“As interest payments surpassed a quarter of income, the reality of financial expropriation as the flip side of financial inclusion became clear.” @rugitsky.bsky.social on the indebted Brazilian electorate phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bra...

Drowning in Debt | Fernando Rugistky

Financial inclusion and financial expropriation in Brazil

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"Between the 1960s and 1970s, there was a great spread of progressive Catholicism in Brazil. This organizing struggle opened the way for new political parties. Among them was the Workers’ Party led by Lula." Frei Betto on organizing under Brazil's military coup

Never Again? | Hugo Fanton

An interview with Frei Betto on Brazil's 1964 military coup, the authoritarian advance in everyday life, and forms of resistance.

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A revised version of “The impact of artificial intelligence on output and inflation” now published in Economic Modelling. Free download at link for the next 50 days, get your copy! 😊 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"The US role in Brazil's election is criminally under-discussed in the US, though obviously front and center of the conversation in Brazil." - @ishaantharoor.bsky.social US has done Lawfare & Economic Warfare against Brazil & the continent and it is shocking how few americans know/care about it

Did you know there was an attempted burglary of anti-fascist documents held here? That classic book "On Liberty" has 2 authors, not one? That a piece of LSE art was stolen? “Stolen! Theft in the archives” is coming soon! An exhibition exploring theft in different forms. www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

Exhibition: Stolen! Theft in the archives

Explore diverse stories from our archives related to different forms of theft.

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Big Tech companies like Flock Safety have built a mass surveillance system to harvest Americans’ private and personal data without their consent. I’m proud to introduce the Ban Flock Act with @sanders.senate.gov to enforce our constitutional right to privacy.

Brazil at LSE 💙🤍💚💛

The growth of private credit has often been attributed to tighter banking regulation and low policy rates. Such things certainly played a role early on, but they are difficult to reconcile with the rapid growth in private credit since 2020, when rates went up and regulation, if anything, loosened

Iñaki Aldasoro@aldasoro.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hey hey! BIS Quarterly Review is out. Check out our article with Puriya Abbassi and Sebastian Doerr on the role of private credit in financing the digital economy www.bis.org/publications...

ICYMI, new bulletin out on the interplay between automation through AI/robots and ageing

Iñaki Aldasoro@aldasoro.bsky.social · last wk.

New BIS Bulletin out! AI and robots could ease demographic pressures. But automation potential is poorly aligned with the sectors where workforces are ageing in several advanced economies. We explore policy implications and make the aging/automation dataset available www.bis.org/publications...

London friends! I'm having a book launch later this month at LSE. Hope to see some of you there! registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/easting-th... details: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

NYT clanker Keynes is fun to watch but unconvincing. Keynes thought he had two great insights:(1)declining marginal propensity to consume implies a demand shortfall w/o investment;(2)can't count on investment b/c it's based on vibes and vibes about vibes. This is where he'd have started with AI.

Opinion | What Would John Maynard Keynes Say About A.I.? The Keynes Bot Told Us. (Gift Article)

Nearly a century ago, Keynes predicted that technology would liberate us from work. To imagine what he would think of artificial intelligence today, a Princeton economist used A.I.

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not enough is said about what has happened to the experience of searching on Google. we no longer have the option to simply search without Google putting an AI-generated answer at the top of the results, and most of the time those answers are wrong 😒

A great deal happened today. But nothing more important than this. SCOTUS allows Trump Administration to continue sending detained migrants to third countries with which the migrants have no prior connection. Just appalling.

Bad news for Exxon, and a win for the power of public pressure calling out the blatant corruption of the Roberts Court: Justice Alito is stepping down from further participating in Suncor v. Boulder, a week before oral arguments. We've been calling for his recusal from this case for YEARS: 🧵

I’d missed SG Sauer’s sly attempt to impugn Justices Jackson in his DHS v D.V.D petition. Thanks for lifting that up @stevevladeck.bsky.social . open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...

253. Introducing “The Court We Need”

My second book about the Supreme Court offers a more nuanced diagnosis of exactly what’s wrong with the institution—and how (and why) we should fix it.

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New BIS Bulletin out! AI and robots could ease demographic pressures. But automation potential is poorly aligned with the sectors where workforces are ageing in several advanced economies. We explore policy implications and make the aging/automation dataset available www.bis.org/publications...

Old workers, young machines: can AI and automation offset population ageing? | Bank for International Settlements

Key takeaways Artificial intelligence (AI) and robots have the potential to offset the macroeconomic consequences of an ageing workforce, but the ability to automate jobs depends on which industries a...

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The Supreme Court’s willingness to use the 14th Amendment to emancipate white people from Black elected officials—but not to help Black people elect officials—signals its fundamentally racist priorities.

Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.

The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.

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An incredibly powerful package of stories from @theguardian.com -- a day in the life of five ordinary folks in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

We followed five people in Gaza from dawn to dusk – this is what the headlines don’t tell us

Behind the stories of bombings and mass deaths, the everyday challenges facing Palestinians living under siege portray a quieter tragedy we rarely hear

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Anyone who has ever complained about London Underground, complain no more.

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

I just published a newsletter about the last book I read. in an age of algorithmic authorship, here’s the perhaps most irrelevant & most important fact about this piece: it was written using a revolutionary method - I read the book & wrote about it myself. beatrizgama.substack.com/p/back-to-lo...

Another new paper alert! "Supreme Amnesia: The Shifting Standards for Fraud-on-the-Market Class Certification," forthcoming in the Business Lawyer as part of the ILEP 30th Anniversary of the PSLRA Symposium. papers.ssrn.com/abstract=745...

Timely, given the strong Minsky moment vibes these days. Just out in Politics & Society. "The more Minsky rose to the challenge of explaining the economics of his [wage-led growth] proposal ... the more Democrats grew concerned about its politics." journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

1/ Happy to see @kaitlin-alper.bsky.social, myself, & Andreas Jozwiak's paper out @ejprjournal.bsky.social It's well-known that, on average, women support redistribution more than men. We find that the gender gap is conditional on household income & inequality within couples. tinyurl.com/3nrn53ej

I’m so angry I wrote an article: In Germany, fascist majorities are a real possibility again, but the centrist merger of a revived Red Scare with open racism shows that mainstream media & politics are unable or unwilling to comprehend the seriousness of the crisis tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/germ...

Warning from Germany: It’s Socialism or Barbarism

Fascism is at the door, and liberals are ushering it in. Only the left offers hope.

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Thrilled to launch our new Alternatives to Capitalism public lecture series at LSE this year with Evgeny Morozov @evgenymorozov.bsky.social on Socialism after AI, co-hosted with @equatormag.bsky.social ! www.lse.ac.uk/events/ai-so...

Socialism after AI | Dr Evgeny Morozov

6:30pm Mon 5 Oct | Dr Evgeny Morozov | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

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🚨New article in Nature Scientific Data: The ParlLawSpeech Parliamentary Text Data Collection > 3 Million Parliamentary Bills, Laws, and Speeches from 8 Legislatures: doi.org/10.1038/s415... with @lukashetzer.eurosky.social @sopro.bsky.social @chrauh.bsky.social @miklossebok.bsky.social 1/6

The ParlLawSpeech Parliamentary Text Data Collection > 3 Million Parliamentary Bills, Laws, and Speeches from 8 Legislatures - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - The ParlLawSpeech Parliamentary Text Data Collection > 3 Million Parliamentary Bills, Laws, and Speeches from 8 Legislatures

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As we enter UN General Assembly High-Level Week, a sharp and searching post from Henry on international relations--and for its trackers, prognosticators, and theorists. Important insights for sense-making and social research in this chaotic geopolitical moment. Look forward to reading the paper.

Henry Farrell@himself.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Perhaps the most useful role that the discipline of International Relations may play is ... as a generator of largely untestable and incompatible claims that can then help inform policy systems that are better adapted to work with many possible futures."

"The benefit, if there is one, will be that “analysts” who have devoted themselves to reading Fed statements like tarot cards, may have to find some other uses for their time." www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

The Impotence of Being Kevin Warsh

Kevin Warsh’s call for fresh thinking at the Fed runs up against a deeper problem. The tools and concepts guiding monetary policy may no longer fit an economy reshaped by AI, shifting prices, and the ...

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