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Acting Man
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Silver Explodes — But Why? Precious Metals Supply and Demand
Explosive Days in Silver The silver market witnessed another explosive day! At midnight (in London), the price of the metal was $26.90. By 9pm, it had rocketed up to $28.95, a gain of 7.6%. This is not normal. But then, we are not in a normal world. After several years of going nowhere and a downside fake-out in March this year, silver has come to life rather dramatically… [PT] The Republicans are spending like drunken Modern Monetary...
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Silver “Scarcifies” – Precious Metals Supply and Demand
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Best Laid Schemes
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The India-China Border Issue
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Game Over Spending
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An Excellent Seasonal Buying Opportunity in Silver Lies Directly Ahead
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The Decline of the Third World
Antonio Fatas
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COVID-Economics Links (May 13)
Modern health crises: Recession and recovery - Chang Ma, John Rogers, Sili Zhou (VoxEU.org) The EU response to the coronavirus crisis: How to get more bang for the buck - Massimo Bordignon, Guido Tabellini (VoxEU.org) Pandemic Recession: L or V-Shaped? - Victoria Gregory, Guido Menzio, David G. Wiczer (NBER WP) COVID-19 and the Welfare Effects of Reducing Contagion - Robert S. Pindyck (NBER WP) How to pay for the (pandemic) war - Francesco...
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COVID-Economics Links (May 12)
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COVID-Economics Links (May 11)
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COVID-Economics Links (May 10)
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COVID-Economics Links (May 9)
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COVID-Economics Links (May 8)
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COVID-Economics Links (May 7)
Bruegel Think Thank
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Coronavirus recovery: invest rainy day savings to boost Hong Kong’s economy
The Hong Kong government might want to consider diversifying its economy by using part of the savings earmarked for rainy days. Beyond cushioning the negative impact of Covid-19 on SMEs and households, it is one more reason to spend. This article originally appeared in the South China Morning Post. Hong Kong’s GDP declined by 9 per cent in the second quarter, but this figure should be read in the context of a worldwide collapse in GDP...
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REOPENING EUROPE – Reopening Tourism?
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REOPENING EUROPE – Reopening Borders?
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China Has an Unfair Advantage in the EU Market. What Can Be Done to Level the Playing Field?
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The Challenges of the Post-Pandemic Agenda
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Is the EU Council agreement aligned with the Green Deal ambitions?
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REOPENING EUROPE – Reopening Governance?
Centre for European Reforms
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Time for a regime change in Frankfurt
In recent years, the European Central Bank’s (ECB) monetary policy has been half of what is necessary, two years late. To get eurozone inflation back to its ‘close to 2 per cent’ target, the ECB needs to be much bolder. The ECB’s meeting on March 10th is shaping up to be one of its most anticipated. Inflation remains far below target and market expectations of future inflation have hardened at very low levels, indicating that investors have...
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The refugee crisis: Fixing Schengen is not enough
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Deal done: Now for the hard work
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Would an ‘independent’ Britain want to join the single market?
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China’s European charm offensive: Silk Road or Silk Rope?
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Merkel after Paris
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Terrorism in Paris: Aux armes, citoyens?
Chris Dillow: Stumbling and Mumbling
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Government for spiv and rentier
“The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.” Recent news seems to vindicate Marx’s aphorism. Today, Robert Jenrick relaxed planning laws a few months after seeing big donations to the Tories from property companies. This is of a pattern with his giving planning permission for a development by Richard Desmond soon after Mr Desmond made a donation to the Tory party. Support for...
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Truth, utility & education
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The economics-politics divide
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Maskphobia: the face of conservativism
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Ideas, interests and capital
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Attention, fashion and false consensus
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Angrynomics: a review
Craig Willy
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The Romanian Palimpsest
The foreigner in Romania is immediately struck by the country’s hybrid culture. This is obvious from the first words one learns to garble: piața (very close pronunciation to Italian’s piazza), mersi (from the French merci, though the “r” is a little more rolled), da (yes…), or even bacşiş (baksheesh). We then have a mysterious mélange of Western and Eastern Europe, the Romanian roots are decidedly mixed. Like in any country, the stages of...
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Krugman Vindicated?: Eurozone Debt Apparently Falling
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ECB’s Cœuré Calls on Politicians to Hurry Up and Build the Eurozone Superstate and Federal Budget
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Why is so much official EU art ugly?
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Draghi: EU is “most advanced experiment” in transnational government
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Eurostat: Women Outnumber Men 2-to-1 in Teaching Across Europe (But Still Under-Represented in Universities)
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Why is free Kosovo providing highest number of “asylum-seekers” to the EU?
David Smith’s EconomicsUK
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V, W or Aargh? It depends on the virus – and on jobs
V, W or Aargh? It depends on the virus - and on jobs Posted by David Smith at 09:00 AMCategory: David Smith's other articles My regular column is available to subscribers on www.thesundaytimes.co.uk This is an excerpt. When the economy has been hit by as profound a shock as Covid-19, and the unprecedented lockdown measures adopted to limit its spread, we should take comfort where we can. The Bank of England, which gave us its latest...
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We have to say farewell to the furlough scheme
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Austerity’s off limits, but Sunak will try to squeeze spending
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How COVID and Brexit put the kibosh on business investment
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Rishi to the rescue, but we’ll have to live with the debt
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Sunak has to spend now, and he will have to spend later
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After the bailout, Bailey plots the Bank’s exit strategy
Economistmeg
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IIF Annual Meetings: US Economic Outlook
I joined Beth Ann Bovino, Jonathan Pingle and Elina Ribakova this week to speak on a panel about the US Economic Outlook at the IIF Annual Meetings, which usually occur alongside the IMF/WB meetings. We discussed what indicators we’re watching closely to see when we may have found a bottom, how the US has handled the shock to the labour market (compared with Europe), whether we should worry about inflation, prospects for the oil market and...
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Realities bite in the US
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The Shock of Coronavirus: Hard Truths
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EM and developing economies face tough slog
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V, U, W or Nike Swoosh?
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The Mother of all Recessions
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Emerging markets are the next domino to fall in the coronavirus crisis
Eurostat News Releases
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Volume of retail trade up by 5.7% in euro area
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Industrial producer prices up by 0.7% in both euro area and EU
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Euro area annual inflation up to 0.4%
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GDP down by 12.1% in the euro area and by 11.9% in the EU
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Euro area unemployment at 7.8%
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Sharpest drop of household real consumption per capita in both euro area and EU
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Seasonally adjusted government deficit rose sharply to 2.2% of GDP in the euro area
IFO Hans-Werner Sinn & Clemens Fuest
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ifo Institute: Economic Experts Fear Tariff War Will Shrink World Trade
International economic experts fear that the tariff war between the US, China, and Europe will lead to a decline in world trade. This is the result of the World Economic Survey conducted by the ifo Institute among 1,130 economists worldwide. When asked to name the most significant consequence of the higher tariffs, the predominant answer was “less trade.” This answer scored 1.7 on a scale of 1 to 3, where 1...
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ifo Economists’ Panel: Economists Do Not Expect East German States to Catch up Any Further
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CESifo Newsletter 2019/04
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Légère amélioration de l’indice ifo du climat économique mondial
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ifo World Economic Climate Recovers Slightly
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ifo President Fuest Calls for a “Europe of Opportunity” Instead of “Europe As a Fortress”
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Clemens Fuest, le président de l’Institut ifo, oppose sa vision d’une « Europe des chances » à celle d’une « Europe-forteresse »
Il fatto quotidiano Alberto Bagnai
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Alberto Bagnai – Il Fatto Quotidiano
Guardate questo breve scambio su Twitter: Paolo Cirino Pomicino sostiene che l’entrata nell’euro non fu di per sé un errore: l’errore fu entrarci al cambio sbagliato. Alla richiesta di precisare quale sarebbe stato quello giusto, precisa: “poco più della metà”. Insomma, il cambio corretto, secondo Cirino Pomicino, sarebbe stato di circa 1000 lire per euro (la conversazione, se interessa, è qui). Qualcuno penserà: “Chiacchiere del sabato...
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Orlando privatizza la giustizia online
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Orlando privatizza la giustizia online
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I disoccupati “veri” in Italia sono il 30%: più che in Grecia
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I disoccupati “veri” in Italia sono il 30%: più che in Grecia
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Non è il libero commercio che favorisce i lavoratori
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Non è il libero commercio che favorisce i lavoratori
London School of Economics
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What the Basque and Galician elections told us about the state of regional and national politics in Spain
Elections were held in the Basque Country and Galicia on 12 July. Jonathan Parker assesses what the results told us about regional and national politics in Spain. He writes that although the incumbent governments won re-election in both cases, there were some notable surprises hidden beneath the surface. On 12 July, elections to the parliaments of the Spanish autonomous communities of the Basque Country and Galicia finally took place, having...
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Book Review: The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction by Jamie Woodcock and Mark Graham
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Why it’s wrong to expect science to provide rapid, definitive answers about Covid-19
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This time I’m (not) voting: How campaign factors affect European citizens’ turnout in EP elections
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How the Rassemblement National is using local government to ‘mainstream’
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How the UK’s trade deals will impact healthcare access across Europe
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Economic inequality generates selective solidarity that penalises immigrants
MNI Euro Insight
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MNI Euro Insight 1970-01-01 00:00:00
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MORNING DIGEST: July 18, 2016
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MORNING DIGEST: July 15, 2016
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Analysis: Vestager Comments Suggest Some Investor Bail-in if Italy’s Banks are Recapitalised
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Analysis: Bank of England Easing Decision is Delayed, not Cancelled, While MPC Gathers Data
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MORNING DIGEST: July 14, 2016
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Euro Insight Poll: Brexit Crushes Hopes for Stronger Eurozone Recovery
On French Politics
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Spring-Summer 2020 Blogging Democracy Contest: Tocquevillians Go to the Polls
Share the post "Spring-Summer 2020 Blogging Democracy Contest: Tocquevillians Go to the Polls" We’re proud to announce the winners of Tocqueville 21’s second Blogging Democracy contest! Over the course of the spring and summer, students in the Division of the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago responded to the following question: In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville describes presidential elections...
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Do Better: Truth and Good as Process
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Individualism, Tyranny, and the Coronavirus
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Revue de Presse: July 26
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The EU Survives
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Isolation, Loneliness, and Solitude: Hannah Arendt’s Triumvirate
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Contact Tocqueville 21
Political Thoughts – the magazine
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BBC News Suppression to 9/8/2020
To fulfill its Charter the BBC is charged with offering "a range and depth of analysis and content not widely available from other United Kingdom news providers". Does the BBC fulfill its Charter obligation? Illegal Migration across the Channel has risen sharply. The BBC explanation for this is that the UK is such an attractive place that all the migrants want to come here. The next BBC article is about Black Lives Matter in...
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China and Russia Launch War on Dollar?
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What is Happening in the World Today
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UK Universities bar Conservative Voters from an Academic Career.
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Top Political Myths
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What is happening?
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Corporates Move to UK Post Brexit and Confirm they are Staying
Professor Werner
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EU Basics – Your Guide to the UK Referendum on EU Membership
By Professor Richard A. Werner, D.Phil. (Oxon) 20 June 2016 The British people should be clear about just what they will be voting on at the EU referendum this Thursday. What does it actually mean to stay in the EU? What does it mean to exit? Concerning the second question, the dominant issue in the debate has been the question whether there will be a significant negative economic impact on the UK from exiting the EU. Prime Minister David...
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Is Germany to blame for the European mess?
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„Negative“ Interest Rates and the War on Cash
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What should be done about Greece – and what is likely to happen
Protesilaos Stavrou
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Communitarianism and the self-institution of divinity
A new left can be pro-religion in the context of autonomy 2020-08-01 A thoroughgoing re-institution of society will inevitably have to deal with the issue of religion. The revolutionary platform must formulate a stance that stands as an antipode to the machinations of the ruling class while providing an alternative for the longer term success of the cultural shift such re-institution would both partially presuppose and provide...
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Protesilaos Stavrou
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Comment on resisting techno-digital dystopia
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Comment on elections in general
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Crises, transnationalism, and the demi-state
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On crisis and statecraft
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More ECB QE will not stop the Coronacrisis
Rybinski
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Szczęśliwego Nowego Roku – kilka dobrych rad na koniec
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Polska przekracza granice międzynarodowej śmieszności
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Czy testy czynią uczniów głupszymi
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Czy sprawdziły się moje prognozy na 2016 rok
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What Trump election means for global economy?
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Spór o kluczowe wartości wymaga przeprowadzenia referendum
The Economist Europe
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Genoa bridge reopens
Aug 8th 2020JUST TWO YEARS after its famous bridge suddenly collapsed, killing 43 people, the Italian city of Genoa inaugurated a sleek new replacement in the presence of the country’s president and prime minister, as well as an air-force flypast. The feat of engineering was impressive. But many of the victims’ relatives stayed away, objecting that the tragedy had been turned into a carnival.■This article appeared in the Europe section of the...
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Turkey’s president cracks down on social media
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American ideas about racism are influencing Europe
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Spain’s high-speed trains are poor value
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Balkan governments said the coronavirus was under control
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Germans learn to love the staycation
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Turkey mourns a revered drag artist
The Market Monetarist
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The shortest recession ever – unemployment will be below 6% in November
After US unemployment rose to nearly 15% (in April) I wrote a blog post forecasting unemployment would be back below 6% in November. That got me a lot of attention and a lot of suggestions for bets on the numbers (I have accepted a lot of these wagers). Today, we got the US labor market report for May. It is a massive confirmation on my bullish call on the US labor market. US (non-farm) employment rose by 3 million in May and...
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Why have epidemiological forecasts been so wrong and what to do about it
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Presentation on the US economy and markets (in Danish)
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When Americans vote in November unemployment will be below 6%
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The Corona Crisis – a Scandinavian perspective.
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ONE factor explains most of the differences in Covid19 deaths across countries
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All set for a fast recovery after the ‘Great Lockdown’
VoxEU
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Managing capital flows to emerging markets
When the COVID-19 shock hit international capital markets in March 2020, emerging market economies experienced the sharpest reversal of portfolio flows on record – more than $100 billion within a month (IMF 2020; for a broad analysis of the economic effects of COVID-19 see also Baldwin and Weder di Mauro 2020a, 2020b). This illustrated two important properties of capital flows to emerging markets: first, they are fickle; second, they disappear...
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Racial disparity in COVID-19 deaths
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The EU’s declining share in global manufacturing value chains
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Poverty, inequality, and COVID-19 in the US
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Platform mergers, market power, and advertising income
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Euro area bank bailout policies after the global financial crisis sowed seeds of the next crisis
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The value of luck in the labour market for CEOs