Marat Markert
@maratmarkert.bsky.social
Interested in Money, Monetary Policy, Central Banks, EU Politics...and tips on how to land kickflips before I retire
Innovation in fintech is mainly finding euphemisms for describing undesirable financial situations.
November 23, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Innovation in fintech is mainly finding euphemisms for describing undesirable financial situations.
Anybody checked on Mark Rutte?
He was right that we would get an outcome (on defense) with trump we could never get with Obama and Merkel...but I'm not sure it's the outcome his audience at Leiden Uni had in mind.
www.universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2025/...
He was right that we would get an outcome (on defense) with trump we could never get with Obama and Merkel...but I'm not sure it's the outcome his audience at Leiden Uni had in mind.
www.universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2025/...
November 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Anybody checked on Mark Rutte?
He was right that we would get an outcome (on defense) with trump we could never get with Obama and Merkel...but I'm not sure it's the outcome his audience at Leiden Uni had in mind.
www.universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2025/...
He was right that we would get an outcome (on defense) with trump we could never get with Obama and Merkel...but I'm not sure it's the outcome his audience at Leiden Uni had in mind.
www.universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Adults wondering what gen alpha's dada stuff like brain-rot or 6-7 means, and why kids supposedly mindlessly repeat it.
But same adults forget that over the last 15 yrs,
there were moments in which (almost overnight) everything became/everyone was doing:
- Big data
- blockchain
- IoT
- web3
- AI
But same adults forget that over the last 15 yrs,
there were moments in which (almost overnight) everything became/everyone was doing:
- Big data
- blockchain
- IoT
- web3
- AI
November 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Adults wondering what gen alpha's dada stuff like brain-rot or 6-7 means, and why kids supposedly mindlessly repeat it.
But same adults forget that over the last 15 yrs,
there were moments in which (almost overnight) everything became/everyone was doing:
- Big data
- blockchain
- IoT
- web3
- AI
But same adults forget that over the last 15 yrs,
there were moments in which (almost overnight) everything became/everyone was doing:
- Big data
- blockchain
- IoT
- web3
- AI
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🤩 Party positions in the 2024 European Parliament 🇪🇺!
I merged the CHES expert survey with EP composition data to visualize the political space of the current EP. The graphs make the center of gravity in the EP quite clear, on multiple dimensions and policy issues.
dimiter.shinyapps.io/ches/
I merged the CHES expert survey with EP composition data to visualize the political space of the current EP. The graphs make the center of gravity in the EP quite clear, on multiple dimensions and policy issues.
dimiter.shinyapps.io/ches/
November 19, 2025 at 8:33 AM
🤩 Party positions in the 2024 European Parliament 🇪🇺!
I merged the CHES expert survey with EP composition data to visualize the political space of the current EP. The graphs make the center of gravity in the EP quite clear, on multiple dimensions and policy issues.
dimiter.shinyapps.io/ches/
I merged the CHES expert survey with EP composition data to visualize the political space of the current EP. The graphs make the center of gravity in the EP quite clear, on multiple dimensions and policy issues.
dimiter.shinyapps.io/ches/
The parallels to the GFC are eerie, just everything more amplified: opaque funding with little chance for investors to redeem, with assets (GPUs) supposedly backing all of this that depreciate too fast to service debt/make investors whole.
November 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The parallels to the GFC are eerie, just everything more amplified: opaque funding with little chance for investors to redeem, with assets (GPUs) supposedly backing all of this that depreciate too fast to service debt/make investors whole.
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🚨🚨Perhaps a hardline populist stance on immigration isn't the way to go. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/cope...
Danish voters turn on PM Frederiksen over housing costs
After 122 years in power, voters in Copenhagen are turning their backs on the governing Social Democrats and expressing increased dissatisfaction with the party’s rightward turn.
www.politico.eu
November 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
🚨🚨Perhaps a hardline populist stance on immigration isn't the way to go. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/cope...
Remember that one of the popular narratives around GFC was that ppl who couldn't afford houses got mortgages (less popular one was that the systemic risk built up in fin system due to instruments that were entangled and opaque). Wouldn't be surprised if we get a redo of that, but this time with
Seeing buy-now-pay-later everywhere — electronics stores, bike shops, even the dentist — makes me worry we’re normalising debt for basic purchases. When people inevitably get in trouble, the profits stay private and the costs get dumped on the rest of us.
November 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Remember that one of the popular narratives around GFC was that ppl who couldn't afford houses got mortgages (less popular one was that the systemic risk built up in fin system due to instruments that were entangled and opaque). Wouldn't be surprised if we get a redo of that, but this time with
If you wanted to know if Klarna is engaging in factoring, here is what Google AI would tell you (question was does Klarna engage in factoring (left) and does Klarna buy invoice from merchant at a discount (middle)?). And screenshot on the right is what its CEO says in an interview.
November 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM
If you wanted to know if Klarna is engaging in factoring, here is what Google AI would tell you (question was does Klarna engage in factoring (left) and does Klarna buy invoice from merchant at a discount (middle)?). And screenshot on the right is what its CEO says in an interview.
Setting the stage for "we were all in this together so no one is to blame" when the bubble bursts.
November 15, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Setting the stage for "we were all in this together so no one is to blame" when the bubble bursts.
arguments that posit that equity markets somehow discipline politics by punishing investments made due to political connections (rather than fundamentals), or that posit that equity markets dislike political uncertainty... should be treated like bond vigilantes arguments: as completely bogus.
November 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
arguments that posit that equity markets somehow discipline politics by punishing investments made due to political connections (rather than fundamentals), or that posit that equity markets dislike political uncertainty... should be treated like bond vigilantes arguments: as completely bogus.
Vrijheid en eigen verantwoordelijkheid is als je zetels wint en op basis daarvan subsidie krijgt van de overheid? Duidelijk.
November 8, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Vrijheid en eigen verantwoordelijkheid is als je zetels wint en op basis daarvan subsidie krijgt van de overheid? Duidelijk.
For anyone wondering how we got here, read Mark Mazower's "On Antisemitism" www.penguin.co.uk/books/464187...
November 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
For anyone wondering how we got here, read Mark Mazower's "On Antisemitism" www.penguin.co.uk/books/464187...
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Ik begrijp nu wel waarom er bij Geesteswetenschappen 150 FTE weg moet. ten eerste is het gewoon geld op door de miljoenen die er twee jaar lang aan fopbeveiliging zijn uitgegeven bij Wijnhaven en ten tweede wordt er bij ons ook Arabisch gesproken. En nog veel meer andere enge talen.
BREEK: Een verdwaalde, Arabisch sprekende man leidde tot forse beveiligingsmaatregelen in het Wijnhavengebouw, onthullen WOO-documenten
Hoe de beveiliging op tilt sloeg vanwege één Arabisch sprekende man: ‘Er broeit iets’
Waarom werd het Wijnhavengebouw twee jaar geleden gesloten en is sindsdien de universitaire beveiliging tot op heden flink opgeschroefd? Uit nieuwe WOO-stukken blijkt dat politie en universiteit tota...
www.mareonline.nl
November 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Ik begrijp nu wel waarom er bij Geesteswetenschappen 150 FTE weg moet. ten eerste is het gewoon geld op door de miljoenen die er twee jaar lang aan fopbeveiliging zijn uitgegeven bij Wijnhaven en ten tweede wordt er bij ons ook Arabisch gesproken. En nog veel meer andere enge talen.
Can think of at least one other historical persona who sat in a concrete basement below ground, saying weird things till the end.
Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
November 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Can think of at least one other historical persona who sat in a concrete basement below ground, saying weird things till the end.
Klaver trying to win over VVD by recycling their campaign slogans from. 2017...
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Klaver trying to win over VVD by recycling their campaign slogans from. 2017...
Hoe stellen zich mensen zo'n interne evaluatie bij deze een-mans partij voor? Een minuutje interne monoloog??
November 5, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Hoe stellen zich mensen zo'n interne evaluatie bij deze een-mans partij voor? Een minuutje interne monoloog??
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📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences
Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort!
Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd
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In dit stuk komt "populisme" 12 keer voor, "populist" 11 keer. Maar welke definitie van populisme hier gebruikt wordt blift een raadsel...
Mamdami is niet anti-pluralistisch/illiberaal...
Mamdami is niet anti-pluralistisch/illiberaal...
‘De glimlach van Mamdani toont populisme zonder toxische mannelijkheid.’ Met zijn vriendelijke campagne over betaalbare boodschappen en lage huren, wint Zohran Mamdami vandaag misschien de burgemeestersverkiezing van New York. Waarom is populisme niet langer een vies woord in progressieve kringen?
Het geheim van de New Yorkse Mamdani? Progressief populisme
In progressieve kringen was ‘populist’ lange tijd een vies woord. Maar de politieke energie van de New Yorkse burgemeesterskandidaat Zohran Mamdani en de leider van de Britse Groenen Zack Polanski…
buff.ly
November 4, 2025 at 9:25 AM
In dit stuk komt "populisme" 12 keer voor, "populist" 11 keer. Maar welke definitie van populisme hier gebruikt wordt blift een raadsel...
Mamdami is niet anti-pluralistisch/illiberaal...
Mamdami is niet anti-pluralistisch/illiberaal...
Reading Mazower's "the Greek revolution" my internal reading voice sometimes switches from dispassionate to the narrator voice of Arrested Development, thanks to gems like this.
I can really picture the "po-po" part 😆
I can really picture the "po-po" part 😆
November 1, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Reading Mazower's "the Greek revolution" my internal reading voice sometimes switches from dispassionate to the narrator voice of Arrested Development, thanks to gems like this.
I can really picture the "po-po" part 😆
I can really picture the "po-po" part 😆
❌"greetings stranger, I'm the granddaughter of late prime minister of XXX living in exile. Can you send me some 💵? I'll pay u back once I get access to my grandpa's funds"
✅ "Greetings Blackrock, I have invoices from BelgaCom, can you send me 100 million dollars? belgacomics is going to pay u back"
✅ "Greetings Blackrock, I have invoices from BelgaCom, can you send me 100 million dollars? belgacomics is going to pay u back"
October 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
❌"greetings stranger, I'm the granddaughter of late prime minister of XXX living in exile. Can you send me some 💵? I'll pay u back once I get access to my grandpa's funds"
✅ "Greetings Blackrock, I have invoices from BelgaCom, can you send me 100 million dollars? belgacomics is going to pay u back"
✅ "Greetings Blackrock, I have invoices from BelgaCom, can you send me 100 million dollars? belgacomics is going to pay u back"
Screenshot with meme potential for the upcoming sequel to the "does NL need an electoral threshold" discussion
October 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Screenshot with meme potential for the upcoming sequel to the "does NL need an electoral threshold" discussion
Scrap the either/or, might turn out that both assumptions are compatible. Disgruntled pvv voters went to even more extreme FvD and it's carbon copy for people who work in accounting (JA21)?
Either Wilders doesn't want want to govern (which is the logical conclusion of his strategy to focus on the hardcore of pvv voters), or he is assuming that potential PVV voters are more radical on migration than other parties assume.
October 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Scrap the either/or, might turn out that both assumptions are compatible. Disgruntled pvv voters went to even more extreme FvD and it's carbon copy for people who work in accounting (JA21)?
Before jumping to conclusions about the disloyalty of pvdaGL voters or loyalty of VVD voters, perhaps best to wait for the vote migration Sankey diagrams (which, given the number of parties, will probably look like a spaghetti junction)
October 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Before jumping to conclusions about the disloyalty of pvdaGL voters or loyalty of VVD voters, perhaps best to wait for the vote migration Sankey diagrams (which, given the number of parties, will probably look like a spaghetti junction)