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Dirk Pilat
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Economist focused on productivity, innovation & green transition. Formerly OECD, now associated with IVIE, Valencia & TPI, Manchester. Views are my own.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 23h
Carol of the Bells in #Kyiv railway station

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 1d
Carol of the Bells in #
Kyiv subway.

Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.

Thankful to everyone who stands with us!

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 1d
Declaring anti-harassment and disinformation organizations, as well as those working to stem hate speech and anti-vaccination conspiracies online, enemies of the US is basically admitting that trolling, harassment, and conspiracies are our new official ideology.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b...
They Seek to Curb Online Hate. The U.S. Accuses Them of Censorship.
www.nytimes.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 2d
So, only people who support hate speech are now allowed into the US

How much longer is the US public going to stand for the acceleration towards an autocratic state?

Will 2026 see the start of an effective fight-back - or the arrival of a full-on dictatorship

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Two British anti-hate speech campaigners sanctioned by US state department – UK politics live
Imran Ahmed and Clare Melford among five Europeans hit with visa bans over claims they wish to ‘suppress American viewpoints they oppose’
www.theguardian.com

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5d
Did you know that the US hasn’t had an ambassador in Moscow in 6 months?

Or that our chief envoy to Russia won’t take briefings from the CIA?

But wait, there’s more. Much more in this 6-byline WSJ piece on the Witkoff-Putin axis.

Free link www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
Today, those structures are virtually absent. America has had no ambassador in Moscow since June. There is no assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. Witkoff has declined multiple offers from the CIA for a briefing on Russia. The State Department assigned a small group of staffers to support Witkoff, but members of that team, and others across the administration, have struggled to get summaries of Witkoff's foreign meetings. Longtime allies in

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 6d
Quite the chart. www.ft.com/content/30a4...

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 9d
Much of the decline of #manufacturing employment at the industry level in #Germany reflects a shift of manufacturing tasks into service sector firms rather than a disappearance of manufacturing work.
Dominik Boddin & Thilo Kroeger
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
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Figure shows that between 1975 and 2019, manufacturing industries lost about 1.5 million manufacturing jobs, while service industries gained about 1.1 million manufacturing jobs. Thus, 67.5% of manufacturing jobs ‘lost’ in manufacturing industries reappeared in the service sector. The net decline in manufacturing work, defined by occupations and hence, tasks performed, was only around 500,000 jobs, far smaller than the perceived 1.5 million. Manufacturing employment in advanced economies is widely viewed as being in long-term decline. Using German administrative data from 1975 to 2019, this column shows that much of the decline measured at the industry level reflects a shift of manufacturing tasks into service sector firms rather than a disappearance of manufacturing work. When workers move across sectors while keeping their manufacturing occupation, their long-run earnings losses are modest. By contrast, workers who must switch into service occupations experience substantial and persistent penalties. These findings suggest that occupation-specific skills, rather than sectoral affiliation, shape workers’ adjustment to structural change.

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