Paulo L dos Santos
Political Economist, often mathematically. Associate Professor of Economics @NSSRnews. Formerly @SOASeconomics. Thinking Marxist of some sort. #InformationTheory. Money and Contemporary Finance.
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- Reposted by Paulo L dos SantosJew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks
- Reposted by Paulo L dos SantosICE agents are using an app developed by Palantir that draws on the health records of millions of Americans to find and detain illegal immigrants www.bmj.com/content/392/...
- People need to listen closely and take stock of what is being said here. This federal official is commanding 22,000 heavily armed men across the country.
- A car crash is a tragedy, Mr. President. Brownshirts terrorizing immigrants, citizens of certain ethnicities, and now openly executing people in broad daylight is rising fascism. You used to defend this kind of prevarication on electoral grounds. What’s the excuse now?
- Reposted by Paulo L dos SantosTarget in Minneapolis has pulled Hispanic employees off of pick-up order duty after ICE arrested two US citizen Hispanic employees while on the job. “I’m literally a U.S. citizen!” one shouted as they escorted him into a van.
- Reposted by Paulo L dos SantosAn insane, perfect encapsulation of it all: The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files
- This was between the first and second shot, of a total of ten fired.
- Reposted by Paulo L dos Santosthe nyt style section vs. der spiegel
- Reposted by Paulo L dos SantosThe whole interview is worth it
- Reposted by Paulo L dos SantosMinneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)
- A candid moment by Carney on the fiction of the US-led "rules-based order," the calculations behind its historical acceptance, & their breakdown under the Trump administration. You cannot accept economic integration "when integration becomes the source of your subordination."
- Reposted by Paulo L dos SantosFederal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.
- In other news, Pope seen in local woods giving communion to defecating bear. www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
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- Reposted by Paulo L dos SantosCripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.
- Some new material...#EconSky
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- Reposted by Paulo L dos SantosAt last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,
- Reposted by Paulo L dos SantosHe didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.
- Hearing a lot of men out there justifying the murder of Renee Good with arguments that she was insufficiently submissive. She was too defiant. Too queer. A fucking bitch. Just like Johnathan Ross.
- Reposted by Paulo L dos SantosThis seems significant: not a FORMER DHS official, but a SENIOR (current) one saying the officer who fired acted counter to training. This is not an admin that admits mistakes. And they are hanging this guy out to dry on Day One. I think they know this is bad. Really bad.
- The most striking thing for me is how the debate effectively demands that an untrained civilian act calmly and without any fear while surrounded by masked armed men, but the trained officers are allowed to fire three shots to her head the moment she makes them feel "afraid".
- "Grandpa, what did YOU do when they started invading other countries and killing their own citizens in broad daylight?"
- **Sensitive Content** I normally only post here on economics and political-economy issues. But an ICE agent shot and killed a legal observer in Minneapolis earlier today.
- An authoritarian US government that tramples on its own constitution, deports its own citizens, stifles press and academic freedom, threatens to annex sovereign territories, and engages in "regime change" in order to run other countries and appropriate their resources...
- A civilization that can create drugs to curb obesity in overeating pets but cannot eliminate childhood hunger
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- Reposted by Paulo L dos SantosThe New School is a beacon of higher education thanks to the labor of its faculty & staff. I strongly urge @thenewschool.bsky.social to extend the deadline for faculty to consider separation packages, engage in good faith & protect the programs that make New School a globally renowned institution.
- Today's contribution to the conversation. Having that kind of a day.... #EconSky
- Reposted by Paulo L dos Santos“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.” Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
- Reposted by Paulo L dos SantosWe recently published a study on the transformation of the Eurozone architecture (🔗 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers...., with Alex Goghie, Matteo Giordano & @rikereimer.bsky.social) and launched an accompanying interactive online tool (🔗 monetary-architecture.com). This is how it came to be 👇
- When your job primarily involves repeating c-suite buzzwords and shibboleths with delusional levels of self-confidence...
- Every now and again I have to let him, by #Leonberger rules…
- The Forum for Real Economic Emancipation has put out an edited version of our talks to British trade union activists & educators on Inflation and the Cost of Living Crisis earlier this month. With Ramaa Vasudevan. @freefreeforum.bsky.social @soasnssrfree.bsky.social #EconSky youtu.be/KiGBiOUR_00?...
- Behind the many factors accounting for the stark difference between Bolsonaro’s and Trump’s fates lies a simpler reality: social struggle supports institutions that sometimes punch up, holding powerful people accountable; in its absence, they pretty much never do. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
- New leading indicator just dropped
- My colleague @kmunro-econ.bsky.social's latest book, THE CONTESTED DOMAIN, has just been published! It is a deliberately curated selection of L Vogel's writings, inviting us to conceive & pursue a radical, joined up approach to social emancipation for all. #EconSky www.plutobooks.com/product/the-...
- Not to mention the piss-poor economic "analysis" presupposed by this diatribe. #EconSky
- This is obviously offensive, libellous, bigoted, and harks back to the darkest moments of the twentieth century. But if you take a step back you can see that it is also really, really desperate. Flailing. Banal....
- On a footballing note... I don't think the world quite grasps how absolutely extraordinary the moment when Scotland sealed their qualification for the 2026 World Cup at almost the 98th minute of their match against Denmark really was.... Turn up the volume for full effect.
- Economics, in the hands of Adam Smith: “The liberal reward of labour... is the natural symptom of increasing national wealth." Economics, 250 years of technological progress later: "for wage growth to be sustainable, it needs to be consistent with 2 percent inflation". #EconSky
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- Does governor Miran know who builds houses in this country? #EconSky
- Wait, does this mean China is not the one paying for Trump's tariffs?! #EconSky
- Coming up in a little over an hour…
- As Western "powers" ditch commitments to decarbonisation, here's the language they use to talk about those helping the world make real progress towards a green transition. #EconSky
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- Is there an accepted term to describe the presumed division of people into different groups like “us” and “them” in regular speech? It is one of the most revealing things about a speaker’s outlook.
- Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
- Dominant economic theory would have you believe this roughly reflects this man’s marginal contribution to Tesla’s bottom line, not the pervasive cultish sycophancy and groupthink in US corporate governance.
- Stumbled on a punchy way to make an old point while talking with my sons about Cuomo, the Dems, Mamdani, and the history of capitalist polities being more hostile to socialism than to fascism. Most capitalists would rather lose their all of their rights than lose some of their property.
- Economics is not just the art of confusing stocks and flows, it is also the art of confusing monetary relationships in distribution with realities of production. #EconSky
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- Reminded me of the comparison of the Hayekian entrepreneur to house cats--fiercely asserting its independence and individuality, all while living in a comprehensively controlled environment fined-tuned to its needs.
- An industry on the verge of a paradigmatic breakthrough? Or a giant circle-jerk cartelising an industry and propping up valuations towards the end of a wild speculative run? #EconSky
- It only dawned on me recently that I've been working towards the development of a canonical approach to statistical analysis, grounded only on axioms defining, (a) probabilistic measures of rational belief over events, and (b) measures of uncertainty over aggregations of events 🤯
- A recent picture of me, caught in the wild.
- Reposted by Paulo L dos SantosI’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.
- Then you better be happy somebody else did…. #Presumptions #Privilege
- Reposted by Paulo L dos SantosI was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
- Having one of those days where "intelligent people lacking the courage to call out the bovine idiocy of dumb people" seems like a compelling, exhaustive explanation for much of what ails the world at the moment.
- Using tariffs to obstruct justice in Brazil, using the Dollar’s international dominance to influence elections in Argentina. The use of US economic power to subvert national sovereignty is seldom this brazen. Building a duly multilateral world where no country can do this is long overdue.
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- One day, two articles. Both diagnosing deep malaises in the Chinese economy. All economies face challenges. But as the US & Europe head into a damaging downturn, expect more articles in this genre reassuring Western audiences that it is China’s model of economic management that is failing. #EconSky
- A media ecosystem that has spent decades ignoring the suffering of ordinary people, helping governments manufacture support for endless wars, helping police lie about killing civilians, and more recently covering up a genocide, is not about to take up the fight for free speech. on.ft.com/48mMi3V
- “A new equity culture ” sounds a lot like a “permanently high plateau”. But this time is different…
- “Bringing American jobs back and reindustrialization are legitimate motivations. When the US raised the banner of neoliberalism, Brazil warned of its harmful effects… “unilateral action is the wrong remedy. Multilateralism offers fairer, more balanced solutions.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...
- The fact that US corporate elites have talked themselves into sinking $400bn this year, and possibly $3tn by 2028, on a technology that summarizes, often poorly, the work of others and presents it as “intelligence” is a little bit on the nose—no? economist.com/leaders/2025...
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- Am I the only one here who is both very aware how far from general intelligence LLMs really are AND still writes "please" and "thank you" to the ChatGPT bot in case our future AI overlords decide to judge us by how kind we were to their cognitively distant ancestors??
- Remember that movie, “Don’t Look Up”? Yeah, me neither… www.theguardian.com/environment/...
