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simongrothe.bsky.social

@simongrothe.bsky.social

PhD @UNIGEnews investigating the macroeconomic implications of economic inequality | Learned my macro @LevyEcon | He/Him

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simongrothe.bsky.social @simongrothe.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Was für ein spannender, neuer Podcast von @sebfriedrich.bsky.social und @nschniederjann.bsky.social Nur am Ende biegt er falsch ab finde ich 1/9

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simongrothe.bsky.social @simongrothe.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Das @dezernatzukunft.bsky.social gründete sich in Kritik an "rechtlichen Verpflichtungen" durch die Schuldenbremse im GG. In ihrem neuen Fiscal Space Indikator, sind 3,5% Militärausgaben auf einmal "nicht disponibel". So schnell kann's gehen, liebes Dezernat für Aufrüstung

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simongrothe.bsky.social @simongrothe.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

while every economic recovery has become more profitable. That is the REAL problem of the U.S. economy but Trump’s agenda will increase these trends rather than curing them. 20/20

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simongrothe.bsky.social @simongrothe.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

At the same time, the all-time high of uncertainty indices is choking off the investment boom of the Biden administration 12/20

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simongrothe.bsky.social @simongrothe.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

...while maintaining and expanding the tax cuts for the rich under the Tax Cuts and Investment Act. Income gains for the rich and declines for the bottom 40% 11/20

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simongrothe.bsky.social @simongrothe.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

In the U.S., due to strong fiscal packages, unemployment was super low and real wages did increase. The strong U.S. recovery allowed for both: Increasing profit share in value added due to full pass-through AND increasing real wages. 9/20

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simongrothe.bsky.social @simongrothe.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Capitalists have a lower propensity to consume than workers which drags aggregate demand. Foreign price shocks hence have a contractionary macroeconomic effect 7/20

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simongrothe.bsky.social @simongrothe.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

There is also evidence for a behavioral interpretation according to which firms expanded profit margins in periods of supply chain disruptions, see acharya for Europe, and @franzfranzoni with a global dataset 4/20

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simongrothe.bsky.social @simongrothe.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

The Sellers’ Inflation Hypothesis by @weber stated that firms took the synchronized cost shocks of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine as an implicit coordination mechanism to increase prices and profitability 2/20

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simongrothe.bsky.social @simongrothe.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

At first glance, the Trump tariffs seem like the perfect setting for Sellers’ Inflation 2.0 – but two dynamics are fundamentally different, making the macroeconomic outcome… worse! New blog with @mnikiforos.bsky.social at @ineteconomics.bsky.social 1/20

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