Financialization both foments and relies upon discursive and material formations such as precariousness, security, play, creativity and resistance.

The reason why the idea of fictitious capital is useful is because it draws our attention to the way that finance foments and depends on the production of social fictions.

That injustice foments violence is easy to accept; but this is where the difficulties begin.

fomenting trouble in the Middle East

My first day on the job was as I expected: business was good. A post-crash malaise had fomented the rural poor’s already healthy distrust of the banking system, and, anyway, many clients were among the longstanding unbanked

When I became aware that you had upbraided Obama for fomenting class warfare, I couldn’t even imagine what set you off. It seemed comical. Here’s a president who brought Wall Street allies into his administration from the get-go.

we should do the same with the progress of global capitalism today: keep in mind its dark underside, which is fomenting revolts

Capitalism foments divisions between people to facilitate the concentration of wealth, but it can also permit individuals economic mobility in ways that protect its intrinsic inequalities.