Amazing interactive reporting on tax evasion in Germany. @zdfmagaz.in and @fragdenstaat.de show which districts in Germany attract shell companies. steueroasen.watch

Financially betting against climate change means betting on property insurers atm. www.wsj.com/business/all...

„In the latest quarter, [Meta] showed users 14 per cent more ads than a year earlier, and charged 10 per cent more for each one.“ Let’s not forget that the AI boom is built on selling ads. 🎁 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Spirit Halloween now has a section devoted to Trump’s economic policies

In 2016 Geoffrey Hinton said “we should stop training radiologists now" since AI would soon be better at their jobs. He was right: models have outperformed radiologists on benchmarks for ~a decade. Yet radiology jobs are at record highs, with an average salary of $520k. Why?

Kauft dieses Buch, denn es ist sehr gut! Es ist ein Roman, der den Glauben an den Rechtsstaat in den Vordergrund stellt. Und der aufzeigt, warum es sich lohnt, für unsere Demokratie zu kämpfen.

If Europe fails to create digital cash with embedded privacy that normal cash has per default because it opts for using ether as a tech stack, it‘ll fail. 🎁 on.ft.com/4lIFi4y

Analyzing 23 million Tweets from global newspapers reveals how climate-news shocks move currencies, shift capital flows, and hit brown stocks, from María José Arteaga Garavito, Riccardo Colacito, Mariano Max Croce, and Biao Yang https://www.nber.org/papers/w34084

„Unsere Studie zeigt: Die größere Herausforderung liegt nicht allein in ungleicher Bezahlung für gleiche Arbeit, sondern in der strukturellen Trennung von Migrantinnen und Einheimischen im Arbeitsmarkt.“

While the long-view is great, the conclusion that „in the next crisis, governments may not be able to foot the bill“ is poor: If that’s the case, financial markets as a whole break down—making the scenario rather a basket case. 🎁 economist.com/finance-and-...

Do EU recovery funds promote cohesion between regions? No, says article: core regions profit more than peripheral ones sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Especially appreciated the „China‘s e-payments aren’t stablecoins for a reason“

LLMs are bad at knowing what’s important. That’s why it matters whether you give it info in bulk (better) than step by step: the LLM may confuse „wrong“ context it creates while answering with „true“ context you only know. Enter context engineering. www.dbreunig.com/2025/06/22/h...

Whenever I hear @meredithmeredith.bsky.social speak it’s like breathing good air after choking on smog for a week.

For the world’s sunniest cities, getting over 90% of the way to 24/365 solar is now an economic reality. The economic viability of 24/365 solar electricity can be a game changer for industrial use cases like data centres⚡ ember-energy.org/lat...

Die @taz.de zeigt in einer neuen Datenanalyse auf sehr gut, warum die Klimakrise auch eine Gerechtigkeitskrise ist. Denn gerade in Städten wie Berlin entscheidet die soziale Frage wo du wohnst und damit auch wie sehr du von Hitze betroffen sein wirst taz.de/Klimagerecht...

Exhibit A, prediction markets add no predictability.

Weiß da jemand was? @bmf-bund.de isn't working?

Today had new rare earth export data out. The US suffered the most decline in supplies in May. But Germany's supplies of magnets -- the main product from rare earths -- were slashed in half in both April and again in May. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Meine Keynote von der @netzwerkrecherche.org - Jahrestagung als Text: Plattformen und Journalismus: Die Entkernung der Demokratie digitalpolitik.ghost.io/plattformen-... #nr25

Also ich wär ja dafür, dass die Commerzbank verkauft wird.

Great piece of visual journalism showing how geographically concentrated data centre development tends to be - looking at Ireland specifically investigates.thejournal.ie/data-centres ‪ by @conorocarroll.bsky.social

Polizeigewerkschafter gelten in Medien oft als Experten für Kriminalität und Migration – dabei verfolgen sie vor allem eigene Lobby-Interessen. Jetzt ohne Abo lesen: uebermedien.de/105843/achtu...

omg Steve needs money badly

The AI summary misrepresented ECB president Lagarde in this Bloomberg story. I wonder it it was ECB press people supervising that AI.

Der " #MechanicalTurk" - war im 18. Jhd ein gefakter Schach-Computer, in dem ein Mensch saß. 2025 fliegt ein Mrd $ schweres "KI-Startup" auf, das "KI-basierte Programmierung" vertickerte, aber gar keine #KI einsetzte, sondern 700 Inder:innen. #AIwashing timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/t...

🔴 EIL! Bewährungsstrafe (1 Jahr 10 Monate) für #CumEx-Schlüsselfigur Kai-Uwe #Steck. Eine milde Strafe für einen #Kronzeugen - was folgerichtig klingt, wirft nach dem Prozess-Verlauf dennoch Fragen auf 👇

US consumer inflation expectations 5-year unhinged -- highest long-term figure since 1991.

One problem with reporting on US policy: You have to decipher how far removed a seeming decision is from the president to give a sense for how final a decision is. Like this one from the US Trade Representative: Requires a disclaimer.

Und was mit den Versicherern, Pensionskassen und Kleinsparern, die Energiekonzerne im Portfolio haben; Die auch zur Kasse bitten?

So what‘s Ghana and Morocco‘s story?

From simple chart analysis you could say the dollar and yields track again recently, just at a widening US risk premium. Dollar’s correlation with Treasury yields breaks down: on.ft.com/3Z91JaS

“The shutdown came on the heels of Volvo announcing layoffs affecting 5% of the plant’s workers, or roughly 125 people, and a global workforce reduction of 3,000 employees…The layoffs are part of nearly $2 billion in cost reductions Volvo is undertaking as tariffs have roiled global trade.”

Great thread on the other legal tools Trump has on the EU after the reciprocal tariffs were struck down.

Radwege werden über alle Mobilitätskategorien hinweg am schlechtesten bewertet. Sind Radfahrende die anspruchsvollsten Verkehrsteilnehmenden? Nicht-repräsentative Umfrage im @tagesspiegel.de

Yea weird twist: Elon Musk’s xAI pays to offer its „service“ to Telegram users — not the other way around.

Imagine: Only two and half years ago, this country debated whether to send Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine.

Who just got burned? TMTG=Trump Media & Technology Group

It's quite rare to speak to people who have seen, smelled and felt the impacts of our dirty supply chains for the clean energy revolution. Activists I spoke with warn about the impacts of rare earths mining in northern Myanmar. @boell.de @globalwitness.org www.dw.com/en/the-dirty...

in which our valued friend @benmckenzie.bsky.social is shouting the obvious slate.com/technology/2... this is gonna be Bank Run Epidemic 2.0

Great story comparing food prices in Europe: Barilla pasta is up to 31% more expensive in Germany — where are the arbitrageurs driving pasta over the borders?? Is efficient market theory wrong?? www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...

Class War from Above. Graphed. On top of the direct distributional effects, the demand expansion, in conjunction with tariffs, will boost US inflation and force interest rates higher. At the latest now, every low and middle income US voter must wake up to the fact that MAGA is not on their side.

I wonder if modeling both EU and US negotiators as reporting to anyone is true: The US seems to report to the Treasury market only and EU negotiators have so many constituents its tough to model.

Die Abbildungen 30 und 31 sind meines Erachtens die Highlights des gestern vorgestellten Frühjahrsgutachtens des @svrwirtschaft.bsky.social Je nach konkreter Mittelverwendung hat das Fiskalpaket massiv unterschiedliche Auswirkungen auf BIP-Wachstum und damit die Schuldenquote. /1

Chinese CMOC overtook Glencore as the largest cobalt producer in 2024. Great story on the diplomatic gamble the Congo is trying to play to get US support for access to minerals. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

And Bloomberg Terminal is the bookie. “Would you bet on a match that you can’t see or know the score?” another said, adding that trading volumes were lower as a result. www.ft.com/content/cd43...

As Germany is set to roll back supply-chain legislation, incredibly timely report on debt-bondage and housing conditions for workers at global bike manufacturers in Taiwan. mondediplo.com/2025/02/11bi...

The 90-day pause on China tariffs is the largest reduction in tariffs since Trump took office, by far, but it still leaves tariffs significantly higher than they were on April 2nd and eight times as high as before he took office

Best thing I read on the popes this week.

This comes after a long history of Austrian popes.