#financialisation — Public Fediverse posts

@InsurgoFormica
We’ve seen them come and go… what’s changed? Nada. I see real estate pricing fluctuation as market manipulation and insider trading… all of it is speculative and reserved for the rich.

Remember that house ownership is a financialised asset that underwrites the banking system in Australia. Those assets cannot be allowed to lose value lest the system collapses. Fluctuations in value on the other hand allows for profit taking and buying on the down side if it is ‘managed’ within strict boundaries. Think of it as a sinewave along an ever increasing asset value. It’s fully rigged IMO.

The answer: real social housing built and funded by public funds on a not for profit basis — sorry to say it will never happen kiddos.

#HousingCrisis #SocialHousing #Financialisation #Capitalisation #AusPol

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

@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

"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

"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

"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

"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

🌀 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

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

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/

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Editor @ #Antipode

New open access book "Farming as Financial Asset": https://www.agendapub.com/pdfs/chapters/9781788211871_bk.pdf
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@oldreadingroom So reassuring to hear that! Some of our researchers have just recently looked into the #financialisation of the #health #care sector (eg https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/wp35/), giving quite a bleak outlook in this regard. System change is so desperately needed!

cc #postgrowth #growthdependency #socialcare #healthcare #finance

@lawremipsum
It sounds like you are not a mad person, nor an economist! 😱

#financialisation #steadyStateEconomy

Anyone still #unbanked today is unbanked by choice — by #tyranny.

No #CentralBankDigitalCurrency (#CBDC) will fix that. This is evidenced by persons in #Australia who are locked out of their banks by #CloudFlare.

This drive to digitise people is also a drive to financialise people — and #financialisation leads to greater #inequality.

No #ethical path forward can involve #CentralBankDigitalSlavery.

@edavies
A #flatFee would work if ceteris paribus (all things remain equal), but we all know now they have a #moneyPump that they use to help those close to #power and so this is likely to be a remix of the failed #trickleDownEconomics.

Even years before the 2019 #RepoCrisis and ensuing #bailouts thinkers were saying a #carbonTax would lead to #financialisation, without properly addressing issues.

We need honest #leadership.

#inflation #deGrowth
@openrisk @douginamug

@sim
So we would challenge your question, "In seeking #equality, have we produced vast inequalities?"

Today alone, we have provided two examples that highlight how #centralPlanners are creating opaque, complex or circuituous systems that create further inequality — the JobKeeper example above and the arbitrary (#) BehaviourBasedInterestRates that benefits people who consult grift-esque #financialPlanners.

#financialisation

@realcaseyrollins
How about that #moneyPrinter?

Our economy is experiencing #gamification while Rome burns. Its probably fitting being everyone that we know who gets the vaccine seems to lose their energy and have growing difficulty with basic things.

These people seem to need to be placed in front of a screen increasingly.

#howVeryKeynesian #financialisation #stayAtHome #theMatrix

This week, #JesseVentura's #podcast is on point. His guest also has some thoughtful points on the need for better #architecture and design as a response to #contageousDiseases.

We can't share a link due to the video podcast being served on #AmazonSoundcloud.

@admin #workingClass #financialisation #insideTrading #insiderTrading #purgePolicymakers #imprisonList #DWS #townPlanning #overdevelopment

Please Cloudflare do tell us what the best #NFT are.

#moneyLaundering #art #riggedSystem #deleteCloudflare #financialisation #howVeryKeynesian #moneyPrinterGoDrr

So, #Biden's supposed #BigTech crackdown. Does anyone see anything actually useful in it, or it is just more #financialisation?

We heard of higher fees to engage in #mergers. Seems tone deaf though, in an era of #moneyPrinterGoBrr

Also how to enforce not using #platform data for gain?

Similarly with #PurduePharma, letting them pay a fine after they reportedly knowingly lied about the #addictiveness of their #opioids, is atrocious.

#imprisonList #sacklerFamily

@cjd
Short Selling is selling something you don't actually own, its a bit like #fraud and comes under the banner of #financialisation. It's built around being destructive rather than productive.

Wasn't it illegal until the 1990s?

#shortSelling #rehypothecation #ownership #hyperFinancialisation

(2/2)… and it should be noted - jobs that don't actually exist.

#shellCompanies #pyramidScheme #offshoreBankAccounts #taxHaven #moneyLaundering #financialisation #propertySpeculators #gentrifiers #ShufflingDeckChairsOnTheTitanic

@priryo
This #MattRidley is a #shill.

He spouts #financialisation ie. #decoupling #economicGrowth from #resourceConsumption.

The #constructionBoom is a disaster for environment, transferring wealth to #gentifiers, #wellConnected and #speculators. Look at #GrenfellTowers, and there's huge swathes of flammable and unsustainably built trash in Australia - see #FourCorners expose + #sandMafia.

We haven't seen so much hand-wavey trash for years.

Shill might be too generous - try #liar.

@hntooter