financializing
Converting to securities
Financializing means converting something into a financial instrument or subjecting it to financial market logic.
Housing gets financialized when it becomes primarily an investment vehicle rather than shelter.
Carbon emissions get financialized through trading schemes.
Critics use the term to describe the growing dominance of financial thinking over other values: We've financialized everything from healthcare to higher education.
Transforming into sellable goods
- monetizationConverting something into revenue
- speculationUnproven theorizing or risky investment
- tradingExchanging for value
- valuationAssessment of monetary worth
pricing · marketization · abstraction · quantification · benchmarking · indexing · standardization
Bundling debts into investable instruments
- derivativesThings derived from another
- leverageBorrowed capital for amplified returns
- collateralizationPledging assets as security
- tranchesPortions of a whole
swaps · options · futures · hedging · arbitrage · syndication · repos · bundling
Ownership stakes or inventory
- bondsTies that unite
- equitiesOwnership stakes in corporations
- securitiesTradeable financial assets
- commoditiesTradeable raw materials
forex · exchanges · indices · ETFs · clearinghouses
Profits from investments
Transaction intermediaries
- tradersProfessional buyers and sellers
- shareholdersOwners of company stock
- underwritersThose who assess risk
- quantsMathematical finance specialists
commodification
Transforming into sellable goods
- monetizationConverting something into revenue
- speculationUnproven theorizing or risky investment
- tradingExchanging for value
valuation · pricing · marketization · abstraction · quantification · benchmarking · indexing · standardization
securitization
Bundling debts into investable instruments
- derivativesThings derived from another
- leverageBorrowed capital for amplified returns
- collateralizationPledging assets as security
tranches · swaps · options · futures · hedging · arbitrage · syndication · repos · bundling · repackaging
stocks
Ownership stakes or inventory
- bondsTies that unite
- equitiesOwnership stakes in corporations
- securitiesTradeable financial assets
commodities · forex · exchanges · indices · ETFs · clearinghouses
returns
Profits from investments
liquidity · bubble · volatility · inequality · short-termism
brokers
Transaction intermediaries
- tradersProfessional buyers and sellers
- shareholdersOwners of company stock
- underwritersThose who assess risk
financializingindustrializing
Developing manufacturing capacity
manufacturing · producing · reindustrializing · making · building
financializingmaterializing
Becoming real or visible
concretizing · physicalizing · grounding · embodying · substantiating
financializingreindustrializing
Restoring industrial capacity
socializing · humanizing · reinvesting · localizing · collectivizing
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