Over a hundred registrations for this one! (And there I was thinking it would just be a chat with my old professor.)
To be fair, Mat is one of the foremost and most creative thinkers on economic thought. So I shouldn’t be surprised :)
Fadhel Kaboub delivers a Green Lecture keynote speech at HBS-Tunisia: "Breaking the Cycle of Dependency:Economic Sovereignty and Just Transitions in the Global South" (May 13, 2026). https://t.co/KGUpWvcaBq
Here is a second Financial Times letter from one of my Monetary Theory students at Denison University, Abzal Iskakov (class of 2026): https://t.co/hPKoTTW8a2
Letter: ECB’s stance on price stability requires action on rates now
From Abzal Iskakov, Astana, Kazakhstan
Prof Hossein is fighting against injustice after facing discrimination at York University. Her legal battle is crucial for accountability and change. Please consider donating or sharing to support her fight for justice. https://t.co/ff9UWYZZLP
https://t.co/vFghlVbbUr Today is the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The UN General Assembly will vote on a resolution designating the transatlantic African slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity"
@BrankoMilan During Apartheid the U.S. called their policy “constructive engagement.” The singer Paul Simon broke the boycott and went to South Africa, recorded and performed there while Nelson Mandela was in prison on Robben Island.
Together with 18 countries, Norway condemns in the strongest terms a series of recent Israeli decisions that introduce sweeping extensions to unlawful Israeli control over the West Bank. https://t.co/qqIYsxxvkm
@zapradon@wbmosler@gkittygkitty Does that even have to happen? Certainly a central authority can issue a liability & demand the liability be settled in such-and-such. They can also pay unemployed youth such-and-such to do ‘green jobs’ (that don’t pollute & dont use natural resources: library, planting trees).
*Poor Samuelson & Arrow*
Gail (my lovely partner of 40+ years): “Larry Summers is in the Einstein files.”
Me: “For eating too many bagels or trying to defy the laws of gravity?”
Gail: “Why does that name sound familiar?”
Me: (deeeep inhale) 1/n
@GrkStav@wbmosler Summers accused @CornelWest of easy grading, and perhaps driving him from Harvard to Princeton? He said women were not as good at math and science as men?
@weeklybecky76@RTRSPodcast That Harvard is way overrated? 😂 I guess it depends on your field. But yes it’s really not that crazy. You should probably be proud of both, but a lot more people have been Harvard fellows than have written for RTRS. 😂
How he kept getting appointed to important academic, government & other positions, like President of Harvard, Assistant Treasury Secretary, Secretary of the Treasury, & boards of top tech companies even after many other additional embarrassing, bigoted comments, is astounding.
Anyway, I cited Larry Summers in my 1996 doctoral dissertation, Political Economics and Instrumental Analysis, his infamous World Bank Memo on environmental policy.
https://t.co/aISPd2x2wd