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Ann Pettifor
Personal blog · annpettifor.substack.comeconomicspolitics
Ann Pettifor writes System Change, a personal blog at annpettifor.substack.com about economics and politics. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite Ann Pettifor's Substack as support on pensions, central banks and inflation, including her class-war framing of bank policy and grain-price inflation.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I write about the international financial system and its impact on society, the economy and the ecosystem.
What Hacker News says?
> Second, that capital is trapped in an institutional arrangement that charges enormous fees to match the performance of a simple index fund, while the money deployed through these intermediaries actively harms the communities pensioners live in: buying up their housing, closing their hospitals, bankrupting their local employers, gutting their newspapers. This is the same argument that Ann Pettifor has about how the…
Comment linking /p/on-pensions-and-the-global-casino
on “America's Pensions Can't Beat Vanguard but They Can Close Your Hospital”Submitted Banks as Collateral Damage in a Class War as a story · 6 points
HN discussionDupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35260210 (144 comments) Original article: https://annpettifor.substack.com/p/banks-as-collateral-damag...
Comment linking /p/banks-as-collateral-damage-in-a-class
on “The world’s central banks have chosen ‘class war over financial stability’”Great observation and interesting timing. Your post was right after this article was posted. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35260210 https://annpettifor.substack.com/p/banks-as-collateral-damag... The author actually touches on your point of supply side commodity speculation causing inflation instead of wage increases. She does an adequate job of putting into words the flip side of the coin where by raising in…
Comment linking /p/banks-as-collateral-damage-in-a-class/comments
on “Ask HN: How much of inflation is caused by supply rather than demand issues?”The author has analyzed this elsewhere, for example: https://annpettifor.substack.com/p/grain-inflation-starve-th...
Comment linking /p/grain-inflation-starve-the-poor-feed
on “Banks as Collateral Damage in a Class War”