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R an @sabinedoering: Die Überlegungen von @MattSleat gehören natürlich auch zu dieser Debatte. https://www.liberalcurrents.com/kahan-review-sleat/

Das Video unserer NOUS-Veranstaltung „Freedom from Fear: An Incomplete History of Liberalism“ ist nun endlich online. Ich freue mich sehr, dass dieses Gespräch mit Alan S. Kahan, moderiert von @AlexanderSchwi9, nun erneut aufgegriffen und geteilt werden kann. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwwvuEycKjs

RT by @sabinedoering: Investment funds from the 500 billion euro special fund may be misused, Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil denies this. But he cannot demonstrate effective audits. https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/immobilien-warum-lars-klingbeil-ein-kontrolleproblem-mit-dem-sondervermoegen-hat-a-a8644951-ac0f-4b06-8478-cde7670bed04?sara_ref=re-so-x-rss#ref=rss

RT by @sabinedoering: The mood in #housingconstruction worsened again in March. The business climate fell from -17.7 to -19.5 points. This was due to noticeably more pessimistic expectations. 🔗https://www.ifo.de/fakten/2026-04-17/zinssorgen-belasten-geschaeftsklima-im-wohnungsbau #ifoSurvey @KlausWohlrabe

RT by @sabinedoering: CDU Health Minister Warken's plans for statutory health insurance are also controversial in the coalition. The CSU is bothered by the fact that the federal government does not completely cover the large block of costs for basic security recipients. https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/csu-kritiert-warkens-reformplaene-als-nicht-tragfaehig-a-9161346a-068e-4ca7-b2da-51ba1925245f?sara_ref=re-so-x-rss#ref=rss

RT by @sabinedoering: You can see the bubble problem very clearly in the fact that “officials” for the media and X are all A15s in the ministry. They completely forget about the prison guard, the clerk at the KBA and the guy in the court mailroom.

RT by @sabinedoering: High earners should pay more KK contributions. “According to Health Minister Warken, this will lead to more justice.” If there is a positive correlation between income + health, I would be careful with the word “justice”. The CDU once wanted capitation payments. https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/warken-plant-anraise-der- contributionsbemessenslimit-200739537.html

R to @sabinedoering: However, the previously bourgeois-revolutionary, state-critical academic freedom has often been transformed into a hierarchical professorial civil service: resistant to political interventions, but not necessarily liberal within. 😉

Exactly. The fundamental right of academic freedom requires institutional safeguards. The professional civil service at universities is intended to prevent research, figures and publications from depending on political favor. (It's all in my academic freedom book.)

Because Klingbeil rejects tax financing of the health costs of citizens' benefit recipients: Should the gap now be closed through a higher contribution assessment limit, i.e. again through work and contributors instead of through the federal budget? https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2026-04/gesundheitsreform-krankenversicherung-nina-warken-spd- contributionbemessenslimit

An example of the refusal to reform that will make the AfD strong: wrong in terms of regulatory policy, fiscally non-transparent and, yes, socially “deeply unfair”.

RT by @sabinedoering: Can he open the Strait of Hormuz?

RT by @sabinedoering: Greetings to the Sánchez fans

RT by @sabinedoering: #PoliticalActionism - a few thoughts on the measures against high fuel prices https://www.wirtschaftsdienst.eu/content/jahr/2026/heft/4/teil/kraftstoffmassnahmepaket-politiker-aktionismus.html

R to @sabinedoering: With Kant, the “scientific interest” is that of “truth” – and demands a space independent of politics, “where reason must be entitled to speak publicly [freely]”. 3/3

R to @sabinedoering: It protects scientific standards and thus the autonomy of science - and thereby protects science against political influence. 2/3

Thank you for engaging with my book again. However, “restorative” misses the point: the distinction between freedom of expression and freedom of science, which goes back to the Paulskirche constitution, is precisely a liberal advance. 1/3

RT by @sabinedoering: Ifo study: Only twelve percent of the special funds reach municipalities https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/mehr-wirtschaft/bei-kommunen-kommen-nur-zwoelf-prozent-des-sondervermoegens-an-accg-200737069.html

R to @sabinedoering: A transparent debate between Slobodian and experts on Hayek, Mises, etc. is overdue.

“Slobodian approached his first book, Globalists, as a confused but relatively honest researcher who delved into material he did not understand.” But then. Read! https://www.aevumquarterly.de/phil-magness-zu-hayeks-bastards

RT by @sabinedoering: Germany could be so much stronger in AI. We have no shortage of leaders. But as a country we should take technological development much more seriously. /5

RT by @sabinedoering: The greater Germany's technological gap, the greater the gap between expectations and reality. From the High-Tech Agenda on AI: 1. 10% of economic output should be generated AI-based by 2030. That would be more than 2x the auto industry. /1

RT by @sabinedoering: Many thanks to @olk_julian for the invitation to formulate a “10-point resilience agenda” for the @handelsblatt together with @MarkusEconomist. This became a 30-page document - link in the comment, the 10 points below. @LEFoundation @PrincetonBCF

RT by @sabinedoering: Excess profits tax is arbitrary. @Lars_Feld puts it succinctly: "Any definition that tries to achieve this under tax law is essentially arbitrary."

This question is also facing the federal government. A regime that tortures, violates human rights and carries out mass executions will now sit on a UN human rights panel. What credibility does our human rights policy and the UN still have?

RT by @sabinedoering: The uncertainty among companies in Germany has increased significantly in the past few weeks. In March, 78.6% of companies found it difficult or rather difficult to estimate their future business development. #ifosurvey 🔗https://www.ifo.de/fakten/2026-04-15/krieg-im-iran-treibt-unsicherheit-der-wirtschaft-nach-oben @KlausWohlrabe

RT by @sabinedoering: The Chancellor and his Vice-Chancellor are continuing as they have for the past ten years. Demand policy à la “You never walk alone”. The state cornucopia is being poured out, says @Lars_Feld in his column “Ordnungsruf” in the @handelsblatt. https://www.handelsblatt.com/meinung/wirtschaftsforum/ORDORDSRUFF-LARS-FELD-TANKOFF-SO-FAHRT-BERLIN-DAS-LAND-gegen-Die-WAND/100216284.html

Once again, this sounds less like departmental communication than like an overall political message. Maybe ministries should explain better what they actually do - instead of what they stand for in terms of party politics? #Separation of powers

Can we please stop commenting on politics like a team game – e.g. who is “backing up” whom – and instead talk about content? What is important are factual similarities, differences and arguments, not pure loyalties.

R to @sabinedoering: … from today. The former Secretary of State, by the way.

The FDP of yesterday and...

RT by @sabinedoering: On the situation of the CDU: Today there was great support for Katherina Reiche in the CDU federal executive committee on the day on which Friedrich Merz presented in the federal executive committee with equally great support a policy that Reiche absolutely wanted to prevent with the help of the public.

RT by @sabinedoering: A new paper by Jason Hickel et al in BMJ Global Health argues that IMF/World Bank structural adjustment programs have led to poverty, loss of wealth, etc. I have one with @VincentGeloso,@jbsteinberg and @JustinTCallais 1/ https://x.com/VincentGeloso/status/2043678489195208838?s=20

RT by @sabinedoering: A month ago, together with @GrimmVeronika, @haucap and @WielandVolker, I published a report on the Iran conflict. Since March 13th... another month has been lost for reform debates. Our text: https://www.bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de/Redaktion/DE/Downloads/J-L/20260325-kurzgutachten-energiekritik.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=4

RT von @sabinedoering: Ich habe diesen Artikel jetzt von mehreren „BREAKING“-Accounts gesehen (und wir wissen hoffentlich inzwischen, was das bedeutet). Aber: 1) Es gibt keinen mathematischen „Beweis“ und 2) Die Annahmen, die Sie für diese Vorhersage benötigen, gelten in der Praxis nicht. Die wirtschaftlichen Bedingungen, die Sie für einen solchen Nachfrageeinbruch benötigen, habe ich hier aufgeschrieben: https://open.substack.com/pub/aleximas/p/will-advanced-ai-lead-to-negative?r=1ds20&utm_medium=ios Im Beitrag ist ein formales Modell verlinkt. TLDR: Damit es zu einem Nachfrageeinbruch kommt, müssen die Präferenzen vollständig gesättigt sein (d. h. eine Person möchte buchstäblich nichts anderes), und selbst wenn das der Fall ist, gibt es viele sehr einfache Richtlinien, die dies verhindern können.

RT by @sabinedoering: Relief package: politics with the watering can. We cannot afford to provide relief for people who do not need it.

RT by @sabinedoering: If practically all economic policy advice agrees on what it is better to stay away from, then you can be sure: the federal government is doing exactly that. #Fuel discount

RT by @sabinedoering: The gasoline tax cut that has now been decided is not the right response to the crisis. Germany has to bear the higher energy costs, fuel discounts only redistribute the costs. The majority of drivers can cover the cost of petrol, but the relief is not targeted.

RT by @sabinedoering: Once again the SPD gets what it wants and the Union gets exactly: nothing from the substantial reforms it announced. One more negotiation like that and the Union can close the shop.