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Tim Leunig @timleunig.bsky.social · 18h

I agree, one of Dom's better posts.

Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 1d

You may not like it, but strip out the hyperbole and abuse and it's quite hard to argue with this Cummings asssessment of the public mood

Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 20h

Read 200 pages of our new book here www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...

Or — if you’re in a rush — read @mikebrewerecon.bsky.social’s summary piece below, which does an amazing job of boiling the gist of it down to 900-odd words

Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think there are words in the dictionary to express how much I hate the ONS website. They must have a team of several dozen there working on making sure whatever data you want is impossible to find. Evil.

Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 1d

You may not like it, but strip out the hyperbole and abuse and it's quite hard to argue with this Cummings asssessment of the public mood

Tim Leunig @timleunig.bsky.social · 1d

She's this mean we should have more onshore and less offshore wind? That would cut bills, presumably?

Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 1d

Good to see solar and onshore wind coming in a lot cheaper than offshore here. They are by some distance the cheapest new electricity generation capacity we can build in Britain.

Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 1d

BREAKING: UK govt auction secures 4.9GW new solar at £65/MWh and 1.3GW new onshore wind at £72/MWh, 13% and 21% below the price cap respectively.

All due online by 2029.

Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 1d

Good to see solar and onshore wind coming in a lot cheaper than offshore here. They are by some distance the cheapest new electricity generation capacity we can build in Britain.

Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 1d

BREAKING: UK govt auction secures 4.9GW new solar at £65/MWh and 1.3GW new onshore wind at £72/MWh, 13% and 21% below the price cap respectively.

All due online by 2029.

Tim Leunig @timleunig.bsky.social · 2d

Have you read the article?

marjmar.bsky.social @marjmar.bsky.social · 2d

Seems a shame, if you have spare money, not to invest it in something/someone useful.

marjmar.bsky.social @marjmar.bsky.social · 2d

Seems a shame, if you have spare money, not to invest it in something/someone useful.

Tim Leunig @timleunig.bsky.social · 2d

Have you ever thought about buying #Gold? I tell the story of what happened when I bought gold, and why it was my best ever investment - observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

History predicts a fall in the price of gold. I wouldn’t ...

The precious metal is now worth $5,000 an ounce and anyone who bought big a year ago has made a fortune, but that doesn’t mean it won’t go higher still

observer.co.uk

Tim Leunig @timleunig.bsky.social · 2d

Gold's price began to move up at the end of 1967, but yet, one could claim other dates just as well. It would not alter my basic story

Owe Jessen @owejessen.de · 2d

Just nitpicking, why do you set the year for "the collapse of the Bretton Woods economic system" to 1967? Usually this is connected to the Nixon Shock in 1973, see e. g. www.bundesbank.de/de/aufgaben/...

1973: Das Ende von Bretton Woods – Als die Kurse schwanken lernten

Vor 40 Jahren brach das System fester Wechselkurse zusammen, auf das sich die wichtigsten Handelsnationen der Welt am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs geeinigt hatten.

www.bundesbank.de

Owe Jessen @owejessen.de · 2d

Just nitpicking, why do you set the year for "the collapse of the Bretton Woods economic system" to 1967? Usually this is connected to the Nixon Shock in 1973, see e. g. www.bundesbank.de/de/aufgaben/...

1973: Das Ende von Bretton Woods – Als die Kurse schwanken lernten

Vor 40 Jahren brach das System fester Wechselkurse zusammen, auf das sich die wichtigsten Handelsnationen der Welt am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs geeinigt hatten.

www.bundesbank.de

Tim Leunig @timleunig.bsky.social · 3d

Except that France only has spare power in summer, when it is least useful. Nuclear + solar is a terrible combo.

James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 3d

I wish we had France’s problem of too much abundant clean energy.

Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 3d

France has ended up in a strange position after using some €250bn of tax-payer money to build a fleet of nuclear power stations. Wind and solar power is merrily entering the French power market at prices nuclear production can't match, resulting in huge surpluses of power.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 3d

I wish we had France’s problem of too much abundant clean energy.

Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 3d

France has ended up in a strange position after using some €250bn of tax-payer money to build a fleet of nuclear power stations. Wind and solar power is merrily entering the French power market at prices nuclear production can't match, resulting in huge surpluses of power.

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Électricité : un rapport confidentiel d’EDF anticipe une explosion des coûts et des risques

« Le Point » s’est procuré le rapport interne d’EDF sur les conséquences de la modulation de son parc nucléaire pour faire place aux renouvelables. Un document explosif, alors que le gouvernement s’ap...

www.lepoint.fr

Tim Leunig @timleunig.bsky.social · 5d

I have written a column for @ObserverUK on the history of gold as an investment, and why its should now be seen as a risky, not a safe, investment. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

History predicts a fall in the price of gold. I wouldn’t ...

The precious metal is now worth $5,000 an ounce and anyone who bought big a year ago has made a fortune, but that doesn’t mean it won’t go higher still

observer.co.uk

Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 5d

Just catching up on the situation with UKRI and I can’t claim much expertise, but worth saying:
1. Research funding is pretty crucial when you’re a knowledge-based economy like the UK is
2. Blanket pauses in funding can be very damaging

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK’s £8bn research fund faces “hard decisions” as it pauses new grants

UKRI boss Ian Chapman said it had been told by the government to

www.bbc.co.uk

Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 7d

Parliament today

Tim Leunig @timleunig.bsky.social · 7d

Well yes, when you want someone to have stuff in stock, right next to where you are, so that you can buy the thing at the drop of a hat and not wait a day, you will end up paying more. That is also the market working well!

Prateek Buch @prateekbuch.bsky.social · 7d

But when I need them there and then... Plus own brand aren't as good! Maybe the market is fine and I just have niche needs 🤣

Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 7d

Farming subsidies are increasingly linked to environmental outcomes.

This change has upended decades of stability in how farmers are subsidised.

Find out more about how we can support farmers with the net zero transition 👇
buff.ly/ogIwegT

Chart showing composition of public spending on agriculture, historical and projected: England

Prateek Buch @prateekbuch.bsky.social · 7d

But when I need them there and then... Plus own brand aren't as good! Maybe the market is fine and I just have niche needs 🤣

Tim Leunig @timleunig.bsky.social · 7d

The market is working fine, and you need to stop complaining! amazon.co.uk/Post-Notes-Assorted-Colours-Sheets/dp/B0FBX59NLX/ref=ast_sto_dp_puis?rdc=1

Post-it Notes, Assorted Colours, 24 Pads, 100 Sheets per Pad, 76 mm x 76 mm - Self-Stick Notes for Note Taking, to Do Lists & Reminders, School and Office Supplies : Amazon.co.uk: Everything Else

amazon.co.uk

Tim Leunig @timleunig.bsky.social · 7d

You just need to swap around. You are complaining about £2.60 a pad, but 1 min research showed they are 83p on Amazon. Own brand alternatives are half that price on Amazon as well.

Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 7d

"The price just doesn't matter if you can't get a home".

Good write up here of the problems of trying to use rent controls to force down private rents.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Rent controls are coming to the UK - but they're not a guaranteed win for tenants

www.bbc.co.uk

Tim Leunig @timleunig.bsky.social · 7d

Freezing fees and maintenance loans also means they borrowed less, so there is less to write off. Good news for tax payers, bad news for unis, mixed news for students and graduates (who are also taxpayers, remember)

Tim Leunig @timleunig.bsky.social · 7d

The IFS rarely get these things wrong. Freezing the repayment threshold, and the interest rate threshold, means graduates will repay a lot more than earlier.

Rob Blackie @robblackie.bsky.social · 8d

@timleunig.bsky.social is this really right?

I know the Conservatives cut back grants a lot but by that much?

Andrew McRae @mcraeandrew.bsky.social · 8d

I expect to spend today staring at this: ‘we’ve gone from government suggesting that the state would subsidise undergraduate student loans by about 45p in the pound, to making a profit on them for that cohort’.

A *profit* on student loans: everyone should read this. 🤯
wonkhe.com/blogs/gradua...

Tim Leunig @timleunig.bsky.social · 7d

1000 snowdrops bought for £105 will give HUGE amounts of pleasure for many years - here is where I got mine from... eurobulbs.co.uk/shop/galanth... (other suppliers are available, but I can vouch for these). Buy loads and just chuck them in, all over the place.

Tim Leunig @timleunig.bsky.social · 7d

Love snowdrops!

Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 7d

Times:

The Metropolitan Police is expected to announced on Tuesday evening that Mandelson is being investigated on suspicion of misconduct in public office, an offence that carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

Rob Blackie @robblackie.bsky.social · 8d

@timleunig.bsky.social is this really right?

I know the Conservatives cut back grants a lot but by that much?

Andrew McRae @mcraeandrew.bsky.social · 8d

I expect to spend today staring at this: ‘we’ve gone from government suggesting that the state would subsidise undergraduate student loans by about 45p in the pound, to making a profit on them for that cohort’.

A *profit* on student loans: everyone should read this. 🤯
wonkhe.com/blogs/gradua...

Graduates are paying more and getting less

Jim Dickinson traces how a student loans system once sold as cost-sharing has become one where graduates fund everything – and where Labour has quietly reversed promises to make things fairer Jim Dick...

wonkhe.com

Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 9d

📊 Changes rolled out across 32 local authorities as part of a Tory-era SEND pilot have cut exclusions and kept more children in mainstream education, a report has found
schoolsweek.co.uk/piloted-in-s...

Piloted in-school SEND support 'cut exclusions' - report

Standardised EHCPs also welcomed by parents and councils, researchers find

schoolsweek.co.uk

Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · 9d

📢 #CallForPapers for the 11th Monash-Paris-Warwick-Zurich-CEPR Text-As-Data #Workshop!

Papers using text, audio, images, or other unstructured data are welcome.

Organisers: @elliottash.bsky.social @essobecker.bsky.social & Philine Widmer
Deadline: 13 March
cepr.org/events/11th-...
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