In many countries, the equivalent role of Chancellor is given to people with significant economics knowledge gained in academia or business. In the UK, that's the exception to the rule argue @mhallerberg.bsky.social and Joachim Wehner of @lsegovernment.bsky.social. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

After Reeves, Healey reverts to Chancellor type | LSE British Politics

Economics expertise is the exception to the rule for a UK Chancellor. But Chancellors, like John Healey, usually come with experience in the Treasury.

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Shocked, shocked to learn that 4x4 drivers generally don’t care how dangerous their vehicles are. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

SUV buyers undeterred by warnings of risk to pedestrians, UK study finds

Exclusive: Research suggests financial penalties necessary if number of large vehicles on roads is to be reduced

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What’s wrong with the German economic model in one tweet.

It is Sunday again and the Journal has another story about rampant corruption in the Trump Administration. This self-enrichment through public service is not acceptable.

This data should not be overlooked even if it confirms your priors.

@tejparikh.ft.com · 6mo ago

Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter (1/2) How one year of ‘America First’ has left workers behind: as.ft.com/r/888fc154-4...

Could full-fat cheese and cream protect against dementia? ⬇️

Could full-fat cheese and cream protect against dementia?

Could full-fat cheese and cream protect against dementia?

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Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:

Olivia Messer@oliviamesser.bsky.social · 9mo ago

79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. He’s been taken by ICE in Florida. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...

Many congrats to Joel Mokyr for being selected as one of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics. His work on technology and economic growth inspired me some years ago as a grad student. He is one of the shining lights working in Economic History.

These guys have gotten incredibly rich by fleecing the government with subpar tech that was designed for rentseeking rather than performance. A smart Dem agenda item would be to build internal tech capacity. The fact that it would punish these guys is just a silver lining.

Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 10mo ago

Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

German Finance Minister Klingbeil speaks at the Jacques Delors Centre at Hertie concerning Germany‘s role in Europe. He said the right things about the need for what would amount to a capital markets union.

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Ben Casselman@bencasselman.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The U.S. has enjoyed a decades-long economic advantage thanks to its reputation as the safest place in the world for investors to put their money and for entrepreneurs to build their businesses. President Trump may be chipping away at that advantage. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/b... #EconSky

Interesting article, but something is missing here. German breads are more complex, often having little to no wheat in them. A bakery near us replaced all wheat with spelt. More generally white bread is rare. This may also explain the difference with the US. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

Is the Bread in Europe Better for You?

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Welcome @epssnet.bsky.social ! I plan to be in Belfast at the first conference next year.

EPSS@epssnet.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

The DFG Excellence Cluster @scripts-berlin.eu is hiring a key member of staff, our Managing Director. This person will work with a great group of academics across Berlin, including with me. Note that one needs both German and English. More here: www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...

Berlusconi appointed himself as Treasury Minister. He even attended an ECOFIN meeting in this role. Why not an American President as Fed Chair? Especially one who has a lot of parallels to Berlusconi? (Just to be clear—I do NOT think this is a good idea. But Trump‘s comment does not surprise me.)

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · last yr.

Folks are rightly cracking lots of jokes about this. I'll simply note, again, that a more polite & elitist version of this was precisely the critique wrongly leveled at Jay Powell for 3 long years by several of the most prominent economists in the National Conversation™️: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

We are opening three full professor positions in beautiful Innsbruck!

Achim Zeileis@zeileis.org · last yr.

📢 Come work with us! 🏛️ Faculty of Economics & Statistics, UIBK @econstatuibk.bsky.social‬ @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social‬ ‼️ Three job openings for Full Professor positions - Data Science - Microeconomics - Behavioral Economics Please share! #datascience #economics www.uibk.ac.at/de/info-beru...

Absolutely grotesque abuse of government power. Lying to educators in order to entrap children. No wonder they want to hide their identity.

Kye@gxldsociety.bsky.social · last yr.

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

This makes me so angry. You don’t call in the National Guard on a peaceful protest. A protest the THE POLICE say is a peaceful protest.

Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social · last yr.

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#Vorgestellt: Erforschen, wie die liberale Gesellschaftsordnung 🗽 als Grundlage der #Demokratie global und regional herausgefordert wird – dem widmet sich @scripts-berlin.eu : einer der fünf Berliner #Exzellenzcluster, die ab 2026 durch die @dfg.de gefördert werden. @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

Great speech at the #HertieSchool from Christine Lagarde on what it would take for the euro to overtake the dollar as the world’s main reserve currency

Good news!

SCRIPTS Berlin@scripts-berlin.eu · last yr.

SCRIPTS is celebrating! 🎉 We have been awarded a second round of funding through the DFG’s Excellence Strategy! We're excited to continue exploring how democracies adapt under pressure—our new focus: democratic resilience. More to come as we prepare for SCRIPTS 2.0! #Democracy #ExcellenceStrategy

Japan and the EU are holding out for a fair, balanced deal with Trump even if it takes months. First to the finish line doesn’t always mean victory, as the UK showed by sealing a quick deal in which it caved to many US demands. on.ft.com/42XHzCW

Japan to hold out for better trade deal with US

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s unpopular government fears concessions could prompt electoral backlash

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Noch immer kommen Menschen zur Skalitzer Straße 32 in #Kreuzberg, legen Blumen nieder, zünden Kerzen an - und erinnern an Margot #Friedländer, die hier mit ihrer Familie lebte, bis am 20. Januar 1943 die Gestapo kam und sie sich im Untergrund verstecken musste.

So per @georgeeaton.bsky.social's useful insider account, it seems Labour's theory of growth is the Swedish export model of the late 20th century, which relied on squeezing low productivity manufacturing firms out of business so as to keep exports competitive. Quite bold for a service-led economy.

Don't miss out on this! We are very delighted to welcome Christine Lagarde at @delorsberlin.bsky.social on Monday, 26 May for a keynote speech on Europe's role and economic leadership in a fragmented world. Seats are limited, link for registration here: www.delorscentre.eu/en/events-at...

To start off our new event series “Remaking America?” with @scripts-berlin.eu, we will welcome Mark DiPlacido on 15 May to discuss Donald Trump's tariffs & 🇺🇸 #trade policy. His remarks will be further discussed with @mhallerberg.bsky.social & the event moderated by @thousandfriend.bsky.social.

Remaking America

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"The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat." www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...

USDA withdraws a plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry

The Agriculture Department says it is withdrawing a plan to limit salmonella bacteria in poultry products.

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Tech is where Europe is most vulnerable. Initiatives like this one are a good start.

France and Germany unveil Docs, a homegrown alternative to Google Docs

The Trump administration has set out to drastically reshape the relationship between the US and Europe. In response, Brussels is scrambling to adapt to this new reality,...

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57% of Britons would rather have the EU as a close trading partner than the US, amid suggestion that closer alignment with Europe could endanger a trade deal with the US EU: 57% (+4 from 21 Jan) US: 16% (-5) yougov.co.uk/topics/econo...

A top scientist at Harvard who has spent years unraveling the mysteries of tuberculosis woke up Tuesday morning and discovered an order from the federal government telling her to halt her research. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/15/m...

Leading Harvard scientist ordered to halt research in funding freeze - The Boston Globe

Researchers may have to kill macaques, a kind of primate used in a vaccine study, due to the order.

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