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Verena Gradinger

@averenasour.bsky.social
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🌚 26. She/her. 📌 Somewhere between Vienna and London. 📔 Political Economist in the making @SOAS University of London Critical Macrofinance by day. Ecological Marxism by night.

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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
whats that? A response paper written by.... a human?
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The UK bond market is just Polymarket for men in suits
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SPARC @wearesparc.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
"Globalisation, far from producing peaceful economic competition and state cooperation, has given birth to new and virulent forms of imperialism... resting on the organisation of production across borders and the command of money and finance." #imperialism #capitalism wearesparc.org/balancesheet...
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Imperialism Today: Production, Money and Power in a Fragmenting World -
Costas Lapavitsas SOAS Imperialist ascendancy The intensification of imperialism during the last two decades, with the USA in the lead, is beyond dispute.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
As put by JP Morgan: "In bear markets, stocks return to their rightful owners" ie Only those w privileged access to credit & high quality collateral survive. With each financial crisis since 1980s there has been wave of consolidation across all industries, inc housing assets bsky.app/profile/70sb...
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Iñaki Aldasoro @aldasoro.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Shorter @katie0martin.ft.com today bsky.app/profile/alda...
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Let's fucking go
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
We have extended the CfP until next week, April 17th If you considered applying and haven't done so this far, this is your chance!
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
We are hosting a workshop on methodology, bringing together both qualitative and quantitative methods on balance sheets and money hierarchy. 12-13 June at FU. Applications to verena.gradinger@globalclimateforum.org
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I am teaching in 1 hour and my slides are not done wish me luck lol
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Put down social media. Text your 5 best friends/group chats of choice that article you have been reading and get angry of them for not putting down everything and sending you an adequate response within 30 minutes.
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Private credit people going to work on a random Tuesday
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a man and a woman are walking through a clear bubble on a sidewalk with a no parking sign in the background
ALT: a man and a woman are walking through a clear bubble on a sidewalk with a no parking sign in the background
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I love a good "see this problem is not new my dear pk friends" quote, especially when it concerns the role of the state and financial markets
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Currently closely monitoring the gold price based on the line outside of the goldsmith's next to my therapist's office
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Me teaching dialectical materialism to the kids
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
If you're only going to read one paper about the Eurocrisis in your entire life, it should be this one. The devil's in the details, but what makes this paper so strong is that it once and for all disproves the way many economists and politicians alike talk about the Eurocrisis
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Our website is refurbished, our datasets are online, and you can now see what we've been up to in applying Monetary Architecture to explain financial cycles and balance sheet expansion & contraction. Very excited to have this out and looking forward to the many more things to come!
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Steffen Murau @steffenmurau.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
📣 News from the OBFA-TRANSFORM project 📣 Our Emmy Noether research group is fast approaching its halfway point and we’ve recently received confirmation of funding from @dfg.de for the second project period from 2026 to 2029 🎊 That's why we are launching our new website at obfa-transform.eu
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
POV: the deadline for the PhD proposal is in 52 hours and you are starting to question all your life decisions
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Me
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SAPE (Series in Advanced Political Economy) @sapetalks.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
SAPE 2 Imperialism: Economics of Re-armament and Militarism with Costas Lapavitsas and Clara Mattei, chaired by Hanin Khawaja is on 📍Wednesday 29 October 6-8pm UK time📍. Supported by @gftuet.org.uk Please find the discussion topics below. Sign up to receive Zoom link: bit.ly/47u3rZb
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Join us at this year's Historical Materialism Conference - to discuss pressing issues such as rising authoritarianism and climate breakdown, the new age of Imperialism and the social foundations of AI. If you're lucky you might even get to fight some cultural Marxists after a few drinks ;)
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Thank you so much for organising this! Not only were the presentations amazing, but also very helpful in finding inspiration for my PhD proposal. Plus I am now convinced that Leeds has by far one of the coolest PhD cohorts in the field of Economics
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Iván Weigandi @iweigandi.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
On Tuesday, we hosted a workshop on Global Banking and Global Stability (one of my favorite topics and the focus of my PhD) at the University of Leeds with many of my favorite researchers in the field. Porque los gustos hay que dárselos en vida (y antes que se termine el doctorado).
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
This is quite frankly so much worse than I imagined... Former Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz: ‘I will remain someone with a political opinion’ - on.ft.com/47mmHWV via @FT
on.ft.com
Former Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz: ‘I will remain someone with a political opinion’
The politician-turned-entrepreneur on his cyber security start-up, why Europe risks missing out on AI innovation — and his dealings with Peter Thiel
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Every day I wake up and wonder if there will be any "safe assets" left to analyse by the time I start my PhD
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Person on the train is currently setting up her lecture on "The Philosophy of Monsters" using ChatGPT and I don't think she realises the irony nor the potential she is missing out on making this her case study
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
A first taste test has given promising results!
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Emil Huth @emilhth.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
our macro-finance share house is reaching unprecedented levels of nerdiness: lets see what FT coffee tastes like @averenasour.bsky.social
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
My days are a constant back and forth between feeling like a genius and not understanding what money is... #thesislife
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
"Crypto is not a Ponzi scheme" Meanwhile crypto in the UK:
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Them: so what exactly are you studying? Me:
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
I have so many questions...
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Making it to the 9 am session after yesterday's conference dinner and the drinks and discussions that followed was hard, but so worth it @hetecon.bsky.social
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
You need to stop talking shit about Piketty discovering dependency theory. Step up your game. Be honest. "Piketty's PhD students discovered dependency theory"
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
My favourite part about constantly waking up late is that everyone else has already read the most important new FT articles and summarised them for me on this app 🤝
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Macro girls on the rise like the price level during the green transformation 🔥📈
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Friederike Reimer @rikereimer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
ohh these football fans are not so *peaceful*?? guess what isn't either (inflation)
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I am deeply disturbed by the fact that the Bank of England uses EXCEL GRAPHS in official policy papers...
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
We too want imperialism to be the foundation of our economic strength!
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pcrritesgood.bsky.social @pcrritesgood.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
"trump can fire everyone he wants but not the Federal Reserve Chair because that will crash our stock portfolios" - Alito, Thomas, Roberts, et al.
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
What this looks like in my head:
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I am afraid I can not keep this a secret from you. You should be aware that this what SOAS student group chats during exam season look like. @anninak.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social @bbonizzi.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I have my first exam at @soasuni.bsky.social tomorrow and every single reading is a banger. I have never been this excited to be an economist. I am so incredibly grateful for being able to study at a department where almost all of my idols were shaped and continue to shape students like me.
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Today I learned that the stock market is closed on Labour Day but I have to go to university
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Lukas Slothuus @lslothuus.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The world's most powerful insurance companies warn the climate crisis is on track to destroy capitalism. Here's Günther Thallinger who's a board member of Allianz: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Paul @paulstichler.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Research seminar on Money and Payments: Evolution or Revolution? with Jörg Bibow next week at @hertieschool.bsky.social in cooperation with Global Climate Forum. Organized by @steffenmurau.bsky.social and Monica DiLeo. Registration (optional): globalclimateforum.org/2025/04/01/money-and-payments/
https://globalclimateforum.org/2025/04/01/money-and-payments/
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Tried solving a Contingent Renewal Model with DeepSeek. It is trapped in a loop of arguing that the equations don't make any sense... I think this is the most beautiful representation of what it feels like to be a leftist doing mainstream micro I have ever encountered
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
"...that’s the gist of his plan: to effect in 2025 a decisive anti-Nixon Shock — a global shock that cancels out the work of his predecessor by terminating the Bretton Woods system in 1971 which spearheaded the era of financialisation." via @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social unherd.com/2025/02/why-...
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
There's never been a better time to start nerding out on concepts of monetary hierarchies and world money. Nothing more scary yet strangely exciting than to see the Jenga tower slowly getting more wobbly - so who will put in the stabilising block?
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Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The world has surrendered to climate breakdown. Partly because capital refuses to let go of profit opportunities in the fossil fuel sector. I believe that we will be talking about "stranded assets" a lot more in the future, but the stranding will be by disaster, not design.
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