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Fabien Bossy
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vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
Good call with POTUS.

The EU and US share the world’s most consequential and close trade relationship.

Europe is ready to advance talks swiftly and decisively.

To reach a good deal, we would need the time until July 9.
May 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Coming from a culture where homework assignments are a clear second rate way of grading compared to sitting tests without notes (latter being much fairer), it's cute to see Americans panicking about AI impact on education
May 14, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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April 26, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Often sees that claim but it seems to overlook one obvious counterexample: horse power
April 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Not now Destatis
April 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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pauljdavies.bsky.social
From “The Year 2000”, published 1967.
This seems to be one of those quite common situations in which early in the innovation period many exaggerated claims are made, then there is disillusionment and a swing to overconservative prediction and a general pessimism and skepticism, then finally when a reasonable degree of development has been obtained and a learning period navigated, many—if not all— of the early "ridiculous" exaggerations and expectations are greatly ex-ceeded. It is particularly clear that if, as suggested in the last section, computers improve by five, ten, or more orders of magnitude over the next thirty-three years this is almost certain to happen. For the near future, automation and cybernation are likely to create as many jobs as they eliminate, by contributing to the increase of productivity and economic growth. The creation of new jobs is a subtle and undramatic process, and it is difficult to chart how and to what extent increases in productivity causes investment which leads to new jobs, whereas the direct elimination of jobs is both noticeable and dramatic. The net effects on employment, hours worked, and productivity are difficult to predict, particularly because the rate at which industrial processes are automated may increase and the tradeoff between increased production and leisure that society may choose are both quite uncertain. Spine of a moldy old hard back book, bound in dark green linen, with the author’s surnames Kain & Weiner and the title: The Year 2000.
April 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
A thread of notes I've made in my notebook about my dad:

1. The Swimming Pool.
My dad has come to an arrangement with the public pool in Nottinghamshire where he swims: after everyone else has got out of the pool, he is permitted to do a somersault before he gets changed. “THEY OPEN UP THE STORAGE CUPBOARD AND LET ME GO IN THERE SO I CAN GET A GOOD RUN-UP,” he said. Last week my dad, who will be seventy in August, got his friend Malcolm, who is seventy-three, to film the somersault. “It’s shattered all his illusions,” my mum told me. “Until he saw the film he thought he was creating poetry in motion. But it’s really just an old bloke who can’t run fast doing a sideways flop.”
April 15, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Ok, la justice d'autrefois était un peu plus sévère
April 14, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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"Profits are arbitrary numbers bounded below by the fear of shareholders and bounded above by fear of the law". Auguste Detoeuf
April 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Ireland being almost three times bigger than Taiwan is my fact of the day
April 5, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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The interesting point of the article is the argument that retaliation make sense only if you think there will be negociations
April 5, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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April 3, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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tobyn.bsky.social
Huge congratulations @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social on an epic career.

And congrats also to Warren, who I guess will now assume the mantle of oldest guy in markets.

www.gam.com/en/news-arti...
March 31, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Fun fact: there’s an argument to be made Trump may be about to commit fundamental breach of the terms of the Louisiana Purchase.

www.archives.gov/milestone-do...
March 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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elliotaurissergues.bsky.social
Pour les aficionados de la comptabilité nationale, je m'intéresse dans un récent de post de blog à l'écart de croissance entre PIB à prix chainés et à prix constants de 2020 en France.1/

www.ofce.sciences-po.fr/blog2024/fr/...
Retour sur la croissance française en 2022 et 2023: un partage volume prix sur courant alternatif
La croissance économique française en 2022 et 2023 diffère de manière significative (+0.2 pt en 2022, -0.5 pt en 2023) selon qu’on retienne le PIB en volume à prix chainés ou le PIB en volume à prix c...
www.ofce.sciences-po.fr
March 25, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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paldama.bsky.social
To what extent has financial income supported the saving rate in France?
Alice Carroy and Camille Thubin #BDFeco
www.banque-france.fr/en/publicati...
To what extent has financial income supported the saving rate in France? | Banque de France
Post No. 397. After reaching an all-time high during the pandemic, the household saving rate has decreased but remains more than 3 percentage points above its pre-Covid level. We show that changes in ...
www.banque-france.fr
March 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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paldama.bsky.social
Retour sur la croissance françaiseen 2022 et 2023 @ofce.bsky.social @elliotaurissergues.bsky.social

www.ofce.sciences-po.fr/blog2024/fr/...
Retour sur la croissance française en 2022 et 2023: un partage volume prix sur courant alternatif
La croissance économique française en 2022 et 2023 diffère de manière significative (+0.2 pt en 2022, -0.5 pt en 2023) selon qu’on retienne le PIB en volume à prix chainés ou le PIB en volume à prix c...
www.ofce.sciences-po.fr
March 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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retrotechdreams.bsky.social
Ask Jeeves (1999)
March 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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www.politico.eu/article/germ...
March 6, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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New paper: "Rushing to Judgement and the Banking Crisis of 2023"

At the two-year anniversary of the crisis, Jonathan Rose and I present 7 facts that are overlooked in the standard account of the crisis: www.chicagofed.org/publications...
March 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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mijrahman.bsky.social
Skeptics to Von der Leyen's €150bn announcement this am miss an imp point - & historical context

The Commission's initial response to the pandemic was a €100bn facility, on which today's announcement is modelled. The second was €800bn NextGen EU bazooka

Today's €150bn is likely only the first step
March 4, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Objectif « plein emploi » : pourquoi et comment ? La réponse de @antoine-bozio.bsky.social, J. Ferreira, @camillelandais.bsky.social, @lapeyrealice.bsky.social et M. Modena dans un focus du #CAEeco où ils analysent 55 ans d’évolution du travail en France et ailleurs.
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March 4, 2025 at 10:36 AM