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@kali.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gyOct 6, 2026, 10:12 AM

think about it for a second, if some companies just make money trading paper #oil back and forth in this crisis, what will become of that when the crisis is gone? just as a thought experiment.

#iran #energy #financialization

@journalurp.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 9:01 AM

How does corporate landlordism reshape tenant-landlord relations and urban conflict? Take a look at our new academic research article published by Felipe Link, Adriana Marín Toro & Francisca Bogolasky.
doi.org/10.1080/1753...
#Financialization #Tenants #UnlikelyResistance #UrbanConflicts

@pepperberry-posts.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 12:44 PM

#Financialization
#HousingCrisis
#CanadianEconomy
#PoliticalEconomy
#PublicPolicy
#InstitutionalReform
#Productivity
#EconomicInequality
#Canada
#HousingAffordability
#HousingPolicy
#CapitalAllocation
#AssetEconomy
#ProductiveInvestment
#HouseholdDebt
#EconomicMobility
#Collateral

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@pepperberry-posts.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 12:21 PM

Canada’s institutions appear stable, but their incentives increasingly protect existing wealth over new capacity. A new essay & podcast on housing, finance, insurance, productivity, and public purpose.

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curmudgeonlycanadian.substack.com/p/the-hallma...

#Financialization #CanadianEconomy #Canada

Canada is not facing a housing crisis, a productivity problem, a credit-access gap, and an insurance crisis as unrelated policy failures. These are different expressions of the same institutional drift.

Banks prefer recoverable collateral. Regulators protect stability. Homeowners defend accumulated equity. Pension funds pursue promised returns. Governments avoid housing corrections and financial disorder. Insurers preserve solvency as correlated risks become more expensive. Each actor has a defensible reason for behaving as it does.

Together, however, these decisions produce an economy increasingly organized around protecting existing wealth, existing assets, and existing institutional arrangements. Capital flows more easily toward what can already be measured, priced, and repossessed than toward retraining, entrepreneurship, technological adoption, or productive capacity that does not yet exist.

The Hallmark Patient explores this process through housing, banking, corporate finance, insurance, competition, productivity, and political inertia. It rejects the emotionally satisfying explanation of a hidden financial conspiracy. The deeper problem is more difficult: a system without a master, in which individually rational choices repeatedly converge on a collectively damaging outcome.

The essay & podcast ultimately asks how essential institutions should be judged. Stability and profitability matter, but they are incomplete measures. Institutions must also be evaluated by what they make possible, who can realistically access what they offer, whose risks they absorb, and whether public privilege continues to correspond to public function.

Finance is indispensable. That is why it deserves democratic judgment rather than automatic deference.

#TheHallmarkPatient
 #Financialization
 #HousingCrisis
 #CanadianEconomy
 #PoliticalEconomy
 #PublicPolicy
 #InstitutionalReform
 #Productivity
 #EconomicInequality
 #Canada
@tironstefan.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 3:14 PM

#New & #OpenAccess:
@maxhaiven.bsky.social theorizes the connections between the #financialization of the capitalist economy, the #gamification of our lives, and the rising threat of a uniquely 21st-century form of fascistic politics in "The Player and the Played"
mitpress.mit.edu/978026205604...

@tina-hearn.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 10:38 AM

#OA #OpenAccess #free: @maxhaiven.bsky.social explores connections between #financialization of the capitalist economy, the #gamification of our lives, and rising threat of a form of fascistic #politics in "The Player and the Played" mitpress.mit.edu/978026205604...

@lucaneve.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 2:54 PM

#symbol #RightToHousing #RightToTheCity #struggle #Lotta #financialization #realestate #investmentfunds www.lucaneve.com/gallery-imag...