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Prof. Caroline Fohlin

@caroline-fohlin.bsky.social
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I study Economic History & Finance, esp US + Germany in the 20th century. Google Scholar: t.co/RdOYnDBiW5 Views are my own. Photo: Bergen, Norway

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Today is the 15th day after the Epstein Files Transparency Act required DOJ to file a compliance report with Congress. Discussed here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 02/01/2026
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/12/2025
Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes. Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program. (Published Dec. 2024)
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How a Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes
Some of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures are using a legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care, a ProPublica investigation found.
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 17/12/2025
Thank you @propublica.org for your continued reporting. Don't look away, America. #USAIDSavedLives www.propublica.org/article/keny...
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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
This should be interesting!
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Roberta Metsola @president.europarl.europa.eu · 13/12/2025
I welcome the release of a number of political prisoners in Belarus, including Sakharov Prize laureates Maria Kolesnikova and Ales Bialatski, also laureate of @nobelprize.org for Peace. They have endured so much. I wish them strength as they should reunite with their families and loved ones.
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Pestilence @pestilence4all.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
This is absolutely amazing. #Science 🧪 The proteasome, cleaving proteins into antimicrobial peptides. Biology is a amazing “There’s something that we thought is so familiar and so well understood, and then boom — something totally unexpected and exciting comes out of it.” — Medzhitov
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This scientist found a new trick of the immune system by digging through cellular rubbish
Yifat Merbl is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
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U.S. Moves to Drop Charges in International Soccer Corruption Case
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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 06/12/2025
On this day in 1915, the Supreme Court upheld a law providing that an American woman could be stripped of citizenship upon marriage to a foreign husband. U.S. men marrying foreign women were permitted to keep their citizenship.
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Dec. 6, 1915 | Supreme Court Rules American Women With Foreign Husbands Lose Citizenship
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Next week, the court will hear the most important campaign finance case since Citizens United. Here’s what you need to know, from one of the lawyers who’s been working on the case. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
The most openly racist, eugenicist monsters are running the U.S. They will use every opportunity to advance their agenda. And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
🎁 link to the WSJ editorial that made Stephen Miller so mad. "It would be a shame if this single act of betrayal became the excuse for deporting all Afghan refugees... "Thousands are building new lives here in peace. Collective punishment won’t make America safer." www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
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Opinion | The Ambush on the National Guard
The alleged shooting by an Afghan ‘partner’ shouldn’t condemn all who assisted the U.S. and now live here.
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RogueNOAA @roguenoaa.altgov.info · 26/11/2025
“The draft offshore leasing plan includes the Bering Sea, the Gulf of Alaska and other areas important to the fishing industry. It’s part of a national proposal that includes the entire coast of California, where drilling is fiercely unpopular.” alaskapublic.org/news/politic...
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New offshore drilling plan opens almost all federal water off Alaska
The draft plan calls for lease sales in Cook Inlet and the Arctic, as well as the Bering Sea and other regions important to the fishing industry.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 25/11/2025
For everyone traveling, a reminder to masks up and avoid spending your holidays sick. 😷✈️🦃
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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
This is so cool (no pun intended 🫣)! A very long time series. Thanks to #NSF 💲
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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Incredible!
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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
How heartening and energizing to watch this citizen speak up for the vulnerable.
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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Now that I know this collection exists, I want to visit it! #econsky #history #money
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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Release ALL the Epstein files!! Follow the money! 🤑💰
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Are we winning yet?
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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Woah! 📌 Need to read the full paper Police bargaining rights explain 14% of civilian deaths. (What about serious injury but not quite death?) #econsky
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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
😍
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 18/11/2025
Two Ukrainian citizens working for Russia are suspected of blowing up a railway line in Poland over the weekend, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.
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Poland says 2 Ukrainians working for Russia are suspected of being involved in railway blast
Prime Minister Donald Tusk says two Ukrainian citizens working for Russia are suspected of blowing up a railway line in Poland.
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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Grotesque
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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Exactly. 👇🏻👇🏻
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
#epsteinfiles They'll hold back or redact out details that implicate certain key people.
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
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The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
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Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · 13/11/2025
19 Nov @17:00 CET International Macro History Online Seminar #IMHOS ep. 102 🗣️ @mreiske.bsky.social presents 'The Political Costs of Debt Deflation: Agricultural Crises and the Rise of the Nazi Party' Chair: Emilie Sartre (@uniofnottingham.bsky.social) ✍️ cepr.org/events/inter... #EconSky
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Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · 14/11/2025
📢 #CallForPapers - 13th CEPR Economic History Symposium 2026 Topics of interest include: #growth, institutions and #development, history of the international economy, & macro and financial history. Submit your paper by 14 December. cepr.org/events/thirt... #EconSky #EconConf
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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
I "liked" every post in this thread. Thank you @durlauf.bsky.social for saying this all publicly. I'll admit it brought forth some emotion. 🥹 #econsky 👇🏻👇🏻
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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Seriously disturbing
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Valerie Bertinelli @wolfiesmom.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
This is me at 15. I’m a child. I’m a CHILD.
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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 13/11/2025
When Big Oil companies claim to be partners in climate solutions, remember: they are lying. As the climate crisis intensifies, Chevron is once again "increasing investments in oil and gas exploration," Reuters reports. www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
Chevron plans to grow oil and gas production by 2% to 3% per year through 2030. It currently produces around 4 million barrels of oil equivalent per day.
"There is need for significant investment to close the oil supply gap, equivalent to five Saudi Arabias" over the next decade, Wirth said.
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American Association of Wine Economists AAWE @wineecon.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Deinhard Sekt bottle parade, Germany, c. 1920.
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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Big news! #Atlanta #Econsky
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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
+ German unemployment is rising- now at 6.3%. Real GDP "stalled out." Trump tariffs adding to the Chinese competition problem. Worrisome situation. #econsky
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Though careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) often pay well, a surprising number of undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers rely on federal food aid to make ends meet. cen.acs.org/policy/SNAP-... #chemsky 🧪
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SNAP disruptions weigh on science and engineering students
Lapse in federal food aid strains some researchers and undergraduates
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Menzie Chinn @mchinn.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
#EconSky @tcddublin.bsky.social Swiss National Bank workshop econbrowser.com/archives/202...
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SNB-TCD Workshop: “Globalization and the economics of the external sector” | Econbrowser
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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 05/11/2025
M Aquilina, G Gelos, A Schrimpf, & S Zhu highlight two recent advances in the use of #AI tools to anticipate financial market stress. The tools can help policymakers monitor emerging risks in real time, combining quantitative forecast & qualitative insights. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky
Graph showing the predictive accuracy of market dysfunction episodes. True data: 20-day average of the daily euro-yen triangular arbitrage parity difference with the US dollar as the vehicle currency, calculated on a minute-by-minute basis. The vertical red dashed line represents the end of the training period, end-2020; everything to the right of this line is considered pseudo out-of-sample.

Predicting financial market stress is a significant challenge, as traditional models often fail to capture complex and nonlinear dynamics. This column highlights two recent advances in the use of AI tools to anticipate financial market stress. The first is a novel framework using machine learning to predict financial market stress and explain the main factors driving predictions. The second integrates numerical data with textual information using large language models to forecast market stress and identify its underlying drivers. Policymakers can use these tools to monitor emerging risks in real time, combining quantitative forecasts with qualitative insights from financial news and commentary.
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Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · 07/11/2025
📢 #CallforPapers - Simplifying banking regulation and supervision without sacrificing safety Deadline: 9 Jan 2026 Interested parties should submit their draft papers and any queries to Martin Birn of the Basel Committee's Secretariat at Martin.Birn[at]bis[dot]org. cepr.org/events/simpl... #EconSky
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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
And, of course, inflation and tariff costs hit low-income households hardest. So, the real (purchasing power) effect is even worse. Moreover, they are likely holding little/no equity, so missing the outsized gains in financial assets that higher-income/wealthier families are enjoying. #econsky
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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
It was only a matter of time. This is how corrupt authoritarian regimes keep power.
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Iryna Voichuk @irynavoichuk.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Kharkiv is plunged into darkness, the hum of generators filling the air. Parts of the city are also without water or heat. Last night, russia launched multiple strikes on the city’s energy infrastructure, causing critical damage.
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