
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August 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Lev Menand is blistering here. Must listen. Meeting the moment. Incredible stuff from @weisenthal.bsky.social and @tracyalloway.bsky.social on Odd Lots.
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This is great because it's not just a liberal defense of central bank independence - first, a revelation about Trump's will to absolute power legitimized by a Supreme Court he put together
Lev Menand is blistering here. Must listen. Meeting the moment. Incredible stuff from @weisenthal.bsky.social and @tracyalloway.bsky.social on Odd Lots.
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Lev Menand on Trump’s Attempt to Fire the Fed’s Lisa Cook — Odd Lots
overcast.fm
August 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
This is great because it's not just a liberal defense of central bank independence - first, a revelation about Trump's will to absolute power legitimized by a Supreme Court he put together
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Is money really a "medium of exchange"? This article challenges one of the most fundamental concepts in economics, arguing that we should see money as a collective project and a means of payment guaranteed by a community.
Money is Not a Medium of Exchange
by Jens Martignoni With this brief provocation, Jens Martignoni develops a suggestion first put forth in an essay published in the International Journal of Community Currency Research (IJCCR). Ther…
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August 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Is money really a "medium of exchange"? This article challenges one of the most fundamental concepts in economics, arguing that we should see money as a collective project and a means of payment guaranteed by a community.
One good thing would come of this. It would clearly demarcate the end of post-postmodernism and the beginning of post post-postmodernism.
I fully expect Trump to award himself the Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievement Award.
August 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
One good thing would come of this. It would clearly demarcate the end of post-postmodernism and the beginning of post post-postmodernism.
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"By holding the ... two faces of sovereignty together, we can see how rogue and publicly irresponsible currencies cut across the official/unofficial divide."
The Unofficial Lives of Public Money
by Will Beaman Recent Money on the Left proposals for endogenous credit campaigns—like Unis or Blue Bonds—often run headlong into an unspoken but deeply rooted distinction between “official” and “u…
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August 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
"By holding the ... two faces of sovereignty together, we can see how rogue and publicly irresponsible currencies cut across the official/unofficial divide."
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The Supreme Court never said money equals speech. The Citizens United ruling said government can't restrict spending money specifically on disseminating political speech. Those are not the same. The vast majority of money is not spent spreading expression. Treating them as the same isn't helping.
August 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The Supreme Court never said money equals speech. The Citizens United ruling said government can't restrict spending money specifically on disseminating political speech. Those are not the same. The vast majority of money is not spent spreading expression. Treating them as the same isn't helping.
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MotL 81 is live! 🗣️
✨ Legal & Political Foundations of Capitalism with Jamee K. Moudud ✨
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Please listen & share! 🎧 🙌
*Transcript forthcoming
✨ Legal & Political Foundations of Capitalism with Jamee K. Moudud ✨
moneyontheleft.org/2025/07/01/l...
Please listen & share! 🎧 🙌
*Transcript forthcoming
July 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
MotL 81 is live! 🗣️
✨ Legal & Political Foundations of Capitalism with Jamee K. Moudud ✨
moneyontheleft.org/2025/07/01/l...
Please listen & share! 🎧 🙌
*Transcript forthcoming
✨ Legal & Political Foundations of Capitalism with Jamee K. Moudud ✨
moneyontheleft.org/2025/07/01/l...
Please listen & share! 🎧 🙌
*Transcript forthcoming
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We're still doing our best to track it all.
Trump's trade war timeline:
Trump's trade war timeline:
Trump's trade war timeline 2.0: An up-to-date guide
President Donald Trump has started his second term in office with momentous plans to change US trade policy to achieve various economic and nontrade related aims. Below is a timeline that tracks the d...
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July 31, 2025 at 7:33 PM
We're still doing our best to track it all.
Trump's trade war timeline:
Trump's trade war timeline:
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Things are so bad, the planet is calling for Batman.
July 27, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Things are so bad, the planet is calling for Batman.
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"MMT reveals that our lives are already held together by a web of overlapping credits and obligations, none of them exactly the same, all of them linked by analogy."
Accounting Identities or Accounting Analogies?
by Will Beaman Most people’s first exposure to Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) comes with a gentle promise: It is just accounting. The government’s deficit is the non-government sector’s surplus, by s…
moneyontheleft.org
July 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"MMT reveals that our lives are already held together by a web of overlapping credits and obligations, none of them exactly the same, all of them linked by analogy."
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If you don't already, watch Colbert. He is a man with no more f*cks left to give. And it's glorious.
Check out this song parody from last night's show: Mike Johnson Delays House Epstein Vote Until September
Check out this song parody from last night's show: Mike Johnson Delays House Epstein Vote Until September
July 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
If you don't already, watch Colbert. He is a man with no more f*cks left to give. And it's glorious.
Check out this song parody from last night's show: Mike Johnson Delays House Epstein Vote Until September
Check out this song parody from last night's show: Mike Johnson Delays House Epstein Vote Until September
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Money on the Left is joined by Andrés Arauz, candidate for the Ecuadorian presidency, heterodox economist, and outspoken advocate for the creation of the “Sur.”
Money & Solidarity in Latin America w/ Andrés Arauz
Money on the Left is joined by Andrés Arauz, recent candidate for the Ecuadorian presidency, heterodox economist, and outspoken advocate for the creation of the “Sur.” The Sur is a complementary cu…
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July 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Money on the Left is joined by Andrés Arauz, candidate for the Ecuadorian presidency, heterodox economist, and outspoken advocate for the creation of the “Sur.”
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An appreciation of modern money theory and the potential of endogenous credit creation may help to renew the Black University movement in our time.
Modern Money & the Black University Concept
Money on the Left: History, Theory, PracticeVol. 1, No. 1 (2024)ISSN 2833-051X Modern Money & the Black University Concept By Andrew J. Douglas Abstract Recent efforts to rethink the university…
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July 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
An appreciation of modern money theory and the potential of endogenous credit creation may help to renew the Black University movement in our time.
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When you think of crypto, or finance more generally, think of an incredibly bloated trucking sector. It has the same impact in being a huge drain on the economy, except truckers aren't awful people like the finance and crypto bros cepr.net/publications...
“Crypto” Is Silicon Valley Speak for Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
Lawmakers are advancing crypto-friendly bills after receiving hundreds of millions in industry donations, risking more financial inefficiency and future bailouts while offering minimal public benefit.
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July 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
When you think of crypto, or finance more generally, think of an incredibly bloated trucking sector. It has the same impact in being a huge drain on the economy, except truckers aren't awful people like the finance and crypto bros cepr.net/publications...
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Never stop making big plans.
Stop Trying to Find the Money—Create It
The Public Banking Act could empower universities to issue new forms of public money that serve democratic communities and repudiate austerity.
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July 10, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Never stop making big plans.
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Check out our conversation with Steve Grumbine about Blue Bonds. Episode drops tomorrow, Saturday 7/5 at 8 am Eastern.
July 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Check out our conversation with Steve Grumbine about Blue Bonds. Episode drops tomorrow, Saturday 7/5 at 8 am Eastern.
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Since 2020, the Money on the Left Editorial Collective has been arguing for a new approach to university finance that we call the ‘uni’ proposal. Here are links to our essays and interviews related to this project.
The Uni Currency Project: Resource Page
Since 2020, the Money on the Left Editorial Collective has been arguing for a new approach to university finance that we call the ‘uni’ proposal. Below are links to our essays and interviews relate…
moneyontheleft.org
June 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Since 2020, the Money on the Left Editorial Collective has been arguing for a new approach to university finance that we call the ‘uni’ proposal. Here are links to our essays and interviews related to this project.
“Yesterday, as everybody knows, [was the] first day of hurricane season,” Richardson said. “I didn’t realize it was a season.”
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FEMA Scraps New Hurricane Plan and Reverts to Last Year’s — The Wall Street Journal
Agency’s leader suggested he recently learned there was an annual hurricane season
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June 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
“Yesterday, as everybody knows, [was the] first day of hurricane season,” Richardson said. “I didn’t realize it was a season.”
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