Myth of inflexible euro needs busting: "ECB...mandate not just allows but requires it to support...economic goals" beyond "price stability"

Good insight by Prof. Rob Howse on future of Democratic intra-party politics regarding revision of trade agreements: x.com/howserob/statu…

Euro has never been necessarily a fiscal straitjacket; EU's stated goals permit Keynesianism, writes Martin Sandbu: ft.com/content/88f2ac…

This wk's Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown Houston episode: best implicitly anti-Trump hour of TV this election season: itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/a…

Here Brian Beutler calls on media to treat incoming Trump threat with the urgency it deserves: newrepublic.com/article/138680…

This is not a drill. Too many people with big megaphones are acting like it is. newrepublic.com/article/138680…

Not clear why this is still underplayed--Trump himself is a national security threat until he proves otherwise: lawfareblog.com/burden-donald-…

Reckoning w/Trump's nat-sec danger only now breaking out of niche press coverage. Good job, society. Too much of GOP still in denial.

Don't agree with this. Anxiety levels are sky high. Many preparing a massive rearguard action, from both sides of aisle x.com/max_fisher/sta…

A towering figure of late-20thC European socialist internationalism. RIP x.com/POLITICOEurope…

Political economy of social decadence and decline: x.com/cgasparino/sta…

Dangerously misleading message unless these exec branch actors also persuasively explaining why not up to whims of presidential authority: x.com/steven_pifer/s…

Taunting the Hegelian owl of minerva, EU parliament opens the House of European History museum today: politico.eu/blogs/playbook…

Lesson for Macron: path to Franco-German EZ compromise runs thru FR coming to table w/coordinated IT and SP support, not quiet persuasion.

Macron hasn't asked Germany for anything yet, but he already has allies. elpais.com/elpais/2017/05…

Corker, Republican chair of Senate Foreign Relations Comm, pretends to be impotent spectator: nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/…

The clear-eyed, more in sorrow than in anger, line on Trump should not be that he's a child.

.Martin Sandbu's Free Lunch: Banking union is no pretext for fiscal union ft.com/c88e12c6-782d-… #ftfreelunch via Financial Times @FTEconomics

My letter/rant to the FT on the uses and misuses of globalisation and Dani Rodrik's trilemma. ft.com/content/2d86a1…

Well put: "populism always depends on a fickle collusion between populist leaders and the fantasies of the people they claim to represent." x.com/emile_chabal/s…