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
When combined with how much of the Canadian budget's focus on de-risking and even a dedicated fund designed to support 'emerging fund managers', we can see just how much of the imaginary of our state (led by an ex-CB governor) is captured by the financial sector
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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 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
When combined with how much of the Canadian budget's focus on de-risking and even a dedicated fund designed to support 'emerging fund managers', we can see just how much of the imaginary of our state (led by an ex-CB governor) is captured by the financial sector
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Of course I know the BoC is charged with financial stability and structurally dependent on private finance to achieve their mandate. At the same time, the imagined limits of possibility are constrained by technocratic thinking with distributional consequences.
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When central banks were asked to "do smth" about climate, the Fed sat it out, the ECB experimented then retreated but the PBOC planned green and brown money at scale. geoeconomic.substack.com/p/central-ba...
Central Banking for the End of Times
Frankfurt measured the risk, Beijing moved the money, and Washington looked away.
geoeconomic.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Of course I know the BoC is charged with financial stability and structurally dependent on private finance to achieve their mandate. At the same time, the imagined limits of possibility are constrained by technocratic thinking with distributional consequences.
bsky.app/profile/corn...
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Had to happen during my sabbatical too!
November 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Had to happen during my sabbatical too!
The Federal Government is proud to announce they've partnered with the Ontario Teacher's Pension Fund in a seed round investing in TeachAIr - a homegrown Canadian start up that replaces teachers with an AI chatbot.
November 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The Federal Government is proud to announce they've partnered with the Ontario Teacher's Pension Fund in a seed round investing in TeachAIr - a homegrown Canadian start up that replaces teachers with an AI chatbot.