Just A Bill

Just A Bill

@txex.bsky.social

Shade tree economist and deficit owl

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If you don't understand why a sovereign wealth fund is stupid for the US, start here.

Just A Bill@txex.bsky.social

I'm expecting a lot of BS regarding the federal budget over the next 4 years. Get ahead of it now with The Deficit Myth by @stephaniekelton.bsky.social. stephaniekelton.com/book/

Woohoo. Got my DL renewed today. I brought all of the appropriate documentation to avoid voter suppression and paid my poll tax. Should be good to vote for a few more years now.

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I had someone say on a post about billionaires running #DOGE “they’re billionaires, I’d much rather take financial advice from them than you.” Thing is, they don’t understand that what works for billionaires doesn’t work for them. They are enriching themselves, not us. <sigh>

This is awesome. Nathan is putting in a ton of work on this.

Nathan Tankus@nathantankus.bsky.social

FINALLY its here: the (searchable!) database of nearly 30,000 pages of Federal Reserve Board meeting minutes I got through FOIA. As I've already started to write about, they significantly rewrite Federal Reserve history. www.crisesnotes.com/here-are-the...

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Friendly reminder: people like to say that the federal government finances its operations with "taxpayer money," but that is factually incorrect. The U.S. government makes the dollars that it spends and then gives banks and others permission to make the rest. findingmoneyfilm.com

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