Fiscal policy matters. Solid fundamentals in 🇵🇹 have meant a significant drop in the premium it pays to borrow versus 🇩🇪, even as its debt is rolling off the ECB's balance sheet at the fastest pace. 🇵🇹 is now borrowing for less than 🇫🇷 with its big deficits and political mess.

👀 Did someone cancel the great racial realignment? Black and Latino voters have been moving very strongly back to 2020 numbers.

OPINION: The West needs to provide its promised $50 billion from interest earned on frozen Russian assets to Ukraine. The bloc's inaction doesn't stand up to scrutiny — especially given its vital interest in ensuring Kyiv’s success. 🔗 trib.al/Au9LWSc

How the diploma divide transformed American politics New #ScienceOfPolitics podcast/transcript with my co-author David A. Hopkins on Polarized By Degrees niskanencenter.org/how-the-diplom…

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This article does a great job of describing my position on the cost of UBI and just as good a job describing the positions of people on the other side of the debate: "Is a Universal Basic Income System Even Possible?" By Lucas Ropek, in "Gizmodo." gizmodo.com/is-a-universal…

A assistir a um ex-barão da banca a fazer uma birra com uma administrativa do HCV… 🤷‍♀️

Tax Policy Center estimates show that excluding Social Security benefits from taxation would cause Medicare hospital insurance and Social Security to become insolvent faster, while benefitting few low-income households. tpc.io/4c8QKld

Not senile at all

Interesting piece by Ufuk Akcigit. The decline in public R&D spending may also have contributed to lower productivity growth, a point made by two really cool recent papers.

The US-China rivalry goes from supply chains to satellite networks to undersea cables. So each builds its own, which can mean…other countries have more choice? How market forces & non-aligned countries are trying to resist global economic fracture. Me: on.ft.com/3MyEuzZ

Oh look, the far-right talking heads who were taking Russian money were taking Hungarian money too

Handbook on the political economy of #SocialPolicy Bent Greve Amilcar Moreira Minna van Gerven @minnavangerven.bsky.social Elgar Publishing Thanks to SIIS

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Jenrick, favourite to win the leadership, supports Trump. Badenoch, second favourite, is a fan of Douglas Murray. The Tory Party has ditched Conservatism and become a far-right movement. This is a disaster for British democracy. My new column for MEE: middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-tor…

This is a banger of a JEL issue. I’m especially excited about Marianne Page’s review piece on how income affects children’s long run outcomes. Timely summary for upcoming discussions of expanding the Child Tax Credit.

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