Founder @GrassfieldsV Contributor : Jeune Afrique, Les Échos // Auteur de : "L’Afrique face au cynisme climatique" // Ex Londoner-NewYorker-Berliner-Dubliner
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Serge Eric Menye retweeted
A great example of the self-inflicted wounds damaging African countries. A World Bank report estimates that corruption in Kenya adds nearly $3 billion, or the equivalent of 2% GDP, to Kenya's fiscal deficit every single year.
"Kenya's economy could be more than 20 times larger by 2035 if it introduced the sort of anti-corruption reforms seen in countries like Ghana and Senegal, and add 7.7 million more and better jobs."
Serge Eric Menye retweeted
The United Arab Emirates helped fund and train Colombian mercenaries who fought with a Sudanese paramilitary force accused of war crimes and genocide, a recent United Nations report found bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Serge Eric Menye retweeted
Breaking: China’s CO2 emissions fell 3.1% in Q3 of 2026, the largest drop since 2022 Covid lockdowns. High oil prices and EVs pushed down oil demand, clean energy growth displaced coal power, steel and cement emissions fell, and coal-to-chemicals industry growth kept slowing.
Serge Eric Menye retweeted
🇺🇸🇮🇱 Le fossé entre la communauté juive américaine, libérale et progressiste, et l’Etat d’Israël, dominé par le nationalisme ethnique, ne cesse de croître
49% des juifs des US ont une opinion favorable de Mamdani vs 20% pour Netanyahu
Et 60% des juifs du MI ont voté pour El Sayed
Serge Eric Menye retweeted
1. US business sector productivity growth was 2.1% over the year ending 2026 Q3. That's solid.
2. If you think of trend productivity growth as ~1-1.5%, we running +0.5-1pp higher at the moment. Again, that's good news.
3. For perspective, at the height of the dot com boom (1999-2000), productivity growth was running about +2pp higher annually. This premium had completely faded by ~2005. So we're at 1/4 - 1/2 of peak dot com boom effect.
4. I would put next to no weight on quarter-to-quarter productivity growth. It's very noisy.
5. Productivity growth was stronger in 2023, when AI capabilities were far lower but AI capex was accelerating precipitously. That should tell us something.
6. There are probably other factors besides AI affecting short-run measured US productivity as well, including knock-ons from US policy choices made during the pandemic, the high-churn labor market of 2022, and large shifts in immigration flows.
7. Measures of TFP growth from Fernald and BLS are weak, suggesting to the extent AI is a factor, it's not primarily through task- or worker-level productivity effects (but TFP has to be estimated so take it with many grains of salt).
More from @Stripe Economics here:
stripeeconomics.com/p/ai-and…
Evidence is growing that we’re turning the corner on productivity.
US productivity grew at a 3.6% annual rate this past quarter.
That’s more than double the 1.5% average from 2007-2019.
The new numbers put me further ahead for my bet with Bob Gordon about productivity growth in the 2020s. 💪
Here’s how far the US is now ahead of the CBO estimate at the start of the decade (before they knew about the pandemic or LLMs) courtesy of @jasonfurman’s
Econvitals.
Serge Eric Menye retweeted
NEW poll: A supermajority of Jewish Americans believe Israeli & AIPAC actions increase antisemitism.
80% say Israel’s actions in Gaza & the West Bank increase antisemitism in the US.
66% say AIPAC’s campaign spending against candidates critical of Israel increases antisemitism.
Serge Eric Menye retweeted
AIPAC and the network of pro-Israel PACs spent $55.3 million against candidates who ultimately won. These are the candidates they spent the most against, and it still couldn't move the needle.
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Serge Eric Menye retweeted
Un chiffre qui a peu circulé permet de saisir la dimension cataclysmique de la deconvenue republicaine : le GOP n'a obtenu que 34.7% du vote populaire.
Il s'agit tout simplement de son pire résultat depuis sa creation en 1854.
Son dernier score sous les 40% remonte à 1936.
Serge Eric Menye retweeted
Here's a fun one.
Based on the count so far, Democratic candidates for Senate did nearly 5 points better (in margin) relative to 2024 in counties where Trump held a rally in Oct/Nov, compared to directly adjacent counties in the same state.
Serge Eric Menye retweeted
A 35-year Navy veteran removed by Pete Hegseth is now heading to Congress after flipping a district Trump won by 13 points in 2024.
The irony is hard to miss: the man who removed her may soon have to answer her questions on Capitol Hill.
Politics has a way of writing its own twists.
Serge Eric Menye retweeted
Democrats and Republicans might be deeply split after the midterms, but a growing number agree on one big idea: The era of unquestioned U.S. support for Israel needs to end. wapo.st/4iZtRY1
Serge Eric Menye retweeted
You let a demented old man run wild. He imposed tariffs, insulted allies, threatened Greenland, started a war with Iran, blew up boats at will, terrorized US cities, gutted healthcare, and pursued endless vanity projects while you clapped like seals. Now you’re all unemployed spineless cowards.
Serge Eric Menye retweeted
There is one contingency in which I won’t reintroduce the articles of impeachment:
Hegseth resigns.
“Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, the famously anti-Trump GOP lawmaker, told CNN he plans to trigger a vote to impeach Hegseth when Congress returns next week — and multiple GOP sources said they expect it to pass.” cnn.com/2026/11/04/politics/…
Serge Eric Menye retweeted
American Jews stuck with the Democratic Party because they appreciated its increasingly honest view of Israeli repression and its determination to end U.S. complicity. xitter.cf/jstreetdotorg/status/2…
According to our 2026 Election Survey of Jewish voters, 72% of American Jews voted Democrat last night. There was no exodus.
We'll have deeper results at our briefing tomorrow at 1 PM ET - RSVP here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
Serge Eric Menye retweeted
When we return next week, we’ll get 218 signatures for Epstein Files Transparency Act II, which guarantees a vote.
Survivors will be able to get their own records, State Attorneys General can prosecute crimes, and we can take the DOJ to court for keeping critical files hidden.⚖️
Serge Eric Menye retweeted
Here is a quadrant chart using CNN’s exit poll. It shows what issues hurt Republicans, by how many voters called each issue crucial and how they voted. Cost of living (49%, D+34), corruption (55%, D+28), & Iran (34%, D+46) made people vote D. Only immigration (36%, R+15) helped Rs.
