[...] Not only does finance measure and profit by speculation on the fundamentals of economic life; it also helps shape and discipline the reality of production and circulation. [...] financialization essentially represents an unaccountable form of global economic planning, yet one with no broad goal, save for the endless competitive maximization of profit. The result is a world cut to fit the financial imagination, whose benefits accrue largely to the wealthiest percentiles, and whose dramatic costs are endured by the majority of humanity. [...]