Robert Hockett
@roberthockett.bsky.social
Cornell Law School, Georgetown Business School, Westwood Capital, New Consensus. Formerly Federal Reserve Bank of New York & International Monetary Fund. Law, Philosophy & Finance Devotee. Cf. my Forbes & SSRN Pages as well as my 'Capital Futures' Website.
This will read familiar to my own readers. Data here is very telling. We rediscover our own Hamiltonianism and labors' calling shots or we lapse into backwater barbarism. Please read and share widely if you've time. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...
Opinion | We Warned About the First China Shock. The Next One Will Be Worse.
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OK UK Dears, HC's out at last. www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Capit...
Making Capital Democratic: A Reconstruction of State, Credit, and Finance
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French prosecutors announced today that they are launching a police investigation into Elon Musk's X platform over allegations of data tampering and fraud.
Looks like we have a new Amazon page. Thanks for the heads-up, Alan Thomas. 🙏🏼❤️ www.amazon.com/Republic-Pro...
A Republic of Producers: Completing Our Jeffersonian Economy with Hamiltonian Finance
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Karma, except that the detained are in peril along with the detainers. F'king boobs. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
ICE officers stuck in Djibouti shipping container with deported migrants
The ICE officers and deportees are sick and stranded in a metal shipping container in the East African nation of Djibouti. They also face the threat of malaria and rocket attacks.
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We are joined by @roberthockett.bsky.social to discuss the new non-partisan analysis that Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will add $2.4 trillion to annual budget deficits over the next decade while throwing 10.9 million Americans off healthcare and food stamps. soundcloud.com/user-8304426...
Trump Digs the Deficit Hole $2.4 Trillion Deeper to Punish the Poor and Reward the Richest
Background Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media. Background Briefing features international and national news, ex
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Now at backgroundbriefing.org | @roberthockett.bsky.social - Trump Digs the Deficit Hole $2.4 Trillion Deeper to Punish the Poor and Reward the Rich | Oleh Kotsyuba - Trump Sells Out Ukraine Again in His Call Today With Putin | @mohsenmilani.bsky.social - Trump Pressures Iran to Sign or Get Bombed
Can't help myself ... I hear a phrase like 'Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem' or a sentence like 'Marco Rubio is closely monitoring the situation' and I start laughing involuntarily. My belly hurts.
Making Capital Democratic author @roberthockett.bsky.social "Money is an emanation of our basic social contract."
Robert Hockett@roberthockett.bsky.social · last yr.Here it comes! Jacket design by the author, yours truly. ☺️🙏🏼🩷
Here it comes! Jacket design by the author, yours truly. ☺️🙏🏼🩷
To explore the data in this thread in full via interactive charts, you can visit the Centre for Democratising Work’s data dashboard (2024) www.common-wealth.org/centre-for-d...
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What is work in Britain like? Explore working time, the power of labour, and the quality of work with the CDW's interactive data dashboard.
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“8 hours for work. 8 hours for rest. 8 hours for what we will.” On 1 May 1886, thousands of American workers & trade unionists went on strike for the right to an 8-hour day. Despite state violence — they won. 🧵What role do trade unions play in Britain, 139 years on?
In case you missed it, here’s the Hymnus Eucharisticus sung from the top of the Great Tower for May Morning by Magdalen College Choir!
Uncle Ho kept two portraits on his wall - one of Confucius, the other of George Washington. Those who told you he was a scawy would-be world-dominator are the same deep-state filth who murdered JFK for planning to reverse Eisenhower's disgusting pro-French-colonial course in Vietnam.
