Ein Gespenst geht um in Deutschland. Die Angst vor der #Deindustriealsierung und dem wirtschaftlichen Abstieg. Wie immer neigt die Debatte zu Alarmismus und starken Übertreibungen. Kaum aber Jemand hinterfragt, ob die #Industrie tatsächlich Deutschlands Zukunft sein kann. 🧵1/9

In the past few weeks, I’ve shown Claude Code to (economist) friends & colleagues and, as a byproduct, created a presentation around using Claude Code for Economic Research. I‘ve now turned that presentation into a more in-depth blog post that you can find here: perikl.is/posts/2026/c...

Delighted to have Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde back on the pod this week. We cover demographic decline, the robustness of dollar dominance, AI, and whether his vast expertise defies comparative advantage! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRvI...

A level-headed analysis on the labor regulations in Europe that are hampering innovation, with examples (in Europe!) of how to improve in this space. worksinprogress.co/issue/why-eu...

Zeit für ein historisches Comeback: Lässt sich die Krise der deutschen Industrie wieder umkehren? Das erörtern @therealmaxpower.bsky.social und @philippasigl.bsky.social im neuen #Geldbrief anhand relevanter Beispiele aus der Geschichte. Jetzt lesen ⬇️

I wrote about Claude Code and why non-coders should be paying attention (and playing with the system) - it shows what today’s LLMs can do Along the way I had Claude launch a business for me & build a game that simulates the rise and fall of civilizations. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...

A very thoughtful piece on the current state of the credibility revolution in Macro. carloschavezp29.substack.com/p/why-macro-...

Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZT...

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

Do you know which places in Europe are digitalising fast? #Berlin and Greece. No, seriously. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

What's the matter with Germany? Because it's not what you think it is. on.ft.com/4raAAk3

Immer mehr Waren rollen über Europas Straßen. In Deutschland gibt es täglich rund 800.000 Lkw-Fahrten. Viele Aufträge landen bei osteuropäischen Subunternehmen. Niedrige Löhne und harte Bedingungen prägen den Alltag der Fahrer.DLF-Sendung. Audio: www.deutschlandfunk.de/lkw-fahrer-i...

A data source dries up

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

A widely held view is that the Gini coefficient is not decomposable by subgroups. This paper proposes an axiomatic framework that ensures well-behaved within and between-group terms under which the Gini is decomposable with a novel and unique formula. buff.ly/XdnzG6F

I wrote an updated guide on which AIs to use right now, & some tips on how to use them (and how to avoid falling into some common traps) A lot has changed since I last wrote a guide like this in the spring, and AI has gotten much more useful as a result. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...

The incredible numbers - an actual trillion of investment, via an unquoted start up - and circularities (Nvidia investing in OpenAI and Intel, OpenAi in AMD, billion dollar purchases paid with stock, the cash, where's the cash etc? - are just mind boggling on.ft.com/4mNOdCh

For once it‘s worth looking at the comment section here

Sehr lesenswerter Artikel zur katastrophalen Lage von Studierenden aus Südasien an privaten deutschen Hochschulen taz.de/Junge-Inder-...

Ooh, @posit.co's Positron is no longer in beta as of this week(!), and it recently added support for DuckDB databases in the Connections Pane positron.posit.co/connections-... - any db connection you add with {connections} shows up there—this is magical! #rstats

Why is Scandinavia the Most Gender Equal Place in the World? My two part series weaves economic history, sociology, and my own qualitative research 1) www.ggd.world/p/why-is-sca... 2) www.ggd.world/p/why-is-sca...

I wonder what the results of this paper would look like today, after many years of speed optimizations in many programming languages www.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/com...

Very nice article on rising market power and the fall of the labour share www.chicagobooth.edu/review/are-e...

Olivier Blanchard argues that we should understand better the macroeconomics of the medium run, and I could not agree more. Since I have been working on this for a while, let me show you why this is a promising field for young researchers!

Amazing piece on how recent TV shows haven't been that great, actually: www.readtrung.com/p/the-case-a...

The blog post linked at the end of this thread (and the thread itself) is a very nice summary of recent research on how cross-gender friendships affect gender equality, check it out! The corresponding working paper can be found here: www.nber.org/papers/w33480

After reading this paper, I don't understand why ABM hasn't found its way into modern Macro yet, especially as ABM is basically the definition of Microfoundations. doi.org/10.1093/oxre...

It looks like not all Germans living in Spain are living in Mallorca after all! (Map created with a tool by Pablo García-Guzmán: pablogguz.shinyapps.io/dataviz_migr...)

Trying something new: A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?" It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social 🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...