Steve Hemingway @stevehem@mastodon.org.uk

https://www.reddit.com/user/stevehem/comments/dd52hj/the_problem_with_democracy/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

Why I am worried about the future of democracy.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/ari-ben-menashe-jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-israel-intelligence/262162/

Another link from Epstein to Mossad?

(NB Mint Press is not the most unbiased news source.)

SPX down 2%. Millennials ask "is this what it was like in the Great Depression?"

Marathon bars are back, temporarily. I am not going to rush to buy.

It’s good jobs, stupid

https://econfip.org/policy-brief/its-good-jobs-stupid/

Neoclassical policies which just maximize the size of the cake seem incapable of redistributing the benefits so that nobody is worse off, let alone so that everyone is better off.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/genesis-jeffrey-epstein-bill-clinton-relationship/261455/

Mint Press is blocked by mainstream sites. It seems to have connections to Russia, so I would be cautious about taking its reports at face value. However, Whitney Webb seems to be a hard working journalist who is genuinely investigating what is a pretty worrying story, centred around Jeffrey Epstein.

I don't want to promote conspiracy theories, but I think people should be able to read this stuff and make up their own minds.

What is your social media platform of choice?

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-obama-deception-why-cornel-west-went-ballistic/

Yep. Obama sold his soul. They all do. Colour doesn't come into it.

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2019/08/23/1566551928000/Gilets-are-nuts--when-s-the-crash-/

A puffer jacket with its arms missing for GPB 510.

Peak banker ... hopefully.

https://luxtimes.lu/european-union/38247-eu-floats-plan-for-100bn-sovereign-wealth-fund

I finally got my Twitter account reactivated. The suspension achieved its objective. I'm never going to say anything out of turn on Twitter again.

I hate banks.

It's weird that everyone knows that Epstein did not commit suicide.

UK stockpiling ready for Brexit goes off the chart!

Having an MBA is relatively more valuable for minorities.

http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2014/07/10/cost-of-high-speed-rail-in-china-one-third-lower-than-in-other-countries

Chinese high speed rail about one seventeenth the cost per km of that in the UK. And we think we're going to be a major manufacturing centre.

Something is not right.

https://twitter.com/HelpfulOlive/status/1093305439230586880

Sorry to cross post.

Amazing chart showing how the composition of the stockmarket has changed over the decades. Goes back to 1815!!