Antoine de Cabanes
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Antoine de Cabanes
@adecabanes.bsky.social
PhD student in Political Science at UCLouvain (ISPOLE)

Political Economy, Monetary Policy, Central Banks (ECB & Federal Reserve // monetary politics, accountability, expertise)

https://uclouvain.academia.edu/AntoinedeCabanes
Les états membres qui appliquent "très souplement" les règlementations financières européennes sont étonnement (non) les mêmes que ceux qui s'opposent à la centralisation de la supervision financière au niveau européen, en invoquant divers motifs + ou - fallacieux

www.ft.com/content/0727...
November 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Acte 3 : Coinbase déplace ses activités au Luxembourg

Pourquoi ? Afin d'être contrôlé par une autorité nationale de supervision qui applique "plus souplement" la réglementation européenne MiCA
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Nul besoin d'être expert en asset backed-securities ou autres recoins sombres du système financier pour constater que l'évolution des valorisations boursières liées l'IA n'a plus aucune connexion avec la réalité. Par contre, shorter la bulle demande un zeste de tréso dont 99% des gens sont dépourvus
November 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Fascinating piece by @politico.com on the remaking of lobbying in DC caused by the authoritarian drive of #Trump 2.0 administration (namely the hyper-centralization of decision making in the hands of the White House, at the expenses of Congress & federal agencies)

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
October 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Ses rentrées d'argent en devises fortes (les recettes d'exportation de matières premières)

www.ft.com/content/b248...

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
October 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Lisa Cook 1 - Trump 0

La Cour Suprême des États-Unis a rejeté la demande de la Maison Blanche d'application immédiate du limogeage de la gouverneure de la Fed annoncé par Trump le 25/8, et opté pour entendre les plaidoiries des deux parties en janvier avant de statuer

www.ft.com/content/0430...
October 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Aside from being a direct subsidy of the banking & financial sector, such move is immensely reckless given the current context of deregulation of financial markets on both sides of the Atlantic, and of formation/expansion of bubbles (cryptos, private credit)
September 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM
What a terrific idea to foster economic growth: instead of public investment (in infrastructure, or digital & green transitions for example), let's use public money to incentivise (through costly tax breaks) an increase in households' risk-taking, by putting their savings into bonds & stocks.
September 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Nice @bloomberg.com graph depicting the evolution of #France sovereign credit rating since the Eurozone crisis.

It shows the role of the social & political crisis caused by Macron (2023 pension reform, 2024 snap election and subsequent governmental instability) in the current cycle of downgrading.
September 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Le coup tactique de Bayrou visait également à couper l’herbe sous le pied du mouvement « Bloquons tout » du 10 septembre, en déminant préventivement la contestation (le vote de confiance étant organisé le 8 septembre, soit deux jours avant la date de mobilisation)

3/23
August 26, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Welcome to the fantasy world of the #EPP, where the climate crisis will solve all by itself, without the need of any ambitous environmental public policies nor constraining measures on the firms responsible for greenhouse gas emissions 🤬
June 19, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Ce “dash for cash” a fait baisser la valeur des Treasuries, ce qui a déstabilisé l’ensemble des opérations dans lesquelles les bons du Trésor étasunien étaient utilisés comme collatéral et généré un risque de crise financière majeure
(comme @adamtooze.bsky.social le raconte dans Shutdown)
22/
April 9, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Si le cours des Treasuries continue de baisser, il y a un vrai risque de ventes massives de safe assets, qui vont encore accentuer la spirale baissière des cours de ces actifs, ce qui va diminuer la valeur de ces titres placés en collatéral, donc déclencher de nouveaux appels de marge etc.
20/
April 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Si la valeur de cet actif placé en collatéral baisse pendant la journée, l’emprunteur fait face à un appel de marge (margin call), c'est à dire que le prêteur lui demande de compenser (avec du cash) la baisse de valeur du titre financier mis en collatéral.
18/
April 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Ces annonces déclenchent une panique boursière mondiale : les opérateurs de marché vendent massivement les actifs dont ils prévoient que la valeur va baisser dans le futur, du fait de l’impact négatif sur l’activité économique que ces droits de douane indiscriminés et très élevés vont avoir
2/
April 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Étape 1 : mercredi dernier, Trump annonce un relèvement considérable du niveau des droits de douane sur les importations étasuniennes (Liberation Day), à des niveaux inédits depuis le début du XXe siècle
1/
April 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Cheh !
April 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
There is no better time than now to read Matthew Klein and @michaelpettis.bsky.social major work on trade wars: they convincingly show that trade wars should be understood as conflicts between social groups within a country (and not as conflicts between countries)

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
April 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Here we go : a massive sell off in Asian markets, with circuit breakers triggered in 🇯🇵 et 🇹🇼

European markets are next, and then Wall Street

#HappyBlackMonday
April 7, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Sure thing is that Trump's economic policies are putting his administration on a collision course with the Fed (on top of his pre-existing appetite for dismantling its independence). And the fallouts from Trump's decisions (notably his trade war) will catalyse tensions with the central bank
3/3
April 5, 2025 at 12:35 PM
After Elderson (ECB) and Laboureix (SRB), it's now Claudia Buch (SSM)'s turn to warn of the major risks to financial stability of the deregulatory drive initiated by the EU Commission with the #omnibus package (which plans to dramatically weaken prudential & supervisory standards)
March 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Once again, the tax heaven Member States got their way and succeeded in blocking attemps to centralise financial market supervision at the #EU level & create a European SEC

(Kallas' crystal clear quote is from last April, when Luxembourg Ireland and the Baltics objected to EU financial integration)
March 27, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Not enough risk taking in financial markets, really ?
Sure, the rise of private credit & synthetic risk transfer isn't risky at all. Over-the-counter markets aren't risky. The lack of regulation of shadow banking as a whole isn't risky 🤬 (1/3)

www.ft.com/content/a0f8...
March 20, 2025 at 9:05 AM
However, the executive order doesn’t apply to the Federal Reserve’s handling of monetary policy (even though it applies to the #Fed regulatory authority, namely banking & financial supervision).

Unlike the rest of the agencies, the central bank’s independence is (so far) partially preserved.

4/4
February 19, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Well, if European banks are so eager to improve their competitiveness, maybe they could start by stopping wasting their income on record-breaking share buybacks & dividends, and not putting global financial stability at risk with a deregulatory drive ?

www.politico.eu/article/we-n...
February 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM