6/ China...maybe its not just "cheap labor" and "subsidies" and "copycat"

Clean Energy patents are soaring...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

5/ "You can now drive an EV from London to Barcelona on a single charge. Think about that: CATL just unveiled a battery with a 1,500km range that charges in 6 minutes

That's:
>Faster than a coffee break
>Longer than almost any petrol tank
>The final nail in the "range anxiety"
-- @AssaadRazzouk

Are remittance inflows at risk?

Remittance inflows, 2024, % of GDP

Collapsing remittances will compound Asia’s energy shock
economist.com/asia/2026/04...

Adhérez à la confrérie des Amateurs de TArtines au Camembert dans le Café ! Un jeune Normand a créé une confrérie gastronomique pour défendre son petit-déjeuner préféré : les tartines au camembert trempées dans le café.

It’s never to late to start dipping camembert in your morning coffee, Katie www.produits-laitiers.com/adherez-a-la...

IMF Announces Resumption of Dealings with Venezuela Washington, DC – April 16, 2026: Guided by the views of International Monetary Fund (IMF) members representing a majority of the IMF’s total voting power, and consistent with long standing practice, t...

"the Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva today announced that the IMF is now dealing with the Government of Venezuela, under the administration of acting President Delcy Rodríguez." www.imf.org/en/news/arti...

Shiller's measure of long-term price-earnings ratio suggests stocks are overvalued, at least in historical terms. CAPE is now at levels last seen during the 2000 dot-com bubble

OCDE: une baisse sans précédent de l'Aide publique au développement L'OCDE, l'Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, a publié ce 9 avril les statistiques annuelles de l'Aide publique au développement (APD), qui s'est établie à 174,3 milliards de dollars. Son montant a reculé de près d'un quart par rapport à l'année dernière, un recul sans précédent.

OCDE: une baisse sans précédent de l'Aide publique au développement

Has the UK crossed a tipping point? EVs account for more than half of all new cars sold in 2026

Europe’s rearmament meets reality: the story of a failed frigate project The fate of the €10bn F126 is a cautionary tale for an agency that buys everything from flip-flops to fighter jets

The Big Read | Rearming Germany: how a €10bn warship project turned sour ft.trib.al/E9nSOaF #FTEdit

Europe’s fossil fuel dependence poses risks to price stability The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purch...

"and public and private objectives reinforce rather than undermine one another. This starts with delivering on existing decarbonisation targets and preserving the Emissions Trading System as a credible, market‑based instrument for carbon pricing." www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/d...

Are European carmakers ready for the global shift to EVs?

75/ 2 eg of consumer & govt shifts in 1970s:
1 Cars: Japanese & Western consumers wanted way more fuel efficient cars.
2 Power & Electrification of end uses: France went nuclear, Europe electrified trains, Japan electrified home heating

2026 Oil Shock, watch Asia & Europe
bsky.app/profile/did:...

A relic from the pre-AI era?

The price of lithium-ion batteries has fallen by 99% since 1991 Representative estimate of the price of battery cells for lithium-ion batteries, across all major cell chemistries. Prices are in US dollars per kilowatt-hour, adjusted for inflation.

At a time when everything seems bad, here’s a bit of good news. In 1991, lithium-ion batteries cost around $9,200 per kilowatt-hour — 33 years later, they cost just $78. This helps us move towards electrification of transport and energy storage in homes
ourworldindata.org/battery-pric...

*Ces

How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Minimum Wage - ProMarket Matt Lucky reviews The Wage Standard: What’s Wrong in the Labor Market and How to Fix it by Arindrajit Dube, now out at Penguin Press.

Thanks to Matthew Lucky at ProMarket for doing a review of The Wage Standard - I think it's the first!

Link: www.promarket.org/2026/04/02/h...

From Bloomberg: “The world’s most important price for real-world oil barrels surged above $140 on Thursday, the highest since 2008. 
Dated Brent, the price of shipments bought and sold in the North Sea, reached $141.37, surpassing levels seen when Russia invaded Ukraine.”
#economy #energy #markets

Asterix is not on Artemis, alas bsky.app/profile/niki...

How to revive science in America by Harvey V. Fineberg, in PNAS

“Don’t tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money, and I’ll tell you what they are.”
#econsky #academicsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/04/how-...

Responding to oil shocks: price vs quantity

Ses discussions n’ont-elles pas lieu en salles de seminaires, ou avec les referees? Une solution serait peut etre de rendre public sous une forme ou une autre, et apres embargo, les rapports des referees?

Hormuz closure is quietly threatening Taiwan's semiconductor industry From AI data centers to automobiles, chip risk will affect every sector of modern economies

No naptha, no chips for AI or cars....
"Most coverage has focused on LNG & Helium, but naphtha is the input that has not gotten enough attention. It is the petrochemical feedstock from which photoresists, cleaning solvents, & process gases used in chip fabrication"
asia.nikkei.com/opinion/horm...

Is it a good thing? Not necessarily www.imf.org/en/publicati...

Aussi une forme de declinaison du principe qui vaut au plan international en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_...

Et donc ne faudrait-il pas se feliciter qu'un CSP+ les fasse plutot en velo electrique, sans pour autant en se mettre en pamoison? A voir comme une forme minimale d'ethique pour prevenir des accusations d'hypocrisie

Narcissisme des petites differences... selon l'article que tu cites: "la critique doit toujours avoir un contenu de classe et cibler les émissions de luxe (par exemple, celles des yachts et des jets privés)." Faire ses courses en SUV, n'est-ce pas un luxe?

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