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Paul Sengmüller

@doppelgaenger

Economist, recovering academic (@Columbia, @TilburgU), now working in financial supervision. Vienna, Austria

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Stablecoins —> not stable, not coins
DeFi —> not decentralized in practice
Central bank liabilities —> already mostly digital

Thank you for coming to my TED talk

10.01.2025 10:47 👍 54 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 2

Wie immer, tolle Sendung. Die Wortmeldung von Klemens Renoldner zu Russland („das angeblich alle anderen Länder rundherum pausenlos bedroht“) liegt mir aber etwas im Magen. Finde ich problematisch, dass das unwidersprochen bleibt.

22.02.2026 13:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Now Trumpists are menacing economists
Now Trumpists are menacing economists YouTube video by Paul Krugman

Something new: A short video responding to the Trump administration saying that economists whose studies aren’t what they want to hear should be “disciplined” www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzZd...

18.02.2026 17:44 👍 697 🔁 274 💬 34 📌 40

Halving 😅

05.02.2026 20:23 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🥳

05.02.2026 17:54 👍 19 🔁 1 💬 5 📌 0

Something something Bretton Woods

23.01.2026 10:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Internal documents seen by Reuters reveal its tactics, including efforts to make scam ads “not findable” when authorities search for them.

01.01.2026 09:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

13.11.2025 13:49 👍 7430 🔁 2564 💬 108 📌 187

Die Stadt Wien verschiebt die Inbetriebnahme der U5, um "18-20 Mio." Euro einzusparen. Die unerwünscht zugestellte Stadtzeitung "Mein Wien", die keiner liest, kostete zuletzt übrigens fast 16 Mio. Euro pro Jahr #priorities

12.11.2025 11:35 👍 270 🔁 81 💬 13 📌 7

Where is this from?

15.10.2025 21:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

DPD are the masters of this game

14.10.2025 07:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What does a Nobel Prize on ‘innovation-driven economic growth’ actually reward?

A historian’s perspective on how to deal with the Nobel frenzy

beatricecherrier.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/w...

13.10.2025 23:59 👍 90 🔁 54 💬 1 📌 5

Once the missiles go up, who cares where they come down?
That’s not my department, says Wernher von Braun.

27.07.2025 17:05 👍 26 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

Consol?

11.07.2025 11:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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And this is how, ladies and gentlemen, Lucas and Sargent came to France, in a volume on post-modernist architecture and macro, communism and pacifism, their attacks on Keynesian large macro-scale models intersected with architects' sketches and postmodern pictures of topless women

/end/

26.03.2025 21:33 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

Sick to my stomach

21.02.2025 18:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

People saying that they are shocked, or that Putin is hoodwinking Trump still don't get it. Putin isn't fooling Trump or Trump has not changed his position. He is pro-Putin, he wants Russia to do well and he could not care less about Ukraine (and he hates Zelensky).

19.02.2025 09:09 👍 786 🔁 201 💬 36 📌 18

„We don’t need any more irony-poisoned hot takes or cathartic, irreverent snark. We need to collectively decide what kind of world we actually do want, and what we’re willing to do to achieve it.“

06.02.2025 18:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

06.02.2025 18:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

9/ Musk made his endorsement of Trump on July 13, 2024. The analysis suggests that Musk did more than merely give verbal support for Trump, but also changed X's algorithm on the same date to systematically promote his own and other prominent pro-Republican acounts. /end

16.11.2024 10:39 👍 1451 🔁 323 💬 18 📌 20
a Tweet where Mike Lee says "The Executive Branch should be under the direction of the president 

That’s how the Constitution was designed 

The Federal Reserve is one of many examples of how we’ve deviated from the Constitution in that regard 

Yet another reason why we should #EndTheFed"

a Tweet where Mike Lee says "The Executive Branch should be under the direction of the president That’s how the Constitution was designed The Federal Reserve is one of many examples of how we’ve deviated from the Constitution in that regard Yet another reason why we should #EndTheFed"

may I present our current leading candidate for Attorney General

10.11.2024 06:58 👍 112 🔁 6 💬 9 📌 5
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Paper of the Day: "Who values democracy?"

Democratizations had a large, negative impact on asset valuations and elevated risk premia driven by a rise in redistribution risk.

Autocratizations led to negligible asset pricing responses.

www.hbs.edu/ris/Publicat...

05.11.2024 17:59 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said Whisper is a popular transcription tool powered by artificial intelligence, but it has a major flaw. It makes things up that were never said.

It's not very surprising to read that another LLM transcription tool makes things up. It's still an open empirical question IMO whether the risks of errors and time consumed by correcting them is outweighed by the time saved using these tools. apnews.com/article/ai-a...

28.10.2024 09:41 👍 43 🔁 10 💬 6 📌 0

There's also a responsibility on those large accounts because if they move, they can help the tiny ones solve *their* coordination problem. Communities have leaders!

06.10.2024 17:20 👍 68 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

Respect for Joey making the move from the other place. He had a v large following over there and there are not many in that US econ and finance cohort who have come over so there is some sacrifice to doing it. Please follow if you are interested in the US economy and finance and, well, data.

06.10.2024 16:30 👍 186 🔁 31 💬 9 📌 0

Stundenlohn: 7,40 EUR

29.09.2024 18:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Und das war’s #beifunk

29.09.2024 17:48 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

He’s making a list, he’s checking it twice … #beifunk

29.09.2024 17:33 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Derzeit Flaute … #beifunk

29.09.2024 13:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

WE DID IT!!

29.09.2024 09:48 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0