Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Chatbots and metaverse going in the same (black hole) direction

Keep on fighting big tech algos

We recently published a study on the transformation of the Eurozone architecture (🔗 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers...., with Alex Goghie, Matteo Giordano & @rikereimer.bsky.social) and launched an accompanying interactive online tool (🔗 monetary-architecture.com). This is how it came to be 👇

My only use of Chat GPT is to provide same readings than my students' assignements to check whether they used it. In its newer version, without me asking for it, chapgpt automatically proposes potential student's users to blatantly lie & cheat. Just ban this shit from our universities.

For the Guardian, @bjoernbremer.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social and I write about how building new homes is not enough to tackle the housing crisis. Housing is a redistributive issue and progressive policy solutions need to acknowledge that. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Je propose qu’on impose que toute session sur un LLM soit précédées d’une video de 5 minutes avec VOUS N’IRIEZ PAS À LA SALLE AVEC UN CHARIOT ÉLÉVATEUR VOUS NE BRÛLERIEZ PAS UNE FORÊT POUR FAIRE UNE BLAGUE VOUS NE VOLERIEZ PAS UNE VOITURE POUR FAIRE UN TRAJET À PIEDS

NVIDIA earnings were a mirage. The market figured it out surprisingly fast. NVIDIA bump evaporated. I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble. But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash. Waiting for the feds? open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...

Tuilp bulb producer shrugs off "tulip bubble" anxiety with bumper flower bulb demand

Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09) The grad is from China Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril" Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package bit.ly/3LHpin8

Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry

Why don't we have an EU wide carbon tax? Well, some people worked as hard as they could to stop it. Important new research by Fabienne Jouty and Christophe Bonneuil!

1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...

Post 2010 Germany "economic success" would have been very different witout €financial capital flowing back to Frankfurt during the crisis and China industrial demand. Take these two elements away and German growth model look more like Deutschbahn reliability than ordo liberal Mittelstand fantaisies

Oh, I just saw a cognitive dissonance

Pour ceux qui ne l'auraient pas encore vu, cet hommage IA de l'ancienne ministre des Anciens combattants, avec deux Bretagne, plus de Marseille, Madrid française. Et un magnifique casque type Stahlhelm 1935 pour honorer la mémoire des poilus...

EPP's leader Weber going full orwell 1984 double speak. How dares he talk about strenghtening environment and parlementary democracy while his main strategy today is allying with far right parties to dismantle sustainability norms? I would laugh if i would not be furious

What stage of the Ponzi scheme is it when Robinhood wants to allow "amateur traders" to invest in AI startups? www.ft.com/content/7278...

Relying on LLMs to get your diploma and is similar to forging PhD research for boosting your political career in Germany You think it creates shortcuts and notability for getting the top job. But as you are only interested in the CV line, you don't learn anything. And one day, you are exposed.

Au fait, pour visibiliser davantage l'inculpation de Didier Reynders, ancien ministre MR des finances belges pris en plein délit de blanchiment d'argent au café tabac du coin alors qu'il était occupé au bailout des banques, on pourrait savoir s'il arrive à se cuisiner lui même des oeufs en prison?

If Deutsche Bank acts like during the 2007 Global financial crisis, they will sell AI related financial products to their clients while shorting AI with proprietary trading www.ft.com/content/c042...

Its a paradox if there was a bit of strategic vision. It ceases to be one if we consider that the current anti ecological backlash is driven by revenge, some kind of priviledged conservative nihilism,an inability to see beyond a 2y horizon when it comes to profitability margin.

My more elaborate take on why the Dutch election outcome does not represent a defeat of the far right

Could you describe how markets move from euphoria to panic when a bubble bursts? Yes, of course. The shift occurs when more market participants starts to bet that the golden bullshit will be perceived more as bullshit than gold by other market particpants. Do we have indicators? Some.

Why do rustbelts vote radical right? Studying the German Ruhr area, @nilsblossey.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social and I show: it’s not just about deindustrialization, but also about the original industrialization. Where coal is buried deeper and mining started later, the AfD is stronger today 1/12

🚨 I am delighted to announce that Tom Turnbull’s and my volume with @stanfordpress.bsky.social is out today, featuring Jennifer Eaglin, Victor Seow, Shellen Wu, Antoine Missemer, Giuliano Garavini, Michael Dobson, Laura A. Twagira, Damilola Adebayo, Troy Vettese, Liz Chatterjee, and Rebecca Wright

Google, the world’s largest search engine operating three in four smartphones, has played Brussels like a fiddle – shaping laws, silencing rivals, and calling it "innovation". The chart shows how Big Tech bankrolls Brussels’ top think tanks. Read our latest story here: www.ftm.eu/articles/goo...

Fossil fuel compagnies will keep on exploiting global labor, burning the planet and dismantling sustainablity regulation until the morale improve. Also, I hope that the main cause for our inability to reverse our collective trajectory to ecological disaster is clear for everyone by now.

I enjoyed doing this. www.ft.com/content/b003...

fixed that for you

Rate hikes did nothing to stem the 2022 inflation the IMF finds. But they did wreck green transition momentum, and fed back into the pre-pandemic status quo of deregulation, debt-obsession, social cuts and corporate largesse I caught flak for using the word ‘sabotage’ at the time, but I stand by it

"Mort, you talk about Victor Wembanyama too much!" Oh, do I have bad news for you, friend. My latest on the league's maybe, potentially MVP. sports.yahoo.com/nba/article/...

Ensuite, ca fait quelques temps que Lordon diffuse des carabistouilles à base de Spinosa, désirs et capitalisme

But according to the EU Taxonomy, burning Finnish trees is quasi almost always sustainable (like gas, flying planes and sailing cargos with minimal % of biofuels,...)

Carbon capture for power stations specifically is just as subject to the overall dynamics of CCS: it never materialises like it's expected to. Here's a new chart for ya: each blue line is what *should* have happened based on each report's planned state dates. Black line: what happened

When central banks were asked to "do smth" about climate, the Fed sat it out, the ECB experimented then retreated but the PBOC planned green and brown money at scale. geoeconomic.substack.com/p/central-ba...

"To help unlock the investments needed to achieve energy sovereignty, and ensure we stop handing over billions of dollars a year to the Kremlin, we urge you to push for spending on renewable and low-carbon energy to be counted as part of the Nato 1.5% target." 👏 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Quand les mots changent, la politique change : comment le centre fait le jeu de l’extrême droite”

Je vous aide l'AFP "afin de continuer l'autosabordage réglementaire européen face aux pressions de l'extrême droite, des gouvernements étrangers autoritaires ou proto fascistes et du lobby des business à l'empreinte ecologique carsatrophique". Merci, de rien.

Wow, même le Financial Times se prononce pour taxer les super riches en France. Et pointe aussi l’enjeu de leur pouvoir (oligarchie), au delà de leur fortune. Il y a des choses qui commencent à basculer.

As it happens, this is almost exactly the same as Nintendo’s annual revenue. Which seems like the right comparison- a successful producer of electronic toys. on.ft.com/4nMkP0B

D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51

Also, disgusting billionairs sailing their private yachts easily camouflage under maritime shipping statute to escape any fuel tax (they just need to buy a candy bar at the marina shop of any other country they departed from during their trip)

Hostility towards #academia and #immigrants is widespread. #Denmark is no exception. Under political and media pressure, earlier this week @roskildeuni.bsky.social decided overnight to close its Master's degree in Business Administration and Leadership (BAL) from 2026. 🧶 1/20

🌿 Investing in the environment: European banks and environmental protection This paper by our researchers Jacopo Cellini and Thomas Soden explores the role of economic and financial actors in the international environmental governance. Read the full article 👉 hdl.handle.net/1814/76886

L’approche néo-schumpeterienne de Philippe Aghion a largement inspiré les politiques économiques en Europe depuis le tournant des années 2000. Et singulièrement celle d’Emmanuel Macron 1/

Dans l'Entendez-vous l'éco du jour, on discute avec @alietteh.bsky.social, Sylvie Rivot, Céline Antonin et Guillaume Vallet du prix Nobel qui vient d'être décerné à Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion et Peter Howitt sur la compréhension de la croissance et l'innovation www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

an alien species looking back to our end of times, and notice that in the year of the most gigantic (AI) bubble to ever inflate, the powers that be gave the Nobel to the most insipid theory of technological change and growth in economics