#Financialization

A significant aspect of real estate in Nigeris is used as a store of value as opposed to a space people can live in.https://twitter.com/TamaraPosibi/status/1386631344705478660 So it makes sense to hike

Corey Hoffstein 🏴‍☠️

1/ This whole thing was great, but the last few minutes grabbed me.@maratikus_quant discusses his new research that suggests the financialization of commodities in the early 2000s created a term

John Street Capital

0/ The WSJ is reporting that $RBAC (Billy Beane & Gerry Cardinale SPAC) is in talks to take Fenway Sports Group (which owns the @RedSox & @LFC) public in a

David Hulchanski

#NationalHousingDay 2020Chronical 1/10Prior to impact of Covid-19 there were more unhoused Canadians & more people in serious housing need than ever before. In January the 1,000th name was added to

My theory of tech debt is that housework is the correct metaphor for the thing we call tech debt, but we can't use it because tech has been made up

BDF (Black diaspora faggotry)

This might be unpopular: the demand for a department in the intensified neoliberal university is no longer a radical move nor a move that secured or extends anything. It does

Robert Parenteau

1/N We should applaud @LHSummers recognition of the work neoMarxian economists Bowles, Gintis, Weisskopf, and Schor did on worker power...4 decades ago. Am willing to bet they are not cited

Lawrence Lepard, "fix the money, fix the world"

4th of July Thread.IMO, the principles this country was founded upon (as incorporated in the founding documents) are second to none. Sadly, we have not always lived up to the

julian francis park

I've gotten back to Capital 3, & reading this passage helped me crystallize an argument I'd be starting to form in the back of my mind earlier this week about

The financialization of oil markets meets non-commercial v. commercial meets COVID-19. A thread…. The oil futures market is a zero-sum game. For every buyer of a futures contract there needs

El neoliberalismo existe, es un concepto bien definido, concreto y visible. La definición que más me gusta, la de Mirowski, aclarando errores de concepto y generalizaciones falsas. Realmente, una lectura

1/ With financial innovations such as #sustainablefinance and #impactinvesting increasingly viewed as key to the solution of current social and environmental crises, let’s take a look at how we got

Farming was the 1800s. Manufacturing was the 1900s. Counterintuitively, could investing become the most common "job" of the 2000s?Reason: crypto and fintech are turning everyone into an investor, just like

Cory Morningstar

elleprovocateur

All roads (desired by the ruling classes) lead to the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" & the financialization of nature. #NewDealForNature #VoiceForThePlanet (The signs were there all along, yet most refused to

Samuel Hammond 🌐🏛

.@lindsey_brink and I began outlining our agenda paper before the pandemic hit, not knowing how relevant its core themes — building state capacity, modernizing social insurance, reviving technological progress —

A Windward Maroon

Now I get the sentiment behind the guillotine jokes and all that, but some of the landlord conversations on here are making me a little worried people either forgot or