Pit Jasper Lee
@pitjasperlee.bsky.social
Researching @Hertie School formerly MPhil @DSPI Oxford
Broad interests: labour market & industrial policy, pension funds & housing, monetary policy & growth strategies
Broad interests: labour market & industrial policy, pension funds & housing, monetary policy & growth strategies
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We'll have to go back to studying history and institutions don't we. Even elites, Lord help us. Like in the Dark Ages.
November 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
We'll have to go back to studying history and institutions don't we. Even elites, Lord help us. Like in the Dark Ages.
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The ECB blog is here: www.ecb.europa.eu/press/econom...
China’s growing trade surplus: why exports are surging as imports stall
The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purch...
www.ecb.europa.eu
November 11, 2025 at 9:51 AM
The ECB blog is here: www.ecb.europa.eu/press/econom...
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So bottom line: the risk for Germany is that if it does not move to shore up car demand, it will face a much higher bill for lost tax receipts, bailouts, unemployment schemes and retraining in a year or two.
The choice here for Berlin is pay now — or pay much more later.
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The choice here for Berlin is pay now — or pay much more later.
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October 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
So bottom line: the risk for Germany is that if it does not move to shore up car demand, it will face a much higher bill for lost tax receipts, bailouts, unemployment schemes and retraining in a year or two.
The choice here for Berlin is pay now — or pay much more later.
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The choice here for Berlin is pay now — or pay much more later.
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I was happy to see the Franco-German economic counsellors pick up our idea in their latest set of notes for the Chancellor and President Macron.
I can only hope they act on it soon - the prospect of 9 million in Chinese car exports a year, w imports at 1 million, is as big a deal as it sounds.
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I can only hope they act on it soon - the prospect of 9 million in Chinese car exports a year, w imports at 1 million, is as big a deal as it sounds.
7/7
September 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I was happy to see the Franco-German economic counsellors pick up our idea in their latest set of notes for the Chancellor and President Macron.
I can only hope they act on it soon - the prospect of 9 million in Chinese car exports a year, w imports at 1 million, is as big a deal as it sounds.
7/7
I can only hope they act on it soon - the prospect of 9 million in Chinese car exports a year, w imports at 1 million, is as big a deal as it sounds.
7/7
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Journal publishers *are* bundling your papers up in "data licensing agreements" for big tech companies to use for AI model training. Our publisher, T&F, got £75m from Microsoft for that last year alone.
September 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Journal publishers *are* bundling your papers up in "data licensing agreements" for big tech companies to use for AI model training. Our publisher, T&F, got £75m from Microsoft for that last year alone.