Paul Beaumont

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If I enjoyed "Death of Stalin", which other movie might I like?

@AdrienMatray Here is the guest of the lecturer who was teaching the *same* course as me this fall. I did not even have a guest speaker youtu.be/gk6xTYO6PeM

Ok now I feel bad with *my* guest speakers ...

Isabelle Méjean a reçu le Prix du meilleur jeune économiste 2020 #Echobox=1590339085" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">lemonde.fr/economie/artic…

While many of us are worrying about financial distress in the U.S., a group of the world's leading sovereign debt scholars have come up with a really clever strategy for creating a 12 month standstill for developing nations-- it deserves serious attention. cepr.org/sites/default/…

Aaaaaand the ECB just did a copy and paste ! bankingsupervision.europa.eu/press/pr/date/…

The Swiss bank regulator (FINMA) does statistics like no one else. A quick story - to file under "Fat Tails Twitter".

What are the sectoral effects of social distancing? Here a short paper with @jnbarrot from @HEC and @juliensauvagnat from @Bocconi. Note in English: tinyurl.com/t7usr32 WP in English: tinyurl.com/wayq83e Press in French (@lemondefr ): tinyurl.com/sxat9tl

My wife and I play this fun game during quarantine, it's called "Why Are You Doing It That Way?" and there are no winners

Regulator Mark Calabria says Fannie and Freddie can go for 12 more weeks, but if widepared mortgage forbearance goes longer than that, they'll need another taxpayer bailout. They're levered 240:1 ft.com/content/575e81… via @financialtimes

This is wild. U.S. airlines are flying near-empty planes because the $2.2 trillion coronavirus package requires airlines to preserve their service capacity as of March 1 — even though this makes the airlines burn cash faster. theaircurrent.com/airlines/confu…

I'm having trouble concentrating on science animations right now, so instead here are some screenshots from my favourite document on the planet. These are taken from a 'work in progress' document from Pepsi's 2008 rebrand. Every figure is as incomprehensible as this one. 1/23

J'ai explosé de rire 💀 La Leçon d'anatomie en visio, Rembrandt, 1632

Well, tomorrow I believe I will be posting the most shocking chart of my entire career. If UI claims jump as expected, they will look like this: epi.org/blog/coronavir… @aaronsojourner @paulgp

Dans cette situation : A - Je me déporte sur l'autre voie B - Je ne bouge pas, je suis bien placé

Ouch!!! "And 2014's Worst Currency Was...Bitcoin" bloombergview.com/articles/2014-…

Gangnam Style breaks YouTube's counter: here's what humanity could have done instead: econ.st/1pXeCjP

@ERBofHistory theguardian.com/film/2014/dec/… Next ERB: James Bond vs Stephen Hawking ?

bloombergview.com/articles/2014-… A modern version of the Corn Laws controversies @Noahpinion