Being over 40 is noticing a Dead Kennedys song when you see the SpongeBob Movie in theatre.

Heard nephew talking about "adjusting the grindsetting" and got worried he'd become a shitty business influencer. What a relief to learn he was just reading the instructions for a new coffee maker.

Be our colleague… Hiring an Assistant Prof of Urban Geography & Climate Crisis. www.sfu.ca/geography/ab...

How did ESG go from BlackRock's mainstream opportunity to a political battlefield? Christiansen et al's new commentary maps the anti-ESG backlash: 418 legislative proposals, $12B in divested funds, and the rise of explicitly anti-ESG investment products.

I'm out somewhere with youths where they are playing a seemingly new synth pop cover of 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'; like if Flock of Seagulls had written the song. And let me tell you, I am temporally disoriented.

My university, Queen's in Kingston, Canada, has announced its portion of the Canadian government's 'poach American scholars' program if anyone is interested. www.queensu.ca/vpr/sites/vp...

Cool, cool, cool... Just a Bank of Canada paper investigating the idea of central banks buying stocks the next time CBs save the financial system. The last crisis pushed open the window for CBs to buy corporate debt, the state's backstop of finance marches on. www.bankofcanada.ca/2025/12/staf...

Cool, cool, cool... Just a Bank of Canada paper investigating the idea of central banks buying stocks the next time CBs save the financial system. The last crisis pushed open the window for CBs to buy corporate debt, the state's backstop of finance marches on. www.bankofcanada.ca/2025/12/staf...

"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...

At my university we found that an obscure accounting decision was leading to overprojected deficits that justified austerity while channeling money into capital projects at the same time as admin was laying off teaching and research support staff. The uproar shifted $5 million back into operating.

People should take a page out of New School faculty's book and start doing forensic accounting for their own institutions using public documents

Since I walked away from a tenure track job 4 years ago to move to think tank work, A LOT of people have asked me how and why; I tried to consolidate some of that thinking into this interview I did with @mjhaugen.bsky.social for @cplusc.bsky.social 's substack

I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY

Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted

New research found that Instacart is charging shoppers different prices — despite ordering the same items from the same store at the same time. The price differences could amount to an extra $1,200 a year for the average household of four. Corporate greed is out of control.

Announcing a workshop on financial geographies in an era of asset management and corporate concentration. Held at Queen's Toronto classrooms in mid-July, the focus will be on learning from each other's methods with a mix of academics and practitioners. See CFP here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Announcing a workshop on financial geographies in an era of asset management and corporate concentration. Held at Queen's Toronto classrooms in mid-July, the focus will be on learning from each other's methods with a mix of academics and practitioners. See CFP here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

One might think that central banks would jump at the opportunity finally to create a money system that serves the people rather than the banks. @katharinapistor.bsky.social explains why they haven't. bit.ly/4poyYSE

NEW PUBLICATION 'Capitalising on conjunctures: Tesla's ups and downs in financialised capitalism' With Tobias Klinge and Stefan Ouma (@econgeo.bsky.social), we analyze the driving forces behind Elon Musk's wealth. Open access with @finandsoc.bsky.social here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New pub with some wonderful collaborators: 'The war on ‘woke’: anti-ESG investing and research directions in financial geography' We unpack the actors involved in the anti-ESG movements and the multiscalar practices through which the US culture war is expanded via finance. doi.org/10.1080/2833...

they require nicer canapés

Arrived in New Zealand! Here's the details for my talk at the University of Auckland on December 5th on relational financial geography and the spatiality of monetary policy for any followers in NZ. And here's a picture of a steampunk dragon from the Auckland Santa Claus parade for everyone else.

You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.

I've identified an untapped university/industry collaboration. Universities love to inflate their liabilities to justify cutting humanities. Firms like Meta want to hide their liabilities to justify dividends and protect their credit... lets get some accountants together and make this happen!

Related - here’s a snapshot of Meta and the lender (Blue Owl) for its Louisiana data center trying to position themselves limit the damage if things implode. pitchbook.com/news/article...

"Renewed greenwashing." "Carney's government says it's paring back parts of Canada's anti-greenwashing law after hearing from fossil fuel companies and other groups that their 'good-faith efforts' to protect the environment are going unadvertised." #Canada #FossilFuels #Climate #Media

Because every time something is labeled “vibes”, I go look and it’s just Marxism.

Someone is going to have the write the thing about how “vibe” has become a substitute for meaningful theory in a world where the theory is so clear — grift and power — but we collectively refuse if because it isn’t sophisticated enough to generate make work for empiricists.

"If the city were to get into fiscal trouble and face a decision between paying teachers and paying bondholders, it would have to pay bondholders." -- @schooldaves.bsky.social on the uphill fight municipal socialism faces against the investment environment

If there's such a thing as the Odd Lots confidence index, the latest few episodes are pointing in a worrying direction. The call is coming from inside the house at this point.

Also: we often talk about the “elite culture of impunity” as a vague business of winks and nods. But worth remembering (as attested by both E. Warren and Y. Varoufakis in their memoirs) that LS likes to tell people explicitly that if they want to keep power they cannot use it on other “insiders.”

Excerpt from the Bank of Canada's rate decision. Monetary policy cannot target specific sectors. Unless of course you are talking about the financial sector... then we've got hundreds of billions, can lend to new actors, and can 'crank it up to 11' as a BoC deputy governor put it.

Besides the other ways this is silly, I’m always struck by the language of “cross-subsidization” in these contexts. The assumption is that profits are fixed (or nonexistent) so the only way for one customer to pay less is for another customer to pay more.

Damn been walking around for almost three months with a completely torn ACL, an LCL sprain, and a meniscus tear. I think this may be the end of my dreams of making the NBA.

I've used Larry Summers ridiculous quote that women must be dumber than men because markets are efficient as a foil to teach about the importance of Feminist approaches to the economy for a half decade. So I knew he was terrible, but just wow....

I spend too much time on presentation slides, but I'm happy with this one about the need for financial geographers to think more about liquidity and what Martine August, @emilyrosenman.bsky.social and I call relational financial geographies (see here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...)

Apply now — Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice, “Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis”, deadline 20 December 2025 antipodeonline.org/2025/11/13/a...

Oh....gross Summers, the guy I would rank #1 in terms of Obama people most responsible for slowing and weakening the response to the US foreclosure crisis. Mr. "moral hazards for thee, but not for me"

Working on my first comprehensive talk on the work I've been doing on the spatiality of monetary policy. Unreasonably happy with this slide on central banks (lack of) spatial imaginaries. If I have any NZ followers, I'll be giving the talk at the University of Auckland on December 5th.

"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.