The Bourbons and the Habsburgs agree on something!!!

In two thirds of all US counties deaths are now outnumbering births. Source: buff.ly/cWokiWP

🇷🇺🔥 Russia's Baltic Sea port of Primorsk, ‌one of country's largest export gateways, lost at least 40% of its storage facilities in Ukrainian drone attacks last month, U.S. commercial satellite images seen by Reuters showed on Thursday. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

#Russia March manufacturing PMI 48.3 (was 49.5) Manufacturing PMI has now been below 50 basically for a year.

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Less than two weeks remaining to apply for the 2026 ACES Summer School in Political Economy, August 12-14 in Kathmandu. Open to current PhD students, we're pleased to bring together an impressive list of faculty for this 5th annual School. Details here: www.acesecon.org/conferences/...

#Russia March manufacturing PMI 48.3 (was 49.5) Manufacturing PMI has now been below 50 basically for a year.

"Those jobs and factories haven’t materialized, at least on the grand scale the president and his top advisers have promised." "Even if... there are some sectors that have positive employment effects, the effect for most people is going to be higher prices" www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

BOFIT Russia, China and Ukraine statistics on our website are updated. 🔗 www.bofit.fi/en/monitorin... #Russia #China #Ukraine #economy #statistics #PowerBI

".the net interest margin.. to decline to a historically low level of 1.4 %. The structure of the Chinese economy also affects the banking sector’s growth potential, as growth relies heavily on export industries generously funded with cheap loans from state banks." #China

​BOFIT Weekly Review 14/2026 Finland posted weak performances last year in goods and services trade with China Read more 🔗 www.bofit.fi/en/monitorin... #China #economy #BOFITWeeklyReview

Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs have not created manufacturing jobs. Smart economic strategy would stop measuring success by the number of assembly lines reopened & start focusing on what raises living standards: productivity, affordability and overall economic growth. by @jasonfurman.bsky.social

Suomi mainittu www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

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Updated @bruegel.org European gas import data: Q1 2026 and March LNG by source 📊 download data: www.bruegel.org/dataset/euro...

Ugne updated the EU gas imports tracker: - Last week we saw very high LNG imports - March had the highest ever flows from US - but, EU storage level still slowly declining

Historical background to the phrase "Bomb them back to the Stone Age." Originally coined by Art Buchwald to satirize Vietnam hawks, misattributed to US Air Force General Curtis LeMay. LeMay denied he said the US should bomb North Vietnam back to the Stone Age. Trump now embraces that rhetoric.

i might end up posting this 17 times today but if you only read one piece on the anniversary of Trump's Liberation Day Tariffs let it be this one, by @alanbeattie.bsky.social

Today in India Edition, Shruti Srivastava looks at the trade situation as we reach the first anniversary of US President Donald Trump’s famous “Liberation Day.” Also, soaring jet fuel prices are in focus.

Featured on INOMICS: AI Methods in Economics and Finance Research #Econsky

📢New CEPR publication📚 World War Trade: Conflict, Containment, and the Emergent World Trading Order @baldwinre.bsky.social offers a timely framework for understanding the evolving relationship between trade, policy, & international economic governance. Free download ow.ly/41jX50YCaEF #EconSky #ebook

🌍Where is the international trading system headed? What is domino regionalism and how will it play into the emergent order? Richard Baldwin introduces his new CEPR book on VoxEU: cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky #ebook #trade #China #UnitedStates #EU

Spread the word. I've had the privilege of working for @cergrant.bsky.social, @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social's founding director, for 13 years. After 28 years in charge, he will step down at the end of the year. It will take someone with outstanding qualities to replace him. Details on our website.

Yicai: "Beijing's expenditure on science and technology is expected to break through CNY400 billion for the first time in 2026, with more emphasis on basic research, as the country ramps up funding to drive innovation and strengthen technological self-reliance." www.yicaiglobal.com/news/chinas-...

Social networks weaken geographic boundaries of existing deposit markets, finds a new SUERF Policy Brief, co-authored by Bundesbank economist Natalya Martynova. It shows that deposit competition is not purely local anymore. Read more here: www.suerf.org/publications/…

How did the speech go down? (Chart edition).

Suomen talouskasvua ei ole täysin peruttu Iranin sodan takia, mutta nihkeää se on. Kurkkaas tuore talouskatsauksemme: www.saastopankki.fi/fi-fi/media/...

Hanken School of Economics invites applications for two positions in economics: a postdoctoral researcher (open to all fields of specialization) and a lecturer or senior lecturer (requiring fluency in Swedish). #Economics

Työvoiman ulkopuolella oli yhteensä 1 299 000 henkilöä eli 31 % 15–74-vuotiaasta väestöstä (-16 000 vuodentakaisesta). 15–24-vuotiaita, jotka eivät olleet työssä, koulutuksessa eivätkä asevelvollisuutta suorittamassa, oli 56 000 henkilöä, mikä oli 9 % 15–24-vuotiaista.

Trump does not mention NATO once in his speech, after threatening in several pre-speech interviews to leave the alliance 🌮 🌮 🌮 apnews.com/article/trum...

The end, always just over the horizon. Anyways, Brent up 6% to $107/bbl www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Maybe giving this speech was a bad call. (And who wrote this mess?) Trump is clearly lost; admitting it to the rest of the world is a bad idea. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Ukraine’s leader says he signed 10-year deals worth billions of $ with three wealthy petrostates 🇶🇦🇸🇦🇦🇪at the end of last week…involved the supply and joint production of Ukrainian drones, as well as expertise, in exchange for Gulf energy and other “scarce resources.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Ukraine’s leader says he signed 10-year deals worth billions of $ with three wealthy petrostates 🇶🇦🇸🇦🇦🇪at the end of last week…involved the supply and joint production of Ukrainian drones, as well as expertise, in exchange for Gulf energy and other “scarce resources.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

"...cutting flows through the ports to about a third of the previous week’s level and reducing Moscow’s oil income by more than $1 billion." "Weekly crude flows from Russia slumped by 1.75 million barrels a day to 2.32 million last week" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

South Korea exports to China really taking off in early 2026! Value of exports 1-3/26 y/y +49 %.

German institutes cut 2026 and 2027 growth forecasts and raise inflation outlook reut.rs/4v5bdls

Euro zone factories see jump in input costs, supply snags, survey shows reut.rs/4c4D8cV

"Vientituotteista metsäteollisuus korostuu edelleen Suomen Kiinan viennissä. Sellu oli edelleen tärkein vientituotteemme kattaen viennistä 33%. Puu- ja paperiviennin osuus oli yhteensä hieman yli 4%." #Kiina

"Pankkilainojen keskimääräinen antolainauskorko on laskenut noin 3 prosenttiin ja pankkien pääasiallinen tulonlähde, korkokate (laina- ja talletuskorkojen välinen ero), on painunut historiallisen matalalle 1,4 prosentin tasolle." #Kiina

High oil prices help, but won’t solve, Russia’s economic troubles Read Heli Simola's blog 🔗 www.bofbulletin.fi/en/blogs/202... #Russia #oil #bofbulletin @suomenpankki.fi

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Join us for the next SITE Seminar on April 7, 12:00–13:00 CEST, with Jaakko Meriläinen presenting new research on how elite networks shaped nation-building in 19th-century Finland. At SSE and online. ➡️ Learn more and how to join the seminar: www.hhs.se/en/about-us/...

Today in how not to do economic policy: The French govt leaned on TotalEnergies to cap petrol prices under €2. This caused a rush to their filling stations Which caused some filling stations to run out of petrol Now everyone is worried there is a general shortage www.franceinfo.fr/economie/aut...

Väestö keskittyi asutuskeskuksiin myös vuonna 2025. Keskiarvo väestöään kasvattaneiden kuntien ja kaupunkien asukasmäärästä oli yli 45 000 henkeä. Joukkoon mahtuu toki myös poikkeuksia. Väestöään menettäneiden kuntien joukossa oli 23 kaupunkia, joiden asukasmäärä ylitti 20 000.

Market economies are resilient in all kinds of ways. ”AI-related exports accounted for one-third of global trade growth as Asian hubs — Taiwan, South Korea and parts of south-east Asia — supplied markets around the world, particularly the US.” 🇯🇵🇰🇷🇹🇼🇺🇸 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Chinese government bonds have sidestepped a global debt sell-off since the start of the Iran war, emerging as a haven from soaring energy prices and rising global inflation. What’s behind Chinese bonds’ resilience? ft.trib.al/WgZuWFo

Did you know Navy ships have their own onboard economy? The Kansas City Fed supports it through the Navy Cash program, serving 138 ships and almost 192,000 cardholders worldwide. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4bEctDg

Today President and CEO Jeff Schmid spoke to the #OklahomaCity Rotary about his outlook for the economy and monetary policy. You can read his full remarks here: https://bit.ly/4bKSggE #EconSky

Wild story: President appoints someone to the central bank recommended by his own finance minister. The appointee resists the president's demands to approve bigger rate cuts, and now the president says he "stupidly" followed the minister's advice, leading to "the worst mistake of my government."