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Pierce O’Reilly

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Economist. Irish. Head of the Business and International Taxes Unit, Tax Policy Division, OECD. Views own, etc. Reposts are bookmarks

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Paul Lehmann @plehmann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Caution, roof-top solar is contagious! Peer solar photovoltaic adoption increases household electricity conservation efforts as well as the uptake of solar PV and electric vehicles. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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International Tax Observatory @taxobservatory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
1/4 What can Country-by-Country Reporting (#CbCR) tell us about multinational companies? 🔎 A lot. But there’s a catch: before firm-level CbCR data can be used for research or tax analysis, it needs to be carefully cleaned. 📄 New research note: taxobservatory.world/publication/...
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Over 200 democracy scholars call on Congress to end single-member Congressional districts and adopt proportional representation
More than 200 political scientists, legal scholars, and historians released an open letter calling on Congress to reject the United States’ winner-take-all elections.
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 29/09/2026
Nice words from the Taoiseach for our departing colleague, the incomparable and irreplaceable Miriam Lord, who’s on the Press Gallery for the last time today 👏🏻
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 25/09/2026
This single image comes closer to explaining the state of the parties in Irish politics than anything I’ve ever seen
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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 24/09/2026
Please excuse me while I scream into a cushion at the thought of ALL the articles I had to write on the "UK productivity puzzle" in the 2010s www.ft.com/content/c819...
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Lucy Fisher @lucyfisher.ft.com · 09/09/2026
EXC: Anthropic declined to submit its latest model to Britain’s AI Security Institute for testing before release, the first time a major model withheld from AISI Move has prompted fears in UK govt that tech firms are falling into line with Trump admin’s AI protectionism www.ft.com/content/560e...
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Anthropic withheld latest AI model from UK testing agency
Decision to exclude Aisi has prompted fears inside British government of protectionist shift among tech groups
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 09/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: An AI researcher who worked at Anthropic — and previously OpenAI — has resigned, saying both tech giants are "gambling with our lives." Full story: politico.eu/article/anth...
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Håkon Nordhagen @hakonnordhagen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
«students who do not use AI outperform those who do, on average, by around 20 points – equivalent to being around one year of schooling ahead of their peers.» Trippelwhammen Tiktok 2018, Covid i 2020, kronet med ChatGPT i 2022 har gjort underverker for kidsa våre. www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
OPEN AI CHIEF SCIENTIST: “This is a time that calls for extreme caution... models are becoming superhuman in their ability to break in and out of computer systems no one is prepared.. The risk...are unfortunately going to grow from here.” => US-China AI safety talks openai.com/index/an-ali...
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's always the way, isn't it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Graph shows far right support higher where the number of foreign nationals is lowest
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 09/09/2026
The European Union and Canada are working toward a new, all-encompassing relationship that will range from trade to security.
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Canada and Europe Plan Far-Reaching Relationship
Get caught up.
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 08/09/2026
Aaargh we can't even read any more as.ft.com/r/4b1e1216-a...
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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Devastating headline (amidst politics as usual) Battle to halt global heating at 1.5 degrees is lost – UN www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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Battle to halt global heating at 1.5 degrees is lost – UN
Focus must now switch to limiting extent of overshoot, says United Nations' climate report
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Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Sam muscling into my patch. I may have to start writing about council elections in response.
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Anna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
*When unions increase wages, who pays?* It's normally hard to answer this Q: unions don't behave randomly, they respond to firm conditions, & firm data is hard to get. Our setting in Norway tackles both... 🧵on our paper (@microsamonomics.bsky.social Alex Willen) academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
dudes be loving stories about assembling a crew of guys to do a thing.
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Casey Michel @cjcmichel.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The Trump administration just made it official: it's demolishing the US's shell company registry, and destroying all of the data it already collected. A disaster for US anti-corruption efforts.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
all that AND soaring electricity prices? insideclimatenews.org/news/0908202...
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As US Offshore Wind Disappears, a Generation of Workers Is Left Behind - Inside Climate News
Building trades spent the past five years preparing for an offshore wind boom that went bust. Now, U.S. workers mourn the well-paying careers they don’t see coming back.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10/08/2026
thinking about what one trillion dollars of investment in clean energy would look like and getting so mad i need to lie down with the lights off
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 10/08/2026
Private credit is now a more-than-$1 trillion shadow-banking market tied to banks, companies, pension funds, and everyday investors. But if things go more wrong, that could also impact workers through fewer jobs and lower wages. Learn more from @bradlipton.bsky.social and @grahamsteele.bsky.social:
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What’s Going on with Private Credit? (with Graham Steele)
In this blog post, we discuss how private credit fits into the larger landscape of the financial system and what is at stake for American families and the economy.
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 10/08/2026
Private credit is under growing strain, even as firms insist their portfolios remain healthy. Defaults at major funds are at 5-year highs, and more borrowers are landing on watchlists. If conditions worsen, the fallout won’t be contained to just Wall Street.
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Private Credit Is Under Growing Strain, Despite Industry’s Upbeat Tone
Default rates are hitting recent highs, and internal reviews of loan health point to tougher times ahead, a WSJ analysis shows.
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UNU-WIDER @unu-wider.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Multinational investment is pushing up wages by 2.9% at domestic manufacturers competing for skilled workers, with barely any productivity gain. In this blog, Talent Nesongano looks at why the answer isn't just attracting more foreign investment. 🔗https://go.unu.edu/3mtcl
SA-TIED inforgaphic that reads "How does multinational competition affect South African manufacturers? Competition for scarce skills intensifies, domestic wages rise, output by worker barely changes, workers gain bargaining power, profit margins come under pressure, automation can ease the pressure"
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/08/2026
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
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Shazzy @shazbear.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Courtesy of "The Sunday Game" on RTÉ2, the final seconds of the All Ireland final. #SpéirGorm #Mayo #AllIreland #SamMaguire
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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 27/07/2026
Updated estimates from @gabrielzucman.bsky.social & co. (through 2023) suggest global profit shifting has continued to decline during the last decade of significant global tax reforms: gabriel-zucman.eu/files/GWZ202...
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Look the way she translates the opening versus other versions. It's incredible.
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Pierce O’Reilly @pierceoreilly.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Presenting in two hours or so on the impact of the Global Minimum Tax - in case anyone wants to tune in - summary thread to follow most likely www.oecd.org/en/events/20...
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Economic Impact Assessment of the Global Minimum Tax, 2026
The Global Minimum Tax (GMT) plays a central role in strengthening international tax co-operation and enhancing stability in the international tax system. In this webinar, the OECD will present the la...
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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Useful survey paper on recent research in geoeconomics with a focus on geoeconomic aspects of sanctions/embargoes, coercion and fragmentation in international trade, currency dominance and state-directed capital flows in international finance, and conflict/war/military production.
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European Central Bank @ecb.europa.eu · 03/07/2026
Tune in: Chief Economist Philip R. Lane joins Gita Gopinath and Tim Phillips on the @cepr.org VoxTalks podcast. They discuss global imbalances, AI, bond markets, European fiscal sustainability and the challenges of non-bank data gaps cepr.org/multimedia/a... @voxeu.org
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
NEW from me: Americans are set to lose nearly $250B gambling this year—a record high, up more than 60% since 2019—and that's before counting unofficial betting via prediction markets or crypto Can anything stop America's gambling boom? 🧵
a graph of US gambling losses
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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · 29/06/2026
New @alphaville.ft.com post by @ryanavent.bsky.social, who wades into the AI jobpocalypse debate... www.ft.com/content/daab...
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Mike Murphy @mjamurphy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Cooling policies are health policies are economic policies
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David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Helene Rey's recipe for global prosperity: China rebalancing towards consumption, Europe lifting productive investment and America repairing its public finances www.ft.com/content/0e78...
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Ember @ember-energy.org · 15/06/2026
Clean power OVERTOOK fossil generation in G7 countries last year. Renewables alone generated almost as much electricity as gas, pushing total clean power sources past fossil in 2025. ember-energy.org/lat...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/06/2026
genuinely inspiring.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...
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UNU-WIDER @unu-wider.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Tax data can do more than track revenue—it can shape better policy. In South Africa, Uganda, and Zambia, governments are using administrative tax data to uncover compliance gaps, redesign incentives, and inform budgets. The data already exists. The key is using it. Read more: go.unu.edu/cO4d1
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Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 10/06/2026
One way of measuring UK productivity shows a remarkable upturn since Labour came to office.... ... so is the UK witnessing a productivity revival? www.ft.com/content/161a...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/06/2026
Marcella Hazan’s bolognese has been called “the gold standard” and has more than 25,000 5-star reviews. Try it and see for yourself. nyti.ms/43X2Mwl
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Bolognese Sauce Recipe • 5★
After the death in 2013 of Marcella Hazan, the cookbook author who changed the way Americans cook Italian food, The Times asked readers which of her recipes had become staples in their kitchens. Many people answered with one word: “Bolognese.
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jacktshaw.bsky.social @jacktshaw.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Lots in this new report from the OECD on the role of civic pride in place-based regeneration – and good to see the Bennett School report Owen Garling, Mike Kenny and I wrote a few years ago get cited: www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
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Local Identity, Pride and Branding in Place Transformation
A place’s economic future is shaped not only by its industries, infrastructure and institutions, but also by its identity: how people perceive it, talk about it and imagine what it can become. The sto...
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Matt Collin @mattcollin.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
terrific new research Terrific in quality not just because it reinforces my priors cepr.org/voxeu/column...
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Nils Redeker @nilsredeker.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Fantastic new OECD data comparing international subsidies in key sectors. "For Chinese firms, almost 60% of their global market share gains can be explained by the subsidies received." Worth keeping in mind when people insist Europe’s competitiveness problem is mainly about overregulation.
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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Telling Labour to abandon net zero implies that trying to stop climate change is something governments are just doing for fun
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 26/05/2026
Today is now the hottest day in May on record with Heathrow and Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 35°C Until yesterday the highest temperature in May was 32.8 °C, but we've now exceeded that record on consecutive days by a full two degrees Celsius 🌡️
A map of the UK showing the new May record with Heathrow and Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 35.0°C.
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MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 25/05/2026
34.8ºC at Kew Gardens breaks its May AND June records by OVER 4ºC for its May record set in 1922 and by 0.2ºC for its June record set in 1976. Unprecedented heat for the UK in late May, and likely to be bettered tomorrow. A rounded 35ºC temperature should not happen in May.
Spaghetti plot showing Kew and Kew Gardens temperatures since 1881 with May and June records highlighted at 30.3ºC in 1922 and 34.6ºC in 1976 respectively. 2026 is plotted as a thick red line that nearly exceeds 35ºC with a value of 34.8ºC.
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UNU-WIDER @unu-wider.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
UNU-WIDER releases updated #SOUTHMOD bundle: ✅ Coverage extended to 2025 ✅ New Egypt model (EGYMOD) ✅ Stronger tools for tax–benefit analysis Free for non-commercial research on poverty, inequality & social protection 🔗 go.unu.edu/ZRZzK
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Stunned, appalled, shocked etc to see actual tax reform from a politician. This from Wes Streeting today. A thread on why capital gains tax is broken. It's too low AND too high. & why this is a good proposal.
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