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ohstevenolan.bsky.social
Economist, Senior Lecturer in Economics at Liverpool Business School
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I see that inflation “fell” by 0.1% from a figure that was off by 0.1%. Hope that is clear.

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Basically saying: "You know nothing, John Snow!"

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Happy “monthly GDP figures are mostly noise” day everyone.

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Ooooft!

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It doesn’t get better than this. Bye Sly. youtu.be/gZFabOuF4Ps

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Have realised that whenever I’m reading some form of Cold War history (this time its the highly enjoyable Zbig by @edwardluce.bsky.social) when its Berlin Wall fall time my internal jukebox subconsciously cues up Looking For Freedom by David Hasselhoff.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Me: obviously, I understand the Sunk Cost Fallacy. Also me: still watching The Handmaid’s Tale.

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Had a quick bank holiday chat about the 2-child benefit limit rumours on BBC Wales.

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A lot people are calling this a good call.

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Nope. Not engaging - going on holiday.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

NORM!!!

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Saying DEI instead of EDI is like spelling colour color.

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Well, there goes the neighbourhood.

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This is a really important point — when we point out that governments are crippling HE by attacking visas, we also need to a) talk about international students as people not £££ and also b) point out *why* overseas tuition fees have become an apparent panacea for UK universities

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Well - looking forward to listening to this tomorrow.

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Finished The Residence. Last episode is 90 minutes long. To be fair this information was in the public domain and so I only have myself to blame.

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Wonder what they’ve got planned for next Wednesday.

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Amazing new comedy show on BBC News right now.

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I see we’re back in “taking a deep breath” before opening the phone territory.

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The markets right now

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This is basically the Marshall McLuhan bit from Annie Hall. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...

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Looking forward to student presentations for my Contemporary Economic Policy course. Or as I now call it - Economic History.

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This is completely right. Investments require stability. Stability requires trust. Trust is gone and unrecoverable. GWB was lame duck from Katrina onwards. Cleveland from the Panic of 1893. Trump’s turn now.

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Think this is key. When asked about worst case scenarios in an interview a couple of weeks ago I leaned on the first part rather than the second. Which was... slightly unwise.

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Current vibe www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiMX...

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Excellent observation by @robin-j-brooks.bsky.social. If global markets truly crack, there’ll be less international cooperation — if any. “The rest of the world wants this sell-off to get worse ..”

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Is there anything to be said for another tariff?

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I...

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There’s a worrying level of delusion being reported here. www.thetimes.com/article/1dab...

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