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Paul Langley
@paullangley.bsky.social
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Professor of Economic Geography, Durham, UK. Managing Editor @econsocjournal.bsky.social Finance, money, FinTech, and more. https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/paul-langley/

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FINTECH CAPITAL @fintechcapital.bsky.social · 1d
It's alive!
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 2d
Did you go full retro money seminar in the second half of the session?
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The KLF Burn a Million (£1M) Pounds - BBC Omnibus Documentary - 'All About The Money' Edit.
YouTube video by Rex Reynolds
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 2d
Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n
Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI
This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U...
www.tandfonline.com
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Jamie Smyth @jamiesmythft.bsky.social · 2d
Private equity is buying up energy utilities: but will this multibillion dollar bet on powering the AI boom pay off for investors and what will it do to residential power prices? Read @financialtimes.com on.ft.com/4pZWeXs
Private equity bets big on utilities
[FREE TO READ] Investors seek to profit from rising energy demand driven by AI data centres
on.ft.com
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 3d
America is now one big bet on AI - on.ft.com/4pTQ3US via @FT
America is now one big bet on AI
It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy
on.ft.com
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 4d
Slow out of the blocks
on.ft.com/42JDhhS via @FT
Swift to launch blockchain in response to rise of stablecoins
Banks including Citigroup back move by payments group to allow ‘instant, always-on cross-border transactions’
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 6d
PhD and postdoc positions are available on a fantastic project about finfluencers and young adult investment culture in Denmark. The project is based at University of Copenhagen and led by Jacob Ørmen
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Jobportal - Job og karriere på Københavns Universitet – Københavns Universitet
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 9d
Shop with OpenAI. ChatGPT now has FinTech embedded inside. thepaypers.com/payments/new...
Stripe helps OpenAI to roll out Instant Checkout in ChatGPT | The Paypers
Stripe has been assisting OpenAI in launching Instant Checkout in ChatGPT.
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 10d
BBC radio's evening prime time and self-styled serious news programme has initiated a new feature that "may run for 3 weeks or 3 years". A "user's guide to AI" is needed, apparently, because only 25% of adults are using AI by choice. Without irony, state media recommends "having a go at ChatGPT"
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 13d
All tracks lead to the North East of England
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Richard Hull @richardhull54.bsky.social · 13d
#OTD 200th anniversary of the birth of the modern #railway, when George Stephenson drove Locomotion No. 1 on its inaugural journey from Shildon to Stockton-on-Tees via Darlington.

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Stockton and Darlington Railway - Wikipedia
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Richard Hull @richardhull54.bsky.social · 13d
#OTD 200th anniversary of the birth of the modern #railway, when George Stephenson drove Locomotion No. 1 on its inaugural journey from Shildon to Stockton-on-Tees via Darlington.

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Stockton and Darlington Railway - Wikipedia
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 13d
A CV2 is not an old Citroën stuck in reverse. It's a 'continuation vehicle' created by private equity capital to replace an earlier continuation vehicle that has reached the end of it's days. Production of CV2s (and PE) will come to a grinding halt as interest rates rise
on.ft.com/47fy70j via @FT
Private equity finds new way to deal with its deadline crisis
Examples of assets shunted from one continuation vehicle into another are dribbling out
on.ft.com
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 13d
*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history

* Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system

* Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...
This week, consultants at Bain & Co. estimated the wave of AI infrastructure spending will require $2 trillion in annual AI revenue by 2030. By comparison, that is more than the combined 2024 revenue of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Nvidia, and more than five times the size of the entire global subscription software market. Morgan Stanley estimates that last year there was around $45 billion of revenue for AI products. The sector makes money from a combination of subscription fees for chatbots such as ChatGPT and money paid to use these companies’ data centers. How the tech sector will cover the gap is “the trillion dollar question,” said Mark Moerdler, an analyst at Bernstein.
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 14d
A window on the unnecessary financialized nonsense that contributes to making UK energy costs higher than elsewhere. Note that the focus for debate is how best to regulate companies that make huge profits by selling energy they don't produce.
Octopus Energy chief defends failure to meet new capital targets
Greg Jackson insists it is ‘implausible’ for his company to comply with Ofgem rules and maintain contract with Shell
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 14d
Ill-fated major political decision incoming in the UK today.
on.ft.com/4mytYs0 via @FT
Starmer to attack Farage as he unveils digital ID cards plan for all UK adults
Prime minister to accuse populist right of promoting a ‘politics of predatory grievance’
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 18d
Dear @financialtimes.com
In UK HE, 'corporate crib sheets' have already been borrowed (alongside a lot of debt). Schumpeter is on the syllabus, plus critiques of 'creative destruction'.
This ideological drivel also falls way short of the analysis expected of students.
on.ft.com/48qerHm via @FT
Britain’s zombie universities should put Schumpeter on the syllabus
It’s time to borrow from the corporate crib sheets — and if all else fails, creative destruction is a force for good
on.ft.com
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 19d
One of my personal favourites @provokedeconomy.bsky.social
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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · 24d
💹 As the political underpinnings of value creation become ever more pressing, Science as Culture is making available free access the commentary "On the Political Vernaculars of Value Creation," by Fabian Muniesa, released almost ten years ago.

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...
On the Political Vernaculars of Value Creation
Published in Science as Culture (Vol. 26, No. 4, 2017)
doi.org
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 20d
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
Insurance in the Polycrisis | Kate Mackenzie & Tim Sahay
The future is triage on an uninsurable earth.
www.phenomenalworld.org
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 20d
Fastest way to shorten the odds on a Reform government
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 20d
Keir Starmer set to unveil digital ID scheme on.ft.com/3IvzqOA
Keir Starmer set to unveil digital ID scheme
UK prime minister hoping to avoid his Labour predecessor’s failure to push through plan in the 2000s
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 20d
Keir Starmer set to unveil digital ID scheme on.ft.com/3IvzqOA
Keir Starmer set to unveil digital ID scheme
UK prime minister hoping to avoid his Labour predecessor’s failure to push through plan in the 2000s
on.ft.com
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 21d
More evidence that venture capital is a relational process, not a group of firms in Silicon Valley. Recommend
academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...
The globalization of east Asian venture capital: the effects of its ‘return diffusion’ on Silicon Valley
Analysing east Asian governments' policies for internationalizing venture capital activity, this article argues that today's venture capital activity in Si
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 21d
Well, that's the cover image of the 2025 version of my Geographies of Money and Finance syllabus sorted
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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 22d
A 12-foot golden statue of Donald Trump holding a Bitcoin was unveiled outside the US Capitol
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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 22d
A 12-foot golden statue of Donald Trump holding a Bitcoin was unveiled outside the US Capitol
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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 22d
A new piece on extractive capitalism for @thetls.bsky.social, reviewing 4 new books, including @triofrancos.bsky.social's much-anticipated EXTRACTION and Partha Dasgupta's widely-
praised ON NATURAL CAPITAL
Paying Nature’s price
“What does it mean”, asks Thea Riofrancos in Extraction, “to defend people and the planet from extraction – when others frame this same extraction as
www.the-tls.com
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Letícia Cesarino @letcesar.bsky.social · 23d
Publicado nosso artigo na Economy & Society!
Um argumento sobre a dimensão conspiritual do (pós)neoliberalismo, na convergência com a extrema direita, a partir do caso brasileiro.

Link abaixo. PDF enviável no privado.
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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · 24d
💹 As the political underpinnings of value creation become ever more pressing, Science as Culture is making available free access the commentary "On the Political Vernaculars of Value Creation," by Fabian Muniesa, released almost ten years ago.

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...
On the Political Vernaculars of Value Creation
Published in Science as Culture (Vol. 26, No. 4, 2017)
doi.org
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 24d
Roll up, roll up, UK assets for $ale
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 24d
UK and US pledge to boost financial ties ahead of Trump state visit on.ft.com/46izglp
UK and US pledge to boost financial ties ahead of Trump state visit
Sir Keir Starmer to explore closer alignment of capital markets during US president’s three-day trip
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 24d
UK and US pledge to boost financial ties ahead of Trump state visit on.ft.com/46izglp
UK and US pledge to boost financial ties ahead of Trump state visit
Sir Keir Starmer to explore closer alignment of capital markets during US president’s three-day trip
on.ft.com
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 26d
"continuation vehicle" - a self-inflated lifeboat to temporarily prevent a private equity portfolio from going under on.ft.com/47HiYVE via @FT
The strains on the private equity model are showing
Firms are still struggling to deal with a lack of exits from their investments
on.ft.com
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 27d
Important to note!
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