Andrew Leyshon

@andrewleyshon.bsky.social

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Economic Geographer. Co-author, The Rise of the Platform Music Industries (Agenda, 2025) with @allanwatson1.bsky.social & FinTech Capital (Zone, 2026) with @paullangley.bsky.social. Attended obscure Welsh Comprehensive of which even Elis James was unaware. .. more

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Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 27d

Coming Soon! FinTech Capital, by @paullangley.bsky.social and me, accounts for the rise and ubiquity of fintech and its global transformation of everyday financial transactions. The book is out in July in the US, and in September in the UK. Available for pre-order here: tinyurl.com/bdz2pjn5

Fintech Capital

A thorough examination of the worldwide digital transformation of people’s everyday monetary and financial relations driven by the emergence of FinTech

press.princeton.edu

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 1d

Fiji playing a 'home' match against Wales at Cardiff City Stadium is going to allow us to make a painful direct comparison with what the ground is like when Wales play football there.

The sheer contrast in vibes might be enough to kill the "rugby is Wales' national sport" myth once and for all.

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Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 1d

Come at do a PhD with Sam Hind, Riza Batista-Navarro and me! "Artificial Inequality? AI and its impact on the UK Creative Industries" Deadline 30th March www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Artificial Inequality? AI and its impact on the UK Creative Industries (CreativeAI Studentship) at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Artificial Inequality? AI and its impact on the UK Creative Industries (CreativeAI Studentship) at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 2d

This is impressive. I’ve shared it among contacts and everyone was equally impressed. One contact was so enthused he’s going to pass it directly to HMG given the policy potential.

Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 7d

As a veteran of (too) many NHS consultations & tests over the past decade or so, my pro tip would be if you are asked 'What time?', secure the day's first appointment & turn up at least 30 minutes early. Staff, anticipating subsequent delays, will likely ensure you're out before the appt time

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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 12d

if you're not following this stuff private credit sounds like its private investors' risk but in all sorts of ways through pensions mortgages and life insurance this is not private risk but public risk. what's happening is even less transparent than the run up to 2008 imvho

Infographic on Global Capex for data sources at FT link in the post

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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 12d

and another giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 12d

Speaking of which ... : giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Big Tech’s ‘breathtaking’ $660bn spending spree reignites AI bubble fears

Stocks tumble despite strong earnings reports from most Silicon Valley heavyweights

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Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 12d

The piece suggests a nightmarish dilemma. What's worse, the continuation of the AI investment bubble, but at the expense of significantly increased climate risk? Or its collapse, which might reduce climate risk, but which triggers a systemic global financial crisis given scale of investments?

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 21d

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Daniel McDowell @danielmcdowell.bsky.social · 21d

The only thing hotter than gold right now is measles.

Reposted by Andrew Leyshon, John Hogan, Paul Langley

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 21d

@paullangley.bsky.social and @andrewleyshon.bsky.social, Fintech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance - Zone, July 2026
press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...

Fintech Capital

A thorough examination of the worldwide digital transformation of people’s everyday monetary and financial relations driven by the emergence of FinTech

press.princeton.edu

Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 23d

What she actually says is, "Oh it's nothing, just about nothing,". Call me old fashioned, but I'd have followed that up to ask why? Is the nature of her contract? Does it mainly go the Jim Steinman estate? etc. Penny streams notwithstanding, 1B is still a lot.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of The Heart hits 1bn streams - but 'makes nothing'

The gravelly-voiced Welsh icon's hit is still loved by fans 43 years after its release.

www.bbc.co.uk

Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 25d

Interesting. Fears in the early 1970s that US gold reserves were at risk lead to the end of the gold window and collapse of the Bretton Woods fixed exchange rate system. A former head of research at the Bundesbank advocates a 1960s Gaullist turn in Germany.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 26d

Little wonder: "Some investors tell me they are war-gaming pretty extreme scenarios from here, including even the remote but plausible chance that Trump might one day threaten not to pay back government debt to investors or countries he does not like." www.ft.com/content/5c1a...

The Taco trade has eaten itself

Tracking the Donald Trump show has become pointless for investors in the short term

www.ft.com

Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 26d

'Flight to quality', volume 42.

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Gold heads for best week since 2008 as Greenland crisis rattles dollar

Price closes in on $5,000 per ounce and silver tops $100 as Trump’s shortlived tariffs threat sparks rush into precious metals

giftarticle.ft.com

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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 28d

Now available for pre-order and we're open for book talks to students, workshops and conferences, organisations etc.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 28d

Fascinating piece by @cedricdurand.bsky.social . A key issue here - as per Microsoft’s recent laments - is the impossibility of forcing firms to adopt a technology that demoralises them and delivers no near-term profit. The limits of financial and cultural hype. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Cédric Durand, After AI — Sidecar

Legacies of the bubble.

newleftreview.org

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FINTECH CAPITAL @fintechcapital.bsky.social · 29d

Coming soonish! Now available for pre-order press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Fintech Capital

A thorough examination of the worldwide digital transformation of people’s everyday monetary and financial relations driven by the emergence of FinTech

press.princeton.edu

Reposted by Steve Peers, Andrew Scott, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 6 more Steve Peers, Andrew Scott, Rosemary A. Joyce, Christian E. Weller, Peter Holmes, Andrew Leyshon, Jacob T. Levy, Tom Griffin, Steven H. Seggie

Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 29d

US trade secretary Howard Lutnick really not mincing his words here at Davos: "We are here to make a v clear point: globalisation has failed the West and the USA. It's a failed policy. It's what the WEF has stood for, which is, export, offshore, find the cheapest labour in the world."

Reposted by Jeremy Morris, Benjamin Braun, Andrew Leyshon , and 2 more Jeremy Morris, Benjamin Braun, Andrew Leyshon, Ben Rosamond, Rune Møller Stahl

Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 29d

Well well well. The Danes are weaponising firesales.

Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · Jan 16

Great event last night at NTU on mayoral leadership organised and chaired by Will Rossiter for the Centre for Economy, Policy and Place. Anne Green and Abi Taylor first compared UK and Japan followed by a Q&A with Claire Ward, Mayor of EMCCA, and Aki Takehisa, former Mayor of Setouchi City in Japan

Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · Dec 29

My wife and I shared a hotel lift with Phil Manzaneta the morning after we’d watched him play a Roxy Music gig at the O2. We’d bought last minute tickets, and were a long way back, and wife had no idea who he was until I identified him after we’d got out. She thought ‘he was surprisingly posh’.

Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · Dec 29

I’ve stayed with Apple/iTunes. It’s not cheap, but the ability to make smart playlists means it’s a far better user experience. And some bands even claim they get more back per stream from Apple. www.thetimes.com/culture/musi...

Spotify paid us 0.29p per stream, so we exposed its unfair model

Streamers are accused of making megastars rich at everyone else’s expense. Now the staunchly independent Los Campesinos! are laying out exactly what they earn

www.thetimes.com

Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · Dec 27

I have to that I’m pretty confident that UK physicist @briancoxtalks.bsky.social did not in fact use the word ‘math’ as a diminutive form of mathematics when addressing an audience in … *checks notes* … Redditch www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/w...

Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · Dec 15

Suggestion for a future IWWIW: the geographical anomaly of Welsh clubs playing in English leagues. As a Cardiff fan, I'd like more people to know about the reasons for their invitation, in the hope it might help reduce the tedious demands by other supporters to 'Get back to to the Welsh league'.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Dec 11

Labour has quietly gutted funding for Britain’s struggling regions – it’s an economic and political disaster | Larry Elliott

A stark new report highlights the price paid in Britain’s former industrial heartlands for this silent demolition job, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott

www.theguardian.com

Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · Dec 8

Yes, I used to take my son when he was briefly into Warhammer when he was a pre-teen. Luckily, we were local but some people would happily travel miles to get there.

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Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · Dec 7

Yet another example of what Michael Lewis has described as “an experiment in capitalism with too much money”. Searching for this kind of ‘spatial fix’ not new, as @quinnslobodian.com describes in Crack-up Capitalism.

www.ft.com/content/b127... Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities

Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities

They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?

www.ft.com

Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · Dec 2

Apart from the Truss/Kwarteng mini-budget, when in the last 50 years has a UK budget not factored in the likely response of the financial markets, given the open nature of its relatively small economy?

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Dec 2

The most misleading thing about Rachel Reeves’s budget? Who it was really for | Aditya Chakrabortty

Labour backbenchers have been cheering it as a win for the most vulnerable in socety. In fact it was aimed at the bond markets, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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