Must be a strange feeling when your net worth goes up and down by several hundred billion. Not sure I could live with the volatility. 🙄

EVs expected to be just 5% of US new vehicle market in coming years. Headline @financialtimes.com

Despite the full or partial reversal of some tariffs (iPhones, bananas etc) the effective tariff rate is still way above its Jan 25 level, with US consumers & businesses bearing much of the higher cost (ie the tax) Graphic via @wsj.com

Abhijit Banerjee ‘Social Protection for All’ @unu-wider.bsky.social Annual Lecture

Start of @unu-wider.bsky.social conference "Safeguarding tomorrow - innovative approaches to growth and equity". Celebrating 40 years of impactful research 👍

🇺🇳🇫🇮... @unu-wider.bsky.social conference 2025 in Helsinki "Safeguarding tomorrow - innovative approaches to growth and equity". Celebrating 40 years of policy research 👍

🇬🇧 UK’s dismal trade performance. Martin Wolf in today’s FT 26.05.25👇

☃️"Six thousand inflatable snowmen and holiday figurines are sitting in .. a Guangdong factory with nowhere to go". (WSJ today) ☃️

Gender gap persists in (🇬🇧British) economics education despite rise in its popularity at school & in university @financialtimes.com 👇

📉🛢️Brent is testing early 2020s lows: $58-59 a barrel (intraday), on global recession fears (& OPEC+ announced higher oil output). Such a sudden & large sell off is usually a good recession predictor📉 😨 Source: tradingeconomics.com/commodity/br...

No doubt the good citizens of the Heard & McDonald Islands are alarmed by the 10% US tariff on their exports👇 Current inhabitants; the southern elephant seals, Antarctic fur seals, Leopard seals 🦭🦭🦭 Humans: 0 (unless David Attenborough is visiting this week) 🤷🏻‍♂️ #Australia

My sentiment entirely 📚👍 (Outside a Helsinki bookshop)

👍Great UNUWIDER annual lecture by @gabrielzucman.bsky.social yesterday in Helsinki www.wider.unu.edu/event/billio...