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Scott James @drscottjames.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

UK about to overtake China and Japan in holding Treasuries…as hedge funds book their positions through London

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Scott James @drscottjames.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Trump’s carbon coalition of blue collar workers and high finance arrives in the UK 🤝

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Scott James @drscottjames.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Because obviously Britain has no history of effectual PMs governing in constructive tension with heavyweight Chancellors

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Scott James @drscottjames.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Might cheap RMB bond issuance become increasingly attractive for sovereigns?

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Scott James @drscottjames.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The offshore RMB system is about supporting China’s export growth model, not challenging the dollar 👀 open.substack.com/pub/hegemone...

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Scott James @drscottjames.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

‘Thatcher paved the way for the 2008 crisis, etc’ Fine, up to a point. Except the UK crash was always more a post-1997 story

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Scott James @drscottjames.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Really-existing bond vigilantism is gilt traders trying to second guess how policy makers will second guess the second guesses of gilt traders.

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Scott James @drscottjames.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Critical macro folks know how to party adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

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Scott James @drscottjames.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Interlocking determinants of dollar dominance 🧐 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Scott James @drscottjames.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The future of dollar dominance, a network theory hypothesis

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Scott James @drscottjames.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Offshore currency usage (excluding $ and €) with offshore £s above 2005 levels The political economy of offshore sterling is a paper waiting to be written

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Scott James @drscottjames.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

IR: liberal international disorder, hegemonic decline, apolarity, etc IPE:

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Scott James @drscottjames.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Moon on International Klein Blue (2026)

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Scott James @drscottjames.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Political economy of polycrisis, 2026: ‘The first quarter was marked by geopolitical shocks…This type of volatility is good for investment banks which make money from financing and facilitating client trades.’

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Scott James @drscottjames.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

We map the contested epistemic politics of knowledge production across linked ecologies, analysing how the emergence of new issues between existing pools of professional knowledge generates opportunities and barriers to issue control for different groups 2/n

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Scott James @drscottjames.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Pleased to finally publish this paper with Mareike Beck on the epistemic origins of the 2022 gilt market crisis in @jeppjournal.bsky.social How can we explain the limited regulatory response to the increasing systemic risk of LDI strategies in UK pensions? 1/n 🧵 doi.org/10.1080/1350...

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Scott James @drscottjames.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

‘Elliptic found Iran’s central bank accumulated at least $507 million in USDT in 2025, likely to steady the rial and finance trade. That effort has mostly failed, with data showing that the rial has lost more than 96% of its value against the USD.’ 3/n

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Scott James @drscottjames.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

‘Chainalysis estimates IRGC-linked addresses accounted for more than 50% of total Iranian crypto inflows in the fourth quarter of 2025, with over $3 billion in value received last year.’ 2/n

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Scott James @drscottjames.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

The dollar’s longue durée 25-year cycles of de/redollarisation?

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Scott James @drscottjames.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Important test of all those theories of CBI we’ve spent 20+ years teaching. Or rather how much financial markets believe CBI actually matters for controlling inflation vs believing it was always more to do with signalling, party management, blame avoidance, etc