François Furstenberg

[François Furstenberg @furstfrancois]

@JosephONeillx I’m more amused by the assertion that the country was built on peaceful protest! I know of quite a few dead Loyalists who might disagree…

[François Furstenberg @furstfrancois]

My latest comment on our ever more corporate-run system of higher education.

https://t.co/SzDyGkx8Ux

[François Furstenberg @furstfrancois]

@Grace_Segers Can someone explain me why the Democrats didn't raise the debt ceiling in December when they controlled both houses? I keep looking for this but can't find an answer.

[François Furstenberg @furstfrancois]

@ryanlcooper Kludgeocracy!

[François Furstenberg @furstfrancois]

@JuliaGaffield Congratulations Julia!

[François Furstenberg @furstfrancois]

@ForrestFleisch1 Hard to imagine a market getting something wrong.

[Will Stancil @whstancil]

It strikes me that making an explicitly racist far-right European demagogue with a sinister-sounding name the moral figurehead of your movement could, in the hands of a competent and aggressive opposition party, be converted into a serious political strategic error

[François Furstenberg @furstfrancois]

@DeanBaker13 Yeah I'm not so sure on the last part. For many people drilling oil has become and end in itself

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Pharma company Merck used government funds to develop a new Covid medicine.

The drug costs them less than $18 to produce. They’re charging the U.S. government $712 — 40 times the price to produce it.

Their sales could reach $7 billion by the end of the year.

An outrage.

[Scott Hechinger @ScottHech]

There is so much more in this outstanding reporting by @FolaAk for Bloomberg. Barely dug in yet and have a full day of meetings. But I will be sharing more from this important article soon. For now, please read it: https://t.co/w9gHOqIrbP

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

Just because gas prices are going down now doesn't mean you should forget that oil companies just posted a record $46 billion profit for the last three months.

Companies do this because they know they can get away with it, which means it will happen again and again and again.

[François Furstenberg @furstfrancois]

@Blake_Allen13 Why do I learn more about this bill from Twitter than the NY Times or Washington Post? All they want to write about is how this affects Biden's poll numbers or the November election.

[François Furstenberg @furstfrancois]

Oil companies report record profits a month after gas prices hit record highs and everyone freaked out about inflation. If only we had a political party that could make such connections for voters...

[François Furstenberg @furstfrancois]

@chrisdcloud Cause there's a lot of people trying to kill the president

[François Furstenberg @furstfrancois]

@mattyglesias What if "Matthew Yglesias" was that parody account? That would be the best joke of all.

[François Furstenberg @furstfrancois]

@samhaselby Trolling!

[François Furstenberg @furstfrancois]

@DeanBaker13 @mattyglesias Trolling! Unless by "most people" he means the rent-seeking interests that make reform impossible. Or perhaps the logic is that a broken political system's inability to fix a broken health care system = popularity!

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

To recap
1. Airlines spent 96% of free cash on stock buybacks for a decade
2. They got a $50 billion bailout & cut 90,000 jobs anyway
3. They returned to billions in profits, paid back $0 to taxpayers & raised ticket prices 16%
4. They canceled the 2nd-most flights ever this year

[Soledad O'Brien @soledadobrien]

This will never not be hilarious to me, from David Brooks: