herman mark schwartz
@thunen.bsky.social
periodic posting on political economy issues, mostly charts, some shirts, weekly kittens. Sic semper tyrannis. States vs Markets 5th edition now out: https://www.bloomsbury.com/9781350458369
#theywantyoudead 153 unsurprising in a 'market' where everyone is incentivized to externalize costs on someone else and the strongest players have quasi-monopolies and/or the ability to delay / hold up (in both senses) their customers / clients. too bad 23/24 countries show social health can't work.
The heroes Trump called “small potatoes”: Cody Khork Noah Tietjens Nicole Amor Declan Coady Jeffrey O’Brien Robert Marzan John Klinner Ariana Savino Ashley Pruitt Seth Koval Curtis Angst Tyler Simmons Tyler Feehan Isabella Gonzales Angel Rampersad Michael Swinton Gabriel Edwards Benjamin Pennington
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoTrump says 18 Americans dying fighting Iran is “small potatoes”
What my Ranger-tab vet spouse has said from the beginning about Kegseth ⬇️ #SecretaryOfWarCrimes #ImpeachHegseth
Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2d agoAnyway, Pete Hegseth never earned a Ranger tab. He never attended Ranger School. He never attended the Q course (that's Special Forces). He never attended Sapper School. It's a very strange thing. Here's this supposedly gung-ho dude who, he swears, is a "man's man" but didn't go to Ranger School.
40% of the Norwegian oil fund (Pension fund) is US equities. My pension plan thanks you for holding up share market valuations!
Benjamin Braun@benbraun.eurosky.social · 2d agoWe’ll help you to inflate your financial sectors even more because we’re not going to pour all that money into the DAX.
We’ll help you to inflate your financial sectors even more because we’re not going to pour all that money into the DAX.
Jim Kane@kanejim.bsky.social · 3d agoGood luck to Germany with destroying is paygo system. Its worked out great for those of us on the left of the chart that have over-inflated our financial sectors and propped up lunatic billionaires. www.apollo.com/insights-new...
Not The Onion.
NOTUS@notus.com · 2d agoHHS is canceling infant mortality and postpartum grants to focus instead on research related to what the department says are “root causes” like sperm counts and erectile dysfunction. https://www.notus.org/health-science/hhs-cancels-infant-mortality-postpartum-grants-focus-infertility
Well it would be a shame if big law was unable to adequately squash this story about corrupt fund raising after getting the NYT and Bulwark to kill it. Support big law! www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/09/get-...
Get off the grift - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Stanford political scientist Adam Bonica has a devastating piece of research/reportage that you need to find twenty minutes to read. It chronicles how a network of digital grifters target and exploit ...
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every accusation (here, that universities indoctrinate students in a left direction) is a confession.
Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 2mo agoA six-month investigation by Byline Times reveals that with the support of Palantir's Peter Thiel, Reform's policy chief James Orr has used the University of Cambridge as a student recruitment ground for a hard-right, theocratic political project aimed at bolstering talent in Farage’s party
A reversal of the situation that I argued caused (or minimally significantly contributed to) secular stagnation from the late 1990s forward. uva.theopenscholar.com/files/herman...
US concentration camps shifting towards extermination mode
St. John Barned-Smith@stjbs.bsky.social · 5d agoICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’ — my latest, w/ @kolyncheang.bsky.social. Spend some time with it www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
Shout-out to @elizabethbitmeehan.com who is running the #APSA2026 swag giveaway with aplomb!
🚨🚨🚨 There's been a lot of fretting about folks losing Medicaid via the upcoming "work reporting" requirements. In fact, by my estimates, over 10 MILLION Americans have *already* likely lost healthcare coverage during the Trump 2.0 Regime. acasignups.net/26/09/03/rep...
The Republican Healthcare Disaster is already here: OVER TEN MILLION Americans have likely already lost healthcare coverage.
Yesterday I wrote about the standard monthly Medicaid/CHIP enrollment report published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). I noted that as of April 2026, total combined Medicaid & C...
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#theywantyoudead 152 note that the medicare increase is almost purely demographic as the baby boomers continue to get older. (aparently they didn't really "hope to die before [they] got old"). non-USAians: medicare, for folks over age 65. medicaid/chps - the poors and children; ACA, less poor
Charles Gaba ✡️@charlesgaba.com · 4d agoHere's what that looks like visually. The upper and lower dotted lines just shift upwards slightly to be not-quite-as-terrible, but still pretty terrible.
as @70sbachchan.bsky.social likes to say, "we are going to win" - in this case by replacing fossil with renewable electricity. global shift in energy investment, 2015-2026 is pretty dramatic
Firms rent you as gig workers; you rent durable goods and have permanent subscriptions but no ownership as such. Fun times.
Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social · 7d agoSony has responded to a digital games lawsuit by arguing that players don't actually own the games they buy Its lawyers say they are licensed rather than sold
you just don't understand how dangerous those now ex-TPS Haitian home health aides and nursing home workers were!
Elizabeth Warren@warren.senate.gov · 6d agoBREAKING: Trump's DHS took a step back from seizing Fentanyl so that ICE could terrorize our streets. In just one year at HSI: - Fentanyl investigations down 24% - Fentanyl seizures down 39% - Hours spent countering fentanyl down approx. 30%
US median house listing price, july 2026: $418,000 median new build single family home, 2026: $408,000 approximate median all US houses: $377,000 but 75% of US households cannot afford more than $300,000 (source: apollo, chart) and mortgage interest rates keep going up (almost 6.9% last week)
What happens in the empire always always always comes home. And this is a very long standing story. Once more let me point you towards: www.jstor.org/stable/41773...
Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2y agoThe tech billionaires are preparing to drone American citizens. No, really.
Thank you Canada! Merci beaucoup, Canada!
SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19)@covid19disease.bsky.social · 7d ago🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Canadian scientists at the University of Waterloo Dr. Brian Ingalls, Dr. Sara Sadr, and Dr. Marc Aucoin have engineered “tumor-eating” bacteria that can invade and consume cancerous tumors from within. A potential breakthrough in cancer treatment research.
Don't disturb president Brezhnev or his ministers, you wreckers!
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 6d agoThe CDC is excluding two deaths reported by Pennsylvania from its weekly updates of a national measles death tally. The highly unusual decision departs from the agency’s practice of including such data from state health departments.
It worked for Stalin 1937-1940, right? What could go wrong? Seriously though #empiresuicidewatch 144
Benjamin Braun@benbraun.eurosky.social · 5mo agoRemarkable indeed.
It's really a game now of what crashes first: overvalued US AI/tech stocks in the face of cheaper Chinese models, or over producing, deflationary Chinese firms in the face of protectionist backlash. But I'm not making popcorn, it's not shelf stable
Michael Pettis@michaelpettis.bsky.social · last wk.Bloomberg: BYD’s overseas revenue exceeded what it made at home for the first time, illustrating why Chinese carmakers have to sell outside of China. First-half sales from overseas rose 34% to account for 53% of the total, while they shrank 31% in Greater China. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Another banger from @cornelban.bsky.social geoeconomic.substack.com/p/the-americ... Worth your 5-7 minutes
The Democrats’ in-house experts are uber-hawkish on China. But a “Western Bloc” idea is a tough pitch
The endgame depends on what Beijing chooses (or what it can do about it)
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Death by intentional neglect is the characteristic method of murder in concentration camps
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 7d agoA 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
USAians, listen up. Norway's King, Harald V, died on Friday. Easily 10s of 1000s of people have been at the palace yesterday in the rain and today in better weather with flowers (photos later) Why? Maybe it has something to do with this speech in 2016. (Sorry I'm advance for wall of text) 1/
USAians: Alberta is the most pro American, proMAGA, culturally American part of Canada. Oil & cattle in the southern part, oil & wheat in the North. So this says something about what Mr Taco has done.
John Michael McGrath@jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · last wk.Good morning. Ipsos has restricting energy exports to the US with 2:1 support; an oil & gas export tax at nearly 3:1 support. *In Alberta.* (Table 2.) www.ipsos.com/en-ca/canadi...
