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Flavien
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“The rest of the nobility found a cheerful acceptance of slavery the smoothest road to wealth and office”. Tacitus, The Annals. Reposts are not endorsements. Opinions my own.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19h
Switzerland, the famously neutral country, is spending hundreds of millions overhauling its vast network of personal shelters and civil protection sites in light of the “changing global security situation.”
Switzerland is spending millions revamping its vast network of bunkers
Citing “the changing global security situation,” the famously neutral country is embarking on a major revamp of personal shelters and civil protection sites.
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John Cawley @johncawley.bsky.social · 16d
Total # of job listings on JOE. This year is tracking very similarly to 2020 (worst COVID year). In other words, we're seeing considerably less demand for Econ PhDs than in other post-COVID years; e.g. it's roughly one-third lower than last year.
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Eurasia Group @eurasiagroup.net · 1d
"African countries would stand a better chance of thriving in the postliberal international order if they came together."

Our expert @amakaanku.bsky.social explains why South Africa & Nigeria are best positioned to lead in this new era for @foreignaffairs.com:
https://fam.ag/4nrJXZz
The New African Order
How Nigeria and South Africa can lead the continent to prosperity and stability.
www.foreignaffairs.com
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Flavien @flavienm.bsky.social · 3d
“Outspoken”
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Sumaiya Balbale, a practising Muslim, left the venture firm after it decided not to discipline the outspoken investor for posts about Zohran Mamdani on.ft.com/48HfYsR
Shaun Maguire. Text on image reads: (FT Exclusive) Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire’s comments about Islamism (Credit: Al Drago/Bloomberg)
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 4d
Every single measure for the power sector is 'well off track'.

That is

- Not good

- Easily changeable if gov't policy is made stronger rather than weaker to rely on neoliberal 'market forces'

systemschangelab.org/sites/defaul...
a chart showing power sector trajectories
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Flavien @flavienm.bsky.social · 3d
There’s a nice painting of Napoleon in exile in St. Helena by Turner ;-) www.economist.com/weeklyeditio...
France's chance | Apr 14th 2007 | The Economist
France's chance – Weekly edition of The Economist for Apr 14th 2007. You've seen the news, now discover the story.
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Insee @insee.fr · 10d
#Décès | L’âge moyen au décès continue d’augmenter : en 2024, les défunts ont en moyenne 79,4 ans, soit presque 2 ans de plus qu’il y a 10 ans.
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n 2024, les défunts ont en moyenne 79,4 ans (figure 3). Compte tenu du vieillissement des générations nombreuses du baby-boom, et des gains d’espérance de vie, l’âge moyen au décès augmente depuis cinquante ans [Papon, 2018]. Sur la période récente, les années 2021 et 2023 font toutefois exception. En effet, la forte mortalité de l’année 2020, marquée par la pandémie de Covid-19, et de l’année 2022, marquée également par la pandémie, mais aussi par deux épisodes de grippe et des fortes chaleurs en été, a touché en priorité les personnes les plus fragiles et âgées. Aussi, l’âge moyen au décès a nettement augmenté en 2020 et 2022, et par contrecoup, a légèrement diminué en 2021 et 2023. Au final, sur les dix dernières années, l’âge moyen au décès a augmenté de presque deux ans.
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Insee @insee.fr · 9d
#Environnement | En 2024, les émissions de gaz à effet de serre s’élèvent à 5,9 tonnes par personne, alors que l’empreinte carbone de la France atteint 8,2 tonnes par personne.
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En 2024, les émissions de gaz à effet de serre des unités résidentes françaises, qui incluent certaines émissions à l’étranger pour le transport maritime et aérien notamment, s’élèvent à 404 millions de tonnes équivalent CO2 (Mt CO2 éq), soit 5,9 tonnes par personne, alors que l’empreinte carbone de la France s’élève à 563 Mt CO2 éq, soit 8,2 tonnes par personne. La différence s’explique par les émissions importées pour satisfaire la demande finale française, nettement supérieures aux émissions exportées par la France.
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 4d
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs

- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
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Kevin Carey @kevincareywb.bsky.social · 4d
"Collectively, the forests represent a natural asset worth over $23.2 trillion in 2020, delivering ecosystem services valued at $1.15 trillion annually." blogs.worldbank.org/en/africacan...
Why the Congo Basin Forests can’t be ignored: a global lifeline at crossroads
A global treasure under pressure, why is the Congo Basin getting so much attention? For good reason. As the world’s second-largest tropical rainforest, it plays an outsized role regulating global clim...
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David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · 5d
Chart o the morning: German GDP growth has stalled.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 4d
Gold tumbles 6% in biggest sell-off since 2013 on.ft.com/47g2KB0
Gold tumbles 6% in biggest sell-off since 2013
Plunge comes amid warnings that historic bullion rally is overdone
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Flavien @flavienm.bsky.social · 4d
Une franco-mauricienne dans la liste finale du Prix Femina (une liste par ailleurs explorant des themes relativement sombres)
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Flavien @flavienm.bsky.social · 4d
La phrase surlignee est vraie dans le sens où l’entend Warren Buffett!
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Flavien @flavienm.bsky.social · 5d
If something doesn’t actually happen, can it still be called “historic”? @financialtimes.com
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Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 6d
You may not believe in climate change, but the insurance industry does.
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RFI @rfi.fr · 5d
L'intelligence artificielle, une bulle spéculative sur le point d'éclater?
L'intelligence artificielle, une bulle spéculative sur le point d'éclater?
Technologie révolutionnaire pour les uns, menace pour la démocratie ou coquille vide pour les autres, l'IA génère des centaines de milliards de dollars d'investissement. À elle seule, OpenAI, la plus en vue des start-up du secteur, s'est engagée en 2024 à dépenser plus de 1 000 milliards de dollars dans les prochaines années pour financer son développement. Une somme sans comparaison, à ce stade, avec les revenus réels générés par l'IA.
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Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm.bsky.social · 5d
gaining over 1%.
This simultaneous climb in both a classic safe haven and risk assets is a powerful illustration that the drivers of the gold rally are different from historical patterns. (For a deeper dive into this, please see my conversation on CNBC posted earlier.)
#economy #markets
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Flavien @flavienm.bsky.social · 6d
www.aaronhuertas.com/we-need-to-t...
We Need to Talk About Reactionary Centrists
Sympathizing with the right while punching left is not the neutral position pundits seem to think it is
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Flavien @flavienm.bsky.social · 8d
“We find that after attending economics training, participating judges use more economics language in their opinions, rule against regulatory agencies more often, and impose more severe criminal sentences.”
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Flavien @flavienm.bsky.social · 8d
Brutal: “A one s.d. increase in app usage reduces GPAs by 36.2% of a within-cohort-major s.d. and lowers wages by 2.3%”
joshua-goodman.com Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 8d
Wow. This is the paper I have been waiting for. Mobile apps are brain rot, with meaningfully bad economic consequences for those who overuse them.
qjeharvard.bsky.social The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 8d
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes,” by Barwick, Chen, Fu, and Li: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
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Flavien @flavienm.bsky.social · 9d
“It’s easy to mock the French. I’ve done it myself.”
financialtimes.com Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 9d
Opinion: More than any other western European country, France is dominated by powerful billionaires paying relatively low taxes. Most voters agree that France should cut its deficit, and the majority says: the super-rich first. on.ft.com/4hedHHZ
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Hannes Ullrich @hannesullrich.com · 10d
Canada and Europe don't seem to be scooping up junior Economists, even with fewer job options in the US. At least not on the US job market, and only slight uptick on the European job market. 😔
#EconSky📉📈
paulgp.com Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 10d
US and Europe + Canada on similar trajectories:
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Flavien @flavienm.bsky.social · 11d
In both cases the correct conclusion is not that “we, zoomers and millennials, are better off”…
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Flavien @flavienm.bsky.social · 11d
One analogy here is with climate change: with both a shift in mean and in variance you can still have more frequent extreme cold events… www.researchgate.net/figure/the-e...
Figure 1 the effect of changes in temperature distribution on extremes....
Download scientific diagram | the effect of changes in temperature distribution on extremes. Different changes in temperature distributions between present and future climate and their effects on extr...
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