AP wrote a riddle for you because it can’t say “Israel killed a Palestinian mother” in the headline - you need to make your own conclusion instead

Rather amazing that 10/7 has occasioned much more illiberal clampdown on American campus speech and assembly than 9/11 did columbiaspectator.com/news/2023/11/1…

Columbia University tonight: a phalanx of police before they rushed to arrest peaceful protestors.

being on columbia’s campus feels like being in a fully militarized zone. i’ve never seen anything like it. cops everywhere, double security at every entrance, police drones, helicopters. orwellian. shameful. can’t believe we’re here.

A great time to remember SDS’ “Who Rules Columbia” pamphlet, an amazing power research project initiated during the 1968 Columbia occupation/uprising. More here: littlesis.org/news/who-rules…

The great anthropologist Susan Slyomovics—known for her study of the Palestinian village of Ein Houd—on being arrested as a seventeen-year-old Barnard student in 1968.

My latest essay in Heatmap News evaluating what's good for decarbonization in the Inflation Reduction Act―and how it's hardly enough!!

It's about a lot more than muni bonds, but we do need to fix public debt markets, badly.
heatmap.news/economy/adapta…

At the intersection of my research interests and the week's events, an economist I've been researching for a while (Albert Hart) wrote out his own narrative of the campus occupation at the time. Fascinating document thanks to Irwin Collier.

irwincollier.com/columbia-perso…

IMF Medium-Term Primary Balance targets exceed the best practice band for 61 countries, skewed low.

For IMF program cases (blackened dots), almost all are above mid-band, most above band, and some far far above the band, also skewed low.

Indefensible.

See country list.

'The ensuing set of reforms became known as 'structural adjustment' policies, & they are often very difficult to reverse—this is indeed part of their appeal to the IMF.'

NEW: Alexandros Kentikelenis & Thomas Stubbs on the debate around IMF conditionality.

phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the-o…

Mohammed Salem, World Press Photo of the Year.

This is insane. The NYPD has to leave the Columbia campus & surrounding area.

Academics here have produced reams of scholarship on the NYPD’s brutality and unaccountability.

The heavy police presence threatens the safety of *our students* + *everyone around campus.* All of us.

Review of my work with Adriana Dupita Ankur Shukla

'Egypt expanded its loan to $8bn, but it has $10bn to pay back to IMF over the next 2 years

It’s a case of borrowing from Peter to pay Paul, only here Peter & Paul are the same exasperated person at the IMF”

bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

Principled & powerful statement from #VietThanhNguyen - Pulitzer Prize winner, MacArthur Genius, and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at USC about the silencing of USC valedictorian & South Asian American senior, Asna Tabassum

Really bummed I couldn't make it to DC this morning for this event. Many thanks to Oxfam Washington DC for the amazing organizing they they are doing around global governance.

It’s the week of the World Bank/IMF spring meetings, where everyone will say that governments should “mobilize private capital” for climate and infrastructure.

Forget about if they should—*can* they? Last year I wrote about all the barriers they’ll face:
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the-i…

Reminder: For the last four months the people in northern Gaza have on average only had 245 calories a day due to Israel’s starvation tactics, which are still ongoing.

Image 1 shows what 245 calories look like, and Image 2 shows what that does to a child.

All eyes on Gaza.

De-risking nativité:
👉”Global value chains have been building up over 50 years.
👉”How naive do you need to be to believe that this can be changed within 6 or 12 months?”
👉”This is about decades.”CFO Siemens Ralf Thomas German companies’ dependence on China will last

I cannot wait for this all-star panel on law, money and empire.

Going into the IMF spring meetings next week, and the 80th Anniversary of Bretton Woods, a lot of ink is going to be spilt on the dollar world order.

Just read this fantastic piece by Mona Ali
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/regim…