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Nicolas Veron

@veron.bsky.social
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Senior Fellow at Bruegel and at the Peterson Institute for International Economics

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 11h
The guys who name everything after LOTR stuff might try reading it. “Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h
Q: You said Russia and Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire, but both sides said they have not agreed to that TRUMP: Well they agreed, you know why? Because I said 'you agree.' That's why.
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
British Conservatives: "Russia has disgracefully interfered in politics in France, Germany, Sweden, Hungary, Moldova, Romania and invaded Ukraine. They even meddled in the US elections." Also British Conservatives: "What? Russia! Interfere in Brexit? Ridiculous! Just a tired old conspiracy theory."
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Gen Keith Kellogg, Trump's original Ukraine envoy (the appointment was vetoed by Putin) says that Ukraine should ignore Trump's request and continue its bombardment of Russian refineries, pipelines and storage facilities.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 11/10/2026
Ah, AI debt binge, we barely knew ye - www.ft.com/content/9c13...
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AI borrowing slows as investors grow wary of debt binge
Appetite for financing infrastructure boom is tested after months of record-breaking bond issuance
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Good to see Donald buy Russian diesel instead of Canadian. I know its right on USA border but they sell imperialist, woke diesel that makes your truck gay.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Six months ago:
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DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
WASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo...
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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Donald Trump's Russian diesel "deal" has little to do with actual diesel or actual US market. The point of this brilliant Kremlin op is to use the WH as a disinfo tool for vilifying Ukraine: by falsely portraying Ukrainian long-range counterstrikes on Russia as "harmful" for the United States.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump announces that the U.S. will buy Russian oil. This is just a few weeks after Trump signed the Lindsey Graham Russia Sanctions bill, which authorized him to place 100% tariffs on countries that are the biggest importers of Russian oil/gas. Are we going to tariff ourselves now?
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Res ipsa loquitur
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Trump: "We demand that Christopher Columbus be put back into the heart of Columbus, Ohio. We want it back. I see my Italian lawyer over here. We gonna win the case? The monument! We're building a military complex, uh, it's a arch. A triumphal arch."
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 09/10/2026
President Trump bought between $1 million and $5 million in debt issued by SpaceX just days before the White House announced a new space-travel policy, the president’s latest financial disclosure form shows.
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Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 08/10/2026
But state ownership of the means of production doesn't qualify apparently.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 07/10/2026
"I am the house now"
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
1/ A reported plague case in Irkutsk has benefited one group in Russia: sellers of plague doctor masks, who are reporting a 500% increase in sales. With the Russian government still tight-lipped about the case, plague doctor videos are the latest craze on Russian social media. ⬇️
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Trump era, in a perfect nutshell.👇
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 01/10/2026
The European energy and industrial system is transforming at breakneck speed. Explained by Bruegel Affiliate Fellow @bmcwilliams.bsky.social in our European Clean Atlas video series.
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Bruegel's Ben McWilliams shares the good news about Europe’s energy transition
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Henry Foy @henryjfoy.ft.com · 01/10/2026
Donald Trump and US Big Tech CEOs like to dismiss Brussels as a useless, irrelevant & incompetent regulator But, as @lauramdubois.ft.com reveals in this brilliant investigation, Americans are spending far more time & money lobbying EU institutions than European rivals... as.ft.com/r/ce01e257-7...
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Big Tech out-lobbies European companies in Brussels
US corporations including Google, Apple and Amazon use their influence to push back against EU digital bloc rules
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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The whole video is like 0.01% of a VLCC its crazy
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brianmoore2.bsky.social @brianmoore2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We must never let him forget this
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 25/09/2026
🏦 Priorities and trade-offs for the next round of EU banking reform 🔃 📅 13 October 2026 | 13:00-14:30 CET @rebeccawire.bsky.social discusses EU banking reform with Paulina Dejmek Hack (@ec.europa.eu, DG FISMA), Marloes van Schaik (DNB) and @veron.bsky.social. 🔗Register: buff.ly/WYkC6DQ
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
Hannity's list of "TRUMP'S TOP ACCOMPLISHMENTS" includes restoring Confederate names to military bases and releasing dietary guidelines
cap from Hannity
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
During the night Russian attack on Kyiv, a Russian Kinzhal missile hit a yard right between parked cars, but failed to explode.
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Nils Markwardt @fjmurau.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"In Chelyabinsk a candidate was disqualified for quoting Andrei Gromyko, a Soviet foreign minister: 'Better ten years of negotiations than one day of war.'" economist.com/europe/2026/...
economist.com
Russia’s sham election is descending into farce
The parliamentary vote may be followed by a bigger mobilisation for war
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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If Putin accepts, every European leader (at least) should boycott the event. The G20 no longer serves the useful purpose it had during the global financial crisis, when it was founded, so nothing that matters will be lost by not being there.
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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 23/09/2026
Yesterday, Russia used FAB-250 aerial bombs to destroy the Church of St. John the Baptist in Kramatorsk. This is what the Kremlin considers to be a ‘legitimate military target’.
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Somewhere out there is a Danish staffer who should never again have to buy his own drinks 
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 22/09/2026
📊Finance Focus: Will new live market data publication change Europe’s capital markets? 🗓️9 October 2026 | 15:00-16:00 [ONLINE ONLY] @veron.bsky.social and Eglantine Desautel (CEO, EuroCTP) discuss the lessons and next steps of new live market data accessibility #EconSky 🔗Register: buff.ly/LhE7xFk
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Embajada Soviética 🇦🇷 Soviet Embassy @sovietembassyar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Written agreements between the USSR and other countries cease to exist when the other country ceases to exist. Conversely, verbal promises between the USSR and another country are binding on the other country if the USSR ceases to exist.
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Disco Central Banker @centralbanker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Saudi Arabia quits Mbridge
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Saudi Arabia quits China-led cross-border currency platform
Kingdom’s central bank withdrew last year from programme which is part of Beijing’s effort to develop an alternative system to the dollar
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 19/09/2026
🏛️Finance Focus: How will future banking crises be handled in the euro area? In case you missed it, rewatch @veron.bsky.social and Tuija Taos (Board Member, Single Resolution Board) discuss existing banking crisis response frameworks and EU banking union #EconSky 📽️ Rewatch: buff.ly/NE12HXc
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How will future banking crises be handled in the euro area?
Rewatch this event of the Finance Focus series with Nicolas Veron and Tuija Taos
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Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump plans to greet Xi Jinping as he gets off his plane next week. He has only done this for one other leader in his second term. Three guesses who that was.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
Trump: "That war? That war is gonna end very soon. Watch. You just watch. Trump was right about everything. You watch. They're getting decimated. And they want to make a deal so badly. They call. 'We want to make a deal!'" (Note the total silence from the crowd)
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Found this account that posts webcam footage from around Taiwan. This is the first light over Taiwan on the day it has been a democracy longer than a dictatorship.
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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I would love to know the inside story of why France is pushing to remove Alisher Usmanov, an Uzbek-born oligarch close to the Kremlin, off EU sanctions list. It must take a *tremendous* amount of lobbying heft to convince French authorities to be the only ones (with Slovakia) to push for this.
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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Trump becomes the first orange man to support a united Ireland
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Shah-i-Zinda necropolis, Samarkand. One of the most astonishing places I’ve ever seen.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 11/09/2026
“If markets perceive that the BoJ is moving because the US is instructing it to move, that’s quite bad for the BoJ’s credibility.” The House is big in Japan and Japan is not necessarily thrilled. www.ft.com/content/f7ca...
ft.com
Scott Bessent’s intervention risks damaging BoJ’s credibility, bankers warn
US Treasury secretary’s claims of insider knowledge could erode market perceptions of Japanese central bank’s independence
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As if it isnt already
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
3 years ago you were told "another red line" was crossed. Which makes you wonder if Quincey understand what a "red line" actually is. Have you noticed nothing we do ever "ups the ante"?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
#TerminalBros 👨🏻
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 09/09/2026
Even the crickets were embarrassed.
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ukraine is part of the West, Sergei old son And you made that happen
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Nicolas Veron @veron.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Great job everybody
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 09/09/2026
new quote of the year just dropped as.ft.com/r/e566e72d-5...
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‘I am the house now’: Bessent warns currency traders not to bet against yen
Comments follow July’s rare joint intervention with Tokyo to support Japanese currency
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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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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
At least one of the rocks brought home by Apollo astronauts from the moon was ... originally from Earth, and probably was blasted off of Earth by an impact several million years ago
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Nicolas Veron @veron.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Extraordinary thread of fun facts for the nerds
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