Greg Manter

An incredible video about healthcare problems in rural Florida, and the Trump voters there. youtu.be/-wRu0rJ1DUY

The Great F*%ckOffening is here, worldwide. Join in. youtube.com/shorts/liFwE...

Official monthly data is in, and US solar power remains near its record high from last month, up 18% compared to this time last year!

Trump has made more stock trades in his second term than all 535 members of Congress combined.

An interesting explanation of the uprisings in Europe. It’s the people vs capital. And it’s a symptom of the dying corporatist centrist governments. youtu.be/jAV2v60GgBw?...

Washington has discovered a brilliant financial strategy. Cut benefits for people who need them, cut taxes for people who don't, and borrow the difference from people who aren't old enough to vote.

The Senators we elected this year will serve six-year terms. That means the Senators we elect in November have a choice: Allow an automatic 22% cut to Social Security benefits, or finally force the rich to pay their fair share. Who do you trust to make that choice?

The real estate industry is a leading indicator for the direction of the overall economy. finance.yahoo.com/real-estate/...

Beyond ending the war, the cost of living can be reduced by instituting universal healthcare (without raising taxes) and building inexpensive starter homes (with money from the bloated military budget).

Car payments hit a record $787 a month. $50,562 purchase price, 30% higher than 6 years ago. K-shaped economy fallout: only high-income people can afford new vehicles. finance.yahoo.com/economy/arti...

Tech billionaires have added $845 billion to their fortunes this year — more than three times the gains of every other industry combined.

The cost of construction materials has gone up 11% since November 2025. #inflation #construction fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPUSI...

We teamed up with @adambrichto.bsky.social and partners at @38degrees.bsky.social and @oxfamgb.bsky.social to ask people in Reading about wealth taxes. All across the country, people support making the super-rich pay their fair share. taxjustice.uk/sign-up-to-o...

From April 1981 to February 2000 there was barely any fluctuation in the price of gas. Since then it’s been an absolute roller coaster. fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU00...

Real wages are shrinking year-over-year for the sixth month in a row. The Iran War brought an end to three years of real wage growth.

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Corporate profits and tax revenues grew together until the Trump tax cuts. Now corporate profits are at an all-time high while tax receipts are at their lowest since 2021.

McDonald's is now reportedly pressuring franchisees to use AI to price food. Its CEO raked in $20.6M last year, over 1,000x the median McDonald's worker pay of $19,020. And they remain one of the largest employers of Medicaid and SNAP recipients. I'm not lovin' it.

NYT pushes Trumpian lies on its opinion page. Trump is NOT doing the same thing as Biden in talking about the economy. Trump is making up absurd lies like prices falling and $21 trillion in foreign investment. Biden put a positive spin on REAL data www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/o...

Full-time employment in September was down 781,000 from September 2025. #employment #fulltime #economy www.bls.gov/web/empsit/c...

Protectionist tariffs aren’t working. But consumers are paying higher prices.

Corporate profits soaring, but worker pay isn’t. #corporations #economy fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CP

In 2027 Seattle's minimum wage will be $22.14 per hour. That's more than THREE TIMES the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour—a rate that hasn't been raised since 2009. And yet somehow we're not the jobless wasteland orthodox economics would predict. Weird.

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Wall Street’s short term mentality kills too many businesses. Here’s the story of one famous business that prospers by taking a longer view. #innout #business youtu.be/9aOpEwXn4Mk

The K-shaped economy.

In 1990, the US had ~130 tax coupons (credits, adjustments, deductions, etc), today we have more than double that: 271. To address the debt, we should start with the coupon book that doles out $2.3 trillion in discounts each year, dwarfing Social Security. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Consumer sentiment hugely impacted the 2024 election. Currently, it is falling dramatically, which is bad news for Republicans in the midterms. www.sca.isr.umich.edu

Some propagandists will try to pretend that today’s announced job postings on Indeed is good news, but anyone who can read a graph is not impressed. 😆 #jobs #indeed #employment fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLID...

Ashley Hinson voted repeatedly against efforts to end U.S. hostilities with Iran while taking more than $217,000 from oil and gas interests, including $38,500 since the war began. Meanwhile, Iowa gas prices have surged 60% since the start of the war as major oil companies report soaring profits.

The labor share of economic output hit its lowest point on record in Q2 2026.

Also updated September 18th: share of financial assets owned by the bottom 50% of Americans is a record low 2.2%! #inequality #economy #kshapedeconomy fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBS...

Updated September 18th: the share of financial assets owned by the top 1% rose to 36.5%. A record high, of course. #inequality #onepercent #wealth fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBS...

Major corporation CEOs were paid 325x what their average employees made in 2025. If they were limited by law to a 20x advantage, they‘d increase the average wage so fast it’d make your head spin. #economy #wages #CEOs #inequality

Unionization is a key tool in the battle against the K-shaped economy. #kshapedeconomy #economy #unions inequality.org/article/firs...

You don't need a private company to pay a parking ticket. You don't need one to get Social Security or Medicare. But somehow you NEED a private company to file your taxes. And that company pays $0 in taxes on $6 billion in profits. And gets $1 billion in tax breaks. RIGGED.

Save the date! No Kings is October 17th. And don’t forget to vote early! 🗳️

ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS ought to stop covering anything at the White House. Trump lives for publicity, so he’ll go nuts if he’s ignored.

Weeks Before the Midterms, Almost Everything Is Getting More Expensive www.wsj.com/economy/week...

CEOs made 325 times as much as the typical worker in 2025. In 1965, CEOs were paid 21 times as much as a typical worker. From 1978–2025, top CEO compensation skyrocketed 1,316% while typical workers’ compensation increased only 28%. CEO pay increased 14% in 2025 alone. www.epi.org/blog/ceo-pay...

The US military spends $2.7 billion every day. You’re taxed to flood military contractors with cash.

26.7 million Americans (7.9%) had no health insurance in 2025. #healthinsurance #universalhealthcare www.census.gov/library/publ...

US poverty 2025: The official poverty rate fell 0.5 percentage points to 10.2% in 2025. #poverty #economy www.census.gov/newsroom/pre...

Starbucks can’t afford to pay workers more? Economist @deanbaker13.bsky.social says otherwise #econsky Watch: https://cepr.net/publications/mostly-economics-episode-51/

It doesn’t really matter if the Fed raises its target rate, because the 10-year note rate has already gone up its highest since 2007.

Real wage growth was negative for the fifth consecutive month in August.