For those concerned about the right-wing populist, Putin-loving AfD winning the elections in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt on 6 September 2026: do not despair! We can still bring JD Vance in and turn things around!

At Viktor Orban’s campaign rally, people in the crowd started chanting “Ruszkik haza” — “Russians, go home.”

Seems like @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social spoke in Moscow this weekend. Let’s hope the Kremlin took his advice on economic policymaking on board. If his time as Greece’s Min Fin is anything to go by, this would achieve more than any drone attack in bringing down Russia’s economy and ending this war.

After a decade of Greek recovery, questions remain: Are banks strong enough to support the economy? What can be done to close the gap in living standards? This post explores Greece’s achievements, challenges and lessons on the path from crisis to recovery www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/d...

Kardinal Reinhard Marx: „Es gibt keine Kriterien, die ich erkennen kann, die den Krieg Amerikas und Israels jetzt rechtfertigen. Nach den Kriterien der katholischen Soziallehre ist dies ein illegitimer Krieg, den wir nicht akzeptieren können.“ www.erzbistum-muenchen.de/ueber-das-er...

Jürgen Habermas, philosophe allemand, intellectuel combatif et esprit encyclopédique, est mort à l’âge de 96 ans

Here is my best Habermas story. I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"

Christopher Sims, RIP. A giant of macroeconomics has left us. Here is his homepage: www.princeton.edu/~sims/

Good call by @jantechau.bsky.social – @oezdemir.de and @gruene.de did indeed win elections in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, by a smim margin: bsky.app/profile/fina...

To my knowledge, @jantechau.bsky.social of @eurasiagroup.net is the first analyst to predict a victory for @oezdemir.de and @gruene.de in next Sunday's elections in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. Winfried Kretschmann of the Green Party has run the state rather successfully since 2011.

1/ "Sell America" is the wrong frame. The right one: global investors are structurally overweight the US and Trump just made it impossible to keep ignoring. A thread on what's actually changing in global capital — and why it matters 🧵

Trump’s strikes on Iran are an illegal war of choice—and Europeans should say so: ecfr.eu/article/trum...

Rhetorically at least, Merz’s statements are a green light to Putin in Ukraine and to Trump himself in Greenland. They also consign the resounding success of the JCPOA, including Germany’s laudable participation in it, to the dustbin of history.

EU-bonds are the answer to Russian and US aggression. The stock has risen to €738 bn and performance is excellent. My firm is heavily invested in this AAA-rated paper (commission.europa.eu/strategy-and...). It was great to discuss market trends with @piotrserafin.bsky.social and our board on Friday

A nice array of Valentine‘s Day spots selected by @financialtimes.com correspondents – but where’s Frankfurt?? @olafstorbeck.ft.com and @robin-j-brooks.bsky.social, you need to come to the rescue! giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

* CHINA URGES BANKS TO CURB US TREASURIES EXPOSURE ON MARKET RISK @bloomberg.com

The great rebalancing from the US to EM

Ja, ein Teil der Simulationen stammt aus diesem Papier: www.imk-boeckler.de/de/faust-det... Wir veröffentlichen demnächst noch weitere Simulationen mit den neuen Bevölkerungsvorausberechnungen von Destatis. Das zugrunde liegende Modell wird demnächst zudem als Open-Source veröffentlicht. 1/

Lieber @sdullien.bsky.social, liebe Ulrike Stein, gibt es die Thesen der Infobox zur Rentenreform aus dem @imkinstitut.bsky.social Bericht „Wirtschaftspolitische Herausforderungen 2026“ (www.imk-boeckler.de/fpdf/HBS-009...) in ausführlicherer Form, um die Berechnungen nachvollziehbar zu machen?

The great rebalancing – away from the US.

Berechtigte Fragen von Mathis Neuburger nach dem Femizid in Hamburg, in einem Kommentar für die MOPO (www.mopo.de/hamburg/mein...).

Nach dem schrecklichen Femizid in Hamburg bleibt unklar: Warum wurde der Täter wenige Tage zuvor trotz eines Verfahrens wegen Körperverletzung wieder auf freien Fuß gesetzt? Ist es sinnvoll, Flüchtlinge aus dem Süd-Sudan für ca. 10.000 €/Jahr in 🇩🇪 unterzubringen? www.tagesschau.de/tagesschau_2...

Now: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis

Das Marktumfeld 2026 verspricht höheres Wachstum bei auseinanderlaufender Zins- und Inflationsentwicklung in den #USA und im Euroraum. Das könnte Investment-Grade-Unternehmenspapiere stützen, sagt unser Experte @christiankopf.bsky.social via Cash Online 👇

Strange group, this board. Why is North Korea missing? And whatever happened to Mordor?

Meine Rede heute auf dem Parteitag der hessischen @gruene.de in Marburg.

We hear it all the time: Since the turn of the 2010s, thanks to the rise of tech, the US has pulled ahead economically. This idea is everywhere from Washington to Davos—and it's paralyzing Europe But it's simply not true! Let's look at what's really happening, with charts🧵

Denmark rejects Trump‘s demand to negotiate a sale of Greenland

Progressive dementia. On the open stage. Very sad.

The whole speech is worth watching. #Carney www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE98...

Costly own goal: US import #tariffs primarily impact the domestic economy, with 96% of the costs being borne by importers & consumers in 🇺🇸 rather than foreign exporters, according to new research by @julianhi.nz, @aaron-lohmann.bsky.social, @hendrikmahlkow.com & Anna Vorwig👇

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Roz Chast. #NewYorkerCartoons Sign up for our humor newsletter to get cartoons, comics, and more straight in your inbox: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/xXMulf

Some random thoughts on European holdings of US debt (🧵): An analysis of statistics from the US Treasury International Capital (TIC) System shows that European investors hold around €5.1 tr in US equities, €1.9 tr in US Treasury and agency bonds and €1.7 tr in USD corporate bonds. (1/9)

Sell America

I have always admired Norwegians for their finely articulated prose.

Trumps Zoll-Drohungen zeigen: Die von der Leyen-Zusage für 750 Mrd. Dollar zusätzlich fossile Energie in den USA zu kaufen, war ein irrer Fehler. Eine weitere Erpressbarkeit ist entstanden. Wir müssen uns von fossilem Gas & Öl befreien. Wärmepumpe und grünen Wasserstoff verbreiten statt ausbremsen!

The US is the hottest country in the world? Give me a break! international.au.dk/education/me...

From a cost-benefit perspective, the decision to deploy 50 soldiers from various European NATO member states to Greenland in January 2026 to deter a potential US invasion of the island was a stroke of genius, as @davidcarretta.bsky.social rightly points out.

This Rachel Cohen, @cohen489.bsky.social, an amazing American voice worth following.

@elerianm.bsky.social doesn't defend the @federalreserve.gov's freedom from political influence, but only its "operational autonomy" and "institutional" independence. Thereby, he is “encouraging short but unsustainable booms and higher inflation, inevitably followed by recession” (Gordon Brown).

“Far from making us more powerful, the pursuit of American dominance will make us weaker, eventually leaving us with no sphere, and no influence, at all,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues:

Vielen Dank an @keinewunder.de für das Interview mit @fuwnews.bsky.social über den Ausblick für die Anleihemärkte. Die Zinsstrukturkurven könnten dieses Jahr noch steiler werden, u.a. durch weniger Zentralbankkäufe. Besser auf Unternehmensanleihen mittlerer Laufzeiten setzen. tinyurl.com/fuwchk

Trump is turning the US into a banana republic without bananas

Unser Leiter des Anleihenfondsmanagements @christiankopf.bsky.social rechnet auch 2026 mit steigenden langfristigen Renditen. Das ganze Interview von @keinewunder.de lesen Sie hier:

For full disclosure – this was my answer to @olafstorbeck.ft.com‘s question on potential candidates for the presidency of the @ecb.europa.eu: www.linkedin.com/posts/christ...

👇🏻Alain Berset is right. This ought to be the position of all European governments.

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

“.. The United States has now given Russia, China, and anyone else who wants to give it a try a road map for invading countries and capturing leaders who displease them ..” @radiofreetom.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

"Trump’s new world order is now very much a reality. It has no obvious rules, no real allies, celebrates the jungle and is almost always about money. There is a lot of wealth under Venezuela’s soil. Trump is now committed to extracting it." My column. Free to read. as.ft.com/r/08b22b7a-4...