Alan Luchetti

@OlenaRohoza @SimonBurns4 The GOP knew that ordinary people would have to be idiots to vote for them so they cultivated idiocy. Do it for long enough …

🇺🇸🧐Tell me, how could it happen that in the richest and most advanced country, a group of complete idiots managed to come to power?

Sustained energy price shocks can grind economies to a halt & push prices up. Great piece by @grhutchens on “stagflation” & why rate hikes may be mismatched to the challenge. Some of my alternatives to combat inflation cited here! @McKellInstitute #auspol abc.net.au/news/2026-03-2…

@planefag @EwokHunter1 @DrewPavlou In asymmetric warfare, particularly in wars of resistance to foreign occupation, the little guys either get fierce or capitulate.

"If Islamists had a fraction of Israel's military power for even a single day they would just massacre all 7 million Israeli Jews. Abundantly clear at this point. If you can't see it at this point you're mentally retarded. They would sraight up march every Israeli family in death columns into the sea." This is obvious, and yet nobody wants to say it.

This is why I straight up don't care about Gaza. Look at the way Islamists speak about their enemies - the murderous glee they display towards the people they want to kill. You think these people are concerned humanitarians? They're just sad that they are on the losing side. If Islamists had a fraction of Israel's military power for even a single day they would just massacre all 7 million Israeli Jews. Abundantly clear at this point. If you can't see it at this point you're mentally retarded. They would sraight up march every Israeli family in death columns into the sea. You saw this on October 7. Palestinian militants had about 4-5 hours where they possessed the power of life and death over random Israeli teenagers, grandmas, families. What did they do? Their first instinct was to go on a medieval rape and pillage massacre rampage. They massacred hundreds of teenagers at a music festival, they raped teenage women to death, they went door to door executing families and taking hostages, shooting pet dogs in the head. This is what they want for their enemies. This is what Mohammed Hijab wants for his enemies. Barbaric rape and pillage slaughter. He's not sad about Gaza, he's sad that he's not the death camp guard at Auschwitz, herding Jewish kids, women and grandparents into gas chambers. This is so obviously what Islamists like Mohammed Hijab want. When Islamists like Mohammad Hijab cry about human rights and international law, really they are like pitbulls - crying and cowering in the corner with a sad face, hoping to guilt you into letting them off their chain so they can maul you to death and rip off your face.

@KenMcAlpine @wattleiwear He helped Howard lay the foundations.

Excellent

@RealMacroEcon @DavidPintoD @ZackPolanski Nothing magic about you are your govt issuing liability in order to acquire value.

@AlanDownunder @DavidPintoD @ZackPolanski -Value first -Accounting 2nd. There is no magic.

You may have seen @ZackPolanski speaking about economics this week. But the theory behind his thinking is a pretty wild one - and could end up costing you dearly 👇

Institutionalizing obscenely regressive inflation:

@RealMacroEcon @DavidPintoD @ZackPolanski No argument. What straw man believes the contrary?

@AlanDownunder @DavidPintoD @ZackPolanski Get real. No welath no accounting.

@RealMacroEcon @DavidPintoD @ZackPolanski Get real. No demand, no supply.

@AlanDownunder @DavidPintoD @ZackPolanski Private sector Production, labor, and assets → create value Accounting → tracks claims on that value after the fact. #MMT doesn't have the first clue about wealth cretatuon

@mdubowitz @cjoye Better take out North Korea then.

Iran said its missiles stopped at 2,000 km. Then it fired at Diego Garcia — 4,000 km away. That has exposed what many warned for years. Tehran was advancing rapidly toward nuclear-carrying ICBMs that directly threaten the American homeland.

@RealMacroEcon @DavidPintoD @ZackPolanski If you call holdings of others’ liabilities wealth you have to explain liability issuance as a cause of such wealth. Otherwise, like MMT you just concentrate on actual wealth - real resources.

@DavidPintoD @ZackPolanski MMTers discover accounting and call it economics. "It all nets to zero." Yes. That's what accounting does — it records what already happened. It doesn't explain what caused the wealth to begin with.

@StufferSuitcase @DavidPintoD @ZackPolanski Can we retrospectively apply your test to Thatcherite Money Theory?

@DavidPintoD @ZackPolanski How about anyone who promotes the Greens gets to pay a special tax, as their “economics” are so untested. If the economy thrives, they get it back with interest. If it doesn’t, they get another tax bill. No gambling other people’s money on an actor’s fantasy.

Pauline Hanson is a one-of-a-kind! How could anyone be in public life for so long and become an even worse, more nervous and less coherent public speaker? It's remarkable!

The world energy shock is coming — it will deepen inequality in ways we've seen before. Our new @newstatesman piece argues that without urgent government action, the Strait of Hormuz crisis will ripple through our economies and rip apart our societies. Here's why. 1/

Like Trump, One Nation consistently votes against the very workers they claim to champion and who vote for them. It’s difficult to understand the psychology of these voters beyond anger, racism and grievance. They’ve voted against minimum wage increases. Against better conditions for casual workers. Against stronger protections for aged care staff. The people most hurt by cost of living — low and middle income earners — are precisely the people One Nation’s Senate record has failed, again and again.

@mfullilove @cjoye Check the link. See this.

@widespreadhaze @DavidjoyAd1 @RossKempsell @GuidoFawkes Q: On what bizarro planet is converting govt central bank debt into govt treasury debt “govt borrowing”? A: This bizarro planet. Cui bono?

@RossKempsell @GuidoFawkes Higher ‘borrowing costs’ do not mean the state is at risk of insolvency. They mean the government is choosing to pay a higher rate of interest on sterling savings held in the form of gilts. That is a policy and institutional outcome, not a funding crisis.

Gilts getting absolutely smoked as markets turn Wonder what Reeves up to today… Anyway cancel ur weekend plans

@mattjcan Thank goodness for EVs

We were once a lucky country.

Here we go again: This is what war profiteering looks like. Refinery margins are being pushed to the sky again. We need windfall profits taxes for oil extraction and margin caps along the value chain all the way to the gas stations.

@The_BeckhamNY @jacklong17 To put the either/or question is not a tweet of peace.

1) Yes, Absolutely. 2) No. Not even close

@TonyByrne001 @DanBurmawy @EwokHunter1 There is only one ongoing middle eastern colonisation and it is entirely within living memory. But somehow it’s “woke, leftist” to see ongoing resistance as inevitable.

@AlanDownunder @DanBurmawy @EwokHunter1 The Arab Colonial Imperialists occupied all of Middle East and North Africa. They must go back to Arabia and pay reparations to Kurds, Persians, Christiana, Jews, Besouin, Amazigh, etc. Learn some history before you repeat the woke, leftist slogan "Occupiers"

If the co-founder of the “resistance” tells you that their resistance is not really resistance to occupation but “jihad for the sake of Allah” to establish the supremacy of Islam, and you keep believing that it is “resistance,” then you are a useful idiot. Here is the co-founder of Hamas Mahmoud Alzahhar.