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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 9h

The ideological underpinnings of Germany's exportist growth model - while supposedly the glue that keeps together the social bloc supporting this growth model - seem to undermine that very growth model. www.springerprofessional.de/en/exportism...

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 14h

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 1d

Anyways, good/insightful interview

Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 1d

...but politicians from right wing parties don't want to change)

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 1d

On housing and tax preferences benefitting real estate developers, based on NYC's experience: "you can increase [housing] supply as much as you like. As long as housing is a financial asset, you'll really only be increasing the supply pool for investors" (sth policy-makers in NL understand too...

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 1d

And all of that before the rise of collateralized lending as a central element to financial markets and monetary policy implementation.

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 1d

What's so interesting about this is that it solves the puzzle of how you can render compatible the idea of the state as a collateral factory for debt for financial markets, while at the same time advocating austere fiscal policies...

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 1d

Cooper explains here how supply-siders (Mundell) saw that dollar hegemony after the collapse of the gold-dollar standard could be maintained.

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 1d

"freedom to issue debt is not the same thing as unconditional freedom to spend [...] Congress can only keep spending as long as its spending doesn't empower labour [...]. You can spend as much as you like as long as it's subsidizing the inflation of asset prices, not the inflation of wages." (47:30)

Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 7d

New @thedigradio.bsky.social: first of two w @melindacooper.bsky.social on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. How neoliberalism remade US capitalism into an engine for endless asset appreciation, and the attendant reactionary politics www.thedigradio.com/podcast/coun...

Counterrevolution w/ Melinda Cooper

Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Neoliberalism remade the American economy into an engine for the appreciation of assets stretching from the...

www.thedigradio.com

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 1d

Question to #far-right experts/AfD observers: is there a recent piece on the AfD's welfare state/social policies and whether/how they included this in their campaign for the 2025 elections in Germany?

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Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 7d

New @thedigradio.bsky.social: first of two w @melindacooper.bsky.social on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. How neoliberalism remade US capitalism into an engine for endless asset appreciation, and the attendant reactionary politics www.thedigradio.com/podcast/coun...

Counterrevolution w/ Melinda Cooper

Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Neoliberalism remade the American economy into an engine for the appreciation of assets stretching from the...

www.thedigradio.com

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 4d

www.senz.com/umbrellas/?_... (good, but completely overpriced imo)

senz° storm umbrellas

www.senz.com

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 4d

Historians: anyone has suggestions for a book/articles on urban history of The Hague (20th C, in dutch or engl)? I learned from a friend yesterday that the population in The Hague was much larger during 1950s/1960s than today and about the NL housing policy during the postwar era. Any pointers? 🙏

Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 5d

To be fair to crypto (DeFi): at least you could see how "the sausage is made" given that specialized crypto funds were telling potential customers how to build leverage in a system that was build on the premise to not to lever up (and supposedly constrained this through an algorithm).

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 5d

Crypto disavowed tradfi while simultaneously reinventing (imitating) tradfi practices. And private credit now seems to imitate crypto narratives from 4-5 years ago: "high yields, super safe, no double spending possible"
www.ft.com/content/395c...

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 6d

First International Super PAC, sponsored by ALL US residents.

Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 7d

B) will convince a) that debt becomes more sustainable ̶i̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶r̶e̶'̶s̶ ̶d̶e̶m̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶i̶t̶ if you add an additional intermediary who collects all the interest (coupon) payments.

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 8d

results, then I can't see how this would be accomplished through millions of savers across Europe investing in index funds/ETFs.

Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 8d

index funds (good chunk outside Europe). Likewise, most savers would invest in index funds, making these entities bigger, and the bigger they get the less exit options there will be - so if one is to believe the narrative that more private investing would spur innovation b/c investors want to see

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 8d

Does anyone believe the tropes about "more innovation", "better jobs"? If that was the case, you would see it in NL. But a cursory look at where ABP (one of the largest pension funds in the world!) invests shows that it's not in SMEs or even primarily European companies, but bonds...

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 9d

What I can't wrap my head around is: not wanting to administer a rate, because supposedly a (single) market rate can do it better. But then also: it's a market that is "risk-free" and relies primarily on government debt.

Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 9d

How much of that is due to pricing strategy of firms (those very actors who supposedly must want a single market), rather than national policy/regulation?

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 9d

This isn't just policy or varying costs across two very similar countries (BE and NL), this is pricing strategy by firms.

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 9d

*HEMA, not H&M

Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 9d

by the same producer / distributor? Do H&M's costs vary so much between BE and NL?

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