Oleksandr Shepotylo
@shepotylo.bsky.social
International Trade, Productivity, Security @ Aston Centre for Business Prosperity | Born and raised in Ukraine | Large data analysis enthusiast | Views my own
#EconSky #trade #economics
#EconSky #trade #economics
Former UKIP Scotland leader: lives in France, Russia-paid influencer. You couldn’t ask for a better illustration of the roots of the Brexit movement — now likely rebranding for Reform and anti-migration talking points.
Exactly the narrative the Kremlin wants. Still on the payroll? Just asking.
Exactly the narrative the Kremlin wants. Still on the payroll? Just asking.
November 28, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Former UKIP Scotland leader: lives in France, Russia-paid influencer. You couldn’t ask for a better illustration of the roots of the Brexit movement — now likely rebranding for Reform and anti-migration talking points.
Exactly the narrative the Kremlin wants. Still on the payroll? Just asking.
Exactly the narrative the Kremlin wants. Still on the payroll? Just asking.
China has reportedly asked Malaysia and Cambodia to clarify their recent trade and economic deals with the US. This is less about individual MOUs and more about who sets the rules for trade, investment, and digital standards in Southeast Asia. #Trade #Economics
November 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
China has reportedly asked Malaysia and Cambodia to clarify their recent trade and economic deals with the US. This is less about individual MOUs and more about who sets the rules for trade, investment, and digital standards in Southeast Asia. #Trade #Economics
Indonesia is pushing back against a US ‘poison pill’ clause in a potential trade/critical minerals deal. Washington wants language that would limit Jakarta’s room to deepen ties with China and others. This is where industrial policy meets geopolitics. #Trade #Economics
November 28, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Indonesia is pushing back against a US ‘poison pill’ clause in a potential trade/critical minerals deal. Washington wants language that would limit Jakarta’s room to deepen ties with China and others. This is where industrial policy meets geopolitics. #Trade #Economics
Fun tariff economics lesson: US put 15% tax on Ghana cocoa → imports dropped to ~zero → revenue collected = lol nothing → chocolate prices went up anyway → tariff quietly removed
Turns out you can't fund the government by taxing things that stop existing. Who knew! 🍫📊
Turns out you can't fund the government by taxing things that stop existing. Who knew! 🍫📊
November 28, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Fun tariff economics lesson: US put 15% tax on Ghana cocoa → imports dropped to ~zero → revenue collected = lol nothing → chocolate prices went up anyway → tariff quietly removed
Turns out you can't fund the government by taxing things that stop existing. Who knew! 🍫📊
Turns out you can't fund the government by taxing things that stop existing. Who knew! 🍫📊
Coincidence? I think not!
Seen on Reddit:
"42 is just old people 6 7"
And... well... yeah. Can't really argue.
"42 is just old people 6 7"
And... well... yeah. Can't really argue.
November 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Coincidence? I think not!
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Do you understand now that Axios - being fed the doc from Kremlin as a "Trump Plan" was the source of RU propaganda? Nothing is done for free or out of good will either.
November 26, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Do you understand now that Axios - being fed the doc from Kremlin as a "Trump Plan" was the source of RU propaganda? Nothing is done for free or out of good will either.
Witkoff is a russian tool who helps Russians and inform them against Ukraine. The Republican Party of Reagan and Bushes would not approve this.
November 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Witkoff is a russian tool who helps Russians and inform them against Ukraine. The Republican Party of Reagan and Bushes would not approve this.
While people in the UK are losing their minds before the budget, Putin increased VAT by 10% (2 pp) without asking anyone cause he needs money to continue the Russian war on Ukraine and no one minds.
November 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
While people in the UK are losing their minds before the budget, Putin increased VAT by 10% (2 pp) without asking anyone cause he needs money to continue the Russian war on Ukraine and no one minds.
It is even more so, because BBC is financed from our pockets and I do not want to finance organization that bends its knee to Musk and Trump - the most idiotic trillionaire and most corrupt president.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM
It is even more so, because BBC is financed from our pockets and I do not want to finance organization that bends its knee to Musk and Trump - the most idiotic trillionaire and most corrupt president.
I am speechless
November 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I am speechless
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Exclusive: How a Kremlin insider influenced Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine
How the U.S. Drafted a Russia-Friendly Peace Plan for Ukraine
Crucial input from a Kremlin confidant influenced the document that for a week roiled relations between the U.S., Ukraine and Europe.
on.wsj.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Exclusive: How a Kremlin insider influenced Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine
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Some realities people need to keep in mind as we watch world leaders discuss the latest "peace plan" for Ukraine.
Opportunity to signal your support for a real peace plan in the link and thread below.
open.substack.com/pub/ukrainei...
Opportunity to signal your support for a real peace plan in the link and thread below.
open.substack.com/pub/ukrainei...
What a real peace plan looks like
Sign to signal your support for the "Century of Peace" agreement
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Some realities people need to keep in mind as we watch world leaders discuss the latest "peace plan" for Ukraine.
Opportunity to signal your support for a real peace plan in the link and thread below.
open.substack.com/pub/ukrainei...
Opportunity to signal your support for a real peace plan in the link and thread below.
open.substack.com/pub/ukrainei...
US Econ job market is bad. UK econ market? Not good either.
Update on the state of the job market courtesy of a nudge by @gottliebecon.bsky.social
It's bad!
paulgp.com/2025/11/24/j...
It's bad!
paulgp.com/2025/11/24/j...
Economics Job Market Update: November 2025 - A Historic Low
paulgp.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
US Econ job market is bad. UK econ market? Not good either.
Here we go - it is bad to put fences against your closest neighbours. Time to learn the lesson and grow up. Time to stop listening Nigel Farage.
November 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Here we go - it is bad to put fences against your closest neighbours. Time to learn the lesson and grow up. Time to stop listening Nigel Farage.
Russia was preparing its all-time most devastating attack on Kyiv - to make Ukraine capitulate. Now the attack is under way. Praying for Kyiv and for Ukraine.
Telegram monitors claim Russia preparing one of its biggest ever attacks on Ukraine - 9 Tu-95 bombers with cruise missiles, Knizhal aeroballistic missiles, Kalibr cruise missiles and more than 1K drones. Main target to be Kyiv; attack aims to pressure Kyiv into surrender.
November 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Russia was preparing its all-time most devastating attack on Kyiv - to make Ukraine capitulate. Now the attack is under way. Praying for Kyiv and for Ukraine.
Question for econ and stat R enthusiasts: aren't these two supposed to give the same result with fixest package:
Model 1: lnexp ~ i(Dexp, ref = 0) | ijk + it + jt
Model 2: lnexp ~ i(Dexp, ref = 0) | ijk + it + jt + t
where i is country i, j is country j, t is period and k product
#Rstat #econ
Model 1: lnexp ~ i(Dexp, ref = 0) | ijk + it + jt
Model 2: lnexp ~ i(Dexp, ref = 0) | ijk + it + jt + t
where i is country i, j is country j, t is period and k product
#Rstat #econ
November 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
He is from another planet -- Two Trump weeks > 5 earthly years
November 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
He is from another planet -- Two Trump weeks > 5 earthly years
A system that puts these two jerks at the top is really screwed.
This poor bastard is so desperate to be funny, to be liked…
The man literally has it in his gift for us to fall in love with him
To help humanity and solve global problems in way that no one else can
…and instead he’s pissing about with this?
The man literally has it in his gift for us to fall in love with him
To help humanity and solve global problems in way that no one else can
…and instead he’s pissing about with this?
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
A system that puts these two jerks at the top is really screwed.
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For what it’s worth: Russian war channels confirm arrival of the North Korean troops to Ukrainian Huliaipole
November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
For what it’s worth: Russian war channels confirm arrival of the North Korean troops to Ukrainian Huliaipole
D Trump just confirmed my assessment that the impact of tariffs on consumers and firms in the US will be felt the most around Thanksgiving and afterwards.
However, those tariffs are mostly paid by the US firms and consumers. According to the Centre for Business Prosperity (CBP) research:
However, those tariffs are mostly paid by the US firms and consumers. According to the Centre for Business Prosperity (CBP) research:
November 24, 2025 at 12:54 PM
D Trump just confirmed my assessment that the impact of tariffs on consumers and firms in the US will be felt the most around Thanksgiving and afterwards.
However, those tariffs are mostly paid by the US firms and consumers. According to the Centre for Business Prosperity (CBP) research:
However, those tariffs are mostly paid by the US firms and consumers. According to the Centre for Business Prosperity (CBP) research:
The EU is urging the US to apply more of the July trade deal, focusing on reducing steel tariffs. This push aims to strengthen #Trade relations and address barriers. #Economics
November 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The EU is urging the US to apply more of the July trade deal, focusing on reducing steel tariffs. This push aims to strengthen #Trade relations and address barriers. #Economics
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Never forget the. The links to Russia run deep!
As revealed by The Mirror and Good Law Project in 2024 - Reform donor Lilley controlled a series of companies that own 12,000 hectares of farmland in the Stavropol region of Russia, in the south west of the country, used to produce cereals & oilseeds
As revealed by The Mirror and Good Law Project in 2024 - Reform donor Lilley controlled a series of companies that own 12,000 hectares of farmland in the Stavropol region of Russia, in the south west of the country, used to produce cereals & oilseeds
Major Donor to Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Owns Russian Assets
One of the biggest donors to Nigel Farage’s anti-net zero Reform UK during the general election campaign has significant Russian business interests, DeSmog can report. Natural resources investor Davi...
www.desmog.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Never forget the. The links to Russia run deep!
As revealed by The Mirror and Good Law Project in 2024 - Reform donor Lilley controlled a series of companies that own 12,000 hectares of farmland in the Stavropol region of Russia, in the south west of the country, used to produce cereals & oilseeds
As revealed by The Mirror and Good Law Project in 2024 - Reform donor Lilley controlled a series of companies that own 12,000 hectares of farmland in the Stavropol region of Russia, in the south west of the country, used to produce cereals & oilseeds
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1/ Some of the loudest 'patriotic' British accounts on X are Putin tools.
'God Save Great Britain' posts Russian anti-Ukraine propaganda while peddling the anti-woke, 'defend our culture', islamophobic, migrant hysteria messages that are at the core of Russia's current hybrid war propaganda.
'God Save Great Britain' posts Russian anti-Ukraine propaganda while peddling the anti-woke, 'defend our culture', islamophobic, migrant hysteria messages that are at the core of Russia's current hybrid war propaganda.
November 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
1/ Some of the loudest 'patriotic' British accounts on X are Putin tools.
'God Save Great Britain' posts Russian anti-Ukraine propaganda while peddling the anti-woke, 'defend our culture', islamophobic, migrant hysteria messages that are at the core of Russia's current hybrid war propaganda.
'God Save Great Britain' posts Russian anti-Ukraine propaganda while peddling the anti-woke, 'defend our culture', islamophobic, migrant hysteria messages that are at the core of Russia's current hybrid war propaganda.
The US foreign diplomacy shitshow led by Vance and Witkoff is countered by the Secretary of State -- full swing U turn which does not reassure anyone.
The Kyiv Independent is reporting that Trump envoy Steve Witkoff is "running a shadow operation inside the White House in an effort to sideline pro-Ukraine officials", cutting out Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in an effort supported by Vice President J.D. Vance.
Trump appoints Army Secretary Driscoll as special envoy for “peace plan”
(He was appointed Sec of the Army on February 25, 2025)
He is a friend and former classmate of J.D. Vance.
Delegation of American generals is expected to fly to Moscow end of next week to discuss the “project”
(He was appointed Sec of the Army on February 25, 2025)
He is a friend and former classmate of J.D. Vance.
Delegation of American generals is expected to fly to Moscow end of next week to discuss the “project”
November 22, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The US foreign diplomacy shitshow led by Vance and Witkoff is countered by the Secretary of State -- full swing U turn which does not reassure anyone.
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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”