Matt BruenigReshuffling the Capitalist PortfolioMoe Tkacik has a piece at In These Times that is ostensibly about the tech sector and antitrust. I don’t want to pollute the beautifully…7 min read·Dec 18, 2020--3--3
Matt BruenigLiberal Pluralism Is FakeThe coolest thing about modernity is that nearly every college-educated person in society has performatively adopted the hegemonic notion…3 min read·Jul 22, 2020--25--25
Matt BruenigIdentitarian Deference Continues to Roil LiberalismSeven years ago, I coined the term “identitarian deference” (ID) to describe the idea that “privileged individuals should defer to the…3 min read·Jul 17, 2020--26--26
Matt BruenigWhat Does David Dayen Think a Middle Class Tax Is?Like a lot of journalists last week, David Dayen wrote up Elizabeth Warren’s Medicare for All (M4A) financing plan with the talking points…3 min read·Nov 2, 2019--1--1
Matt BruenigThe Math of the Working Families Party EndorsementI was slightly amused and slightly annoyed yesterday when I saw the Working Families Party endorse Elizabeth Warren for president and then…3 min read·Sep 17, 2019--6--6
Matt BruenigSawicky Concedes the PointMax Sawicky claimed that the US could not finance a $10,000 payment to every adult and implored everyone to “do the math,” which for him…3 min read·Sep 10, 2019----
Matt BruenigMy Favorite Glenn Kessler Fuck UpRyan Grim has a wonderful story at The Intercept about Washington Post’s Fact Checker Glenn Kessler and his nearly constant fuck ups, most…5 min read·Sep 7, 2019----
Matt BruenigIs Insurance Churn a Problem or Not?Ezra Klein has a piece at Vox about insurance churn. I put out a quick response to it with a list of statistics on insurance churn that I…4 min read·Jul 29, 2019----
Matt BruenigWhat’s the deal with the unfair labor practice charge against Sanders’s campaign?A former Sanders campaign staffer filed an unfair labor practice (ULP) charge against the campaign a short while ago (Bloomberg story…3 min read·Jul 26, 2019--2--2
Matt BruenigThe MMT Solution to Inflation is Using Mass Layoffs to Bid Down WagesOne year ago, I wrote a piece that was just a series a quotes from Randy Wray’s 1997 paper titled “Government as Employer of Last Resort…4 min read·Jun 15, 2019--10--10