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Tony Addison

@tonysangle.bsky.social

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Non-Resident Research Fellow & former Chief Economist UNU-WIDER Helsinki. 🇺🇳🇫🇮Former Professor of Economics, University of Copenhagen.🇩🇰Also Manchester & Warwick universities 🇬🇧 www.wider.unu.edu/expert/tony-addis…

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Tony Addison @tonysangle.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

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Tony Addison @tonysangle.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Must be a strange feeling when your net worth goes up and down by several hundred billion. Not sure I could live with the volatility. 🙄

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Tony Addison @tonysangle.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

EVs expected to be just 5% of US new vehicle market in coming years. Headline @financialtimes.com

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Tony Addison @tonysangle.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Despite the full or partial reversal of some tariffs (iPhones, bananas etc) the effective tariff rate is still way above its Jan 25 level, with US consumers & businesses bearing much of the higher cost (ie the tax) Graphic via @wsj.com

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Tony Addison @tonysangle.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Abhijit Banerjee ‘Social Protection for All’ @unu-wider.bsky.social Annual Lecture

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Tony Addison @tonysangle.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Start of @unu-wider.bsky.social conference "Safeguarding tomorrow - innovative approaches to growth and equity". Celebrating 40 years of impactful research 👍

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Tony Addison @tonysangle.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

🇺🇳🇫🇮... @unu-wider.bsky.social conference 2025 in Helsinki "Safeguarding tomorrow - innovative approaches to growth and equity". Celebrating 40 years of policy research 👍

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Tony Addison @tonysangle.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

🇬🇧 UK’s dismal trade performance. Martin Wolf in today’s FT 26.05.25👇

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Tony Addison @tonysangle.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

☃️"Six thousand inflatable snowmen and holiday figurines are sitting in .. a Guangdong factory with nowhere to go". (WSJ today) ☃️

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Tony Addison @tonysangle.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Gender gap persists in (🇬🇧British) economics education despite rise in its popularity at school & in university @financialtimes.com 👇

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Tony Addison @tonysangle.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

📉🛢️Brent is testing early 2020s lows: $58-59 a barrel (intraday), on global recession fears (& OPEC+ announced higher oil output). Such a sudden & large sell off is usually a good recession predictor📉 😨 Source: tradingeconomics.com/commodity/br...

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Tony Addison @tonysangle.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

No doubt the good citizens of the Heard & McDonald Islands are alarmed by the 10% US tariff on their exports👇 Current inhabitants; the southern elephant seals, Antarctic fur seals, Leopard seals 🦭🦭🦭 Humans: 0 (unless David Attenborough is visiting this week) 🤷🏻‍♂️ #Australia

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Tony Addison @tonysangle.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

My sentiment entirely 📚👍 (Outside a Helsinki bookshop)

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Tony Addison @tonysangle.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

👍Great UNUWIDER annual lecture by @gabrielzucman.bsky.social yesterday in Helsinki www.wider.unu.edu/event/billio...

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