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We are delighted to announce that our Vice President of Research & Policy, Thomas Hanna, will be speaking at the Public Banking Institute national conference Public Banking for Public Prosperity: A Declaration of Financial Independence Prosperity, taking place in at the Friends Center in Philadelphia, PA, on October 21-24.

Get your tickets now at publicbankinginstitute.org

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The immediate cause of the looming world depression is clear enough. Renowned economist and The Democracy Collaborative Fellow Michael Hudson delves into the repercussions of the Oil War as he continues his series 'Creating a New International Order'.

"For most countries, their deepening balance-of-payments deficits will put pressure on their exchange rates, confronting them with the choice of whether to use their limited reserves to pay for higher-priced oil and food imports or to pay their foreign debt service falling due,” he writes.

Read 'A Clean Slate: How the Oil War's Aftermath Will Transform the World Economic Order' in full →

A Clean Slate: How the Oil War’s Aftermath Will Transform the World Economic Order — The Democracy Collaborative The immediate cause of the looming world depression is clear enough. Renowned economist Michael Hudson delves into the repercussions of the Oil War as he continues his series Creating a New International Order .

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❗️Realignments evident at UNGA
❗️Rate hikes trigger affordability spiral
❗️GOP candidates distance themselves from Trump

❕Austin ICE shooting sparks protests
❕ ban bill
❕White House press pool blackout

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We're thrilled to share this timely discussion between our President Joe Guinan and Fellow Kali Akuno on events transforming the capitalist-world system right before our eyes!

September 24
5pm ET | 4pm CT | 2pm PT

Organized by Institute for Social Ecology

Tickets 👉 givebutter.com/the-storm-on-the-horizon

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❗️Houthis capture Red Sea corridor
❗️Crude prices surge to over $100/bbl
❗️10-year Treasury bond yields top 5%

❕Macklemore v Ed Sheeran tour
❕AZ border wall standoff intensifies
❕Hackers reveal Flock secrets

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Our news round-up Tracking the Crisis in partnership with The Nation Magazine has recently been covered by the newly launched independent British news outlet Left Field.

"A weekly US news round-up produced with The Nation magazine is trying to make sense of an administration built to overwhelm. Left Field thinks it’s worth your time subscribing to it."

Read the full piece 👉 www.leftfield.org.uk

50 days into Andy Burnham's government and still no sign of a change from previous Westminster administrations - which continuously missed the big picture by focusing on political fads and short-term-oriented policies.

What big picture, you ask? Britain's economy has been in longstanding decline for the last five decades.

“Burnham held out the promise of a break with decades of neoliberalism, but the only sign of a break is with the pledges that carried him into office. Meanwhile, the machinery of extraction and upwards concentration of wealth rumbles on” - Joe Guinan, President, The Democracy Collaborative

Want to learn more about the British economy in the last decades and how we predict it will go next? The UK Index of Systemic Trends was developed by The Democracy Collaborative as a dashboard charting the health of Britain's political economy across indicators including economic growth, inequality, poverty, financialization, life expectancy, productivity, environmental degradation and trust in government.

Find the entire dashboard on ukindex.democracycollaborative.org

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❗️Leadership crisis in US Army
❗️Bond market turmoil
❗️USPS election whistleblower

❕Tohono O’odham Nation in standoff with Feds
❕Nurses fight back against Palantir
❕21 states sue to block ban on transgender youth care

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Did you know that in the 25 years between 1995 and 2020 nominal wages merely doubled but the valuation of financial assets rose 4.5 times?

This is financialization, or “the diversion of financial flows away from the real economy of production and consumption and towards asset markets in pursuit of capital gains." *

Want to learn more about the British economy in the last decades and how we predict it will go next? The UK Index of Systemic Trends was developed by The Democracy Collaborative as a dashboard charting the health of Britain's political economy across indicators including economic growth, inequality, poverty, financialization, life expectancy, productivity, environmental degradation and trust in government.

Read the full Index at ukindex.democracycollaborative.org

*D. Bezemer, M. Hudson, and H. Reed, “Exploring the capital gains economy: the case of the UK,” New Political Economy, Vol. 31, Issue 1, 20 February 2025. Available at: https://www.democracycollaborative.org/whatwethink/exploring-thecapital-gains-economy-uk

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