Cian Twomey

Libertarians love a bailout

It's Giving Enron On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
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The third law of thermodynamics is that internet systems, if left alone, converge to porn.

What does a Nobel Prize on ‘innovation-driven economic growth’ actually reward?

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

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Bubble talk will only get louder

This Party Is Like 1999, But Better Stocks are almost as expensive as during the dot-com bubble, but with a key difference.

Stocks are almost as expensive as during the dot-com bubble.

Idealist and/or materialist theories of economic growth [FREE TO READ] Nobel committee: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Thing by me on today's Econ nobel in @alphaville.ft.com : www.ft.com/content/b8aa...

Putting the (G)rift in ESG :)

We are the forgotten people

Behold the trash crash Pray for Dogecoin

Oh no 💎 🙌 😔 😢 😭
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Obviously, I was being tongue in cheek. All of my British friends and colleagues voted Remain

This seems like a familiar movie!

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

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According to some prominent news outlets if Europe does not emulate these innovative practices it will never catch up with America's current trajectory

They seem very eager to travel to this backwater all the same.
It is incumbent on us Irish folks to articulate loudly in English that we are off to the EU passport line when we arrive on the Continent

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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@robarmstrong.bsky.social and @darioperkins.bsky.social doing a valuable public service in this morning’s Unhedged newsletter:
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Only person in France with a net positive approval rating ;)

Can they recruit Antoine Dupont?

Who would br the most anti-Trump Nobel Peace Prize winner tomorrow?

Unlike France, at least we in Ireland can pass a budget. Helps to have one of the few fiscal surplus estate in Europe.
#Budget26

Another Autumn, another Covid vaccine.
Rather not get the "razor like" sore throat!

Did they give you a blade if you didn't have one with you?

Summers Says Miran Gave Weakest Fed Governor Speech in Memory Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers blasted Stephen Miran’s first speech as Federal Reserve governor, saying it failed to provide a proper analytical basis for slashing interest rates.

“I cannot remember an analytically weaker speech given before the New York Economic Club or given by a Fed governor.”

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Russia’s hybrid war is ‘only the beginning’, warns Danish PM [FREE TO READ] Mette Frederiksen says Nato needs to adjust its response to Russian provocations

💥 Russia’s hybrid war “only the beginning,” 🇩🇰 PM Frederiksen warns, calling on Nato to step up to deter Moscow.

As EU leaders arrive for talks in Copenhagen, she tells @richardmilne.ft.com & I: “We need all Europeans to understand what is at stake… the idea is to divide us”

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Will this impact their rescue of the poor libertarian in Argentina? 😅

Frankly, it might be a good thing to turn the USA off and back on again

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

⚡️Polish PM Tusk: Today, the greatest task is to make everyone realize there is a war—a new, unwanted kind of war. And it is also our war.

Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk:

We will not lose. Ukraine will win this war. We will preserve Ukraine’s independence and secure the future of our children and generations to come. I firmly believe this. Think about it, talk about it, and take action.