''Según el sector privado, la reducción de la brecha cambiaria, aunque positiva en términos macro, también genera un efecto colateral: vuelve más atractivo el ingreso ilegal de productos. “Cuando la diferencia entre el dólar oficial y el paralelo era elevada, el contrabando perdía incentivo.'' #ARG

''Gini has decreased from 0.415 in 1933 to 0.35 now. This is the headline result: a decrease of interpersonal inequality by 6.5 Gini points (41.5-35) or by some 15 percent of the original inequality. But what drove this decrease? Did inequalities within individual countries go down, and the [...]''

''The Q4 2025 data capture the growing struggles of the U.S. workforce. The percentage of workers who are thriving in their lives has hit a low. The decline is especially pronounced with federal workers among whom the percentage thriving fell about 12 points [...]'' www.gallup.com/workplace/70...

''Su ideal es un sistema internacional de Estados-nación diferenciados: mucha diversidad entre ellos, pero no tanta dentro de cada uno. Una orientación homogeneizadora, un nacionalismo ferviente, aunque no del todo étnico. Hazony no admitirá que existan jerarquías raciales o étnicas, pero la [...]''

''The play is also an accurate and sensitive portrait of a psychological crisis. It shows a character stuck between two ways of thinking, between passive liberalism and engaged socialism, and experiencing the contradictions of liberalism as an acute depressive episode. Where young people [...]''

''As long as mankind is nationally and territorially organized in states, a stateless person is not simply expelled from one country, native or adopted, but from all countries—none being obliged to receive and naturalize him—which means he is actually expelled from humanity. Deprivation of [...]''

wiki:''Cocteau Twins were a Scottish rock band active from 1979 to 1997. They were formed in Grangemouth on the Firth of Forth by Robin Guthrie (guitars,drum machine) and Will Heggie (bass),adding Elizabeth Fraser (vocals) in 1981. In 1983,Heggie was replaced by multi-instrumentalist [.] Raymonde.''

''Dreampolitik today would be nowhere as potent if it weren’t for the internet, a global “dream machine” of our own making. [...] has covered this topic extensively—and in her essay The Internet As The Astral Plane, she often uses the language of dreams to explain the experience of the internet.''

''Sostenida desde 1833, la ocupación británica de las islas y el Atlántico Sur abarca 1.639.900 km² de territorio marítimo e insular argentino. Eso representa un 43% de los espacios marítimos jurisdiccionales soberanos de nuestro país,de donde extraen anualmente–a través de licencias ilegales[...]''

''[...], el que más notas publicó fue Diario Con Vos (37), seguido por El Destape (27), Diario Registrado (26) y Realpolitik (20). También tuvieron una presencia significativa Dos Bases (19), C5N (17), Big Bang News (16),Política Argentina (12),En Orsai (11), A24 (10) y La Patriada Web (9).'' #notas

''El tercer factor es la reducción del gasto en salarios del sector público, aunque con menor margen de ajuste. En 2025, la masa salarial de la administración nacional representó el 1,9% del PBI, uno de los niveles más bajos de la última década, tras una caída acumulada de 0,7 puntos entre [...]''

''El 30de enero de2025,días antes del lanzamiento de Libra el 14de febrero,se registró un encuentro en la Casa Rosada entre el Presidente, Novelli, el estadounidense Hayden[...]. Y casi de inmediato transferencias por montos millonarios del creador de LIBRA a cuentas vinculadas a los investigados.''

''Thus “the Cayman Islands is [now] in fact the largest foreign holder of US Treasury securities — holding significantly more than China, Japan and the United Kingdom,” Fed economists argue. Indeed between 2022 and 2024, hedge funds “absorbed 37 per cent of net issuance of notes and bonds”, [...]''

''A U.S. federal appeals court ruled Friday that Argentina doesn’t have to pay shareholders $16 billion for its takeover of the country’s biggest oil company,handing President Javier Milei a victory that will help his free-market overhaul. Milei’s cash-strapped government would have struggled[...]''

''Eine Erklärung dafür kann man indirekt bei Freud finden: An einer Stelle geht er der Frage nach, warum viele Männer vom Charme narzisstischer Frauen so beeindruckt sind. Seine Antwort: Sie fasziniert deren quasi animalische Selbstgewissheit. Unerschütterliche Selbstgewissheit führt Trump [...]''

''Any compliment that includes the words, ‘for a…’ is not a compliment and is unlikely to be taken well. For example, some of my Black female friends report that when a non-Black person compliments them,it too often ends with ‘for a Black woman’. They additionally mention unpleasant follow-up[...]''

''[...]trained our bodies in [.]protective hunch of the scroll,the twitch of the hand opening toward a notification,the omnipresence of vibration. The problem isn’t only how much time we spend online. It’s how we move in the spaces we’ve built for online life and what kinds of freedoms we’ve lost.''

''Foundayo is a small molecule whereas Zepbound and Wegovy are peptides,which require more intensive manufacturing processes, a barrier Ricks thinks will hinder generic versions of Wegovy that have recently launched in some other countries,including India.″[Foundayo]does allow for scalability[...]''

''Project Cybersyn: … consisted of four modules: an economic simulator, custom software to check factory performance,an operations room, and a national network of telex machines that linked to a single mainframe computer The state-run enterprises would transmit via telex real-time information[...]''

''"The flaneur is the prototype of a new form of salaried employee who produces news/literature/advertisements for the purpose of information/entertainment/persuasion (the forms of both product and purpose are not clearly distinguished). These products fill the "empty" hours which time-off [...]''

''By the mid-1930s, Wright, in his late-60s, was treated as a romantic leftover from another era. The modernists had seized the moment – steel, glass, white boxes, flat planes. But the commissions that trickled into Taliesin,often through the children of his clients, kept him alive professionally.''

''A second reason is to reduce the bnd’s dependencies, notably on America. Johann Wadephul, the foreign minister, recently warned that Germany would be “defenceless” without American intelligence. But Donald Trump’s decision to temporarily withhold intelligence support from Ukraine last year [...]''

''Some sports fans demanded the resurrection of a plan to overhaul the country’s football drafted by Italian legend Roberto Baggio[...]In 2011, Baggio — then president of the technical section of the[...] — wrote a 900-page plan to rebuild and modernise Italy’s football system from the ground up.''

''"Die Klage der CGT richtet sich gegen die argentinische Regierung, nicht gegen private Unternehmen. Daher ist das Verwaltungsgericht zuständig",erklärte der Arbeitsrechtler Julián de Diego,Mitverfasser des Gesetzestextes. Der Richter im zuständigen Arbeitsgericht Nr. 63 habe sein Eingreifen[...]''

''For Lippmann, the public acts towards objects based on the personal meaning they provide. For the most part, “we do not first see and then define. We define first and then see.” Reality is understood as “pictures inside our heads,” and the pictures determine what we choose to see in the world.''

''Einerseits basiert der Kapitalismus, indem er Ausbeutung und Aneignung marktförmig organisiert, auf der Freiheit und Rationalität aller. Gleichzeitig ist er darauf angewiesen, dass ein Großteil von uns sich immer wieder für jene Abhängigkeit, Knechtschaft und Ausbeutung entscheidet.'' #Aporie

''[...]collective psychogram,perhaps even the psychogram of the unconscious itself. [Digital psychopolitics]manages to intervene in psychic processes in a prospective fashion. Quite possibly,it is even faster than free will. As such,it could overtake it. If so,this would herald the end of freedom.''

''For the technocrat, the public is secondary, and technological progress must persist unimpeded as if it were destiny. Google’s co-founder Larry Page has privately said he desired to someday see a “digital God” and considered our preference for humans as outdated. As tech elites promise the [...]''

''[...] it hard to engage with casually. The question is whether the popularizer gives us the trail back to where the ideas came from, so we can follow it if we choose to. When the trail is there, we get the best of both: an accessible entry point and the freedom to go deeper on our own terms.''

''Marketplace bargaining power can take several forms including (1) the possession of scarce skills that are in demand by employers, (2) low levels of general unemployment,and (3) the ability of workers to pull out of the labor market entirely and survive on nonwage sources of income.'' #marketplace

''Como consecuencia de estos precios, el consumo nacional de pescado se ubica hoy en torno a los 5,1 kilos por habitante al año, el registro más bajo de los últimos 50 años en Argentina, advirtió la Fulasp. Esa cifra es ínfima comparada con Chile (13 kilos), Brasil (10 kilos) o el promedio [...]''

''Hasta la poderosa Alemania está en decadencia por un sistema corporativista que la anquilosó con su rígida trama de gobierno, bancos, empresas y sindicatos que impiden las reformas. Su producción industrial es 17% inferior a 2017 por el estancamiento automotriz, la dependencia energética y [...]''

''Weil sich der deutsche „Wirtschaftswissenschaftler“ in erster Linie als Verteidiger einer ideologischen Position versteht und nicht als Wissenschaftler, kann er trotz grandioser Fehlprognosen nicht zugeben, dass Rezession Nachfragemangel indiziert,sonst nichts. Ich werde mir das „Gutachten“[...]''

''Millions of people received vocational training and experienced their pathway out of poverty through their own employment income. Whether this is experienced as repression or not is an important issue that the Chinese intellectuals and authorities do not seem to take lightly. But it should [...]''

''In February 2026, the euro area seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 6.2%, up from 6.1% in January 2026 and down from 6.3% in February 2025. The EU unemployment rate was 5.9% in February 2026,stable compared with January 2026 and down from 6.0% in February 2025.'' ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web...

''This sounds to me like an extremely opaque restatement of the general tech right thesis: woke, left-wing intellectuals care too much about blacks, women, and the poor at the expense of technological progress. Habermas believed in civic patriotism because he saw what blood and soil wrought[...]''

''Capitalism, she argued, is not neutral with respect to social norms. The heterosexual nuclear family, Butler argued, plays a crucial role in reproducing labor power, [...] not only cultural stigma but economic disadvantage as well. What appears to be “merely cultural” is in fact deeply material.''

''Die Begründungen des Managements seien häufig von einer „gewissen Beliebigkeit“ geprägt, erklären Jaworeck, Hertwig und Wirth. Mit guten Argumenten könnten Arbeitnehmervertretungen Einfluss nehmen, auch gemeinsam mit Akteuren, die ähnliche Interessen haben. Betriebsratsmitglieder könnten [...]''

''En tiempos de incertidumbre, cuando muchas cosas parecen volverse frágiles, hay un principio que no puede entrar en crisis. Y es ese, que las reglas se cumplen. Porque cuando eso deja de ser obvio, lo que se pone en discusión no es una política pública, sino la propia idea de Estado.'' #Argentina

''La recaudación tributaria de marzo alcanzó los $16,07 billones, una suba interanual de 26,2%, según datos de ARCA. Sin embargo,al contrastarla con una inflación estimada del 31% interanual,el resultado muestra una caída real cercana al 4,5%,lo que confirma una desaceleración de los ingresos[...]''

''[...] dann würde deutlich werden, dass zum Beispiel die Europäische Zentralbank ihre spezifische Ideologie hat. Da walten keine allgemeinen ökonomischen Gesetze. Die eine wissenschaftliche Wahrheit über die Notwendigkeit einer dem politischen Prozess enthobenen Zentralbank gibt es nicht.'' #EZB

''Das von Khomeini entwickelte Welāyat-e Faghīh, die „Herrschaft“ oder „Statthalterschaft des Rechtsgelehrten“, soll durch islamischen Tugendterror nach innen und Export der Islamischen Revolution die Rückkehr des Mahdi aktiv vorbereiten. Ideologisch untermauert werden die Exportversuche [...]''

''[...], weil sie in der Vermittlung ihrer Politik sagenhaft schlecht war. Und in ihrer Amtszeit ereigneten sich diese Verrohung des Bürgertums, die Präkarisierung der unteren Schichten, die Desillusionierung ganz vieler Deutscher, nicht nur im Osten, was Verteilungsgerechtigkeit und [...]'' #Merkel

''Wenn ein Gericht sagt: „Der entgegenstehende Wille des Opfers war nicht erkennbar“, dann ist das also stets auch eine Wertung? So ist es, genau. Darüber wird in manchen Richterzimmern schon lebhaft diskutiert und kritisch reflektiert. Es gibt hier einen großen Raum für Deutungen, weil die[...]''

''Comparing family median income as a share of family mean income reveals that it rose from 81.7 percent in 1950 to peak at 91.4 percent in 1958, but thereafter it has declined steadily,dropping to 73.3 percent in 2024,as shown in Figure 2.'' #income #inequality www.levyinstitute.org/publications...

''Die Alternative zu dieser Variante ist,dass die deutschen Gewerkschaften sich wieder einmal von den Arbeitgebern einreden lassen,nur mit so niedrigen Lohnsteigerungen lasse sich die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der deutschen Wirtschaft gegen übermächtige ausländische Konkurrenz halten oder[.]verbessern.''

''The entire model was built on one value proposition: Indian developers cost a fraction of their American counterparts. But the marginal cost of an AI coding agent had collapsed to, essentially, the cost of electricity. TCS, Infosys and Wipro saw contract cancellations accelerate through 2027.''

''As he explains in a later book, you are assuming that the computer is “not an idiotic, self-destructive chess player,” but a good enough one, and so “[y]ou treat it … as if it were a human being with a mind,” which means you anticipate and try to understand its moves. That is the key to [...]''

''AI got better and cheaper. Companies laid off workers, then used the savings to buy more AI capability, which let them lay off more workers. Displaced workers spent less. Companies that sell things to consumers sold fewer of them,weakened, and invested[...]'' adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-...

''US businesses are adding workers at the weakest pace in 15 years, excluding the onset of the pandemic, new data showed Tuesday, a sign that there was an even deeper chill cutting through the labor market before the Middle East conflict threatened to shake the US economy. Hires as percentage[...]''