"Egan-Jones has just 20 or so analysts and managed to issue more than 3,600 ratings last year alone" That's ... 0.7 ratings per analyst per working day. Good luck to all involved.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

bro are you fucking kidding me

Canadians are being asked to make sacrifices for a budget that meets the moment. Apparently that means cutbacks to services to fund $1 billion to "support new and emerging fund managers" and to incentivize pension funds into investing in venture capital. Austerity for thee, largesse for finance.

The de-risking state lives! Canada's new budget includes $2 billion for "equity investments, loan guarantees, and offtake agreements [for] critical minerals." Will be interesting the mix of uses and what equity investments entail. @danielagabor.bsky.social www.miningweekly.com/article/cana...

Did not know that Zohran's dad was college roommates with former Canadian Liberal party leader Michael Ignatieff.

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

On the surface, this is great. But without adequate funding for university operating budgets - a provincial responsibility - this may actually result in more program cuts, not fewer.

This is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized. on.ft.com/47lq3dZ

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Players with 30+ hits in a single MLB playoff run: Ernie Clement That's it.

And if you reckon banks have moderated their behaviour post-financial crisis, get this: US loans to private equity and credit funds have jumped by 60 per cent between the fourth quarter of 2024 and the second quarter of this year. To almost half a trillion dollars.

Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

Back home in Toronto in the same bar I watched a lot of the Raptors championship run. May have arrived ridiculously early to grab a prime seat 🤣

I'm trying to understand this world wherein Ronald Reagan is a Canadian hero.

When central banks were asked to "do smth" about climate, the Fed sat it out, the ECB experimented then retreated but the PBOC planned green and brown money at scale. geoeconomic.substack.com/p/central-ba...

Killer post from Toby that I’m sure will get resurfaced again and again when things eventually break bad.

Ford just put every renter in Ontario into an even more precarious position. This is a clear and present danger to the 1.7 million renters in Ontario.

Love this forensic analysis of the ECB's discourse around rate hikes during the 2021-23 inflation shock. A brief sellers inflation – aka Another-World-Is-Possible – moment (blue), before the empire (green) strikes back with overwhelming force.

I just saw a video that said cutting SNAP would lower food prices because it would cut demand. I'm starting to think that Econ 101 either needs to be drastically overhauled or that you cannot take it unless you commit to taking four econ courses one heavily focused on externalities and elasticity.

This, from the Financial Times, is why my research has pivoted to monetary policy. The dynamics financial and economic geographers study are interested in are enabled by the implicit promise of the giant public de-risking regime at the centre of the economy. www.ft.com/content/ce8b...

My book is coming!!! thenewpress.org/books/as-pub...

As a fan of Toronto sports that aren't hockey, I am aware of the power of a team of destiny. We welcome the poor odds!

The FT knows its audience (political economists with institutional funding for subscriptions)

New w/ @bencasselman.bsky.social: Wealthy Americans, buoyed by a booming stock market, are spending freely. Lower-income households, stung by inflation and a slowing labor market, are pulling back www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b... @nytimes.com

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

Between the Antipode Institute and the Summer Institute in Economic Geography, I guess Toronto is now the center for cool things in Geography!

Announcing Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ), "Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis", Toronto, 1-5 June 2026 antipodeonline.org/institute-fo... -- submit your application by 20 December 2025

Accumulation by dispossession

The Economic Geography Summer Institute in Kentucky was a formative experience for me. Great space to learn and a useful bridge from being a PhD student into early career. Met many others who I continue to collaborate with... and the field trips were amazing! People should absolutely apply

Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026 Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026

My article 'Valuing a new “good”' was an editor's pick in the @cangeographers.bsky.social journal. In it I examine how different geographic imaginaries are struggled over in the valuation of what counts as the 'social good' in Canada's Social Finance Fund. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/XQGEJF...

Absolute tour de force on multiple aspects of the political economy of AI. From promises of AGI to capital investments to bubble dynamics to geopolitics. Crystallizes a lot of disparate thoughts I've been having.

This is truly an amazing opportunity.

University leaders: [terminate programs, close campuses, cave in to political pressure from demagogues] Faculty, students, staff: you’re killing the university Management consultants: looks like you got a real comms challenge here

Why the economy feels so confusing right now on.ft.com/46Zxlmc

As the US ramps up brutality from Chicago to Venezuela, the state takes equity stakes in mining firms, & the economy perilously hinges on AI fool's gold, it's critical to reshape how war, climate, economy & geopolitics are intersecting. That's why we're launching @transitionsec.bsky.social next week

Urban planning, Urban geography, Urban political science

Along with Will Payne and Jovan Lewis, I'm organizing an AAG session on the economic geography of scams for the 2026 conference in San Francisco. Please share widely! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The parallels between ANU and Queen's (Canada) reveal the mobility and power of a consultant class spreading across Anglosphere unis. Both have 'Renew' programs led by Nous and both use creative accounting methods to turn surpluses into 'underlying' (ANU) or 'structural' (QU) and justify cuts.

Our location on our phone is constructed using a variety of algorithms and data inputs about the built environment. This leads to various "views" on our location that conform into the needs of Google and Android. Awesome collaboration with @dancohen.bsky.social and Tommy Cooke!!

Recruiting for a study on how Quantitative Easing policies impacted home buyer decisions in Canada from March 2020 to October 2021. If you know of anyone that bought a home during this time please forward the posting and/or this website: www.queensu.ca/quantitative...

Rereading Vineland before going to see One Battle After Another and found this gem of an easter egg. Opportunity here to turn this into an incredibly niche cookbook with recipes like 'A Thousand Antipastos'

If your institution requires you to use Blackboard for teaching (like me), be aware its parent company is broke and it's getting new private equity owners whose plans for the platform, and how they'll capitalize on it, remain unknown (bet it includes "AI") onedtech.philhillaa.com/p/anthology-...

Coming this spring. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Green window dressing in mutual funds doi.org/10.1111/jofi...

Excellent reporting from at @inthesetimes.com that draws from some of my work. The labor movement still hasn’t got its head around the way the institutions of capitalism have changed between the 1930s and today. If the workplace needed democracy then, today pooled assets do as well.

this business model should be flatly illegal taking on a bunch of debt to buy a company and then burning the company to the ground to service that debt while paying yourselves huge fees is a purely destructive practice that has never once had a positive outcome ban it completely

In which surveillance study scholars, computer scientists, digital geographers, and a random economic geographer (me) collaborate to unpack the black box of how/why cell phone companies model your location in cities. There's more ambiguity than you'd think! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...