#financialisation — Public Fediverse posts

'money in the modern world is actually the resource being measured and the ultimate object of exchange itself, operating according to its own rules rather than those of the market for goods and services depicted in mainstream economics, and shaping the “real economy” in its financial image'

#bookstodon #economics #money #exchange #financialisation

https://prospect.org/2026/08/06/aug-2026-class-struggle-in-your-wallet-mason-jayadev-review/

"Make nature investable" has crept into policy as if self-evident. It's a category error.

Ecosystems are public goods that markets can't price. Carbon markets reward pine monocultures over old-growth forest; biomass sells easier than complexity.

Europe rebuilt forests through regulation; the US built parks by taking land off the market. Australia's Senate just voted down a 25% gas export tax worth $17bn/year. Not a shortfall. A choice.

https://gaggl.com/blogs/2026-07-24-nature-is-not-a-cash-flow/

#EcologicalEconomics #Commons #biodiversity #financialisation

When it comes to financial decision making, what if many "rational" decisions aren't rational at all, just financially legible?

This post explores a trend I've dubbed Financial Derangement Syndrome.

Check it out: https://paulbrzeski.com/2026/07/23/financial-derangement-syndrome/

#FinancialDerangementSyndrome #LateStageCapitalism #Financialisation #BehaviouralEconomics #Rationality #SystemsThinking #EconomicReality

The state of young Australians
A crisis of social reproduction

* “Many Australian children struggle with their mental health. Recent data shows around one in seven children (13.9%) aged 4–17 experiences a diagnosable mental illness.”

“…We estimated that reducing factors such as parental psychological distress, hostile parenting and partner violence could potentially prevent up to 40% of severe and persistent mental health problems in young Australians.” >>
https://theconversation.com/to-improve-childrens-mental-health-start-by-supporting-their-parents-271944

* Young Australians kept in the dark
Australia’s social media ban preventing teenagers from accessing the news, research finds >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/19/australias-social-media-ban-preventing-teens-from-accessing-the-news-research-finds

* Sydney mum reveals the huge cost of the school run (Young people's socialisation into (car) dependency)
"She would easily spend $170 a week on petrol, and drives between 80km and 90km often six or seven days a week, depending on what’s on. In 2024, the average household should budget between $10,000 and $25,000 a year to own car." >>
https://www.drive.com.au/caradvice/scool-run-australia-cost-2024/
#SocialReproduction #StateRetreat #CareDeficit #MentalHealth #anxiety #children #parenting #carers #family #DomesticViolence #violence #suburbia #sprawl #cars #MobilityDesign #CarDependency #work #WageStagnation #inequality #housing #instability #DoubleBurden #financialisation #outsourcing #SocialMedia #MSM #independence #citizens

A vast casino
Casino capitalism taken further: speculative gambling on war and oil

* “The Western financial system is rapidly coming to resemble nothing as much as a vast casino.” >>
Strange, Susan. [1986] 1997. Casino Capitalism. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press.
https://www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781784997212/9781784997212.xml

* "The proliferation of online betting markets like Polymarket and Kalshi has allowed bets on virtually any news event, including the Iran war."

“But many of them bear the hallmarks of suspicious trades that would naturally warrant investigation.”

“It’s a wild west phase, when we’re talking about the prediction market industry, and now it’s spilled over into the stock market as well,." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/18/iran-war-bets-ethics-concerns

#CasinoCapitalism #deregulation #FinancialLandscape #risks #financialisation #UnregulatedExcesses #war #oil #regulation #UnfetteredGreed #WildWest #risks #crime #InsiderKnowledge

Biodiversity Conservation: Agreement Relies on Controversial Financing Approaches

"Relying on failed approaches such as REDD and biodiversity credits or advocating for the financing of forest protection through speculation on the capital market will only aggravate the biodiversity crisis."

"Controversial financing instruments have gained importance in biodiversity conservation efforts since the Global Biodiversity Framework was adopted in 2022. Biodiversity certificates and nature conservation funds primarily generate their income on the capital market. But turning nature into an investment object will not stop the biodiversity crisis." >>
https://www.boell.de/en/2026/02/03/global-biodiversity-framework-agreement-relies-controversial-financing-approaches
#biodiversity #conservation #nativeForests #nature #extractivism #financialisation

Wait, Max! Are you saying the stockmarket climbing in recessions is effectively INFLATION??!! 🤯🤯🤯

https://youtube.com/watch?v=V57Qt-6z-_Y

#stockmarket #inflation #economics #financialisation

@RichardJMurphy Hi Richard!

I think private money creation makes Donald Trump, oil & Venezuela make sense.

Tell me what you think of this analysis!

https://youtube.com/shorts/54x3b3LkgE8

#venezuela #oil #financialisation #mmt #postkeynesianism #debt #trump #economy #privatebanking

"Airbnb eating up long-term housing"

First responders: Police, paramedics and firefighters (and essential workers and volunteers) are being forced to live well outside of town. >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-07/first-responders-struggling-to-find-a-home-in-noosa/106095684
#housing #rentierisation #financialisation #extractivism #NSW #Airbnb #cars #roads #traffic #emergency #access

Insightful paper on the consequences of the rise of ultra-processed foods in our diet, both for public health and planetary health.

What is the purpose of ultra-processed food? An exploratory analysis of the #financialisation of ultra-processed food #corporations and implications for public health

"The findings of this study have several important implications for public health advocates, researchers, and policy-makers. Importantly, the operationalisation of ‘shareholder primacy’ by major UPF corporations undermines the claims made by these corporations that they are contributing to sustainable development, such as by ‘creating shared value’ or building sustainable economies. It is indeed very difficult to reconcile such claims with the ways in which the same corporations are transferring an increasing proportion of the money they generate through UPF sales, a large proportion of which comes from the income of lower-income households in high-income countries and citizens in low-and-middle countries, to shareholders and the ultimate owners of assets under management, a group over-represented by the wealthy in high-income countries"

#UltraProcessedFoods
#PublicHealth

https://globalizationandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12992-023-00990-1

OnlineFirst - "Reinventing renting? ESG investing and the new landlordism of build-to-rent housing financialization" by Jessica Parish:

#buildtorent #housing #financialisation #ESGinvesting #assetmanagement

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X251341690

🌀 Is medicine a healing or a dealing profession?—When profit drives treatment, care becomes a collateral |
@ProfTimJackson | 📚 #TheCareEconomy

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MbDWEZUpQ3E

For details about the book, please see → https://timjackson.org.uk/the-care-economy/
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#CareEconomy #PostGrowth #WellbeingEconomy #ProsperityWithoutGrowth #Degrowth #BeyondGrowth #PostWachstum #ÖkonomieDerFürsorge #WohlstandOhneWachstum #HealthEconomics #OverMedicalisation #Financialisation #Naturopathy #healingpowerofnature #PhilosophyOfCare

Trade, Debt and Financialisation :
What does it have to do with the food on your plate?
https://www.csm4cfs.org/trade-debt-and-financialisation-what-does-it-have-to-do-with-the-food-on-your-plate

#Food #Trade #Debt #Financialisation
#FoodSovereignty #FoodSovereigntyNOW #RightToFood #PeasantsRights #UNDROP

#YanisVaroufakis: "Many refer to this world — the one in which #GenX grew up — as the #neoliberal era, others associate it with #globalisation, some identify it with #financialisation. It’s all the same thing — the world the #NixonShock begat and which the 2008 financial crash shook to its foundations. After the 2009 bailouts, although US hegemony continued unabated, it lost much of its dynamism. Today, the Nixon Shock has run out of steam — at least from the perspective of the Trumpists who want to give #UShegemony a second (or is it a third?) wind. This is the whole point of the #TrumpShock and its masterplan, including tactical moves such as enlisting #crypto to their cause."

https://unherd.com/2025/04/will-liberation-day-transform-the-world/

OPEC, Petrodollars, and the 1980s Homeless Crisis (2017)

...What assets do, if those holding them have any say in the matter, is appreciate. After all, why not? You've already got the thing, all you need is for it to increase in value. One classic mechanism for which is to constrain the supply. And there are lots of ways to do that with housing: big lots, big houses, construction and zoning laws, lousy infrastructure (crime, schools, transportation). So that the limited supply that is attractive keeps getting bid up. That's one of the big changes. And it was happening like gangbusters in the 1970s and 1980s especially, and since.

At the same time, a bunch of the upward-mobility-escalator stuff starts disappearing. Especially factory jobs, that let high-school (or less!) educated people, and especially males, earn a solid, high-income, and really fucking reliable income....

A thinking-out-loud piece I'd written back on G+ (hence the IA link), on how homelessness kicked off bigtimes in the US in the late 1970s / early 1980s, perhaps as housing became financialised due to A Combination Of Many Things.

Stumbled across this looking for other things (as one does) and thought it might be of interest to others.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190115035057/https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/eDscpi6Kg7L

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43294222

#housing #homelessness #financialisation #finaicialization #opec #petrodollars #AssetInflation

Another aspect of debt,
considered as an information technology,
is that if affects the information environment of the borrower.

If you are managing a company which has borrowed money,
making your payments becomes one of the survival conditions for that company.

At low levels of debt, generating short term cash flow is one priority among others,
but for a highly indebted company it becomes a signal which swamps all others.

You might want to change the world, but if you don’t meet the coupon payments, you’ll never get the chance to see if your other strategic priorities would have worked.

Consequently, a company with lots of debt cannot help but have a bias toward the short term.

Which might be considered problematic,
as the last few decades in the Western capitalist world have seen the rise of an industry
(leveraged buyouts, or “private equity”)

which has made it part of its fundamental operating strategy to load companies up with debt.

Considered in this light, debt is a technology of control as well as of information
– it’s a means of exerting discipline on management teams who might otherwise be tempted to follow priorities other than short-term financial returns.

This is, as far as I can tell, the real meaning behind the populist critiques of “#financialisation” in the economy.

There’s really nothing particularly bad about the growth of the financial sector,
even to the extent that it’s outstripped the growth of the “real” economy.

Quite simple mathematics ought to be enough to convince us that as the economy grows,
the number of links and relationships between producers, consumers and investors will grow at a faster rate,
and so you’d expect the parts of the economy in which decision making and information processing take place to grow faster than the “real” economy.

It’s the same logic by which the brains of primates take up proportionally more energy than those of rodents;

finance is part of the real economy, just like the cerebellum is a real organ.

What’s bad about “financialisation” is neither more nor less than the over-use of debt.

Modern corporations do often behave badly,
and they make systematically worse decisions than they used to,
this isn’t a delusion of age.

They do this partly because they have outsourced key functions
(cutting themselves off from important sources of information),

and partly because their priorities are warped by the need to generate short term cash flow.

Both of these problems can in large part be traced back to the private equity industry,
working either as a direct driver of excess leverage,
or as a constant threat which makes managers behave as if they were already subject to its discipline.

#Management #science and #cybernetic #history is all about things which began as solutions,
💥then turned into problems because the world changed.

Once upon a time, back in the 1970s,
private equity and LBOs were the solution to a problem of lazy, sclerotic incumbent management teams,
self-dealing and failing to make tough decisions.

But it’s now the 2020s, and private equity may itself be the biggest problem in our global information processing system.

The way that corporate history progresses is that we try to keep up with the ever-increasing complexity of the world,
♦️and then when this is no longer possible, we have a crisis and reorganise.

We’ve had the crisis
– or perhaps we are still going through it
– and now it’s time to think about how to reorganise.

(3/3)

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Dan-Davies/author/B07DGHPV6F

#debt #information #technology #criminogenic #organisation #Stafford #Beer #Barry #Clemson #accountability #sink #Boeing #737MAX #Boeing #merger #McDonnell #Douglas #engineering #culture #cost #control #Ricardian #Fallacy #hard #data #culture #best #practice

Green growth theory posits that we can decouple growth of the real economy - the one that provides goods and services that can lift our standard of living - from growth of energy use, pollution etc. I don't if that's true. But as I pointed out yesterday, financialisation has been pretty good at...

> Decoupling on-paper economic growth from anything that actually lift's our standard or living

So who knows?

#GreenGrowth #decoupling #financialisation

How private equity has used copyright to cannibalise the past at the expense of the future

Walled Culture has been warning about the financialisation and securitisation of music for two years now. Those obscure but important developments mean that the owners of copyrights are increasingly detached from the creative production process. They regard music as just another asset, like gold, petroleum or property, to be exploited to the maximum. A Guest Essay in […]

#assets #distribution #financialisation #gold #securitisation #spotify #streaming

https://walledculture.org/how-private-equity-has-used-copyright-to-cannibalise-the-past-at-the-expense-of-the-future/

A new Boston Consulting report on #infrastructure costs has found that while UK build costs for infrastructure are around the same as the US, they are well above comparable projects in #Europe (but interestingly less expensive than #Australia).

Is there something about the #business model (or type of #capitalism) in these three countries that makes such project more expensive than in Europe?

Three terms come to mind:
#financialisation
#rentiercapitalism, &
#neoliberalism (not a term I like)

“Nature Positive”?

The nature repair market - We must be wary of greenwashing
Australia’s goal: “drive private sector investment to protect and repair our environment. The New South Wales review of biodiversity laws recommended nature positive become “mandatory.”"
https://theconversation.com/nature-positive-isnt-just-planting-a-few-trees-its-actually-stopping-the-damage-we-do-213075

CSIRO handbook to guide Australian businesses towards nature positive future.
https://www.csiro.au/en/news/All/News/2023/September/New-CSIRO-handbook-to-guide-Australian-businesses-towards-nature-positive-future

What is wrong with “Nature Positive”?
https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/57395/what-wrong-nature-positive/
#NSW #NaturePositive #markets #financialisation #nature #degradation #stockbroking #ecosystems #biodiversity #biosphere #governance

The case of logging and clear felling the proposed Great Koala National Park
On Consultation and consent 1/3

Some Bellingen residents adjoining Tuckers Nob State Forest received letters informing them of proposed logging operations.

The Forestry Corporation of New South Wales is logging and planning to clear fell large parts of NSW forests promised to be the Great Koala National Park.

Residents adjoining these areas (Tuckers Nob State Forest, 026 & 027 ) received (short term) letters informing them of the proposed industrial logging operations.

Some of these residents neighbouring native state forests have been restoring the bush with public funds to halt the koala extinction. (North Coast Local Land Services, NSW) Individual homes are being told that they will be involuntarily affected for 2 – 5 years of clear felling, burning, smoke and spraying toxins. Koalas and other wildlife will have to flee their erased habitat.

The given consultation process addresses individual property owners, sets the agenda, frames the issue and dictates the channels of 'negotiations' to the stakeholders
>>

Part 2
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/111050544820463784
Part 3
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/111050539959361792

#nature #financialisation #forests #NativeForests #biodiversity #climate #Emergencies #Bellingen #LoggingIndustry #BellingenLogging #biodiversity #koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #consultation #trust #governance #SaveTuckersNob

The case of logging and clear felling the proposed Great Koala National Park
On Consultation and consent 3/3

Times have rapidly changed. The old school extractive ways were perceived as legitimate under colonial extractive regimes.

Today we are confronted with an urgency of interlocking global crises of the environment and democracy. Anthropocene defaunation and an increasingly uninhabitable climate exposes human well-being under increasing threat.

'Business as usual' is no longer tenable. A new set of circumstances demands a rapid transition and consensual modes of action. Trust and legitimacy can be generated by genuine participatory deliberation of all 'stakeholders' and societal institutions.

People increasingly claim ownership of their planet and question the legality of the commodification and financialization of their only home.

Consultation and cooperation in a democratic civil society must consult all 'stakeholders' in public (digital or f2f) for a consensual outcome. The operating party has to face the affected community in person in public meetings. Stewards of biodiversity and the climate have to be present 'at the table'.
Discussions and negotiations should be public, transparent and take all aspects (externalities) into account.

Stop deforestation and clearfelling in a climate emergency
Stop eradicating ecosystems in a biodiversity crisis
Stop the denial of reality
Stop logging in a l l of the proposed Great Koala National Park now

There is no consent

#nature #financialisation #NativeForests #biodiversity #climate #Emergencies #Bellingen #LoggingIndustry #BellingenLogging #biodiversity #koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #consultation #trust #governance #SaveTuckersNob

https://timcadman.wordpress.com/2023/08/18/formal-advisory-to-minister-moriarty-regarding-evidence-of-remnant-original-forest-within-tuckers-nob-plantation-compartments-026-and-027/

Richards, Carol and Lyons, Kristen (2016). The new corporate enclosures: plantation forestry, carbon markets and the limits of financialised solutions to the climate crisis. Land Use Policy 56 209-216.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.05.013
https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:398969

@dangillmor When looking at the US health system (or should I say “health crisis”) I really fear that I see the future of our situation in Germany if we do not stop the #commodification and #financialisation of German health institutions.

Doctoral students + junior researchers: Join us for the IRS Spring Academy „Spaces of #Financialisation & De-Financialisation“ in May in #Berlin: you’ll learn from the best❗️ & have plenty networking opportunities.

No tuition fees charged. Applications close on Feb 28! #IRSSprA

👉 https://leibniz-irs.de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/2023/05/irs-spring-academy-2023

Meet Manuel B. Aalbers - key speaker at #IRSSprA, who has published extensively on #financialisation, the #privatisation of social housing & gentrification.
He is professor at #KU_Leuven 🇧🇪 .

We are looking forward to your application! Due on Feb 28th!

👉https://leibniz-irs.de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/2023/05/irs-spring-academy-2023

📢 Listen up: Applications are now open for the IRS Spring Academy „Spaces of #Financialisation and De-Financialisation“ in May in Berlin - with a fantastic line up with Desiree Fields from #BerkleyUniversity, @AndrejHolm, Manuel Aalbers from #KULeuven, Sabine Dörry from #LISERinLUX & many #IRSLerIn|nen!

Our partner Georg Simmel Center at #HUBerlin & we can’t wait to welcome you!
Follow us for news on the topic and the programme 👍 #IRSSprA

https://leibniz-irs.de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/2023/05/irs-spring-academy-2023

@juglugs Is there an article-length account of the whole crypto thing from a Marxist point of view?
#crypto #currencies #money #financialisation #financialization #histmat