Indian General Strike (not at all in mainstream media, but the largest strike ever...in the world)

 I thought the previous 250 million people striking in India to protest Modi's policies was big...until I came across this:

Extraordinary.
Workers and peasants join forces to demand the reinstatement of India's Job Guarantee MGNREGA and the repeal of Modi's anti-worker labor codes. https://t.co/ndasd6rp0V

— Pavlina R Tcherneva (@ptcherneva) February 14, 2026

One commenter says: The Indian media also did not cover it at all, or cursorily at best

MMT Founder's comments (via AI) about China's economic approach

From Warren Mosler:
How about [MMT] in China?

Copilot said

China is a fascinating case because it hasn’t adopted Modern Monetary Theory in name, but many of its long‑standing institutional practices align closely with MMT’s descriptive claims. The influence is indirect, but real — and increasingly visible in China’s internal policy debates.
China’s relationship to MMT: not ideological, but structural

Several features of China’s system naturally resemble MMT’s description of a currency‑issuing government:

1. Central bank–fiscal integration is normal, not taboo

China’s People’s Bank of China (PBOC) routinely supports government-directed credit creation and liquidity management. One analysis argues that China effectively uses MMT‑consistent mechanisms by allowing the central bank to absorb or backstop local government debt, injecting liquidity without triggering destabilizing inflation Millbrook School.

 

2. China’s policy debates explicitly reference MMT

As China expanded fiscal deficits to record levels in recent years, economists inside the system split into “hawks” and “doves.” The doves increasingly cite MMT to justify higher deficit spending as safe and necessary for growth and employment, while hawks invoke Ray Dalio’s warnings about debt cycles to argue the opposite chinabankingnews.com.

This is one of the clearest examples globally of MMT entering elite policy discourse—even if only as a reference point in internal debates.

 

3. China’s historical practice resembles functional finance

From the 1940s through the early reform era, the PBOC acted as a direct fiscal agent—essentially financing government spending. Analysts note that if China were to “turn to MMT,” it would be less a revolution and more a return to earlier institutional norms, especially during periods of job‑creation priority and countercyclical stimulus anz.com.

4. China’s monetary framework differs from Western orthodoxy

China still relies heavily on quantity‑based tools (reserve requirements, credit quotas) rather than pure interest‑rate targeting. This structure makes fiscal‑monetary coordination more explicit and more aligned with MMT’s view that monetary policy is not meaningfully independent in a sovereign currency system Reserve Bank of Australia.

 So has MMT changed economics in China?

Where MMT has influence

• It provides intellectual ammunition for pro‑stimulus economists inside China.
• It helps frame arguments for higher deficits during downturns.
• It validates China’s long‑standing practice of using state-controlled finance to pursue real‑resource goals (employment, infrastructure, industrial policy).

 Where MMT has not changed China

China does not identify its framework as MMT.

• The PBOC does not adopt MMT language or policy prescriptions like a Job Guarantee.
• China’s constraints are political and institutional, not theoretical — the leadership prioritizes stability, not doctrinal shifts.

The bottom line

China hasn’t “adopted” MMT, but MMT has become part of the vocabulary in China’s internal debates about deficits and growth. More importantly, China’s actual monetary‑fiscal architecture already embodies many of the operational realities MMT describes. In that sense, China is one of the clearest real‑world examples of MMT‑consistent practice — even if it never uses the label.

If you want, we can compare China’s system to Japan’s or the U.S.’s to see where MMT‑style operations diverge or converge.

Dollar Collapse? (good historical background to our present predicament)

 

Protecting yourself and your family from deceptive technology

 

My wife calls me, panicked.

The call is from her number, and her voice is unmistakable- that’s my wife.

‘Babe, our son is hurt. He got in a bike wreck. I’m at the emergency room but they won’t take our insurance and I need cash to get him help. Please send me 3000 dollars as… https://t.co/Gbo9r96VsX

— Dustin Burnham (@ModernDad) February 11, 2026

What to do about wealth inequality

 

Very simple solution: set interest rates at zero, introduce a federal job guarantee at a living wage and let the wealthy take the full brunt of asset depreciation. https://t.co/GXWZhzs2EN

— David McNab @mcfab@home.social (@DavidMcNab17) February 11, 2026

Just Ask

 

Several online videos show elders--often late '80s or older--competing in triathlons and "iron man" competitions. This typically means swimming, cycling and running a half marathon. 

When asked how he managed to do this at his advanced age, one man responded that you can ask your body to do things like stay healthy, and it will generally respond by doing it. You can ask your body to run a marathon or swim, cycle and run a triathlon, and it will do it. 

Your body does what you ask.

So all we have to do to maintain our strength, endurance and flexibility is ... ask? 

Obviously, the "asking" isn't always simple. Training to do physically stressful things like triathlons isn't trivial, but the persistent asking manages to improve even a natural process like aging. One elderly triathlete suggests "food, fitness and fun" are the keys to graceful aging.

Another question is, really, what are we asking our bodies to do now? A population of obese, out-of-shape humans, dying early of strokes, heart attacks and diabetes has been asking their bodies to adapt to unhealthy food and a lack of exercise. "The wages of sin is death," says Jesus. Amen, I say. 

Where's the fun in that?

 

The truth about bitcoin...

 

Remember when the bitcoiners were telling us that bitcoin would eliminate wars and usher in global peace?

Die hard bitcoiners are basically goldbugs with a lobotomy

— Dow (@mark_dow) February 4, 2026