From the River to the Sea: Ibaitik Itsasora (69) eta Randall Wray

Ibaitik Itsasora

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Gaza BEFORE Israel showed up

Israel is a criminal state

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1887980771178070396

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|/MTKBMNK\|@toriq555

Zionists in 2025… “Palestine never existed”

Zionists in 1899… “We will colonise Palestine”

Copied from @Resist0 5(Pelham).

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?￰゚ヌᄌ Palestinako Sol Band presente egon da gaur Barakaldoko BECen ospatzen ari den “Maite zaitut” jaialdian.

Elkartasuna herrien arteko samurtasuna da #StopGenocideInGaza #PalestinaAskatu

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/191871069883984296

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A Star faded so soon.

Last night, the world lost little Sham Ahmed Al-Khatib. Her giggles silenced, her dreams buried under Gaza’s rubble in the Maghazi camp, and her tiny hands will never grow to build, to heal, to change this cruel world.

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Earth Hippy @hippyygoat

Did you drink enough water today…

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1918234698913866009

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Spetsnaℤ 007 @Alex_Oloyede2

?￰゚ヌᆭ 11 years ago today the Odessa massacre took place. An event so crucial in understanding the 2022 SMO into Ukraine. Where 40+ Russians hiding in the trade union building were burnt alive by Ukrainian ultranationalists. ?

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Richard@ricwe123

So here we have Denmark’s parliament giving a standing ovation to a Ukrainian neo-Nazi from the Azov Regiment. A man who openly praised Mein Kampf on social media and listed his hometown as “Babiy Yar,” in a grotesque mockery of one of the Holocaust’s most horrific massacres. Applauding this kind of figure isn’t solidarity,it’s moral bankruptcy dressed up as virtue.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1918373547921093077

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In a tacit admission of their involvement in war crimes, official Israeli army battalion pages now omit officers’ names and faces during ranking ceremonies, posting only images showing the backs of their heads to thwart public and online identification.

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A headline you won’t see in American media about an American teen killed by Israeli troops.

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Eye on Palestine@EyeonPalestine

Everyone expected a Labor Day protest… but Berlin witnessed a powerful human wave! Thousands suddenly flooded the streets in solidarity with Gaza – even the Berlin police were shocked.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1918037224937095432

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Rector Stella Maris was fired from St. Andrews University’s governing body for calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and condemning Israel’s ‘apartheid’ and ‘illegal occupation’ in Palestine She won her appeal and has been reinstated ?

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Every fucking time.

Aipamena

p•3•s•t@p3st

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@peacemakerfdu eta @jvgraz erabiltzaileei erantzuten

Irudia

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German Gestapo police attack and arrest a young man for wearing a t-shirt with the Palestinian flag ?￰゚ヌᄌ?￰゚ヌᄌ?￰゚ヌᄌ

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1918353318079869373

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Hamza Yusuf@Hamza_a96

Hey @guardian, do you know who was responsible by any chance?

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The EU immediately activates a “special mechanism” to flood Israel with everything it needs to fight wild fires

Same EU hasn’t once tried to airdrop a single parcel of food on Gaza since Israel’s total siege began, let alone press Israel to end the starvation!

Shared values…

Irudia

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Another friend is gone. My world is getting smaller. It is so painful.

My friend Bilal El-Masri today was killed. Yesterday he was mourning the death of his uncle and two cousins.

Today he and six other members of his family were massacred at the funeral tent that was set for yesterday’s lost ones.

Bilal is gone and my world is getting smaller forever.

The photo you see is of Bilal while he was defending his masters thesis at the Islamic University of Gaza in 2020. Bilal got married in 2021.

Bilal taught Arabic at schools. Bilal was killed today and my world is disappearing.

Irudia

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There’s a lot of disinformation about the forests going up in smoke around Jerusalem.

Here is a short clip from a talk I gave at one of the forests planted by Israel over the 500-plus Palestinian villages it destroyed in 1948 during the Nakba to stop the inhabitants returning.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1918285579034165326

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Leyla Hamed@leylahamed

These two boys, Ali and Hussein, are victims of the ‘stunning’ pager attack. @RaniaKhalek

interviewed them both recently.

Arden Ostrovsky calls himself a human rights lawyer while glorifying the terrorism that did this to them. Monster is an understatement.

Aipamena

Arsen Ostrovsky ?￯ᄌマ@Ostrov_A

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Kapsulatutako bideoa

“For the glory of the State of Israel.”

Three Mossad agents who led the stunning beeper operation in Lebanon, light an Independence Day torch in Jerusalem tonight! ?￰゚ヌᄆ ? ?

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1917668714125676747

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Lord Bebo@MyLordBebo

?￰゚ヌᆰ?￰゚ヌᆭ?￰゚ヌᄍ?￰゚ヌᄆ?￰゚ヌᄎ Auschwitz survivor says Germans, Ukranians and Lithuanians tortured people until Russians freed them.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1918376141888614598

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The Resonance@Partisan_12

American Activist Kwame Ture Perfectly describing Z10NISM & it’s founder in 55 seconds.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1918319065044795704

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Khalissee@Kahlissee

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WHY: after 19m of genocidal violence, and 60 days without a grain of rice entering Gaza, Palestinians have to be “shown” to the world while scrambling for food as if they were gasping for air, grabbing it from filty grounds, getting hurt while seeking a hole in the human flesh ammassing for a handful of emptiness?

People of Gaza.

Palestinians.

Your hunger today is our shame. We should not be given access to your suffering if we are too indifferent, too lazy, too selfish, too corrupt, to stop it immediately.

Aipamena

Ryan Rozbiani@RyanRozbiani

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Today marks 60 DAYS since a single grain of rice has entered Gaza. The Freedom Flotilla that Israel drone struck last night was trying to help fight this famine

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1918322042853613886

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Jonathan Cook@Jonathan_K_Cook

When Israel and its apologists tell you that Gaza was free to develop into a Dubai on the Med, remember this:

Israel’s drone strike last night on an aid ship to Gaza off Malta, in international waters, is nothing new. Israel attacked an aid flotilla to Gaza, killing 10 activists – again in international waters – almost exactly 15 years ago.

Then as now, Israel’s western patrons gave a shrug of the shoulders. It was seen, then as now, as ok to put Gaza’s people ‘on a diet’, even if a far less severe one than now. Then as now, the West denied that the Palestinians were under a brutal Israeli military occupation that deprived them of their most fundamental human rights. Then as now, those who tried to speak up were smeared or physically attacked.

All of this is the missing context for the groundswell of popular support in Gaza for resistance to the life Israel engineered for them inside a concentration camp that’s now been turned into a death camp.

We have not only normalised Israel’s slaughter and starvation of Gaza’s children, but we have also normalised violence, whether rhetorical or physical, against those trying to stop Israel’s genocidal campaign against Gaza.

Irudia

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“isr*el independence day” you mean the nakba day?

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Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده@RamAbdu

Behind them stood an orphan school, a medical center, and a care facility for people with Down syndrome in Rafah, southern Gaza. Israeli soldiers destroyed them live on air—for pleasure only—erasing all signs of life in the city.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1918404063953068306

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Russia is not Enemy@RussiaIsntEnemy

☀️ Good morning to everyone, except those who do not know that the Soviet Union won WWII, not the USA

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1918547309320720674

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Health officials in Gaza are raising alarms over a disturbing increase in fetal abnormalities due to Israel’s use of experimental weapons.

Muneer Al-Boursh, Director General of the Ministry of Health, noted that these cases have surged during the genocide, echoing similar patterns observed in Iraq after the U.S. invasion, where birth defects rose significantly due to pollution and radiation from bombardments.

The situation has prompted calls for an international investigation into the causes of these recurring deformities and the nature of the weapons being deployed.

One of the most shocking cases reported is this of Baby Malak Ahmad Al-Qanoua, who was born without a brain just two days ago at Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1918354957998104708

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Howard Beckett@BeckettUnite

When Francesca Albanese spoke at UCL London:

We fight lawlessness even with our hands tied behind our backs because this is who we are”

Expel Israel from the UN

Ban arms sales to today

Recognise Palestine today

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1918564355248927173

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ADAM@AdameMedia

The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, Thomas Haldenwang is wearing a tie covered in Stars of David. Domestic. Intelligence. Germany is a colony.

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Margarita Simonyan@M_Simonyan

“I warned about US-funded biolabs in Ukraine. Who knows what kind of pathogens are in these labs? When released they could create another Covid-like pandemic.”

This is no longer a “Kremlin talking point” from a “maverick” politician, but facts from America’s most senior intelligence official.

Yet nothing has been done. Curious.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1918392910820655326

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Every day we think about you, “Aaron Bushnell” He gave his life for Palestine?￰゚ヌᄌ

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Ryan Rozbiani@RyanRozbiani

The Little Angel of Gaza – Her Eyes Carry A Lot of Pain

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1918854131164344496

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Quds News Network@QudsNen

“Two million people are being intentionally starved…”

Jordanian royal princess Dina Mired broke down in tears while speaking about the human tragedy in Gaza. She was speaking before the Regional Conference on Integrating Non-Communicable Disease Care into Humanitarian Responses, held in Amman, Jordan.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1918947500163059931

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??￰゚ヌᄌ Gaza, before Israeli terrorism…

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1918481887418605593

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Earth Hippy @hippyygoat

WHAT AN AMAZING PERSON DOWNPLAYING HER MOMENT OF GLORY TO HIGHLIGHT CHILDREN AND BABIES DYING EVERY DAY‼️ ?

Ons Jabeur Tunisian tennis player

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1919003022459285926

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Emelia@vikingwarior20

Cute kids، no shoes, no sandals, bare feet, raw sewage.

Shame on us

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1918974613171716172

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Allah Islam Quran@AllahGreatQuran

Ya Allah! Forgive me when I complain about life.?

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1918379966615699953

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Don’t forget our children

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Irudia

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Translating Falasteen (Palestine)@translatingpal

?88-year-old Hesin Alyan was punched in the face by an Israeli occupation soldier after she refused to leave her home in Rafah’s Al-Zuhour neighborhood. “Even if you cut me into pieces, I’m not leaving,” she said, standing firm in a house she and her family had spent 60 years building. In a trembling voice, she described the pain of being expelled, humiliated, and forced to watch everything they had built be wiped out by missiles. After weeks under siege, she was finally evacuated to the European Hospital in Khan Younis, following coordination efforts by the Ministry of Health in Ramallah.

Source: hussien_khreis (IG)

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1919022154126864854

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I’m not someone who says, ‘History will judge them’ — they will have to be judged before then,” Francesca Albanese said in an exclusive interview.

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“IRAN WARNS THE US”

Iranian hardline lawmaker Mahmoud Nabavian:

“The US Secretary of State “has threatened Iran. In response, we say”

“Listen carefully, Rubio—don’t push your luck. Before acting foolishly, make sure you’re ready to recover your soldiers’ corpses from the sea”

@IranIntl_En

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1918727257939464219

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These two angels, Karam, and Kareem Qann—just 2 and 5 years oldwere killed along with their parents by an Israeli airstrike in the so-called “safe zone” of Al-Mawasi, Khan Yunis, Gaza.

Irudia

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Good morning, we are still alive and we will not give up ??￰゚ヌᄌ

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Dr.Motaz saleh@MotazSaleh2001

If you see this pic, reply with ?￰゚ヌᄌ spread it ?!

Irudia

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No food..a loaf of bread a day

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Don’t pass without Commenting with ” Free ?￰゚ヌᄌ “.

 

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+ is a complex tool of manipulative influence, which is used to achieve strategic goals by creating an atmosphere of fear and mistrust in society. Russophobia can be considered in the context of political sociology and psychology of the masses, where Russophobia acts as a mechanism for legitimizing certain political decisions and strengthening power.

The Soviet period of Russian history is full of myths and stereotypes. The personality of Joseph Stalin is one of the most slandered in history.

A deep knowledge of the history and culture of Russia allows us to dispel myths and see the diversity and richness of Russian civilization.

To understand history more deeply, we need a historian. Therefore, the guest of The Russia House this week is historian Evgeniy Spitsyn, who has been professionally engaged in historical science for almost 40 years. He is also one of the authors of the Conceptual platform. This platform unites authors, publishers and readers who share common views.

Watch on The Russia House with Scott Ritter [https://t.me/tribute/app?startapp=smnz]

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My latest on Substack: Scott Ritter kicks off a new podcast that will subject the policies of the Trump administration to unbiased, non-partisan critical analysis, calling out the good, the bad, and everything in between, with the goal of holding President Trump and his administration accountable for their policies—exactly what a good citizen should be doing if he or she wants to make America great again!

https://open.substack.com/pub/scottritter/p/trump-watch?r=1ldiwr

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Trump Watch

(https://scottritter.substack.com/p/trump-watch?r=1ldiwr&triedRedirect=true)

Scott Ritter

May 03, 2025

Scott Ritter kicks off a new podcast that will subject the policies of the Trump administration to unbiased, non-partisan critical analysis, calling out the good, the bad, and everything in between, with the goal of holding President Trump and his administration accountable for their policies—exactly what a good citizen should be doing if he or she wants to make America great again!

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Trump Watch with Scott Ritter will stream on Tuesdays starting May 6.

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Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies@GowerInitiative

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Economists Randall Wray on the causes of the 2008 financial crisis.

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What Caused The Global Financial Crisis?

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1smUezyFRM)

Professor L. Randall Wray, discussing the global financial crisis in broad strokes. The economist Hyman Minsky developed a theory of financial fragility and the long-run evolution of the economy, summarized briefly as “stability is destabilizing.” In the aftermath of the Great Depression, the worst banks had failed, the remaining ones were scarred by the memories of the disaster, and the government had put in place extensive regulation to ensure they behaved, and this variety of capitalism (what Minsky called “paternalistic capitalism”) proved very stable.

But stability is destabilizing. As time wore on and memories faded, people changed their outlook and changed their behavior. Banks took on greater risk, and fringe financial institutions (which came to be known as shadow banks) put increased pressure on the traditional banks by taking on even bigger bets. Politicians came to view financial regulation as burdensome, and academic economic theory became so far removed from reality that the models used by the top economists at the central banks didn’t even allow for the possibility of a financial crisis.

As a result of World War 2, government debt ballooned, and these safe government bonds served as private wealth which was leveraged in order to grow and keep full employment in the post-war era. But as fiscal policy tightened (the focus shifted from “full employment” to “balance the budget”), and real wages stagnated, further growth could only be accomplished by piling on private debt, which grew to astounding heights by the mid-2000s. These debts are liabilities for the borrowers, but assets for the holders, and so the huge increase in debt meant huge increases in financial wealth for the top 1%, and all this money needs to be managed, hence Minsky’s term “money-manager capitalism.”

Important changes were also happening to the way financial institutions were operating. The mid-century bank business model consisted of issuing deposits (bank money) in order to finance purchase of mortgage notes from borrowers, which the bank would then hold and collect the interest income. But to evade regulations, compete with shadow banks, and avoid a potential adverse change in the interest rate, banks shifted to a new much more fragile business model. In the new model, banks would make loans with the intent to package them into securities and sell them as quickly as possible, and as a result, the bank didn’t care very much whether you could pay back the loan, and didn’t bother to find out (which is sort of the whole point of having banks). Other institutions would then issue short-term or even overnight debt to yet other financial institutions, in order to finance their purchase of these packages of mortgages. These mortgage-backed securities would then be carved into sections and sold to yet other financial institutions. As a result of all of this, debt between financial institutions rocketed upward.

All of this private debt makes the system increasingly fragile, leading to what Minsky called “Ponzi finance.” If you are dependent on your income to be able to make your debt payments, then an unexpected fall in income could force you to default. If your creditors were counting on your debt payments to be able to make their own debt payments, then now they are forced to default as well. And so on. The result is a ripple of contagion, leading to bankruptcies, fire-sales of assets, and possibly bank runs. As financial institutions stop lending or even close down, normal business investment falls, and the result on Main Street is unemployment and people losing their homes.

To get more detail on the causes of the crisis and the long-run evolution of the financial system, as well as suggestions for what to do about it, read Wray’s book on Minsky’s work, entitled “Why Minsky Matters”: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/why-…

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what we have to do is realize that we’ve

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had a very long-term

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transformation of especially the US

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Financial system but also the Global

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Financial system because most of the

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developed uh uh highly financialized

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countries followed a very similar path

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to ours and so just to quickly summarize

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we we we came out of the Great

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Depression and World War II with very

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robust Financial

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systems partly because we had he

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regulated them partly because the the

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worst institutions had failed in the

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Great Depression um and partly because

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we came out of World War II with a huge

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amount of government debt so that we had

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very safe balance sheets and we can sort

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of think of the early post-war growth

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which was so robust which allowed many

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developed Nations to come close to full

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employment for a fairly long period of

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time um was sort of a leveraging of that

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government debt so rather than

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leveraging uh growth with private sector

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debt we are leveraging growth with

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government sector debt so this was

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Minsky’s point he he argued that um

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there are 57 varieties of capitalism and

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this one that we had in the early

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post-war period where Finance was

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relatively unimportant highly

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constrained was a robust sort of system

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but

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inevitably the financial system would

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evolve the memories of the Great

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Depression would fade uh the successes

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breed greater

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risk-taking um so that inevitably the

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financial SE sector become uh less and

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less robust more and more fragile so it

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was a very long-term Trend uh that

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finally collapsed in 2007

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uh that form of capitalism he called

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money manager capitalism and in many

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many striking ways it looked a lot like

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the capitalism that failed in

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1929 so most of your recent work is on

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one Amer of capitalism so uh what went

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wrong first in terms of the longterm

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Evolution long trends that you have uh

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in the US Financial system and what

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about the policy response was it so

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little was it so late was can be done to

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to change it okay so what what were the

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the trends that finally led to the

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collapse um one was uh greatly

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increasing debt ratios again very

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long-term Trend us households took on

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more and more debt relative to their

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income in part this was because wages

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real wages stopped growing in the US for

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the average worker around

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1974 so we we had another um 30 some odd

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years of growth without wages rising in

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real terms and part of that growth was

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financed by households taking on greater

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debt uh corporate debt also grew uh on

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Trend but with some periods where it

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grew rapidly for example in the leverage

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buyouts of the 80s which were repeated

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again in the 2000s so leverage buyouts

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would leave firms heavily indebted so

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that they’re um committing their future

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profit flow to servicing debt rather

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than building new plant and equipment

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and um paying dividends and so on so

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that was a big part of the problem but

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the most important aspect of money

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manager capitalism was the growing

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indebtedness of financial institutions

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really to other financial institutions

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so we can call this layering of debt on

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debt so that by 2007 we can think of it

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this way by 2007 we had for every dollar

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of income in the US we had $5 of debt in

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uh the early 1930s we had $3 of debt for

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every dollar of income so the debt ratio

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was much higher than it had ever been

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before um and those income think of the

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income flows have to service that debt

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so you can uh see how much heavier that

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debt load was by um 2 seven

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and more than 100% of GDP it actually

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was about 125% of

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GDP was financial institutions owing

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other financial institutions So what had

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happened uh in this transformation of

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the financial system rather than

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financial

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institutions financing their positions

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and assets this is Minsky and

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terminology it just means you’re buying

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assets by issuing debt rather than issue

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doing demand deposits savings deposits

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and time deposits to finance their

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positions in the assets financial

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institutions were issuing very

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short-term debt by the end it was

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overnight debt commercial paper debt to

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other financial institutions and what

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this did was it makes them rely on a

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highly volatile source of funding that

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can dry up immediately it can dry up in

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one night and it links all the financial

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institutions together so the problems in

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one big Financial ins institution

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immediately spread throughout the whole

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financial sector and it’s not just the

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us because Finance had become globalized

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securitization had a lot to do with that

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that was another one of the Innovations

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but it it made the whole Global

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Financial system highly linked so that a

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crisis would spread immediately all over

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the world which is exactly what happened

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Geure herriari, Euskal Herriari dagokionez, hona hemen gure apustu bakarra:

We Basques do need a real Basque independent State in the Western Pyrenees, just a democratic lay or secular state, with all the formal characteristics of any independent State: Central Bank, Treasury, proper currency1, out of the European Distopia and faraway from NATO, maybe being a BRICS partner…

Ikus Euskal Herriaren independentzia eta Mikel Torka

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1 This way, our new Basque government will have infinite money to deal with. (Gogoratzekoa: Moneta jaulkitzaileko kasu guztietan, Gobernuak infinitu diru dauka.)

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Zure e-posta helbidea ez da argitaratuko. Beharrezko eremuak * markatuta daude