Neoliberal

Well, with kbin.social down again I’ve started posting over at the lemmy.world @neoliberal community. It looks like it should be followable from Mastodon, so feel free to join and participate!

Hopefully ernest is able to recover soon; kbin was a great idea and it has a lot of potential.

It’s the one that stops people from hearing the good news.

The White House’s policies have fueled plans for more than $200 billion in cleantech manufacturing investments — mostly in districts with Republican lawmakers opposed to the agenda.

An energy-rich future is within reach

A new POLITICO Magazine/Ipsos poll shows that Trump’s criminal conviction hurts him with independents.

Is anyone paying attention?

The National Rally’s success in the European election cost farmer unions’ centrist allies their seats in the European Parliament.

An interactive and visual illustration showing how either candidate can win the Electoral College.

538 uses polling, economic and demographic data to explore likely US election outcomes.

A new electoral divide has emerged in America.

This divide is not rooted in race, geography, age or education. Instead, it is engagement in democracy itself.

The U.S. military launched a clandestine program amid the COVID crisis to discredit China’s Sinovac inoculation – payback for Beijing’s efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic. One target: the Filipino public. Health experts say the gambit was indefensible and put innocent lives at risk.

Core prices that exclude volatile food and energy items climbed 3.4% from a year earlier

The discussion thread is for casual and off-topic conversation that doesn't merit its own submission.

In a new, secret recording, the Supreme Court justice says he “agrees” that the U.S. should return to a place of godliness

The Fair Representation Act has been re-introduced in Congress. This bold solution can stop gerrymandering and make Congress work for every American. 

The Fair Representation Act can solve partisan gerrymandering, make every congressional district competitive, and encourage politicians to represent all of us instead of just their base. It does this by combining three reforms: 

• Multi-member districts. In three- or five-member districts, nearly every voter will elect a candidate they support. Voters like Massachusetts Republicans and Oklahoma Democrats will be represented in Congress. Gerrymandering will become nearly impossible.

• Ranked choice voting for all U.S. House and Senate elections. RCV frees voters to support their favorite candidates, and encourages candidates to reach out to more voters for second-choice support. When RCV is used in multi-member districts, it is a form of proportional representation.

• Uniform rules for congressional redistricting 

The Fair Representation Act can be passed without a constitutional amendment. It truly has the potential to transform our political system and create a more inclusive and deliberative government which respects and empowers all voices.

Sadly, we were not able to track down Crawfish. Considering he was MIA for more than a month, Ernest was kind enough to appoint myself and one other as the new moderators on the Kbin magazine.

You all are welcome to join us at m/[email protected] should you wish.

The more unironic rainbow capitalism stans there are, the better!

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Crawfish, are you still here? Does anyone know how to find Crawfish?

We are active in @[email protected] (kbin) and we are looking for our fearless leader!

Thanks in advance!

No country has more neighbours than China, with 14 land borders. It is a difficult group to get along with under any circumstances, but China’s flawed diplomacy is making the task even harder.

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), a trade deal which includes ASEAN, China, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea, is quietly making big inroads.

"It helps that the area where RCEP has made most progress—harmonising rules of origin for goods exports—matters a lot to the complex supply chain that runs across the world’s biggest manufacturing hub. The deal, in effect, creates a single market in the intermediate goods that go into final products, helping RCEP to prevent the so-called “noodle-bowl” of dozens of overlapping trade deals that exporters struggle to digest."

The US has historically championed the WTO (and its predecessor the GATT), as an important part of the US-led rules-based international order. But over the past decade, this support has frayed. Nowadays, the US is even quietly sabotaging the WTO by blocking the appointment of new appellate judges, preventing the WTO from resolving trade disputes between WTO members. Notably, this policy is being carried over unchanged from the Trump administration to the Biden administration.

Larry Summers gave a keynote speech at a Peterson Institute workshop on fiscal policy a couple of weeks ago. The take-home message: the long run US fiscal deficit is becoming a matter of very real, not manufactured, concern.

During the 2010s, many left and center-left people got used to ignoring worries about the deficit. Paul Krugman, for instance, frequently called out conservatives for concern trolling the deficit with the goal of pushing spending cuts.

But today, with a 10-year-ahead deficit forecast of 7.3 percent, including a 3.6 percent primary deficit (conservative CBO estimates), high interest rates amplifying debt service costs for the forseeable future, and no political will on either side of the aisle to reduce spending or raise taxes, such concerns can no longer be dismissed.

Summers isn't everyone's cup of tea, but he's really good at synthesizing big picture economic problems.