Nein, tut sie nicht.
19.08.2025 17:22 — 👍 823 🔁 102 💬 33 📌 9@phkrause.bsky.social
Public Finance & Public Admin in the day. Brooding over Germany in the night.
Nein, tut sie nicht.
19.08.2025 17:22 — 👍 823 🔁 102 💬 33 📌 9„Live! Exile On Valetta Street“ Phillip Boa And The Voodoo Club
06.08.2025 04:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oder man könnte sich ja, ganz verwegen, statt den üblichen Verdächtigen, nach Leuten umschauen, die sich genau mit Fiskalregeln auskennen. Vielleicht sogar mit einer internationalen Perspektive, die etwas weiter reicht als bis in die Schweiz.
www.spiegel.de/politik/schu...
Meh. I’d do it happily at the current salary. It seems pretty interesting.
02.07.2025 19:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Chaser: www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...
29.05.2025 08:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In other words: „Officials recoil at pulling their heads out of the sand; being a 'Transatlantiker‘ never actually involved looking across the Atlantic, why start now“
30.04.2025 20:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Out with the calculator, in with the policy paper? Not so fast… odi.org/en/insights/...
24.04.2025 10:31 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0This looks like an important study.
"We find a strong association between higher population loss and AfD support [in three east German states]... the AfD is the only party that gains electorally from long-term loss of population."
Would be curious to see if/how relationship holds in west Germany.
Of course, we weren't foolish enough to try such a thing on our own, so we handed the task over to the stellar cast of experts. All the new and interesting things in PFM I'm thinking about today, I picked up in one of their chapters.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
!!!New book alert!!!
Contemporary Issues and Challenges in Public Financial Management: Responding to Global Crises
This is Richard Allen's and my attempt to capture how PFM has evolved, especially how global crises since 2008 changed PFM (or not).
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
I will only break my moratorium on reading books about the US for two people, Robert Caro and @rickperlstein.bsky.social.
07.04.2025 13:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Their position in the current debt-brake-jailbreak staredown is completely in line with the work that @danyalbayaz.bsky.social, Monika Heinold and others have been doing in German state-level finance ministries for many years.
10.03.2025 19:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That the Greens are basically the only major party in Germany standing for sound fiscal management (in the way we understand the term internationally) is clearly a surprise to many, and very difficult to accept for some, but it shouldn't be.
10.03.2025 19:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Terrific resignation letter by Anneliese Dodds, this.
28.02.2025 12:31 — 👍 2187 🔁 642 💬 36 📌 118Es liest sich eigentlich als eine ganz hervorragende Orientierung, falls man mal was für einen guten Zweck spenden will.
25.02.2025 18:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is a very good thread that should not have been necessary at all. Governments, if you believe your own analysis of the value of (much) aid spending, it makes zero sense to make wholesale cuts. And if there's some secret discount rate to the benefit of aid, I'd love to see it.
25.02.2025 15:14 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Or, how to cut off your nose to spite your face.
25.02.2025 13:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Very possible, but oh so tempting for the CDU to then pretent the overhaul is a concession in the coalition talks, and for the SPD to pretend they didn't invent it and take the overhaul as a win, and for both to have a laugh about the FDP-APO. Mighty risky, but one can see the temptation.
21.02.2025 15:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#1762
19.02.2025 18:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Here @brankomilan.bsky.social makes an excellent point that will be quite familiar to many Europeans aware of their own history.
open.substack.com/pub/branko2f...
Quite. Assuming institutions can't fail because they've never failed is exactly the sort of motivated reasoning that makes institutions fail.
14.02.2025 13:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Well, who says UK politics can't be a model for Europe anymore?
01.02.2025 12:14 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Denn nein, offensichtlich sorgt das Mehrheitswahlrecht nicht für "klare Verhältnisse", oder Zweiparteiensysteme, und ganz bestimmt nicht für stabile Mehrheiten.
01.02.2025 12:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0QTWTAIN: Wäre das Mehrheitswahlrecht etwas für Deutschland?
Tja, man hätte ja vielleicht ausser einem Artikel in Nature auch die reichliche Fachliteratur zu genau diesem Thema konsultieren können...
www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
Hervorragend
01.02.2025 11:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0👇!!!
30.01.2025 11:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Was man heute im Kopf behalten muss: Es gab für die CDU und Friedrich Merz keine Notwendigkeit, so kurz vor der Wahl Anträge zur Migrationspolitik einzubringen und das erste Mal zu sagen, man nehme auch Stimmen von der extremen Rechten. Das war eine politische Entscheidung.
29.01.2025 06:40 — 👍 2830 🔁 766 💬 51 📌 21Der Spiegel findet es “merkwürdig”, dass der Finanzminister seinen Job macht, als käme es drauf an. Was denn sonst, mag man sich fragen…
www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/j...
E.g. to use „Stop me before I kill again“ as headline for a section on the OBR is just admirable commitment to a joke just for the hell of it
04.01.2025 15:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0