Ethanmy

[International and Monetary Economics Network @int_mon_econ]

Great news!

The Global Macro Database has been updated

"The 2026_06 update adds 39 new historical and country-level sources, bringing the database to 160 sources, extends automated error monitoring, resolves dozens of data-quality issues, and improves the Stata, R, and Python packages."

https://t.co/xBMXCjgnUW

[Eric Wallerstein @ericwallerstein]

stole this from Oxford Economics. EM is getting shellacked when you remove TSMC, Samsung and SK Hynix.

[Bank for International Settlements @BIS_org]

By ending 250 years of silver shipments from Latin America to Europe and Asia, the Battle of Trafalgar reshaped the international monetary system. New working paper: https://t.co/yZVXqcg2nC