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New #MacroCritical post:

"Securitization: The financial innovation that changed banking"
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#Securitization #Banking #Finance #ShadowBanking #FinancialStability #BaselIII #MacroCritical #StructuredFinance
Securitization: The financial innovation that changed banking
Learn how securitization transformed loans into securities, connected global investors to borrowers, and changed modern banking.
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June 24, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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A new #MacroCritical post is now up:

"Energy Systems and the SNA"
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April 6, 2026 at 10:18 PM
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The third #MacroCritical article:

"The Net Worth of Nations"
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with long thread on #LinkedIn:
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July 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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10th #Macrocritical blog on #Medium is now up:

"Climate Change and the System of National Accounts"

A fairly long post on how to think about CC in relation to the SNA in concrete stages.

Long 🧵 on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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Climate Change and the System of National Accounts
Linking climate change to the economy: how extraction, production, and emissions connect through national accounting systems.
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October 21, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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🚀 A new #MacroCritical post is now up on #Medium:

"The International Comparison Program: How Economists Compare Living Standards Across Countries"

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The International Comparison Program: How Economists Compare Living Standards Across Countries
ICP Explained: How Purchasing Power Parities (PPPs) Compare GDP, Prices, Poverty, and Living Standards Worldwide.
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May 14, 2026 at 9:27 AM
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The fifth #MacroCritical article is now up:
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Long 🧵 on:
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Institutional Sectors: The backbone of National Accounts
How economic activity is organized and recorded through institutional sectors in the System of National Accounts (SNA).
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August 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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New post:

"The Financial Sector: A Comprehensive Introduction"
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The Financial Sector: A Comprehensive Introduction
Finance is part of our everyday lives. We earn, buy and sell, contribute to insurance and pension, and maybe invest in stocks and funds. We…
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January 24, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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New #MacroCritical article on the events that led to the COPs.

We start in 1972 where have the Limits to Growth, Our One Earth reports and the Stockholm conference.

We then trace the developments and events leading up to the creation of the UNFCCC and the COPs:

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November 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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New #Macrocritical post is now up:

"One Ton of Carbon"
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Here we discuss: CO2e, GWP, carbon budget, net zero, emission inventories, and many other concepts!

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One Ton of Carbon
The complexity of CO2e: Greenhouse Gasses, Carbon Sinks, Global Warming Potential, LULUCF, and Net-Zero
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May 27, 2026 at 12:16 PM
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The second #MacroCritical article:

"System of National Accounts: One framework to rule them all"
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with long thread on #LinkedIn:
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July 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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The fourth #MacroCritical article is now up:

"Prices: A measurement of value across space and time"
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Long 🧵 on #LinkedIn:
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and #X:
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July 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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New #MacroCritical post on #Medium in now up:

"Petro-Dollars: How Oil Shapes Global Finance"
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This article explores how oil exports, dollar demand, and global capital flows are interconnected, and how they shape the global financial system.
April 19, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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New #MacroCritical post is up on #Medium:

The Basel Accords: How Financial Crises Shaped Global Banking Regulation
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#FinancialRegulation #FinancialStability #BaselAccords #BankingSupervision
The Basel Accords and Financial Crises
Learn how financial crises shaped the Basel Accords and transformed global banking regulation over four decades.
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June 14, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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The seventh #MacroCritical blog on #Medium is now up:

"Balance of Payments"
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Long thread on #LinkedIn:
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Balance of Payments
Explore how SNA External account gives us the BOP and how transactions are recorded in the Current, Capital, and Financial Accounts.
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September 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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New post on the #MacroCritical blog on #Medium:

"GDP: A crafty accounting identity"
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Background story on #LinkedIn:
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GDP: A crafty accounting identity
Understand the foundations of GDP , from its various definitions to its role within the broader System of National Accounts.
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July 2, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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New post on #Macrocritical on #Medium:

Climate Primer I: How do we forecast climate change?
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We discuss how climate models project the future, and what can CMIP tell us about warming, regional risks, and uncertainty and much more.
Climate Primer I: How do we forecast climate change?
In part 1 we explore CMIP climate projections, scenarios, uncertainty, and how emissions shape regional climate risks and economic outcomes.
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September 6, 2026 at 10:55 AM
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Georgieva: "You need a magnifying glass to see the share of the [climate-focused] Resilience and Sustainability Trust in [IMF] lending"

Macrocritical, but in a micro kind of way.

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Press Briefing Transcript: Managing Director's Global Policy Agenda, Spring Meetings 2025
Ms. Kozack: Good morning, everyone. Welcome to this IMF press briefing. I am Julie Kozack, Director of the Communications Department. Thank you so very much for joining us this morning and, as usual, ...
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April 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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New post on #Macrocritical on #Medium is now up:

What do “Governments” do?
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We diccuss:
👉 The difference between the government and the public sector.
👉 The relationship between the general government and public corporations.

#macroeconomics #nationalaccounts #blog
What do “Governments” do?
Defining government and the public sector: how SNA sectors, COFOG functions & statistical boundaries shape the measurement of public finance
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August 27, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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New post:

The Nixon Shock and the Herstatt Risk
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Or how the Basel Accords are linked to Bretton Woods.

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The Nixon Shock and the Herstatt Risk
Bankhaus Herstatt, Bretton Woods & the Nixon Shock: how a 1974 bank failure reshaped global finance and regulation.
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February 16, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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The 11th #MacroCritical blog on @Medium is now up and talks about a rarely-taught concept:

"Real Effective Exchange Rate" or #REER
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#WorldBank and #BIS interactive visualizations on REERs also included.
Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER)
Discover how the real effective exchange rate (REER) links exchange rates, prices, and competitiveness in global trade and national…
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October 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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9th #MacroCritical post on #Medium:

External Debt: A Lifeline or a Liability?

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External Debt: A Lifeline and a Liability
Understanding external debt definitions and statistics, and the building blocks of borrowing, repayment, and financial ties across borders.
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October 21, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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The sixth #MacroCritical post is now up on #Medium:

Supply-Use Tables: The foundation of national accounts
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Learn the basics of #SUTs, and derive #IOTs using different formulas. We also take a look at actual data.
Supply-Use Tables: The foundation of national accounts
Learn about SUTs, product and industry classifications, tranformation into SUTs using ITM and PTM methods. Examples from Eurostat.
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August 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM