Trump broke the Commandents, so Vance had to commit the Deadly Sins. Trump compared himself to Jesus, so Vance had to claim that he was better at theology than the pope. This is one sad weird heretical Oedipal thing.
Chart showing bicycle share of trips in New York City, London, Paris, and Berlin, 1990–2023. The percentages shown in the graphic refer to the bicycle share of all trips, all trip purposes, based on travel surveys for each city. Sources: City of Paris, 2000–2023; City of Berlin, 2003–2025; Kalender, 2012 ; NYCDOT, 2018/ 2023; Pucher, Parkin, et al., 2021; TfL, 2000–2023
Bicycle share of trips in NYC, London, Paris, and Berlin, 1990–2023.
As you'd expect, incredible progress for Paris. The Berlin numbers seem slightly fanciful. Data from each city's own surveys, which presumably differ quite a bit.
From this cool paper: doi.org/10.1080/1556...
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 ⬇️
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...
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. c.m.muellerleile@swansea.ac.uk
Initial deadline is May 1, 2026.
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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.
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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. c.m.muellerleile@swansea.ac.uk
Initial deadline is May 1, 2026.
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I’ve got a book coming out! Check out the introduction online now!
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.
Eddington was a documentary
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
Due to Trump & Vance
‘Unusually Steep’ Decline in U.S. University Autonomy, Index Shows
Drop in institutional autonomy of 50 percent since 2015 means country is now only rated as “moderate” by experts.
And this one will align with questions about the nexus of big tech--big finance with the U.S. state at the fore: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Terrific Stefan. I look forward to reading it! This paper may fit well with your review:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
The @federalreserve.gov just granted a crypto company—Kraken—access to its public payment services for the first time.
More evidence that crypto’s success is not as an *alternative* to the existing financial system but to capture the existing payment infrastructure.
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
Agreed. @biblioracle.bsky.social is really good on this. I've used his work recently in developing a Freshman class on writing in human geography in the wake of 'AI'.
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
“Credit derivatives tied to single companies didn’t 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 sector”
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.
Ha! It's certainly good for the financial sector!
If you send me an email, I will reply with the article. c.m.muellerleile@swansea.ac.uk
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...
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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MAGA
“In blue-collar industries—such as manufacturing, construction, logging and mining, transportation and warehousing, and utilities—a cumulative total of nearly 166,000 jobs were lost from February 2025 to January 2026.” www.americanprogress.org/article/work...
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
What a vision of the future. All else aside, does anyone who doesn't directly profit from it, actually want this?
