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Hawkish ECB has failed to honor price stability. The eurozone price level is 7 % lower today than 2 % target would… https://t.co/fh5LfxmgW4

"Hannah Arendt rose very slowly in the mornings and required solitary cups of coffee before she approached sociabil… https://t.co/QajEqrNcB0

What a devil’s advocate would tell ECB hawks: Their commitment to price stability requires them to back Draghi’s st… https://t.co/PHO3OIvUeW

A portrait of the 19th French poet Arthur Rimbaud decorates an Ethiopian Peugeot taxi. Rimbaud was famous as one of… https://t.co/xLUr4Jvvl6

Me: Sweeping historical analogies are inappropriate, every era is unique and different Me: *reads the news* Me: O… https://t.co/AqbuPto0M2

Always happy to go back to @Neil_Irwin excellent piece on the Recession of 2016. Fall in investment and manufacturi… https://t.co/4MXyDgzeJd

IF you are willing to take the profit share data seriously (given profit shifting @Brad_Setser) the Trump administr… https://t.co/hAmcrS5xWj

Fascinating blogpost on the early publication history of John Maynard Keynes’s Economic Consequences of the Peace.… https://t.co/TjFwxhqfB4

Since 1960, the common denominator of US recessions has been a fall in investment. It is not looking good right now… https://t.co/eurWHOm3Nz

A long-term overview gives the lie to the idea that low real rates are unprecedented. Nevertheless, today’s negativ… https://t.co/LJ8mQKsq28

Confidence amongst US small businesses that surged with petit bourgeois enthusiasm for Trump’s election has collaps… https://t.co/6HTGPhDsr9

Fascinting on the preoccupation with “lethality” in the American army under Defense Sec Mattis.… https://t.co/V476KnA2kM

How the voting on the ECB might break down. How divided will the institution be that Draghi passes on to Lagarde?… https://t.co/OO7SKW1LGD

Christopher Dow’s Major Recessions Britain and the World 1920-1995 is not widely enough read! Agree with… https://t.co/WPCZVkqlVQ

An intriguing figure comparing energy growth from 1971-2017 to 2017. Take care comparing single years, but… * Coa… https://t.co/SMZfSlhyEH

Reminder: In 1980, life expectancy was the same in the US, UK, Germany, and France. Now it's 3-4 years lower in t… https://t.co/BVJOuURiKc

If we take this @GoldmanSachs indicator of China’s policy stance seriously, then the stimulus 2015/6 dwarfs both th… https://t.co/gVExj7VWh3

A rather nice illustration from @bopinion of why the “big bazooka” is such a weird image for the awesome backstop p… https://t.co/fpIHQVzgd3

This is powerful by @evgenymorozov on Epstein and the bs pseudo-intellectualism of the “third culture” fostered by… https://t.co/wZm6KHN9D6

Many people have speculated about the impact of the escalating trade war on business confidence and investment. Thi… https://t.co/McbDzVWCsP

“If we do nothing, Eskom will collapse and bring down South Africa,” “Eskom ran out of cash and came close to compl… https://t.co/j1nPwEFn4p

@hmeyer78 @INETeconomics oops sorry fixed

Lord Skidelsky revealing the Treasury despatch box that Keynes carried at Versailles in 1919 at @INETeconomics conf… https://t.co/NKWZTS6gYB

Lord Skidelsky revealing the Treasury despatch box that Keynes carried at Versailles in 2019 at @INETeconomics conf… https://t.co/JMOlwjBxWH

As yields have slumped in eurozone and ECB’s position is uncertain, demand for bonds has begun to ease. The sale of… https://t.co/c75ibDpT4E

Low interest rates have made a higher level of debt/gdp surprisingly painless to support. @ojblanchard1 theorizes a… https://t.co/TwWYtmaatI

“Profit shifting has gone from a marginal feature of the global economy to a systemic feature,” @alexcobham… https://t.co/WqHNWwMt9r

Inflows into bond funds suggest that big money is anticipating significant action by the central banks. The questio… https://t.co/8bblJJsgBH

Apple’s huge “investment” in Ireland is an example of “phantom” FDI designed to allow the evasion of taxes rather t… https://t.co/gb6WhyfgYI

This is powerful by @evgenymorozov on Epstein and the bs pseudo-intellectualism of the “third culture” fostered by… https://t.co/pg0DPn5nSg