📢 With @tomduterme.bsky.social & Ariane Gemander, we’re pleased to invite you to the 6th workshop of the Belgian Political Economy Working Group on Friday, June 19, 2026, at ICHEC Brussels. 📆 Abstract proposals due by April 10 -- Email us.

This is the real Zeitenwende : the head of the #Bundesbank breaks with a decades-long tradition of central bank fiscal orthodoxy and uncompromising opposition to EU debt mutualisation through common borrowing A whole world of Eurozone analytical frameworks have just been turned upside down ...

That's right, the finance summer school is coming to Europe! June 4-5 at the LSE – applications are open until March 1.

This is the real Zeitenwende : the head of the #Bundesbank breaks with a decades-long tradition of central bank fiscal orthodoxy and uncompromising opposition to EU debt mutualisation through common borrowing A whole world of Eurozone analytical frameworks have just been turned upside down ...

Useful reminder by @lucasguttenberg.bsky.social @nilsredeker.bsky.social & @sandertordoir.bsky.social that the massive deregulatory drive (so-called 'simplification') instigated by the VdL 2 Commission will not solve any EU economic problem and, at best, result in a 0.07 % increase of the #EU GDP

Avec l'équipe de choc @hautetristan.bsky.social, Emma Nemesien, @baptistegiraud.bsky.social et Lana Lihouck nous avons le grand plaisir de vous partager ce papier paru dans le dernier n° de la RFSP. On y parle des liens entre travail et élections (mes deux dada🙃) shs.cairn.info/revue-revue-...

Interesting move from the #ECB, especially in light of the calls to strenghen the international role of the #euro : most of them consider the expansion of the swap lines as a mandatory first step to internationaliste the euro cc @shahinvallee.bsky.social @jvtk.bsky.social @steffenmurau.bsky.social

🚨 The political economy of finance summer school is back, 3rd year running! Better still: We're bringing it to London via @lse-ei.bsky.social. 𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy 𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below. We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!

Donald Trump is preparing to nominate the former Federal Reserve governor to replace Jay Powell as the chair of the world’s most important central bank, according to three people familiar with the matter. ft.trib.al/X3NHXsg

Trump is expected to announce Kevin Warsh as Fed chair tomorrow, ending an extensive, highly publicized audition process for one of the president's most consequential appointments. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/b... @tylerpager.bsky.social @nytimes.com

Another reason for #Powell to stay would be to prevent #Trump from having leverage on the next chair : if Powell leaves the board, Trump could appoint the next chair for the remainder of Powell's governor term (which ends in Jan 2028) thus giving Trump leverage over the next chair with reappointment

Did Congress forget the Fed controls inflation, or was forgetting the point? My paper in New Political Economy shows Congress engaged in strategic repoliticisation, where political conflict serves electoral interests and preserves the Fed's technocratic autonomy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Pourquoi #Trump s'en prend-il à la Réserve Fédérale ? Quels sont les enjeux de ces attaques du président étasunien contre la banque centrale et ses dirigeants ? Dans cette tribune pour @lemonde.fr, j'apporte quelques éléments de réponse, issus de mes recherches www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...

Pourquoi #Trump s'en prend-il à la Réserve Fédérale ? Quels sont les enjeux de ces attaques du président étasunien contre la banque centrale et ses dirigeants ? Dans cette tribune pour @lemonde.fr, j'apporte quelques éléments de réponse, issus de mes recherches www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...

💥 My article '𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐝: 𝐜𝐨𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢-𝐜𝐨𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧' is now available (open access) in the 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰! 📄 Find it here: doi.org/10.1017/S175... 📣 @epsrjournal.bsky.social @sciencepoulb.bsky.social

Croatia central bank governor Boris Vujčić will succeed Luis De Guindos as #ECB Vice President. His nomination does not really clarify the field of the race for the Presidency of the ECB : he's both a Hawk and from a Mediterranean country (so South of Europe) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

BREAKING: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will attend the Supreme Court's hearing on Trump's attempted firing of Fed governor Lisa Cook, an unusual show of support by the central bank chair.

Je suis très heureuse d'annoncer que mon nouveau livre La finance aux extrêmes. Enquête sur le capitalisme autoritaire en France, sort le 22 janvier prochain aux éditions la Découverte. On y parle gestion d'actifs, transformations des manières d'accumuler et nouveaux modes de gouvernement.

Wow... Writing this paper was a bit like watching a soap opera unfold. But it's out now in @bjpir.bsky.social The big story is still: The ECB marched forward, with clear democratic authorisation, but not the Fed. Green central banking is much more democratic than people think.

still my heart - REPO IS VERY SYSTEMIC piece @alphaville.ft.com 1. We still have no granular data, a full 17 years since run on repo blew up Lehman into a global financial crisis. The OFR now has data on US repo, but European repo is also USD 12 trillion (roughly) www.ft.com/content/220d...

📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'Why the Fed and ECB parted ways on climate change: The politics of divergence in the global central banking community' by @monicadileo.bsky.social, @glennrudebusch.bsky.social & @jvtk.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/hF3lr0B @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

Senator Murkowski just announced that she will also block the senatorial confirmations of any #Fed nominees until the administration backtracks on its latest attack against the Federal Reserve's independence. Just two more GOP Senators to go !

Imho the Trump administration latest attack on the Fed might backfire & prevent the MAGA executive from imposing its views at the helm of the central bank. Why? Because presidential nominations to the Fed board of governors have to be confirmed by the Senate. A 🧶 www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Imho the Trump administration latest attack on the Fed might backfire & prevent the MAGA executive from imposing its views at the helm of the central bank. Why? Because presidential nominations to the Fed board of governors have to be confirmed by the Senate. A 🧶 www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

NEW: Trump tells @nytimes.com that he has made up his mind on his selection for Fed chair, but stopped short of disclosing his pick. When asked about Hassett, he said: "I don’t want to say," but described him as "certainly one of the people that I like" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

Happy to share that my next book 'The Fiscal Fed' will be published by University of Chicago Press in Fall 2026! Cover design pending: happy to share this beautiful poster from the Harvard Law and Political Economy Project (2023).

Le compte X du Ministère de l'Intérieur 🇺🇸 appelle ouvertement à la déportation de masse des personnes non-blanches, en utilisant une notion ("remigration") qui découle du fantasme raciste, suprémaciste et conspirationniste du "grand remplacement". Une étape suplémentaire dans la fascisation des US

This is huge, right? They just Trump-proofed the Fed.

Imho, the bond market won't resist any of the five profiles currently considered by the Trump administration for Fed chair. The eventual test of the bond market resolve to act as the vigilante protecting the Fed independence would be if the Supreme Court allows the firing of Lisa Cook

By financial literacy, the 🇪🇺 Commission means convinving people to put their savings in the financial markets' casino, by mobilising symbolic violence ('literate' invests in stocks vs 'illiterate' saves in bank account) This is pure propaganda for propping the financial sector profits. Shameful

THE ASSET CLASS, my first book, will be published by @wnbooks.bsky.social on 9 April 2026. It’s a narrative investigation of private equity, a secretive and relentlessly destructive wing of finance that penetrates almost every aspect of our lives - and it’s available to pre-order now!

I am very happy to report that my article on the strange non-death of credit rating agencies has been published in New Political Economy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....

An intervention into current debates around authoritatian threats to central bank independence and whether we should be defending it. My gratitude to @solveigdegen.bsky.social for the invitation and to @kpolanyisociety.bsky.social for publishing it. www.karlpolanyisociety.com/2025/12/04/f...

An absolute must read for every political scientist working on interest groups in the #EU This is a textbook case of corporate sector lobbying to dismantle regulations that they perceive as harmful for their profitability ( #CSDDD is not even transposed into national law and yet already gutted)

Essential (but disheartening) article by @euractiv.com on how EU corporate sector & its lobbyists built a coalition with the VdL 2 Commission, and the right-to-far-right majority in the EP to dismantle EU regulations. From the Brussels effect to the Brussels defect www.euractiv.com/news/counter...

Perso, je parie sur le poste de Chief Economist (donc pour succéder à Philip Lane, dont le mandat se termine le 31 mai 2027) et sur la désignation d'Agnès Bénassy-Quéré ou de Laurence Boon

Cette nouvelle position du #RN sur la #BCE & les questions monétaires va imho probablement contribuer à ce qu'un.e français.e soit désigné.e pour succéder à de Guindos ou à Lane, et ainsi remplir le "quota" FR à l'ExBoard avant le scrutin présidentiel de 2027 www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

The AxPo Observatory on Market Society Polarization at Sciences Po is offering a 2-year postdoctoral position focusing on socioeconomic polarization and fragmentation. Ph.Ds in sociology, economics, political science, and related fields are encouraged to apply. www.sciencespo.fr/axpo/applica...

The US Supreme Court just announced that it will hear arguments on January 21 in the case Cook v. Trump The Supreme Court ruling will determine if Trump can remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook and will therefore have major implications for the #Fed 's independence from the executive branch.

Pourquoi une supervision financière centralisée à l'échelle européenne est nécessaire ? Réponse avec le cas fort parlant de Coinbase (une plateforme étasunienne de crypto-actifs), présentée sous la forme d'une pièce de théâtre en trois actes

After Manfred Weber and Jörgen Warborn, now it's Metsola's turn to advocate for the EPP to build parliamentary majorities with the far-right, in order to gut the Green Deal and implement massive deregulation www.politico.eu/article/euro...

📢 New paper out in New Political Economy: "Depoliticising monetary tightening: how the European Central Bank managed the 2021–2023 inflation shock" Thread here below 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Fascinating piece by @politico.com on the remaking of lobbying in DC caused by the authoritarian drive of #Trump 2.0 administration (namely the hyper-centralization of decision making in the hands of the White House, at the expenses of Congress & federal agencies) www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Kinda looks like the September 2019 repo glut : Quantitative Tightening => depletion of banks' excess reserves > liquidity pressures & ↗️ of repo lending rates => increasing use of Fed standing repo facility Key question for next Fed meeting : just end QT or restart QE ? www.ft.com/content/6066...

New report out now with @granthamlse.bsky.social CETEx: "A framework for central banks navigating political uncertainty in the transition" cetex.org/publications...

Today's decision seems to confirm that the US Supreme Court means to differentiate between the #Fed and the other independent agencies : in Trump v Slaughter (the for-cause removal of an FTC Commissioner litigation), the Court granted the administrative stay while setting oral arguments for December

Lisa Cook 1 - Trump 0 La Cour Suprême des États-Unis a rejeté la demande de la Maison Blanche d'application immédiate du limogeage de la gouverneure de la Fed annoncé par Trump le 25/8, et opté pour entendre les plaidoiries des deux parties en janvier avant de statuer www.ft.com/content/0430...

📢 Call for Papers — 5th Political Economy Working Group Workshop 🗓️ 30 Jan 2026, Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles The workshop is divided into two parts: Morning: PhD research presentations. Afternoon: open to all, concluding with @benbraun.bsky.social. Abstracts due 1 Dec 2025 All details below:

What a terrific idea to foster economic growth: instead of public investment (in infrastructure, or digital & green transitions for example), let's use public money to incentivise (through costly tax breaks) an increase in households' risk-taking, by putting their savings into bonds & stocks.

Pour tout comprendre au processus de fabrication des sondages d'opinion et à leur utilisation dans le champ médiatique & politique, je vous recommande vivement ce passionnant ouvrage d' @hugotouzet.bsky.social, disponible dans toutes les bonnes librairies : editions.ehess.fr/ouvrages/ouv...