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We’re born not knowing/ignorant, Rarely we’re taught ideas by their Founders

[Paul Jay @Paul__Jay]

Is Space Becoming Unusable? The Truth About Kessler Syndrome

Could humanity be locking itself out of space forever? As our orbit fills with satellites and debris, experts are warning about a collisional cascade.

Watch the Full Interview: https://t.co/YgPRn19RLY

Listen to the podcast: https://t.co/D5E45XIVFw

#KesslerSyndrome #SpaceExploration #SpaceDebris #SpaceX #FutureTech #Sustainability

[Warren B. Mosler @wbmosler]

If true it's still going to happen as it takes longer than that to restore lost flows:

https://t.co/2yR32c66ak

[Relearning Economics @RelearningEcon]

"But once we bring historical time into the argument, it is not so easy to present the free play of the market as an ideal mechanism for maximizing welfare and securing social justice."

-Joan Robinson

[Relearning Economics @RelearningEcon]

They told you Obamacare was a government takeover of healthcare. A socialist scheme that would crush private insurance, destroy competition, and put bureaucrats between you and your doctor.

Then the law passed, and private insurers remained at the center of the system. UnitedHealth, Aetna, Anthem, and other carriers continued to dominate the market while millions of Americans gained coverage they previously could not afford.

Here is what the Affordable Care Act actually did. It accepted the reality that healthcare is not an ordinary market. People do not shop for emergency surgery the way they shop for televisions. When someone gets cancer, suffers a stroke, or develops a chronic illness, walking away is not a meaningful choice. The idea that healthcare can function through pure consumer discipline has always collided with the realities of illness, uncertainty, and unequal bargaining power.

The exchanges were created because insurers had spent decades excluding people with preexisting conditions, rescinding coverage when patients became expensive, and pricing millions out of the market entirely. Subsidies were not gifts to insurance companies. They were mechanisms that allowed working families to purchase coverage in a system that was already dominated by private insurers. Without them, many Americans would simply be uninsured.

Critics call this rent-seeking. Another interpretation is that healthcare markets contain structural failures that private competition alone has never solved. Every advanced economy intervenes in healthcare financing because the alternative is not some idealized free market. The alternative is rationing by income, medical bankruptcy, and millions of people delaying treatment because they cannot pay.

If anything, Obamacare's biggest flaw was that it left private insurers too powerful. Rather than replacing the profit motive with a universal public system, it attempted to build coverage around existing corporations. The result was an expansion of access, but also continued high costs and continued private profits.

The lesson is not that government failed because it intervened. The lesson is that healthcare was never a normal market to begin with. The question is not whether government should be involved. The question is whether healthcare should primarily serve patients or shareholders.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Find substance abuse help through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Helpline. Connect with treatment and mental health referrals near you by: Calling 1-800-662-HELP (4357)

[Cuckturd @CattardSlim]

6 years of Trump promising "mountains" of stolen election evidence

6 years of Trump throwing a tantrum & storming off when asked for evidence

6 years of Maga morons cheering on his tantrums instead of questioning why he hasn't provided them ANY evidence

[Pseu_D’OH_Nym @do_nym]

June Carbone noticed that subsistence paid work is a human need

Some know a Currency-Issuing-Govt. can afford to hire any of it’s residents for all useful public work (not just health care, EDU, sanitation, object-moving, people air-rail moving, utilities, etc.)

[Bob Elliott @BobEUnlimited]

Weakness in wage growth stands in contrast to the strong labor market narrative many are taking for granted as reality. AHE at 3.4% at cycle lows, and averaged 2.7% last 3m annualized.

[Pseu_D’OH_Nym @do_nym]

Canada & Mexico have enough soccer fields ?

[Footballogue @Footballogue]

🔴 Énorme DINGUERIE encore des États-Unis...

L'arbitre somalien Omar Artan 🇸🇴 s'est vu refuser son entrée aux États-Unis, alors qu'il est sensé officier pendant la Coupe du Monde ! 🙄

Malgré l'aide appuyée de l'ambassade somalienne de Nairobi, qui lui a fourni un PASSEPORT DIPLOMATIQUE, M. Artan a dû faire demi tour à son arrivée aux USA.

On parle d'une personne qui a été élue MEILLEUR ARBITRE AFRICAIN EN 2025 ! 🤦‍♂️

(@Romain_Molina)

[Warren B. Mosler @wbmosler]

Reads like China is resuming refining/exporting?

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Dude… 25TH AMENDMENT NOW

[Paul Jay @Paul__Jay]

"The largest economic institution in American life is already publicly owned and centrally planned. It is called the Pentagon."

https://t.co/rt3iwxAhFk

[Warren B. Mosler @wbmosler]

H/T Prof Andrea Terzi!!!

[Ashish🇮🇳🇵🇸🇮🇷🇱🇧 @barua_82]

"There is a huge disconnect between staffers at the Fed and political appointees." @wbmosler

"Treasury security is a $ balance in an account at the Fed; it is called a Securities Account."

Listen and learn about Treasury securities. #LearnMMT

[Macro n Cheese Podcast #MMT @CheeseMacro]

@emma_holten @sdgrumbine Why does #CareWork take a backseat to #Profit in our society? Join us Tues. 12/30 @ 8 pm ET for the final Macro n Chill of 2025 to listen to & discuss our latest Macro N Cheese ep. Care Theory of Value ft. @emma_holten. #Capitalism #ClassWar

Register: https://t.co/H6eHoq1hU4

[Macro n Cheese Podcast #MMT @CheeseMacro]

🎧LATEST EPISODE LIVE NOW!
Political economist @emma_holten talks with @sdgrumbine about how mainstream economics erases care work and social reproduction, even though all economic activity depends on them. #Feminism #CareWork #EconTwitter

https://t.co/PnKQCtvf8g

[Prof. Steve Keen @ProfSteveKeen]

99% of people are scared of the word "Deficit."

But in a monetary economy, a government deficit is just the other side of a private surplus.

Money isn't a commodity; it's a promise between three parties. If the government doesn't run a deficit, the private sector can't have a surplus.

It’s time to move past the myths and look at the ledger.

P.S. See the full explanation in Steve's new video here!

https://t.co/zWi0Aq5dis

#Money #Economics101 #Finance #Wealth

[Pseu_D’OH_Nym @do_nym]

O U C H how the truth can hurt !

[Pseu_D’OH_Nym @do_nym]

The elected members in the KOCH-R-Party can’t see this coming
just as neoclassical economic theory supporters could not see what they said could never happen

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

17% of Oklahoma’s entire population receives SNAP benefits.

25% of Oklahoma’s entire population is on Medicaid.

@SenMullin voted to cut SNAP by $300 billion and cut Medicaid by $1 Trillion.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

17% of Oklahoma’s entire population receives SNAP benefits.

25% of Oklahoma’s entire population is on Medicaid.

@SenMullin voted to cut SNAP by $300 billion and cut Medicaid by $1 Trillion.

[Richard Blumenthal @SenBlumenthal]

When a WI woman asked Sen Johnson what options she'd have without the ACA if she tested positive for the genetic pre-existing condition that killed her mom, he said he would force her back into the high-risk pools that made anyone with pre-existing conditions pay double for care.