
John Handel
@_John_Handel
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History professor @Baylor. Prev. Finance @UVAMcIntire. Financial historian. Market structure, tech, exchanges, & slavery. Quaternionist. Loves Pelicans
Austin
Joined October 2011
So happy that it is finally publication day for the Cambridge Handbook of Global Financial Infrastructure! My chapter is on some of the first efforts to wire together financial markets in the age of the telegraph. The book is entirely open access (link below)
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RT @JPHilllllll: Pete Buttigieg talking about Palestine is what happens when someone who wants to perfectly triangulate a middle position o….
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RT @DanielZamoraV: As a matter of fact Scott argued the exact opposite. Like Hayek he thought that standardized information lead to bad dec….
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RT @SexbeanPernicus: Hey Soul Sister is obviously the actual worst song of all time. Its unrivalled.
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RT @CHRISF0GLE: Concrete example from the past week after I posted DFW’s feedback on a student’s paper lol
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RT @OsitaNwanevu: It's fine. The had-to-be-there song from this moment to discourse about is Sleepyhead by Passion Pit.
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RT @apralky: we finally snapped the millennials out of the lockdown insanity and now they're suddenly obsessed with marathons, prepping for….
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RT @BrusselerMel: I think profiles of Odd Lots could better contextualize the sense that macroeconomics and policy exclusively concerned wi….
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It seems notable to me that Akiva Schaffer, the director of the new Naked Gun, was the executive producer of MacGruber, the greatest comedy of the 2010s.
The original NAKED GUN is my personal pick for the funniest movie ever made. 30 seconds into the new one a character holds an ominous object called a P.L.O.T. Device and I knew the new one understood the assignment. Really really funny.
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RT @sensiblehuman96: Who would have thought in the 80s, when Margaret Thatcher said ‘there’s no such thing as society’ before asset strippi….
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RT @Memeulous: This is absolutely brilliant, it almost comes across as a parody of Welcome to Wrexham, but it’s 100% genuine. As soon as To….
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RT @TheStalwart: A WORRISOME *FUTURISTIC* JOBS REPORT:. In the newsletter, I wrote about today's labor market data, and how it was not only….
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RT @reclaimuc: "Indeed, the airport hub, with its network of surrounding detention centers, is in many ways a template for what the head of….
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