Jose Leandro
@jose-leandro.bsky.social
Father; husband; European federalist; believes in the power of economics to improve people’s lives and save the planet; views are my own; reposts don’t mean endorsement
Anyone interested in international finance, and particularly the international role of the dollar and the euro, “exorbitant privilege”, digital currencies and much more, should watch this (and read the transcript) open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Talking With Hélène Rey
The international role of the dollar and more
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August 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Anyone interested in international finance, and particularly the international role of the dollar and the euro, “exorbitant privilege”, digital currencies and much more, should watch this (and read the transcript) open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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The EU makes life easier for millions of people across Europe – and beyond.
🎓 Erasmus+
🛒 the single market
🚆 passenger rights
🗺️ travel without borders
💶 the euro
These are just some of the ways the EU works for you every day.
Learn more → europa.eu/!fc4bGR
🎓 Erasmus+
🛒 the single market
🚆 passenger rights
🗺️ travel without borders
💶 the euro
These are just some of the ways the EU works for you every day.
Learn more → europa.eu/!fc4bGR
August 16, 2025 at 7:28 AM
The EU makes life easier for millions of people across Europe – and beyond.
🎓 Erasmus+
🛒 the single market
🚆 passenger rights
🗺️ travel without borders
💶 the euro
These are just some of the ways the EU works for you every day.
Learn more → europa.eu/!fc4bGR
🎓 Erasmus+
🛒 the single market
🚆 passenger rights
🗺️ travel without borders
💶 the euro
These are just some of the ways the EU works for you every day.
Learn more → europa.eu/!fc4bGR
August 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM
If ever you are in Edinburgh for the Fringe, don’t miss this show (full disclosure: Pedro is my son 😀)
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August 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
If ever you are in Edinburgh for the Fringe, don’t miss this show (full disclosure: Pedro is my son 😀)
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The EU is providing €22 million to support patients, including from Gaza and the West Bank, in East Jerusalem hospitals.
This contribution will help ensure that Palestinian patients continue to have access to healthcare in these hospitals.
Read more: europa.eu/!bHcXCQ
This contribution will help ensure that Palestinian patients continue to have access to healthcare in these hospitals.
Read more: europa.eu/!bHcXCQ
August 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The EU is providing €22 million to support patients, including from Gaza and the West Bank, in East Jerusalem hospitals.
This contribution will help ensure that Palestinian patients continue to have access to healthcare in these hospitals.
Read more: europa.eu/!bHcXCQ
This contribution will help ensure that Palestinian patients continue to have access to healthcare in these hospitals.
Read more: europa.eu/!bHcXCQ
If you are passing by Edinburgh this summer don’t miss this show 😀
www.lmaonaisecomedy.com/reviews/pedr...
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Pedro Leandro review: Magnetic debut, deserving of the praise he craves — LMAOnaise
Pedro Leandro’s debut is going to bring in a good helping of the validation he craves. Pedro’s comedy is smooth, structured and sophisticated.
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August 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
If you are passing by Edinburgh this summer don’t miss this show 😀
www.lmaonaisecomedy.com/reviews/pedr...
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Congress eliminated public media funding. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.
Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq
Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq
July 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Congress eliminated public media funding. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.
Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq
Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq
Paul Krugman on why the EU is stronger than most people, including Trump, think
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A Letter to Europe
You’re stronger than you think. Act like it.
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May 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Paul Krugman on why the EU is stronger than most people, including Trump, think
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Europe’s energy grids are key to a cleaner, greener future.
Your input will help modernise and expand the grids to support renewables and electrification.
We have launched a public consultation, open until 5 August 2025 ↓
europa.eu/!jQDBgC
Your input will help modernise and expand the grids to support renewables and electrification.
We have launched a public consultation, open until 5 August 2025 ↓
europa.eu/!jQDBgC
May 24, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Europe’s energy grids are key to a cleaner, greener future.
Your input will help modernise and expand the grids to support renewables and electrification.
We have launched a public consultation, open until 5 August 2025 ↓
europa.eu/!jQDBgC
Your input will help modernise and expand the grids to support renewables and electrification.
We have launched a public consultation, open until 5 August 2025 ↓
europa.eu/!jQDBgC
“In contrast to this gloom, Europe has just as strong an investment case now as it did two weeks ago. It is serious about boosting the adoption of the euro as a reserve currency, and it is deepening its internal financial integration”
A re-up for the weekend crowd:
Donald Trump has undermined investors' trust in the US and the dollar's role as a safety valve. This week has felt like the end of an era. Speaking too soon? Maybe. But it's wild that sensible people are talking in these terms
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Donald Trump has undermined investors' trust in the US and the dollar's role as a safety valve. This week has felt like the end of an era. Speaking too soon? Maybe. But it's wild that sensible people are talking in these terms
on.ft.com/4cAKvZs
Donald Trump has added a political risk premium to US assets
[FREE TO READ] Parking money in America is no longer the routine, fuss-free, neutral option
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April 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
“In contrast to this gloom, Europe has just as strong an investment case now as it did two weeks ago. It is serious about boosting the adoption of the euro as a reserve currency, and it is deepening its internal financial integration”
This graph says it all: investors are selling both dollars and T bills. Usually, in times of market stress, investors buy dollars and T bills as they are perceived as safe. Now they are selling both which means that the role of the dollar as a global safe asset is under threat
April 12, 2025 at 9:05 AM
This graph says it all: investors are selling both dollars and T bills. Usually, in times of market stress, investors buy dollars and T bills as they are perceived as safe. Now they are selling both which means that the role of the dollar as a global safe asset is under threat
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Europe is ready to negotiate with the US.
We have offered zero-for-zero tariffs for industrial goods.
Because we're always ready for a good deal.
But we’re also prepared to respond with countermeasures.
And protect ourselves against indirect effects through trade diversion ⭣
We have offered zero-for-zero tariffs for industrial goods.
Because we're always ready for a good deal.
But we’re also prepared to respond with countermeasures.
And protect ourselves against indirect effects through trade diversion ⭣
April 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Europe is ready to negotiate with the US.
We have offered zero-for-zero tariffs for industrial goods.
Because we're always ready for a good deal.
But we’re also prepared to respond with countermeasures.
And protect ourselves against indirect effects through trade diversion ⭣
We have offered zero-for-zero tariffs for industrial goods.
Because we're always ready for a good deal.
But we’re also prepared to respond with countermeasures.
And protect ourselves against indirect effects through trade diversion ⭣
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In my last UniCredit Sunday Wrap (after 13 years of weekend writing), I discuss the medium term outlook for the world - and markets.
Bad for the US - but there’s still hope for Europe and the rest of the world.
Stay tuned ….
www.research.unicredit.eu/DocsKey/econ...
Bad for the US - but there’s still hope for Europe and the rest of the world.
Stay tuned ….
www.research.unicredit.eu/DocsKey/econ...
April 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
In my last UniCredit Sunday Wrap (after 13 years of weekend writing), I discuss the medium term outlook for the world - and markets.
Bad for the US - but there’s still hope for Europe and the rest of the world.
Stay tuned ….
www.research.unicredit.eu/DocsKey/econ...
Bad for the US - but there’s still hope for Europe and the rest of the world.
Stay tuned ….
www.research.unicredit.eu/DocsKey/econ...
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Trump may well achieve his goal of reducing the US trade deficit, but via the worst possible way: engineering recession at home and removing America’s and USD’s status as trusted safe haven. It would be a poorer, hostile nation but with trade surplus. Sort of like Russia. Some win.
April 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Trump may well achieve his goal of reducing the US trade deficit, but via the worst possible way: engineering recession at home and removing America’s and USD’s status as trusted safe haven. It would be a poorer, hostile nation but with trade surplus. Sort of like Russia. Some win.
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The blue and yellow of Ukraine.
The colours of resistance against imperialism.
On the eve of this grim anniversary, they adorn our building as a symbol of our unflinching support for the Ukrainian people.
Our neighbours, partners, and future EU members.
The colours of resistance against imperialism.
On the eve of this grim anniversary, they adorn our building as a symbol of our unflinching support for the Ukrainian people.
Our neighbours, partners, and future EU members.
February 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The blue and yellow of Ukraine.
The colours of resistance against imperialism.
On the eve of this grim anniversary, they adorn our building as a symbol of our unflinching support for the Ukrainian people.
Our neighbours, partners, and future EU members.
The colours of resistance against imperialism.
On the eve of this grim anniversary, they adorn our building as a symbol of our unflinching support for the Ukrainian people.
Our neighbours, partners, and future EU members.
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First they came for Alexei Navalny.
Now they come for his lawyers with sentences of years in a penal colony.
Russia’s relentless crackdown on political opposition and its persecution of political prisoners is horrendous and should not be tolerated.
Now they come for his lawyers with sentences of years in a penal colony.
Russia’s relentless crackdown on political opposition and its persecution of political prisoners is horrendous and should not be tolerated.
January 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
First they came for Alexei Navalny.
Now they come for his lawyers with sentences of years in a penal colony.
Russia’s relentless crackdown on political opposition and its persecution of political prisoners is horrendous and should not be tolerated.
Now they come for his lawyers with sentences of years in a penal colony.
Russia’s relentless crackdown on political opposition and its persecution of political prisoners is horrendous and should not be tolerated.
Very good analysis. But there’s no need to reinvent the wheel—the 2024 Draghi Report includes everything the EU needs to do on the economic front, Trump or no Trump. Trump’s agenda just makes it all more urgent.
In today’s Sunday Wrap I argue that multilateralism has been withering away for some years now, at huge cost to the world. Trump is turbo-charging it towards its end.
I discuss the challenge it poses to Europe.
www.research.unicredit.eu/DocsKey/econ...
I discuss the challenge it poses to Europe.
www.research.unicredit.eu/DocsKey/econ...
January 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Very good analysis. But there’s no need to reinvent the wheel—the 2024 Draghi Report includes everything the EU needs to do on the economic front, Trump or no Trump. Trump’s agenda just makes it all more urgent.
Difficult to understand how so many people in the 21st century EU continue to be stuck in a sexist and paternalistic mind frame
All violence against women is despicable.
Our latest #Eurobarometer shows that the sexualization and objectification of women are widely seen as unacceptable across the EU.
We will continue working tirelessly to completely end violence against women and girls.
#OrangeTheWorld
Our latest #Eurobarometer shows that the sexualization and objectification of women are widely seen as unacceptable across the EU.
We will continue working tirelessly to completely end violence against women and girls.
#OrangeTheWorld
November 25, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Difficult to understand how so many people in the 21st century EU continue to be stuck in a sexist and paternalistic mind frame
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Merci 🇫🇷, obrigado 🇵🇹!
After Spain activated the #EUCivilProtection Mechanism in response to the devastating floods, Portugal and France swiftly stepped in.
Over 150 team members and 60 vehicles worked tirelessly with Spanish authorities to clear debris, pump water, and help communities recover.
After Spain activated the #EUCivilProtection Mechanism in response to the devastating floods, Portugal and France swiftly stepped in.
Over 150 team members and 60 vehicles worked tirelessly with Spanish authorities to clear debris, pump water, and help communities recover.
November 21, 2024 at 8:14 AM
Merci 🇫🇷, obrigado 🇵🇹!
After Spain activated the #EUCivilProtection Mechanism in response to the devastating floods, Portugal and France swiftly stepped in.
Over 150 team members and 60 vehicles worked tirelessly with Spanish authorities to clear debris, pump water, and help communities recover.
After Spain activated the #EUCivilProtection Mechanism in response to the devastating floods, Portugal and France swiftly stepped in.
Over 150 team members and 60 vehicles worked tirelessly with Spanish authorities to clear debris, pump water, and help communities recover.
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin
November 18, 2024 at 5:15 AM
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin
Draghi’s report could become today’s equivalent to the Delors Report of 1989 that kick started the process towards EMU and the Euro. It would be a mistake to consider his proposals as too ambitious, too costly or too pro-EU, or to reduce it to a debate on common EU debt.
A call for joined-up thinking in Europe - my take on the Draghi report in today's @financialtimes.com Free Lunch. on.ft.com/3XDZonP
Mario Draghi calls for joined-up thinking in Europe
[FREE TO READ] When it comes to lifting EU productivity, fortune will favour the bold
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September 15, 2024 at 10:12 AM
Draghi’s report could become today’s equivalent to the Delors Report of 1989 that kick started the process towards EMU and the Euro. It would be a mistake to consider his proposals as too ambitious, too costly or too pro-EU, or to reduce it to a debate on common EU debt.
Excellent article: “For the populist agitator, the aim seems to be not to identify a real injustice and set out the appropriate relief but, on the contrary, to stoke a rage for which there can be no relief, to induce a kind of permanent mass enervation.”
We’re living in the age of rage.
September 15, 2024 at 9:57 AM
Excellent article: “For the populist agitator, the aim seems to be not to identify a real injustice and set out the appropriate relief but, on the contrary, to stoke a rage for which there can be no relief, to induce a kind of permanent mass enervation.”
We’re living in the age of rage.