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Carolina Garriga @carogarriga.bsky.social · Jan 13

******DATA UPDATE******

Central Bank Independence: 192 countries, 1970-2023

The most comprehensive #dataset on #CentralBanks is updated and available at sites.google.com/site/carogar...

What’s new about #CBI?

Ana Carolina Garriga - CBI data

***NEW DATA RELEASE - January, 2025*** Version 3 of the data covers 192 countries, between 1970 and 2023.It includes 46% more observations than the 2016 release (*). The paper describing the update...

sites.google.com

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Chris Clarke @chris-clarke.bsky.social · Jan 10

Deep into marking a pile of book reviews. A clear majority chose to write on Adam Tooze's Crashed. Yet the book is read so differently across the papers, while all offering glowing accounts. Sign of a good book I guess?

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Chris Clarke @chris-clarke.bsky.social · Dec 21

Kids at the play centre, so some time to read more of @natjdyer.bsky.social's wonderfully researched and superbly written Ricardo's Dream!

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Chris Clarke @chris-clarke.bsky.social · Dec 20

"it just becomes leverage upon leverage, all the way down"

Inside Wall Street’s booming $1tn ‘synthetic risk transfer’ phenomenon - on.ft.com/49PjGiv via @FT

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Chris Clarke @chris-clarke.bsky.social · Dec 19

Excellent opportunity for ECRs!

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JP Koning @jpkoning.bsky.social · Dec 18

I've probably spent way too much of my life writing about bitcoin — over twelve years.

Anyways, I just reread everything I've ever written on bitcoin. Here's how my thoughts on the topic have changed since my first post in 2012.

jpkoning.blogspot.com/2024/12/afte...

After twelve years of writing about bitcoin, here's how my thinking has changed

What follows is an essay on how my thinking on bitcoin has changed since I began to write on the topic starting with my first post in Octobe...

jpkoning.blogspot.com

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Chris Clarke @chris-clarke.bsky.social · Dec 18

"The winners are already reaping unimaginable rewards. All this is taking place before Trump is even in office."

Trump’s bonanza of the century - on.ft.com/3Dh32w1 via @FT

Trump’s bonanza of the century

Elon Musk and other super-wealthy entrepreneurs stand to benefit from deregulation

on.ft.com

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Rodrigo Fernandez @fernandezamsterdam.bsky.social · Dec 17

The relentless advance of American asset managers in Europe

on.ft.com/3DkrIUF

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Chris Clarke @chris-clarke.bsky.social · Dec 16

"Bluesky is designed not to trap users in a gilded cage — but investors like gilded cages because they’re easier to monetise"

Bluesky: the tech hotshot that’s old, new, borrowed and blue - on.ft.com/4gbNWXi via @FT

Bluesky: the tech hotshot that’s old, new, borrowed and blue

The social network offers a near facsimile of Elon Musk’s X that’s friendlier to users, if not necessarily investors

on.ft.com

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Chris Clarke @chris-clarke.bsky.social · Dec 13

The return of Cold War era chess match fixing allegations.

indianexpress.com/article/spor...

Russia chess federation president calls for FIDE investigation on world championship match between Gukesh and Ding Liren

TASS quoted that in an equal endgame, Ding Liren made a blunder on move 55 after which Gukesh won advantage on a pawn ending.

indianexpress.com

Chris Clarke @chris-clarke.bsky.social · Dec 13

"Trading volumes in US equities jumped 38 per cent in November from the same month in 2023, reaching levels not seen since the meme stock craze of early 2021"

Meme stocks as benchmark for market commentary.

on.ft.com/3DeFbgz

Donald Trump’s election win sparks trading surge for banks and brokers

Markets activity ‘exploded’ as traders bet on a more business-friendly approach by incoming administration

on.ft.com

Chris Clarke @chris-clarke.bsky.social · Dec 12

Writing about fintech in relation to the social foundations of finance approach of my late friend and colleague Tim Sinclair has given me an opportunity to unpack with more precision the new forms of power and inequality fintech establishes in the world economy.

#ipesky

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Ally Louks @allylouks.bsky.social · Dec 10

Should anyone want to read my reflections on causing a stink and going viral, my article with The New Statesman is linked below: t.co/Hnqmzhz2DE

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2024/12/causing-a-stink-reflections-on-my-viral-phd

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Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · Dec 11

OUT TODAY (and on vibe): The glass is half empty: the pessimistic mood in (post)COVID-19 pandemic neoliberal academia - Thais Franca www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The glass is half empty: the pessimistic mood in (post)COVID-19 pandemic neoliberal academia

The immediate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on academics have garnered substantial attention within the literature. Although it is still not possible to precisely detail the pandemic's long-term...

www.tandfonline.com

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Jens van 't Klooster 💸💸💸 @jvtk.bsky.social · Dec 11

Scary stuff by @laurielaybourn.bsky.social and @jamesgyke.bsky.social on the climate-inflation doom loop:
As climate disruption kicks off, prices go up, central bankers hike and angry voters derail democratic systems, setting the stage for more disruption.

theconversation.com/a-doom-loop-...

A ‘doom loop’ of climate change and geopolitical instability is beginning

Climate change is driving inflation and instability, which harms climate action. But it’s not too late to escape the doom loop.

theconversation.com

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Chris Clarke @chris-clarke.bsky.social · Dec 11

Fiery stuff, though maybe a bit harsh on rocks and trees.

New eras, same bubbles: the forgotten lessons of history - on.ft.com/3ZMaEPW via @FT

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Chris Clarke @chris-clarke.bsky.social · Dec 10

"Platforms are designed to perform accumulation strategies of their owners and these include the displacement of informal, solidaristic relations by vertical relations of market dependence".

The notion of vertical relations used here is really intriguing. Ace chapter @sallyhbrooks.bsky.social

Sally Brooks @sallyhbrooks.bsky.social · Nov 13

Since I’m new here I’ll share my latest publication doi.org/10.4337/9781... pre-print eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/207016/8/CH_...

Chapter 16: The platformisation of global development

This chapter explores how deployment of digital platforms aligns with the behavioural turn in global development to create conditions for experimentation with new forms of privatised behavioural gover...

doi.org

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Chris Clarke @chris-clarke.bsky.social · Dec 9

Workshop was ace. Discussion of how the development of debt capital markets in South East Asia depended on cultivation of new forms of capital market expertise really insightful and led to all sorts of interesting topics including design thinking and negotiating radical uncertainty.

Chris Clarke @chris-clarke.bsky.social · Dec 8

Reading a super chapter by @lenarethel.bsky.social entitled 'Governing Financial Development in a Time of Uncertainty' for a work-in-progress workshop on her book tomorrow with the IPE cluster at Warwick.

#ipesky

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Chris Clarke @chris-clarke.bsky.social · Dec 7

Love or hate this, it's the social foundations of markets at play.

on.ft.com/49rBLmx

Mainstream memecoins signal changing markets

Ordinary investors need to pay attention to new information flows online

on.ft.com

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Johannes Petry @johannespetry.bsky.social · Dec 6

Very excited! We just handed in the final manuscript for our edited volume on state, capitalism & finance in emerging markets /w @brisunipress.bsky.social
With fabulous contributions by @iliasalami.bsky.social, @ingridhk.bsky.social, @anninak.bsky.social, @c-westermeier.bsky.social & many others /1

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Chris Clarke @chris-clarke.bsky.social · Dec 5

This kind of autocritique from the FT is fascinating, not least because the core point is a direct defence of finance as distinct from gambling, calling to mind Marieke de Goede's magisterial Virtue, Fortune, and Faith (2005)

#ipesky

www.ft.com/content/3903...

Memecoins will go away once we stop paying attention to them

Regulation has failed. It’s time to try indifference

www.ft.com

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Chris Clarke @chris-clarke.bsky.social · Dec 5

This story is quite horrific. And a chilling indictment of how academic research is viewed by some. Rooting for @allylouks.bsky.social to take this and turn the attention into something positive.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...