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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

7 months

I’m abandoning the network formerly known as Twitter - follow me on @martinsandbu .bsky.social.

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

5 years

I think they got to the Moon because they figured out, in detail, how to do it before launching.

The Telegraph

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5 years

No one knew how to get to the Moon. But they did, and Britain now needs to recover that spirit to come out of the EU on October 31, writes @BorisJohnson

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Martin Sandbu

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Genuine question: why does the governor of the Bank of England encourage restraint in wage demands but not call for restraint in businesses’ attempts to protect their profit margins? Intellectual bias, ideology, greater resignation wrt price- than wage-setting, or something else?

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Martin Sandbu

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When you comment on Lulashenka’s hijacking of an EU flight and kidnapping of dissident(s?), don’t neglect to call it precisely that: plane hijacking and political kidnapping.

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Martin Sandbu

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4 years

Johnson won 43.6% of all votes; May won 42.4%. That is not a landslide. He played the electoral system better. But seat victory was driven by Labour's vote share decline of ~8pp. So Johnson's talent is the wrecker's not the builder's, and even that was with good help from Farage.

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Martin Sandbu

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4 years

The European Council on Thursday is a moment of truth, unlike most events that are billed as moments of truth. It will tell the world definitively whether European countries want to act together or separately when most it at stake. My take: 1/n

The merits of Spain’s proposed recovery fund are irrefutable

If there is going to be a common European fiscal response to the crisis, this is the form it should take

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

2 years

@FinancialTimes The best statement from western leaders today is @ABaerbock 's: "After months of preparing lies and propaganda, President [Vladimir] Putin decided last night to make good on his threats... Russia alone has chosen this path...Ukrainians have done nothing to justify this bloodshed /

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Martin Sandbu

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5 years

For all those who have pushed, successfully or unsuccessfully, for a rise in the minimum wage, give a thought to Alan Krueger whose death has just been announced. He first helped overturn conventional wisdom that higher wage floors must hurt employment.

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Martin Sandbu

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5 years

Personal news: I'm delighted to share that this month I start in a new role as the @FT 's European Economics Commentator, writing comment and analysis of pan-European economic stories. Send your ideas my way!

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@betsy_klein That landscaping company must have made a good impression.

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

3 years

@BBCr4today Another looking-glass Goveism: imposing on EU-trading businesses the same bureaucracy as exports to the rest of the world, from which they have been free until now, they will give them greater "opportunity" to make those more bureaucratic exports elsewhere too.

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

3 years

For my tweeps patiently awaiting a Brexit for Christmas, an advent treat. I just received an eBay shipment of an antiquarian book, and it came wrapped in a surprise choice of paper:

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

4 years

The Economics of Belonging is out! My book on how to rebuild an economy that works for everyone without giving up on globalisation is available from today in hard cover, as an e-book and in audio. Get yours here: .

The Economics of Belonging

A radical new approach to economic policy that addresses the symptoms and causes of inequality in Western society today

press.princeton.edu

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

4 years

I am really honoured by the endorsements of my new book "The Economics of Belonging" by such great thinkers and writers - thanks to @rodrikdani , @DianeCoyle1859 , @BaldwinRE , @stianwestlake and @anandMenon1 . Available for pre-order now!

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

3 years

The more you look at the numbers reported by @MatinaStevis the more stunning they look. According to @OurWorldInData the UK administered 11m doses in February. In same month EU sent 8m to the UK, about 3/4 of all jabs! And in total the EU exported more doses than it administered.

Matina Stevis-Gridneff

@MatinaStevis

3 years

EU Exports Millions of Vaccine Doses Despite Supply Crunch Updating: - 25 mln doses exported from EU to 31 countries in Feb. UK 8mln doses Canada 3m Japan 2.7m Mexico 2.5m Saudi 1m Chile 800k Singapore 800k Malaysia 660k USA 651k Australia 600k

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@FinancialTimes @ABaerbock / "It is growing in Ukraine and in your country too. I am convinced that in Russia, too, many people will feel ashamed and furious that the name of Russia will be damaged for decades with the unscrupulous murder of its brothers and sisters in Ukraine." Brava @ABaerbock .

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Martin Sandbu

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4 years

If the Merkel-Macron announcement of E500bn in budgetary grants financed through common borrowing is what it says on the tin, it seems like a pretty big deal.

Élysée - @Elysee

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

2 years

Open letter from top Russian economists in Russia and abroad, condemning the war against Ukraine as a senseless act of aggression against a neighbouring sovereign state and a catastrophe for both countries.

Sergei Guriev

@sguriev

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Открытое письмо российских экономистов, работающих в России и за рубежом. Нападение на Украину – это акт агрессии. Мы требуем немедленного прекращения боевых действий и вывода российских войск из Украины. Нет войне!

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Martin Sandbu

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4 years

The many Green victories in the French municipal elections illustrate something I wrote last year: while we have been keenly watching the electoral fortunes of anti-European populism, the bigger political legacy of recent years will be the green surge.

Europe’s Green surge matters more than the rise of the far right

Environmental policies threaten to pile new burdens on the losers from globalisation

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Martin Sandbu

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@FinancialTimes @ABaerbock / "This war is intended to destroy one thing — Ukrainians’ hope that after decades of unfreedom they have a right to democracy, a right to peace, and to a better future without oppression. President Putin — you will never be able to destroy this dream. /

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

4 years

Actually, it’s a right.

Jim Pickard 🐋

@PickardJE

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it’s a privilege to live in a country where you can do this to the premier with zero repercussions, don’t ever take it for granted

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

5 years

Quite proud of my paper’s editorial tonight.

Financial Times

@FT

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Boris Johnson’s suspension of parliament is an affront to democracy

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

5 years

Exactly. They have disarmed the "trap" by walking into it and resolving to stay there.

Anand Menon

@anandMenon1

5 years

@Mij_Europe @pierrebri Hm. Backstop now frontstop, surely, but NI only

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Martin Sandbu

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2 years

I find extraordinary the number of usually thoughtful people who go out of their way to insist the priority must be not to do anything rash lest it upsets Putin.

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Martin Sandbu

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4 years

There is a superficial logic to the “last resort” view that is dangerous. The reality is that with exponential growth you should seek to take radical measures as early as possible. “Trying everything else first” makes lockdown costlier because it must last longer for same effect.

Rishi Sunak

@RishiSunak

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We can’t just let the virus take hold. But nor can we blithely fall into another national spring-style lockdown, as the opposition now want to do, without trying everything possible first.

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Martin Sandbu

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Au revoir, and thanks for the single market.

Exit from single market closes a chapter UK did so much to write

Margaret Thatcher drove integration before becoming a staunch critic of ‘European superstate’

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

4 years

This is really quite moving from @EmmanuelMacron - "le plus beau métier qui soit: de faire des citoyens libres".

Emmanuel Macron

@EmmanuelMacron

4 years

À tous les enseignants de France.

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

1 year

My @FT Free Lunch series on financial sanctions against Russian state assets is now complete - in case you missed any of the parts, use the links below. I previewed the series with this piece: if you want peace in Ukraine, double down on (economic) war /

If you want peace in Ukraine, double down on (economic) war

There is more — much more — that can be done with sanctions against Russia

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

4 years

Delighted to take a delivery this morning and discover that The Economics of Belonging is now a real, tangible thing!

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Martin Sandbu

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The Lib Dems, meanwhile, increased their vote share by 4.2pp to 11.5%, or more than a 50% increase in the number of people voting for them. In any sensible voting system that would be a victory.

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Martin Sandbu

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4 years

This is delightful. Factory assembly in Belarus where boss insists Lukashenko won, then a worker shouts out "stand up all who voted for Tikhanovskaya" - and you can guess (or watch) what happened.

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

4 years

Shorter @BVerfG : the @ecb acted outside its mandate because it failed to balance its mandate against goals outside its mandate. And the ECJ acted outside its mandate by failing to require the ECB to pursue goals outside the ECB’s mandate. Alles klar?

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Martin Sandbu

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3 years

This is exactly right. Well done for the UK to get most vaccine first - but it’s the same sort of well done for the guy who swipes the last ten hand sanitiser bottles on an otherwise empty shelf while others are still getting to the shop.

Olaf Storbeck

@OlafStorbeck

3 years

@lionelbarber I think you’re missing one key point here. With limited vaccine supply, individual nations can get ahead of the queue by paying more (Israel) or insisting on production fron sites in their country goes to them first (UK according to AZ CEO). But this doesn’t work for all.

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Martin Sandbu

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3 years

My reaction too - in fact freeports was the the *first* "new opportunity" he mentioned. Shame @BBCr4today didn't make the point.

Jennifer Rankin

@JenniferMerode

3 years

Michael Gove lists freeports as one of the gains of Brexit. These are allowed under EU law, although the commission now thinks they are a bad idea because of money laundering risks. #bbcradio4

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Martin Sandbu

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4 years

Congratulations Mr Biden. For the sake of your voters, Trump voters, and the whole world, it is time to go big on policy. FDR big.

CNN

@CNN

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BREAKING: JOE BIDEN WINS Joe Biden will be the 46th president of the United States, CNN projects, after a victory in Pennsylvania puts the Scranton-born Democrat over 270 #CNNElection

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Martin Sandbu

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Quelle tristesse pour nous qui aimons la France. C’est le cœur symbolique de l’immense monde de la culture française qui s’effondre à nos yeux. Mais rappelons-nous: c’est une création de cet esprit que nous perdons et pas l’esprit lui-même qui ne cessera pas d’enrichir l’humanité

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Martin Sandbu

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4 years

In a different crisis and another context, I once argued that eurozone countries need not wait for Germany and other recalcitrants to create a eurobond. The same argument applies today for coronabonds, so I'm re-upping this old piece:

Europe need not wait for Germany

Eleven eurozone nations can create a bond market, writes Martin Sandbu

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

3 years

Unacceptable for big companies like this to be surprised by what third country status means.

Joel Hills

@ITVJoel

3 years

“Tariff free does not feel like tariff free when you read the fine print” - Steve Rowe, CEO, M&S. 50 large UK retailers - including Tesco, H&M, Boots, Matalan, Dixons, Argos - are assessing the cost of EU tariffs as a result of the trade deal. Full story:

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Martin Sandbu

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4 years

Conclusion: "mandate" is always a social construct, but a much less rational one in the UK than in other democracies.

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Martin Sandbu

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4 years

It is time to make amends to the low-paid essential worker | Free to read

The coronavirus crisis has exposed the plight of a precarious army labouring around the clock

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

3 years

Why are governments *now* working to train vaccinators and ramp up logistics? Surely when trial results showed the vaccines would be ready, the delivery system should have been prepared to ready from day one of vaccine delivery?

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

6 years

We have put together our first Free Lunch Collection - bundling the articles from my Rethinking Macroeconomics series of newsletters from January. Please check it out and share!

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Martin Sandbu

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2 years

Just wondering - do all those who think that Central Europe’s joining NATO was wrong, actually think that without NATO expansion Putin would have blithely have left Russia’s neighbours alone?

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Martin Sandbu

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5 years

Much talk about how long it will take UK to agree trade deal with EU. Answer is simple: it will take exactly as long as it takes UK to accept the terms EU sets out. Is this possible within 6-12 months? Of course it is - but unlikely if withdrawal talks are anything to go by.

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Martin Sandbu

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3 years

What is sovereignty? via @financialtimes

What is sovereignty?

Brexiters have got the autonomy they craved, but what exactly is it good for?

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

2 years

Western leaders must prepare public for a war economy

The cost of living crisis is likely to get worse before it gets better

www.ft.com

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

4 years

I enjoyed @sarahkendzior 's latest book so much I interviewed her for the @FT .

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@MESandbu

4 years

Sarah Kendzior on why Americans should fear the worst in Trump via @financialtimes

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Martin Sandbu

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Intvs with @RishiSunak and @AnnelieseDodds on @BBCr4today both led on supposedly worrying amounts of debt forcing tough choices. They should instead have focused on @OBR_UK ’s obs that government debt service heading for lowest level since the 1940s! There is no fiscal emergency.

Office for Budget Responsibility

@OBR_UK

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Debt has risen above 100% of GDP for first time since 1960-61, but the cost of servicing that debt falls to new historic lows. #SpendingReview

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6 years

How bad would it be to let Italy run modestly expansionary fiscal policy, allowing it a deficit closer to that what Spain got away with in the last few years? Perhaps not bad at all?

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2 years

Serious people say we need to engineer quite a lot of unemployment to cut inflation. So how costly do they indefinitely higher inflation would be, and why? (Not "permanently" as there will be positive supply shocks eventually.) How do they weigh it against job and income losses?

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Martin Sandbu

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7 years

Exciting to see @scotgov propose Scot shd be EEA member in own right. I proposed this in Oct

Free Lunch: Scotland should join the EEA

Single market membership in its own right would be the best of all post-Brexit worlds

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Germany’s Baerbock condemns Russia for ‘breaking elementary rules of order’ via @financialtimes

Ukraine invasion news from February 24: Russian forces storm Ukraine, civilians flee Kyiv, west...

Main developments: Biden says Russia will ‘bear the consequences’ as US and allies roll out fresh sanctions; Ukraine reports bombing of cities and airports; and Russia denies plan to occupy whole of...

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Martin Sandbu

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5 years

Put differently - if you don’t want the Withdrawal Agreement on account of the backstop, you’ll end up with the backstop without the Withdrawal Agreement.

Peter Foster

@pmdfoster

5 years

'Fraid this is NOT right. You'll need a border. Even if mitigated by checks at NI ports/Irish Sea. That's Barnier's point. And even those (which split UK, and ERG doesn't want that) can't totally obviate need for border checks.

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2 years

Is Germany willing to risk an unexceptional recession for “never again”? That is the question.

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

3 years

20m is an astonishing number given that the UK has administered 32m doses to date. Much is said, much of it right, about UK's good work in building a new domestic supply chain for a Covid vaccine, but it's clear most of its rollout success relies on imports+exclusivity clauses.

Charles Grant

@CER_Grant

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I was asked just now by @carolewalkercw on @TimesRadio if @vonderleyen isn't trying to deflect blame from Commission's poor performance on vaccines, when she criticises UK. Yes she is but what she says is true: EU has exported 20m doses to UK, & 0 went the other way, @CER_EU /1

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2 years

It's almost as if the central banks ought to have resisted all those calls to tighten, isn't it?

Robin Brooks

@robin_j_brooks

2 years

It used to be that central banks were behind the curve on inflation. Now they're behind the curve on recession. Nominal yields are falling, but breakeven inflation is falling faster. So real yields are still rising and financial conditions tightening. Global recession is coming.

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Martin Sandbu

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Chancellor @RishiSunak 's peroration was impressive and prime ministerial - more so than anything @borisjohnson has said so far in the crisis. It may take years, but this was the moment he lost his premiership, and judging by the look on his face, he knows it.

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2 years

Why the EU should end Russian gas imports now

There is no better time for Europe to go ‘cold turkey’ on its vulnerability to Moscow

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

3 years

The @FT paywall is down all day today. So on this #FTFreeToday , share your favourite articles with those special people in your lives (or why not the less special ones). Here are some of my own favourites:

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

4 years

Striking analysis from @OECDeconomy - repatriating global value chains makes economies less not more resilient to shocks. Since you can't produce *everything* in all the relevant GVCs at home you end up less diversified/more dependent on remaining imports with fewer alternatives.

OECD Economics

@OECDeconomy

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A recent highly stylized simulation exercise with a large-scale #OECD trade model, compares two versions of the global economy: Shocks, risks and global value chains in a #COVID -19 world via @oecdeconomy @OECDtrade @LauBooneEco

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Lots of noise around that UK and EU are making progress towards a deal. If it turns out, as it has long seemed, to come down to the UK more or less aligning with EU competition rules in return for the EU giving up most of the fish, both sides have done something rather clever.1/3

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5 years

I was just told by a senior diplomat in Brussels that if the UK asked to renegotiate the deal, "we could change the colour of the paper it's printed on".

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7 years

If you read 1 thing, read this. The scariest and most logical way to make sense of all that's happened the last week

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The EU’s been accused of vaccine nationalism but one has to wonder if it has been nationalistic enough... though given that most EU countries have struggled to roll out what vaccines they have, at least lives have been saved elsewhere.

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The minds behind Germany’s shifting fiscal stance via @financialtimes

The minds behind Germany’s shifting fiscal stance

Jörg Kukies and Olaf Scholz key in reshaping Berlin’s hawkish attitude towards Europe

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Helicopter money is here! The @ECB 's stimulus package today includes a measure that gives away (a small amount) of central bank money. 1/

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In my latest column, I highlight a fact too few people know: the EU Treaties impose on the @ECB a second mandate. Many people wrongly think its sole duty is price stability. In fact it is legally obliged to support the EU's economic policies so long as it keeps prices stable. /

Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

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ECB must follow the Fed’s embrace of a second mandate via @financialtimes

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This is why higher-debt countries should do more, not less, stimulus #fiscalspaceisanincoherentconcept

Jochen Andritzky

@JAndritzky

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The decomposition of the change in debt ratios shows the brutal denominator effect when debt is high. In #Greece , of the 24ppt increase in debt 2019-2020, 19ppt is due to declining nominal GDP, 8ppt due to deficit, and -3ppt residual probably from drawing down deposits. 1/2

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I wonder if I should feel merely offended at being called a queue-jumper, or doubly offended at being called it by the PM of a country that is famous for the awe in which it supposedly holds queues.

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On Brexit negotiations, many Tories seem to think they are playing chicken when the other side is in a building not a car.

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2/n The Spanish government has put forward a proposal that shows a way out of the interminable old standoff. The leaders should all unite behind it.

Spain proposes a €1.5 trillion coronavirus recovery fund financed through perpetual EU debt

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez will be taking an ambitious plan to the upcoming European summit, but one that could be negotiated with northern countries such as Germany

english.elpais.com

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@MESandbu

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Europe’s Green surge matters more than the rise of the far right via @FT

Europe’s Green surge matters more than the rise of the far right

Environmental policies threaten to pile new burdens on the losers from globalisation

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@MESandbu

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(A minor but funny implication is that the UK will leave the costly shackles of the EU just at the moment where it would have stood to be a net beneficiary of common borrowing, at least for a few years, given its dismal Covid experience...)

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@MESandbu

4 years

What a moving and inspiring speech by @LeoVaradkar . Compassionate truth-telling - and open and inclusive to the world. Happy St Patrick’s Day.

RTÉ News

@rtenews

4 years

WATCH: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar delivers Ministerial Broadcast to the country about the Covid-19 pandemic | Read more:

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A happy Christmas to all.

Ben Phillips

@benphillips76

3 years

This story from Christmas Eve, 1914.

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How Poland is wasting its potential via @FT

How Poland is wasting its potential

Warsaw is straying from a wide-open path to greatness

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

2 years

Your regular reminder that in rapidly changing times we should look at monthly inflation, not just year-on-year inflation. In the eurozone, monthly inflation just fell for the third month in a row.

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Vladimir Putin has forced the EU into a long-overdue energy union via @FT

Vladimir Putin has forced the EU into a long-overdue energy union

The desire for national control has delayed the removal of physical bottlenecks in European energy flows

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Doom-mongers are wrong to underestimate the European economy

Germany’s success in ending reliance on Russian gas is just one example of Europe’s adaptability and resilience

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

2 years

The very hopeful news from Ukraine over the last week still leaves a lot of uncertainty about the future, but one thing is clear: those who have called for more and accelerated weapons delivery to Ukraine have been completley right. More and faster please.

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An economist’s guide to the real world via @FT

An economist’s guide to the real world

Nobel-winner Jean Tirole sets out how a humbled discipline can fulfil its responsibilities in the public sphere

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

2 years

What a graph - half of the original squeeze has now disappeared. And remember that energy earnings go disproportionately to the government budget. Time to cut energy imports from Russia!

Robin Brooks

@robin_j_brooks

2 years

Russia's financial conditions are easing. After the initial shock of sanctions, financial conditions tightened, due to Ruble & equity falls. But half that has now unwound, NOT because sanctions don't work, but as hard currency inflows from energy exports are a loophole for Putin.

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There is a lot of sound and fury in the public debate (hopefully the scientists are just doing their thing) about whether or not to give the AstraZeneca vaccine and if so to whom. Sadly it's getting caught up in the Brexit wars too. But here are some numbers I find helpful: /

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Martin Sandbu

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3 years

Extremely important. Minimum wage boosts productivity by replacing less productive by more productive jobs.

Marcel Fratzscher

@MFratzscher

3 years

Die Studie zeigt, dass der Mindestlohn netto keine Arbeitsplätze vernichtet hat. Genauso wichtig: er hat zu einer Reallokation von schlechter zu besser zahlenden Unternehmen und zu produktiveren Firmen geführt – vor allem strukturschwächere Regionen profitieren besonders stark.

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Martin Sandbu

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2 years

Go Europe!

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

5 years

Can those who say the draft withdrawal agreement is a rotten deal please describe what a good _withdrawal agreement_ would contain in their view? As opposed to what they want to see in the permanent relationship deal?

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Martin Sandbu

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4 years

Thomas Piketty: why we need a radical new wealth tax via @FT

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

2 years

The right way to frame the question.

David Carretta

@davcarretta

2 years

Mario Draghi: “Do you prefer peace or the air conditioning on? That’s the question we should ask ourself”.

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Economics Nobel for poverty work will help restore profession’s relevance via @financialtimes

Economics Nobel for poverty work will help restore profession’s relevance

Prize-winners prove economists are tackling one of humanity’s fundamental problems

www.ft.com

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

1 year

Very impressive. Also shows that Europe/US mostly didn't "lose" steel production to China. China just added an enormous amount to global production (while also adding a whole lot to global consumption...).

Lion Hirth

@LionHirth

1 year

Even if you know the numbers, this is pretty impressive:

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

3 years

Finally the right language. Now for the right action.

Ursula von der Leyen

@vonderleyen

3 years

The outrageous and illegal behaviour of the regime in Belarus will have consequences. Those responsible for the #Ryanair hijacking must be sanctioned. Journalist Roman Protasevich must be released immediately. EUCO will discuss tomorrow action to take.

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Martin Sandbu

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War is peace.

Russian Embassy, UK

@RussianEmbassy

2 years

FM #Lavrov : The goal of Russia’s special military operation is to stop any war that could take place on Ukrainian territory or that could start from there.

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Starting over again – The covid-19 pandemic is forcing a rethink in macroeconomics

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

3 years

Welcome back US. But I struggle to feel the elation many others express. Survival of US democracy is a great thing but celebrating it puts the bar terribly low. That one man could to such an extent twist the US polity reveals its weakness. More than a restoration job is needed.

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Martin Sandbu

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4 years

"He plans now to set up an international research initiative to fight Covid-19 from the US." What an absolute failure by the EU.

Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

4 years

EU science chief resigns with blast at coronavirus response via @financialtimes

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

5 years

What has the EU ever done for us?

Reuters

@Reuters

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EU, Mercosur strike trade pact, defying protectionist wave

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@MESandbu

4 years

Good thing those Germans are desperate for a trade deal with a UK.

Ulrike Franke

@RikeFranke

4 years

Priorities German population want for the German EU presidency: Climate change: 50% Corona pandemic consequences: 39% Rule of Law in EU: 33% Digitalisation: 25% Future EU financing: 24% Relations with UK: 7%

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

7 years

Important read, especially for those who thought @FukuyamaFrancis was wrong without having read him via @aeonmag

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

3 years

A flight between two EU states seemingly forced or lured down to drag a Belarussian oppositional activist off the plane. What will you do about this @JosepBorrellF @vonderleyen @eucopresident ?

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

@Tsihanouskaya

3 years

The regime forced the landing @Ryanair plane in Minsk to arrest journalist and activist Raman Pratasevich. He faces the death penalty in Belarus. We demand immediate release of Raman, @ICAO investigation, and sanctions against Belarus.

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Martin Sandbu

@MESandbu

2 years

Inflation panic-mongers should not declare victory

Heed the arguments in defence of ‘team transitory’

www.ft.com

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@MESandbu

5 years

@adam_tooze @econjared @nytimes @jzettelmeyer @ojblanchard1 @SMerler @M_C_Klein @Brad_Setser @heimbergecon @JWMason1 Nothing about the euro stops Italy from: fixing its education system (some of the worst skill levels in OECD), its tax system, its tax collection system, its court system, its corporate governance (which favours nepotism over competence), its misallocating banking system...

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