Peter Hoopman
@PeterHoopman
Is the economy for society the same as the economy for businesses? Do we find here the roots of our structural societal Babylonian confusion?
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Vraag aan iedereen: Zijn abstract gezien in onze economische formules, rentevoet en inflatie niet "simpelweg" tegen elkaar weg te strepen? Of valt dan het financiële kaartenhuis direct in elkaar in plaats van dat we ons van crisis naar crisis slepen hopend dat het "goed komt"?
Goud is een goede inflatie bescherming zegt men. Hier goudprijs in euro en de Nederlandse prijs ontwikkeling. Ik zie weinig correlatie. Ja, de lijnen gaan allebei omhoog.
Trump is weak at home, and he can be stopped—so long as the domestic political logic of foreign intervention is recognized and turned against him. This act of war is about regime change in the United States. It only succeeds if Americans allow it to do so.
Make slavery, colonialisme & capitalism great again. They are already 😉
Make Colonialism Great Again. La Maison-Blanche de Donald Trump a désormais fait de la recolonisation sa doctrine globale. Nous avons réuni les principales sources politiques et intellectuelles de cette accélération sans précédent. À lire absolument. legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/01/05/…
Mijn analyse van de gebeurtenissen in Venezuela: Trump keert terug naar 19de-eeuwse invloedssferen en geeft Rusland en China de vrije hand | Trouw trouw.nl/opinie/rob-de-…
Once all the layers of propaganda are stripped away, Trump’s attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of its president boils down to just one thing: a completely unprovoked and blatantly illegal act of aggression against a country that posed no real threat to the United States. The…
Het blijft bizar dat mensen als kanonnenvoer gebruikt worden door criminelen als Poetin of Trump en daarbij letterlijk levensgrote risico's lopen terwijl deze schurken in hun gouden paleizen rustig toekijken hoe hun "speciale militaire operaties" verlopen. #geenmeesters
Nous avons tous compris que le traité avec le Mercosur sera signé quoi qu’en dise la France. Mais le Premier Ministre admet une chose : il suffit d’un arrêté pour refuser l’entrée sur notre sol des produits qui contreviennent à nos normes. Ne jamais l’avoir fait avant était un…
Lettre ouverte aux agriculteurs de France. @AnnieGenevard @SergePapin_rf @jnbarrot @AdeMontchalin @benjaminhaddad @N_Forissier
This is absolutely correct. Economics is a pseudo-science obsessed with equilibrium concepts which real sciences long ago transcended, and which even its founding fathers (Jevons in this quote) regarded as a temporary stop-gap till dynamic methods were developed.
The problem isn’t “experts” — it’s which models we elevate and protect. Keen’s point isn’t anti-expertise; it’s anti-equilibrium fetishism. When models exclude private debt, endogenous money, and feedback loops, they aren’t neutral simplifications — they’re blinders. They don’t…
Maybe true, maybe not entirely true, but interesting to listen to, anyway! We somehow do not see ourselves existing in the story. We externalize almost anything!
Ceux qui considèrent que Maduro et les bolivariens sont à l'origine de la destruction de l'économie du Venezuela feraient bien d'écouter l'excellent Jeffrey Sachs.
Intemporel. Les Guignols nous manquent, quand même.
“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.” ― John Steinbeck
“Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
A point that Wallerestein made often: as overall US power declines, it overplays its best card—military force. But each time it does so, it accelerates the decline of its overall power. See Vietnam, Iraq. Violent coercion is the strength of the weak.
USA (not Trump) started a war over this in Irak .... do not forget! In Irak it was about oil that could be payed in Euros. USA didn't like that.)
"Zambia has become the first African country to formally accept China’s yuan for mining taxes and royalties, a move that highlights Beijing’s expanding financial influence across the continent’s most strategic resource sectors." africa.businessinsider.com/local/markets/…
Venezuela. Curieuse divergence de ton entre Emmanuel Macron et son ministre des Affaires étrangères. "Le peuple vénézuélien est aujourd'hui débarrassé de la dictature de Nicolas Maduro et ne peut que s'en réjouir", a écrit sur X le chef de l'État. "En confisquant le pouvoir et…
Very happy to debut in The Telegraph with this piece on Trump’s aggression against Venezuela! “Once all the layers of propaganda are stripped away, this attack boils down to just one thing: a completely unprovoked and blatantly illegal act of aggression against a country that…
THE DEATH OF 'EXPERTS' You might be thinking, "Surely the experts see this coming." Do not bank on it. March 2007: Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress growth was strong and the subprime mess was "contained." Months later? The entire system melted down. The same man who…
L’opération militaire américaine en cours contre le Venezuela est un basculement géopolitique majeur. Les Etats Unis se mettent volontairement et indiscutablement hors du droit international en violant la charte et l’esprit des Nations Unies. C’est un acte lourd de conséquences…
Zo cynisch is wereldpolitiek: uitgerekend Poetins Rusland noemt de Amerikaanse aanval op Venezuela “een daad van gewapende agressie”; de aanval werd uitgevoerd in opdracht van de man die uit is op de Nobelprijs voor de vrede; Maduro knechtte zijn volk uit naam van “socialisme”.
The market becomes free when people become free. Today, we live in a plutocratic, technocratic system that exploits others and the Earth, and we say it is freedom and that it is built on justice. Maybe we should not believe everything the hierarchy says...................?
Markets are not natural, spontaneous or free. They are legal, institutional and political creations of the state. Without law, money, regulation, wages, accounting standards and trust, markets collapse into monopoly, coercion and extraction. In this New Year’s Day video, I…
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Markets only exist because the state makes them possible
''In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.'' -John Maynard Keynes
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