Private credit gets the once-over Do you want the bad news or the bad news?

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Six lessons from history’s greatest financial crises The Babylonians had debt defaults. The S&L scandal led to 2008. What else does the past tell us?

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What we need to know from Kevin Warsh After a period of silence, Donald Trump’s nominee for Fed chair gives evidence

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US stablecoins pose danger to emerging markets, say central bankers Growth of dollar-pegged crypto assets under Donald Trump risks accelerating dollarisation and enabling criminal misuse

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The financialisation debate: From transdisciplinary research program to disciplinary recognition and fragmentation - Engelbert Stockhammer, 2026 The paper discusses the historical development of the debate on financialization supported by bibliometric analysis. There are several origins of the concept of...

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Why higher pay hasn’t made young adults feel richer The aspiration gap has turned everyone into losers, especially graduates

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The Iran war will damage the petrodollar Grand bargain that has underpinned US Treasury demand since 1974 is coming undone

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Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Iran war creates an emerging economy emergency Poorer countries are finding themselves at sharp end of fuel shortages

SSA and small island states to be hardest hit by US-Israeli attacks on Iran www.ft.com/content/32fa...

We are stuck in a currency doom loop Without the dollar, bad situations could be made even worse

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Letter: Why is it consultancies don’t preach what they practise? - www.ft.com/content/7b3b...

Tax the child killers out of existence www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Nearby Russell Group uni says UWE prof... hmmm...

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‘Excessive’ financial risks threaten survival of many English universities, report warns High levels of borrowing and rapid expansion among dangers identified by Higher Education Policy Institute

‘Excessive’ financial risks threaten survival of many English universities, report warns www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Half a century of sovereign debt blow-ups None compare to the OG sovereign default

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A peek into who owes what and to whom Striking a chord

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Our euro, your solution Reducing the world’s dependency on the dollar is in the interest of every country that buys energy, issues debt or trades

Rarely started this explicitly - the real reason for the euro www.ft.com/content/84af... via @FT

The Fed is vacillating as the war continues - www.ft.com/content/4763... via @FT

A third inflationary shock in less than a decade is coming: who will pay the price this time around? | Aditya Chakrabortty Brutal past experience has taught us that a cost of living crisis doesn’t affect us all the same, because we don’t all go into it with the same income or wealth, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrab...

A third inflationary shock in less than a decade is coming: who will pay the price this time around? | Aditya Chakrabortty www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Stephen Lewis, Canadian politician and social activist, dies aged 88 Lewis was the father of Avi Lewis, who was elected leader of the progressive New Democratic party one day before his father died

A good canadian ... rest in power
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Meteorologists (incl @wmo-global.bsky.social), scientists and media seem to have found consensus on the fact that both Ocean Heat Content and NASA CERES satellite data show more than a doubling in global heat uptake.

Those who've been downplaying this for years have been rather quiet the past week.

At what gold price does Tether’s USDT become balance-sheet insolvent? A bunch of liabilities, balanced on bullion and bitcoin

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Scott Bessent discussed ways to recast ties between Federal Reserve and Treasury in Bank of England’s image Conversations come at time when Donald Trump has launched assault on US central bank

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War, Inflation and Austerity, or, Here we Go Again Louis-Philippe Rochon Full Professor, Laurentian University Editor-in-Chief, Review of Political Economy Editor-in-Chief, Challenge…

War, Inflation and Austerity, or, Here we Go Again by @MonetaryBlog medium.com/p/war-inflat...

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Shareholders as the main beneficiaries of globalized production: Corporate financialization and value capture along global value chains, by Maile & Staritz journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Retail investors aren’t crazy for Farage and Kwarteng’s bitcoin business Unpopular

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Could Capitalism Have Thrived Without Colonialism? - Monthly Review

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How Should Monetary Policy Respond to the Energy Price Shock - NIESR What should monetary policy do in response to the sharp rise in oil and gas prices due to the war in Iran? This blog suggests that 2022 offers five lessons.

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Economists have caught the AI bug It’s expanding the scope of research but challenging the profession’s process of weeding out mistakes

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