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Stanislas Jourdan

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Associate fellow @ New Economics Foundation - Eurozone, central banking, sustainable finance, EU democracy. Former Director @ Positive Money EU https://stanislasjourdan.fr/en

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Stanislas Jourdan @stanjourdan.bsky.social · Oct 2

Super happy to announce a new report on the green interest rate (Green TLTROs) co-authored with colleagues at Sustainable Finance Lab.

We analyse the feasibility of a green TLTRO using the EU Taxonomy framework and discuss the policy design & calibration.

sustainablefinancelab.nl/en/new-sfl-p...

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Pascal Riché @pascalriche.bsky.social · 2d

Reprendre le contrôle de l'énergie (le vrai moteur de l'économie, le cœur de la crise climatique...) : est-ce la clé de tout ? J'ai posé la question à @lucaschancel.bsky.social

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Lucas Chancel, économiste : « Seule la socialisation de l’énergie peut éviter aux Européens une vassalisation »

Dans un entretien au « Monde », le professeur à Sciences Po estime que la reprise de contrôle du secteur énergétique par les citoyens permettrait de mieux lutter contre les crises climatiques et démoc...

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Stanislas Jourdan @stanjourdan.bsky.social · 2d

The only solution I can think of would be to form a center-left government whose narrow mandate will be to pass a reasonable budget and convoke a citizens assembly to review the electoral law and constitution (to be approved by referendum).

Timing is super short, but still doable.

Stanislas Jourdan @stanjourdan.bsky.social · 2d

France's political crisis has escalated into a regime crisis.

At this point, the highest priority should be 1/ to avoid that the chaos brings the far right to power (no dissolution) and 2/ to ensure future 2027 elections can plausibly result in a functioning government in spite of fragmentation.

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Benjamin Lemoine @benjaminlemoine.bsky.social · 7d

Le gouvernement par la dette est devenu un instrument de sécession sociale
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Stanislas Jourdan @stanjourdan.bsky.social · 12d

This makes so much sense.

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 13d

President Stubb on the UN:

No single state should have a veto power.If a member of the Security Council violates the UN Charter,its voting rights should be suspended.I believe that these changes at the top of the UN are necessary in order to maintain the UN's central role in international relations

Stanislas Jourdan @stanjourdan.bsky.social · 19d

Informal ECOFIN do not lead to formal conclusions or decision yet the ECB hopes to reach an agreement on digital euro ceilings and thresholds... I'm a bit confused😜

Stanislas Jourdan @stanjourdan.bsky.social · 21d

Cette histoire de taxe zucman est littéralement le seul sujet politique qui me donne actuellement un peu d'espoir pour la France en ce moment.

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Emmanuel Martin @emmanuelrmartin.bsky.social · 21d

Les gens qui n’ont toujours pas compris qu'il fallait faire contribuer les très riches à l'effort commun ne comprennent rien à la France.

anthropocene man @anthropocene-man.bsky.social · 21d

86 % des sondés sont en faveur de la taxe Zucman
- 92 % des partisans de Renaissance
- 75 % des partisans du RN
- 89 % des adhérents LR

Le HuffPost @huffingtonpost.fr · 21d

Ce sondage commandé par le PS n’est pas un cadeau pour Lecornu

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Nils Redeker @nilsredeker.bsky.social · 22d

Draghi, one year after his report, still not mincing words on EU industrial policy:

“Europe’s response has fallen into two traps: uncoordinated national efforts, or blind faith that market forces will build new sectors.”

Amen!

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Stanislas Jourdan @stanjourdan.bsky.social · 26d

The Fed’s future isn’t just about interest rates—it’s about power, politics, and the very purpose of central banking.

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www.ft.com/content/2f38...

The battle for the Fed is about much more than interest rates

Trump and his economic advisers want to narrow the central bank’s mission dramatically

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Stanislas Jourdan @stanjourdan.bsky.social · 28d

I understand the fears. But we can organise things in infinitely superior manners than under sovietism. Jason's point on workplace democracy is key in this respect and progress is already happening in many companies across Europe.

Stanislas Jourdan @stanjourdan.bsky.social · 28d

Capital won’t stop funding SUVs, private jets, and industrial beef—no matter how much the planet burns.

We urgently need outright nationalisation of key industries, workplace democracy and credit guidance frameworks.

Great article by @jasonhickel.bsky.social

tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/can-...

Can Socialism Solve the Climate Crisis?

Governments globally are failing to combat climate change because they prioritise profit over the planet — for real change, the capitalist mode of production must be overhauled.

tribunemag.co.uk

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New Left EViews @newlefteviews.bsky.social · Aug 28

One point: central bank independence was the core tenet of neoliberalism, but it was the rise of market-based finance and the deflationary bias in fiscal policy, key features of the neoliberal era, that forced central banks into a position that made political backlash inevitable.

New Left EViews @newlefteviews.bsky.social · Aug 28

Re: Trump v Fed: Some (very hastily written and heavily edited) reflections on the nature of central bank–government interdependence in the era of crisis and how financial- not fiscal dominance is what should be keeping us up at night. Also Powell is Thomas Becket.

jacobin.com/2025/08/cent...

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · Aug 20

“Are central banks like the Fed really independent in the first place? If so, of what and whom? And what goals are they “independently” pursuing?” — @brettchristophers.bsky.social

Whose Fed? | Brett Christophers

For the past twenty years, central banks have rarely been out of the news. Called upon to stabilize the global financial system when it appeared at risk

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Aug 3

European bank shares hit highest levels since 2008 https://on.ft.com/4onRmLi

European bank shares hit highest levels since 2008

A surge in long-term interest rates and economic optimism has lifted the region’s lenders

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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · Aug 20

Unlike today, central banks in the 1980s avoided financial losses when implementing anti-inflationary measures because they didn't remunerate bank reserves and their balance sheets didn'tt carry the legacy of a decade of large asset purchases at low interest rates/long maturity.

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ESB @esb.nu · Aug 7

Sinds 2022 heeft de Europese Centrale Bank de rentetarieven fors laten stijgen. Dat heeft een negatief effect gehad op de energietransitie, schrijven Sanders et al.
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Fabien Escalona @fabienescalona.bsky.social · Aug 6

Nouvelle collaboration depuis la Grèce, par Basile Dekonink, à propos de cette information folle : les partis doivent un milliard d’euros aux banques, qui bénéficient de la complaisance des autorités politiques. www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...

En Grèce, les partis doivent un milliard d’euros aux banques : « C’est de la corruption »

Les deux principales formations politiques grecques, Nouvelle Démocratie et Pasok-Kinal, sont de très loin les plus endettées d’Europe. Une faillite de fait qui les conduit à multiplier les cadeaux à…

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Stanislas Jourdan @stanjourdan.bsky.social · Aug 13

"The reason why it is tempting to imagine that we can just declare net zero unachievable and move on is that, for many politicians, it means being able to focus on the stuff that excites them" (...) "people do not go into politics because they want to manage crises "

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How magical thinking came for net zero critics

Badenoch shows the temptation of just putting all this climate unpleasantness behind us

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Stanislas Jourdan @stanjourdan.bsky.social · Aug 13

Ah, j'avais oublié mais il faut aussi avoir fait + de 500 contributions et être actif depuis + de 6 mois

Stanislas Jourdan @stanjourdan.bsky.social · Aug 13

En effet trop peu de gens le savent! Ca se passe par ici : wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org

The Wikipedia Library

More than 100 of the world's top subscription-only databases, with content in 30 languages, free for Wikipedians of all backgrounds

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Stanislas Jourdan @stanjourdan.bsky.social · Aug 13

En effet trop peu de gens le savent!

Il suffit de faire 10 contributions par mois à Wikipédia pour avoir accès ) tout un catalogue de revues academiques et journaux incluant par exemple Nature, Foreign Affairs, Gruyters...

wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org

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Stanislas Jourdan @stanjourdan.bsky.social · Aug 9

Excellent résumé

www.youtube.com/watch?v=slWp...

Peut-on créer de l’argent à partir de rien ? | 42 - La réponse à presque tout | ARTE

YouTube video by ARTE

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Zia Weise @ziaweise.bsky.social · Jul 8

The Patriots, a far-right group that opposes the Green Deal, has ended up in charge of parliamentary negotiations on the EU's 2040 climate target. Centrist MEPs are up in arms.

Free to read: www.politico.eu/article/far-...

Far-right climate delayers to lead Parliament talks on EU’s 2040 target

The Patriots for Europe group will be in charge of delicate negotiations on the next emissions-cutting milestone.

www.politico.eu

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jul 7

There's no place for institutional finance in rental markets. It's a predatory extraction machine that robs the poor and middle.

But one thing I'd add: we should stop calling these people "investors". They don't "invest". They buy up and milk existing assets. 🧵
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Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb | Tim White

We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no, says researcher and writer Tim White

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