Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola
@francescoppola.bsky.social
Woke lefty remoaner. Writes stuff on finance and economics at coppolacomment.substack.com. Wrote a book on QE, currently writing a book on banking. Sings a bit. Autistic.
Pinned
Scribble enjoying the sunshine this morning.
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Today one Russian paper is crowing over reports of a US-Russia peace plan: “Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine? That’s all in the past.” But the state of Russia’s economy is nothing to crow about: “Recession is almost inevitable.” Plus, one editorial, with two messages..? #ReadingRusia
"Recession in Russia almost inevitable" warns Russian paper.
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
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November 20, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Today one Russian paper is crowing over reports of a US-Russia peace plan: “Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine? That’s all in the past.” But the state of Russia’s economy is nothing to crow about: “Recession is almost inevitable.” Plus, one editorial, with two messages..? #ReadingRusia
Rochester Cathedral towering above the car wash. Taken from Rochester Station.
November 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Rochester Cathedral towering above the car wash. Taken from Rochester Station.
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Won't happen. But at some point a UK government is going to have to make a big decision to scrap the triple lock, and I suspect when they do it will prove to be far more popular than expected. Leadership rather than government by polling.
Reeves should risk it all on one last roll of the dice.
Raise income tax, break the triple lock, slay the deficit, spend the money on the things she believes in.
It may not work - but better than waiting for doom to overtake her.
open.substack.com/pub/edrith/p...
Raise income tax, break the triple lock, slay the deficit, spend the money on the things she believes in.
It may not work - but better than waiting for doom to overtake her.
open.substack.com/pub/edrith/p...
Reeves in Zugzwang
Incremental politics no longer works
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November 16, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Won't happen. But at some point a UK government is going to have to make a big decision to scrap the triple lock, and I suspect when they do it will prove to be far more popular than expected. Leadership rather than government by polling.
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The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
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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...
With all the political chaos at the moment, I thought I'd take you on a nice trip down memory lane. Here's my long read on the Fed's interest rate policy around the time of Lehman. Why did the Fed stop cutting interest rates three months before Lehman? coppolacomment.substack.com/p/inflation-...
Inflation, interest rates and the fall of Lehman
It's fashionable to argue that the Federal Reserve could have prevented the 2008 financial crisis and Great Recession. But is this true?
coppolacomment.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
With all the political chaos at the moment, I thought I'd take you on a nice trip down memory lane. Here's my long read on the Fed's interest rate policy around the time of Lehman. Why did the Fed stop cutting interest rates three months before Lehman? coppolacomment.substack.com/p/inflation-...
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If you want your day ruined, listen to this (the main part of the program is NOT about Rachel Reeves tax options.
Mohamed El-Erian has some quite worrying-but-credible observations.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Mohamed El-Erian has some quite worrying-but-credible observations.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Why Reeves Should Put Up Income Tax
Podcast Episode · The Rest Is Money · 03/11/2025 · 44m
podcasts.apple.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM
If you want your day ruined, listen to this (the main part of the program is NOT about Rachel Reeves tax options.
Mohamed El-Erian has some quite worrying-but-credible observations.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Mohamed El-Erian has some quite worrying-but-credible observations.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Cross-party agreement can create political space for tax reform
It is time to take the political heat out of attempts to reform the tax system, says @gemmatetlow.bsky.social www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/cros...
It is time to take the political heat out of attempts to reform the tax system, says @gemmatetlow.bsky.social www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/cros...
Cross-party agreement can create political space for tax reform | Institute for Government
It is time to take the political heat out of attempts to reform the tax system.
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Cross-party agreement can create political space for tax reform
It is time to take the political heat out of attempts to reform the tax system, says @gemmatetlow.bsky.social www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/cros...
It is time to take the political heat out of attempts to reform the tax system, says @gemmatetlow.bsky.social www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/cros...
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Stand by for more FedSpeak
November 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Stand by for more FedSpeak
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Reform councillor and Doncaster mayoral candidate Alexander Jones needs to urgently provide a family tree showing us where all of his several hundred thousand unique ancestors in the 10th century were living.
Or I for one won't believe he's a real English man.
Or I for one won't believe he's a real English man.
November 6, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Reform councillor and Doncaster mayoral candidate Alexander Jones needs to urgently provide a family tree showing us where all of his several hundred thousand unique ancestors in the 10th century were living.
Or I for one won't believe he's a real English man.
Or I for one won't believe he's a real English man.
Some of us are still fighting the good fight over on X. But it's getting ever harder to stay there.
Another opportunity for Blue Sky liberals to feel smug about not being on X any more. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Some of us are still fighting the good fight over on X. But it's getting ever harder to stay there.
What a lovely thing to do.
The then Katharine Ramsay was awarded a piano scholarship in her second year at the Royal College of Music. Since she didn’t actually need the financial support, she gave it up so that fellow student Samuel Coleridge Taylor could continue his studies. Read Red Duchess for more.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) was a British composer and conductor. His most famous work is "The Song of Hiawatha", a setting of poems by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He named his son Hiawatha. 1/
November 6, 2025 at 8:17 AM
What a lovely thing to do.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) was a British composer and conductor. His most famous work is "The Song of Hiawatha", a setting of poems by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He named his son Hiawatha. 1/
November 6, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) was a British composer and conductor. His most famous work is "The Song of Hiawatha", a setting of poems by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He named his son Hiawatha. 1/
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Why do traditions get invented? Often, when there are identity gaps to fill. Reflecting on why new rituals of Remembrance mattered in the 1920s + how they can now help us address a core question of the 2020s: how our past, present + future are linked
easterneye.biz/uk-remembrance-day-shared-history/
easterneye.biz/uk-remembrance-day-shared-history/
Remembering together is more important than ever today
One of the most important foundations for a cohesive society is to understand how our past, present and future are linked, says Sunder Katwala
easterneye.biz
November 5, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Why do traditions get invented? Often, when there are identity gaps to fill. Reflecting on why new rituals of Remembrance mattered in the 1920s + how they can now help us address a core question of the 2020s: how our past, present + future are linked
easterneye.biz/uk-remembrance-day-shared-history/
easterneye.biz/uk-remembrance-day-shared-history/
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1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
Skye says it is breakfast time.
November 5, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Skye says it is breakfast time.
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Or the professional middle even. See www.coppolacomment.com/2013/02/bifu...
Bifurcation in the labour market
www.coppolacomment.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Or the professional middle even. See www.coppolacomment.com/2013/02/bifu...
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Re middle classes hollowed out www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @francescoppola.bsky.social warned of similar back in 2013 iirc
The Guardian view on Britain’s new class divide: the professional middle is being hollowed out | Editorial
Editorial: A micro-elite in finance and tech hoovers up talent while-white collar jobs lose their lustre. A society that rewards proximity to capital over contribution risks rupture
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Re middle classes hollowed out www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @francescoppola.bsky.social warned of similar back in 2013 iirc
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That's racism. Plain and simple.
No other word for it.
It's shocking beyond belief that this sort of thing is somehow acceptable.
No other word for it.
It's shocking beyond belief that this sort of thing is somehow acceptable.
Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin, “It drives me mad seeing adverts full of black people, full of Asian people, full of anything other than white"
Followed by that time Sarah Pochin said, "My kids say: mum, you're such a moron" 👀
Followed by that time Sarah Pochin said, "My kids say: mum, you're such a moron" 👀
October 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
That's racism. Plain and simple.
No other word for it.
It's shocking beyond belief that this sort of thing is somehow acceptable.
No other word for it.
It's shocking beyond belief that this sort of thing is somehow acceptable.
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"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed"
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
Normal Times in Dire Times
Fascism does not break normal life, it feeds on it.
frederickjoseph.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed"
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
Didn't read my piece but felt empowered to comment on it nevertheless. No wonder the comment bore no relationship to what I actually wrote.
I did not write the headline and would not have chosen that angle.
There is a free trial.
I did not write the headline and would not have chosen that angle.
There is a free trial.
You had a click bait heading and your article was paywalled.
So, no.
Many others would have come away with the same impression, I'm sure.
So, no.
Many others would have come away with the same impression, I'm sure.
October 22, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Didn't read my piece but felt empowered to comment on it nevertheless. No wonder the comment bore no relationship to what I actually wrote.
I did not write the headline and would not have chosen that angle.
There is a free trial.
I did not write the headline and would not have chosen that angle.
There is a free trial.
I'm in the i paper explaining why state pension age must rise. It's not about government finances, it's about the productive capacity of our nation and the prosperity of future generations. (Paywall/free trial)
inews.co.uk/opinion/no-o...
inews.co.uk/opinion/no-o...
No one should retire before 70 - it's not fair workers pay the price of pensioners
As the number of economically inactive people rises, so does the proportion of production that supports them
inews.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I'm in the i paper explaining why state pension age must rise. It's not about government finances, it's about the productive capacity of our nation and the prosperity of future generations. (Paywall/free trial)
inews.co.uk/opinion/no-o...
inews.co.uk/opinion/no-o...
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Economic lessons from a Biblical fable: my latest piece at
@themintmag
.
Pharoah, advised by the talented Joseph, stored up enough grain to survive a famine, and in so doing engineered a fundamental change in the organisation of Egyptian society.
www.themintmagazine.com/from-reserve...
@themintmag
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Pharoah, advised by the talented Joseph, stored up enough grain to survive a famine, and in so doing engineered a fundamental change in the organisation of Egyptian society.
www.themintmagazine.com/from-reserve...
From Reserves to Repression – The Mint Magazine
www.themintmagazine.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Economic lessons from a Biblical fable: my latest piece at
@themintmag
.
Pharoah, advised by the talented Joseph, stored up enough grain to survive a famine, and in so doing engineered a fundamental change in the organisation of Egyptian society.
www.themintmagazine.com/from-reserve...
@themintmag
.
Pharoah, advised by the talented Joseph, stored up enough grain to survive a famine, and in so doing engineered a fundamental change in the organisation of Egyptian society.
www.themintmagazine.com/from-reserve...
Economic lessons from a Biblical fable: my latest piece at
@themintmag
.
Pharoah, advised by the talented Joseph, stored up enough grain to survive a famine, and in so doing engineered a fundamental change in the organisation of Egyptian society.
www.themintmagazine.com/from-reserve...
@themintmag
.
Pharoah, advised by the talented Joseph, stored up enough grain to survive a famine, and in so doing engineered a fundamental change in the organisation of Egyptian society.
www.themintmagazine.com/from-reserve...
From Reserves to Repression – The Mint Magazine
www.themintmagazine.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Economic lessons from a Biblical fable: my latest piece at
@themintmag
.
Pharoah, advised by the talented Joseph, stored up enough grain to survive a famine, and in so doing engineered a fundamental change in the organisation of Egyptian society.
www.themintmagazine.com/from-reserve...
@themintmag
.
Pharoah, advised by the talented Joseph, stored up enough grain to survive a famine, and in so doing engineered a fundamental change in the organisation of Egyptian society.
www.themintmagazine.com/from-reserve...