Dan Cohen
@dancohen.bsky.social
Critical urban and economic geographer studying the marketization of education and other social institutions (he/him). https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=S265d9kAAAAJ&hl=en
If there's such a thing as the Odd Lots confidence index, the latest few episodes are pointing in a worrying direction. The call is coming from inside the house at this point.
November 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
If there's such a thing as the Odd Lots confidence index, the latest few episodes are pointing in a worrying direction. The call is coming from inside the house at this point.
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Also: we often talk about the “elite culture of impunity” as a vague business of winks and nods. But worth remembering (as attested by both E. Warren and Y. Varoufakis in their memoirs) that LS likes to tell people explicitly that if they want to keep power they cannot use it on other “insiders.”
November 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Also: we often talk about the “elite culture of impunity” as a vague business of winks and nods. But worth remembering (as attested by both E. Warren and Y. Varoufakis in their memoirs) that LS likes to tell people explicitly that if they want to keep power they cannot use it on other “insiders.”
Excerpt from the Bank of Canada's rate decision. Monetary policy cannot target specific sectors.
Unless of course you are talking about the financial sector... then we've got hundreds of billions, can lend to new actors, and can 'crank it up to 11' as a BoC deputy governor put it.
Unless of course you are talking about the financial sector... then we've got hundreds of billions, can lend to new actors, and can 'crank it up to 11' as a BoC deputy governor put it.
November 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Excerpt from the Bank of Canada's rate decision. Monetary policy cannot target specific sectors.
Unless of course you are talking about the financial sector... then we've got hundreds of billions, can lend to new actors, and can 'crank it up to 11' as a BoC deputy governor put it.
Unless of course you are talking about the financial sector... then we've got hundreds of billions, can lend to new actors, and can 'crank it up to 11' as a BoC deputy governor put it.
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Besides the other ways this is silly, I’m always struck by the language of “cross-subsidization” in these contexts. The assumption is that profits are fixed (or nonexistent) so the only way for one customer to pay less is for another customer to pay more.
I’m the normie whisperer who believes that people who get belligerently drunk at sports games are getting drunk off stadium beer
November 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Besides the other ways this is silly, I’m always struck by the language of “cross-subsidization” in these contexts. The assumption is that profits are fixed (or nonexistent) so the only way for one customer to pay less is for another customer to pay more.
Damn been walking around for almost three months with a completely torn ACL, an LCL sprain, and a meniscus tear. I think this may be the end of my dreams of making the NBA.
November 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Damn been walking around for almost three months with a completely torn ACL, an LCL sprain, and a meniscus tear. I think this may be the end of my dreams of making the NBA.
I've used Larry Summers ridiculous quote that women must be dumber than men because markets are efficient as a foil to teach about the importance of Feminist approaches to the economy for a half decade. So I knew he was terrible, but just wow....
Jeffrey Epstein, dating counselor to a former university president
Also … “dint”?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Also … “dint”?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
November 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I've used Larry Summers ridiculous quote that women must be dumber than men because markets are efficient as a foil to teach about the importance of Feminist approaches to the economy for a half decade. So I knew he was terrible, but just wow....
I spend too much time on presentation slides, but I'm happy with this one about the need for financial geographers to think more about liquidity and what Martine August, @emilyrosenman.bsky.social and I call relational financial geographies (see here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...)
November 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I spend too much time on presentation slides, but I'm happy with this one about the need for financial geographers to think more about liquidity and what Martine August, @emilyrosenman.bsky.social and I call relational financial geographies (see here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...)
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Apply now — Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice, “Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis”, deadline 20 December 2025 antipodeonline.org/2025/11/13/a...
Apply now—Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice, “Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis” - Antipode Online
Toronto, Ontario, Canadathe traditional territory of the Huron Wendat, the Seneca and the Mississaugas of the Credit June 1st – 5th, 2026 The contemporary global landscape is increasingly defined by w...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Apply now — Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice, “Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis”, deadline 20 December 2025 antipodeonline.org/2025/11/13/a...
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Oh....gross
Summers, the guy I would rank #1 in terms of Obama people most responsible for slowing and weakening the response to the US foreclosure crisis. Mr. "moral hazards for thee, but not for me"
Summers, the guy I would rank #1 in terms of Obama people most responsible for slowing and weakening the response to the US foreclosure crisis. Mr. "moral hazards for thee, but not for me"
November 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Oh....gross
Summers, the guy I would rank #1 in terms of Obama people most responsible for slowing and weakening the response to the US foreclosure crisis. Mr. "moral hazards for thee, but not for me"
Summers, the guy I would rank #1 in terms of Obama people most responsible for slowing and weakening the response to the US foreclosure crisis. Mr. "moral hazards for thee, but not for me"
Working on my first comprehensive talk on the work I've been doing on the spatiality of monetary policy. Unreasonably happy with this slide on central banks (lack of) spatial imaginaries. If I have any NZ followers, I'll be giving the talk at the University of Auckland on December 5th.
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Working on my first comprehensive talk on the work I've been doing on the spatiality of monetary policy. Unreasonably happy with this slide on central banks (lack of) spatial imaginaries. If I have any NZ followers, I'll be giving the talk at the University of Auckland on December 5th.
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"Egan-Jones has just 20 or so analysts and managed to issue more than 3,600 ratings last year alone"
That's ... 0.7 ratings per analyst per working day. Good luck to all involved.
That's ... 0.7 ratings per analyst per working day. Good luck to all involved.
The new crop of rating agencies behind the private credit boom
Regulators and bankers are sounding the alarm about an explosion in privately-rated securities
www.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:18 AM
"Egan-Jones has just 20 or so analysts and managed to issue more than 3,600 ratings last year alone"
That's ... 0.7 ratings per analyst per working day. Good luck to all involved.
That's ... 0.7 ratings per analyst per working day. Good luck to all involved.
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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bro are you fucking kidding me
![quote from the Economist article which says "[study authors] are now looking at whether AI facial analysis can give lenders useful clues about a person’s propensity to repay loans. For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6ofjbklfvptnupad4lxumblw/bafkreia3yctiqd7ejumpd6novxjpiycphtfkc3bdgd573jw37faqdl7o7m@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
bro are you fucking kidding me
Canadians are being asked to make sacrifices for a budget that meets the moment. Apparently that means cutbacks to services to fund $1 billion to "support new and emerging fund managers" and to incentivize pension funds into investing in venture capital. Austerity for thee, largesse for finance.
November 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Canadians are being asked to make sacrifices for a budget that meets the moment. Apparently that means cutbacks to services to fund $1 billion to "support new and emerging fund managers" and to incentivize pension funds into investing in venture capital. Austerity for thee, largesse for finance.
The de-risking state lives!
Canada's new budget includes $2 billion for "equity investments, loan guarantees, and offtake agreements [for] critical minerals." Will be interesting the mix of uses and what equity investments entail.
@danielagabor.bsky.social
www.miningweekly.com/article/cana...
Canada's new budget includes $2 billion for "equity investments, loan guarantees, and offtake agreements [for] critical minerals." Will be interesting the mix of uses and what equity investments entail.
@danielagabor.bsky.social
www.miningweekly.com/article/cana...
Canada launches C$2bn Critical Minerals Sovereign Fund
Canada will establish a $2-billion Critical Minerals Sovereign Fund to accelerate investment in strategic mining projects and strengthen national security supply chains, Finance Minister François-Phil...
www.miningweekly.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The de-risking state lives!
Canada's new budget includes $2 billion for "equity investments, loan guarantees, and offtake agreements [for] critical minerals." Will be interesting the mix of uses and what equity investments entail.
@danielagabor.bsky.social
www.miningweekly.com/article/cana...
Canada's new budget includes $2 billion for "equity investments, loan guarantees, and offtake agreements [for] critical minerals." Will be interesting the mix of uses and what equity investments entail.
@danielagabor.bsky.social
www.miningweekly.com/article/cana...
Did not know that Zohran's dad was college roommates with former Canadian Liberal party leader Michael Ignatieff.
November 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Did not know that Zohran's dad was college roommates with former Canadian Liberal party leader Michael Ignatieff.
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good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
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On the surface, this is great. But without adequate funding for university operating budgets - a provincial responsibility - this may actually result in more program cuts, not fewer.
Globe & Mail reports “the budget is expected to include up to $1-billion to attract high-quality talent and researchers from the United States and elsewhere”
So far hospitals and universities have been going it alone….
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
@ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social
So far hospitals and universities have been going it alone….
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
@ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
On the surface, this is great. But without adequate funding for university operating budgets - a provincial responsibility - this may actually result in more program cuts, not fewer.
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This is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized. on.ft.com/47lq3dZ
November 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized. on.ft.com/47lq3dZ
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🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Players with 30+ hits in a single MLB playoff run:
Ernie Clement
That's it.
Ernie Clement
That's it.
November 2, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Players with 30+ hits in a single MLB playoff run:
Ernie Clement
That's it.
Ernie Clement
That's it.
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And if you reckon banks have moderated their behaviour post-financial crisis, get this: US loans to private equity and credit funds have jumped by 60 per cent between the fourth quarter of 2024 and the second quarter of this year. To almost half a trillion dollars.
Why I love the IMF global financial stability report ft.trib.al/X0SfWSV | opinion
Why I love the IMF global financial stability report
It’s the best publication for investors — but the latest issue makes spooky reading
ft.trib.al
October 31, 2025 at 11:08 AM
And if you reckon banks have moderated their behaviour post-financial crisis, get this: US loans to private equity and credit funds have jumped by 60 per cent between the fourth quarter of 2024 and the second quarter of this year. To almost half a trillion dollars.
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Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.
I had 9 meetings about students using Chat GPT/LLMs on their papers today.
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
October 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.
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The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
Support Jamaica
supportjamaica.gov.jm
October 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
Back home in Toronto in the same bar I watched a lot of the Raptors championship run. May have arrived ridiculously early to grab a prime seat 🤣
October 27, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Back home in Toronto in the same bar I watched a lot of the Raptors championship run. May have arrived ridiculously early to grab a prime seat 🤣