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Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · last yr.Robert Armstrong (who coined Trump Always Chickens Out thesis) says TACO is falsified. Its now WACO —World Always Chickens Out New Dispatch: Its actually EMPANDA—Everyone Makes Promises And Never Actually Does Anything? @katemac.bsky.social @alanbeattie.bsky.social buttondown.com/polycrisisdi....
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Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · last yr.Robert Armstrong (who coined Trump Always Chickens Out thesis) says TACO is falsified. Its now WACO — World Always Chickens Out. NEW: @thepolycrisis.bsky.social @katemac.bsky.social take: EMPANDA — Everyone Makes Promises And Never Actually Does Anything? buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...
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Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 11mo ago"3 characteristics of global risks: delocalization, uncalculability, & non- compensatability." -Ulrich Beck 2008:'World at risk: the new task of critical theory' share.google/ZCF1PERC7uPT... TY @anndlandes.bsky.social ! We too thought of Beck. Insurance -how do they get price right and risk right?
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Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 4w ago1/ Each Summer, @katemac.bsky.social & I write a essay with a different focus on political economy of Climate Don't miss our trilogy over last 3 summers Global Boiling: Scorched Earth: phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo... Uninsurable Earth: phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
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Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · last yr.Why do we listen to Odd Lots? “Capitalists will lie to you,but they don’t lie to themselves" Its Charismatic Megafauna in “Cambrian explosion” that blew open “neoliberal hegemony” of economic discourse over the past decade Congrats Joe & Tracy! @tracyalloway.bsky.social nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b...
US-UK weight gap opening up! “According to the pollster Gallup, over Q2-Q3 of 2025, roughly 1 in 8 Americans were active users. In other countries where wallets — and waistlines — aren’t quite as thick, that share is lower” British share? 1 in 25 people on GLP-1 www.ft.com/content/0de4...
Does the weight-loss revolution show up in the data?
Slimming the world is a slow business
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Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 3mo agoGood debate: "I think the single biggest risk is if China overwhelms our auto industry and becomes dominant here.. China is so powerful and has so much leverage—low cost, high speed, good quality—that it could simply...obliterate legacy automakers. That’s the risk" www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...
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Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · last yr.US is becoming poorer & weaker as it dismantles the very system it once built. Now, marooned on a fossil-drenched continent, the question is whether it will watch in sullen silence as others climb toward the solar uplands, or have the power to crush the spring www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/apr...
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Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · last yr.Had fun talking with @emmavigeland.bsky.social @majorityreport.bsky.social about neoliberalism failing to deliver, BRICS, & why the US is giving up on industries of the future www.youtube.com/live/MuBPpNn... Subscribe to @katemac.bsky.social & my Polycrisis www.phenomenalworld.org/series/the-p...
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Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · last yr."as a borrower, the US has been seen as risk-free. That confidence itself confers a benefit, in which rates are fantastically low for “risk-free” borrowers like us." @marychilds.bsky.social on how the almighty US treasury now goes up and down with Trump tweets harpers.org/archive/2025...
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Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · last yr.Had fun talking with @emmavigeland.bsky.social about neoliberalism failing to deliver, BRICS, why Trumpistan is giving up on industries of the future, & the AI blackouts to come www.phenomenalworld.org/series/the-p... Subscribe to @katemac.bsky.social & my Polycrisis www.youtube.com/live/MuBPpNn...
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Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 2mo ago6/ $11 billion Honda EV plant in Ontario CANCELLED in 2026 Honda Canada CEO Dave Jamieson said the automaker is taking “significant hits” on tariffs, with 76 per cent of the Civics and CR-Vs it builds in Alliston, north of Toronto, exported to the United States. asia.nikkei.com/business/aut...
In search of programs, strategies, and coalitions for a new world order NEW: @phenomenalworld.bsky.social @katemac.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bey... bsky.app/profile/70sb...
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · last yr.What is the terrain on which coalition-building for a progressive policy must situate itself going forward? Effective solutions to the Cost of living crisis: food, rent, housing, water, and utilities. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bey...
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Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · last yr.While these ideas may initially appear ineffective, when a major objective crisis erupts...they become quietly accumulated intellectual resources and, suddenly, acquire immense power, transforming into ideologies that shape events and mobilize society. newleftreview.org/issues/ii151...
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Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · last yr.why is the so IMF passive aggressive about countries doing industrial policy ? title a report "Handle with Care" jeeeeez check out these questions for naughty countries! @nathanlane.bsky.social @jwmason.bsky.social imf.org/en/Publicati...
"German re-industrialization led by the arms sector, what could possibly go wrong?"-@bordergroves.bsky.social @katemac.bsky.social & I wrote about politics of new Europe in 'Europe has entered its metal era'- more Mil AND more green spending, in name of autonomy phenomenalworld.org/analysis/eur...
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 8mo agoBeat your ploughshares into swords! “After Germany pledged to spend more than $500 billion on defense in the next decade, manufacturers facing stubborn economic stagnation and falling exports to key markets are scrambling to reinvent themselves as military vendors.“ www.wsj.com/world/europe...
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Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 8mo ago"Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea" -- @davelevitan.bsky.social
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Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · last yr.1/ "There is indeed a general problem with the whole suggestion of a “Global South”. It implies, increasingly inaccurately, that our world is still a tale of Western‐driven globalisation that makes others passive consumers of events" Bracing by @patporter76.bsky.social www.cato.org/commentary/w...
