@JoMicheII @K_K_K_K_K_log @battleforeurope @barneypanofsky5 @alearesu @ForeignPolicy Absolutely confirm this. In fact, I think Jo was a bit taken aback at haste with which I apologized
@battleforeurope @K_K_K_K_K_log @barneypanofsky5 @JoMicheII @alearesu @ForeignPolicy Perfect. Thanks. Get it. Sorry for not digging deeper first time and getting it more precisely right and for
RT @ItaliAuto: Good Morning… ☀️With … 1974 #AlfaRomeo Tipo 33 TT 12 😍 … Arturo Merzario 💕 … Great weekend everyone 👍😊 Tim Scott /…
@BenBakkum An essay that had incorporate Kuroda San as well would have been truly dope.
@ThiagoKrause2 I have this fantasy that one day I am going to visit Thiago in Rio and I am going to buy him a drink
@K_K_K_K_K_log @battleforeurope @barneypanofsky5 @JoMicheII @alearesu @ForeignPolicy Thanks v much, but in fairness to @JoMicheII he in no way compelled me. It was my nervousness in
On February 13 2021 Mario Draghi was sworn in as Italy’s Prime Minister.
In early 2021 Draghi is not the only veteran being called back to the colors. In Foreign Policy I did a long read on the intertwined trajectories of Mario Draghi and Janet Yellen as emblematic technocrats of the neoliberal era. In this newsletter I want to focus on Draghi and in particular on his early career in Italy as a way of better understanding the stakes involved in his late-life premiership.
Draghi’s appointment as Prime Minster was both a surprising choice and an obvious one.
@battleforeurope @barneypanofsky5 @JoMicheII @alearesu @ForeignPolicy Hi. Sorry we have been talking about you in the third person. Rude. Euroscepetic ok as an appelation?
@LochgellyDL @zachdcarter Say more. Thats really intriguing. Linking figure that @zeithistoriker and others were focused on for a long-time was Lighthizer. Mnuchin’s Treasury also needs
@JoMicheII @alearesu @ForeignPolicy @BBonizzi Nice to meet you @BBonizzi thanks. A
@JoMicheII @alearesu @ForeignPolicy Thanks again for reading with such close attention.
RT @bfuste: Tenia pendent aquest "Europe’s decarbonisation challenge? Wir schaffen das" d'@adam_tooze. Hi ha moltes coses interessants, per…
Tracking historical ascent of figures like Janet Yellen involves reprising cycles of forgetting & recollection. Here @zachdcarter reminding us in 2013 of Yellen’s track record
@JoMicheII @alearesu @ForeignPolicy Fixed. Sorry for getting that wrong.
@JoMicheII @alearesu @ForeignPolicy Thanks. Will fix. A
RT @RaimondoFabbri: La sottile linea di demarcazione fra il Tecnocrate ed il Politico. Un interessante articolo di @adam_tooze per @Foreign…
@JoMicheII @alearesu @ForeignPolicy Thanks Jo. What would be a better description.
@NathanTankus @DavidBeckworth @XxiBorza They faced tough choices. Those were some pretty daunting pay off matrices. The @UliVolz formulation is a. Funny b. Captures a key
Looking forward to having my pessimism on BVerfG NextGen EU corrected here. 🙂 twitter.com/Marta_Pilati22…
@NathanTankus @DavidBeckworth @XxiBorza Agreed. Problem is that sometimes history doesn’t open a big window of opportunity through which to access what with hindsight seems like
In June 1992 in the midst of the Tangentopoli crisis, Mario Draghi gave a speech on privatization on the royal yacht Britannia. Brains amongst the
@NathanTankus @DavidBeckworth @XxiBorza Going to have to duck out but point of difference may be that 1992 peg breaks were sovereignty-infringing catastrophes, not sensible “economic”
@NathanTankus @DavidBeckworth @XxiBorza My point is that the UK is not a sensible case against which to contrast Italy’s experience inside the EMU because their
@NathanTankus @DavidBeckworth @XxiBorza If Italy had been in Britain’s position either politically of financially in 1992 I imagine the advocates of the vincolo esterno would
In a startling inversion of the normal pattern, developing country reserves increased in 2020 crisis rather than draining. Why? 1. Borrowing 2. Sudden collapse in
@XxiBorza @NathanTankus @DavidBeckworth Folks … the background counterfactual here is not national monetary sovereignty, but the actual historical choice since the 1970s, i.e. EMS or
RT @moisabanero: Lectura recomendadísima sobre los retos a los que se enfrentan Janet Yellen 🇺🇸 y Mario Draghi 🇮🇹 para reorientar a la tecn…
"Goodbye, Chicago boys. Hello, M.I.T. gang.” As @paulkrugman says, from the 1990s it was MIT that ruled the roost – implication being that actually existing
RT @UliVolz: @DavidBeckworth Back in the days, I dubbed this Dylanomics: "When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose." https://t.c…
RT @DavidBeckworth: Fascinating: "A country can only lose what it has, and in Europe the countries that joined EMU–spare Germany–apparent…
RT @profsufi: Next paper coming up at NBER CF meeting: current and former members of Treasury Department discuss whether the PPP (paycheck…
Yellen ascended to pinnacle of US economic policy on a profile that combined liberalism on labour and hawkishness on deficits. Since 2016 that has come
In Italy Draghi is synonymous with 1990s privatizations. On their contentious history this by @alearesu from 2020 is very interesting. che-fare.com/aresu-paradoss… For more see Chartbook
RT @Victor_Ayala: Excelente artículo de @adam_tooze sobre @SecYellen y Mario Draghi “In the 1990s, you didn’t need to be a naive exponent…
@UliVolz @NeverTooLateFo2 @jjreade @lemondefr Not unreasonably. 🙂
RT @UliVolz: @NeverTooLateFo2 @adam_tooze @jjreade Back then, @lemondefr hailed the introduction of the euro as the “end of the German mone…
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