Proud to have awarded Jerome Powell Governor of the Year. @centralbanking.bsky.social

A friend has built a service to be able to read his Twitter timeline in print, and he’s expanded it to Bluesky too. Sign up here if you’re interested. birdpost.co.uk

Just saw a racer take a shoe off around mile 8 of the Hackney Half, do a shoey and continue running. The death of the global citizen is greatly exaggerated

New collector coin from the @bportugal.pt to commemorate the World Cup has the organiser countries listed in alphabetical order - so the USA is last. Odds that Portugal will get 200% tariffs when Trump finds out?

One of our new reporters, Enes, wrote a fantastic feature on the events in Colombia. It's definitely worth a read.

It’s the most Bluesky thing that’s ever happened: Comment is Freed x London Centric local elections prediction collab just dropped. www.londoncentric.media/p/london-loc...

Every now and again I see the Cato Institute write about CBDC and it's the same very mentally sane guy every single time.

Magyar on Hungarian state media this morning is an absolute treat

He called for a two-term limit in his acceptance speech tonight.

Fantastic day.

Went to my first midnight omelette party last night. Thanks for the inspo, @jemima.bsky.social!

My interview with the @suomenpankki.fi 's Olli Rehn has just been published. I asked him to elaborate on his views on how demographics will impact monetary policy, alongside geopolitics, green policies, NBFI and stablecoins. Read here: www.centralbanking.com/central-bank...

Banque de France's €11bn gold windfall discussed here, with myself quoted on what's behind it - shorturl.at/jhUFo by @lkoro.es @ucc.ie

I'm (supposed to be) preparing for this exam and I'm convinced that it should, at best, ask candidates to demonstrate their ability to make a cuppa, engage in 15 minutes of small talk about the weather and display queuing skills. I'm also OK with having to recite the BTP announcement verbatim.

Insane story: Ukrainian savings bank swaps cash and gold with Austrian partner (€35m and 9kg), convoy gets raided by HU counter-terrorism officers and staff are detained in Budapest for 30 hours blindfolded and cuffed. HU authorities deny consular and legal access and speak Russian with them.

It just keeps happening www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemi...

Every now and again I realise that life in London means spending ~50% of my income on rent in a flatshare, getting ripped off by the most expensive public transport network in Europe and having the police laugh at even trying to recover my stolen bike (from the building I live in).

“Bored of Peace”

Cool ECB paper alert! These researchers used satellite data to monitor NO2 emissions and predict oil demand.

There's insane, and there's whatever this is.

The game of musical chairs at the @ecb.europa.eu continues. Who may replace Lagarde? My latest for @centralbanking.bsky.social

Betting on Jesus returning by 2027 and the Backstreet Boys singing about crypto are kind of the same thing. Speculation and nostalgia are both exit strategies from the present, and neither provides answers. New piece on what happens when the economy grows without… people.

Checking in on Bulgaria...

ESG is far from dead - central bank reserve managers are, by and large, happy with their investments and are looking for more. The green asset market has clearly matured enough and produces quantifiable results, so the focus shifted to them. My latest for @centralbanking.bsky.social.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but the meaning of "doomscrolling" seems to have changed from "reading apocalyptic news and feeling unable to break away from it" (circa 2020-2021) to just "scrolling for a long time".

By the way, to the rail-heads here: I rode and reviewed the Travelski Night Express. voyages.substack.com/p/travelski-...

Austrian and German central bank heads say EU fully disconnecting from the US is not a viable proposition www.centralbanking.com/central-bank...

Worth the click for the Martin Lewis-iathan alone

Nothing quite like organising the meeting with someone in GMT (Good Meeting TIme) +11 and them no-showing.

"If GPUs deteriorate too quickly for AI in data centres, then we can just use them for the cloud" is the current position of high finance.

I've stumbled upon a five-post series of summer skiing in France and it's a fascinating read. www.skipass.com/news/antholo...

Very cute.

Good thread!

Just in time for a bit of Christmas reading: Central Bank of Luxembourg governor Gaston Reinesch publishes the ninth edition of his "On political economy" essay. It's 6,050 pages long, written in four languages, and seems to tackle... Everything?

More on the ECB's post-excess liquidity operating framework from Finland's Tuomas Valimaki. He envisions structural long-term lending and a securities portfolio alongside the MRO to provide liquidity to eurozone banks. Great follow-up after @isabelschnabel.bsky.social's speech earlier this month.

Great. It isn’t even the real WLF.

I would just like to know how Cycle to Work is getting knee-capped at this point.

Evergreen quote

But where's the seahorse?

We timed the launch to coincide with our autumn conference, which is currently taking place in the famously Spanish-speaking nation of [checks notes] Brazil

1. I need @dieworkwear.bsky.social to tell me if his outfit makes sense (even if his tie is horrendously tied) 2. We’ve come a long way since the *tips fedora* meme of the early 2010s

I’ve heard good things about Masa tortilla chips but £21.50 for a bag seems excessive.

Really interesting Schnabel speech today on the future of the ECB balance sheet. Here's @lkoro.es's write-up: www.centralbanking.com/central-bank...

Checking in on Europe's pro-natalist policies: Montenegrin central bank uses monetary financing to encourage childbirth this week

USDC/USDT create an "unprecedented level of concentration" in the stablecoin market, says ESRB

I think this is the weirdest story I've ever reported. www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...

laughs in Swift, ICANNN, etc.

👀 Rutte: I sometimes make this joke that when you buy an F-35 or a Patriot system, it’s like the old Russian joke about the Lada and the refrigerator. It will arrive in 10 years, and then they ask, in the morning or the afternoon?

Strava considering to IPO - it seems to me that they have been trying to maximise what they could get out of their old codebase but I think this is actually a case of using it because there is no better alternative. Almost all good features are paywalled & the Garmin lawsuit is not good publicity.

Grab your popcorn! The @ecb.europa.eu pushed a not-too-thinly veiled correction to PwC's estimates of how much banks will have to spend on implementing the digital euro.