Melanie Brusseler
@brusselermel.bsky.social
US Programme Director @ https://www.common-wealth.org/ | a girl can dream
okay two fun things today. 1. new issue of FORCES OF PRODUCTION about Affordability, www.forcesofproduction.com/p/measuring-... 2. more importantly, todays issue has a tool to calculate your own personal inflation rate from CPI data to increase complaint precision
Measuring and Managing Affordability
Introducing the “Calculator for Personal Inflation (CPI)”
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new from me at FORCES OF PRODUCTION: The Carbon Web in this piece, I use EPA data on emissions by sector to play around with some rankings for sectoral urgency and importance in planning the economic project of decarbonization www.forcesofproduction.com/p/the-carbon...
The Carbon Web
Mapping the Decarbonization Frontier
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Thread: The enormous unprecedented SCALE of the American AI investment boom is "crowding out" investment going into any other sector of the economy. At this point in mid 2026, it is literally sucking away all factors of production -capital, land, labour, knowledge, ecology. @katemac.bsky.social
this month's Forces of Production celebrates Summer Vacation by pointing out that, frankly, it's bullshit that the US doesn't have laws on the books requiring employers to provide paid vacation www.forcesofproduction.com/p/pauses-in-...
Pauses in Production
The economy under conditions of summer vacation
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So happy this report is out — my latest with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social & the brilliant, inspiring @brusselermel.bsky.social! 'Beyond The Climate Finance Gap: The Global Financial System, Decarbonization, and the Failure of the Wall Street Consensus' www.common-wealth.org/publications...
Beyond The Climate Finance Gap: The Global Financial System, Decarbonization, and the Failure of the Wall Street Consensus
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"[The Productive State] means decommodifying essential goods and services, building the infrastructure that private capital has declined to build, and stabilizing systemically important prices through public ownership at critical chokepoints." @atwilliams.bsky.social & @brusselermel.bsky.social
The Productive State: On Governing the Supply Side
To produce a better life for all, policymakers will need to take a Productive State approach to governing the supply side.
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Today we launch a special collaborative briefing with Forces of Production, introducing an approach to policy — The Productive State — governing the supply side. 🧵 🖊️ @atwilliams.bsky.social @brusselermel.bsky.social www.common-wealth.org/publications...
The Productive State: On Governing the Supply Side
To produce a better life for all, policymakers will need to take a Productive State approach to governing the supply side.
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hello all!! Big Drop Today we are launching a manifesto for our framework for the next US supply-side economic consensus -- The Productive State -- at Forces of Production www.forcesofproduction.com/p/the-produc...
The Productive State
On Governing The Supply Side
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🚨 The fracking boom has transformed the US onshore oil and gas industry — but not in the way proponents promised. Our new briefing explores these shifting frontiers of fossil capital. 🖊️ @arneness.bsky.social www.common-wealth.org/publications...
New Frontiers of Fossil Capital: Oil and Gas Labor, Global Energy Markets, and Decarbonization after Fracking
For a decarbonization policy framework to be effective, it must face the tenacity of fossil capital head-on.
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I CAN HAZ A BOT @70sbotchan.bsky.social :) joint project with the inimitable philosopher @yusufimaadkhan.com. We starting an experiment in summer silly season. Follow along for tweets from the borgesian archive 🎲 random 🎯 banger 💎 deep cut
new from me at FORCES OF PRODUCTION: turns out the economy is mostly people? and not things?? is anyone talking about this www.forcesofproduction.com/p/the-econom...
The Economy Is People
A state of the union, ahead of America's 250th
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Exciting work from @cmmonwealth.bsky.social What answers do @coloradodems.org @adamscountydems.bsky.social have for the question: "where are extreme wealth and corporate domination being challenged most meaningfully?" Where do we support tenants unions, workplace democracy, and worker co-ops?
Common Wealth@cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 5mo agoAmerican life is defined by instability — economic precarity, civic insecurity and institutional distrust. This instability is not accidental but rather engineered to concentrate power at the top. 🧵 What have these crises produced and how can democracy can fight back? shorturl.at/dDtKc
American life is defined by instability — economic precarity, civic insecurity and institutional distrust. This instability is not accidental but rather engineered to concentrate power at the top. 🧵 What have these crises produced and how can democracy can fight back? shorturl.at/dDtKc
Breaking the Cycle: Addressing Instability and Building Better Institutions in an Anti-Institutionalist Moment
The economic instability pervading American life is being exploited by an authoritarian coalition. A pro-democracy agenda must reduce market dependence for life's essentials and rebuild state capacity...
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Really looking forward to this! Thanks to @solveigdegen.bsky.social @cominsitu.bsky.social @rabeaber.bsky.social & Clara Weinmann for organising 🤩🛢️💸
yeah, if i could make only one change in the abundance discourse it would be to drop the language of "Supply" and rephrase everything in the language of "Production". instead of taking an interest in "supply" we need to look at "production" which precedes it, and "capacity" which precedes production
sanjukta paul@sanjukta.bsky.social · 2y agoYES!! And believe it or not, I wrote my optometrist-inspired thread before the public roll-out of the abundance book.
Common Wealth@cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 6mo agoToday, we’re launching our first paper from the Green Planning Commission — Economic Coordination and the Limits of Markets — as an analytical foundation for why the next progressive agenda must be built around public coordination. 🧵 www.common-wealth.org/publications...
Today, we’re launching our first paper from the Green Planning Commission — Economic Coordination and the Limits of Markets — as an analytical foundation for why the next progressive agenda must be built around public coordination. 🧵 www.common-wealth.org/publications...
Economic Coordination and the Barriers Private Market Coordination Poses to Realizing a Progressive Agenda
Private market coordination cannot deliver decarbonization or affordable essential provisions. Instead, public coordination must be the organizing logic of the next progressive agenda and the premise ...
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new from me at FORCES OF PRODUCTION! a short history of the transition from goods to services alongside some recent discussion from @rajakorman.bsky.social and @conorsen.bsky.social on What Is Going On With Healthcare www.forcesofproduction.com/p/services-o...
Services on the Supply Side
Looking away from Manufacturing for a moment
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new from me at FORCES OF PRODUCTION I used the (Weber et al, 2024) model to predict how much more inflation to expect via indirect effects over the next few months based on oil and refined products prices (roughly .8pp, doubling the march CPI reading) www.forcesofproduction.com/p/a-chain-re...
A Chain Reaction
How much indirect inflation should we expect from the Strait of Hormuz closing?
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One of the best things i've read this year is from @rmabud.bsky.social and @brusselermel.bsky.social. "Without understanding how the pro-authoritarian coalition has used three interlocking levers to consolidate power, it will be impossible to build something better."
The Power Grab: The Authoritarian Coalition’s Strategy of Power Consolidation
The authoritarian coalition is using three interlocking levers of power to consolidate control: political and institutional control, cultural and narrative power, and economic power.
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“An authoritarian coalition is embarking on a power grab unprecedented in recent US history ... each of [Trump’s] policy moves isn't simply about the policy itself, but about the consolidation of power as a whole” 🖋️ @rmabud.bsky.social @brusselermel.bsky.social www.common-wealth.org/publications...
The Power Grab: The Authoritarian Coalition’s Strategy of Power Consolidation
The authoritarian coalition is using three interlocking levers of power to consolidate control: political and institutional control, cultural and narrative power, and economic power.
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🎟️ ONLINE PANEL DISCUSSION @cmmonwealth.bsky.social’s Green Planning Commission is joining forces with @indep.bsky.social for a joint event on how we can translate green democratic planning from framework to policy. 🗓️ 14 April ⏰ 3PM UTC Register here 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/indepxgree...
INDEPxGreen Planning Commission: Green Planning for Transition and Policy
INDEP and Common Wealth's GPC's explore how green democratic economic planning can be translated into concrete policy proposals.
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“The authoritarian coalition has consolidated power through the assertion that the country belongs to them. The path forward is to remind them that it belongs to all of us.” Read our new briefing by @rmabud.bsky.social and @brusselermel.bsky.social at our website. 👇 shorturl.at/H0f6v
The Power Grab: The Authoritarian Coalition’s Strategy of Power Consolidation
The authoritarian coaltion is using three interlocking levers of power to consolidate control: political and institutional control, cultural and narrative power, and economic power.
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Over at @cmmonwealth.bsky.social, @rmabud.bsky.social and @brusselermel.bsky.social have a new report on The Power Grab: The Authoritarian Coalition’s Strategy of Power Consolidation.
The Power Grab: The Authoritarian Coalition’s Strategy of Power Consolidation
The authoritarian coalition is using three interlocking levers of power to consolidate control: political and institutional control, cultural and narrative power, and economic power.
common-wealth.org
Socialisation Debate 2: Electric Boogaloo
Yusuf@yusufimaadkhan.com · 8mo ago“This is not a suspension of the profit imperative but its subordination to social need. It is also distinct from simply providing liquidity support to overcome particular hurdle rates for private investment.” - @brusselermel.bsky.social @chrismwhayes.bsky.social
new edition of Forces of Production out today. we use the tariffs to talk about the input-output tables, then take a look at the monthly numbers. next month's, I bet, will be about oil www.forcesofproduction.com/p/hello-tari...
Hello Tariffs, My Old Friend
A distraction from the oil shock
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“This is not a suspension of the profit imperative but its subordination to social need. It is also distinct from simply providing liquidity support to overcome particular hurdle rates for private investment.” - @brusselermel.bsky.social @chrismwhayes.bsky.social
Nodes for Socialization | Melanie Brusseler & Chris Hayes
The UK’s Contracts for Difference scheme and the future of derisking energy
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Yusuf@yusufimaadkhan.com · last yr.“we argue for…nodal socialization…our framework identifies nodes whose socialization can tame the risk profiles of adjacent (private) projects in a manner that supports the larger program of decarbonization and macro. stability without the regressive distributional politics implied by derisking.” 🔥
