@tonysangle
Non-Resident Research Fellow & former Chief Economist UNU-WIDER Helsinki. 🇺🇳🇫🇮Former Professor of Economics, University of Copenhagen.🇩🇰Also Manchester & Warwick universities 🇬🇧 https://www.wider.unu.edu/expert/tony-addison-0
Russia February PMIs
Manufacturing 49.5 (was 49.4)
Services 51.3 (53.1)
Composite output index 50.8 (52.1)
The burst of service activity is now disappearing? Manufacturing has been in contraction territory for an year.
A favorite economist of mine sounding like a favorite climate activist @billmckibben.bsky.social paulkrugman.substack.com/p/renewable-...
Yup, though many poorer countries are locked into fossil fuels, while having tremendous renewables potential. For more: our @unu-wider.bsky.social open access book global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Great piece on Trump’s tariffs after the Supreme Court ruling by @pkrugman.bsky.social 👍
🙄
🙄🇺🇸
🇬🇧Brexit👇
🙄
Many pitfalls in processing: success stories but also many failures. Discussed in our (open access) @unu-wider.bsky.social OUP book 👇 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
🇬🇧Brexit👇
So, maybe 400k Russians killed. About 650k have moved aboard during the past four years. Inward migration lower than before. (End-2025 ~4m legal migrant workers, 2015 it was 7m.)🇷🇺
Total labor force ~76m.
How Russia’s fatalities compare with Ukraine’s
economist.com/graphic-deta...
Great piece on Trump’s tariffs after the Supreme Court ruling by @pkrugman.bsky.social 👍
🧀🇺🇸🇪🇺
“US importers already paid 15% tariffs on Parmesan & Camembert cheese before last year’s trade deal. Under the trade deal, cheese was capped at 15%. But now, the existing rate will be added to the new 15% levy, making for a tariff of nearly 30%” 🙄👇
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/w...
Recommended 👍
”Govt. lawyers wrote in court filings last summer that plaintiffs whose cases went to the Supreme Court “will assuredly receive payment on their refund with interest” if they won .. trade lawyers said judges are likely to hold the administration to those promises”👇
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
I feel your pain.
Yet having taught international trade economics 30+ years ago, I feel a spring in my step. 😊
”Govt. lawyers wrote in court filings last summer that plaintiffs whose cases went to the Supreme Court “will assuredly receive payment on their refund with interest” if they won .. trade lawyers said judges are likely to hold the administration to those promises”👇
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Recommended 👍
Yes, hard to say which, but percentage estimates probably available. 🤔
🧀🇺🇸🇪🇺
“US importers already paid 15% tariffs on Parmesan & Camembert cheese before last year’s trade deal. Under the trade deal, cheese was capped at 15%. But now, the existing rate will be added to the new 15% levy, making for a tariff of nearly 30%” 🙄👇
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/w...
After the Supreme Court judgement, Trump’s tariffs face stronger headwinds. Not least, the impact on consumer prices, with affordability a top voter concern ahead of the November mid-terms. 👇🇺🇸
One reason why damage to emerging economies like Vietnam from Trump’s tariffs has been less than feared on ‘Liberation Day’ 2025.
🇺🇸How the Supreme Court decision against Trump’s IEEPA tariffs is going down with the US public (60% like the court’s decision)👇
One reason why damage to emerging economies like Vietnam from Trump’s tariffs has been less than feared on ‘Liberation Day’ 2025.
After the Supreme Court judgement, Trump’s tariffs face stronger headwinds. Not least, the impact on consumer prices, with affordability a top voter concern ahead of the November mid-terms. 👇🇺🇸
‘Liberation Day’ tariffs threw a lot of sand in the trade engine but didn’t dent the size of the overall trade deficit.
This study is essential reading on tariffs as Trump maneuvers after the Supreme Court ruling against the Liberation Day tariffs. Those on autos, aluminum, steel etc remain as enacted via a different route 👇
After the Supreme Court decision, what next? Trump will use other legal routes (10% global tariff under Section 122 authority he just announced) but the underlying macroeconomics will keep the trade deficit growing.
After the Supreme Court decision, what next? Trump will use other legal routes (10% global tariff under Section 122 authority he just announced) but the underlying macroeconomics will keep the trade deficit growing.
This study is essential reading on tariffs as Trump maneuvers after the Supreme Court ruling against the Liberation Day tariffs. Those on autos, aluminum, steel etc remain as enacted via a different route 👇