retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 25/11/2025This is a terrible event and full respect to those who have prevented it disappearing under White Christian Nationalism. But another side of it should be celebrated, namely that it took only two generations after the 14th amendment for there to be Tulsa cum Black Wall Street to stir such violence. 010
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Im just going to say it. The new Ken Burns piece on the American War of Independence is interesting material well handled. But The soundtrack truly is a major advance in the treatment of insomnia. Those warm earnest tones all in one register. Patent it ! 020
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 18/11/2025The fault-line in Maga has opened …. between those riding it to pursue the billionaire interest vs those who really do want to drain the swamp. Interesting times. 040
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 28/10/2025It is professionally unacceptable to be this ignorant of a country on which you are imposing Conditionality. 020
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 22/10/2025The FT cannot get its head around the fact that their primary bond is that they are both White Christian Nationalists. Nothing “mesmeric”, “underhand”, ”spy thrilllerish” etc. about it. 031
Reposted by retepelyodretepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 21/10/2025IMF Disgrace: Senegal My assessment and recommendations. www.financialafrik.com/en/2025/10/2...financialafrik.comIMF Disgrace: SenegalPeter Doyle, American Economist, ex IMF Senior Staff When in Fall 2024, Ndongo Samba Sylla and I flagged the absurdity—given the longst 033
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 21/10/2025IMF Disgrace: Senegal My assessment and recommendations. www.financialafrik.com/en/2025/10/2...financialafrik.comIMF Disgrace: SenegalPeter Doyle, American Economist, ex IMF Senior Staff When in Fall 2024, Ndongo Samba Sylla and I flagged the absurdity—given the longst 033
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 20/10/2025So a Treasury Secretary who secured his post by saying absolutely anything finds, in the real world, that he has no credibility. Let us desperately hope there isn’t a major financial crisis in the US or elsewhere with non-credible him still in post. 011
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Shall I compare crowd sizes here and at the inauguration … ? (h/t) to Will Shakespeare 000
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Cannot help wondering it this latest outbreak of petulance is just because his much hyped 20-point nonsense on Gaza is already crumbling before everyone’s eyes, as Netanyahu humiliates him once more. 000
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Well the IMF says in its WEO today that the US trade-weighted tariff is 17.5 percent now. IMF numbers bouncing around … who knew ! 100
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 11/10/2025So the US has finally strong-armed Netanyahu into a ceasefire. Never mind for now good questions about durability etc. Just ask why it took Trump to force the issue with Netanyahu and why Biden was unwilling to do so ? 100
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 11/10/2025And, for the record, obviously what the UK needs to do to fix all of this is reverse its post 2009 productivity disaster. 000
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Yes, Andy off the rails. LR fiscal sustainability/credibility essential to allow ST discretion. But if there’s a problem, no need to fix it in one go—framework rightly allows action over time. But with UK near to full empl, and inflation a tad high, arguable case for some fiscal tightening now. 010
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 07/10/2025My view remains unchanged from immediately following Oct 7: 1. Absolute no to the actions of Hamas. 2. Absolute no to islamophobia anywhere anytime. 3. Absolute no to the actions of the Netanyahu government. 4. Absolute no to anti-semitism anywhere, anytime. All four, all together, always. 000
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 04/10/2025I hope the DEMS do not lose this in the din. If Trump can have Jan 6 ppls backs with pardons for doing the wrong thing, DEMS must have military backs with full restitution and honor for doing the right thing. 000
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Chair Powell did not want to see this in the data for August. 010
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 02/10/2025The DEMS should commit now that any US military who loses their job for refusing an order to fire on US citizens will have any lost pay and pension fully restored, along with a promotion and a newly minted medal honoring this specific valor, when the DEMS return to the White House. 063
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 02/10/2025CBAMs, as intellectually baseless as any tariff that Trump has come up with. 010
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 01/10/2025The IMF says the effective US tariff is 9 percent. Someone is wrong. 010
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Always interesting when “bullies” (to put it mildly) pronounce on what their victims “must” do. 000
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 30/09/2025This text is a complete joke. on.ft.com/4gJAJGaon.ft.comFull text of Donald Trump’s proposal to end the war in GazaThe White House published its plan ahead of a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 000
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Its ultimatum time: either you agree now that you will obey orders to attack US citizens, or you leave now. 000
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 27/09/2025“Im thinking about Argentine macro in the back of a noisy matatu” says one of my students. That may be the best place for it. (And if you don’t know what a matatu is, look it up) 110
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Its fine for them to point out that the independence of the Federal Reserve is a good thing. But this SCOTUS has already made clear it does not make rulings on the basis of whether something is good or not. 020
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Oh c’mon BlueSkyeisters … this is worth at least a chuckle … 010
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 25/09/2025So does Trump apply a “Bolsonaro” tariff to France now ? 010
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Something deeply cruel about a society which required two of my friends, who buried their father on Friday, to return to work today if they wanted to keep their jobs as teachers. 100
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 21/09/2025The earnest—and very female—face of White Christian Nationalism. 021
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Melania often dresses with meaning … so why today is she dressed like a lampshade ? 010
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Starmer needs this state visit right now like he needs a hole in his head. 071
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 14/09/2025No death should be celebrated. But there is no obligation to celebrate the preceding life either. 010
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 13/09/2025ICYMI youtu.be/gbljPQbxtTQyoutu.beNdlovu Youth Choir - Bohemian Rhapsody (Official Music Video) isiZulu versionYouTube video by Ndlovu Youth Choir 000
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Extremely dangerous moment … given how many on the right have been salivating for an excuse to go military/vigilante/both. 000
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 10/09/2025So the latest downward revisions to non-farm employment (over the past year) help to understand (confirm) the evidence from the trend decline in African American participation suggesting sustained weakening of the economy over that period (until August—the data on which I still do not understand). 000
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Its not that Djokevic and the rest trail the top two. Given Sinner’s serving woes in the US Open, Djokevic could well have beaten him had they been drawn in the same half. But neither of them can now touch Alcaraz. 000
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 07/09/2025The only subject Brits hated more than PE was religious studies. A nation of slobs … or is PE about humiliation? 000
retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 05/09/2025I was going to say I was reasonably sure the new “management” at BLS would not have had time yet to interfere with African American participation data … but the data for August are so odd … I have no idea (yet) what to make of them … and I aver the FOMC is similarly befuddled. 000