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Europe’s unemployment problem is multi-causal but 2008-2015 shows impact of demand failure & inadequate monetary po… https://t.co/oQEImSEgyq

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Europe’s long recession and protracted recovery as indexed by registration of new cars. @PictetAM via @SoberLook https://t.co/2tuik5YCZN

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@KatharinaPistor My point might be put this way: without an expansion of the mandate we will never know how much we… https://t.co/Zm5grLehMc

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Systemic rivalry: The EU foreign policy apparatus is waking up to need to formulate policy v. “distortive effects o… https://t.co/6CHwIMzaU6

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The impact of Cyclone Idai is being felt across southern Africa Especially in Mozambique, Zimbabwe with Malawi suff… https://t.co/79lEReaE3k

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A cyclone has destroyed 90% of the Mozambican city of Beira – pop 530k yup thats 90% 90%! https://t.co/yf2aFkzVcl https://t.co/OvrzpZtHWx

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The kind of deficit you feel fine about: gov investment accounts for 90% of Canada’s gov deficit 2010-2017. @cibc v… https://t.co/WyIKjabOzL

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I am a bit puzzled by @KatharinaPistor response. The piece acknowledges variety of forces in play. But one can hard… https://t.co/xEdzdqRquP

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Following crisis of 2018, private bank credit in Turkey is still contracting, but the crunch is offset by lending b… https://t.co/PWSnOdGBfV

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Something happened to inflation expectations in the US around 2014-5. @SoberLook https://t.co/u3KLKyrxwt

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@KatharinaPistor Structural differences are real of course. But they are not a satisfactory explanation for the sur… https://t.co/CETuSUdpat

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Before history had ended: Alexandre Kojève in French uniform during the phony war, 1940. From fascinating essay by… https://t.co/QuSbQycuY4

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Profits in excess of cost of capital are concentrated in top 10% of global firms. 70% barely do more than cover cos… https://t.co/MOFmFSip7q

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The median age of Europeans is 42 = twice the median age of African neighbors, where median age is only 18! @wef vi… https://t.co/YXLs8R0hzg

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Before history had ended: Alexandre Kojève in French uniform during the phony war, 1940. From fascinating essay by… https://t.co/qKOnoYQMg8

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Why no full employment mandate for the ECB? Did a column for @socialeurope on the ECB and its mandate… https://t.co/brDNTvSOS3

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Profits in excess of cost of capital are concentrated in top 10% of global firms. 60% merely cover cost of capital… https://t.co/6QPPmll1t5

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The falling rate of US labour market participation v. Europe with far worse demography is remarkable.… https://t.co/V8BxSyBLBJ

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@InncentBystndr @WhiteyShlomoG I won’t deny I’m partisan. But it is the process itself that is so incredibly dysfunctional.

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"What are central banks for?", asks @adam_tooze. The final two paras on why legal mandates matter make a very impor… https://t.co/hQ6NZWLsdv

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The median age of Europeans is 42 more than twice the median age of African neighbors which is 18! @wef via… https://t.co/092pnv9cH2

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Next stage in evisceration of US fiscal capacity. Estimates of Fed revenue through 2024 are down by $2trn since 201… https://t.co/qLvYsObeRT

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The extent to which the US budgetary process is broken is hard to exaggerate: White House lays out its “budget prop… https://t.co/iWL6rCGRby

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In Europe mortgage securitization was an option in the US IT IS THE SYTEM. Non Agency reestablishing itself in rece… https://t.co/6PMcILW1KZ

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Delighted that Crashed won this very cool German prize for Wirtschaftspublizistik from the @FEStiftung delighted to… https://t.co/Y15fFNr4yQ

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On the politics of monetary policy, democratic iterations (Benhabib), the struggle to revive the legacy of Coretta… https://t.co/PADw7u0Zki

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Useful round up by @bobdavis187 of latest batch of skeptical papers about China’s growth record. A closer look at V… https://t.co/zaAhYOStwi

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In 1990 New Zealand’s central bank provided the model for the new era of single target inflation-targeting central… https://t.co/Ez8dpk1XCp

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@mjturner1975 @OstrumAM @SoberLook historically it did!

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@marcmakingsense @OstrumAM @SoberLook nope. dont think so, which is why i formulated the tweet as cautiously as I did.

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@sjwrenlewis Or, as I argue in my book, using precisely the same argument (no more divine coincidence): maximize gr… https://t.co/fjzvas0gxk

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Why protectionism is such a scary word for Europeans! Their economies are FAR more trade exposed than is the US.… https://t.co/jmQRfK1MjQ

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"Forecast errors and monetary policy normalisation in the euro area” by @ZsoltDarvas is a devastating review of gap… https://t.co/A8Oyz0cIQy

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As American labour markets have tightened it is the bottom half of the wage distribution that has done relatively b… https://t.co/gDL5ujSCsU

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@OpenVeinsUK @martinwolf_ Good question! If I wrote the book a 2nd time and had one more chapter to add It would be… https://t.co/ZP4ugYxRZZ

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@majorosgy I take your point and hint at it in the essay. But isn’t the crucial thing to make them politically answ… https://t.co/cu9IsKeft6

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