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Cornell Law School, Georgetown Business School, Westwood Capital LLC, @NewConsensus . Formerly FRBNY & IMF. Art, ideas, other offenses my own, not affiliates’.

New York, USA

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Robert Hockett

4 years

@CornellLaw : New book from Prof. Robert Hockett @rch371 : Financing the Green New Deal. Reviewer and Nobel Laureate @RobertJShiller says, “Anyone who wants a sustainable future will have to develop means of assuring it that are as creative and ambitious...as these.”

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Robert Hockett

4 years

Supposing that the Postal Service should be 'profitable' is categorically strange. This is a form of collective provisioning that we have been doing since before the Declaration of Independence. Ask yourself why we don't demand 'profitability' of the police or the military.

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Further confirmation of something we see every day. Unless you are one of 'the 1%' - or, more strictly speaking, the 5% - you are better off in almost any 'developed' country than you are in the UK or US.

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5 years

Tweet 1/2: “. @AOC 's and @BernieSanders 's Loan Shark Prevention Act could not be more timely. With gaping inequality come extractive and exploitative lending practices. And with those practices come (1) profound injustice (2) even worse inequality, & (3) financial instability.”

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Robert Hockett

4 years

@neeratanden Ah, so you DO prefer Trump to Bernie. Just as HRC does.

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6 months

Bob was spot-on then as he is now.

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Robert Reich

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In 1994, I took a lot of heat for this speech warning that the American middle class was in danger. That was 29 years ago this week. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.

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Yah, 'unfortunate.' From the guy who said after election night 2008, 'Our job is to make sure Barack Obama is a one-term President.'

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McConnell: "Looks like the majority is going to have us vote on the motion to proceed to the budget this afternoon. They've chosen a totally partisan path... We're off to a totally partisan start. I think that's unfortunate." "Life is a series of choices, and they've chosen."

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Robert Hockett

4 years

@AOC Somehow it becomes all about him and his sad childhood. The narcissism of these creeps seems to be bottomless.

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LOL - no, it's not. The time for him to 'come clean' was 1991. What it's time for now - and has been for decades - is to impeach and remove him. #UnpackTheCourt

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Opinion | It’s time for Clarence Thomas to come clean

The Supreme Court justice said he was misinformed about the ethics rules. As a consequence, he should release the details of all his travel.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Robert Hockett

3 years

The primary source of post-Reagan income inequality in one nice graph, courtesy of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The gap between red and blue is also the stuff of financialization and market volatility, as rentiers (cf. first reply below).

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Robert Hockett

5 years

Tweet 2/2: “END USURY AND BEGIN PUBLIC BANKING - JOIN @AOC , @BernieSanders , and the victims and experts who've signed this letter.”

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Robert Hockett

1 year

When Biden announces that he will ignore the illegal 'debt ceiling,' ... (1) McCarthy might not sue, because optics of suing to force default are suicidal; or (2) If he does sue, Supremes will certainly expedite review; and (3) Biden will win 6/3 at worst, 8-1 or 9-0 at best.

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Robert Hockett

10 months

'As the world heats up, our benchmarks are becoming increasingly useless — as useless as the notion that there are any places to move to avoid climate change.' - Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.

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Opinion | Even ‘Safe’ Places Are Experiencing Climate Chaos in America

In Vermont, the climate is jumping the banks and blowing past the guardrails.

www.nytimes.com

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Robert Hockett

4 years

@varsha_venkat_ @DanRiffle Slave State protections in the Constitution: (1) three-fifths rule; (2) Electoral College; (3) Senate. One down, two to go.

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Robert Hockett

4 years

Notice a pattern?

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Shortly after polls opened on Election Day, Republicans in Pennsylvania filed a new lawsuit in federal court challenging the Montgomery County officials' process for handling absentee ballots that arrived before Nov. 3. #CNNelection

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Robert Hockett

4 years

@Austan_Goolsbee @washingtonpost You mean there’s MORE than just one shit show in the White House?

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Robert Hockett

5 years

Here's a bit more on the Green New Deal I've done for the @FinancialTimes .

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Pay for Green New Deal now or spend even more later

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s plan to halt climate change will be cheaper in the long run

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Robert Hockett

5 years

This was pretty fun. @saikatc @AOC

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Tucker grills Ocasio-Cortez adviser over 'Green New Deal'

Tucker Carlson takes on Robert Hockett, Cornell law professor and adviser to Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, over the details of the Green New Deal. #Tucker #FoxNewsFOX ...

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Robert Hockett

4 years

Yet another 'establishment' interviewee this morning - in this case, Doug Jones on NPR - replies to a 'what about Biden's constant lies?' query with, 'Trump lies too.' Has it really come to this in this party?

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Robert Hockett

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@JStein_WaPo As politically brilliant as he is economically brilliant.

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Robert Hockett

2 years

Finally a national government get serious about private equity's invasion of housing markets. Rent-caps will ultimately not be enough, though. What we MUST ultimately do is flatly PROHIBIT hedgies and PE funds presence in these (and healthcare) markets.

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Robert Hockett

5 years

I've been doing some television on the #GreenNewDeal and noticed that I'd become shaggy, so I went for a haircut. I told my friends what it's for and they exploded with joy. Yolette, to the left, is a voting @AOC constituent, but ALL of us cheer at the mention of her.

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Robert Hockett

3 years

@adamdavidson I'd reluctantly oppose that. I fear we reinforce all 'norm erosion' of the past 5 years if we don't prosecute to the fullest extent of the law. It is almost certainly the case that most of the Trump Admin and family belong in prison for decades. Let the legal process determine.

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Robert Hockett

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@marcorubio What the f-ck is your point? If you have an accusation to make, MAKE it, you sniveling little creep - make it explicitly and forthrightly. EVERY vote being counted this week has been cast BEFORE its state's deadline. If you believe otherwise, say so and prove it.

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Robert Hockett

4 years

Sedition. Joint Chiefs, it’s time to act.

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Don Jr tweeting that they should go to "war" plus Trump's press briefing alleging every state is being stolen can't possibly lead to good things

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Robert Hockett

3 years

Courtesy of NYT, MASSIVELY record drop in the poverty rate. Why must it take a massively lethal pandemic to make this happen?

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Robert Hockett

2 years

We hear inflation is (temporarily) running higher than at any time since Reagan's presidency in 1982. What we don't hear is unemployment is running lower than at any time since Johnson's presidency in 1967. Why is that? And how much more unemployment do 'conservatives' want?

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Robert Hockett

3 years

My latest in Forbes aims to clear up some confusions about 'fiat money,' 'credit money,' and ... well, just money.

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Robert Hockett

10 months

Wow. Flattering Joe Biden by likening him to FDR and LBJ, flattering all three of them by crediting them with socialism. Thanks, dude.

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Greene: LBJ is very similar to Biden. They are both Democrat Socialists. LBJ’s big socialist programs.. to address education, medical care, rural poverty, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, and welfare.

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Robert Hockett

3 years

@mehdirhasan INDICT him AT ONCE.

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Robert Hockett

11 months

Yesterday, IMF. Today, ECB. Your move, Jay Powell - please admit tomorrow, in your official capacity as Fed Chair, that the current inflation is supply- and profiteer-driven, not wage- or salary-driven. Then lower rates and take Summers off speed-dial.

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Corporate profits drove up prices last year, says ECB president

Christine Lagarde says without a shift in corporate behaviour, interest rates will need to stay higher for longer

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Robert Hockett

4 years

@realDonaldTrump #DeathCult

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Robert Hockett

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@dcpetterson Maybe you're cool with more polite reactionaries than Trump. We're not. We're pushing non-reactionaries. YOU get the fuck behind US for a change. If you don't, we'll conclude that you'd rather have Trump.

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Robert Hockett

1 year

'The Biden administration’s efforts to revive U.S. manufacturing appear to be succeeding, with some business sectors plowing in almost 20 times the investment in new U.S. manufacturing projects versus only a few years ago.'

Biden’s massive manufacturing push is working and U.S. companies have already committed $200...

President Joe Biden’s big spending packages for American industry are starting to have an impact.

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Robert Hockett

3 years

My latest in Forbes is on what 'backs' the Dollar. The answer is: PRODUCTION. And this is the key to non-inflationary Fed 'money-printing.' Direct new Fed money to productive Main Street investment, not Wall Street speculation, and we're 'good as gold.'

What ‘Backs’ The Dollar? Easy: Production

The dollar is 'backed' not only by what has already been produced, but also by what WILL be produced. This tells us how the Fed can 'create' money without 'creating' inflation. It need only direct...

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Robert Hockett

1 year

Now that a Fed bank admits - at long, long, long last - that labor costs aren't the inflation-driver, dare we ask that they stop with the rate hikes?

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Robert Hockett

4 years

My latest in Forbes is on the common source of all current money theories - from Austrian, through MMT and other Post-Keynesian Schools, to the regrettably ignored Swedish School. Here's how to understand contemporary money - and what to do with it.

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Robert Hockett

3 years

@MalcolmNance Joint Chiefs, please just remove this POS. There seems literally no convincing reason to let him sit around the WH lighting matches for the next two months.

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My latest in Forbes is on what we're not asking about GameStop - namely, why we route trillions of dollars to poker instead of production.

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Robert Hockett

3 years

Worked with the Bloomberg buddies for a month on this one. Rather remarkable story. Vulgar pre-'33 securities scandals are apparently being crudely recapitulated across the crypto space now.

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Biggest Crypto Coin Sale Fueled by ‘Pump’ Scheme, Research Says

Bullish crypto exchange bankrolled by Block.one funds, discussed in newly published paper

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Robert Hockett

3 years

There is a misconception that 2/3 of each House of Congress must vote for Trump to be removed under the #25A . Not so. Pence and a majority of the Cabinet suffice. For while Trump can contest in Congress, resolution takes 25 days, during which Pence is acting President.

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Robert Hockett

3 years

@marcorubio Are you insane or merely a liar? When did legal accountability for insurrection in which cops are killed and Vice Presidents are threatened with hanging become 'radical'? And how does a regular guest on Fox 'News' come to pretend to fret about 'political entertainment'?

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Robert Hockett

4 years

@thehill Another lying 'Republican' POS. Flush the turd November 3rd.

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Robert Hockett

5 years

@AOC 'Officers are under stress & act out sometimes.'

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Robert Hockett

3 years

NB: This is more opportunity than outrage. The haste guarantees there will be all manner of irregularity and illegality, as in the Kavanaugh case. Hence they're affording us justification to reopen EVERY Trump appointment - including Kavanaugh - and to cleanse accordingly.

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Senate Republicans are racing ahead with post-election judicial confirmations, breaking a 123-year tradition.

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Robert Hockett

1 year

Seldom has so much been wasted for so little 'benefit.' Shut it TF down.

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The Real-World Costs of the Digital Race for Bitcoin (Published 2023)

Bitcoin mines cash in on electricity — by devouring it, selling it, even turning it off — and they cause immense pollution. In many cases, the public pays a price.

www.nytimes.com

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Robert Hockett

4 years

What James Carvile was to 1992, self-described Tex/Mex Redneck @ChuckRocha will be to 2020. And unlike Carville, Chuck is both BRILLIANT and 'brown.' Pls follow him (there's lots of vid), listen, and share. You'll learn more in five minutes from Chuck than in hours of punditry.

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Robert Hockett

1 year

'“You mean, just say we don’t have a debt limit?” Biden said. “No. That would be irresponsible.”' - The single greatest blunder, alongside siding with the railroads against their workers last autumn, of his Presidency. Please, Joe, no more of this.

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Debt ceiling crisis forces Biden to wrestle with limits on his power

Liberals want the president to blow past the debt limit on his own. The White House is not sure it can, or should.

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Robert Hockett

4 years

@cascamike Brooks's net worth is $15.7 million. I wonder how that compares to the wealth of his research assistants.

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Robert Hockett

3 years

Criminal conspiracy by 'Republican' Attorneys General. Arrest them ALL.

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Republican AGs group sent robocalls urging protesters to the Capitol. GOP officials now insist they didn't know about it. via @lmtnews

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Robert Hockett

5 years

Knock-down answers to @paulkrugman by one of our nation's most penetrating and institutionally informed economists. @StephanieKelton @DanielAlpert

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Robert Hockett

3 years

Good to see actual #Expulsion from the House and Senate now taken seriously by Congress as a live option. Cruz, Hawley, Gaetz, and several others directly incited the #Insurrection . So, less directly, did ALL who trafficked in ' #StopTheSteal .' Congress, #EXPEL them.

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Robert Hockett

5 years

@paulkrugman @neeratanden Yah, I kinda got that feeling back in 2016 when you were smearing Bernie every day.

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Robert Hockett

5 years

Somehow we've managed to 'afford' it - along with another $3+ trillion in Bush and Trump tax cuts.

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U.S. Has Spent $6 Trillion on Wars Since 9/11: Report

The report found that "high costs in war and war-related spending pose a national security concern because they are unsustainable."

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Robert Hockett

2 years

@IsabellaMWeber was way out ahead of the curve on this. Again, stop talking 'wage-price spiral' and start talking 'profit-price spiral' and 'share-buyback-price spiral' when you speak of inflation.

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Robert Hockett

4 years

Honored, dear Senator @BernieSanders !

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Bernie Sanders

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The four largest banks in America—Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, and Wells Fargo—are on average 80 percent larger than they were before they were bailed out by American taxpayers. Our job is to break them up.

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Robert Hockett

2 years

@EliseStefanik Why did you vote against the formula bill? And why are you hiding the fact that you did?

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Robert Hockett

3 years

Coup Watch: I still think, two weeks in, that it's a mistake to push only the 'gang that couldn't shoot straight' take on what the Trump team is doing. Trump has summoned Michigan state legislators to the White House and they are going. This is an ongoing, slow-rolling coup.

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Robert Hockett

2 years

'“We mostly see a predatory model similar to what we saw in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis,” Hays said. “We hope the report finds a way to communicate the scale and severity of that potential harm.”'

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Treasury will warn White House that crypto needs major regulations

A new assessment from the Biden administration is expected to find that cryptocurrencies pose threats to investors.

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Robert Hockett

1 year

President Biden is said to be considering Jamie Dimon as Yellen's successor at Treasury. My latest in Forbes argues the present moment cries out for the President to reverse President Obama's first major blunder by asking @SheilaBair2013 to take the post.

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Robert Hockett

3 years

Your two forgotten Constitutional powers for today: (1) House Speaker Pelosi can decline to seat the 106 'Republicans' who have tried to undo the election. (2) Vice President Harris can overrule Mitch McConnell to get legislation to the Senate floor.

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Robert Hockett

3 years

Very disturbing. And a helpful reminder that 'trusting the science' is viable only when trusting the 'scientists' is possible. How this conflict of interest went unreported in The Lancet and elsewhere is beyond me.

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Robert Hockett

3 years

The US could have won the '60s' domestic wars on poverty, disease, & Jim Crow, but was sidetracked in Vietnam. The US at the turn of the millennium could have resumed and won those domestic wars but was sidetracked in the Islamic world. Let's nation-build our own nation now, OK?

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Robert Hockett

5 years

Um, no. I have said that we appear to have been referring to different documents, as it turns out there were multiple documents being discussed yesterday with no one person having a handle on them all. Might we now discuss the Resolution?

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The “AOC policy adviser” Robert Hockett ( @rch371 ) has now officially conceded that he was wrong. 👉 When will you delete this, @ndrew_lawrence ?

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Robert Hockett

3 years

Biden EOs thus far today: Paris Accord rejoined. Border Wall stopped. '1776 Commission' ended. DACA preserved. 'Muslim Ban' reversed. Eviction Moratorium extended. Student Loan Repayment Pause continued. LGBT Discrimination re-prohibited.

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Robert Hockett

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LOL. In other words, the bank made the 'elementary error' of BEING A BANK. Might someone tell me again why this boob is considered 'smart,' or how in Hades he ever found his way into the Treasury Department, let alone Jay Powell's ear? #BankingIsMaturityTransformation

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SVB committed one of the most elementary errors in banking: borrowing money in the short term and investing in the long term. When interest rates went up, the assets lost their value and put the institution in a problematic situation.

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Robert Hockett

4 years

A 'game-changing' opportunity has just opened with the Fed's Section 13(3) announcement. In effect federally DEPUTIZED as disaster response agencies, our cities now will be federally FUNDED as such agencies too. Time to lever-up our ambitions accordingly.

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Robert Hockett

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@keithellison @GunnelsWarren The resemblance to Alex Jones cannot be accidental. #DivineJustice

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Over 70,000 views now. Wonkery seems actually to pay off sometimes.

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Robert Hockett

4 years

OK, it's confirmed. Holy crapanusius...

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Robert Hockett

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Because they are not 'scientists,' but labor-'tamers.' This was once widely understood. They are the official ideologists of the tiny minority who own nearly all of the capital. They are for this rentier minority what the Church was for the feudal landlords. #AllYouNeedKnow

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why are economists upset about the idea that profits and inflation can be linked?

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Robert Hockett

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Hear hear. Those 'warning' that a challenge of this sort would be 'unprecedented' are on all fours with those warning that indicting a serially criminal 'president' would be unprecedented. If the *wrong* is unprecedented, so must be the *remedy* - on pain of unremedied wrong.

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The @washingtonpost seems to think an unconstitutional law like the one demanding default must be obeyed just because it’s old (like the laws banning interracial marriage?!) and has never bound anyone in its 106-yr history! How dumb can smart people get?

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5 years

Plus ça change ...

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Robert Hockett

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@RichardGrenell Fani Willis isn't Joe Biden, and 'third world tactics' describes Trump's coup-attempt. Yet AGAIN a sick 'Republican' accusation turns out to be a projective confession.

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Robert Hockett

4 years

@AOC Exactly. The courts are ALREADY packed. They're REPUBLICAN-packed and must be UNpacked.

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Robert Hockett

4 years

Republicans now endorsing Biden:

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Robert Hockett

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1/6 An MLK Day Story: When I was 10, growing up in New Orleans, my young mom was an airline exec. One spring morning she put me on a plane to NYC to visit some family friends. I found myself seated beside a remarkably beautiful woman, a bit older than my mom, who exuded ...

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Robert Hockett

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1/2 Another unarmed sibling of color was shot dead yesterday in his own home by police. He heard a sound in his garage, stepped into it with a light to ascertain the sound’s source, and was instantly shot. The police had their body cams turned off at the time of the ...

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Robert Hockett

11 months

Spoke at length with the Globe's terrific Jim Puzzanghera about both the Boston suit and the DC suit that I and a colleague have in process against the debt ceiling. We're not stopping. Stay tuned.

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How a Boston court case could help prevent another debt limit crisis - The Boston Globe

Debt limit opponents argue the limit, adopted by Congress more than a century ago, is unconstitutional because it conflicts with a provision in the 14th Amendment.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Robert Hockett

4 years

InvestAmerica: My latest in Forbes is on how the Biden-Harris Administration can democratically work massive productive and infrastructural renewal with or without retaking the Senate this January - in literally every Congressional District in the country.

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Robert Hockett

4 years

@jentaub If only you would consider bleaching your hair, wearing more 'revealing' clothes - preferably bright red in color - and somehow erasing about 150 IQ points' worth of intelligence from your face, you might be hired by Fox.

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Robert Hockett

5 years

@JohnDelaney What 'scares' them is rightwing Republican health insurance investors who pretend to be Democrats and do not disclose conflicts of interest.

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Robert Hockett

5 years

ALL money is 'created from nothing' - or rather, from promises. Inflation emerges only when there's too much promising in relation to too few goods. As Fed cannot seem consistently to reach its inflation target of 2% FROM BELOW, your alarmism is premature.

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Robert Hockett

3 years

Wrong remedy. You must bring a RICO action against the Trump crime family, the RNC, Lyndsey Graham, Texas AG, etc. This is an organized criminal conspiracy, with felony election tampering, sedition, and incitement to political violence among the predicate offenses. Indict.

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The battle to save our country is not Democrats vs Republicans. It is pro-democracy forces vs. pro-autocracy forces. It won’t go away on Jan. 20. It won’t be won easily and it will take a big tent to include all those who disagree on a bunch of things but agree on the big thing.

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Robert Hockett

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@RepMaxineWaters Tell Nancy not to seat them, Maxine. We didn't re-seat Confederates until they agreed to ratify the 13th and 14th Amendments.

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Robert Hockett

3 years

Spoke to Law & Crime's superb Colin Kalmbacher on Gov. Cuomo's latest threat against NY legislators. Thanks as ever to @rontkim , @JuliaCarmel__ , and @yuhline , NY Legislative and national treasures, for pushing back.

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'Threatening People Is Never Legal': Lawmakers and Legal Experts Respond to Gov. Cuomo Intimidating...

Embattled and losing allies daily, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) appears to be resorting to intimidation. Lawmakers in the Empire State are making the case that the governor's "threats" are in...

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Robert Hockett

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1/7 'Economist' cover story tomorrow. What money can, should, and will come to include. Stateside this will effectively digitize and complete the nationalized monetary regime that we instituted sequentially in 1862, 1863, and 1864, then stupidly forgot about.

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Robert Hockett

4 years

You seem to have come with a stunt and a back-stab well planned. This is not hope. Indeed you have dashed that of millions who believed you, including my own. All hope now flows to the Bern and the Squad.

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Elizabeth Warren

4 years

I come here tonight with a heart filled with hope because this is our moment in history. Our moment when no one is left on the sidelines—our moment when we build the movement to make real change. #DemDebate

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9 months

Who knew? Turns out that firms not run as prisons attract many more applicants.

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Need to Hire Workers in a Hot Job Market? Let Them Do Some Remote Work

Employers offering flexible work options are hiring at a faster pace than those requiring full-time office attendance.

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Robert Hockett

3 years

FT calls on EU to embrace 'American Revolution' in global taxation of multinationals. The significance cannot be gainsaid. Biggest thing in many decades. Goodbye global tax havens and accounting gimmickry!

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A step forward on global corporation tax reform

US proposal to break deadlock should be embraced by Europe

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Robert Hockett

4 months

'Chief Executive of Collapsed Crypto Fund Hyperverse Does Not Appear to Exist.' - Surely the best headline of the decade to date, and one altogether emblematic of crypto.

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Chief executive of collapsed crypto fund HyperVerse does not appear to exist

Steven Reece Lewis was introduced to investors with an impressive list of qualifications and achievements, but no organisation cited can find any record of him

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Robert Hockett

9 months

@SpeakerMcCarthy When will you focus on real things? When will you notice we don't have the luxury at present to use Congress as a prop for lowbrow Jerry Springer shows?

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Robert Hockett

2 years

My latest in Forbes argues that we must revive the old practice of maintaining strategic stockpiles of all essential inputs to production and even some critical products. The reasons, all urgent right now, are both economic and geopolitical.

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Robert Hockett

10 months

Larry always catches the best, most on-target quotes.

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Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️

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“Unhinged from judicial standards, the court now roves through the policy landscape, overturning decades of law and reordering Americans’ lives and institutions. It upends women’s health, revamps college admissions, snatches student aid from millions and redefines public…

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Robert Hockett

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For anyone following, multiple people were talking about multiple documents yesterday, sometimes not realizing either (a) that there were so many, or (b) that they therefore were talking about different things. Might we now turn to the actual Resolution? It's kinda important.

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Robert Hockett

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No, dinosaur. Beliefs - willed or otherwise - are irrelevant to this case. If you rob a bank because you sincerely - or self-deceivingly - 'believe' that it owes you the money, you're going to jail. Try it and find out.

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Opinion | Why the Trump Jan. 6 indictment will fail

Trump was wrong, but I can see how he arrived at his suspicions. A fair-minded jury might well see it, too.

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Robert Hockett

5 years

Had another outing on the Tucker Carlson Show. Again the subject was the Green New Deal. Praise Be for the bold and brilliant @aoc , her likewise bold and brilliant team, and all the other treasures whom we voted into Congress last November. Avanti! +

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff makes stunning admission about the Green New Deal | Fox...

Is the Green New Deal about tackling climate change or a hostile takeover of the U.S. economy? Tucker takes on Robert Hockett, who advised Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the Green New Deal.

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Robert Hockett

1 year

Bernie is more influential than ever. Bless this national and global treasure! (And save the 'final act' talk till 2050 or so.)

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Bernie Sanders Has a New Role. It Could Be His Final Act in Washington. (Published 2023)

After two unsuccessful runs for the presidency, the Vermont senator now leads the Senate health committee, a job that gives him sweeping jurisdiction over issues he cares about.

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Robert Hockett

3 years

@realDonaldTrump @OANN The lie of the year is that you are a man. Pack for prison, punk.

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Robert Hockett

1 year

Spoke with the amazing - and astonishingly prolific - @JStein_WaPo at WaPo again. This is easily the most thorough brief narrative of the past week available!

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The 72-hour scramble to save the United States from a banking crisis

The world saw one failing bank. Biden aides saw a great unraveling.

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