Jonas Becker
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Ökonom und Gewerkschafter Economist working on international trade policy and public services
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A&W Blog
3 days ago
127 Mrd. Euro Investitionen - Das deutsche
#Budget2026
setzt neue Maßstäbe, doch gleichzeitig drohen in wichtigen Zukunftsbereichen massive Kürzungen.
@econjohnny.bsky.social
und Henriette Neumann analysieren, was es mit dem Doppel-Wumms auf sich hat:
www.awblog.at/Wirtschaft/D...
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Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik
18 days ago
Wird Zohran Mamdani der neue Bürgermeister New Yorks? Er gilt als Hoffnungsträger all jener, die keine Prominenz haben und ganz real von Trumps Deportationen bedroht sind:
www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...
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New York: Hoffnungsträger Mamdani
Es war nur eine Vorwahl, aber sie schlägt hohe Wellen in den USA. Die Wahl des Kandidaten für den New Yorker Bürgermeister war der erste größere Stimmungstest für die Demokraten nach dem Wahlsieg…
https://www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025/august/new-york-hoffnungstraeger-mamdani
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Leo von Gripsholm
30 days ago
für die töchter (nicht nur) von friedrich merz wäre es vor allem gefährlich im stadtbild auf den sohn von uschi glas zu treffen der wegen körperverletzung seiner freundin 18 monate im gefängnis saß und u.a. einer anderen frau das jochbein brach
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Der Beraterkreis von Bundesministerin Reiche findet, dass "öffentliche Diskurse zu wirtschaftlichen Themen die Denkmuster antikapitalistischer Mentalitäten widerspiegeln". Mehr muss man zu diesem Beraterkreis auch nicht wissen.
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André Kühnlenz
about 2 months ago
Egal, wie schnell sich die deutsche Industrie von diesem Dämpfer erholt, ist es für die ⚫️🔴Koalition grob fahrlässig, sich allein auf progressive Angebotspolitik zu verlassen. Die grosse Schwäche liegt in der Binnennachfrage, da die Haushalte wieder stärker belastet werden...
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Etienne Höra
4 months ago
15% tariffs, breaches of WTO rules, more tech dependency – the US deal is a far cry from what the EU wanted. This was not a one-off accident, but exposes longstanding structural weaknesses in EU trade policy that will affect any future negotiation. My analysis🧵
bst-europe.eu/economy-secu...
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No Accident: Four Structural Reasons Why the EU Did Not Get a Better Trade Deal
As details on Sunday’s EU-US trade deal emerge, Europeans are split in two camps. Some believe the 15 percent tariff ceiling on most products is the best the EU could get from President Donald Trump’s...
https://bst-europe.eu/economy-security-trade/no-accident-four-structural-reasons-why-the-eu-did-not-get-a-better-trade-deal/
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POLITICO Europe
4 months ago
The trade deal struck by Donald Trump and Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday was hugely one-sided with most EU exports subject to a 15 percent tariff. As the deal stands now (it has yet to be finalized) which sectors win out and which will suffer? We took a look 👇
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EU-US trade deal: The biggest losers and (a few) winners
It’s a one-sided affair with most EU exports subject to a 15 percent U.S. tariff — but the auto, aviation and semiconductor industries have escaped the worst.
https://ow.ly/Tc6G50Wwvsc
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Und meiner Wenigkeit. Über Zohran Mamdanis Vorwahlerfolg in NYC.
www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...
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Jonas Schaible
4 months ago
Erwin Huber empfiehlt was bitte?
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Das muss diese neue stabile Regierung sein, die das "Ampel-Chaos" beendet hat.
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Christian Odendahl
4 months ago
Germany has started the politicisation of the courts. The AfD is jubilating.
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The Guardian
5 months ago
A broken housing market is driving inequality right across Europe – and fuelling the far right | Kirsty Major
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A broken housing market is driving inequality right across Europe – and fuelling the far right | Kirsty Major
From Lisbon to Amsterdam, housing policy has led to haves and have-nots. But, as our new series uncovers, it doesn’t have to be this way, says Guardian Opinion deputy editor Kirsty Major
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/26/broken-housing-market-inequality-europe-far-right?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1750930141
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#BerlinSummit
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5 months ago
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Branko Milanovic
6 months ago
My new Substack: Nothing (meaningful) to say Mainstream economics’ inability to explain domestic inequality and competition between nations
branko2f7.substack.com/p/nothing-to...
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Nothing to say
Mainstream economics’ inability to explain domestic inequality and competition between nations
https://branko2f7.substack.com/p/nothing-to-say
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Sander Tordoir
6 months ago
Germany is the West’s most promising clean tech hub, with a competitive industrial base — but one facing mounting pressure from Chinese competition and US tariffs. If the German government wants to secure that future, it should provide industrial policy support — not green-bashing rhetoric. 10/
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Die größte Abweichung vom Schätzergebnis des vergangenen Oktobers ergibt sich für die Gemeinden. Und das für jedes Jahr bis 2029.
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Jonas Sjöstedt
6 months ago
Pepe Mujica har lämnat oss, vänsterledare och politisk förebild i ord och handling. Tack för allt du gjorde!
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Uruguay's former President Mujica dead at 89
Uruguay's former President Jose Mujica has died, the South American country's current leader Yamandu Orsi said in a post on X.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/uruguays-former-president-mujica-dead-89-2025-05-13/
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@sdullien.bsky.social
eröffnet das
@imkinstitut.bsky.social
Forum 2025. Thema: Wie sichern wir unseren Wohlstand?
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Andrew Watt
7 months ago
Update Meanwhile
#China
is taking steps to boost domestic demand, safeguarding jobs and absorbing some of the goods it can no longer export.
bsky.app/profile/mich...
The EU should put measures in place that do the same, as insurance in case Trump's
#tariff
chaos is not swiftly resolved.
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Armin Wolf
7 months ago
Das Interessanteste am Wiener Wahlergebnis: Die ÖVP hat einen Wahlkampf mit FPÖ-Themen gemacht und knapp 11 Prozentpunkte verloren - die FPÖ hat 13 gewonnen. Die FPÖ hat frontal und ausschließlich die SPÖ attackiert und 13 PP gewonnen, aber die SPÖ hat nur 2 PP verloren.
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Noch dazu arbeitete Weimer zu Beginn seiner Karriere 8 Jahre lang selbst für die FAZ. Dort scheint er einen bleibenden Eindruck hinterlassen zu haben...
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Philipp Heimberger
7 months ago
Every year, >30% of multinational profits are shifted to tax havens. This reduces corporate tax revenue by >$200 billion (10% of global corporate tax receipts). Reallocation would increase domestic profits by 20% in high-tax EU countries, 10% in US, and 5% in developing countries
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Sander Tordoir
7 months ago
Thorsten and Jakob aren’t against supply-side reforms—nor am I; they matter. But relying on them alone is a trap in the face of US tariffs and the second China shock. Germany’s industrial core needs demand—especially directed demand through industrial policy—to survive.
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Max Krahé
7 months ago
Um Abhängigkeiten zu reduzieren hilft die Verstärkung des Binnenmarkts. Hier ist viel Potenzial: proportional zum BIP gibt es doppelt so viel (!) Binnenhandel zwischen US-Bundesstaaten wie zwischen EU-Mitgliedsstaaten. Neben rechtlichen Reformen wichtig: mehr Binnennachfrage!
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PowerShift
7 months ago
340 Mio. Steuergelder auf dem Spiel: Der Baukonzern Strabag will Schiedsurteil in den USA einklagen. Dabei ist das Schiedsurteil nach EU-Recht illegal und der Konzern hatte schon vor deutschen Gerichten eine Entschädigung erstritten. Doch die Klage vor einem Schiedsgericht war mal wieder lukrativer.
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Holger Hestermeyer
7 months ago
Sorry to be a bit pessimistic. The US president is refusing to obey the Supreme Court having sent a person to an El Salvadorian prison by accident, threatening to invade allies, refusing to acknowledge Russian aggression, upsetting the world and US economy. And has a 45% approval rating.
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Robert Reich
8 months ago
Today would be a great day to ban members of Congress and their families from trading stocks.
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Justin Wolfers
8 months ago
Not kidding when I say it's not entirely clear that the Administration knows what current tariff rates are. Apparently the China tariffs were more punitive than the White House led folks to believe yesterday.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
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"It's a great time to get rich" Ein guter Zeitpunkt um daran zu erinnern, wie wichtig unabhängige staatliche Stellen sind, die mit ausreichend Kapazitäten ausgestattet sind, um solche Vorgänge zu untersuchen.
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Schiff Wants Tariff Pause Investigation Over Insider Trading
The Senator tells TIME he is concerned Trump engaged in insider trading or market manipulation with his abrupt reversal of tariffs.
https://time.com/7276234/trump-tariff-insider-trading-schiff/
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R.I.P.
#Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz
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Lucas Guttenberg
8 months ago
Glaube wir haben noch nicht völlig verstanden, was eine in internationalen Wirtschaftsfragen komplett willkürlich agierende US-Administration heißt: Die Unsicherheit, die dadurch entsteht, kann uns alle in eine heftige Rezession treiben. Habe nicht das Gefühl, dass wir uns darauf gerade vorbereiten.
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60 Minutes
8 months ago
“Our client, who was in the middle of seeking asylum, just disappeared.” Lindsay Toczylowski represents 31-year-old Andry, a gay makeup artist from Venezuela who was flown to a notorious prison by the Trump administration after seeking asylum in the U.S. MORE:
www.cbsnews.com/news/venezue...
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Jens Südekum
8 months ago
I feel sorry for the academic field I grew up in, international trade theory. It spent decades describing a hypothetical world where rational agents interact and create value. And then some powerful idiots come along and destroy everything by applying a bullshit tariff formula.
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Andrew Watt
8 months ago
Now the US hits it with across-the-board tariffs at a level that threatens to wipe out large segments of its industrial base. What do Trump's master strategists expect Vietnam, wedged under its domineering neighbour China to do now? What about the views of the millions whose jobs are at risk? 2/2
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Andrew Watt
8 months ago
Enough said about the sheer economic boneheadedness of the Trump
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Dmitry Grozoubinski
8 months ago
First, obviously: "Ahhhhhh!!!!" Second, what's interesting to me about this is that they haven't responded tactically with targeted tariffs on carefully selected goods that hurt Trump politically but spare Chinese consumers and businesses pain. They went flamethrower and just mirrored the 34%.
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Acyn
8 months ago
Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.
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Justin Wolfers
8 months ago
Impressed the crack White House economic team not only found the Heard and McDonald Islands—an uninhabited Australian territory which is a two week sail from the mainland requiring a permit to visit—but that they managed to figure out the optimal retaliatory tariff to impose on penguins.
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Sondierungspapier: "Wir setzen uns zudem ein für [...] den Abschluss neuer Freihandelsabkommen, darunter auch mit den USA"
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Ruhe bewahren, enge Absprache mit UK/CAN/MEX, EU-Jobs in besonders betroffenen Sektoren sichern, EU-Binnennachfrage durch wirtschaftspolitische Maßnahmen erhöhen, Abkehr von der Strategie eine Verhandlungslösung um jeden Preis anzustreben
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Josh Marshall
8 months ago
Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress cld modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt.
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Robert Reich
8 months ago
What Canada, Mexico, Japan, the UK, and the European Union should do in response to Trump’s grossly irresponsible tariffs
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-canada-mexico-japan-the-uk-and
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Etienne Höra
8 months ago
Stellt sich heraus: die neuen Zollraten sind nicht ganz frei erfunden, sondern unsinnig berechnet (und haben mit EU-Zöllen oder Fairness nichts zu tun). Hier geht es um das Waren-Handelsdefizit, geteilt durch zwei. Völlig wahllos, passt besser zu zielloser Schikane als zum Bedarf der US-Industrie.
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April fools? 🤡
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Sophie Pedder
8 months ago
‼️ Political earthquake in France. Final judgment is now out. Marine Le Pen has been found guilty of the misuse of European Parliamentary funds and barred immediately her from running for office for 5 years. This means she cannot run for the presidency in 2027. She will be banned even if she appeals
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Eric Lipton NYT
8 months ago
Trump Pardons Trevor Milton, Founder of Bankrupt Truck Maker Nikola (His lawyer is the brother of AG Pam Bondi. Milton was a major donor to GOP 2024 election campaign)
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/b...
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Trump Pardons Trevor Milton, Founder of Bankrupt Truck Maker Nikola
President Trump’s intervention came while Mr. Milton was appealing his conviction on securities and wire fraud charges.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/business/trump-trevor-milton-pardon.html?smid=bs-share
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Europäische Bewegung Deutschland e.V.
8 months ago
Welche Hürden bleiben noch für den Mercosur-Vertrag? Beim EP-Berichterstatter im Dialog werden wir es erfahren. Wir freuen uns auf unsere Gäste:
@berndlange.bsky.social
MdEP,
@bettinarudloff.bsky.social
& Rupert Schlegelmilch, EU-Chefverhandler für den
#Mercosur
Vertrag. 🎙️Moderation
@huettemann.eu
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"EU-Handelspolitik in wilden Zeiten" mit
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Haaretz.com
8 months ago
Dozens of settlers attacked Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning film "No Other Land," wounding him and others, activists at the scene and Israeli co-director Yuval Abraham said. Witnesses also said Israeli soldiers took him from an ambulance
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Palestinian director of 'No Other Land' attacked by settler mob, arrested by soldiers
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https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-03-24/ty-article/.premium/palestinian-director-of-no-other-land-attacked-by-settler-mob-arrested-by-idf/00000195-c980-da24-affd-fba4541a0000
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News Eye
8 months ago
“Wait guys, P. Hegseth is typing…”
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