Illusions about trade with China still run deep in Europe. At a chatham house event yesterday, one economist claimed it was “baseless” to suggest China would dominate most industries. Europe, they argued, would simply retain and develop new comparative advantages. 1/

Next up in European Central Bank Strategy Assessment debriefing: the inflation story, as told in Occasional Paper 371 📣Key message: this was not our grandparents’ inflation.📣 1/7

Happy to see that policy-dependent potential output has made it to the top level of 🇪🇺 policy making. We have some ideas of how to incorporate that in the machinery underlying fiscal rules. 👇

Germany's spending up, France's down! 🇩🇪🇫🇷 What's behind this fiscal role reversal? Philippa Sigl-Glöckner & Cyprien from Institut Avant-garde break down the shifts between fiscal policies: budget #cuts, spending #sprees, & the power of spending #reviews. open.spotify.com/episode/5Ul0fx…

House prices have increased much more steeply in the English-speaking countries than in Western Europe.

I’ve made a short film. Look at the things around you: doors, bins, staircases, furniture, railings, doorhandles, windows. Do you like how they look, or not? Modern design has become boring, but it doesn’t have to be this way. The word “beautiful” is overused. We don’t need

Amen to that pathfounders.com/p/lakestar-dum…