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We once thought that economic growth in China would led to huge increases in demand for oil as people bought and drove more cars, industry needed more energy and people took more planes to more places.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Och då var det återhämtning. Nu är det lågkonjunktur, där utsläppen normalt sett minskar.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Kan en socialist bli borgmästare i New York? Det finns faktiskt en chans. Lyssna här: open.spotify.com/episode/2q0R...

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

I interviewed @nakedkeynes.bsky.social about Javier Milei and a little bit of Argentina’s economic history. Highly interesting! Starts at 20:25 open.spotify.com/episode/6Ltu...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

LLMs are a vivid reminder that we already live in a planned economy. Investment is not directed by decentralized market signals, but by the conscious choices of a small group of people. www.wheresyoured.at/never-forget...

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

Regeringens medvetna medhjälp till folkmord är så över alla gränser att jag saknar ord.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

It's a horribly conventional view, but it's hard to read this splendid set of articles without being struck by how many of the classic ingredients for a financial storm are in the pot www.economist.com/special-repo... (from The Economist). We have: 1/

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

a great, short account of why anti-NIMBY-ism is likely always to be an inadequate solution to the scarcity of desirable housing, by @dsquareddigest.bsky.social.

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Published with @buddyyakov.bsky.social on centralized procurement policies for enhanced geothermal technology. Featured here is our concept of a “public sector offtake warehouse” which can make upfront PPA commitments, pre-pay for output, and later sell the PPA. publicenterprise.org/report/the-d...

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Välkommen på livepodd! Anmälan här: forms.gle/8NiFxVytbGEL... @danielsuhonen.bsky.social @ennagerin.bsky.social @maxjerneck.bsky.social @elisabethlindberg.bsky.social @nklsaltrmrk.bsky.social @sixtenengqvist.bsky.social

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

submitted 19 days ago • 188 comments

The one time I showed up high to my job with a black eye, my shift manager sent me home because I wasn't in good shape to make pizzas

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

The Trump administration is canceling a nearly $600-million contract to the drugmaker Moderna that was intended to develop a shot for humans against bird flu.

submitted 20 days ago • 123 comments

"Europe and elsewhere will see more of this, for a while, until there’s no more ice to fall."

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Att höja investeringsnivån borde vara ett självklart mål för en socialdemokratisk regering, som slår många flugor i en smäll. • Bygg ny infrastruktur • Skynda på elektrifieringen • Bekämpa arbetslösheten • Främja integrationen • Höj tillväxten • Tvätta bort stämpeln som ”bidragsparti”

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Har vi bromsat ekonomin länge nog? Tankesmedjan @katalys.bsky.social rapport övertygar om sambandet mellan investeringar och arbetslöshet, skriver @mikaelfeldbaum.bsky.social i en ledare. www.arbetsvarlden.se/ledare/medvi...

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

1/ The EU wants to bundle R&I funding into a new Competitiveness Fund (ECF). The idea: less fragmentation, more strategic focus. The ambition is right. But whether the ECF delivers will depend entirely on how it's designed. Here are four principles that should guide it. bst-europe.eu?p=38401&prev...

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Män behöver inte ny identitetspolitik – de behöver ett jobb arbetet.se/2025/05/26/m...

submitted 23 days ago • 7 comments

Katalys ordnar ett seminarium om detta idag kl 12-13, ABF-huset

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Some takeaways: --Even Republicans nervous about losing jobs got in line. --The bill, as written, doesn't just de-incentivize EVs but makes owning one more expensive. --Automakers are likely thrilled that California's waiver is in the crosshairs. --China isn't slowing down. But now, we are.

submitted 26 days ago • 19 comments

It is excellent that the 17th sanctions package against Russia has been adopted by the EU. But now we are waiting for the first sanctions package against Israel.

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

Regeringen måste åtminstone motivera VARFÖR Sverige som enda EU-land stoppar biståndet till UNRWA!

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

Ibland släpper ett idéinstitut något man vet kommer vara en milstolpe. Tony Johanssons och @maxjerneck.bsky.social rapport om hur full sysselsättning är en sådan. Se till att vara där. Alla på plats får även @katalys.bsky.social nya snygga kasse. #svpol abfstockholm.se/evenemang/ka...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

(Reuters) - Food rations that could supply 3.5 million people for a month are mouldering in warehouses around the world because of U.S. aid cuts and risk becoming unusable, according to five people familiar with the situation. www.reuters.com/world/us-aid...

submitted 33 days ago • 94 comments

Brookings, still believing in crowding out and all the rest www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: by an apparent 7-2 margin, the Supreme Court stops the Trump administration from deporting a class of Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies Act

submitted 32 days ago • 23 comments

All moral arguments aside, birthright citizenship is a simple, elegant solution to prevent the emergence of a disenfranchised underclass of non-citizens who have been here for generations which inevitably emerges when you start trying to pick and choose with citizenship

submitted 33 days ago • 28 comments

The Madagascar plan is back

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Explosive original reporting about Trump's plans to drastically restructure domestic law enforcement to target immigrants en masse and crack down on opponents.

submitted 32 days ago • 33 comments

Idag skriver jag och @maxjerneck.bsky.social på @katalys.bsky.social i Aftonbladet om kostnaderna för den ”strama migrationspolitik” som såväl regeringen som Socialdemokraterna står bakom. Den leder till lägre tillväxt och levnadsstandard för oss alla. www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/a/QMb...

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

The European Union is working on its own web index to allow search engines based on the continent to stop relying on Google or Bing for their results. An important step to seriously sidelining those companies.

submitted 33 days ago • 11 comments

"directly decreases GDP per capita" in the same way that Bill Gates walking into a bar directly increases the average income. This kind of elementary arithmetic fallacy should have no place in public life

submitted 33 days ago • 11 comments

In short, Starmer has taken a massive hit among Labour voters, for no gain elsewhere, while boosting Farage's popularity, including doubling his ceiling among Labour voters. I.e., the political scientists were right, Morgan McSweeney was horrendously wrong.

submitted 33 days ago • 75 comments

"Att skicka ut människor som riskerar att dödas är moraliskt förkastligt och ett brott mot folkrätten. Det är också ekonomiskt vansinne att utvisa människor som jobbar i Sverige." skriver Tony Johansson och @maxjerneck.bsky.social vid @katalys.bsky.social www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/a/QMb...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Vi skriver om den urspårade migrationspolitiken: om människor som kastas ut efter tio år i Sverige. Som jobbar här, och inte har någon anknytning till sina ursprungsländer www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/a/QMb...

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

this is not an exaggeration

submitted 37 days ago • 64 comments

the thing is, ‘concern’ about immigration is directly proportional to how much media coverage is focused on immigration, so even assuming Labour reduce the absolute numbers by 2030, the only way that it will make voters happy is if the press decide it should

submitted 37 days ago • 16 comments

An excellent summary of China's electrification drive - a true industrial revolution - in the FT today, with some cracking quotes. "This trade war has really emphasised the whole point of energy security and electrification because one of the most-traded commodities in the world is fossil fuels."

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

Massarbetslöshet råder. Har vi en arbetslinje i Sverige? Försämrad a-kassa och ytterligare jobbskatteavdrag. Fungerar det verkligen? Starta pressarna gästas av LO-ekonomen @soderqvist.bsky.social @maxjerneck.bsky.social & @danielsuhonen.bsky.social www.aftonbladet.se/ledare/a/dR1...

submitted 39 days ago • 3 comments

Jag uttalar mig om sänkt matmoms, som vi på @katalys.bsky.social föreslog när inflationen var på topp 2023

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment