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Frances_Coppola

@Frances_Coppola@econtwitter.net

The Cassandra of finance. Always right, never believed. Kitchen sink economist. Twitter refugee. Wrote a book about QE, now writing a book about banking. Rants a lot.

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I spent yesterday singing Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius. And now I feel sorry for demons. Seriously, they deserve our sympathy. They aren't the irrationally evil beings you think they are.

(Though of course I am not really talking about evil spirits...)

https://coppolacomment.substack.com/p/demons-deserve-our-sympathy

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Last year, I walked 26 miles in a day to raise money for Alzheimer's Research, in memory of my mother Joy Cooke, who died of dementia in 2017.

On 1st June this year, I'm doing it again. This time, I will be accompanied by my daughter Nadz.
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I raised over £2,000 last year. Let's see if we can do even better this year! Here's our Just Giving page. Please give generously!

https://www.justgiving.com/team/FrancesandNadz

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Here's my piece at The Mint magazine on instability economics. Most Western economists think the natural state of an economy is stability. though shocks can temporarily force it out of its normal stable orbit and it evolves over time. But I argue that when you take into account the storms constantly experienced by developing countries, economic history shows the natural state of the global economy is instability, not stability.
https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-illusion-of-stability/

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My latest post calls on Western goverrnments to take concrete steps to force Israel to comply with the ICJ's provisional measures. Harsh words are not enough. It's time to end arms sales and impose sanctions.
https://coppolacomment.substack.com/p/the-west-must-no-longer-tolerate

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New Coppola Comment post, looking at the IPC's report on acute food insecurity in the Gaza Strip, and considering what we mean by "starvation".
https://coppolacomment.substack.com/p/is-gaza-starving

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Coppola Comment: The Tragedy of Gaza.
Why Gaza was an economic mess long before 7/10: who the principal culprits are: and why Israel's end game is inevitably the destruction of Gaza.
Introduction & summary on my old site with a link to the full piece.

https://www.coppolacomment.com/2024/02/the-tragedy-of-gaza.html

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Evening, pachyderms. Here's my new Coppola Comment post, The Tragedy of Gaza.

's economy was already in terminal decline long before Oct 7th. Why was this, and who was responsible?

https://coppolacomment.substack.com/p/the-tragedy-of-gaza

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New Coppola Comment post, on the zombie company behind Nigel Farage's newsletter. (£/free trial)

https://open.substack.com/pub/coppolacomment/p/the-zombie-company-behind-nigel-farages?r=2bre7b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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New Coppola Comment post, on the dreadful state of European bank lending. The ECB has over-tightened and should cut interest rates now. Featuring Stefan Gerlach of EFG.
https://open.substack.com/pub/coppolacomment/p/the-dreadful-state-of-european-bank?r=2bre7b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcome=true

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"It is hard to recognise evil when it wears an ordinary face."

My piece on the human capacity for evil, and the difficulty we all have recognising evil when it is too close to home.

https://open.substack.com/pub/coppolacomment/p/evil-wears-an-ordinary-face?r=2bre7b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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New Coppola Comment post, on the link between trade and GDP, and the prospects for reversing the UK's long-term loss of competitiveness. Featuring the Resolution Foundation's new report "Ending Stagnation", and as always, lots of lovely ONS charts.

https://coppolacomment.substack.com/p/the-past-present-and-future-of-uk

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My piece on the repugnant economics of hostage-taking explains why Israel releases far more prisoners than Hamas does hostages, and why Hamas treats hostages better than Israel does Palestinian prisoners.
https://coppolacomment.substack.com/p/hostage-economics

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My new Coppola Comment post highlights NIESR's call for a large increase in public investment to revitalise the UK economy. Chartfest. https://coppolacomment.substack.com/p/the-sorry-state-of-uk-investment

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My (long) Coppola Comment post on the conflict between Israel and Gaza is now up. The road to Armageddon: Israel's brutal military campaign in Gaza could lead to disaster for Israel and possibly even for the world.

https://coppolacomment.substack.com/p/the-road-to-armageddon

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ICYMI, my post on CBDCs and why current central bank thinking is going in the wrong direction. Long and a bit nerdy, just right for Sunday reading. And hopefully a welcome relief from wars.

https://coppolacomment.substack.com/p/cbdcs-going-in-the-wrong-direction

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Still Life With Paradox: Kindness https://stilllifewithparadox.blogspot.com/2023/10/kindness.html

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@mxtthxw I think I will mainly be posting on Bluesky. I'm not sure how much longer this mastodon server will continue.

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My post on the FCA' report on bank account closures and "debanking". Unsurprisingly, it finds nothing wrong. But it's sketchy, and doesn't include Farage. There's more flack to come. https://coppolacomment.substack.com/p/nothing-to-look-at-here

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Damn.

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Legal legerdemain: how the pressure group Sex Matters redefines part of the Equality Act 2010 to deny trans and non-binary children rights the legislation was intended to protect. https://coppolacomment.substack.com/p/legal-legerdemain

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I'm personally in favour of banning political parties that are entirely bankrolled by their millionaire leaders. Seems much more important for democracy than banning the EU flag at the last night of the Proms.

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Let's make this personal.

According to the Spectator's editor Fraser Nelson, my friend who is dying of a brain tumour and his wife who is caring for him 24/7 are both "potential workforce".

The utter callousness of Fraser Nelson and his kind beggars belief.

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To Fraser Nelson, there's no such thing as "too ill to work". In his Telegraph and Spectator pieces, he puts seriously ill ppl like my friend and full-time carers like my friend's wife into the "out of work" category and demands they be forced to look for paid work.

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If we have any claim at all to be a civilised society, we must push back against the callous and destructive policy proposals of Fraser Nelson and his kind.

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Here's my post debunking Fraser Nelson's recent tweet and articles in the Telegraph and the Spectator.

Welfare benefits are not "the biggest scandal in politics". The right-wing press misrepresenting facts and misusing statistics in pursuit of their political agenda is.

https://coppolacomment.substack.com/p/welfare-benefits-arent-the-biggest

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