If markets are rigged, no amount of redistribution fixes the problem. Predistribution = unrigging the rules: • higher wages • lower prices • less corporate power A powerful antidote to the oligarchal agenda. Read more from @sunnysmalhotra.bsky.social and @skvogel.bsky.social:

Predistribution Is the Anti-Oligarchy Solution

Predistribution transforms society and markets to generate less inequality in the first place.

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"The most pressing problems we face today, from climate change to affordability, cannot be resolved within the existing structure of our unbalanced economy." 📝 @sunnysmalhotra.bsky.social @skvogel.bsky.social rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/predist...

Predistribution Is the Anti-Oligarchy Solution

Predistribution transforms society and markets to generate less inequality in the first place.

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Corporate America made over $22 billion from contracts with ICE and CBP last year. The list of companies profiting from Trump's aggressive deportation regime includes Palantir, Deloitte, GEO Group, and many more. www.ft.com/content/c741...

Companies reap $22bn from Trump’s immigration crackdown

Palantir and Deloitte among beneficiaries of spending by government agencies

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The Democratic Party needs a bold economic vision for a better future. @sunnysmalhotra.bsky.social and I propose the predistribution solution.

The Predistribution Solution - Roosevelt Institute

Introduction This policy brief analyzes the American political economy past and present through the lens of “predistribution.” Predistribution policies seek to achieve greater equality in opportunitie...

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NEW 📰: Inequality in the US has never been higher. But what if, instead of trying to close the gap after the fact, we adopted policies that prevented it in the first place. @skvogel.bsky.social and @sunnysmalhotra.bsky.social lay out a plan for a predistribution agenda: https://bit.ly/4rXStTs

America if the news covered it like those countries Over There

Just released a new @rooseveltinstitute.org brief examining shelter inflation as an integral part of the post-pandemic inflation, its connection to the housing crisis, and why monetary policy alone isn't the answer. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

The Persistence of Post-pandemic Shelter Inflation and the Housing Affordability Crisis - Roosevelt Institute

In a new analysis Ira Regmi examines shelter inflation’s complex dynamics through a monetary policy lens, analyzing its distinct trajectory during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Deeply honored that work from my team on the climate dimensions of genocide in Palestine was discussed at length at the Intl Court of Justice yesterday. War & militarism are insufficiently accounted for in climate policy; hopefully a strong advisory ruling can start to change that. Starts ~1:41:00

THE HAGUE – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings in the advisory proceedings on Climate Change – Nauru; Nepal; New Zealand; State of Palestine and Pakistan

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings on the request for an advisory opinion on the Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change.

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A reminder that “austerity” has never been about cutting spending, but about weaponizing budgets to consolidate the power of specific interests. And people say Industrial Policy is picking winners…

Patrick Bigger@pmbigger.bsky.social · 2y ago

Sorry to state the obvious, but it will be easy to judge precisely how farcical Elon and Vivek's budget busy box is by how little they recommend cutting the DoD - the only government department to never to pass an audit, having now failed 7 consecutive times.

new working paper ⬇️💰 the assumption that shareholders are the key investors in business innovation is simply taken as a given it's past time to abandon this myth: shareholders of corporations are not always, or even often, “investors.”

Roosevelt Institute@rooseveltinstitute.org · 2y ago

NEW: Shareholders should not get exclusive power in corporate governance. @lenorepalladino.bsky.social & Harrison Karlewicz argue we need to abandon the myth that shareholding and investing go hand in hand 🤝 and rethink the regulation of financial markets: rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Last week #Amazon launched Amazon Haul to compete with #Shein and #Temu 's ultra cheap shopping platforms. As I wrote about in a recent Fireside Stack, fast fashion is nothing new, but a continuation of historical low-road business practices. www.firesidestacks.com/p/cheap-clot...

Cheap Clothes, High Costs: Individual Choices Can’t Thread the Needle on Fast Fashion

We’re on the heels of New York Fashion Week—a display of the latest fashion trends that can travel from the runway to outlet malls in the blink of a cerulean eye. And though the dupes will be cheaper ...

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It's easy to think today's climate investment is a temporary phenomenon. But policy feedback theory and history show perhaps it's here to stay. I write about why in my new blog. #CleanEnergy #IndustrialPolicy rooseveltinstitute.org/2023/12/12/c...