Friederike Reimer
@rikereimer.bsky.social
PhD researcher @ Global Climate Forum | EPOG alumna | macro-finance, balance sheets, a better world | eng+ger | 🏳️🌈 | views my own
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“Those who want to translate their nativist politics into monetary precepts have failed to reckon with the credit-based, offshore, nature of money today.”
@steffenmurau.bsky.social on year one of Trump’s economic policy and the future of the world dollar
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru...
@steffenmurau.bsky.social on year one of Trump’s economic policy and the future of the world dollar
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru...
Trump's Dollar | Steffen Murau
Calls to weaken the dollar have become a feature of Trump's second term. But in today's credit-based system, where the US currency is often created offshore, nativist politics cannot be translated int...
www.phenomenalworld.org
February 7, 2026 at 5:34 PM
“Those who want to translate their nativist politics into monetary precepts have failed to reckon with the credit-based, offshore, nature of money today.”
@steffenmurau.bsky.social on year one of Trump’s economic policy and the future of the world dollar
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru...
@steffenmurau.bsky.social on year one of Trump’s economic policy and the future of the world dollar
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru...
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Insider/outsider? Rogoff was at Harvard, in IMF circles, in the top journals... Yet here is a narrative that postures towards being an outsider arguing against the consensus it helped build. www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...
Education of a Grandmaster
Kenneth Rogoff, Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead. Yale 2025.
www.ineteconomics.org
January 29, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Insider/outsider? Rogoff was at Harvard, in IMF circles, in the top journals... Yet here is a narrative that postures towards being an outsider arguing against the consensus it helped build. www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...
nothing like a good tooze portrait to give me energy on a friday
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The crisis whisperer: how Adam Tooze makes sense of our bewildering age
The long read: Whether it’s the financial crash, the climate emergency or the breakdown of the international order, historian Adam Tooze has become the go-to guide to the radical new world we’ve enter...
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 9:12 AM
nothing like a good tooze portrait to give me energy on a friday
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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📝 Our report on the transformation of South Africa’s monetary architecture (1983-2024) co-authored with Mark Swilling for the National Planning Commission of South Africa has been launched last week! 📝
Find the full report here: www.nationalplanningcommission.org.za/assets/Docum...
Find the full report here: www.nationalplanningcommission.org.za/assets/Docum...
December 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
📝 Our report on the transformation of South Africa’s monetary architecture (1983-2024) co-authored with Mark Swilling for the National Planning Commission of South Africa has been launched last week! 📝
Find the full report here: www.nationalplanningcommission.org.za/assets/Docum...
Find the full report here: www.nationalplanningcommission.org.za/assets/Docum...
Internally we always joked that this is the "balance sheet monster" paper, and many devils were definitely hiding in the details! Happy to have been part of this long journey 🥰
Diving in is very worth it for everything you ever wanted to know (and more) about the GFC and Eurocrisis ⬇️
Diving in is very worth it for everything you ever wanted to know (and more) about the GFC and Eurocrisis ⬇️
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 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Internally we always joked that this is the "balance sheet monster" paper, and many devils were definitely hiding in the details! Happy to have been part of this long journey 🥰
Diving in is very worth it for everything you ever wanted to know (and more) about the GFC and Eurocrisis ⬇️
Diving in is very worth it for everything you ever wanted to know (and more) about the GFC and Eurocrisis ⬇️
balance sheet nerds assemble 🔥
🚀 To accompany our recent study on the transformation of the Eurozone architecture, we are also launching an interactive online tool. Check out monetary-architecture.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
balance sheet nerds assemble 🔥
Everything you've ever wanted to know about the balance sheet dynamics of the global financial crisis and eurocrisis!
it was great to be part of this huge paper and I learned so much! We also have a handy little (big) online tool to guide you through it, more to come 👀
monetary-architecture.com
it was great to be part of this huge paper and I learned so much! We also have a handy little (big) online tool to guide you through it, more to come 👀
monetary-architecture.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Everything you've ever wanted to know about the balance sheet dynamics of the global financial crisis and eurocrisis!
it was great to be part of this huge paper and I learned so much! We also have a handy little (big) online tool to guide you through it, more to come 👀
monetary-architecture.com
it was great to be part of this huge paper and I learned so much! We also have a handy little (big) online tool to guide you through it, more to come 👀
monetary-architecture.com
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📣 News from the OBFA-TRANSFORM project 📣
Our Emmy Noether research group is fast approaching its halfway point and we’ve recently received confirmation of funding from @dfg.de for the second project period from 2026 to 2029 🎊
That's why we are launching our new website at obfa-transform.eu
Our Emmy Noether research group is fast approaching its halfway point and we’ve recently received confirmation of funding from @dfg.de for the second project period from 2026 to 2029 🎊
That's why we are launching our new website at obfa-transform.eu
November 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
📣 News from the OBFA-TRANSFORM project 📣
Our Emmy Noether research group is fast approaching its halfway point and we’ve recently received confirmation of funding from @dfg.de for the second project period from 2026 to 2029 🎊
That's why we are launching our new website at obfa-transform.eu
Our Emmy Noether research group is fast approaching its halfway point and we’ve recently received confirmation of funding from @dfg.de for the second project period from 2026 to 2029 🎊
That's why we are launching our new website at obfa-transform.eu
things are happening in the OBFA-TRANSFORM film studio today... 👀
@steffenmurau.bsky.social @olanmcevoy.bsky.social @ fanny without bluesky
@steffenmurau.bsky.social @olanmcevoy.bsky.social @ fanny without bluesky
November 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
things are happening in the OBFA-TRANSFORM film studio today... 👀
@steffenmurau.bsky.social @olanmcevoy.bsky.social @ fanny without bluesky
@steffenmurau.bsky.social @olanmcevoy.bsky.social @ fanny without bluesky
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"Die Veränderung der Welt durch Internetkultur betrifft mittlerweile nicht mehr nur Einzelersonen, die einfach mal Gras anfassen sollten. Internetkultur ist keine Nische mehr, die man wahlweise ignorieren oder als obskuren Quatsch verlachen kann..."
Brainrot Morde oder wie man einen Abgrund überwindet
In den USA ist am 10.
beritmiriam.substack.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
"Die Veränderung der Welt durch Internetkultur betrifft mittlerweile nicht mehr nur Einzelersonen, die einfach mal Gras anfassen sollten. Internetkultur ist keine Nische mehr, die man wahlweise ignorieren oder als obskuren Quatsch verlachen kann..."
the mid-transition concept has been living rent-free in my brain
"We build on the concept developed by Grubert and Hastings-Simon of the mid-transition, which we interpret as a volatile, unstable, and potentially chaotic period where we have the fossil-based energy system persists even as low-carbon technologies rise"
www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/o...
www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/o...
Oil and Politics in the Mid-Transition | The Polycrisis
Adam Tooze, Amy Jaffe, Alex Turnbull, William Oman, and Morgan Bazilian on the geopolitics of a transitioning global energy system.
www.phenomenalworld.org
September 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
the mid-transition concept has been living rent-free in my brain
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Rüstung verdrängt Klima - nicht nur in der Debatte und beim Geld, sondern vielleicht auch bald beim Buhlen um Fachkräfte. Ich hab mir angeschaut, wo die Aufrüstung dem Klimaschutz entgegensteht, und in einigen Berufen wird es knapp.
taz.de/Kampf-um-Fac...
taz.de/Kampf-um-Fac...
Kampf um Fachkräfte: Waffen oder Windräder?
Wer Panzer baut, kann kein Windrad bauen. Zwischen der Rüstungsindustrie und Solar- und Windkraftunternehmen droht ein großes Gezerre um Fachkräfte.
taz.de
September 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Rüstung verdrängt Klima - nicht nur in der Debatte und beim Geld, sondern vielleicht auch bald beim Buhlen um Fachkräfte. Ich hab mir angeschaut, wo die Aufrüstung dem Klimaschutz entgegensteht, und in einigen Berufen wird es knapp.
taz.de/Kampf-um-Fac...
taz.de/Kampf-um-Fac...
i may or may not document the experience of going to a conference in athens and not flying for at least one way of the journey. in some way taking a plane for the way back feels even more crazy because you see the difference of the different modes of transportation even more.
August 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM
i may or may not document the experience of going to a conference in athens and not flying for at least one way of the journey. in some way taking a plane for the way back feels even more crazy because you see the difference of the different modes of transportation even more.
Amazing how the RRF is everywhere - while we looked at the "money in“ side of NextGenerationEU in our paper, the "money out“ pops up in unexpected places. Schrödinger’s off-balance sheet fiscal agency meets whimsical tram in the baltic sea town where i spent summers as a kid…
August 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Amazing how the RRF is everywhere - while we looked at the "money in“ side of NextGenerationEU in our paper, the "money out“ pops up in unexpected places. Schrödinger’s off-balance sheet fiscal agency meets whimsical tram in the baltic sea town where i spent summers as a kid…
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kritik der labubukritik www.spiegel.de/kultur/labub...
(S+) Meinung: Kritik an Labubus: Nicht Plüschtiere sind das Problem, sondern Privatjets
Labubus, kleine Plüschmonster, haben einen Hype ausgelöst – und als Reaktion darauf eine Flut konsumkritischer Texte. Komisch, dass das nur passiert, wenn es um Dinge geht, die vor allem von Frauen ge...
www.spiegel.de
August 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
kritik der labubukritik www.spiegel.de/kultur/labub...
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Why do we listen to Odd Lots?
“Capitalists will lie to you,but they don’t lie to themselves"
Its Charismatic Megafauna in “Cambrian explosion” that blew open “neoliberal hegemony” of economic discourse over the past decade
Congrats Joe & Tracy! @tracyalloway.bsky.social
nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b...
“Capitalists will lie to you,but they don’t lie to themselves"
Its Charismatic Megafauna in “Cambrian explosion” that blew open “neoliberal hegemony” of economic discourse over the past decade
Congrats Joe & Tracy! @tracyalloway.bsky.social
nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b...
August 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Why do we listen to Odd Lots?
“Capitalists will lie to you,but they don’t lie to themselves"
Its Charismatic Megafauna in “Cambrian explosion” that blew open “neoliberal hegemony” of economic discourse over the past decade
Congrats Joe & Tracy! @tracyalloway.bsky.social
nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b...
“Capitalists will lie to you,but they don’t lie to themselves"
Its Charismatic Megafauna in “Cambrian explosion” that blew open “neoliberal hegemony” of economic discourse over the past decade
Congrats Joe & Tracy! @tracyalloway.bsky.social
nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b...
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Ha-Joon Chang on the neglect of climate and the environment in today's economics degree @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/9aab...
www.ft.com/content/9aab...
July 24, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Ha-Joon Chang on the neglect of climate and the environment in today's economics degree @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/9aab...
www.ft.com/content/9aab...
EPOG over and out. A wild ride, could not have asked for better company on this journey of stress-loaded coffee breaks, jokes about everything from norwegian politics to rats, mental health walks, beach trips, and a final voyage to venice 🥹
July 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
EPOG over and out. A wild ride, could not have asked for better company on this journey of stress-loaded coffee breaks, jokes about everything from norwegian politics to rats, mental health walks, beach trips, and a final voyage to venice 🥹
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Very happy to see that the article @moritzecon.bsky.social and I have written on Germany's "fiscal ecosystem" has just been published online and in print in Surplus Magazine
www.surplusmagazin.de/staat-schatt...
www.surplusmagazin.de/staat-schatt...
Das fiskalische Ökosystem
Schattenhaushalte sind keine Ausnahme, sondern seit Jahrzehnten fester Bestandteil der Staatsfinanzen. Sie spiegeln die deutsche Geschichte.
www.surplusmagazin.de
June 17, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Very happy to see that the article @moritzecon.bsky.social and I have written on Germany's "fiscal ecosystem" has just been published online and in print in Surplus Magazine
www.surplusmagazin.de/staat-schatt...
www.surplusmagazin.de/staat-schatt...
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Tired: Capital Markets Union
Wired: Railways Union
Wired: Railways Union
June 13, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Tired: Capital Markets Union
Wired: Railways Union
Wired: Railways Union
my friend played this, built only renewables and his result was "your city is in DANGER, your MONEY is very low!"
I didn't think I could still be shocked by fossil fuel companies' lobbying tactics but this story, first revealed by Malene Emilie Rustad at the Norwegian publication E24, is amazing.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Oil giant funds computer game that promotes fossil fuels to…
An online game used in UK schools portrays oil, gas and coal as part of a green transition.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
June 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
my friend played this, built only renewables and his result was "your city is in DANGER, your MONEY is very low!"
handing in your master thesis while paris erupts into fireworks because PSG won the football thing is an experience
May 31, 2025 at 10:15 PM
handing in your master thesis while paris erupts into fireworks because PSG won the football thing is an experience
tfw you find a really good paper supporting your argument 3 days out from thesis submission
My new article in Political Studies:
‘Transition: Revisiting a Troubled Concept in the Age of Climate Change’
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@polstudies.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social @lseblogs.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk
‘Transition: Revisiting a Troubled Concept in the Age of Climate Change’
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@polstudies.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social @lseblogs.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk
May 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
tfw you find a really good paper supporting your argument 3 days out from thesis submission
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Podcasts mit Haltung? Yes, please! Gerade in der Ökonomik wächst eine plurale Szene jenseits des Mainstreams. Wir haben einen Wegweiser bei Exploring Economics durch den Podcast-Dickicht erstellt. Ein Thread mit pluralen Podcast-Tipps 🧵 (0/16)
www.exploring-economics.org/de/entdecken...
www.exploring-economics.org/de/entdecken...
Der Exploring Economics Podcast Wegweiser | Exploring Economics
Der Podcast-Wegweiser sammelt die wichtigsten und hochwertigsten Econ-Podcasts jenseits des Mainstreams und ordnet diese ein.
www.exploring-economics.org
May 26, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Podcasts mit Haltung? Yes, please! Gerade in der Ökonomik wächst eine plurale Szene jenseits des Mainstreams. Wir haben einen Wegweiser bei Exploring Economics durch den Podcast-Dickicht erstellt. Ein Thread mit pluralen Podcast-Tipps 🧵 (0/16)
www.exploring-economics.org/de/entdecken...
www.exploring-economics.org/de/entdecken...
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Jobs, jobs, jobs! Wir suchen eine:n prae- oder post-Doc, die für 5 Jahre Vollzeit an unserem jungen, dynamischen Institut @ifso.bsky.social forschen wollen. Felder: Sozioökonomie, plurale/heterodoxe Ökonomie, politische Ökonomie.
www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...
www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...
Stellenausschreibung
www.uni-due.de
May 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Jobs, jobs, jobs! Wir suchen eine:n prae- oder post-Doc, die für 5 Jahre Vollzeit an unserem jungen, dynamischen Institut @ifso.bsky.social forschen wollen. Felder: Sozioökonomie, plurale/heterodoxe Ökonomie, politische Ökonomie.
www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...
www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...