watching kimmel tomorrow

In Belem at the moment and for everyone coming here in November I can recommend: - Celeste restaurante - Cairu ice cream (get the carimbo or paraense) - Remanso do Peixe - eat as much Amazonian fruit as you can

Modi urges Indians to get rid of foreign products amid strained US ties reut.rs/46NF73C

Scrubs -> Green Wing

Palestine is unrecognisable on the ground economist.com/middle-east-...

The American license-permit raj

Absolutely wild, record breaking numbers coming back on solar-plus- storage tenders in India - equivalent to about 2p per kWh!

‘An age of anti-politics was dawning, in which the adoption of substantive positions or policy pledges was a risk and the best a professional politician could do was remain likeable but vague on specifics.’ @will-davies.bsky.social on the political legacy of the 1990s: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"We find that inflation attention increases with inflation, and accelerates when inflation exceeds a certain level. Our results also show that inflation perceptions and expectations change... also because individuals switch from having no view to holding a view when inflation is high."

Why European workers need to switch jobs www.economist.com/finance-and-...

"But now we shall both surely drown", said Sultana. "lol" said Corbyn, "Imao".

India could be a different kind of AI superpower economist.com/leaders/2025...

MHCLG estimating that "196,500 net additional homes have been delivered in England between 1 April 2024 and 31 March 2025". The numbers are heading in the wrong direction for the government to get anywhere near their 1.5m target and they'll be lucky to hit 1m at this rate.

Latest column👇 economist.com/finance-and-...

Latest column👇 economist.com/finance-and-...

Can you make it to the end of this column?  economist.com/finance-and-...

How Westminster became obsessed with paedophiles economist.com/britain/2025...

EU Commission communication on new EU/India partnership - ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

India's central bank forms committee for periodic review of regulations reut.rs/46FwsAa

RIP Robert Redford. You taught me it was okay to be Extremely Handsome.

some prime ministers were born to reshape the economy. some were destined to transform geopolitics. others were fated to eat shit for slightly over a year before raising income tax by 2% and immediately being couped by three different factions. politics is the art of coming to terms with this 👆

India’s push for EU trade deal hit by basmati rice dispute on.ft.com/4gxMyzq

I told you a hundred times you gotta sell your pumpkin futures before Halloween www.ft.com/content/68fc...

Disney exec briefing the producers of the Star Wars sequels:

The Gen Z revolution spreading in Asia on.ft.com/3VMauFw

In the weeks since President Trump’s 50% tariffs on Indian imports took effect, apparel, food and jewelry businesses on central New Jersey’s Oak Tree Road have been wrestling with how to cope.

Don’t panic about the global fertility crash economist.com/leaders/2025... from The Economist

Can’t hear, speak up! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Jair Bolsonaro has been sentenced to 27 years in prison economist.com/the-americas...

From December www.economist.com/leaders/2024...

The British electorate is volatile, but not random. Like shoppers on Stevenage high street, voters disappointed by one brand are trying its most similar competitor. My piece on the latest BES research on fragmentation and the rise of party blocs: www.economist.com/britain/2025...

The economic consequences of a shrinking population have been oversold. www.economist.com/briefing/202...

Can you make it to the end of this column?  economist.com/finance-and-...

Overall consumer debt per low-to-middle income family lower than pre-GFC in 2025 terms.

This is a good point related to the discourse on Disney World etc: www.aaronrenn.com/p/disney-buc...

Polls show Trump is unpopular in most of Europe and the rich world. Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, is positioning himself as leader of the anti-Trump progressive resistance. That’s not translating into greater international clout: why? My column, The Telegram economist.com/internationa...

Interesting.

After my article on the rise in negative news yesterday, nice to see a good news story!: "the delivery of one of the largest UK infrastructure projects roughly on time and close to budget" on.ft.com/41OFYOS

Fitch raises India growth forecast after strong second-quarter reut.rs/4phvodc

BREAKING: Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli resigned, his aide Prakash Silwal said reut.rs/3IbRMnt

This is also the finding of this NBER paper looking at sentiment in 13,000 US local newspapers for 170 years. Since 2008 sentiment as reported in papers has, in the best years, only touched the lows of the previous 150 years. www.nber.org/papers/w32026

UK 10-year Gilts are Goldman Sachs' top cross-asset investment pick over the next six months Forecasts yields to drop 40bp and a total return of 6.1% VS return of 1.6% for Treasuries, 2.2% for the S&P500 Only sees gold as producing better returns over the next year

A reshuffle and a raucous conference show the misery of power economist.com/britain/2025...

A reshuffle and a raucous conference show the misery of power economist.com/britain/2025...

I chuckle every time I see this in joke 😃 @gavinjackson.bsky.social @economist.com #TheSimpsons

What if the AI stockmarket blows up? www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Oh I forgot to post this yesterday but I wrote a quick profile of J.B. Pritzker: www.economist.com/united-state...