Vrijheid en eigen verantwoordelijkheid is als je zetels wint en op basis daarvan subsidie krijgt van de overheid? Duidelijk.

For anyone wondering how we got here, read Mark Mazower's "On Antisemitism" www.penguin.co.uk/books/464187...

Ik begrijp nu wel waarom er bij Geesteswetenschappen 150 FTE weg moet. ten eerste is het gewoon geld op door de miljoenen die er twee jaar lang aan fopbeveiliging zijn uitgegeven bij Wijnhaven en ten tweede wordt er bij ons ook Arabisch gesproken. En nog veel meer andere enge talen.

Can think of at least one other historical persona who sat in a concrete basement below ground, saying weird things till the end.

Klaver trying to win over VVD by recycling their campaign slogans from. 2017...

Hoe stellen zich mensen zo'n interne evaluatie bij deze een-mans partij voor? Een minuutje interne monoloog??

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In dit stuk komt "populisme" 12 keer voor, "populist" 11 keer. Maar welke definitie van populisme hier gebruikt wordt blift een raadsel... Mamdami is niet anti-pluralistisch/illiberaal...

Reading Mazower's "the Greek revolution" my internal reading voice sometimes switches from dispassionate to the narrator voice of Arrested Development, thanks to gems like this. I can really picture the "po-po" part 😆

❌"greetings stranger, I'm the granddaughter of late prime minister of XXX living in exile. Can you send me some 💵? I'll pay u back once I get access to my grandpa's funds" ✅ "Greetings Blackrock, I have invoices from BelgaCom, can you send me 100 million dollars? belgacomics is going to pay u back"

Screenshot with meme potential for the upcoming sequel to the "does NL need an electoral threshold" discussion

Scrap the either/or, might turn out that both assumptions are compatible. Disgruntled pvv voters went to even more extreme FvD and it's carbon copy for people who work in accounting (JA21)?

Before jumping to conclusions about the disloyalty of pvdaGL voters or loyalty of VVD voters, perhaps best to wait for the vote migration Sankey diagrams (which, given the number of parties, will probably look like a spaghetti junction)

Either Wilders doesn't want want to govern (which is the logical conclusion of his strategy to focus on the hardcore of pvv voters), or he is assuming that potential PVV voters are more radical on migration than other parties assume.

The car crisis tops today’s EU summit but leaders keep staring at the wrong problem The issue isn’t the 2035 engine ban - it’s demand falling off a cliff today With @sandertordoir.bsky.social and @lucasguttenberg.bsky.social, we show why flipping regs won’t help - and what the EU can do instead.

En hier is de definitieve line-up.

Wat een sterke documentaire npo.nl/start/serie/...

The VVD's intentions are now very clear: they don't seek to govern, but instead shouting from the sidelines. thus in addition to copying the content of the PVV now they also embrace the PVV's "governing" strategy.

Dutch gov recognizes the drawbacks of derisking private investments for public utilities and thus decides to own/finance the investment itself. Unfortunately it's an investment into ☢️that won't have a future and will only generate a return if heavy (polluting) industry consume the electricity, too.

Looking at this exchange, reminded of Daalder's anecdote (supposedly) Dahl telling him: "you know, your country theoretically cannot exist"

I'm afraid the trope "Our economy will soon turn into Greece" will get a new lease on life..

Is the distinction between bank and non-bank lending analytically and in practice still tenable?

"given how tinfoil hat goldbugs can get, maybe it’s fitting that at least part of the narrative about the rally is based on statistics that seek to describe opaque backroom chatter rather than official data."

"i'm with this man, but if he doesn't win we are gone."

Wie das Wettbewerbsfähigkeitnarrativ völlig an der Realität vorbeigeht: die Differenz in Lohnkosten lässt sich nicht (mehr) durch Produktivitätsteigerung ausgleichen weil in Ländern wo Lohnkosten niedriger sind dieselben state of the art Maschinen genutzt werden. spotify.link/vfswGu1zsXb

Policy-based evidence making, MAGA style

That Bloomberg AI industry bubble chart will need an update, with a bubble for an insurance company that holds equity in OpenAI and receives insurance payments from it.

fully automated luxury consumerism..."if you believe the premise that humans are social animals"

The ideological underpinnings of Germany's exportist growth model - while supposedly the glue that keeps together the social bloc supporting this growth model - seem to undermine that very growth model. www.springerprofessional.de/en/exportism...

"freedom to issue debt is not the same thing as unconditional freedom to spend [...] Congress can only keep spending as long as its spending doesn't empower labour [...]. You can spend as much as you like as long as it's subsidizing the inflation of asset prices, not the inflation of wages." (47:30)

Question to #far-right experts/AfD observers: is there a recent piece on the AfD's welfare state/social policies and whether/how they included this in their campaign for the 2025 elections in Germany?

New @thedigradio.bsky.social: first of two w @melindacooper.bsky.social on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. How neoliberalism remade US capitalism into an engine for endless asset appreciation, and the attendant reactionary politics www.thedigradio.com/podcast/coun...

Historians: anyone has suggestions for a book/articles on urban history of The Hague (20th C, in dutch or engl)? I learned from a friend yesterday that the population in The Hague was much larger during 1950s/1960s than today and about the NL housing policy during the postwar era. Any pointers? 🙏

Crypto disavowed tradfi while simultaneously reinventing (imitating) tradfi practices. And private credit now seems to imitate crypto narratives from 4-5 years ago: "high yields, super safe, no double spending possible" www.ft.com/content/395c...

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Does anyone believe the tropes about "more innovation", "better jobs"? If that was the case, you would see it in NL. But a cursory look at where ABP (one of the largest pension funds in the world!) invests shows that it's not in SMEs or even primarily European companies, but bonds...

What I can't wrap my head around is: not wanting to administer a rate, because supposedly a (single) market rate can do it better. But then also: it's a market that is "risk-free" and relies primarily on government debt.

In this weekend edition of the Financiële Dagblad (Dutch FT knock-off), interview with new head of Dutch Central Bank. Obviously, this is part PR, but you can also see in the responses how this central banker thinks about CBs and its role/tasks: thinking about the CB like a CommBank and 1/2

Subbotnik having a comeback in the US of A in 2025 was not on my bingo card...

If this takes off, first thing to go from MiCA regulation is the restriction that HQLAs have to be denominated in currency referenced by SC. Because with a shortage of safe assets in frugal Europe, I don't see these banks not using US treasuries (either directly or in some roundabout system)

"We are gonna take some of that money we taxed out of US importers and ultimately US consumers and give it to our farmers who will still be struggling. I take credit for that."

Code is law; not your keys = not your coins. blablabla Crypto is emulating Traditional Finance www.ft.com/content/5b00...

Things haven't failed for the past 20 years....so: "Securitization is not the problem here"

after all, chainsaw guy did not have nerves of stihl

Wadephul hat sich bei Rutte abgeguckt, dass man Trump schmeicheln muss, unter anderem durch das positive umdeuten seiner böswilligen rants. Trump ist es wichtig wie andere über ihn denken (Merkmal des Narzissmus); Wadephul macht daraus: Trump nimmt andere ernst. #whatafool

The innovation in crypto is that it has replaced fractional reserve banking with * checks notes * double fractional reserve banking! (from today's Money Stuff newsletter)

In the run-up to the GFC we got: mortgage originators, intermediaries who bundled and sliced those mortgages selling them on to other intermediaries and households. What lulled people into believing that this was safe was a) securitization (risk supposedly distributed through bundling mortgages),