I would like to be glad to say "Schadenfreude", but given upcoming famine risks in global south and wealth transfers from low/middle class households to energy companies shareholders, I just cant.

Does being high-skilled protect you from ethnic bias when applying for a UK visa? In a new pre-registered experiment to be published in International Migration Review, I find that high occupational status doesn't shield immigrants from ethnic prejudice — it may activate it.

Fully agree! With @felixsimon.bsky.social we wrote "the proliferation of AI content may increase the value and demand for authentic content" knightcolumbia.org/content/dont...

Another episode of "How fossil fuels dependence weakened the EU's economic and political autonomy": www.ft.com/content/6bf1...

Can Péter Magyar win a deeply rigged election? Would Orbán leave power—and would anything change even if he did? How did we even get here, and why, against all odds, do we still cling to hope? I wrote up my (admittedly messy) thoughts ahead of April 12 brettoninthewoods.substack.com/p/can-hungar...

“Stock markets rise on five-day delay of war crimes”, is a headline somewhere I guess?

Happy to launch the new website of the Political Economy Working Group in Belgium! politicaleconomy.be 🔍 Meet the team 📚 Browse publications 🔬 Explore projects 📅 Stay tuned for events The website is built with @rstats and @quarto.org. It is open source: codeberg.org/agoutsmedt/e...

Meanwhile, somewhere in the EU bubble: how can we add "slash green regulations to improve market competiveness" in that list?

As a prep for an interview with a journalist, I looked for info on the prevalence of long-term contracts for gas in Europe. I found this: globallnghub.com/europes-expo... I don’t know whether the situation in 2026 is similar, but if it is, it’s time for the industry to hire more risk managers. 😱

"When the wise person points at China's role in expanding renewable capacities worldwide by crasing green utilities' price, the fool (ahem, European Commission) looks at markets' distortions/industrial overcapacity/disloyal competition.

Brilliant take from @triofrancos.bsky.social. The Western green movement was so fugace. And the Great Green Dismantling started well before the Trump 2.0 fascist backlash: weak politicians, powerful carbon lobbies, disorganised green industry, mediocre conservatives lurred into "antiwoke" narratives

Oh, a ripple effect.

Et avec tout ça, on ne sait toujours pas si Dune est une fable écolo/tragédie des ressources pimpée au LSD ou une grosse vrille libertarienne/reac/islamophobe pimpée au LSD.

"Lego’s chief executive has lambasted Danish wealth tax proposal, arguing it would hurt the rich Scandinavian country significantly.(...) Lego posted another set of record annual results with revenues rising 12 % in 2025 to $13bn and net profit up about a fifth to $2.6bn" www.ft.com/content/5d28...

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Monetary policy is about facing dilemmas, always. High IR hurt low/middle class households, as it is more difficult to get/pay back a mortgage, and the ecological transition with its cpaital intensive industries. Low IR+QE favor tech bro's fascist oligopolies and turbocharge billionairs' wealth.

Great to see extensive NYT & FT coverage of our paper on the fossil-fuel profit bonanza during the previous war-induced oil & gas price spike. Links in Gregor’s thread. 👇

Here we go - EU industry chief Stephane Sejourne presents the long-awaited Industrial Accelerator Act "What I'm talking to you about isn't just a change in our modus operandi - it's actually a change in doctrine. This is something that was unthinkable even just a few months ago"

Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social

What a day to cover this topic. Short version: Financial hegemony is when you don't need to start wars to get what you want; and also when, if you 𝘥𝘰 start a war*, your borrowing cost goes down and your currency goes up. * Which you'll be tempted to start one regularly.

The only good alternative is that the vilain has a Credit Suisse account where his yacht's loan is securitised. www.ft.com/content/1a09...

If you were to wrote any novel including sordid elite crime/abuse in between early 90's and late 2010s and your main character does NOT have a Deutsche Bank account, then you are a failed novelist. www.ft.com/content/b1d9...

Which stage of the AI bubble are we when "advances in ceramics during toilet manufacturing" are the new frontier technology for chips' manfuctaring, alongside a soup maker using resin "derived from its expertise in umami flavourings" to make chips' insulation material? www.ft.com/content/4252...

Some snapshots from ongoing work with @cleocz.bsky.social & Liu Li: Looking at labor economics textbooks over time, you see the discipline shift in the 1970s. Earlier textbooks revolve around industrial relations & trade unions. Later ones centre on labor markets & human capital.

My brother wanted a London pub crawl. The result? My new Substack post: "Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?" How private equity reshaped the local, which pubs are most at risk and most importantly what to do about it. open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

Very belated repost, but ok: Europe's national leaders will meet today to discuss the future of industry (in a castle, of course). Can it remain competitive? If so, how?

Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser after user feedback revealed many who wanted an AI-free browser experience.

Seeing your (old by now) book (the tiny green one, bottom right the monetary section) on the shelves of someone else, when randomly scrolling bluesky and without knowing how it ended there, is a joy that never gets old and worth to share. Great collection by the way @claudia-sahm.bsky.social

Oui mais si on pouvait faire reproduire les nfts des insectes et les vendre via sa propre crpyto, disons l insecta, on en serait pas là. Il a manque la vision strategique de Dogami.

This enraged me for so many years...when DEI guidelines exist in Europe for aca recruitements, they also never mention class/social background elements

📢now forthcoming in ECMA! The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations. Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵

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...

Il y'a une étude à faire sur le changement rhétorique du personnel politique conservateur qui critiquait "populisme", "les extrêmes politiques" et nous sortait la théorie du fer à cheval il y'a un an et qui maintenant reconnait "enfin" la singularité de la menace de l'extrême droite.

World turns shit but brussels remains the best absurd city ever

Well well well. The Danes are weaponising firesales.

Financial war in response to trade war and territorial threats? More and more people appear to be calling for it. So I updated my post on U.S. Treasuries holdings—now with the latest data. benjaminbraun.org/posts/treasu...

Let's start by, at least, bending the curve and stopping to fuel the AI chatbot hype/foolishness (graphs courtesy of excellent @danielagabor.bsky.social report) www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etud...

If the EU didnt manage to seize Russian assets frozen within Euroclear accounts, can it overcome coordination (and other) problems to sell 12,6 trillions of dollars of US assets owned by a myriad of private financial operators? Answer is no. Never too late to start though www.ft.com/content/beea...

I'm don't think we should get too excited about this. Eurodollar structure is dollar assets funded by dollar liabilities. If Europe moves to dump dollar assets it's left with ... large dollar liabilities. Not a great position to be in, particularly if access to dollar swap lines is questionable.

Didn’t believe this was true but have checked and am told it was sent to the Norwegian government yesterday.

Lets never forget the immense treachery of "regular" conservatives who carved the path for the death of democracy and descent into fascist hellish nightmare. Lets never forgive them neither

Within the next decade the radical right is going to be the main force on the right in Europe (national and EU level). This includes far-right parties and formerly centre-right parties shifting their position. Moderate conservatism and Christian democracy will largely disappear on the right. 1/

Infographie géniale de la DG Trésor : que finance l'épargne financière des ménages français ? J'aurais parié sur bien plus de dette publique, a priori. www.tresor.economie.gouv.fr/Articles/202...

The post Global Financial crisis big narrative/fear was about the "rise of populism" while the main issue has always been about the rise of the hard/far/radical right. It's never too late to use the correct vocabulary.

“We created the market [for solar] and made it interesting for investors,” says Eicke Weber, former co-chairman of the European Solar Manufacturing Council.“But we forgot to make industrial policies.” Add disgusting politics from conservatives/far right and here we are. www.ft.com/content/3749...

Tooze disagrees that Resource imperialism is an explanation for Trumpists actions. Why not? 1 Assets are small. Oil is heavy & difficult to recover economically 2 Financial liabilities of VZ govt are large Concludes that trump likes "cosplaying" as imperialist adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

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...