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Kremlin's war economy shows cracks as military spending boom fades: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/06/kremlins-war-economy-shows-cracks.html

Stoller: Why This Economy Feels Weird and Scary:
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-thi

Why This Economy Feels Weird and Scary
American households are in a much more financially fragile state than we were in the 1980s. It's a Chinese finger trap economy, dependent on the stock market and more inequality to keep going.

Putin has every reason to seek a lifeline for the Russian economy.
In recent weeks, a flurry of signs has shown Russia’s war-drained, sanctions-constrained economy to be at an inflection point.
For the first time since the start of the war, nonmilitary economic activity has been contracting,
bankers are making plans to weather a financial crisis,
and energy firms are worrying about losing their largest customer for seaborne oil exports.

Putin’s Fear of a Humiliating Economic Crisis
Greater sanctions pressure could finally bring Moscow to the negotiating table.

🤑 Wealth tax would be deadly for French economy, says Europe’s richest man
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/21/wealth-tax-would-be-deadly-for-french-economy-says-europe-richest-man-bernard-arn…

Catherine Rampell, a former WaPo columnist who left amid the paper's editorial upheaval, joins The Bulwark to write a weekly economics and policy newsletter (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/05/2025/washington-post-e…

Washington Post economics columnist moves to The Bulwark
Catherine Rampell will write a weekly economics and policy-focused newsletter for the anti-Trump media brand.

Patreon CEO Jack Conte says the platform paid out $10B to creators since its 2013 founding, creators now get $2B annually, and there are 25M paid memberships (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/05/patreon-10-billion-creator-economy-ai
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Exclusive: Patreon crosses $10 billion creator payout milestone
Today, more than $2 billion flows to creators annually on the platform.

Estimating Causal Effects with Observational Data: Guidelines for Agricultural and Applied Economists
Arne Henningsen (Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Guy Low (Business Economics Group, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands), David Wuepper (Institute for Food and Resource Economics, University of Bonn, Germany), Tobias Dalhaus (Business Economics Group, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands), Hugo Storm (Ins…

Estimating Causal Effects with Observational Data: Guidelines for Agricultural and Applied Economists
Most research questions in agricultural and applied economics are of a causal nature, i.e., how one or more variables (e.g., policies, prices, the weather) affect one or more other variables (e.g., income, crop yields, pollution). Only some of these research questions can be studied experimentally. Most empirical studies in agricultural and applied economics thus rely on observational data. However, estimating causal effects with observational data requires appropriate research designs and a tr…

The Indian government says it has not issued any directive to withhold the Reuters X account in the country (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/go…

Government says no order to withhold Reuters handle on X in India
India has denied ordering the blocking of Reuters’ X account, saying no such directive was issued. As per notification on the X account, it was withheld “in response to a legal demand,” sparking criticism from journalists and free speech advocates. An official spokesperson said that the government is working with X to resolve the issue amid growing censorship concerns.

China snubs Putin’s Eastern Economic Forum as top officials stay away: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/06/china-snubs-putins-eastern-economic.html

Economic fears of investors are here — and fed by Trump’s reaction
Friday’s disappointing jobs report revealed a labor market that is much weaker than either the White House or Federal Reserve understood.
Inflation, the voter irritant that helped return Trump to the Oval Office, is proving newly stubborn.
And consumers are growing more cautious with their spending.

Economic fears of investors are here — and fed by Trump’s reaction
President Donald Trump’s economic policies have sparked controversy and uncertainty, with a recent jobs report fueling concerns about the economy’s health.