Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Could be worse if they applied Belgian road light standards 010
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 29/06/2026They tried their best to give it the real American vibe 022
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 16/06/2026So it is entirely possible for China to trace the complete downstream value chain of its minerals for geopolitical purposes but it is too much to ask from European companies to trace their supply chains for human rights and sustainability reasons? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... 000
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 02/06/2026‘Fomo is a poor motivation for good policy. What matters in the end is not “competitiveness” but productivity growth’ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... 111
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 23/05/2026European automobile production sites are increasingly used to build Chinese cars www.ft.com/content/5529... 031
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Always hurts to see the snow statistics these years climate.copernicus.eu/ten-charts-d... 010
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 16/05/2026The stats about ‘the apps’ are still pretty striking though 010
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Ok, having children depends on people having a partner and that rate is declining particularly strongly for people without a degree. Not what Idiocracy predicted 131
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Wow, the birth rate of middle-income countries like Mexico, Brazil, Iran or Tunisia is falling below that of high-income countries like the US 243
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Two crucial differences between China shocks #1 and #2: - Export prices falling instead of rising - Imports flatlining instead of rising www.ft.com/content/4687... 1187
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 14/05/2026China is not only exporting to Europe but also investing in production capacities on the continent www.ft.com/content/873a... 000
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 14/05/2026China’s overinvestment is cascading from one sector to the next, leading its economy to overtake Germany in one technology after another Will involution first bring down China’s economy or Germany’s? dezernatzukunft.org/wie-china-ma... 100
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 14/05/2026This is clearly wrong. There remains the tried and tested option of tapping external demand. This was limited by the sheer size of China’s excess capacities but political counter measures and the global demand boost caused by the Iran war might go some way to resolving this. 100
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 14/05/2026The systemic problem of macroeconomic imbalances remained 100
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 23/04/20263. Foreign carmakers turn to Chinese technology to remain relevant 😶🌫️ www.ft.com/content/b17b... 000
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 23/04/20262. CATL claims 6-minute charge and 1,500km range for new electric vehicle batteries 💥 www.ft.com/content/1773... 100
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 23/04/2026FT triptych on the strategic circus of the global non-Chinese car industry 1. Global carmakers retreat en masse from electric vehicle plans 😤 www.ft.com/content/1198... 101
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Either we define democratically the goals of industrial policy and reorienting our productive infrastructure or other, non-democratic, profit-driven forces will decide for us. 010
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Bei den einen gehts schneller, bei den anderen langsamer. Schnelle Annahme auf Konsumentenseite heißt nicht unbedingt, dass ein Land auch ein gro Produzent ist. Aber umgekehrt könnte es schwierig werden. 001
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Pretty visualisation tool for mobility shares - choose your city/country: vis.csh.ac.at/citiesmoving/ @olivier-rbxl.bsky.social 111
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Machinery already in deficit since 2015 apparently. The writing has been on the wall for quite a while. cepr.org/voxeu/column... 010
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 05/10/2025This is how the separation of powers works in Brussels: Just build two highways through the European Quarter right between Commission, Council and Parliament. 000
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Well, Europe is following the US loser path and the new German government seems very keen on keeping it like that. www.ft.com/content/f867... 154
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 04/07/2025German economic elites aligned quickly with the Nazi regime as shown by party membership: Between 1933 and 1938, 37% of CEOs and board members of large corporations became members of the NSDAP. That is *three times* as much as the population average. 120
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Great dataset showing international variety in EV expansion but also, and more importantly, its relative stagnation in most countries recently 000
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Great point here by Mark Schwartz on state capacity: it is not some abstract autonomous force from above but the networked state linked closely and ‘productively’ with the private sector. 010
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 11/04/2025“One issue is that cars foul the air regardless of the fuel they use.” 020
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Redirect EU FDI from the US to Canada and we’re good. CA natural resource clusters + EU net zero industry clusters = 🤌🤌🤌 001
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 05/04/2025The EU and Canada have more in common than you think 110
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 19/03/2025In the US, foreigners with visa and all are thrown into the Ice prison camp system and kept for weeks. Here one Canadian account, below one German. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... 100
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Same square - once in times of acute climate crisis, once during the 19th century 040
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Nicht so gut. (Quelle: www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...) Vor allem in Kombination hiermit: www.tagesschau.de/inland/regio... 141
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Germany‘s manufacturing crisis as clear as it can get: Industrial production and capacity use approaching pandemic nadir levels www.ft.com/content/be14... 1113
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Looks like a shift in the German growth model could finally be underway 020
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 15/11/2023Ein Bild, das alles aussagt über diese Koalition 0132
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 22/10/2023A conservative, i.e. stratified welfare state like the German one has the strategic purpose to break up the working class. (Schwartz, 2018, States vs Markets, p. 96) 020
Fabian Schmidt @fabschmidt.bsky.social · 18/10/2023Brussels-based political economy folks, join our new reading group! 131
![Responding to the court ruling, CHP Deputy Chairman Gokan Zeybek said "all decisions taken by courts acting on instructions [from the government] are null and void as far as we are concerned.
"Now we are going to Ankara. We are going to stand up for our headquarters, the headquarters entrusted to us by the nation, entrusted to us by the organisation," he said, according to Medyascope.
Kilicdaroglu, however, indicated his willingness to take up his former role again.
"May this decision be beneficial to Turkey and CHP," he told TGRT news.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:or5ytzldhrfqcz4veqsask4b/bafkreidrmngf4ik4sp4mwsadag6sovu6gpgz2ouscyseifqm56uyzgsrzy)
