Leo Hoffmann-Axthelm (@leo_axt) 's Twitter Profile
Leo Hoffmann-Axthelm

@leo_axt

economic policy adviser @GreensEFA šŸŒ»šŸ’¶ • @nuclearban activist šŸ“œšŸš«šŸš€#NobelPeacePrize2017 • previously @TI_EU & @ECFIN — šŸ‡ŖšŸ‡ŗšŸ‡©šŸ‡ŖšŸ‡®šŸ‡¹

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Terje Helland (@terjehelland) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Trump—a convicted fraudster, rapist, and insurrectionist—isn’t an outlier. The fact that he can win power again is a symptom of systemic weakness. In any functioning democracy, such a figure would be politically extinct. In the U.S., he was the GOPs first choice. 2/10

Terje Helland (@terjehelland) 's Twitter Profile Photo

How did we get here? Its complicated but two core flaws make American democracy structurally unstable: 1ļøāƒ£ Money in politics—Citizens United allows billionaires to buy elections. 2ļøāƒ£ Electoral system design—A few swing states decide everything, making it easy to manipulate outcomes

How did we get here? Its complicated but two core flaws make American democracy structurally unstable:
1ļøāƒ£ Money in politics—Citizens United allows billionaires to buy elections.
2ļøāƒ£ Electoral system design—A few swing states decide everything, making it easy to manipulate outcomes
Terje Helland (@terjehelland) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Unlike in Europe (at least my country), where politicians resign over minor infractions, the U.S. system enables criminals to return to power. When legal accountability means nothing, when money outweighs votes, when courts are stacked—how democratic is the U.S., really? 4/11

Unlike in Europe (at least my country), where politicians resign over minor infractions, the U.S. system enables criminals to return to power. 
When legal accountability means nothing, when money outweighs votes, when courts are stacked—how democratic is the U.S., really?
4/11
Terje Helland (@terjehelland) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Europe must wake up. The old assumption—that the U.S. will always be there as a security guarantor—is dead. A country that can be hijacked by extremists every four years is no foundation for defense and security. 7/11

Europe must wake up. The old assumption—that the U.S. will always be there as a security guarantor—is dead. 
A country that can be hijacked by extremists every four years is no foundation for defense and security.
7/11
Sander Tordoir (@sandertordoir) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The German fiscal package is massive (10-20% GDP). - 500 billion 10Y fund for public investment - All defence spending above 1% of GDP not counted for debt brake. - Federal states can borrow 0.35% p.y. for investment. Germany is back - economically +militarily. 1/x

Armand Domalewski (@armanddoma) 's Twitter Profile Photo

An important lesson for Germany from Bidenomics is that if you are going to do big fiscal stimulus, you need to very aggressively break down regulatory barriers to supply to get ahead of the inflation risk.

Isabella M Weber (@isabellamweber) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Europe seems to be preparing to run a war economy. It will have a choice of going down the path of WWI when free market principles were applied to wartime challenges, or WWII when planning delivered a broad-based economic success in the US. See: How China Escaped Shock Therapy.

Europe seems to be preparing to run a war economy. It will have a choice of going down the path of WWI when free market principles were applied to wartime challenges, or WWII when planning delivered a broad-based economic success in the US. See: How China Escaped Shock Therapy.
Simon Ostrovsky (@simonostrovsky) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Who is going to want to buy American when we are willing to disable arms we’ve provided mid battle? foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/04/tru…

Red ElƩctrica (@redelectricaree) 's Twitter Profile Photo

āž”ļø Activados planes de reposición del suministro elĆ©ctrico en colaboración con las empresas del sector tras el cero ocurrido en el sistema peninsular. āž”ļø Se estĆ”n analizando las causas y se estĆ”n dedicando todos los recursos para solventarlo. Seguiremos informando.

Justin Wolfers (@justinwolfers) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Trump's "big" trade deal is with the UK: - It's a framework not a deal - They're our 11th largest trading partner - They're only 3% of US trade (97% to go) - They *already* charge average tariffs of only 1% (limited upside) It's a photo op, with little macroeconomic significance

Gerald Knaus (@rumeliobserver) 's Twitter Profile Photo

šŸ‡©šŸ‡Ŗ Berlin entscheidet unilateral, dass EU Recht in einem wesentlichen Punkt, auf Kosten anderer LƤnder, ab jetzt und zeitlich unbegrenzt in Deutschland nicht mehr gilt. Das ist ein Erdbeben. Ab jetzt soll - so das Ziel - idealerweise niemand mehr einen Asylantrag in šŸ‡©šŸ‡Ŗ

Chris Giles (@chrisgiles_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Maybe I'm being unfair, but a trade deal in which the US raises tariffs on the UK and the UK lowers tariffs... ... feels a bit... one-sided

Green Central Banking (@greencb) 's Twitter Profile Photo

šŸ‡ØšŸ‡¦ As a central banker, Mark Carney led the push on understanding the risks climate change poses to economies. But will he have the same focus as Canada’s new prime minister? GreenCB.co/3YDign7

Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) 's Twitter Profile Photo

BREAKING: Google Earth updated their images of Gaza. Compare. Being against this is not ā€œantisemiticā€ or ā€œpro-terroristā€. It’s pro-human. Sincerely, A Jewish American.

Mark Blyth (@mkblyth) 's Twitter Profile Photo

How to deal with climate change. Figure out who gets hit and where and adapt through learning? Or, cancel the database you would use for this task and insist it’s all a fake? Yip. You guessed it: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

CALL TO ACTIVISM (@calltoactivism) 's Twitter Profile Photo

MAJOR BREAKING: New viral video shows Congressman Menendez jumping in to save his colleague Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, who's being manhandled by ICE, as Mayor Ras Baraka is being taken in handcuffs. America, 2025.

Keith Olbermann (@keitholbermann) 's Twitter Profile Photo

There's no way back from a suspension of Habeas Corpus. It's a one-man dictatorship then. And any Republican in office or out who would still support Trump after this is, simply, a traitor to America cnn.com/2025/05/09/pol…

There's no way back from a suspension of Habeas Corpus. It's a one-man dictatorship then.

And any Republican in office or out who would still support Trump after this is, simply, a traitor to America 

cnn.com/2025/05/09/pol…