Your weekend reading is here! Volume 54, Issue 1 covers everything from philanthropy to racial capitalism, and a lot, lot more tandfonline.com/toc/reso20/54/1

I had an honour to be featured in ⭕️Joanna Sullivan series on women trailblazers ☀️ When one's feed seem to feature mostly doom&gloom these days, I hope my messages will add some hope and lighten your day 🌺

Congratulations robots! Completely independently, the Deutsche Bundesbank and Financial Times Monetary Policy Radar have generated AI driven models reading and synthesising central bank speeches on a hawk-dove index They are remarkably aligned

Insurance costs are soaring for home owners in Australia and New Zealand as climate change leads to floods, fires and storms, pushing up inflation and threatening financial stability, experts say. GreenCB.co/4c2qwlU

Climate datasets are the most commonly used geospatial data out there. But how accurate are they? A new study examines this (and the results are surprising):

🚨 Exciting news for my fellow sovereign debt nerds! Sharing a new dataset on sovereign external debt crises: haircuts by restructuring & aggregated by debt-crisis spell since 1815. Updated to Dec 2024 & alive. Hopefully useful for research and policy alike!

Food for thought! "Interest rate control and the transmission of monetary policy" by Fédéric Holm-Hadulla and Sebastiaan Pool. "This study provides evidence on how short-term interest rate volatility affects the transmission of monetary policy" "Our findings reveal that

My presentation about the New World Order ESM in Luxembourg (after the Trump tariffs) delano.lu/article/brunne… Includes Global Finance and Global Trade Analysis and "Choke Point Analysis 101". Slides will follow

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐮𝐫𝐞: 𝐀 𝐅𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚, 𝟏𝟖𝟓𝟎-𝟏𝟗𝟒𝟗 New working paper by Hanhui Guan, Kıvanç Karaman, Zhyin Xu and myself on the fiscal history of China from 1850 to 1949. 1/17

Last Sunday wrap?? Just when things are getting chaotic, but then again could be the case that things have always been messy. I'll miss reading it. 🙏😔

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Want some respite from the mayhem? Here is a series of essays on 29 distinguished Indian economists from the past, whose work still informs our present. More entries will be added in the coming months. What follows is a thread on the individual entries. azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/distinguished-…

Super interesting! "Do central bank reforms lead to more monetary discipline?" by Alexander Jung, Davide Romelli, and Etienne Farvaque. "This paper investigates the impact of reforms altering legal central bank independence (CBI) on monetary policy discipline and credibility,

Our new paper builds a NKOE model to study interaction of global trade-production networks, monetary policy and trade frictions. Tariffs act as demand and supply shocks and lead to endogenous changes in global networks. Their net impact depends on monetary policy's endogenous

We just kicked off the 2025 Stanford Financial Education Symposium! Very happy to open the Symposium with a keynote by Hanno Lustig on “Financial and Total Wealth Inequality with Declining Interest Rates.” His presentation is already available here: ifdm.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/…

Planet is sizzling, Solar is booming, Markets are crashing and the US is imploding. What is the future of global climate politics?? Video: Adriana Erthal Abdenur, Sara Ahmed, Kyle Chan, Isabel Estevez, Michael Stynes and superbly moderated by Adam Tooze m.youtube.com/watch?v=css46v…

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Since 1976, Earth's glaciers have lost 9000 billion tonnes of water, contributing 25 mm to global sea-level rise Over 40 % of this loss has happened in the last decade... and 6 % occurred in 2023 alone in a record-shattering year of glacier ice loss essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/19…

Listen! My interview with Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of the left-wing French party La France insoumise: how the radical left defeats the far right, in France and everywhere. New The Dig episode conducted before an audience at n+1’s Brooklyn office thedigradio.com/podcast/a-conv…