where is the option to abolish central bank independence? www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

this message is the first thing you see when you open the LSEG terminal today 🫧🫧

Helene rey on the ECB board would be a welcome surprise www.ft.com/content/45fc...

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maybe if we gave president xi remote access to centrally plan London busses, @averenasour.bsky.social would not be delayed on her way to uni anymore www.ft.com/content/07ec...

sunday funday at SOAS with @iliasalami.bsky.social and @ingridhk.bsky.social

STAY F*ING CALM

When the movie about the AI bubble is made, the scene where Sam Altman tells one of his investors to sell his shares after asking Sam how a company with $13B in sales can make $1.4T in commitments will win the actors an Oscar. It’s that absurd yet emblematic of this era.

when are we seeing a course explaining endogenous money and repos to primary school kids? @jomichell.bsky.social on.ft.com/3JKLKLp

hope they teach the toddlers to short Nvidia before the crisis hits

So the investor who's in the big short for predicting the subprime bubble is now shorting Palantir and NVIDIA, I'm so ready for the crash on.ft.com/3WEKAnB

In my big green state, the sun will be disciplined into not setting before 5pm

the bubble keeps bubbling, lets all read minksy again

FT Alphaville never disappoints: www.ft.com/content/b003...

I think this is one of the craziest Econ papers I've ever seen, insane depth and great presentation at FMM!

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Today I learnt that legoland apparently also is an asset class

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what a great time to be an aspiring academic, when the biggest job market is falling apart and people of Duflo's caliber move to Europe instead of staying at MIT

our macro-finance share house is reaching unprecedented levels of nerdiness: lets see what FT coffee tastes like @averenasour.bsky.social

Went down this rabbit hole yesterday, insane stuff. The Jamaican CAT bond includes a set of zones, which trigger payout in case Hurricane-induced pressure falls below a certain threshold. 1/2

A Bitcoinbro has been protesting in front of the ECB for three weeks - I really hope he doesn't know BIS, otherwise there might be grim days ahead for @aldasoro.bsky.social

Excellent from @ingridhk.bsky.social on @thomaspiketty.bsky.social & Nievas' foray into unequal exchange www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

Wall Street consensus, yet here we are, JPMorgan - Antifa @danielagabor.bsky.social

Vor 35 Jahren ist die DDR-Mark verschwunden - naja fast. Die Restbestände wurden in Sachsen-Anhalt eingemauert und zur Zielscheibe von Räubern. Mehr über die irre Geschichte zum Währungswechsel gibt's im nd. www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1192...

this is the funniest thing I've seen on the internet today

some comedy going on at the fed hq

Ha-Joon Chang on the neglect of climate and the environment in today's economics degree @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/9aab...

Researching rather niche topics like South Korean credit policy in the 1960s really makes you appreciate the resources at SOAS library

José Antonio Kast, possible future president of Chile, has 1) a father who was Nazi Party member and served in the Wehrmacht 2) a brother who was part of the Chicago Boys and served as labor minister & central bank president under Pinochet WOW

thanks to a hilarious review at my local chemist, @averenasour.bsky.social and I discovered that Scottish bank notes exist, issued by the Bank of Scotland, which is legal tender in the UK! Also, the Bank of Ireland, with HQ in Dublin, is allowed to issue bank notes on British soil apparently??

today's FT homepage: main article describing how Palestinians are getting shot while queuing at aid sites, while the top right article is about how well Israel's stock market has been doing since October 7

FT comment section on fire

reading this 1987 world bank report on Korea is kinda hilarious, I'm sure this very positive stance on the liberalization policies did not result in any major crisis 10 years later, right??

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

amazing headline

Crazy lineup today at LSE!

breaking news, piketty just discovered dependency theory

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Mit einem breiten Bündnis haben wir deshalb eine Aktion vor der SuperReturn veranstaltet. Gemeinsam fordern der @dmbmieterbund.bsky.social, die Gewerkschaft #Verdi, die Arbeitsgemeinschaft bäuerliche Landwirtschaft (AbL) und Finanzwende: 👉 Finanzinvestoren raus aus der Daseinsvorsorge!

The UK section of FT never fails to deliver

"the same factory worker left behind by globalisation can be an investor, too" (sic)

Larry Fink's article in the FT is a crazy read: liberalized capital markets will save us!: www.ft.com/content/a348...

had a lovely day at cambridge uni, listening to a panel on governing finance with @iliasalami.bsky.social, @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social, @stomarova.bsky.social & Anush Kapadia. Seeing my undergrad thesis supervisor Barbara Fritz quoted on slide 2 of Ilias' presentation was the cherry on top ^^

Excited to share details about workshop on “Labour, Informal Economy, and Structural Transformation under Post-Colonial Capitalism”, Anush Kapadia & I are organising. Fantastic scholars join us on June 4-5 June @soasuni.bsky.social, supported by @soaseconomics.bsky.social & New Political Economy.

Podcasts mit Haltung? Yes, please! Gerade in der Ökonomik wächst eine plurale Szene jenseits des Mainstreams. Wir haben einen Wegweiser bei Exploring Economics durch den Podcast-Dickicht erstellt. Ein Thread mit pluralen Podcast-Tipps 🧵 (0/16) www.exploring-economics.org/de/entdecken...

Insane to see how our politicians frame Germany as a safe haven for academics/students under attack from the Trump regime, given how the same politicians undermine free speech on Gaza. As if we haven't massively lost credibility here: www.deutschlandfunk.de/kulturstaats...

not me following FT Alphaville's "Bloomberg Terminal Outage Support Thread" instead of studying for exams: www.ft.com/content/8167...

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