Indeed. You give poor tenants the ability to avoid the fixed costs of the system. Should not be the privilege of the rich.

This came to me, as if in a vision, which is weird because I’ve been complaining about people attributing to DA what is rightfully MW’s for years.

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A marvellous combination of sexism, arrogance towards foreigners and ignorance about technology. Top marks all around.

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In our new issue, @wolfgangschmidt.bsky.social writes that he is uneasy with the state of Germany’s foreign and security policy debate, which too often ignores the economic foundations of policymaking and isolates good analysis within the foreign policy sphere. ip-quarterly.com/en/fast-forw...

This is one of my favourite charts. It shows how the economy emerged from WW2 with a lot more worker power.. and then post-1979 neoliberalism crushed it. sorry folks, we aint gonna get another wage-price spiral

My favourite in this week’s issue: England has shown the world how to replace farm subsidies Important for the EU bubble to study. economist.com/leaders/2026...

Europe does get a few things wrong. Competition policy is not one of them. My leader this week in The @economist.com. economist.com/leaders/2026...

“The very nature of the alleged conspiracy does not state an antitrust claim, and the court therefore has no qualm dismissing with prejudice.” www.ft.com/content/731f...

The women thought that as the only man on a panel I should sit in the middle. It followed Lars Klingbeil’s agenda-setting (in the German Agenda sense) reform speech @bertelsmannst.bsky.social.

This is a phenomenal piece of journalism by my colleagues at @economist.com - deep reported detail on how Iran is now being run that I haven't seen anywhere else: www.economist.com/middle-east-...

Today, we signed an agreement with 🇳🇴 & 🇮🇸 to join GOVSATCOM and IRIS² 🇪🇺   This is a concrete step to strengthen Europe’s security and resilience together with trusted partners.   Secure and reliable connectivity is essential for crisis response, especially in remote regions. #EUSpace

Europe’s choice: Grow, or become a vassal Ouch. economist.com/by-invitatio...

EU speeds up free trade with Mercosur treaty and new Australia agreement

Love the fact that Finland has income-based speeding tickets. The richest man in Åland was just fined €120,000 for going 58 km/h in a 30 km/h zone.

"The high turnout hinted at more widespread dissatisfaction with her government. The rejected bill did nothing to address the real problems of Italy’s courts." www.economist.com/europe/2026/...

The fiscal constraints are forcing Germany to confront its 20th century tax and social insurance system for married couples. First to be phased out: the free health and care insurance for the non-working spouse. Looooong overdue. www.capital.de/wirtschaft-p...

Big news. EU Mercosur to enter into force before the completion of Schuman roundabout. Very important timing to reduce the impact of the new space available to EU farmer protests.

If you're replying to a post about torched ambulances in London with a point about Israel, you've crossed the line into antisemitism. And you're doing absolutely nothing to help any cause. Even if you consider yourself one of the good people. Maybe especially so. You've just caught racism.

🚨 Is 'why has gold fallen 20% from peak?' the wrong question? Maybe a better one is 'how on earth should we look at gold post-Ukraine?' www.ft.com/content/e41f...

The two confused?

a few more weeks of this, trump’s going to release the rest of the epstein files to distract from the war in iran.

The Greens take Munich, and it wasn’t even close. Incredible, really, the heart of Bavaria is green now.

Germany is rocked by a drastic case of sexual (online, deepfakes) violence involving a popular actor. @spiegel.de stands by its reporting. (Said actor denies the charges.) His wife Collien Fernandes, the victim, is incredibly brave, given how soul-crushingly disturbing this is.

Why do we do this? Porque podemos.

This cover has aged very well - except that the jerry can ended up being empty, to the president’s great surprise.

The reckless campaign against Iran will weaken America’s president. That will make him angry. Be warned: he makes a very bad loser econ.st/4bAtZby

NEW | World adds record 814 GW of solar and wind in 2025, cushioning impact of the gas price crunch ☀️🌪️ The new capacity can generate enough power every year to displace a SEVENTH of global gas generation —or almost DOUBLE Qatar’s annual LNG export volume—saving ~$138 bn 💰

#Italy vs. Spain, power generation in 2025.

It gets the history wrong. The US goal for the European project was for it to be a military project. That’s why we pushed so hard for the Euro Defense Community. NATO was a holding measure until Europe united, became strong so we c/d leave. Only after EDC failed in 1954 did we accept staying forever

How far can you get in 60 minutes? European cities offer vastly larger areas reachable by public transit than US cities of comparable population size. Source: lconwell.github.io/lucasconwell...

Our cover this week. www.economist.com/leaders/2026...

Kraftstoffmaßnahmenpaket, deutscher wird‘s nicht.

Big Weed holding up the EU-UK reset.

For those interested in energy prices and the cost of living, please see our new VoxEU column on household responses to the 2022 energy crisis.

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I am not right for it because I am neither smart nor innovative (and possibly also a bit older than 30), but if YOU are, this is a great opportunity. 👇

We say "Willkommen in der schönsten Stadt Deutschlands".

This is very exciting, was hoping for this. Congratulations @helene-rey.bsky.social , can't think of anyone better www.bis.org/press/p26031...

"Iran, which is completely defeated, is disrupting the Strait with the navy and missiles we've completely destroyed and that is unacceptable because it is making the oil price go up, which is good actually, and NATO which I do not support needs to come rescue us immediately. Thank you for your a..."

Intrigued by who might pay for this personalised number plate (spotted on Southampton Row in London)

the best thread I‘ve read on AI and jobs maybe ever

Random thought - maybe re-prioritising the allocation of public space isn’t increasing “division” of society, but it’s just making pre-existing division between privileged vs. non-privileged groups more obvious - and the previously privileged don’t like it?

"Granted, being more predictable than America under Donald #Trump, less revanchist than Vladimir #Putin’s Russia or less autocratic than #Xi Jinping’s China is a low bar to clear." www.economist.com/europe/2026/...

Another day, another stupid Excel chart.