Mastodawn

#doodle #Iran and betting on #war
#prediction markets provide #financialization of #geopolitical risk:
The ethical critique is straightforward:
If you can profit from escalation: #incentive -> #distortion risk
Concerns: Information #manipulation, #disinformation campaigns and political #influence incentives

Alberto Cottica Feb 20

The housing crisis in one graph.

Source: https://www.metabolic.nl/publications/fertile-ground/, full report, p. 22

#EU #housing #financialization #capitalism

Michi Fälbl Feb 15

Ein lesenswerter, kritischer Artikel über die Finanzindustrie, u.a. über die Zusammenhänge zwischen der #Financialization der Wirtschaft und stagnierender Produktivität bzw. geringen Infrastruktur-Investitionen:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/opinion/capitalism-industry-financialization.html

Opinion | The Finance Industry Is a Grift. Let’s Start Treating It That Way.

Regulating the industry is useful. Shaming it is crucial.

The New York Times

Alison Wilder Feb 7

I'll see your "enshittification" and raise you a "financialization."

Topical ribaldry aside, I think financialization is the larger concept that enshittification sits inside, and is the core problem we need to fix, especially in the US.

Say it with me people: CAMPAIGN. FINANCE. REFORM.

Interesting that this was written by an old-school conservative.

https://archive.is/20260206101344/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/opinion/capitalism-industry-financialization.html

Or, if you have NY Times access: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/opinion/capitalism-industry-financialization.html

#finance #enshittification #financialization

Victor Forberger Feb 6

#WallStreet #financialmarkets #Finance #Scam #financialization #corporategovernance #speculation #stockbuybacks whither #Investment

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/opinion/capitalism-industry-financialization.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KFA.bWSa.v2U8fhdQwyB4&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Opinion | The Finance Industry Is a Grift. Let’s Start Treating It That Way.

Regulating the industry is useful. Shaming it is crucial.

The New York Times

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Jan 29

“ #financialization is the least studied and least explored reason behind our inability to create a #sharedprosperity.” open.substack.com/pub/annpetti... #USdollar #MarkCarney

Trump and Bessent Trash the Do...

Trump and Bessent Trash the Dollar

While Mark Carney has an alternative to the world’s reserve currency. Could it work?

System Change

N-gated Hacker News Jan 11

🚨 Breaking News: Private equity firms bought 500 autism centers in a decade! Who knew the solution to medical care was a spreadsheet and not, you know, actual care? 📈💉 What's next? Hedge funds managing daycares? 🙄
https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-01-07/private-equity-autism-centers #PrivateEquity #AutismCare #MedicalIndustry #HealthcareNews #Financialization #HackerNews #ngated

Private equity firms acquired more than 500 autism centers in past decade, study shows

A new study from researchers at the Brown University School of Public Health highlights a push from private equity investors into autism therapy centers across the nation.

Brown University

Urban Studies Foundation Dec 19

📚 New publication! Former #USFInternationalFellow Deborah Fromm has a new article out: “The business of protection: Insuring urban violence risks in contemporary Brazil.” 🔗 Read more: doi.org/10.1080/0308... #UrbanStudies #Financialization #Brazil

Canadian Association For Food Studies Dec 11

Digesting Food Studies—Episode 112: Centralization of Power in Food Systems

https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2382014/

There’s a lot of power in food and food systems: care and nurturing, regeneration and resilience. The power to feed, to refuse food, and to transform landscapes. And then there’s petroleum, data, GMOs, and pesticides; financialization, tractors, and land-grabbing…

This episode explores how corporations and governments operate and control spaces of production and transformation, with articles from Vol. 2, No. 2 of CFS, which our guest, Jennifer Clapp, co–guest edited. (https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2)

Alexia Moyer shares learnings from Brian Brett’s book, Trauma Farm, and PhD student Heidi Janes responds to a selection of CFS articles about corporate power.

#DigestingFoodStudies
#FoodSystems
#Agriculture
#Farming
#Pesticides
#Fertilizer
#Tractors
#PrecisionAgriculture
#Financialization
#LandGrabbing
#Palestine
#Gaza
#Power
#Capitalism
#BrianBrett
#TraumaFarm
#Academia
#FoodPodcast

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