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moritz
@moritzkapff.bsky.social
studying EPOG | working for OBFA transform @GCF
interested in macrofinance | financing the just transition | geoeconomics
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🌍 Viele Staaten stehen heute vor großen geoökonomischen Herausforderungen, von resilienter Energieinfrastruktur bis zur Handelspolitik. Historisch wurden hierfür immer wieder bilanzexterne Fiskalagenturen geschaffen, für dringend benötigten finanziellen Spielraum.
November 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Der US-Dollar verliert an Dominanz. Schlägt die Stunde des Euro?

Unser Report zeigt: Eine stärkere Euro-Internationalisierung bringt nur kleine Nettoeffekte für's BIP. Globarer Euro ist nicht automatisch ein Vorteil.

Zum Report von Nils Gerresheim, @maxkrahe.bsky.social, @jvtk.bsky.social ⬇️
November 14, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Da ist der endlich: Der neue Leviathan-Sonderband "Politische Theorien öffentlicher Finanzen - Zur (De-)Politisierung von Geld, Eigentum und Steuern" ist ausgepackt! @nomosverlag.bsky.social www.nomos-shop.de/de/p/politis...
October 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Was macht nachhaltige Staatsfinanzen wirklich aus? @steffenmurau.bsky.social und @moritzkapff.bsky.social wissen weiter 👇
October 31, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Brad of course agrees

Important point as German industrial production drops to 2005 levels.

I can think of no better way for the German government to spend money than a few billion on EV demand subsidies

Beats all the other spending outlays I’ve seen hands down - it’s Germanys key industry u know
October 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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It is a pretty dire indictment on the quality of German policy-making if we blast billions on stay-at-home subsidies and gastronomy tax cuts.

And do nothing for our most important industry bringing in 90bn in tax receipts, other than killing the ICE phaseout cuz we want to stay in the 20th century
German auto summit tomorrow.

The sole focus on the EU combustion engine phase-out, which is 10 years away, is baffling because German cars have a demand problem today

Berlin worries a new EV subsidy scheme would be fiscally too expensive.

But demand-side support is a fiscal no-brainer here.

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October 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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"China is the only large country driving the energy transition at anything close to the necessary speed and scale."

It's also the only one whose energy transition is not hamstrung by reliance on the motive force of renewables profitability.

Coincidence?

I think not.
Chartbook 409 Beyond the "Marshall Plan": China's solar boom as world-changing industrial policy.
In the first six months of 2025 China installed more than 250GW of solar power capacity.
adamtooze.substack.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Energy sector advantage by continent 2/
September 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Not sure that some in Germany understood that more issuance of their own would imply more market discipline on France.

Not sure some in France fully realised that Germany's big fiscal experiment also has sharp downsides for them.
Scenario on.

Part of France’s fiscal woes: more German bund supply potentially means less OAT demand: investors often bought the latter to get core eurozone exposure — bunds were scarce.

Not as scarce anymore going forward as Germany issues more debt.

Profligate Germany disciplines France.
September 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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beantrage vier monate sabbatical um meinem lesestapel hinterherzukommen
September 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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CBI is legitimised by 2 arguments. Progressives should defend 1 and keep fighting against 2.
1. Classic separations of powers. The king should not held the purse directly
2. The inflation nutter credibility argument (k&p77,b&g82,rogoff85) whereby the cb plays a discipline role against labor demands
A lot of us have been struggling to reconcile our criticisms of Fed independence with the fact that defense of the Fed is, at this moment, critical to the defense of liberal government. Tooze’s latest grasps this nettle more firmly than anything else I’ve seen. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
August 28, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️

x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths.
x8 in Zambia
x7 in Botswana
x6 in Sudan
x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia

🧵
August 26, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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None of this is to say the US tariffs won’t hurt European exports — they will. Europe had legit cause to retaliate now.

But I doubt a militarily more independent future Europe has the will, impetus and import-competition concern to reopen a broad trade war on the US.

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August 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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The whole China green manufacturing thing is understood - I think? - as a key factor in the energy complex, geopolitics, and climate. People have heard of the Pakistan story; where a quarter of electricity is now solar compared to >10% in 2023.
But, like: things keep happening!
August 21, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Die EZB hat dafür kein gutes Werkzeug: Laufen lassen ist sozialer Sprengstoff. Mit dem Zinshammer draufhauen bremst die ganze Wirtschaft und löst das grundsätzliche Problem nicht.

dezernatzukunft.org/en/der-zinsh...
Der Zinshammer – Wie Zentralbanken Inflation bekämpfen - Dezernat Zukunft
Institut für Makrofinanzen
dezernatzukunft.org
August 22, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Im September erscheint ein von @huhnholz.bsky.social, @aaronsahr.bsky.social und Eva Weiler herausgegebener Sonderband zur Politischen Theorie öffentlicher Finanzen. Es geht darum, ökonomische, geldpolitische und fiskalische Fragen endlich wieder zum Gegenstand politischen Denkens zu machen.
August 18, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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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...
July 24, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Ganz eindrücklich, in diesen Tagen sein Fahrrad in der Werkstatt zu haben: Man ist urplötzlich aufgeschmissen in Berlin, wo es immer wunderbar ging mit Nextbike. Wie einsam ist Berlin jetzt unter Metropolen mit Anspruch auf Welt- oder wenigstens Westgeltung ohne taugliches Leihradsystem?
July 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Schattenhaushalte sind keine Ausnahme, sondern seit Jahrzehnten fester Bestandteil der Staatsfinanzen. Sie spiegeln die deutsche Geschichte.
Das fiskalische Ökosystem
Schattenhaushalte sind keine Ausnahme, sondern seit Jahrzehnten fester Bestandteil der Staatsfinanzen. Sie spiegeln die deutsche Geschichte.
www.surplusmagazin.de
June 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Schattenhaushalte sind keine Ausnahme, sondern seit Jahrzehnten fester Bestandteil der Staatsfinanzen. Sie spiegeln die deutsche Geschichte, schreiben @steffenmurau.bsky.social und Moritz Kapff.
Das fiskalische Ökosystem
Schattenhaushalte sind keine Ausnahme, sondern seit Jahrzehnten fester Bestandteil der Staatsfinanzen. Sie spiegeln die deutsche Geschichte.
www.surplusmagazin.de
June 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
they need to just spend one day in shanghai and that problem would be solved
According to BloombergNEF, 1 in 4 cars sold globally in 2025 is going to be electric - and Chinese EV sales alone are about to surpass *total* car sales in the US.

Hard to shake the feeling that the scale of this shift hasn’t really sunk in for EU policymakers.
June 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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🚨 Out now: Die dritte Surplus-Ausgabe »Wir kümmern uns« ist da.

Neoliberale schaffen einen Staat, der die Menschen allein lässt. Doch es braucht gemeinsame Fürsorge.

In den nächsten Tagen im Briefkasten, am Kiosk oder sofort online auf:
👉 www.surplusmagazin.de/surplus-3-wi...
June 16, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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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...
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
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Striking back hard at MAGA's Miran/Bessent plans, @steffenmurau.bsky.social and I propose a SUERF User's guide for euro internationalisation (based on our recent JEPP article)
www.suerf.org/publications...
June 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Might start referring to myself as having been 'radicalised by the macro intelligentsia'.
June 12, 2025 at 9:23 AM