Chris Muellerleile
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Economic geographer in Swansea, Wales
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Philipp Golka
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We are hiring a tenure track (!) senior researcher in political economy! This is obviously a great job (permanent without teaching obligation) and I hope you all apply. However, I would like to take a moment to share just how significant this is in the German academic context âŹď¸
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Rob Kitchin
7 days ago
12 month postdoc post working on my ERC funded Data Stories project. The role is to undertake a comprehensive data audit of the data terrain of housing, property and planning in Northern Ireland & compare to Republic of Ireland. Closing date 31 March 2026. Job details:
my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...
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ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships are available in Human Geography at Aberystwyth, Cardiff, and Swansea Universities.
wgsss.ac.uk/fellowships/
. Interested candidates should email me as soon as possible.
[email protected]
Initial deadline is May 1, 2026. Please distribute widely!
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Postdoctoral Fellowships â Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences
https://wgsss.ac.uk/fellowships/
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Amin Samman
9 days ago
My new book Currency of Nihilism is officially out today! In it, I develop a history and theory of financial nihilism that speaks directly to the ongoing merger of digital technology with finance. Use the code SAMMAN20 for 20% off:
www.sup.org/books/politi...
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ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships are available in Human Geography at Aberystwyth, Cardiff, and Swansea Universities.
wgsss.ac.uk/fellowships/
. Interested candidates should email me as soon as possible.
[email protected]
Initial deadline is May 1, 2026. Please distribute widely!
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Postdoctoral Fellowships â Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences
https://wgsss.ac.uk/fellowships/
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Erin Torkelson
10 days ago
Iâve got a book coming out! Check out the introduction online now!
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Quinn Slobodian
13 days ago
Lines up with something
@bentarnoff.com
and I have been saying while touring our book through Europe and London this last week. When confronted with the question whether Musk is just nuts, we respond: maybe but this style of fabulism is load-bearing infrastructure for the global financial system.
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Quinn Slobodian
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Eddington was a documentary
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Jeff Colgan
23 days ago
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
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David Darmofal
13 days ago
Due to Trump & Vance âUnusually Steepâ Decline in U.S. University Autonomy, Index Shows Drop in institutional autonomy of 50 percent since 2015 means country is now only rated as âmoderateâ by experts.
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Decline in U.S. University Autonomy, Index Shows
Drop in institutional autonomy of 50 percent since 2015 means country is now only rated as âmoderateâ by experts.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2026/03/20/decline-us-university-autonomy-index-shows?_gl=1*13355hl*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTk5NjMwNDc0NC4xNzc0MDEyMzQ2*_ga_F07KT3P0SW*czE3NzQwMTIzNDUkbzEkZzAkdDE3NzQwMTIzNDUkajYwJGwwJGgw
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Lenore Palladino
28 days ago
meanwhile this is not worrying at all
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Federal Reserve grants Kraken access to payments system in first for crypto group
Digital assets company will be able to connect directly into key parts of central bankâs infrastructure
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/17ee341d-cd06-4618-8fd4-ee0edcc70be1
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graham steele
28 days ago
The
@federalreserve.gov
just granted a crypto companyâKrakenâaccess to its public payment services for the first time. More evidence that cryptoâs success is not as an *alternative* to the existing financial system but to capture the existing payment infrastructure.
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
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Kraken Becomes First Crypto Firm to Win Access to Fedâs Core Payments System
The decision means the industry is a step closer to becoming integrated into the mainstream financial system.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/kraken-becomes-first-crypto-firm-to-win-access-to-feds-core-payments-system-b5d17031
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The Nation Magazine
about 1 month ago
Rather than adapt to the river, we have tried to bend it to our will. Scott traces the history of this struggle to the dawn of sedentary agriculture.
https://bit.ly/3MYGrcY
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Do Humans Really Understand the Worldâs Disorderly Rivers?
In James C. Scottâs last book, In Praise of Floods, he questions the limits of human hegemony and our misplaced sense that we have any control over the Earthâs depleted watershed.
https://bit.ly/3MYGrcY
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Dr. Maya Weeks
about 1 month ago
âCredit derivatives tied to single companies didnât exist on many high-grade Big Tech issuers a year ago, and are now some of the most actively traded US contracts in the market outside of the financial sectorâ
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Ben Litherland
about 1 month ago
This is very good. It's easier to blame universities for a poor economy than it is to blame, well, everything else. But you certainly won't *fix* the economy by just forcing people into trades apprenticeships.
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Massive capital switching exercise in process, enabled as always by exotic financial instruments. The debt fuelled $3 trillion AI data center build out is enabled by quickly expanding market for credit default swaps and other credit derivatives.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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AI Bubble Fears Are Creating New Derivatives
Debt investors are worried that the biggest tech companies will keep borrowing until it hurts in the battle to develop the most powerful artificial intelligence.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-14/ai-bubble-fears-are-creating-new-derivatives-credit-weekly?fromMostRead=true
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Alphabet's 100 year AI build debt instruments have a higher credit rating than UK government debt.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Alphabet 100-Year Bond Gets Most Demand in Sterling Sale
Alphabet Inc. has received close to ten times orders for a ÂŁ1 billion ($1.4 billion) sale of an ultra rare 100-year bond, a landmark transaction in the debt-fueled race for artificial intelligence sup...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-10/alphabet-s-100-year-bond-gets-highest-demand-in-sterling-sale
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Dundurn Press
4 months ago
COMING WINTER 2026: Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us: The Urgent Case for a Wealth Tax by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks âA must read.â â Thomas Piketty, bestselling author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century Pre-order now:
buff.ly/tj2zi24
#wealthtax
#capitalism
#billionaires
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Matt Huber
about 2 months ago
MAGA âIn blue-collar industriesâsuch as manufacturing, construction, logging and mining, transportation and warehousing, and utilitiesâa cumulative total of nearly 166,000 jobs were lost from February 2025 to January 2026.â
www.americanprogress.org/article/work...
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Molly White
about 2 months ago
And finally he demands Judge Kaplan recuse himself, arguing he showed "extreme prejudice". Both that argument and his "no actual loss" theory are already being litigated in his pending appeal before the Second Circuit, which I wrote about here:
www.citationneeded.news/issue-96/#sbf
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Issue 96 â Redefining solvency
Sam Bankman-Fried makes his case for a retrial and aspiring crypto banks hit roadblocks
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-96/#sbf
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What a vision of the future. All else aside, does anyone who doesn't directly profit from it, actually want this?
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Absolute anti-financialization screed by Oren Cass in NYTs (paywall). I wish populists would start to take these arguments (which many of us in the academy have been making for years if not decades) more seriously.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...
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Opinion | How the Capitalists Broke Capitalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/opinion/capitalism-industry-financialization.html
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Phil Free
7 months ago
Private Equity Ripped the Heart Out of Skateboarding
prospect.org/economy/2025...
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Private Equity Ripped the Heart Out of Skateboarding
Multiple buyouts and bankruptcies have ruined iconic brands and hollowed out skateboarding culture. Itâs our financialized economy in miniature.
https://prospect.org/economy/2025-08-21-private-equity-ripped-heart-out-of-skateboarding/
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Andrew McRae
about 2 months ago
I expect to spend today staring at this: âweâve gone from government suggesting that the state would subsidise undergraduate student loans by about 45p in the pound, to making a profit on them for that cohortâ. A *profit* on student loans: everyone should read this. đ¤Ż
wonkhe.com/blogs/gradua...
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Graduates are paying more and getting less
Jim Dickinson traces how a student loans system once sold as cost-sharing has become one where graduates fund everything â and where Labour has quietly reversed promises to make things fairer Jim Dick...
https://wonkhe.com/blogs/graduates-are-paying-more-and-getting-less/
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Antulio Rosales
2 months ago
Over 11 MM ppl use cryptocurrencies in
#Argentina
, (over 20% of the population!) I explain the success of the crypto in Argentina, paying close attention to its intertwining with crisis. đ§ľ Curls, caves, and shadows: how cryptocurrencies thrive in (poly)crisis
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Curls, caves, and shadows: how cryptocurrencies thrive in (poly)crisis
Bitcoin, the most important and well-known cryptocurrency, was born out of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008â9. In a context of institutional mistrust, cryptocurrencies emerged as part of a...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2026.2619676?src=#abstract
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Andrew Leyshon
2 months ago
Coming Soon! FinTech Capital, by
@paullangley.bsky.social
and me, accounts for the rise and ubiquity of fintech and its global transformation of everyday financial transactions. The book is out in July in the US, and in September in the UK. Available for pre-order here:
tinyurl.com/bdz2pjn5
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Fintech Capital
A thorough examination of the worldwide digital transformation of peopleâs everyday monetary and financial relations driven by the emergence of FinTech
https://press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/9781945861352/fintech-capital-pdf?_gl=1*14qo6x4*_up*MQ..*_ga*MjEwMDY2ODQzMi4xNzY5MDgwMzE5*_ga_N1W9JWKLY3*czE3NjkwODAzMTkkbzEkZzAkdDE3NjkwODAzMTkkajYwJGwwJGgxNDc0NjA5Nw.
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Oxford Internet Institute
2 months ago
New
@oii.ox.ac.uk
and University of Kentucky study shows how ChatGPT amplifies global inequalities, with LLMs reflecting historic biases in training data. With thanks to
@telegraph.co.uk
for sharing the study.
@geoplace.bsky.social
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
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AI thinks these are the most racist places in the UK
ChatGPT answers often repeat negative stereotypes and reinforce prejudices, study shows
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/01/20/ai-thinks-these-are-the-most-racist-places-in-the-uk/?ICID=continue_without_subscribing_reg_first
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Margot Finn
3 months ago
Of especial interest for UK researchers, research institutes/organisations and/or partnerships with higher education expertise and the ability to measure social & cultural infrastructure. Deadline 17:00 GMT 4 February; duration 10 months; value c. ÂŁ60k. 1/2
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Call for proposals - Measurement of social and cultural infrastructure in the higher education sector
The British Academy is commissioning a major new research element as part of its work theme on social and cultural infrastructure. The research will investigate how social and cultural infrastructure ...
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/schemes/measurement-of-social-and-cultural-infrastructure/
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States of Precarity
3 months ago
TOMORROW: Report Launch and Discussion 1:00-2:30PM GMT Guest Speakers: Matilda Fitzmaurice (
@matildaf.bsky.social
) Jay Todd (
@jaytoddgla.bsky.social
) Lekan Adekola Gillian Rose (
@profgillian.bsky.social
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www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
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States of precarity in UK geography report launch
We're invitomh all geographers to the launch of the States of Precarity in UK Higher Education Geography report.
https://www.rgs.org/events/upcoming-events/states-of-precarity-report-launch
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Rob Kitchin
4 months ago
Special issue on Authoritarianism in the Digital Age, vol 1(3) in
@dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social
, edited by
@kylzjarrett.bsky.social
, Jing Hiah,
@robkitchin.bsky.social
&
@steelecat717.bsky.social
y.social
. All 49 pieces open access.
journals.sagepub.com/toc/ddsa/1/3
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Dialogues on Digital Society - Volume 1, Number 3
Table of contents for Dialogues on Digital Society, 1, 3
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ddsa/1/3
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Stuart Elden
4 months ago
Samuel A. Moore, Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons â University of Michigan Press
@uofmpress.bsky.social
, September 2025
press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ...
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
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newbooksnetwork.com/publishing-b...
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Publishing Beyond the Market
Publishing Beyond the Market argues that the move to open access should focus less on the free accessibility of research outputs and more on who controls the publications and infrastructures for schol...
https://press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publishing-Beyond-the-Market
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I wrote a paper about Cryptofinance, and the ways the U.S. state has negotiated the consolidation of cryptocurrency trading in large platform firms. It traces the rise of FTX (Sam Bankman-Fried's firm) as it moves from Berkeley to Hong Kong to the Bahamas.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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From cryptocurrency to cryptofinance: FTX, disintermediation and the US state
During the first decade of cryptocurrencies (2008â2017) there were few connections established between crypto and the conventional finance sector, but in the US in 2025 the integration of these two...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2833115X.2025.2589384
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"Closures and mergers [of universities] are Labour policy, not a problem Labour policy wants to solve." ISRF Director
@cnewf.bsky.social
explains the logic behind the current UK University funding crisis and why it will be counterproductive
mailinglist.isrf.org/p/isrf-newsl...
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ISRF Newsletter â November 2025
This month's newsletter features a Director's Note unpacking the UK government's latest White Paper on higher education. Also included: upcoming ISRF events, Fellows news and our latest blog posts.
https://mailinglist.isrf.org/p/isrf-newsletter-november-2025?open=false#%C2%
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It's Thatcher's fault.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Margaret Thatcher Is the Mother of Conservatismâs Crisis
Three of Margaret Thatcherâs dresses encased in glass boxes and a stall that invited attendees at last weekâs Conservative Party Conference to âask the Iron Ladyâ to opine on contemporary politics. A ...
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-10-10/margaret-thatcher-is-the-mother-of-conservatism-s-crisis
6 months ago
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Matt Seybold
10 months ago
While weâre at it. Canvas & Blackboard are now both owned by Private Equity giants in the âdata integration space,â meaning they harvest & monetize our identity & intellectual propertyâŚ& our studentsâ We should be asking, what do these LMSs do that a $20/yr password-protected WordPress site canât?
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@ntinatzouvala.bsky.social
brilliantly employs Veblen's concept of capitalist sabotage to explain the political economy of U.S. tariffs
lpeproject.org/blog/on-tari...
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On Tariffs and the Ends of International Economic Law
For decades, the rules of international trade helped cement U.S. firms at the top of global value chains. Should Trump's unapologetic embrace of tariffs be understood as part of a broader loss ofâŚ
https://lpeproject.org/blog/on-tariffs-and-the-ends-of-international-economic-law/
11 months ago
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Joe Weisenthal
12 months ago
*CHINA ORDERS HALT TO BOEING JET DELIVERIES AS TRADE WAR EXPANDS
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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China Orders Halts to Boeing Jet Deliveries as Trade War Expands
China has ordered its airlines not to take any further deliveries of Boeing Co. jets as part of the tit-for-tat trade war thatâs seen US President Donald Trump levy tariffs of as high as 145% on Chine...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-15/china-tells-airlines-stop-taking-boeing-jets-as-trump-tariffs-expand-trade-war
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Horse imports could take a beating.
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Capital controls next? It would be another boon for crypto- finance, which is clearly the Trump family's current obsession. I suspect Trump's desire to weaken the USD is not disconnected from his promotion of the crypto sector.
www.ft.com/content/b1bf...
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Tariffs on goods may be a prelude to tariffs on money
Capital inflows could be the Trump administrationâs next target
https://www.ft.com/content/b1bf0858-d7d5-489d-8d61-02997d2f4aec
about 1 year ago
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Nice description of the technical details and frictions in the physical gold trade between NY-LON & Switzerland. Good photos too! FT paywall...
www.ft.com/content/2289...
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From London to New York via Switzerland: the booming trade in gold bars
Fears that Donald Trump could impose tariffs on gold imports have upended the market
https://www.ft.com/content/2289b4de-6a6d-4df3-b98d-e277906440af
about 1 year ago
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Brendan Greeley
about 1 year ago
Stablecoins are eurodollars.
www.ft.com/content/d033...
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Banks and fintechs join âstablecoin gold rushâ
Bank of America and Stripe target market for payments in cryptocurrencies
https://www.ft.com/content/d033e015-f726-4d5f-ab38-2949171f2cdc
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The Rise of Bullshit Jobs in UK Universities
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On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities
You may never have considered yourself to be one. Why would you? But if youâre reading this, there is more than a likelihood that you are one. If youâre a
https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/148/3/687/8058558
about 1 year ago
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Musk's cuts will be good for Thiel's Palantir.
www.ft.com/content/b9f0...
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Palantir predicts windfall from Elon Muskâs government cost-cutting
Chief executive says government efficiency department will be âvery goodâ for data analytics group
https://www.ft.com/content/b9f00d80-bd60-4660-a544-3b7f79795d5f
about 1 year ago
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You know you're in trouble as a critical scholar when you're waiting for capital to discipline the authoritarian.
about 1 year ago
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