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👋 @ecb.europa.eu If you ressurect conditionality politics when stabilising French debt, could you ask for the suppression of tax loopholes for firms and rich households rather than health and education cuts? Maybe technocratic pressures will do better than French conservative politics. Best,

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 7h

Why are we still allowing UAE-based finance to operate as if it was legit business when it is the heartland of forgery and shadow Fx payments allowing Russian forces to keep murdering Ukranians?

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 8h

AI and austerity in higher ed. Our inability to end our fossil fuel addiction strains our public budgets. This is used as an excuse for austerity cuts targeting schools and university. As scholarship fees rise and our budgets shrink, we are advised to forget abt books in class and use AI instead.

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 23h

Du parmesan. Plein de parmesan. Mais il fond en ce moment.

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 23h

Je mets pas les sources mais - des réserves de pétrole non exploitées - des baleines - des tranches de yacht

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Un couple formé pour 4710 litres de boissons bus (sic), c'est un meilleur ou un pire ratio que les 119% de dette par rapport au PIB?

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

👋 @ec.europa.eu. I know you do not really care anymore about the post-fascist identity of the governments you deal with, nor about your environmental objectives, but are we fine than Meloni uses (green & digital) Next-Gen funds to fund a suspension of road taxes during an election year?

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The mainstreaming of fascist tropes in France reached the point where a RN MP finds it ok to defend Bardella by saying: Who remembers what they said to their friends at 17, when you might crack a joke to amuse the crowd? Who never drew a swastika with their compass in high school or at university?"

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Some years ago, the main tool to face speculative attack/downwards valuation on sovereign debt was a powerful central bank. Today, it's solar panels and electrification, you know, the road EU conservatives have blocked because greening is "woke" www.ft.com/content/f894...

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Oil price and US Treasury yields in tightest relationship since 1990

Bond investors watch Iran conflict and crude price for signs as to where government borrowing costs will go

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ah ben cool, je l'invite dans mes classes alors et j'attends de lui le même comportement: se taire et m'écouter de manière attentive et disciplinée.

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

After the finance curse, behold the AI curse.

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I understand why top4 consultancy is afraid of chatbots now. They really do similar things

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In 1986, a nuclear power plant in Chernobyl went rogue. Doesn't make sense? Yes, you're right, and AI tech barron's narratives don't either. Rather, let's start talking about weak regulation and poor internal security systems (as we did with nuclear power plants)

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Climate Defiance @climatedefiance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

HUGE UPDATE: we halted Amazon's panel at Climate Week. We shut it down so hard that every guest and every speaker had to leave the premises. No one was able to return. Their whole event lasted less time than their warehouse workers' pee break.

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Dr. Serge Zaka @sergezaka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

24 septembre 2026 : encore 37 °C en France. Si cette température était un épisode isolé, je n'en ferais pas un post. Mais ce n'est justement pas le cas car cela dure depuis le mois de mai.

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Dude, your muse charm talisman bla is basically a tamagotchi. It will die after you forgot to feed it for 2 days. www.ft.com/content/f477...

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

aka the balance sheet legend

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

links www.ft.com/content/f696... www.ft.com/content/1a09...

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tired: Securitization and derivatives of oligarchs' yachts. Wired: Barons' private equity-backed swimming pool “platforms” Don't underestimate private finance capacity to deliver for (its) people. #democraticyachting #democraticbaronspools

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Well that was also part of @quinnslobodian.com argument in hayecks bastards.

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And the media one might also, as the current conservative gov is subsituting top staff at the head of state media, to push them rightwards

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The full political cordon is about to go though, thanks to georges louis bouchez, agitateur en chef, Sarkozy wish version

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Pourquoi l inflation alimenterait elle l extreme droite? A la limite, que les gouvernements en place soient punis, comme Trump risque de l etre aux midterms, ok, mais sinon je vois pas les liens causaux

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 18/09/2026

Damn. @tobyn.bsky.social has produced the most detailed map of Big AI’s incestuous relationships I’ve seen so far. And it’s interactive! www.ft.com/content/8475...

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Et que l'UE a complétement foiré sa transition énergétique et est restée prisonnière des énergies fossiles et qu'on continue à répondre à des chocs énergétiques avec des outils de politiques monétaires plutôt qu'avec des outils anti-monopolistiques (soyons exhaustifs)

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Also, many revealing attention biases there: you are a teacher, a care worker, a street cleaner, a nurse, a supermarket clerk? no one cares. But farmers? EU farmers are the best in the world. Voilà

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

When EU policymakers are trying to humanize their discourses, it just reads like a bad romantic novel published at Berlaymont editions

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

C'est même pire que ca en termes d'aneries vagues: "Yet, European pipes lose almost one in every four litres Mostly through leakage. What a waste. So we will put forward a new European Water initiative. Because water is precious. For our industry – and for our food security."

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Also, the ordobros were getting ready to dismantle the EU Green Deal already in 1999!

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This great book only misses one significant europaleo goldbug: Peter Gauweiler, lead figure of ordoliberalism , honorary member of 2 Munich traditional costume associations & fighting euro integration (that, he believes, debases the Dmark) in front of courts as he fought against beer debasement

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As many geeks here cast their votes on birds vs people design for the new € banknotes, let's collectively remember the past experiences of the Frankfurt's € sculpture as unveiled by @quinnslobodian.com in Hayek's Bastards (including 943 cows)

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 14/09/2026

Frontier AI firms are openly calling for competition-reducing coordination. We shouldn't be surprised: The inter-firm infrastructure for this has long been in the making. People think varieties of capitalism is no longer cool but Silicon Valley has built a ... privately coordinated market economy.

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Aurélien Goutsmedt @aurelien-goutsmedt.com · 11/09/2026

Interesting FT chart: Central banks have leaned hard on 'wage growth leads to inflation' in communication & as policy channel. But data since the 1980s tells a messier story: quarters with hotter wage growth are followed by lower core PCE inflation a year later, not higher www.ft.com/content/a525...

Scatter plot titled 'Warsh was right,' showing ECI wage growth (x-axis, 1% to 9%) plotted against the change in core PCE inflation over the following year (y-axis, -2 to 4 percentage points). Quarterly data since 1981. Points show a negative trend: a downward-sloping line indicates that higher wage growth quarters tend to be followed by lower future inflation change, not higher. Data is scattered widely around the trend line. Source: Haver Analytics, via Financial Times.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sabina Alkire, from the audience: We have seed banks to safeguard against catastrophe. What is the AI equivalent? Will we still have a 'seed bank' of academics who know how to use a library?

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Plus, rural citizens are v often more conservatives than rest of the population and rural places do not attract much migrants indeed

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Its not always about economics. Living away from "national foreigners" reinforce racist rejudices as you are only exposed to their lifes via media filterq. It can also be that they devided to move away from cities/arrival spots so as not tonlive close to them bc of their racism

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Tooze "Reflecting on the political earthquake in Germany" Criticizes simplistic economic accounts of AfD voting and explains 2 features 1 collapse of a potential progressive majority 2 why huge surge in support by far came from previous non-voters. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Saxony-Anhalt went to the polls, with the AfD falling just short of a majority. Here are some takeaways based on the preliminary results across all 218 municipalities and local socioeconomic characteristics. A thread 🧵(1 /n) Full analysis + write-up: juliuskoelzer.de/saxony-anhal...

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We’re hiring! Poli Sci & IR department at IE University in Madrid is hiring three tenure-track Assistant Professors, starting 1st of September 2027, in: Comparative Politics: lnkd.in/ePDfwjJB International Relations: lnkd.in/eDu5vGTf Political Economy: lnkd.in/eciDukTA 1/3

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Germany in 2023: "Enough with this EV obsession, focusing on ICEs that run on e-fuels will usher in a new export success made in Germany" Germany in 2026: "Why are the Chinese selling so many EVs on our market, this is unfair!"

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

@financialtimes.com is the sharpest Marxist-critical financial newspaper out there (and home to the all-time best pop-situationist section, @alphaville.ft.com), yet also a perennial nesting ground for clunky, ideologically fossilized op-eds from liberal zealots think-tank relics.

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

When EU growth is wiped out by this summer’s heatwaves and droughts, and Belgium suffers its worst wildfire in history, let’s remember Pierre Wunsch’s, Belgium’s central banker, wise words from March 2025: ‘Climate change will never cost us more than one large oil shock.’

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Critical Takes on Corporate Power @criticaltakes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Well, this is interesting! This informative paper argues that Chinese firms have got ahead in cleantech partly because in the US and Europe, policy is overly influenced by "grey" corporate interests - incumbent companies which produce or use fossil fuels. 1/2

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Increasingly radicalising Le Figaro, lead french conservative newspaper, blaming French wildfires and ecological catastrophes on..drumrolls, ecologists and political ecology. Me eyes are still bleeding from one of the worst shit i ve read

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