Emeritus Prof Christopher May

2 days ago

@bytebro

yes, those cash only businesses are unlikely to be running completely accurate accounts in my view.... but ever was it thus

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2 days ago

@midgephoto @paulthenerd @christineburns

as I used to say to my students; at its bottom - money = trust

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2 days ago

@midgephoto @GreatDismal

I had forgotten that.... great book (with some shortcoming around gender issues, of course)

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2 days ago

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @christineburns

Indeed I do; although to be frank its more a regular respite session from my caring responsibilities than a real 'job'....

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2 days ago

@christineburns @GhostOnTheHalfShell

ha ha, I'll need to finish the course first....

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2 days ago

The collapse of the world we've known....
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump #BreakingNews #Breaking #Musk #Twitter #Mastodon #socialmedia

Tags: #aurefreepress #news #press #headline #gop #politics #uspolitics #uspol #trump #breakingnews #Breaking #musk #twitter #mastodon #socialmedia

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2 days ago

Talks officially re-started Tuesday between the US Maritime Association (USMX) and the International Longshoremen’s Association over the labor agreement covering over 40,000 dockworkers on the US East and Gulf Coasts.

Talks restart for US East Coast docks contract - World Socialist Web Site

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/01/08/ktgs-j08.html

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2 days ago

we're about two weeks away from pieces in both the New York Times and The Washington Post explaining why "the Nazis were good, actually"

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2 days ago

How badly to investors view the UK?

For the 9th year running there's been a £multi-billion outflow from funds with a UK focus.

As the FTSE continues to 'under-perform' relative to other indices investors are moving money, mostly to passive globally focussed funds (often excluding the UK).

Certainly, one might argue that such portfolio investment is beside the point, but it impacts on the ability to raise initial investments (due to projections of returns)!

#investment

h/t Investment Week

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2 days ago

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @christineburns

Ha ha, yes its my student picture from registering for a ten week course on plastering last night, which turned out to be the best photo anyone's taken of me for years....

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2 days ago

@linuxgnome

Yup, seems plausible....

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2 days ago

@beemoh @kravietz
@djr2024

also: see my proposal for a public investment opportunity around social housing....

https://northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/opinion/could-social-housing-bonds-be-part-of-the-answer-to-the-housing-crisis/

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2 days ago

#Fonts #Design #DesignersOfMastodon

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2 days ago

@christineburns

Yes; a concise & clear depiction of our plight (and boosted!)

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2 days ago

Every day when I check the news it feels more and more as though the effect of Brexit was to separate the UK from the safety of the pack. Alone and wounded the country feels increasingly prey to the predators and hyenas. Musk is a hyena. This week’s attacks feel like a rather brutal lesson in how the world has changed. We are not the only prey but we feel especially vulnerable.

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2 days ago

@christineburns @ChrisMayLA6 So cash goes away. Then the Tory government of 2035 decrees anyone supporting trans rights is a terrorist. The banks refuse to serve anyone labelled a terrorist by the government. The only way you can pay for food is via an account issued by a bank. So that’s the problem… even if it’s inconvenient we must do whatever we can to ensure that cash remains an option.

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2 days ago

@RolloTreadway

yes, we go to a coffee bar on the front at Morecambe which has a similar sign/attitude

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2 days ago

@christineburns

Interestingly Viviana Zelizer has some interesting things to say about how the 'envelope budgeting' logic has survived even into more cashless situation (which I think would confirm your experience) - if you've not read her economic sociology, its interesting stuff

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2 days ago

@djr2024

yes, the latter point is right; although, of course, part of the yield rise is a reflection of a slight uptick in the assessment off risk (not a serious change of sentiment though)

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2 days ago

@TheDailyBurble

Hmm.... have done a couple of years of online learning both as tutor/lecturer & as a mature student, I really don't think that's the answer.... especially for school students, there's many social & educative advantages from the 'warehousing' model, not least direct & physical access to teaching staff, as well as socialisation effects.

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