This list is a mix of banking havens, Petro states, islands, future climate migrants, countries blocked from credit markets and ... Taiwan? If Taiwan wanted to ensure military aid in a future war, having some wealthy creditors might help. www.visualcapitalist.com/countries-wi...

The White House argues that drug smugglers are terrorists who've effectively launched mass casualty attacks on the US -- and thus, our military has a right to bomb civilian ships suspected of carrying drugs. There are a few problems with that argument www.vox.com/politics/471...

Oracle CDS, 16-year high: @bloomberg.com $ORCL www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Georgia democracy protesters are amazing. I don't know how they sustain it.

A developing plot and a plot development

All members of Congress should be compelled to move all financial assets into a blind trust or a weight portfolio of bond and stock funds with fixed purchase/sale schedule.

New @nberpubs: "The Economic Legacy of Racial Trauma in the American South" www.nber.org/papers/w3452...

I wish all figures of authority cared about moms and babies. But some don’t. Some even want you to hurt. And those are the people who cast doubt on the vaccination miracle that has allowed so many of us to live longer and better. kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...

If you are married to a US spouse, your temporary visa (usually for 3 months) will lapse before your case is processed. The government allowed you could stay in the US while awaiting case processing. Now the Trump admin is saying that is a visa overstay and arresting the spouses.

Atlanta has been nervously eyeing Nashville for years, but at least we have MARTA to the airport.

What is Jared Kushner's job in the administration?

Ok, so I understand that some Dutch don't want to lose their tradition of swartepieter, but it's still weird to dress in blackface to protest against immigration, no? www.ad.nl/den-haag/vei...

Christian media is where failed stars go when they crash out of the big leagues. True for Hollywood, true for tech apparently.

I'm sympathetic to the idea of the finance curse, and that dominance in financial services (and tax avoidance) came at the expense of northern industrial towns and the middle class, but I don't follow the critique of quantitative tightening. UK CPIH is 3.8% QT seems appropriate, no?

Any idea what has happened to the population of mussels with reduced harvesting? Is there now a massive stock of mussels or did they quickly reach the carrying capacity of their environment? Natural experiment for fisheries economists.

As AI starts to train on AI content, its functionality may already have peaked. A better deep neural net to predict the mimicry of mimicry of mimicry isn't going to beat AI trained on human generated writing.

Probably a coincidence, but I'll just note that the DC sniper also came from (through?) Bellingham, WA.

Dutch clip wings of jetset #econsky

One of the looking glass elements of the Trump administration is the art of being creditably non-creditable; that is, spouting things that appease Trump, while conveying to the Street that you don't actually believe it. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

Possibly the next chair of the Federal Reserve: "They can't afford bread for stuffing? Tell them to substitute cake!"

“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.” “‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...

I laughed out loud at this. My only note is that Sanford had an affair with an Argentine journalist on the Appalachian Trail--I mean Buenos Aires-- making this the turduken of politco-journo scandals.

lol the judge who disqualified lindsay halligan as us atty for edva included this footnote, citing a guy who agrees with him (or used to!?!?)

Mind blowing stat. Does our crime rate inure us to vehiclure deaths, or vice versa?

Many, many years ago I was an intern at the International Downtown Association and the consensus at the time was that pedestrianization of streets in the US had been a failure. And there were obvious examples of that like Pioneer Square in Seattle. What changed? Reduced car dependency? BIDS? Crime?

Inflation is rising, data are sparse, tariffs may have lowered potential: hold.

If this argument was actually credible they'd have published it in an Elsevier Journal.

Just to pile on to the complaints about fire departments blocking single stairwell apartments, they also fight any narrowing of road ways. This project to drop a lane from a major Atlanta street was ready to go in 2021 but the Fire Chief blocked it for years. www.midtownatl.com/project/pied...

Love Wolfers, but this segment was a bit of a mess. First, the host seems confused about what a mortgage is. Second, Justin's position is-- I think--that transferrable mortgages are great but we can't change the terms on existing loans so it can't unlock the market and not an immediate solution.

I've been staring at this figure for a while. Even NYC is 70% car trips. Really want to know the European cities above 70. Given small circles I'm guessing Ghent and The Hague.

Senator Menendez is sitting in his cell at Allenwood right now because he took a 1kg gold bar from the Egyptians, among other forms of “lobbying.”

So we're killing people that aren't carrying a substance that's not a chemical weapon. Got it.

It's just getting ridiculous: The American Soybean Association put out a statement thanking Mr. Trump for exempting fertilizers used in soybean production. Other industries protested being left off the exemptions list.

Randall Munroe, welcome to The War on Cars.

For the full paper

It would be hilarious if incels breaking for Trump skewed the sex ratio against themselves.

Tax experts, how does the partnership structure affect income taxes? Does it also turn everything above the pay-out into a dividend? Can Bessent claim a carried interest deduction?

The government shutdown might’ve killed the December rate cut. FED'S DALY: REALLY THINK THERE IS A PREMIUM ON WAITING TO DECIDE ON RATES UNTIL YOU HAVE AS MUCH INFORMATION

Honey, I just sold my incredibly profitable mining equipment business to go prospect for gold in the Klondike.

This is great for spreading ideas and attracting fellow travelers ;) but the end goal needs to be getting back to a world where the kids just bike when and where they want and don't need to platoon and adult chaperones to protect them from cars on the way to school.

During public comment, someone asserted the fact that sales in the Market are slightly up year-over-year was evidence that the pedestrianized Pike Place is hurting businesses, because sales should be up MORE after the opening of the Overlook Walk. bsky.app/profile/gord...

Raphael was the best bank president I worked with. He will be difficult to replace, and I fear the FOMC will be poorer for his absence.

The Friends of BLS are currently seeking organizational and individual support for our FY26 BLS Endorsement Letter and hope you will join us by signing on as an organization or individual. #EconSky #NumbersDay

READ MORE about the emerging field of “bikenomics” in this article Chris wrote on the @dutchcycling.nl website: dutchcycling.nl/knowledge/ex...

Glad to have the baksfiet share back in service so Honey can get her hip shot and go to the beach!

Sunday morning at 10:30 and the The Hague city services was out to empty to a full recycling vault. This is great infrastructure, but it also requires diligent service provision.

This is pretty clearly a man-made lake.

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Spoiler alert, in the wonder murder mystery series The Residence, trading government contracts for private White House renovations was a serious crime that might drive someone to murder to avoid detection...