lex hoogduin
@lexhoogduin
Monetary economist/complexity and uncertainty/ FAUC /Operational resilience/"wicked" problems/risk management/ Mises instituut NL
“Welcome to 2025, where the ICJ has just handed down an “advisory opinion” so ambitious, sanctimonious, and scientifically shallow that it reads less like a court ruling and more like the script for a very, very earnest United Nations bake sale” wattsupwiththat.com/2025/07/24/cli…
IMF SPOKESPERSON: ARGENTINA HAS RE-ACCESSED INT'L CAPITAL MARKETS EARLIER THAN ANTICIPATED "The program has been off to a strong start. Underpinned by the continued implementation of tight macroeconomic policies, including a strong fiscal anchor and a tight monetary policy…
BREAKING🔴 IMF SAYS "YES" TO ARGENTINA's NEW PROGRAM After a 75-minute meeting in Washington with President Javier Milei, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva praised Argentina's significant economic progress, noting that improvement in poverty reduction and growth…
“Trump wants a deal, and China is willing to play ball.” WSJ Looks like Trump is going to settle for a bunch of new purchases, and a trumped up investment deal (which has ALWAYS been on other) that inflates the already inflated investment deal numbers 1/
Als je 10 jaar geleden in lange Britse staatsobligaties had belegd had je nu 40% van je waarde in rook zien opgaan. Dit is inclusief ontvangen rente en in euro's.
1/9 This $400 billion investment fund deal with Japan may indeed be "unprecedented", but its hard to see how it helps to address any of the reasons for the US trade imbalances. nytimes.com/2025/07/23/bus…
IFO: Frühindikatoren wie das Ifo-Geschäftsklima schleppen sich seit einigen Monaten nach oben. Für 2026 erwarte ich nur deshalb ein starkes Wirtschaftswachstum von 1,4 %, weil die Bundesregierung viel Geld ausgibt.
How did euro area bank lending and money supply evolve in June? How do they compare with May’s figures? Find out more in the press release europa.eu/!vPpJFF
Tariffs and protectionism will likely dampen demand, according to our Survey of Professional Forecasters. This is expected to slow euro area growth and, to a lesser extent, inflation, particularly in 2025 and 2026.
'Stikstofregels zitten ook uitbreiding van stroomnet Enexis vaker in de weg' fd.nl/bedrijfsleven/…
Amsterdam “investeert” voor ruim €500 miljoen in inefficiënte afvalverwerking. Mislukte verkoop afvalbedrijf AEB kost Amsterdam honderden miljoenen' fd.nl/bedrijfsleven/…
TE MOSTRAMOS COMO DEBE SER LA RECETA MEDICA PARA QUE PUEDAS ELEGIR EN LIBERTAD. Una de las cosas más importantes que está haciendo el Ministro de Salud @Mariolugones_ar es darle más transparencia al mercado de medicamentos. Para ello ha listado los costos de medicamentos online,…
NO APTO PARA MANDRILES El personal técnico del FMI y las autoridades argentinas llegan a un acuerdo sobre la primera revisión en el marco del Servicio Ampliado del Fondo imf.org/es/News/Articl…
Your difficulty here (assuming the entire epistemic problem away, for charities sake) is that a one day planning period is hardly sufficient, and cannot particularly allow for any dynamic changes at the present moment. You have to allow for sufficiently long…
bro did not read the paper he linked in the comments. economic libertarianism is nonsense. central planning is possible. using ~60,000 goods and 8.2 billion consumers, planning could take as little as a day. it’s easy to read!
Energiearmoede in 2024 gestegen naar 6,1 procent | CBS cbs.nl/item?sc_itemid…
Trump: We have to get housing prices down, and interest rates down.
WARNING: World debt has now officially crossed $300 trillion And still continues to climb aggressively This is not looking good…
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump and Fed Chair Jerome Powell are ARGUING over the cost of the Fed renovations...LMAO. Within SECONDS of getting up to the cameras, Trump said, the cost rose to $3.1B. TRUMP: "It went up a lot." POWELL: Shakes head TRUMP: "It's now 3.1. It just came…
🚨 PRESIDENT TRUMP TO JEROME POWELL: "I'd LOVE him to lower interest rates. *Pats on the back*" You can tell this is a surreal moment for Too Late Powell 😂
"[Austrian economists] never identify [malinvestments] before the downturn." Neither, of course, do investors themselves! The _whole point_ of the theory is that no-one can tell where funds are being malinvested 'til the crash because easy money is distorting relative prices! 1/2
Austrian economists, pointing to “malinvestments” after a recession. Yet, they never identify them before the downturn. Aka retrospective prediction: fails both the prediction test and the falsification test.
Energiearmoede steeg vorig jaar fors door stopzetten steunmaatregelen /via @NOS nos.nl/l/2576306
