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Hosted by @videotroph, @maxseijo and @billysaas, this podcast reclaims money for intersectional politics. Presented by @thepublicmoney & @monthly_review.
May 1, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
New episode! 🔊

moneyontheleft.org/2022/05/01/pla…

MotL speaks with Dr. Sonia Ivancic about the importance of regionally sensitive & affirmative storytelling in provisioning processes--a practice she calls "placed-based narrative labor."

Please listen, read & share! 1/5 In our conversation, we extend Ivancic’s theorization of asset-driven place-based narrative labor to rethink the challenges & potentials of a Federal Job Guarantee under a future Green New Deal. 2/5
Mar 28, 2022 6 tweets 4 min read
New bonus episode! 📣

💸💸 The ECASH Act 💸💸

@rohangrey joins @billysaas & @MaxSeijo to discuss the new “ECASH” Act introduced by @RepStephenLynch & co-sponsored by @RepChuyGarcia, @AyannaPressley & @RepAdams.

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moneyontheleft.org/2022/03/28/the… As announced in today's @dealbook, the @ecashact directs the Secretary of the @USTreasury to develop & pilot digital dollar technologies that replicate the privacy-respecting features of physical cash. 2/6
Oct 20, 2021 7 tweets 4 min read
New @Superstruc episode just dropped!

✨We Have Never Been Neoliberal, What Now?✨

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moneyontheleft.org/2021/10/20/28-… In this episode, co-hosts @orangeasm & @MaxSeijo argue that the pandemic not only killed neoliberalism as a tacit ideological formation; it also revealed how neoliberal truisms have never captured the actual causal mechanisms and potentials that defined the past 50 years. 2/7
Sep 17, 2019 4 tweets 1 min read
"Given that money was politicized for such long periods, the current rise of politicization is much less surprising than it might appear at first sight. There’s a lot of history." 1/4 mronline.org/2019/09/13/mon… "This is not something that emerges out of nothing. It’s clear that in the decade since Occupy Wall Street, MMT has punctured monetary silence." 2/4
Feb 18, 2019 7 tweets 3 min read
“One of the misconceptions is that in the medieval period—and this is a narrative I do not agree with—it was a Church dominated society, it was an agrarian society and the economy was static." [Thread 1/7]

#MMT

buzzsprout.com/172776/958486-… "In the twelfth and thirteen century, we see what medievalists would refer to as a commercial revolution ... and the Church is put in a position in which they can no longer hold the line against usury, but they have to give in to the market." [2/7]

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