Jan Fichtner
@janfichtner.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow SuFi Project @UniWH & @UvACorpnet | Global finance, age of passive investing, index providers, ESG, sustainable finance, greenwashing, decarbonization | www.jfichtner.net
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🚨New publication with Kristijan Kotarski:
Enduring Structural Power? Assessing the Dominance of the Anglosphere in Global Finance Before the Trump Turn
Includes novel visualizations of global finance (banking, portfolio inv & FDI) showing persistent US centrality
hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/487488
Enduring Structural Power? Assessing the Dominance of the Anglosphere in Global Finance Before the Trump Turn
Includes novel visualizations of global finance (banking, portfolio inv & FDI) showing persistent US centrality
hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/487488
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"Oil demand and emissions in the transport sector fell by 5% in the third quarter, but grew elsewhere by 10%, as the production of plastics and other chemicals surged."
#China is cutting oil demand in transport. Has that ever happened in Western countries?
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
#China is cutting oil demand in transport. Has that ever happened in Western countries?
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were unchanged from a year earlier in the third quarter of 2025, extending a flat or falling trend that started in March 2024.
www.carbonbrief.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:42 AM
"Oil demand and emissions in the transport sector fell by 5% in the third quarter, but grew elsewhere by 10%, as the production of plastics and other chemicals surged."
#China is cutting oil demand in transport. Has that ever happened in Western countries?
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
#China is cutting oil demand in transport. Has that ever happened in Western countries?
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
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Not sure where this institutionally biased left-wing BBC was hiding during the Brexit and Corbyn years
November 11, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Not sure where this institutionally biased left-wing BBC was hiding during the Brexit and Corbyn years
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"Fossil demand has been flat for industrial energy since 2014, for buildings since 2018, for road transport since 2019, & may peak for electricity this year. 2/3 of countries have already seen peak fossil demand in end-use sectors, & half the world has seen a peak in fossil fuels for electricity."
The Electrotech Revolution | Ember
The annual slidedeck from Kingsmill Bond and the Ember Futures team unpacks how electrotech is rewriting the economics and geopolitics of energy.
ember-energy.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:02 AM
"Fossil demand has been flat for industrial energy since 2014, for buildings since 2018, for road transport since 2019, & may peak for electricity this year. 2/3 of countries have already seen peak fossil demand in end-use sectors, & half the world has seen a peak in fossil fuels for electricity."
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How to make sense of China’s rise? For Phenomenal World I wrote something on its changing role in global finance.
China is not building a dollar-style empire of sprawling markets and speculative finance but something leaner, more functional & tightly managed.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-s...
China is not building a dollar-style empire of sprawling markets and speculative finance but something leaner, more functional & tightly managed.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-s...
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 AM
How to make sense of China’s rise? For Phenomenal World I wrote something on its changing role in global finance.
China is not building a dollar-style empire of sprawling markets and speculative finance but something leaner, more functional & tightly managed.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-s...
China is not building a dollar-style empire of sprawling markets and speculative finance but something leaner, more functional & tightly managed.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-s...
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Just imagining the media on Earth 2 on a day when President Harris's aides are fighting to withhold food stamps and raise healthcare prices for tens of millions of Americans while she hosts a former affiliate of al-Qaeda and ISIS in the Oval Office
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Just imagining the media on Earth 2 on a day when President Harris's aides are fighting to withhold food stamps and raise healthcare prices for tens of millions of Americans while she hosts a former affiliate of al-Qaeda and ISIS in the Oval Office
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World's biggest isolated grid hits new peak of 89 per cent renewables, led by rooftop solar reneweconomy.com.au/worlds-bigge...
reneweconomy.com.au
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
World's biggest isolated grid hits new peak of 89 per cent renewables, led by rooftop solar reneweconomy.com.au/worlds-bigge...
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Here’s the same data, but with trust broken down by political views (circles are trust among people on the left, +s the right).
It’s not just that the BBC is widely consumed — it also has solid trust on both left & right, whereas trust in the biggest US media brands is hugely polarised.
It’s not just that the BBC is widely consumed — it also has solid trust on both left & right, whereas trust in the biggest US media brands is hugely polarised.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Here’s the same data, but with trust broken down by political views (circles are trust among people on the left, +s the right).
It’s not just that the BBC is widely consumed — it also has solid trust on both left & right, whereas trust in the biggest US media brands is hugely polarised.
It’s not just that the BBC is widely consumed — it also has solid trust on both left & right, whereas trust in the biggest US media brands is hugely polarised.
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One nice detail that can easily be lost in this graph - even right wingers trust the BBC more than the right wing tabloids
Here’s the same data, but with trust broken down by political views (circles are trust among people on the left, +s the right).
It’s not just that the BBC is widely consumed — it also has solid trust on both left & right, whereas trust in the biggest US media brands is hugely polarised.
It’s not just that the BBC is widely consumed — it also has solid trust on both left & right, whereas trust in the biggest US media brands is hugely polarised.
November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
One nice detail that can easily be lost in this graph - even right wingers trust the BBC more than the right wing tabloids
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Claims of felling 250 year-old trees + shipping them thousands of miles to burn in a power station, releasing fine particulate pollution linked to breathing + heart conditions.
Perhaps, instead of subsidising this, our tax money could go to treating people with those conditions?
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Perhaps, instead of subsidising this, our tax money could go to treating people with those conditions?
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Official data from government of British Columbia, along with satellite monitoring, backs claims that a Canadian subsidiary owned by Drax sourced 250-year-old trees to manufacture biomass pellets as recently as this year
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Claims of felling 250 year-old trees + shipping them thousands of miles to burn in a power station, releasing fine particulate pollution linked to breathing + heart conditions.
Perhaps, instead of subsidising this, our tax money could go to treating people with those conditions?
🧵 1/2
Perhaps, instead of subsidising this, our tax money could go to treating people with those conditions?
🧵 1/2
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I should write the argument up properly somewhere, but I think this is fundamentally wrong. A decisive fraction of the capitalist class does oppose addressing the climate crisis, but *not* because it would be bad for profits. If anything, a green New Deal type program would raise aggregate profits.
Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I should write the argument up properly somewhere, but I think this is fundamentally wrong. A decisive fraction of the capitalist class does oppose addressing the climate crisis, but *not* because it would be bad for profits. If anything, a green New Deal type program would raise aggregate profits.
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The Post (me and @kcrowebasspro.bsky.social) analyzed the social media posts and appearances of prominent politicians across the country.
We found that no one is talking about climate change anymore. In 2025, mentions are 60% lower than in 2024.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
We found that no one is talking about climate change anymore. In 2025, mentions are 60% lower than in 2024.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The Post (me and @kcrowebasspro.bsky.social) analyzed the social media posts and appearances of prominent politicians across the country.
We found that no one is talking about climate change anymore. In 2025, mentions are 60% lower than in 2024.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
We found that no one is talking about climate change anymore. In 2025, mentions are 60% lower than in 2024.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Hier nachgelegt ein ausführlicher Thread zur Dekonstruktion dieses "Beitrages" von Blome. Man sollte es nicht einfach nut als ein harmloses Pamphlet sehen, sondern als Teil einer neoliberalen Kampagnenarbeit, die der AfD und ähnlichen politischen Strömungen sehr gefallen dürfte /1 🧵
Eine Gesellschaft, die sich ernst nimmt, sollte diese menschenfeindliche Propaganda eines Nikolaus Blome nicht zulassen. Das ist gespickt voller Verachtung, Spaltungsabsichten und Falschbehauptungen, die die Leserschaft des Spiegels wohl zur "wohltemperierten Grausamkeit" weiter lenken soll.
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Hier nachgelegt ein ausführlicher Thread zur Dekonstruktion dieses "Beitrages" von Blome. Man sollte es nicht einfach nut als ein harmloses Pamphlet sehen, sondern als Teil einer neoliberalen Kampagnenarbeit, die der AfD und ähnlichen politischen Strömungen sehr gefallen dürfte /1 🧵
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
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Tipping point.
TAPPER: Do you have any numerical idea of how many Americans will not be able to be with their families for Thanksgiving because of this?
DUFFY: I think the number is going to be substantial
DUFFY: I think the number is going to be substantial
November 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Tipping point.
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77 million American voters:
November 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
77 million American voters:
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9-10 November 1938 | The November Pogrom – a pogrom against the Jews throughout Nazi Germany. Hundreds were killed (or died by suicide), 30,000 men arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps, over 1,000 synagogues burnt, over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged.
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
9-10 November 1938 | The November Pogrom – a pogrom against the Jews throughout Nazi Germany. Hundreds were killed (or died by suicide), 30,000 men arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps, over 1,000 synagogues burnt, over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged.
Large heat batteries that convert electricity (by renewables) to 1200 °C hot stones are a thing! We have fantastic decarbonization technologies.
www.ingenieur.de/technik/fach...
www.ingenieur.de/technik/fach...
Heißer als Lava: Heineken speichert Sonnenenergie bei 1200 °C
Heineken braut bald mit Sonnenlicht: Eine Wärmebatterie speichert Strom in 1.000 °C heißen Steinen und liefert Dampf für den Brauprozess.
www.ingenieur.de
November 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Large heat batteries that convert electricity (by renewables) to 1200 °C hot stones are a thing! We have fantastic decarbonization technologies.
www.ingenieur.de/technik/fach...
www.ingenieur.de/technik/fach...
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Well put.
Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
November 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Well put.
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🚨New publication with Kristijan Kotarski:
Enduring Structural Power? Assessing the Dominance of the Anglosphere in Global Finance Before the Trump Turn
Includes novel visualizations of global finance (banking, portfolio inv & FDI) showing persistent US centrality
hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/487488
Enduring Structural Power? Assessing the Dominance of the Anglosphere in Global Finance Before the Trump Turn
Includes novel visualizations of global finance (banking, portfolio inv & FDI) showing persistent US centrality
hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/487488
October 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🚨New publication with Kristijan Kotarski:
Enduring Structural Power? Assessing the Dominance of the Anglosphere in Global Finance Before the Trump Turn
Includes novel visualizations of global finance (banking, portfolio inv & FDI) showing persistent US centrality
hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/487488
Enduring Structural Power? Assessing the Dominance of the Anglosphere in Global Finance Before the Trump Turn
Includes novel visualizations of global finance (banking, portfolio inv & FDI) showing persistent US centrality
hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/487488
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Die Welt scheint vor enormen, unlösbaren Herausforderungen zu stehen. Aber: Lösungsideen gibt es genügend – vor allem in der Industrie, schreibt Harvard-Professor Dani Rodrik.
Klimakrise, Wirtschaftsflaute und Armut: Es gibt Lösungen
Die Welt scheint vor enormen, unlösbaren Herausforderungen zu stehen. Aber: Lösungsideen gibt es genügend – vor allem in der Industrie.
www.surplusmagazin.de
November 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Die Welt scheint vor enormen, unlösbaren Herausforderungen zu stehen. Aber: Lösungsideen gibt es genügend – vor allem in der Industrie, schreibt Harvard-Professor Dani Rodrik.
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By this logic, China should have problems in renewable uptake...oh wait...
Exxon to ‘pace’ low-carbon spending blaming weak demand and bad policies on.ft.com/4oSNReY
Exxon to ‘pace’ low-carbon spending blaming weak demand and bad policies
CEO Darren Woods says rules reminiscent of ‘centrally planned economies’ have failed to support green products
on.ft.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:13 AM
By this logic, China should have problems in renewable uptake...oh wait...
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«The biggest lesson of the past two decades of Silicon Valley is that Meta, Amazon, and Google … have remade our world and have become unfathomably rich for it, all while being mostly oblivious or uninterested in the fallout. They have chased growth and scale at all costs …»
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
www.theatlantic.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
«The biggest lesson of the past two decades of Silicon Valley is that Meta, Amazon, and Google … have remade our world and have become unfathomably rich for it, all while being mostly oblivious or uninterested in the fallout. They have chased growth and scale at all costs …»
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The same guy who "doesn’t want to hear about affordability" posted about his new marble bathroom 7 times last week.
November 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The same guy who "doesn’t want to hear about affordability" posted about his new marble bathroom 7 times last week.