Lots of things to keep on building a long lasting competitive economy in Europe.
Green and innovative, fair and inclusive, efficient and reliable.
Merger guidelines will help but would never fix all!!
Market integration is still the cornerstone.
Team working in the @ec.europa.eu to deliver! 💪🇪🇺
The World Bank chief economist recently acknowledged that three decades of its advice against industrial policy "has the practical value of a floppy disk today." This shift in thinking is significant. New piece for @foreignpolicy.com on what a progressive multilateralism requires.
A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week.
For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead.
One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.
“Conservative and neoliberal economists commonly speak about federal borrowing ‘crowding out’ private investment ... ‘investment is usually a first-mover process,’ said Alex Williams ... this is crowding in, not out.”
@atwilliams.bsky.social in The American Prospect 👇
prospect.org/2026/04/07/a...
This is a complex scenario for us to manage. Tightening monetary policy to contain inflation can deepen an economic slowdown, while loosening policy to support growth can entrench inflation. In theory, central banks can look through temporary supply shocks, provided they do not spill over into broader and more persistent price pressures, inflation expectations remain anchored and wage-price spirals do not emerge. But repeated and persistent energy shocks test all these conditions, as ECB president Christine Lagarde highlighted recently.
Our economic policy framework isn't set up to cope with a world of repeated supply shocks.
It is not appropriate to rely on adjustments to domestic demand and employment in order constrain nominal wage claims in response to repeated terms of trade shocks as a primary economic management approach.
The “anti-globalist” US went to the WTO conference and demanded perpetual free trade in ecommerce and streaming.
Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social
Zillow and Redfin should be making the housing market more accessible and affordable for Americans looking to a buy a home.
Instead, they’re being sued for killing competition to juice their profits.
Concentrated corporate power is making this country unaffordable.
The world around us is full of examples of diversity from small, incremental evolutionary changes. But sometimes, something entirely new appears. In his new book, The Origins of the New, SFI's Doug Erwin asks how radically different entities come to be, and how the world produces true novelty.
Trump's war on science is unambiguous.
And that's a wrap on the Bennett School of Public Policy Annual Conference 2026.
Thank you to delegates at @churchillcol.bsky.social and those online for an excellent day of meaningful discussion.
Look out for the recording of the Conference sessions to watch back at bennettschool.cam.ac.uk
NEW: Tribal Politics: How Brexit Divided Britain by @sarahobolt.bsky.social
@lsegovernment.bsky.social & James Tilley @ox.ac.uk examines the two opposing, enduring political identities forged by the 2016 Brexit Referendum: Leavers & Remainers.
Review by @timbale.bsky.social @qmulsse.bsky.social 👇
The headline narrative is shifting.
Big thanks to Natalie Bennett for citing our finding that only 6.6% of new bank lending in 2025 went to the productive economy. Why is this bad?
Because it drives inequality & the housing crisis🏘️ How?
"The people who own assets, this lending funds further increases in the price...
The Trump administration has removed the chapter on climate change from the "Reference manual on scientific evidence", an essential handbook for judges as they weigh evidence in court. The response of the American Meteorological Society has just been published (below). And...[1/2]
Rough scale, in descending order:
India — by far the largest single cohort, driven by Skilled Worker and student visas
Nigeria — second largest, heavily concentrated in health and care
Pakistan — significant, lower-wage profile
Ukraine — large in raw numbers but almost entirely humanitarian
Labour market #econ3
Today, the Climate Change Committee forecast that meeting net zero *costs less* than a single fossil fuel price shock.
And we've had 2 of those in 4 years.
This is how we bring down bills. Investment in homegrown clean energy that isn't exposed to international markets.
5. His finance buddies are heavily invested in Middle East private equity opportunities.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
It’s exactly a month until my book publishes on 9 April! THE ASSET CLASS is a narrative investigation of private equity, a relentlessly destructive wing of finance that infiltrates almost every corner of modern life. Here are some of the very generous things that people have said about it so far…
Where can we get the pamphlet they shared?
📍Interesting opportunity to reflect on the review of the merger guidelines after a year of consultations with businesses, academics and civil society.
Our objective is clear: protect competition and affordability while better taking into account innovation, investment and Europe’s competitiveness.
"We pay for this stuff, we use it, the welfare of our children and grandchildren depends on it. I’m not saying the government should take over A.I., but it should use its power to shape its development,” MIT economist David Autor tells me.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
In past testimony “Zuckerberg…said that under-13s were not allowed on Instagram.
Lanier presented as evidence a 2018 internal document in which company staff estimated that there were 4mn users under 13 years old on Instagram in 2015, **about 30 per cent of all 10- to 12-year-olds in the US**”
The thing about bubbles is they can happen even when the underlying innovation is transformational.
Indeed almost all major technologies from railways to the internet were accompanied by an initial bubble.
