Antoine de Cabanes
@adecabanes.bsky.social
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PhD student in Political Science at UCLouvain (ISPOLE) Political Economy, Monetary Policy, Central Banks (ECB & Federal Reserve // monetary politics, accountability, expertise) https://uclouvain.academia.edu/AntoinedeCabanes
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Dear President Donald J Trump, can you please let me finish writing my doctoral dissertation on the relationship between the Federal Reserve and the US political field & actors, before transforming these relationship in an unprecedented way?
Many thanks in advance

www.axios.com/2025/07/16/t...
Trump denies reports he's close to firing Powell
Trump has demanded the central bank lower interest rates immediately.
www.axios.com
adecabanes.bsky.social
Today's decision seems to confirm that the US Supreme Court means to differentiate between the #Fed and the other independent agencies : in Trump v Slaughter (the for-cause removal of an FTC Commissioner litigation), the Court granted the administrative stay while setting oral arguments for December
financialtimes.com
Just in: The Supreme Court has refused to let Donald Trump immediately fire Lisa Cook, deferring the US president's application until the justices hear oral arguments in the case in January 2026. on.ft.com/3WeV2C2
adecabanes.bsky.social
Lisa Cook 1 - Trump 0

La Cour Suprême des États-Unis a rejeté la demande de la Maison Blanche d'application immédiate du limogeage de la gouverneure de la Fed annoncé par Trump le 25/8, et opté pour entendre les plaidoiries des deux parties en janvier avant de statuer

www.ft.com/content/0430...
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aurelien-goutsmedt.com
📢 Call for Papers — 5th Political Economy Working Group Workshop
🗓️ 30 Jan 2026, Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles

The workshop is divided into two parts:
Morning: PhD research presentations.
Afternoon: open to all, concluding with @benbraun.bsky.social.

Abstracts due 1 Dec 2025

All details below:
The Political Economy working group is pleased to invite you to a workshop on Friday, 30 January, 2026, at the Université Saint-Louis - Bruxelles. Founded during the ABSP Congress in February 2024, this group aims to contribute to the advancement and growth of the field of political economy in Belgium.

The workshop will be divided into two parts: 
The morning session is open to all PhD students wishing to present the progress of their research, whether in the form of a thesis project, an article or a chapter. Each PhD student will have 40 to 50 minutes for discussion with attending researchers. 
The afternoon session is open to all researchers interested in presenting a publication or work-in progress related to the various key themes driving our Political Economy Working Group: European governance, financial regulation, central banks policies and communication, the political economy of the green transition, the role of States in a globalized and financialized world, among others.
Contributions are welcome in either French or English. Presentations should generally be delivered in English.
Next steps:
To propose a presentation for the morning or afternoon sessions, send a title and abstract of no more than 400 words to aurelien.goutsmedt[at]uclouvain.be and zsuzsanna.szeredi[at]uclouvain.be by December 1, 2025. If you wish to present in the PhD morning session, please indicate this clearly in your submission.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by December 19, 2025.
Manuscripts (working papers, chapters or drafts) will be requested by January 16, 2025, in order to give discussants and other participants sufficient time to prepare. We recommend manuscripts of between 5,000 to 10,000 words.
adecabanes.bsky.social
From a CMU/SIU perspective, this looks like a classic Scharpf-style situation of negative/positive EU integration: as some MS (notably the tax havens) block the single supervision of financial markets by ESMA, the EC opts for deregulation, revival of securitization & tax breaks on financial products
EU asks governments to tweak tax rules to keep ‘European dream’ alive
Financial Services commissioner wants to incentivize EU citizens to invest in stocks and bonds to boost the bloc’s competitiveness.
www.politico.eu
adecabanes.bsky.social
The 🇪🇺 Commission attempt to justify it by labelling households as "financial illiterate” is all the more shameful: households have plenty of good reasons for being cautious & not wanting to put their lifetime savings into financial markets.

Like memories of past crisis

www.ft.com/content/860c...
Brussels seeks to convert Europe’s savers into investors
Commission wants countries to offer tax incentives to EU households who put their cash into stocks
www.ft.com
adecabanes.bsky.social
Aside from being a direct subsidy of the banking & financial sector, such move is immensely reckless given the current context of deregulation of financial markets on both sides of the Atlantic, and of formation/expansion of bubbles (cryptos, private credit)
adecabanes.bsky.social
What a terrific idea to foster economic growth: instead of public investment (in infrastructure, or digital & green transitions for example), let's use public money to incentivise (through costly tax breaks) an increase in households' risk-taking, by putting their savings into bonds & stocks.
adecabanes.bsky.social
Pour tout comprendre au processus de fabrication des sondages d'opinion et à leur utilisation dans le champ médiatique & politique, je vous recommande vivement ce passionnant ouvrage d' @hugotouzet.bsky.social, disponible dans toutes les bonnes librairies :
editions.ehess.fr/ouvrages/ouv...
adecabanes.bsky.social
Nice @bloomberg.com graph depicting the evolution of #France sovereign credit rating since the Eurozone crisis.

It shows the role of the social & political crisis caused by Macron (2023 pension reform, 2024 snap election and subsequent governmental instability) in the current cycle of downgrading.
adecabanes.bsky.social
(Certes, c'est aussi parce que les irlandais ont envie d'avoir la meilleure équipe possible, afin de rouler sur les anglois pendant le 6 Nations. Mais c'est un motif complètement légitime que de vouloir aligner un XV capable de mettre une dérouillé à Owen Farrell et ses voyous de collègues)
adecabanes.bsky.social
C'est l'avant-garde : elle a anticipé la décolonisation à venir, et la réunification des 32 comtés sous l'égide de la République d'Irlande ☘️✊
adecabanes.bsky.social
En même temps, ils ont fait l'expérience de 800 années de colonisation britannique, agrémentées de plusieurs famines sciemment organisées par la perfide Albion et de moults massacres de civils, cela a tendance à fortifier les appuis ;)
adecabanes.bsky.social
Imho Republican Senators were no longer a meaningful check by the end of Trump's first term: all GOP members of the Banking Committee approved Shelton's nomination and she had enough GOP votes to get confirmed, it was only because of a Covid outbreak that she wasn't

www.politico.com/news/2020/11...
How Kamala and the coronavirus tanked Trump's Fed pick
Senate Republicans had no votes to spare to confirm Judy Shelton, and then the pandemic hit home.
www.politico.com
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clemfon.bsky.social
Since the start of von der Leyen's second mandate, EU sustainable finance norms face intense dismantling pressures. My new @JEPP article shows this started years ago when the fossil fuel industry “woke up” to the EU Taxonomy. 🧵 #EUTaxonomy #SustainableFinance👇 1/10
adecabanes.bsky.social
Fascinating piece by @clemfon.bsky.social on the political struggles surrounding the classification of economic activities as sustainable in the EU Taxonomy. The article explains how the Taxonomy has been watered down by analyzing the conflicts between the Commission & interest groups. A must-read !
jeppjournal.bsky.social
💥 Are gas and nuclear sustainable? The EU says yes, but that’s contested.

Clément Fontan unpacks how lobbying shaped the EU Taxonomy and how the Commission managed its own expert group in the process 👇

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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wabateman.bsky.social
I'm really pleased to be featured in @justmoney.bsky.social's current scholarship post. Looking at the Bank of Japan and Fed archives, I argue that QE was always linked to public-sector support, but that effect was deliberately suppressed in central banks' public research and other comms.
justmoney.bsky.social
🚨Current scholarship! In this article, Prof. Bateman explores the communication strategies through which central bankers in Japan and the US downplayed the fiscal effects of quantitative easing programs, raising interesting questions about central bank independence and the fiscal/monetary divide. 🏦💸
Current ScholarshipCommunication tools: a genealogy of quantitative easing
Will Bateman
justmoney.org
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adecabanes.bsky.social
Bayrou a bouleversé la rentrée politique en annonçant hier la convocation d’une session extraordinaire du Parlement le 8 septembre, durant laquelle le PM engagera la responsabilité de son gouvernement.

Comment lire et interpréter cette décision ? Un thread 🧶

1/23

www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
Vote de confiance : François Bayrou joue son va-tout devant un échec annoncé sur le budget 2026
Le premier ministre va engager la responsabilité du gouvernement, le 8 septembre, à l’Assemblée nationale, assurant chercher une « clarification ». Mais la chute paraît quasi certaine, alors que la ga...
www.lemonde.fr
adecabanes.bsky.social
Cette 2e interprétation peut sembler invraisemblable, capillotractée, trop machiavélique ou farfelue. Elle découle de l’interrogation suivante : la macronie ne peut pas être stupide au point de rééditer l’erreur de la dissolution (à savoir perdre politiquement sur un coup de bluff raté), si ?

23/23