Fulya Apaydin
@fa190.bsky.social
Associate Prof. | Political economy, industrial policy, finance and development | PI: Governing Private Debt | Writing a book on Space policy for Verso Books 🚀 🛰
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🚨 The political economy of finance summer school is back, 3rd year running! Better still: We're bringing it to London via @lse-ei.bsky.social.
𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy
𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026
𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below.
We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!
𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy
𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026
𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below.
We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!
February 4, 2026 at 3:27 PM
🚨 The political economy of finance summer school is back, 3rd year running! Better still: We're bringing it to London via @lse-ei.bsky.social.
𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy
𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026
𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below.
We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!
𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy
𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026
𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below.
We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!
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Useful. From Alex Dryden @soasuni.bsky.social via @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Who really holds all the financial cards: Trump or bond market?
If international investors become less willing to hold US government bonds, the cost of financing America's government debt would increase
www.rte.ie
February 3, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Useful. From Alex Dryden @soasuni.bsky.social via @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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I had to stop reading for a bit when I got here because I started to cry.
Alex Pretti seems to have grown up to be everything his parents could have hoped he would be. And then they killed him literally because he was good and decent, brave and righteous.
Alex Pretti seems to have grown up to be everything his parents could have hoped he would be. And then they killed him literally because he was good and decent, brave and righteous.
January 28, 2026 at 12:44 PM
I had to stop reading for a bit when I got here because I started to cry.
Alex Pretti seems to have grown up to be everything his parents could have hoped he would be. And then they killed him literally because he was good and decent, brave and righteous.
Alex Pretti seems to have grown up to be everything his parents could have hoped he would be. And then they killed him literally because he was good and decent, brave and righteous.
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SpaceX's Starlink dodged 300,000 collisions in 2025.
That's nearly 40 maneuvers per satellite, and it's rising fast – possibly hitting 1 million maneuvers in 2027.
"If they make a mistake, we’re in really big trouble.”
Story by me in @newscientist.com
www.newscientist.com/article/2512...
That's nearly 40 maneuvers per satellite, and it's rising fast – possibly hitting 1 million maneuvers in 2027.
"If they make a mistake, we’re in really big trouble.”
Story by me in @newscientist.com
www.newscientist.com/article/2512...
SpaceX’s Starlink dodged 300,000 satellite collisions in 2025
The company’s mega-constellation is having to perform a huge number of manoeuvres to prevent a collision in Earth orbit
www.newscientist.com
January 23, 2026 at 10:36 AM
SpaceX's Starlink dodged 300,000 collisions in 2025.
That's nearly 40 maneuvers per satellite, and it's rising fast – possibly hitting 1 million maneuvers in 2027.
"If they make a mistake, we’re in really big trouble.”
Story by me in @newscientist.com
www.newscientist.com/article/2512...
That's nearly 40 maneuvers per satellite, and it's rising fast – possibly hitting 1 million maneuvers in 2027.
"If they make a mistake, we’re in really big trouble.”
Story by me in @newscientist.com
www.newscientist.com/article/2512...
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while the richest person on the planet cannot shut up about satellites, we mere mortals (w. @joschabels.bsky.social) are left to study the pesky cables here down on earth in the mud (or rather on the seabed).
Check what we found out in our new open access paper in Globalizations: lnkd.in/ep4q94XK
Check what we found out in our new open access paper in Globalizations: lnkd.in/ep4q94XK
January 23, 2026 at 10:10 AM
while the richest person on the planet cannot shut up about satellites, we mere mortals (w. @joschabels.bsky.social) are left to study the pesky cables here down on earth in the mud (or rather on the seabed).
Check what we found out in our new open access paper in Globalizations: lnkd.in/ep4q94XK
Check what we found out in our new open access paper in Globalizations: lnkd.in/ep4q94XK
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We are deeply saddened by the sudden passing of our colleague Matthias Koenig (1971–2026), Professor of Sociology at Heidelberg University.
Matthias was at the forefront of comparative research on diversity governance, and his empirical and theoretical contributions were widely recognized... 1/2
Matthias was at the forefront of comparative research on diversity governance, and his empirical and theoretical contributions were widely recognized... 1/2
January 23, 2026 at 9:23 AM
We are deeply saddened by the sudden passing of our colleague Matthias Koenig (1971–2026), Professor of Sociology at Heidelberg University.
Matthias was at the forefront of comparative research on diversity governance, and his empirical and theoretical contributions were widely recognized... 1/2
Matthias was at the forefront of comparative research on diversity governance, and his empirical and theoretical contributions were widely recognized... 1/2
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‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials
Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:43 AM
‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Trump explicitly says we are not interested in Greenland's rare earth materials. So what is he after? 1) Oil, and 2) Trade routes. For oil, see www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
Here’s why Greenland is wanted so much, according to a geologist
The island’s concentration of natural resource wealth is tied to its hugely varied geological history over four billion years
www.independent.co.uk
January 21, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Trump explicitly says we are not interested in Greenland's rare earth materials. So what is he after? 1) Oil, and 2) Trade routes. For oil, see www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
Here we go... www.dw.com/en/ryanair-e...
Elon Musk mulls buying Ryanair amid spat with airline boss
Elon Musk has asked his followers on X if he should buy Ryanair after a spat with the European budget airline's outspoken CEO Michael O'Leary.
www.dw.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Here we go... www.dw.com/en/ryanair-e...
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AkademikerPension announced it will sell its U.S. Treasuries, worth $100 million. Do Danish pension funds sit on a giant pile of Treasuries that they could dump?
Sorry to inform you: no. In fact, they've been selling U.S. bonds for years: $3.2bn in Jan 2023; down to $890mn in Jan 2026. 1/2
Sorry to inform you: no. In fact, they've been selling U.S. bonds for years: $3.2bn in Jan 2023; down to $890mn in Jan 2026. 1/2
January 21, 2026 at 9:58 AM
AkademikerPension announced it will sell its U.S. Treasuries, worth $100 million. Do Danish pension funds sit on a giant pile of Treasuries that they could dump?
Sorry to inform you: no. In fact, they've been selling U.S. bonds for years: $3.2bn in Jan 2023; down to $890mn in Jan 2026. 1/2
Sorry to inform you: no. In fact, they've been selling U.S. bonds for years: $3.2bn in Jan 2023; down to $890mn in Jan 2026. 1/2
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Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
January 20, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
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Translating Davos speak www.ft.com/content/ab4f...
January 20, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Translating Davos speak www.ft.com/content/ab4f...
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I'm with the FT's Katie Martin and Pimco on this.
January 20, 2026 at 5:36 PM
I'm with the FT's Katie Martin and Pimco on this.
The first sentence will be the Davos 2026 summary when people write about it in the future.
Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
January 20, 2026 at 5:11 PM
The first sentence will be the Davos 2026 summary when people write about it in the future.
Oh, the times...
waking up to the Belgian PM quoting Gramsci at Davos re: Trump www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
January 20, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Oh, the times...
Well, Rosa Luxemburg warned everyone a long time ago with "socialism or barbarism" and here we are, yet again: www.ft.com/content/dede...
America’s barbarian turn
No ideological code can fully capture Trump’s actions
www.ft.com
January 20, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Well, Rosa Luxemburg warned everyone a long time ago with "socialism or barbarism" and here we are, yet again: www.ft.com/content/dede...
Macron already in mourning mode for the Atlantic order: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
January 20, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Macron already in mourning mode for the Atlantic order: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Also see: www.ft.com/content/beea...
January 20, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Also see: www.ft.com/content/beea...
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This is an interesting exercise. But we should be clear that if the Fed wants yields on a particular tenor of Treasuries to be some value, that value is what the yield will be. Sales by the ECB or PBOC will have no effect whatsoever.
Financial war in response to trade war and territorial threats? More and more people appear to be calling for it. So I updated my post on U.S. Treasuries holdings—now with the latest data.
benjaminbraun.org/posts/treasu...
benjaminbraun.org/posts/treasu...
January 20, 2026 at 5:30 AM
This is an interesting exercise. But we should be clear that if the Fed wants yields on a particular tenor of Treasuries to be some value, that value is what the yield will be. Sales by the ECB or PBOC will have no effect whatsoever.
This is quite hilarious.
The Trump administration's main venue in Davos issued a warning after billionaires were duped into buying fraudulent tickets supposedly offering VIP access packages. Read more: bloom.bg/49FYxaV
📷️: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
📷️: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
January 20, 2026 at 9:53 AM
This is quite hilarious.
This coming crisis was already predicted by Giovanni Arrighi, Jason W. Moore and Richard Lachmann--first names that come to mind among many in the WST tradition. But when Kagan writes about it, it makes it into the headlines and everybody gets excited. Sigh.
This is what historian Robert Kagan on what it means for the world.
We’re responding to this crisis as if it’s just another crisis. It’s not. This is it. It’s the political crisis of our lifetimes. And how we respond in the US & UK & Europe is critical.
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We’re responding to this crisis as if it’s just another crisis. It’s not. This is it. It’s the political crisis of our lifetimes. And how we respond in the US & UK & Europe is critical.
4/
January 20, 2026 at 9:43 AM
This coming crisis was already predicted by Giovanni Arrighi, Jason W. Moore and Richard Lachmann--first names that come to mind among many in the WST tradition. But when Kagan writes about it, it makes it into the headlines and everybody gets excited. Sigh.
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c) can Europe afford the fallout from weaponised firesales?
this is by far the hardest question for two reasons:
1. Open equity Euroarea funds w cross currency vulnerabilities
3. European banks w USD funding vulnerabilities
this is by far the hardest question for two reasons:
1. Open equity Euroarea funds w cross currency vulnerabilities
3. European banks w USD funding vulnerabilities
January 19, 2026 at 4:42 PM
c) can Europe afford the fallout from weaponised firesales?
this is by far the hardest question for two reasons:
1. Open equity Euroarea funds w cross currency vulnerabilities
3. European banks w USD funding vulnerabilities
this is by far the hardest question for two reasons:
1. Open equity Euroarea funds w cross currency vulnerabilities
3. European banks w USD funding vulnerabilities
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MUST READ thread before Monday night's forecasted G4 / SEVERE geomagnetic storm. Auroras could be seen as far south as the U.S.-Mexico border at times. Widespread mid-latitude displays are possible. Here's what you need to know to have a successful aurora chase tonight! 🧵
#heliophysics #aurora
#heliophysics #aurora
January 19, 2026 at 6:30 PM
MUST READ thread before Monday night's forecasted G4 / SEVERE geomagnetic storm. Auroras could be seen as far south as the U.S.-Mexico border at times. Widespread mid-latitude displays are possible. Here's what you need to know to have a successful aurora chase tonight! 🧵
#heliophysics #aurora
#heliophysics #aurora