Retired-E.D. professional wakes up to a Fascist system. Now seeking #NewCommunityParadigms #DoughnutEconomics RTs not endorsements
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Our Doughnut Economics for Policymakers Guide is out!
An open, evolving resource for #policymakers and civil servants applying #DoughnutEconomics in practice.
It includes videos and real policy examples from around the world: doughnuteconomics.org/themes…
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#California built 677K new housing units in 5 years, while the state's population has barely budged. Is California finally turning the corner on its #housing #crisis? We dive into the #data 👇 bit.ly/4tPZYMw
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#FactFriday: In 2024–25, state, local, and federal funding for CA's #K12 public schools was roughly $142.4B. The federal government provides about 6% of total funding, which has been consistent over most non-recession years.
Learn more: bit.ly/4twaSqo
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Reserve your free tickets for SFI’s first 2026 Community Lecture event, Crossroads Democracy Panel, on April 14 at the Lensic Performing Arts Center.
Hosted by the Santa Fe Institute, this panel brings together scholars from political science, economics, psychology, and behavioral science to explore what research can tell us about the history of democracy, the values it requires and may promote, and whether a renewed expansion and deepening of democracy may be the best way to save it.
Speakers:
- Jenna Bednar, political scientist at University of Michigan, SFI External Faculty.
- Samuel Bowles, economist at the Santa Fe Institute.
- Hahrie Han, political scientist at Johns Hopkins University.
- Katrin Schmelz, behavioral economist and psychologist at the Santa Fe Institute.
- David Krakauer, President of the Santa Fe Institute and moderator of the open discussion.
When: April 14, 2026 | 7:30 pm
Where: Lensic Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe, NM.
Free tickets: lensic.org/events/crossroads…
More info: santafe.edu/events/crossroad…
Presented free to the public thanks to generous sponsorship by the McKinnon Family Foundation, with support from The Lensic Performing Arts Center and the Santa Fe Reporter.
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"Capitalism created the possibility of the win win win. It used to be a zero sum game where somebody won, somebody else lost.
The biggest mistake people make, intellectuals in particular, they still think we're in a zero sum world. They're obsessed with some billionaires because Bernie Sanders thinks that Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk somehow stole the money from the people.
They don't understand that it's this prosperity machine that's creating more, not just for those billionaires, but for everything that they're touching. They're creating value for their customers, they're creating value for their employees. Their suppliers are flourishing, their investors are seeing their capital go up. It can be reinvested and compound.
All philanthropy ultimately comes from business. That's where the profits are.
Where does all the taxes come from? It ultimately comes from business as well.
This is the engine that's lifting humanity out. The entrepreneurs are the drivers of that engine. Somebody like Elon Musk, he gets a very, very, very tiny sliver of the value that he creates for the whole world."
— @iamjohnmackey
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Will just say, this is about 3x the 0.3pp estimate that some Fed officials, including Gov Waller, had in the summer of 2025.
The authors estimate that the tariffs implemented through November of 2025 can explain the entirety of excess inflation in the core goods category and contributed to a 0.8 percent boost in core PCE prices through February 2026. federalreserve.gov/econres/n… #FEDSNote
ALT Figure 4. Tariff effects on core PCE prices. This stacked bar chart shows the cumulative effect of tariff waves from February 2025 to June 2026 on core PCE prices. The y-axis shows percentage effects from 0 to 0.9%. Different colored segments represent various tariff waves (Feb, Mar, Apr, Aug, Nov 2025). Black dots indicate total effects, which increase from nearly 0% in February 2025 to approximately 0.9% by June 2026. The forecast region (shaded blue) assumes no additional tariff changes beyond those in table 1 and no additional pass-through seven months after implementation. Note: Black dots show total tariff effects, summing across positive and negative tariff wave contributions. The forecast region, shaded in blue, assumes no additional tariff changes beyond those in table 1 and no additional tariff pass-through seven months after a tariff change. Key identifies in order from top to bottom. Source: Authors' calculations using data from the BEA, BLS, Census, the Executive Office, t
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Biggest monthly rise in the gas index component of CPI since 1967 - up 21.2%. The fuel oil component is up 30%
bloomberg.com/news/live-blog…
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Monday, Jordan T. Kemp presented "Spatial Relativity: How Local Selection Shapes Urban Growth Across Scales." This talk explored the loss of local correlations and heterogeneity in spatial aggregation in Chicago. Our next Lunch Colloquium will be on Monday, May 4. RSVP in bio.
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UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate.
ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs.
Here’s what we found.
propublica.org/article/unite…
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Upper #ColoradoRiver Basin states prepare for water shortages; San Diego OKs another big water sale; ‘Super’ El Niño could hit Calif. with rain, floods, top #CaWater & #CoRiver stories in today's Aquafornia. watereducation.org/aquaforni…
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EVENT | Seminar: Measuring inflation with a Doughnut Price Index?
📅 15 Apr | 12 PM (UK time)
Join us to explore a new 'Doughnut Price Index' concept to track changes in the costs of living well within planetary boundaries.
Learn more and register: tinyurl.com/2cs8wepu
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Billionaires are crying foul about California's proposed wealth tax.
Don't fall for their fearmongering.
A one-time, 5% tax on their excessive wealth is essential to funding what millions of Californians need — and to preserving our democracy.
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The brain has evolved a voracious appetite for energy, consuming about 20% of our daily total. So what makes that cost worth it?
At a recent SFI working group, researchers from across disciplines examined how the high energetic cost of intelligence is balanced against its evolutionary advantages, and began charting a mathematical foundation for understanding that tradeoff.
santafe.edu/news-center/news…
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It’s time to axe net zero. The public have had enough of being handcuffed by Ed Miliband’s lunacy that threatens British energy security. 60% of the public support North Sea oil and gas extraction
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Join us this Saturday for CCL's April Monthly Meeting ft. guest speaker Katherine Markova of @climateinteract, the organization behind En-ROADS.
Catch the livestream starting at 1 ET/10 PT at cclusa.org/youtube
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Marco Rubio 2 days ago: “Imagine if Iran funded the well-being of its people, rather than its military”
Trump today: “We can’t fund daycare or Medicaid, we need more money for our military”
Sometimes the jokes write themselves.
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Or richer or poorer. I hope they will have the confidence to walk their own paths and find their own contentment irrespective of the lives of their parents.
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Every single day some famous someone says it on the radio/tv/online: if average income doesn't grow, you don't move on in life.
NONSENSE.
We can have shrinking average income, yet each individual income grows. The individual is not the collective. At all.
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🔸ICYMI🔸 Last week's analyses: A look at how Californians feel about their own finances amid economic uncertainty, and @PPICWater highlighted some new research on the Salton Sea.
Read more: bit.ly/3PxHvmt
