IMF Growth Projections: 2025 🇺🇸US: 1.8% 🇩🇪 Germany: 0.0% 🇫🇷France: 0.6% 🇮🇹Italy: 0.4% 🇪🇸Spain: 2.5% 🇬🇧UK: 1.1% 🇯🇵Japan: 0.6% 🇨🇦Canada: 1.4% 🇨🇳China: 4.0% 🇮🇳India: 6.2% 🇷🇺Russia: 1.5% 🇲🇽Mexico: -0.3% 🇸🇦KSA: 3.0% 🇳🇬 Nigeria: 3.0% 🇿🇦RSA: 1.0%

Who benefits from trade wars? Government-linked firms.

🔎 Seguimos monitorizando continuamente el impacto del #apagón en el sistema financiero. Esta es la situación a las 09:30

🇪🇺 75 Years of the Schuman Declaration 🇪🇺 On 9 May 1950, Robert Schuman put forward a bold idea: unite Europe by pooling coal and steel production to make war ‘not merely unthinkable, but materially impossible.’

Una historia triste que no ha terminado. Ayer fue el CIS, hoy es el BdE, y mañana serán el INE o la Airef. Todo vale para destruir cualquier nota de independencia en de los organismos que pueden evaluar políticas públicas. Sin evaluación, no hay debate. elpais.com/economia/2025-…

Me atrevería afirmar que sólo por ver Roma ya merece la pena estar vivo.

Public debt levels are both higher than before the pandemic and rising faster in economies that account for 80% of global gross domestic product. See our Chart of the Week blog for more on how to foster resilience. imf.org/en/Blogs/Artic…

Today is Italy’s Republic Day. 🇮🇹 See the country's infographic here. ⬇️

Today, Bulgaria is one step closer to adopting the euro. This will mean more investment and trade with euro area partners, and more stability and prosperity for the Bulgarian people. Bulgaria will also take its rightful place in shaping euro area decisions. Congratulations!

Highly recommended! "How do central banks control inflation? A guide for the perplexed" by Laura Castillo-Martinez and Ricardo Reis. "The goal of this article is to provide a unified treatment of the theory of how central banks control inflation. The hope is that researchers

This is interesting — “The Hidden Wealth of Cities” by the World Bank, on how the PUBLIC SPACES in cities are a great economic investment and asset rather than a cost or liability. But too many cities aren’t taking smart advantage of the economic benefits. openknowledge.worldbank.org/server/api/cor…

Un gráfico que explica muchas cosas importantes

What I worried about has happened. A completely unequal “deal” between the US and the EU. Have no doubt: asymmetric 15% tariffs are a EU defeat. When the law of the jungle prevails, the weak have little choice than to accept their fate. But Europe could potentially have been

Incredibly happy to see my paper forthcoming in QJE! I quantify how much of worldwide growth and poverty reduction can be accounted for by education over 1980-2019. A quick summary 1/9 👇

Opinion: The more 'expert' you become, the more you think you ought to know, and the more you fear your credibility will suffer if you ever admit otherwise. on.ft.com/45dNuVt

In Italia sono spariti 120mila occupati e nessuno se n’è accorto. La revisione dell'Istat riduce notevolmente l'occupazione, dimezzando la crescita nell'ultimo anno. Ora i dati su lavoro, produttività e pil sono più coerenti. Scritto con Riccardo Trezzi👇🏻 ilfoglio.it/economia/2025/…

Highly recommended! "China’s Economic Transition: Debt, Demography, Deglobalization, and Scenarios for 2035" by Dinny McMahon and Andrew Polk. "China’s economy is at a transformational moment. For more than two decades, a growth model centered on the debt-fueled construction of

Mean per capita income in PPP dollars and inequality, 2023 (both based on household surveys). Post-socialiist (red) and Latin American (green) countries highlighted.

The Economist published this article that's contentious but probably right: It argues that laws protecting labour in much of Europe make lay-offs so onerous that high-risk moonshot projects become unviable. Making it easier to fire people could, weirdly, benefit everyone.

BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to