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@MehreenKhn The Gilets Jaunes experience that has very specific French background just gives bad faith actors an excuse not to work the distributional arithmetic, which,

@MehreenKhn So up the ante. The question has to be simply what is their price? A thoroughly manageable distributional problem in the order of a

@ClausVistesen The EU just announced an entire facility to deal with precisely this issue. The Just transition has been endlessly debated since 2018. The conversation

Europe’s transport sector faces biggest shake-up as Brussels seeks to curb carbon footprint of an industry whose emissions have been rising since 1990. Stricter CO2

Pascal Canfin, "French MEP head of Europ parl enviro cttee" is being cited all over the place as opposing extension of carbon pricing to fuels

Brace brace brace for a series of cheap takes on gilets Jaunes and risks of carbon prices, carbon taxes. Seriously folks, can we attend to

It has been a big week for carbon pricing. @MESandbu EU, ECB, IMF and more cautiously the G20 have all endorsed carbon pricing in one

@kpd_musing @_pardalote_ @CSIS And PPP adjustments operates both on defense spending and GDP so I wonder how much the "defense burden” would actually be affected.

“It’s going to be bloody hard to do . . . but just imagine for one second the cost of non-action” @TimmermansEU on Fit for 55. ft.com/content/f0343c… https://t.co/E0R1Fp7KEn

@GustavAHorn @ecb It’ll do and it IS one that is quantified and enshrined in law/international treaty -> suitable for the triple mandate.

This is another astonishing, eye-opening, mind-expanding thread by @ernestleungmt on the remarkable economic theories and state-building activities of the men we commonly call China's "warlords".

RT @ernestleungmt: @B4Btv I did not expect this but alright, if that is the case, I will go ahead and declare this thread relevant to

What is China’s estimated actual defense spending? @CSIS experts put it at just shy of $250bn all told. One metric they dont give you is

RT @JStein_WaPo: Dem plan would achieve 80% clean electricity by 2030, senior D aide tells reporters, w/ key planks including: — Clean en…

I give you a 1974 Ford Escort, admittedly a rather cool one …. for … 80,000-120,000 Euros! What is the most anyone has ever paid

RT @mollytaft: i wrote about why cable news sucks at covering climate change, and got to reflect about my time as a PR person desperately

RT @NewStatesman: California’s Death Valley has broken the all-time world air temperature record with 54.44C. newstatesman.com/politics/2021/… https…

RT @cityatlas: @IsabelleLetell1 Straight talk (still too rare) from @adam_tooze: e-flux.com/journal/114/36… https://t.co/zIUaJHAgto

Back in the spring it was clear that growth in total social financing in China was beginning to slow. ft.com/content/2b9273… Now the PBOC has cut

RT @MehreenKhn: It's Fit For 55 day in Brussels. College of commissioners is still holed up in Brussels making final adjustments to ~13 pie…

US dentists rapidly return to full staffing after pandemic, but business is 17% down. By contrast, restaurants are generating about 13.5% more real output per

The Chinese central bank’s decision on Friday to cut lenders’ reserve requirement ratio further fuelled offshore purchases of the country’s bonds this week. ft.com/content/f0c71c… But

@GustavAHorn @ecb The decarbonization glide path we need to be on is pretty precise, is it not? Down 55% by 2030 and net zero by

US "payroll survey is saying that job growth is v strong, while household survey shows first outright decline in employment in over a year.” How

You uncouple if you want too …. “Contrary to the geopolitical rhetoric, from an asset management point of view you cannot avoid looking at the

@Tpsmyth01 @RonSteenblik @is_OwenLewis @AdamPosen Wow. That’s fascinating. Have you written about this?

If you liked @M_C_Klein at @FTAlphaville If you followed him loyally to Barrons You are going to LOVE his new substack newsletter, The Overshoot. Ive

"Global holdings of Chinese stocks and bonds have surged about 40% to more than $800bn over the past year as investors bought assets at a

@GustavAHorn @ecb I take the legitimation issue seriously, but I just dont see the problem. Secondary mandate is clear. I would much prefer an explicit

@BachmannRudi @GustavAHorn @ecb @piazzesi Genau so ist es. Aber pass auf Rudi, gleich erklärt dir jemand das braun ein ganz falsches Wort ist und man

@DanielaGabor I fear it will end in the same blind alley as the original. Critical green accounting studies much preferable. Practice-centered, situational, avoiding artificial generalities.

@Tpsmyth01 @RonSteenblik @is_OwenLewis @AdamPosen Im no expert but aren’t there 3 issues here: 1. Development of efficient launch technologies by private actors 2. Regulation of

@davies_will Oh lord …. I didn’t even get the reference. Thanks for helpinging me out! 🙂

@tracyalloway @TheStalwart Jeezus Im so sorry Tracy. Thats awful. Inexcusable. Hard not to jump to several different sorts of conclusion … but really I’m just

@Morris_ScottA @WorldBank @IsabellaMWeber @michaelxpettis @berthofmanecon Thank you!

@davies_will Not a gesture on the receiving end. Or was that your point? @davies_will … irony not my strong suit on twitter … 🙁