Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano@respublicae.eu
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Economist. Back at LSE as a Professor at @LSEPublicPolicy Summer 2023. Non-resident Fellow @bruegel_org. Recovering MEP. Currently @ChicagoBooth.
Joined Apr 2022
RT Stanley Pignal
A shift in power is happening in Brussels. Vestager is applying for the EIB, Timmermans going to stand in Dutch elections. Those are two big, pro-globalisation, open-economy names potentially leaving the scene.
The result: French trade/globalisation-sceptic voices will be louder
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Sander Tordoir: Commissioner Timmermans wants to return to Dutch politics to lead the newly joint social democratic-green list in the November elections.
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/spignal/status/1681958784355188736
Add to Timmermans and Vestager's departure Rutte's exit, and I fear the EU will deepen its colbertist turn.
Consequences:
- Fragmentation of the Single Market, with the proliferation of state aid
- Further decline in innovation and growth.
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Stanley Pignal: A shift in power is happening in Brussels. Vestager is applying for the EIB, Timmermans going to stand in Dutch elections. Those are two big, pro-globalisation, open-economy names potentially leaving the scene.
The result: French trade/globalisation-sceptic voices will be louder
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1681961688751390721
Re @jomonge Sï es de verdad!
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1681728443929509901
Astonishing.
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Benjamin De Kraker: AI Johnny Cash sings "Barbie Girl" https://n.respublicae.eu/i/web/status/1680696407970177025 https://t.co/bm5uA1DVIZ
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1681735942279667717
Big news. Meta's new LLM continues down the open source path. This may allow for the creation of an eco system of small firms catering to the individual needs of the different industries, and avoid hold up by Microsoft and Google. Well done.
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Yann LeCun: This is huge: Llama-v2 is open source, with a license that authorizes commercial use!
This is going to change the landscape of the LLM market.
Llama-v2 is available on Microsoft Azure and will be available on AWS, Hugging Face and other providers
Pretrained and fine-tuned… https://n.respublicae.eu/i/web/status/1681336284453781505
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1681662820474028033
Haha! Brilliant!
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Joe Biden: I approve this message. https://t.co/f1q5giNM8j
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1681663235949228033
It turns out that our King is really elegant. I learned much more than I could ever imagine about how to wear a suit from this thread.
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derek guy: King of Spain at the final day of Wimbledon. This looks great.
Very rare to see this level of tailoring nowadays, even on the wealthy. So let's talk about some of the reasons why it's great. 🧵 https://t.co/nZtDzxkMxN
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1681687520155762691
What a shame.
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Margrethe Vestager: Professor Fiona Scott Morton has informed me of her decision to not take up the post as Chief Competition Economist. I accept this with regret and hope that she will continue to use her extraordinary skill-set to push for strong competition enforcement https://europa.eu/!yGpNwK https://t.co/W3Zb34in7N
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1681545728974368769
RT Jeromin Zettelmeyer
The campaign against the nomination of @ProfFionasm to Chief Economist of @EU_Competition is unjustified, and its nationalist overtones are deeply troubling. My colleague @chrisbruegel explains why:
https://www.bruegel.org/first-glance/unjustified-campaign-against-nomination-fiona-scott-morton
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/jzettelmeyer/status/1681354247743455243
A wonderful interview with @JoyceCarolOates, channels Spanish pre-renaissance poet Jorge Manrique: do not waste time on the ephimeral things of this life and work only on the things that stay- writing- those give you inmortality.
See Manrique in my reply
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/16/magazine/joyce-carol-oates-interview.html https://t.co/XaXnEku2Ud
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1680901149405196288
Re Everyone in Spain can can recite the first stanza. But the "third life" or "life of fame" is in the last part of the poem.This can be attained through combat for the knight, the word for the poet.
Translation: Alain Stainle
https://classicalpoets.org/2020/08/02/verses-on-the-death-of-his-father-coplas-por-la-muerte-de-su-padre-by-jorge-manrique/ https://t.co/tIeTYgmIpt
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1680901151997263874
Agree with @spignal: it is in Europe where Rutte's free market liberalism (sadly, a diminished force post Brexit in the EU) will be most missed.
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Stanley Pignal: My take on the big news of the week: a warm adieu to Mark Rutte, the perma-cheerful Dutch premier who married good cheer with an aversion for any discernable ideology. https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/07/13/farewell-mark-rutte-the-tiggerish-dutch-prime-minister https://t.co/nB5RiAOxZe
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1680677420670525446
RT Octavio Medina
Una fundación / chiringuito presidida por Tezanos y llena de cargos del PSOE publica un artículo diciendo que el modelo de Tezanos es poco menos que el faro que ilumina a las ciencias sociales. Me pinchan y no sangro!
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Miquel Iceta Llorens /❤️: ¿Por qué no fiarse de un tal Llaneras y Cía?, Óscar Iglesias https://fundacionsistema.com/por-que-no-fiarse-de-un-tal-llaneras-y-cia/
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/octavio_medina/status/1680490753712168961
RT Masih Alinejad 🏳️
This is Iran today and this is how the morality police arrested a teenager for not wearing a hijab. Mahsa Zhina Amini was taken away like this, then killed. Where are those journalists who excitedly reported the cancellation of those morality police? #WomanLifeFreedom https://t.co/xndXlnnkSB
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/AlinejadMasih/status/1680250344217931782
RT Nacho Alarcón
Bruxelles ma belle! We have already been at each other's throats for 48 hours now due to the appointment of an American as chief economist of DG Competition. Anyone outside of Brussels would not believe it. A true tour de force of the "eurobubble" 🤷♂️
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/nacho_alarcon/status/1680170011799822336
RT Stanley Pignal
Re @duncanrobinson @davcarretta @AndrewDuffEU @JuliusWaller @NicholasVinocur @NvOndarza @EddyWax @POLITICOEurope @federalists @MOVFEDEUROPEO @FedTrust @SpinelliGroup @tepsaeu @epc_eu @vonderleyen @RenewEurope @europarl_en @TheEconomist how did Ursula von der Leyen do?
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/spignal/status/1680127476964421632
RT Alvaro Ortiz | @BBVAResearch & @IEbusiness
Another “NBER Summer Institute 23” Interesting Research on Central Banks Balance Sheets & Crisis by @nfergus-@MartinKornejew-P. Schmelzing-@MSchularick (thread🧵)👇@lugaricano @MarkusEconomist @BIS_org @R2Rsquared @GitaGopinath @jasonfurman #EconTwitter @CavaliereGiu @IMFNews https://t.co/WLdQqqAGTE
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/alvaroortiz1968/status/1679852664455036928
Very much in agreement with @CompetitionProf views on the silly controversy over @ProfFionasm appointment. Why then the controversy? Her appointment is being used politically to weaken @vestager, simply because competition is no longer popular in some countries (if it ever was).
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Nicolas Petit: The controversy around the appointment of @ProfFionasm as the new Chief Economist of @EU_Competition is a storm in a tea cup 1/n
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1679812321403600897
RT Caroline de Gruyter
Such a strong focus on someone's nationality is unprecedented.
It shows us how much Europe is changing.
Mr Barnier had a Norwegian in his Brexit team. Norway was deeply affected by the changes in the EU-UK relationship. Did anyone question this man's loyalty?
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Renew Europe: At the initiative of #RenewEurope, the Presidents of the four pro-European groups in the 🇪🇺 Parliament call upon the @EU_Commission to reconsider the nomination of 🇺🇸 Fiona Scott Morton as Chief economist in DG Competition. https://t.co/y6z5tNKMwv
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CarolineGruyter/status/1679818205441736704
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Economist. Back at LSE as a Professor at @LSEPublicPolicy Summer 2023. Non-resident Fellow @bruegel_org. Recovering MEP. Currently @ChicagoBooth.
Joined Apr 2022
