Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 22/06/2026whats that? A response paper written by.... a human? 010
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 10/06/2026I will personally set up 1k bots for you to finally answer the question 😭 110
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 15/05/2026The UK bond market is just Polymarket for men in suits 010
Reposted by Verena GradingerSPARC @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...wearesparc.orgImperialism 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. 0149
Reposted by Verena GradingerAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 24/04/2026As 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... 15319
Reposted by Verena GradingerIñaki Aldasoro @aldasoro.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Shorter @katie0martin.ft.com today bsky.app/profile/alda... 218136
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 10/04/2026We have extended the CfP until next week, April 17th If you considered applying and haven't done so this far, this is your chance! 000
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 28/03/2026We hope to use this space to further questions around how and when balance sheets prove useful tools in answering research questions around financing transformations, changing international orders, new forms of money, and many more. Please reach out if you have questions! 000
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 28/03/2026We 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 130
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 26/03/2026I am teaching in 1 hour and my slides are not done wish me luck lol 010
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Put 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. 030
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Private credit people going to work on a random Tuesdaymedia.tenor.coma man and a woman are walking through a clear bubble on a sidewalk with a no parking sign in the backgroundALT: a man and a woman are walking through a clear bubble on a sidewalk with a no parking sign in the background 000
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 20/01/2026I 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 000
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Currently closely monitoring the gold price based on the line outside of the goldsmith's next to my therapist's office 010
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Me teaching dialectical materialism to the kids 010
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 05/12/2025This was never about southern European states being "irresponsible" and fiscal policy. To understand the Eurocrisis we need to understand the way balance sheets are connected and how banks in the core European banks were exposed to the US Dollar and the GFC. I highly recommend the online tool! 000
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 05/12/2025If 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 100
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Our 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! 010
Reposted by Verena GradingerSteffen 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 1157
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Can't believe you're publicly calling me out like this 😭😭 110
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Missing you in the 9:30 state theory session 👀 100
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 04/11/2025I totally agree with your point in terms of taxation though I think it really is a question of what people (feel) they get out of it and there the anglo-saxon needs based social security system does not help making people feel like they benefit from the system the way someone in central Europe would 000
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 04/11/2025My econ stats agree, my personal experience somewhat doesn't. I guess the London/rest UK divide in terms of CoL is far above average and there's also a big skewing in income distribution, which is why being "middle class" in London feels a lot worse in quality of living than rest of Europe 200
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 04/11/2025I actually think the big problem here is (the lack of) public services and how we account for it. Living in London comes with costs of e.g. public transport which would be around 3× what it costs in most EU countries. Even worse for housing, which is notoriously underrepresented in data such as CPI 110
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 31/10/2025POV: the deadline for the PhD proposal is in 52 hours and you are starting to question all your life decisions 120
Reposted by Verena GradingerSAPE (Series in Advanced Political Economy) @sapetalks.bsky.social · 28/10/2025SAPE 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 045
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Join 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 ;) 020
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Thank 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 041
Reposted by Verena GradingerIván Weigandi @iweigandi.bsky.social · 24/10/2025On 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). 042
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Definitiv. Man merkt wirklich diese Thiel Techbro Pipeline ganz hart in diesem Interview. 010
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Openly admitting you can now just buy your way out of court cases 100
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 24/10/2025This 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 @FTon.ft.comFormer 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 100
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Every day I wake up and wonder if there will be any "safe assets" left to analyse by the time I start my PhD 010
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Imagine you TEACH fucking philosophy using ChatGPT Humanity is doomed 000
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Person 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 100
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 09/10/2025A first taste test has given promising results! 000
Reposted by Verena GradingerEmil Huth @emilhth.bsky.social · 08/10/2025our macro-finance share house is reaching unprecedented levels of nerdiness: lets see what FT coffee tastes like @averenasour.bsky.social 021
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 28/08/2025My days are a constant back and forth between feeling like a genius and not understanding what money is... #thesislife 000
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 08/08/2025"Crypto is not a Ponzi scheme" Meanwhile crypto in the UK: 120
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 26/07/2025At this point your posts are becoming the main reason for me almost choking on my coffee ngl 000
Verena Gradinger @averenasour.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Them: so what exactly are you studying? Me: 020