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Grégory Claeys

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Director of the Economics Department of @strategieplan.bsky.social, Senior Fellow (on leave for public service) at @bruegel.bsky.social, Associate Professor of Economics at Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris .. more

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Gregory Claeys is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of London.

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Grégory Claeys @gregclaeys.bsky.social · Jul 3

Our recent paper on how to finance the French rearmament and other priorities by 2030 is now available in English: www.strategie-plan.gouv.fr/en/publicati...

How to finance French rearmament and other priorities by 2030? | Haut-commissariat à la Stratégie et au Plan

Faced with a deteriorating geopolitical situation, France and the European Union must strengthen their strategic autonomy. Military spending targets of 3.5% of GDP, or even 5% - compared with the curr...

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Jean Pisani-Ferry @pisaniferry.bsky.social · Jun 11

Pour que les Français acceptent la nécessaire consolidation des finances publiques, il faut que la charge en soit équitablement répartie. Ma tribune @lemonde avec O. Blanchard et G. Zucman.
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Olivier Blanchard, Jean Pisani-Ferry et Gabriel Zucman : « Nous partageons le constat qu’un impôt plancher sur les grandes fortunes est le plus efficace face à l’inégalité fiscale »

TRIBUNE. Le dispositif cible les centimillionnaires qui mettent en place des schémas d’optimisation pour échapper à l’impôt. Il ne fait que mettre en conformité nos lois fiscales avec le principe d’ég...

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Grégory Claeys @gregclaeys.bsky.social · May 5

Mon département à @francestrategie.bsky.social est à la recherche d'un(e) économiste. Celui/celle-ci exercera notamment le rôle de rapporteur du CNP. Les détails du poste sont disponibles ici : www.strategie.gouv.fr/offres-dempl... N'hésitez pas à partager l'offre avec vos réseaux !

Chef(fe) de projet « Productivité – Macroéconomie » pour le département Économie | France Stratégie

Le Haut-Commissariat à la stratégie et au plan recrute un(e) chef(fe) de projet « Productivité – Macroéconomie » pour le département Économie. Poste à pourvoir rapidement.

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · Apr 3

This is what Trump's "economists" say about how they calculated the "reciprocal" tariffs. Don[t be fooled by the equation. They commit countless crimes against economics. ustr.gov/issue-areas/... +

Reciprocal Tariff Calculations

Executive Summary Reciprocal tariffs are calculated as the tariff rate necessary to balance bilateral trade deficits between the U.S. and each of our trading partners. This calculation assumes that pe...

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Grégory Claeys @gregclaeys.bsky.social · Mar 28

Human blood 8.5% ?

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · Mar 19

Do you want to better understand EU’s rearming attempt?

Best explainer by @euobserver.com laying down the baseline of EU-27 military imports

euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

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Guntram Wolff @guntramwolff.bsky.social · Mar 9

Let's be clear. Buying American weapons is a real risk to European security at this point due to political interference. Actually, it's an issue to anyone in the world relying on top US military equipment. Cc @jakluge.de

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Lucas Guttenberg @lucasguttenberg.bsky.social · Mar 4

In the pandemic timeline, we are now in early April 2020. This is when the Commission put SURE on the table (and around the same time, the fiscal rules were unplugged). Five weeks later, Macron and Merkel put NGEU on the table. This is where this should be headed eventually as well.

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Kate McNamara @katemcnamara.bsky.social · Feb 28

Well, as America implodes from within, it’d be a *great* time for the EU to finally do official Eurobonds. It’d likely be very attractive as a safe haven given the destruction of US hegemony & spillover to US T-bills. Bonus: Eurobonds can finance a desperately needed European security build up! 🇪🇺💶 ‼️

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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · Feb 25

Lots of over-engineered debt brake proposals around. Nothing easy off the shelf. Except….

….Just getting rid of it.

Fits really well in the spirit of deregulation, folks, come on!

One regulation less. Beautiful. And less duplicative because we have EU fiscal rules!

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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · Feb 7

Cela semble absurde, et j’ai été choqué la première fois que je l’ai compris, mais la France – il n'y a pas d'autre mot – est bien un paradis fiscal pour milliardaire

Explications détaillées 🧵

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Grégory Claeys @gregclaeys.bsky.social · Feb 5

Opportunity of a lifetime: Bruegel is looking for its next Deputy Director. Don't hesitate to apply or share with your networks: www.bruegel.org/careers/depu...

Deputy director

Deadline for applications: 16 March 2025, 23:59 CET

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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · Jan 16

Deindustrialisation angst grips Germany.

In a new study, Brad Setser and I unpack how badly Germany's trading relationship with China has backfired, and how its industry might weather the second China shock.

With terrific accompanying reporting in Handelsblatt/FT.
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How German industry can survive the second China shock

China's industrial subsidies and aggressive export-led growth are undercutting German manufacturing. To defend its automotive and engineering sectors, Germany must finally get tough on China with trad...

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Noahpinion @noahpinion.blogsky.venki.dev · Dec 11

How Paul Krugman changed the public face of economics

He's a great economist, but he also changed how we talk about the subject.

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Mathieu Carpentier @mathieucarpentier.bsky.social · Dec 10

La Gouvernement a rendu public l'avis du Conseil d'Etat sur l'interprétation de l'article 45 de la LOLF et la possibilité de déposer un projet de loi spéciale (PLS).

(J'ai supprimé un précédent tweet erroné).

Bref thread:

www.conseil-etat.fr/avis-consult...

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Grégory Claeys @gregclaeys.bsky.social · Dec 10

End of an era: @pkrugman.bsky.social's last column in the @nytimes.com one of the first econ bloggers I followed frequently when I became interested in economic policy. I still remember looking forward to his next column during the great financial crisis www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/o...

Opinion | My Last Column: Finding Hope in an Age of Resentment

Where have all the good vibes gone?

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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · Dec 4

At the height of the €zone crisis, the 🇬🇷 government was spending nearly 20% of all its revenue on interest payments.

🇫🇷 is now spending around 4% on interest payments.

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Jean Pisani-Ferry @pisaniferry.bsky.social · Nov 23

Ma chronique @lemonde.fr : Les Etats-Unis, disait-on au tournant du millénaire, sont la « nation indispensable ». Il va falloir apprendre à se passer d’eux.

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Jean Pisani-Ferry : « Il faut inventer une gouvernance à la mesure du monde qui vient »

CHRONIQUE. Le programme que Donald Trump entend appliquer, au-delà de ses effets immédiats, traduit la « fatigue » du leadership américain. Comment le remplacer ?, s’interroge l’économiste dans sa chr...

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · Nov 23

Here’s a crazy fact for you: Spain and Germany have now seen basically the exact same amount of economic growth post-2008. Would have been unthinkable to people during most of the 2010s. Spain has seen ~10 percentage points more cumulative growth since 2017.

A graph comparing Spanish and German gdp, which diverge in 2008 but reconverge between 2017-2024

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