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This is what I wrote in 2021. I was ridiculed and worse. I am from Nuremberg. I stuck my head out and called for strategic price controls because I had studied the history of inflation and inflation control for years and was worried inflation would bring Trump back.

we’re at severe risk of taking the wrong lesson away from this whole inflation debacle

the lesson is *not* to reduce stimulus — that’s how we got the long slog out of 2008 the lesson is to keep supply chains robust

Certain people who complain about governments farming out state capacity to stupid external nonprofits/businesses seem enchanted with the idea of Musk’s government efficiency commission, a external nonprofit/business we are farming out state capacity to. Interesting!

“Na de financiële crisis begon de totale ongelijkheid in ons land te stijgen”: door niet alleen inkomen uit arbeid, maar ook inkomen uit vermogen onder de loep te nemen, kon professor Decoster vaststellen dat de ongelijkheid in ons land groter is dan verwacht. #deafspraak

On Monday six staff and students (me inc.) were hunted down on a bus, arrested, and held for 30 hours in isolated police cells at the direction of Radboud University security. For nothing other than the crime of wearing a kufeya. It was deeply traumatising for all (1/2)

This is a thread about remaking the tech sector. Silicon Valley still claims the mantle of “disruption”, as if it is made up of competitive small companies rushing to innovate in order to edge into established industries. The truth is that Silicon Valley is now home to the

📢 Un énorme haut-parleur pour l’extrême droite. Voilà ce qu’est devenu X en Allemagne, ces derniers jours. La semaine passée, les 400 tweets de députés AfD ont reçu 40 M (!) d’impressions, soit ≈8x + que leurs concurrents FDP (jaune) qui ont pourtant bien + tweeté. Édifiant.

NEW: The American Economic Association is encouraging economists to leave X for BS. A new report cites the decline of hashtag EconTwitter, harassment (especially of women, people of color, and LGBTQ scholars), and policy changes under Elon as reasons to switch. 🧵

DeepSeek and what happened yesterday: Probably the largest positive tfp shock in the history of the world.

Cela semble absurde, et j’ai été choqué la première fois que je l’ai compris, mais la France – il n'y a pas d'autre mot – est bien un paradis fiscal pour milliardaire Explications détaillées 🧵

🚨 New working paper: “Belgian wealth inequality, 1935-2022” (NBB WP 477). ▸ Top 1 % owns ≈22 % of net wealth - same as bottom 75 % ▸ Inequality strongly declined last century, stabilised in recent years PDF 👉 nbb.be/en/media/17695 #EconTwitter #Belgium #WealthInequality

Thomas Piketty, a hugely influential economist, explicitly says that colonial extraction and unequal exchange have caused global inequality. This is considered a fringe opinion in the mainstream economics community, so kudos to Piketty for rocking the boat.

"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance." However worried you were about the impact of AI on education, you weren't worried

Onderstaand draadje Illustreert dat defensiespecialisten uit andere disciplines het economische luik veel te rooskleurig voorstellen. Een reactie:

Pendant ce temps, le G7 exonère les multinationales américaines de l’impôt minimum mondial Oui, c’est pathétique et scandaleux 🧵