Clem Fon
@clemfon.bsky.social
Professor of Political Economy at UcLouvain
Central banking & infrastructural finance geek. Also EU & French politics, political economy & social sciences at large.
Dr Miette bonus: #recordoftheweek & #tuneoftheweek
Central banking & infrastructural finance geek. Also EU & French politics, political economy & social sciences at large.
Dr Miette bonus: #recordoftheweek & #tuneoftheweek
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Clem Fon
@clemfon.bsky.social
· Sep 1
Since the start of von der Leyen's second mandate, EU sustainable finance norms face intense dismantling pressures. My new @JEPP article shows this started years ago when the fossil fuel industry “woke up” to the EU Taxonomy. 🧵 #EUTaxonomy #SustainableFinance👇 1/10
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Reposted by Clem Fon
Chatbots and metaverse going in the same (black hole) direction
nothing can put a bigger smile on my face than reading that Microsoft has to scale back its AI ambitions because NOBODY uses copilot.
December 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Chatbots and metaverse going in the same (black hole) direction
Keep on fighting big tech algos
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Keep on fighting big tech algos
Reposted by Clem Fon
We recently published a study on the transformation of the Eurozone architecture (🔗 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers...., with Alex Goghie, Matteo Giordano & @rikereimer.bsky.social) and launched an accompanying interactive online tool (🔗 monetary-architecture.com).
This is how it came to be 👇
This is how it came to be 👇
December 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
We recently published a study on the transformation of the Eurozone architecture (🔗 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers...., with Alex Goghie, Matteo Giordano & @rikereimer.bsky.social) and launched an accompanying interactive online tool (🔗 monetary-architecture.com).
This is how it came to be 👇
This is how it came to be 👇
My only use of Chat GPT is to provide same readings than my students' assignements to check whether they used it. In its newer version, without me asking for it, chapgpt automatically proposes potential student's users to blatantly lie & cheat.
Just ban this shit from our universities.
Just ban this shit from our universities.
December 4, 2025 at 9:19 AM
My only use of Chat GPT is to provide same readings than my students' assignements to check whether they used it. In its newer version, without me asking for it, chapgpt automatically proposes potential student's users to blatantly lie & cheat.
Just ban this shit from our universities.
Just ban this shit from our universities.
Reposted by Clem Fon
For the Guardian, @bjoernbremer.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social and I write about how building new homes is not enough to tackle the housing crisis. Housing is a redistributive issue and progressive policy solutions need to acknowledge that.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
To halt the far right, Europe’s progressive parties must fix its housing crisis. Our research shows how | Tarik Abou-Chadi, Björn Bremer and Silja Häusermann
The mantra of ‘build, build, build’ misses something crucial: that few can afford these new homes, say Tarik Abou-Chadi, Silja Häusermann and Björn Bremer
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
For the Guardian, @bjoernbremer.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social and I write about how building new homes is not enough to tackle the housing crisis. Housing is a redistributive issue and progressive policy solutions need to acknowledge that.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Je propose qu’on impose que toute session sur un LLM soit précédées d’une video de 5 minutes avec
VOUS N’IRIEZ PAS À LA SALLE AVEC UN CHARIOT ÉLÉVATEUR
VOUS NE BRÛLERIEZ PAS UNE FORÊT POUR FAIRE UNE BLAGUE
VOUS NE VOLERIEZ PAS UNE VOITURE POUR FAIRE UN TRAJET À PIEDS
VOUS N’IRIEZ PAS À LA SALLE AVEC UN CHARIOT ÉLÉVATEUR
VOUS NE BRÛLERIEZ PAS UNE FORÊT POUR FAIRE UNE BLAGUE
VOUS NE VOLERIEZ PAS UNE VOITURE POUR FAIRE UN TRAJET À PIEDS
Oui, voilà. Comme on dit : faire ses études avec une IA, c'est comme aller à la salle de sport avec un chariot élévateur.
Je pense que c’est d’une erreur de dire que la recherche bibliographique c’est un truc de chercheur et que la plupart des gens n’en ont pas besoin. Voici pourquoi.
Vous avez probablement appris à faire une recherche documentaire dans votre scolarité, au collège ou au lycée. Et peut-être que
Vous avez probablement appris à faire une recherche documentaire dans votre scolarité, au collège ou au lycée. Et peut-être que
December 1, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Je propose qu’on impose que toute session sur un LLM soit précédées d’une video de 5 minutes avec
VOUS N’IRIEZ PAS À LA SALLE AVEC UN CHARIOT ÉLÉVATEUR
VOUS NE BRÛLERIEZ PAS UNE FORÊT POUR FAIRE UNE BLAGUE
VOUS NE VOLERIEZ PAS UNE VOITURE POUR FAIRE UN TRAJET À PIEDS
VOUS N’IRIEZ PAS À LA SALLE AVEC UN CHARIOT ÉLÉVATEUR
VOUS NE BRÛLERIEZ PAS UNE FORÊT POUR FAIRE UNE BLAGUE
VOUS NE VOLERIEZ PAS UNE VOITURE POUR FAIRE UN TRAJET À PIEDS
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NVIDIA earnings were a mirage. The market figured it out surprisingly fast. NVIDIA bump evaporated.
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
November 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
NVIDIA earnings were a mirage. The market figured it out surprisingly fast. NVIDIA bump evaporated.
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
Reposted by Clem Fon
"For students, AI teaching appears to be less transformative than it is demoralising".
“I do not want to be taught by GPT.”
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
“I do not want to be taught by GPT.”
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Reposted by Clem Fon
Tuilp bulb producer shrugs off "tulip bubble" anxiety with bumper flower bulb demand
November 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Tuilp bulb producer shrugs off "tulip bubble" anxiety with bumper flower bulb demand
Reposted by Clem Fon
Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09)
The grad is from China
Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"
Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
bit.ly/3LHpin8
The grad is from China
Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"
Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
bit.ly/3LHpin8
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender Jef...
bit.ly
November 17, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09)
The grad is from China
Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"
Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
bit.ly/3LHpin8
The grad is from China
Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"
Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
bit.ly/3LHpin8
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Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
November 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
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Why don't we have an EU wide carbon tax? Well, some people worked as hard as they could to stop it. Important new research by Fabienne Jouty and Christophe Bonneuil!
Undermining Climate Action: The Fight by European Oil Companies Against the European Carbon Tax
This article examines, in the lead-up to the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, the role played by five major European oil companies—BP in the United Kingdom, Shell in the Netherlands and UK, ENI in Italy, ...
www.tandfonline.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Why don't we have an EU wide carbon tax? Well, some people worked as hard as they could to stop it. Important new research by Fabienne Jouty and Christophe Bonneuil!
Reposted by Clem Fon
1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
Post 2010 Germany "economic success" would have been very different witout €financial capital flowing back to Frankfurt during the crisis and China industrial demand.
Take these two elements away and German growth model look more like Deutschbahn reliability than ordo liberal Mittelstand fantaisies
Take these two elements away and German growth model look more like Deutschbahn reliability than ordo liberal Mittelstand fantaisies
November 12, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Post 2010 Germany "economic success" would have been very different witout €financial capital flowing back to Frankfurt during the crisis and China industrial demand.
Take these two elements away and German growth model look more like Deutschbahn reliability than ordo liberal Mittelstand fantaisies
Take these two elements away and German growth model look more like Deutschbahn reliability than ordo liberal Mittelstand fantaisies
Oh, I just saw a cognitive dissonance
November 12, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Oh, I just saw a cognitive dissonance
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Pour ceux qui ne l'auraient pas encore vu, cet hommage IA de l'ancienne ministre des Anciens combattants, avec deux Bretagne, plus de Marseille, Madrid française. Et un magnifique casque type Stahlhelm 1935 pour honorer la mémoire des poilus...
November 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Pour ceux qui ne l'auraient pas encore vu, cet hommage IA de l'ancienne ministre des Anciens combattants, avec deux Bretagne, plus de Marseille, Madrid française. Et un magnifique casque type Stahlhelm 1935 pour honorer la mémoire des poilus...
EPP's leader Weber going full orwell 1984 double speak.
How dares he talk about strenghtening environment and parlementary democracy while his main strategy today is allying with far right parties to dismantle sustainability norms?
I would laugh if i would not be furious
How dares he talk about strenghtening environment and parlementary democracy while his main strategy today is allying with far right parties to dismantle sustainability norms?
I would laugh if i would not be furious
Sixth: more parliamentary democracy. Stronger EP; more transparent Council, COM President also as European Council President. EPP partners are centre parties, no cooperation with extremists
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
EPP's leader Weber going full orwell 1984 double speak.
How dares he talk about strenghtening environment and parlementary democracy while his main strategy today is allying with far right parties to dismantle sustainability norms?
I would laugh if i would not be furious
How dares he talk about strenghtening environment and parlementary democracy while his main strategy today is allying with far right parties to dismantle sustainability norms?
I would laugh if i would not be furious
What stage of the Ponzi scheme is it when Robinhood wants to allow "amateur traders" to invest in AI startups? www.ft.com/content/7278...
Robinhood wants to allow amateur traders to invest in AI start-ups
US broker plans to offer shares in a fund that holds a handful of private artificial intelligence companies
www.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
What stage of the Ponzi scheme is it when Robinhood wants to allow "amateur traders" to invest in AI startups? www.ft.com/content/7278...
Relying on LLMs to get your diploma and is similar to forging PhD research for boosting your political career in Germany
You think it creates shortcuts and notability for getting the top job. But as you are only interested in the CV line, you don't learn anything.
And one day, you are exposed.
You think it creates shortcuts and notability for getting the top job. But as you are only interested in the CV line, you don't learn anything.
And one day, you are exposed.
November 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Relying on LLMs to get your diploma and is similar to forging PhD research for boosting your political career in Germany
You think it creates shortcuts and notability for getting the top job. But as you are only interested in the CV line, you don't learn anything.
And one day, you are exposed.
You think it creates shortcuts and notability for getting the top job. But as you are only interested in the CV line, you don't learn anything.
And one day, you are exposed.
Au fait, pour visibiliser davantage l'inculpation de Didier Reynders, ancien ministre MR des finances belges pris en plein délit de blanchiment d'argent au café tabac du coin alors qu'il était occupé au bailout des banques, on pourrait savoir s'il arrive à se cuisiner lui même des oeufs en prison?
November 7, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Au fait, pour visibiliser davantage l'inculpation de Didier Reynders, ancien ministre MR des finances belges pris en plein délit de blanchiment d'argent au café tabac du coin alors qu'il était occupé au bailout des banques, on pourrait savoir s'il arrive à se cuisiner lui même des oeufs en prison?
If Deutsche Bank acts like during the 2007 Global financial crisis, they will sell AI related financial products to their clients while shorting AI with proprietary trading
www.ft.com/content/c042...
www.ft.com/content/c042...
Deutsche Bank explores hedges for data centre exposure as AI lending booms
Executives discussing options including shorting basket of artificial intelligence stocks or using derivatives to transfer risk
www.ft.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
If Deutsche Bank acts like during the 2007 Global financial crisis, they will sell AI related financial products to their clients while shorting AI with proprietary trading
www.ft.com/content/c042...
www.ft.com/content/c042...
Its a paradox if there was a bit of strategic vision. It ceases to be one if we consider that the current anti ecological backlash is driven by revenge, some kind of priviledged conservative nihilism,an inability to see beyond a 2y horizon when it comes to profitability margin.
"That's the paradox of the EU’s grand exercise in simplification & Green Deal backtracking. Driven by fear of de-industrialisation, it may instead turn Europe into China’s largest customer for [future tech]. Without legal certainty, the engine of investment stalls," via @davidcarretta.bsky.social
We are testing La Matinale Européenne in English.
Today’s pilot by me: “Omnibus Politics: Killing Legal Certainty, Stalling Investment”
Don’t miss our brief. And let we know what you think.
With @grimmse.bsky.social and @cspillmann.bsky.social 👇
europemorningpost.substack.com/p/omnibus-po...
Today’s pilot by me: “Omnibus Politics: Killing Legal Certainty, Stalling Investment”
Don’t miss our brief. And let we know what you think.
With @grimmse.bsky.social and @cspillmann.bsky.social 👇
europemorningpost.substack.com/p/omnibus-po...
November 5, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Its a paradox if there was a bit of strategic vision. It ceases to be one if we consider that the current anti ecological backlash is driven by revenge, some kind of priviledged conservative nihilism,an inability to see beyond a 2y horizon when it comes to profitability margin.
Reposted by Clem Fon
My more elaborate take on why the Dutch election outcome does not represent a defeat of the far right
📢 ECPS Interview
🗳️ 🇳🇱 Professor Sarah de Lange: D66’s Victory in Dutch Elections Cannot Be Presented as a Victory over Populism
✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli
🔗 Read the interview: www.populismstudies.org/professor-de...
🗳️ 🇳🇱 Professor Sarah de Lange: D66’s Victory in Dutch Elections Cannot Be Presented as a Victory over Populism
✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli
🔗 Read the interview: www.populismstudies.org/professor-de...
November 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
My more elaborate take on why the Dutch election outcome does not represent a defeat of the far right