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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"Demografie laesst sich nicht wegverhandeln", aber wie der Kapitalmarkt das richten wird (ausschliesslich investieren in Oekonomien wo es keinen demografischen Wandel gibt??) bleibt leider auch schleierhaft bzw Wunschdenken.

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Das beste Bsp um diese 2 Behauptungen zu widerlegen gibt die Niederlande. Weder sind Beitragssaetze gefallen, noch stiegen die Leistungen durch die Einfuehrung der Kapitalrente. Was wiederrum stimmt ist dass Beitraege erst steigen muessen; aber nicht um einen "Kapitalstock" aufzubauen, ...

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Last thing child and parents see before the Trump accounts go to zero

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ambtgenoten praten over pest. Headline that doesn't get more Dutch than this...

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The change in rhetoric is remarkable: from anti-market/anti-globalization (financialization) to "happy if the markets are happy" rhetoric in 8 years. bsky.app/profile/iank...

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not the main story of this piece www.ft.com/content/9b25..., but: When center-right copies far-right's policies (migration) => no electoral gains; but when far-right copies center-right economic policies (which the electorate supposedly dislikes) they don't book any losses... Go figure

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What's big, explosive and good for your teeth?

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I admire the student's persistence, but I didn't expect the court to be convinced by the argument "if I had known that there were consequences for handing in late, I would have not handed in late." www.raadvanstate.nl/uitspraken/@...

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ex-hedgefund manager as treasury secretary will try to organize a bailout before the crash of hedge funds materializes. Who would have thought ... phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pri...

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

You could write a 10+ post thread on why rejected politicians start their own party (rather than taking the hint that they have no place in representative politics), their chances of electoral success, what all of this means conceptually (function of parties to recruit and socialize elites) etc. Or

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Primary surplus: which country has been running for most years a primary surplus over the last decades? Italy.

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

In the run up to the Eurozone crisis, Spain had lower debt to gdp than Germany. This is just a poor attempt to retrofit the old morality tales about frugals vs profligates. Also: why focus on the numerator (debt) instead of denominator (GDP)? Ireland has overinflated GDP...

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

When the objective was to create a common repo market in government bonds, treating all sovereign debt the same (haircut), was not a leap of faith. That was *creating* a sovereign debt market.

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This is nonsense: deposits are liabilities of banks, and when customers shift to stablecoins the deposits are just transferred to other banks (where stablecoin issuers are clients). After all, if stablecoin issuers are in the monetary union area they issue stablecoins in return for deposits..

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

"it pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out"

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

This will probably not cause shock and awe on the EU's side. Not b/c this TACO strategy is predictable and wearing thin; but because by accepting Trumps language (calling everything "deals" instead of treaties or agreements) the expectation that he will rescind is already baked in.

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

2) Given size of NL Pensionfunds & sums at stake, maybe some distrust in other regulators is warranted, and Dutch regulators shouldn't be off the hook so easily.

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Reading this, I have two thoughts: 1) Are we really better off to include ever more financial intermediaries with profit motive in a system that is essentially based on solidarity (i.e. the current working generation pays for the current retirees), not on investment portfolio "performance"?

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Meanwhile the people that *made* Claude ran an experiment with Claude, to see "if it cares about its continued existence" www.anthropic.com/research/age...

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

From Whale Pump to Whale at the pump

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Dus de voorspelling dat hypotheekrente niet mee stijgt lijkt onrealistisch. www.bnr.nl/nieuws/econo...

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

De kapitaalmarktrente wordt direct beïnvloed door beleidsrente: ECB verhoogd DFR? => rente op benchmark assets zoals overheidsobligaties stijgt ook (yields op 10jr NL obligaties ⬆️). Verder is de hypotheekrente afgelopen maanden gestegen door geopolitische spanningen, terwijl beleidsrente = bleef.

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Spot on characterization of the intent behind cancel culture: its not about freedom of speech; it's the claim that one can no longer endorse a dominant culture and identity openly. Hence the stories about cancel culture (and pc culture before) always implying a rosy past at universities 1/

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Stupid me, screenshot vergessen:

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

"Neue politische Angebote schaffen". Step 1: Joschka Fischer's Metaphern kopieren #souffle

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Like the German weekly (Der Spiegel) who has every 10-15 years a cover with "robots taking your job ....any moment now"

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Exam (trick) question: based on the money multiplier, does the following scenario constrain bank lending? www.nu.nl/economie/639...

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

www.ecb.europa.eu/press/other-...

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

That was the argument in this piece (critical review of the CA version of Triffin) www.bis.org/publ/work684...

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

bsky.app/profile/matt... the tongue in cheek take on this

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Very good long read - could screenshot every other paragraph, but as Pavlos suggests: read this.

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Das ist doch rage bait, oder? Typ der Pflegekräfte so günstig wie möglich anstellen will, über Zocker beschwert und selbst Unternehmen leitet, dass Profit für einen niederländischen Fond machen muss.

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Capital markets and bank lending don't foster growth, innovation, productivity, but austerity does? So what's the point in "progressing with savings and investment union"?

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Dhillon's observation of the strategy behind condoning violent migration policies is very much fitting the VVDs strategy:

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Wood is explicitly excluding this right at the beginning. So, time for me to educate myself. (Tried some time ago dialectic of enlightenment and gave up couple of pages in; hope Held's volume will do the job to get me up to speed).

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Of course the lessons of 2008 were learned: instead of pretending that the securitized assets (sliced & diced) are safe, SRT investors want de-risking by having tbtf institutions holding on to some of those assets, thereby ensuring a bailout further down the line.

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Remember? "The ledger is immutable!" "No double-spending possible" "1 bitcoin is worth 1 bitcoin?" And "the state cannot take away your bitcoins" Seems all of this was a clever distraction from the "developers can snatch them away/dilute them"

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The way LaRouchites read & interpreted Adorno reminds me of "technical analysis" of bitcoin maxis: anything to make it fit your narrative (conspiracy)

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Didn't know this about Luxembourg: no central bank till 1983; previous banks that took on some tasks associated w central banks were issuing currencies (plural) offshore.

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Trump yesterday: "big money will be made" through the "traffic buildup" Today: no, not like that!

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This "consumers will be confused" argument is gas-lighting. If anything, if I look at what products in the supermarket sections labelled "meat products" contain, I am more confused. I certainly wouldn't be able to tell by the looks of a mortadella what went into the grinder to make it.

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Marat Markert @maratmarkert.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

To have defence and a livable environment you need... to build a collateral factory and legally encase financial capital first (according to folks working in financial markets).

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