Friederike Reimer

nice, thanks! I did come across the Monnet paper but didn't know there was a whole issue on it.

ping @maxhsr.bsky.social weil glaube du hast da potentiell ideen?

does anyone know good readings about the relationship between war finance and green finance? eg. how to pay for the war by keynes being an inspiration for the green new deal and how this connects to the climate backlash today and more military spending?

arrived last night in athens around 11, two full days after i left bologna sunday morning. in total, the travel here took 3 days, including the train ride to italy. my guess is that if you don't mind sleeping on trains and have a good connection, you can probably cut it down to 48 hours.

not as dead as i expected after a night on an air mattress in a random corner on a ferry deck. despite the stress of lack of information where and when the next train/bus/boat leaves, quite zen and wishing I didn‘t have to finish my presentation but read or stare out of the window instead.

more than 24 hours later, in patras. only one change in mode of transport away from athens. the ferry was late, meaning that the 2 hours budgeted in to get from the port to the bus terminal weren’t enough. nice 30 min walk still. (local bus was delayed and i didn‘t want to gamble on it coming still)

navigating a port as a foot passenger is very confusing and despite having 6 hours between my train arriving and the ship leaving i was pretty stressed and happy i made it to the right terminal. still enough time for 1-2 macchiatos, reading a bit, staring into the distance in the mid-day heat haze

this morning i took the train from bologna to ancona, where I am currently waiting for the ferry to patras. To bologna (where i spent a week since it was sort of on the way) it was 11 hours by train, 13 after factoring in german train delays.

experiencing space, mobility, and geographical distance in interesting ways while travelling to the EAEPE conference in Greece. one way by train and ferry, one way by plane (and train). comparing pure travel time and cost alone is crazy, the experience probably even more

uhh du hast einen platz bekommen, nice!!

Brainrot Morde oder wie man einen Abgrund überwindet In den USA ist am 10.

"Die Veränderung der Welt durch Internetkultur betrifft mittlerweile nicht mehr nur Einzelersonen, die einfach mal Gras anfassen sollten. Internetkultur ist keine Nische mehr, die man wahlweise ignorieren oder als obskuren Quatsch verlachen kann..."

the mid-transition concept has been living rent-free in my brain

Kampf um Fachkräfte: Waffen oder Windräder? Wer Panzer baut, kann kein Windrad bauen. Zwischen der Rüstungsindustrie und Solar- und Windkraftunternehmen droht ein großes Gezerre um Fachkräfte.

Rüstung verdrängt Klima - nicht nur in der Debatte und beim Geld, sondern vielleicht auch bald beim Buhlen um Fachkräfte. Ich hab mir angeschaut, wo die Aufrüstung dem Klimaschutz entgegensteht, und in einigen Berufen wird es knapp.

taz.de/Kampf-um-Fac...

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i may or may not document the experience of going to a conference in athens and not flying for at least one way of the journey. in some way taking a plane for the way back feels even more crazy because you see the difference of the different modes of transportation even more.

"have you considered that interest rate costs of the borrowing needed to buy this train have been higher for the EU than they might have been for germany?“ i am fun company on holidays

Schrödinger’s off-balance-sheet fiscal agency: the Recovery and Resilience Facility and the limits to incremental fiscal integration in Europe The Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), introduced as the EU’s main macro-financial response to the COVID-19 pandemic, is an off-balance-sheet fiscal agency (OBFA) that has been hailed as Europ...

Further reading on where the money for the Prerow Bimmelbahn comes from: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Amazing how the RRF is everywhere - while we looked at the "money in“ side of NextGenerationEU in our paper, the "money out“ pops up in unexpected places. Schrödinger’s off-balance sheet fiscal agency meets whimsical tram in the baltic sea town where i spent summers as a kid…

(S+) Meinung: Kritik an Labubus: Nicht Plüschtiere sind das Problem, sondern Privatjets Labubus, kleine Plüschmonster, haben einen Hype ausgelöst – und als Reaktion darauf eine Flut konsumkritischer Texte. Komisch, dass das nur passiert, wenn es um Dinge geht, die vor allem von Frauen ge...

kritik der labubukritik www.spiegel.de/kultur/labub...

Why do we listen to Odd Lots?
“Capitalists will lie to you,but they don’t lie to themselves"
Its Charismatic Megafauna in “Cambrian explosion” that blew open “neoliberal hegemony” of economic discourse over the past decade
Congrats Joe & Tracy! @tracyalloway.bsky.social
nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b...

Ha-Joon Chang on the neglect of climate and the environment in today's economics degree @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/9aab...

EPOG over and out. A wild ride, could not have asked for better company on this journey of stress-loaded coffee breaks, jokes about everything from norwegian politics to rats, mental health walks, beach trips, and a final voyage to venice 🥹

Das fiskalische Ökosystem Schattenhaushalte sind keine Ausnahme, sondern seit Jahrzehnten fester Bestandteil der Staatsfinanzen. Sie spiegeln die deutsche Geschichte.

Very happy to see that the article @moritzecon.bsky.social and I have written on Germany's "fiscal ecosystem" has just been published online and in print in Surplus Magazine

www.surplusmagazin.de/staat-schatt...

Tired: Capital Markets Union
Wired: Railways Union

my friend played this, built only renewables and his result was "your city is in DANGER, your MONEY is very low!"

I think I'll wait until after the defense to send it to people, but will do!

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ohh these football fans are not so *peaceful*?? guess what isn't either (inflation)

handing in your master thesis while paris erupts into fireworks because PSG won the football thing is an experience

tfw you find a really good paper supporting your argument 3 days out from thesis submission