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For Europe, America was the future. Now what? via Financial Times on.ft.com/45x5udU

#CallforPapers. The CEPR Annual Paris Symposium 2025 returns with 6 days of research, debate & insights. Submit your paper by 15 June! 🔗 Details: cepr.org/events/event-s…

The Trump administration know-nothings cut funding for science in a way that is equal parts cruel and idiotic. Imagine rejecting research because it uses the words "women's health." Women aren't some DEI construct; they're half of humanity and key to continuing all of it.

RIP Stan. Stan was my mentor and my friend. He was an outstanding economist, an outstanding policy maker, but even more importantly, a great human being. Science, commitment, honesty, and humility at the service of humankind. piie.com/publications/p…

He was a great scholar and a very remarkable human being. Benevolent and always thinking of the public good. Influential economist Stanley Fischer dies ft.com/content/71cf53… via @ft

The much improved draft of "HBANK: Monetary Policy with Heterogeneous Banks" with Marco Bellifemine and Tommaso Monacelli is now available online. Now in sequence space. Link: users.ox.ac.uk/~econ0628/HBAN…

Bellingcat CEO Eliot Higgins:

Are inflows into the US over the last 10 years come from the dollar's reserve currency role -- or are they simply from private investors seeking more yield (or greater equity market returns) than they get at home? A new blog 1/ cfr.org/blog/dollars-g…

Don't think Xi is feeling that much pressure from Trump's trade war. Exports to the US dipped, but exports to the rest of the world largely offset. The overall monthly goods surplus still topped $100b/ is on track to hit $1.2 trillion (gulp) 1/

Massive scandal in Hungary 🇭🇺 Georg Spöttle, Orban's "best pundit" who has been influencing public opinion for years now, turned out to be a foreign agent (ruzzia), and his handler is colonel Oleg Smirnov (GRU) The Orban-regime is not commenting so far!

An enormous loss for us all. mailchi.mp/eeassoc.org/in…

Russia is militarizing for war with Europe. Putin told his generals: The new state armament program must focus on developing the most advanced weapon systems. Where we are now is the result of decisions made 10 years ago. 1/

14 June 1985 | The Schengen Agreement is signed 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇧🇪🇱🇺🇳🇱 🇪🇺 France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg & the Netherlands decided to create a borderless area and make freedom of movement a reality. 40 years ago. 30 since its entry into force. #euhistory #schengen40 🇪🇺🧵

📢Ukraine Support Tracker update (Jan-April 25): US aid has stopped, but Europe has filled the gap — now allocating >90% of total. Total aid is steady, thanks mainly to allocations by the Nordics, UK, FRA and EU-level. In contrast, GER, ESP, and IT did far less. A thread🧵

Really proud of this paper! It started almost 10 years ago, and the key results stayed identical no matter which method, bells, and whistles we tried. And here's a podcast on our paper: tinyurl.com/consinret

BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying. Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt. Here's what 4 months of data revealed: (hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)

Fabulous programme for the #EEA25Bordeaux Congress thanks to our great programme chairs Abi Adams and Johannes Boehm and the entire scientific committee. Thanks a lot to all. And this is the #EEA40thAnniversary ! Join us in Bordeaux!

Jean-Noël Barrot, Ministre des Affaires étrangères, recadre un participant sur l’Ukraine. #REAIX #REAIX25

Renseignements français : la Chine a utilisé ses ambassades pour saper les ventes du Rafale, l'avion de combat phare de la France