Soumaya Keynes
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Just published a new song (by me)...
Video made using Kaiber.
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Hi
@Reuters
Some people could see this without realising that (as stated in the article) the volunteer took the placebo.
They therefore might decide not to take a safe vaccine.
They could die as a consequence.
Please. Don't.
AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine trial Brazil volunteer dies, trial to continue
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Expensive childcare in Britain is pulling mothers out of work.
My piece this week for
@TheEconomist
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have any officials considered going on reddit and trying to drum up support for GBP as a memestock?
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** SOME PROFESSIONAL NEWS **
On Saturday May 15th I will be saying goodbye to Washington DC and returning home to London
On Monday May 17th I will be saying HELLO to my new role as European economics editor*
*correspondent, really.
@chrislockwd
and
@r_shanbhogue
will edit me
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having just spent several minutes literally crying with laughter at the posts on this twitter account, I wish you a good evening
now I must start the cat training regime
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Do you think...
...there might be...
...too many...
...Webinars?
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Ehem. I have left twitter because I find it makes me unhappy and destroys my ability to concentrate. But I'm back (briefly) to promote a piece I wrote this week on women and econ. A year ago, I wrote this, which explores the problem of economics and women
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Some personal news:
Some parental news… late on Friday, Caspar Cecil Keynes-Allies arrived. He and his quite extraordinary mum are now safely at home. Looking forward to starting my embarrassing dad era.
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** SOME EXCITING NEWS **
After almost eight wonderful years at The Economist, in July I’m moving on to join the
@FT
as an economics columnist and podcaster.
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There aren't very many women in economics, and it's a problem. But WHOSE problem? Here's a thing I wrote...
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🧵 THREAD 🧵
The economist Robert Solow passed away a couple of weeks ago. So for my column this week I decided to write about... unconditional convergence. The idea that poor countries grow faster than rich ones. Does it happen in the real world?
😬
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Macroeconomists, meet Hank: how new models are changing the discipline
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** JOB ANNOUNCEMENT **
In addition to trade, I'm going to start covering the US economy for The Economist (official job title: US economics editor) and will soon be moving to DC.
** REQUEST FOR RECOMMENDATIONS **
If you were me, what would you be reading/listening to right now?
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I have a feeling the quality of the economic policy debate over the coming weeks is going to make me feel very sad
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How has Ikea managed to trick me into thinking my comparative advantage is furniture assembly
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SOME NEWS...
Britain economics coverage at the Economist will be in the more than capable hands of
@SoumayaKeynes
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A thought, which is that Trump seems to think that the Chinese are paying the tariffs because the yuan has depreciated.
You can
(a) claim that tariffs don't hurt because of currency devaluations
OR
(b) complain that currency devaluations are unfair
But probably not BOTH
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My special report on the new order of trade argues that trade policy is decreasingly driven by the simple goal of boosting trade/growth and encouraging efficiency. Now other objectives are becoming more important. (1/n)
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My latest column for the
@FT
is about a type of model that is infiltrating central banks around the world
Researchers in the Fed, the ECB and the BoE are working to incorporate inequality into models of how the economy works
Let me introduce you to HANK
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It's been a sad week. My piece on Emmanuel Farhi here:
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How important is the $ for global trade?
My briefing on the topic, feat. Linda Goldberg, Cedric Tille,
@GitaGopinath
, Emine Boz and Mikkel Plagborg-Muller, Valentina Bruno and
@HyunSongShin
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AMERICA ALL IS FORGIVEN I HAVE DISCOVERED TRADER JOE’S
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Women have become more liberal over the past decade. Men... not so much.
Great piece by
@jburnmurdoch
, feat.
@_alice_evans
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just going to put it out there that when I started covering trade I was told it would be a boring beat and now I cover the British economy.
am i a curse or
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Is this the "DON'T YOU DARE NEGOTIATE AN FTA WITH CHINA" clause?
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America
CONS: weirdly expensive vegetables, being away from husband/other loved ones, OH MY LORD THE HUMIDITY, guys have you seen your healthcare system, suspicion that at some point I will get shot
PROS: peanut butter cup icecream
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cutting trade analysis from my husband
@PatrickAllies
:
Britain trying to join the CPTPP is like falling out with your mate from school and then saying "it's alright I'll be friends with Steve from New Zealand on Facebook instead"
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Do you like writing? Do you like economics? Are you a bit of a nerd? Do you want to be my colleague?
WELL.
There's a job opening in
@TheEconomist
's economics team to cover the European economy...
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SOME NEWS: on Friday our family expanded to include these two little lads
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I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, desperately trying to shake the vast majority of academia out of an equilibrium in which awful writing is seen as a marker of seriousness
Is better writing rewarded in peer review?
Our newly published suggests the answer is “Yes”!
#EconTwitter
🧵 1/7
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economist in the future, using the Suez boat disruption as an exogenous shock -
I see you.
That is all.
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How economists could make themselves more useful
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Hello America in general I feel like you have a lot of room for improvement but I tried deep dish pizza for the first time this weekend and there you have done well.
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*** BREAKING NEWS ***
My editors have agreed that we can stop hyphenating the Free-Trade in the North American Free Trade Agreement
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Me: be cool be cool
Also me: MY PODCAST IS ON THIS LIST
😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
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My latest on the status of women in the economics profession is here -
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For my birthday this year I would like the opportunity to write a story about trade that lasts more than 7 hours after it is published.
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Does monetary policy leave economic scars?
=> New research suggests *yes*
Should monetary policymakers do anything about it right now?
=> Probably *not*
Other policymakers should be paying attention though!
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This week I wrote about diversity in economics... We're five years on from the first climate survey. I wanted to know what all the efforts to improve the culture within the field had achieved... 🧵 (1/n)
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11 male experts... really?
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Want to spend three months writing about economics for
@TheEconomist
in London?
THIS IS HOW =>
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Today is an exciting day for international macro! The world gets to see an
@IMFNews
discussion note, a new working paper, a blog AND a new dataset all on the topic of dominant currency pricing
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Can tweets be presented as evidence at the WTO? Asking for a friend
This is pretty wild. Trump is saying that his steel and aluminum tariffs, which are officially being imposed on "national security" grounds, are actually a response to Canada's milk protectionism.
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Global food prices have tumbled, but it will take time for consumers to see the benefits.
"Wheat and other cereal prices have returned to their pre-invasion levels when priced in dollars, but not in many other currencies."
by
@Birdyword
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So... I wrote another song!
Dedicated to all the trade nerds among you.
And you'll be relieved to hear that I don't dance in the video for this one...
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A friendly reminder that Trump's threat to put tariffs on cars/car parts is of a different order of magnitude to his other actions/threats.
(Since the chart was published the "threatened" categories on steel and aluminium became "imposed".)
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Hello! I wrote a piece in
@TheEconomist
about pre-docs and there was MUCH more than I could fit in the piece
(if only the ratio of interview notes to words in the piece was a thing...)
I'm going to attempt a mega-thread over several days.
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Hello! I wrote a thing about that tiny topic that is the future of world trade...
featuring
@kevinhorourke
,
@kdziczek
,
@jacob___parker
, Mike Jette of
@GEP_Worldwide
, Pierre Sauvé of
@WorldBank
, Bernard Hoekman of
@EuropeanUni
and
@BaldwinRE
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New book from shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves lifts from Wikipedia
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When
- the plane passengers applaud the pilot upon landing
- the guy at passport control asks if you’re married in a hopeful sort of way
- it’s 1.5 hrs from the airport to your family home up a mountain (via an army checkpoint)
You know you’re in Lebanon 🇱🇧 🇱🇧🇱🇧🇱🇧🇱🇧
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ANNOUNCEMENT: there won't be an episode of
@Trade__Talks
this week because I'm on my mini-moon... but here's a picture of
@ChadBown
and my husband instead by the wonderful
@annapumerphotos
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Hello! Were you, like me, wondering about the legality of raising tariffs on Brazil and Argentina?
WELL.
There's an ongoing case where a steel importer filed a complaint against the US govt for raising tariffs on Turkey.
The govt tried to get the case dismissed... and failed.
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Is there a way to save the world trading system?
Maybe...
For more, read my briefing in
@TheEconomist
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Have YOU spent your day DESPERATE to see a chart of where car parts imported into the US come from?
WELL.
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um
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Ever wondered how to chat up an economist? WELL.
How do I chat up an economist?
Romantic tips from our resident relationship expert
www.economist.com
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Britain’s productivity problem is long-standing and getting worse.
My long read in this week's edition of
@TheEconomist
:
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This week I wrote about the international economist Robert Mundell, who died on April 4th
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In this week's issue of
@TheEconomist
you can read about the life and economics of Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, the first African American to get an economics PhD.
feat.
@Nina_EBanks
and written by
@s1moncox
and me
Podcast coming soon...
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old me: man those EU folks are fussy about their geographic indications for cheese. Just chill out. If they want to make feta and parmesan, let hem.
new me, after eating American "parmesan": I FEEL WRONGED AND GROSSLY MISLED BRING ON THE TRADE DEAL
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Do read my long-read in the Christmas issue of
@TheEconomist
, written by
@s1moncox
and featuring
@Nina_EBanks
about Sadie Alexander, the first African American to get a PhD in economics
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Look at my amazing birthday gift from my wonderful husband (known to
@Trade__Talks
fans as the voice of Donald Trump)
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The questions we should be asking about the new NAFTA -
1. have the Mexicans agreed to sign a bilateral without Canada?
2. does the agreement rely on any non-NAFTA restrictions implemented via a section 232 investigation?
3. how quickly are the new autos ROOs being phased in?
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Trade isn't having a good year. But it looks like it will be better than feared. My piece this week asks... why?
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I have a google alert set up for "232" and it often bears fruit
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welcome to january 14th 2021, the day when a colleague asked me "how does one set up a zoom call?"
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Whenever anyone says anything about the US joining the CPTPP I simply scream BUT THE RULES OF ORIGIN at them and then they back away slowly.
I am willing to provide this service to the British government.
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You should subscribe to the
@Trade__Talks
podcast with me and
@ChadBown
for two reasons
1. Trade is sort of in the news rn
2. WE HAVE BRANDED FLEECES
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Young man, there's a place you can go
I said, young man, when you're feeling as though
trade is too hard, and I'm sure you will find
Many ways to have a good time
It's fun to si -ign the US M CA
It's fun to si -ign the US M CA
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I just told someone to “have a good one”
Does this mean I am AMERICAN now
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Ditching twitter for xmas. But before I go...
1. please do read my piece about women and economics
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regret to inform you that I have written another song
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Erm...
I thought the US was applying tariffs on Canadian lumber...
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"The good news is Congress would never give this authority to the president," the source added, describing the bill as "insane."
EXCLUSIVE from
@jonathanvswan
: Axios has obtained a leaked draft of a Trump administration bill — ordered by the president himself — that would declare America’s abandonment of fundamental World Trade Organization rules.
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Thread on women in economics -
A year ago someone told me about a weird thing that happens in the job market for PhD economists. Each year, a few *superstars* are identified - exceptional candidates who the top places fight over.
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Hello I like you all (well not all) but I hate twitter so I'm leaving it for a bit.
Sorry thank you.
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Folks I don’t know if you’ve heard but there’s actually a very large queue in London right now…
I wrote about it for
@TheEconomist
here
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If you want some background reading on the G7 corporation tax announcement, do read my deep-dive here:
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Scratching my head for an appropriate quote on the long run.
Just spoken to Lord King - most important he says, don't panic, long term economic difference btw In and Out not that big
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Ehem. I am going to attempt a tweetstorm:
This was my reaction when I heard about the Trump administration investigating the security threat imposed by cars (1/n)
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*Saturday night bragging time*
The
@britpodawards
has a category for best business podcast, for which entries are four episodes. My colleagues at
@TheEconomist
submitted mine about women in economics as one of their four. And...
@EconomistRadio
won!
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...and the
@NobelPrize
goes to...
Abhijit Banerjee
Esther Duflo
Michael Kremer
for their work on poverty alleviation
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Tfw you know you've married the right person because their way of trolling you is to ask whether Bank of America is the American version of the Bank of England
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I wrote something with
@ChadBown
about why the Trump administration killed the WTO (tariffs) and you can read it here
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i have logged on to twitter specifically to share the news that I tried a scooter for the first time yesterday and
they are very fun
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The coming collapse of global trade
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I went to Jackson Hole.
There were lots of economists there.
And... I wrote about it!
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Hello! I wrote a piece for
@TheEconomist
about whether the IMF should issue more special drawing rights.
🚁🚁🚁🚁🚁🚁🚁
💸💸💸💸💸💸💸
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Father's Day has prompted me to put a new song out into the world... it's about a photo, taken a few weeks after my son was born and a few weeks before my dad died, earlier this year
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My piece this week for
@TheEconomist
describes how the British welfare state is changing...
A temporary flirtation with insurance for people losing their jobs is now over.
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so... who here is thinking about the trade spat between China and Australia?
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