På tide nogen siger det

Hihi. Han er god

"After getting to know and fully understand the situation"

Og han kan også spille fodbold!

Det er Kiel IfW, der står bag undersøgelsen af populisme og økonomisk udvikling. Den er fra sidste år, hvor de også skrev denne udmærkede artikel www.ifw-kiel.de/publications...

Mange spørgsmål - men det forekommer absolut plausibelt

Midt under krigen synes Zelenski det er vigtigt at beskytte korrupte regeringspolitikere. Så vigtigt, at han har fået gennemført en lovændring. Hold øje med dette! Og hold øje med, om The Kyiv Independent forbliver fri

Trump remains a clear and present danger to democracy, and seizing control of the election process remains the most direct path to authoritarianism. https://trib.al/YPj7P1t

There's nothing holy about writing discrimination into the law.

Danes are so culturally rich when they speak it's spoken word

Centre-left Liberals make stunning comeback to win Canadian election

Canada stemte nej til Trump

This observation from Adam Carlson is one of the most clarifying I've seen about the standing of the White House. The President's approval is down significantly across a variety of metrics but that decline is being significantly muted by relatively strong approval on border/immigration.

If Elon would put down his chainsaw for a minute and open his eyes, he would see that Social Security and Medicare are far more efficient than private sector alternatives cepr.net/publications...

Manden er syg

Jeg forstår slet ikke harmen. Det er en meget interessant, og i øvrigt virkelig velskrevet, tekst! gutkind.dk/e/om-kunsten...

There are still some humans

Har vi et godt beredskab mod CIA?

Først gider Søren Ryge ikke gå i haven mere. Og nu dette

one more of that yellow-throated toucan, just in case it helps #birds

The Tulsa Race Massacre was not committed by an uncontrolled mob but was the result of “a coordinated, military-style attack” by white citizens, the Justice Department said in a report. It was the first time the U.S. government has given an official account of the 1921 massacre of Black residents.

Greenland is bigger than France, Spain, Germany, Italy, and the UK, combined. It has 57,000 inhabitants. That's in case you were wondering. Also, in case you were not

Jeg er fan af Minik Rosing!

It's not funny anymore. It never was

Probably stupid to ask, but: has Trump ever explained why Greenland is central to US national security? And what the US would want to do with it?

What is Trump's reasoning for wanting to take over Greenland? Well, the Estée Lauder heir proposed it

Branko Milanovic is interesting. As always open.substack.com/pub/branko2f...

2025 ist mathematisch gesehen ein tolles Jahr: 2025 ist die Summe der ersten 9 Kubikzahlen: 1³+2³+3³...+9³=2025 Außerdem ist es für die meisten von uns das einzige Quadratzahl-Jahr im Leben: 2025=45² Das letzte Quadratzahl-Jahr war 1936, das nächst ist 2116. Machen wir das Beste draus! Alles Gute!

"It's impossible not to know what's going on in Gaza..it threatens to stain Jewish history forever". ‪ A moving piece by distinguished Israeli economists Ariel Rubinstein (NYU/Tel Aviv) [ @arielrubinstein.bsky.social ] and Motty Perry (Warwick). [Correct non-paywalled link here]

There's an expression: "It fell off a cliff"

Business people delivering money to the political executive. What's the word? Ah. "Transactional relations"

Lol! (As we used to say back in the day)

The easiest way would be to just cancel Brexit

The South Korean coup attempt by the president: Almost too many parallels with MAGA

Everything about this is perfect: a local Dutch water authority (Hoogheemraadschap De Stichtse Rijnlanden) is still paying €13.61 a year to the bearer of this bond, which was floated to reconstruct a damaged dike in 1624. The bearer is the New York Stock Exchange. www.ft.com/content/5122...

New post: The politics of stupid mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-... The politics of stupid is believing that the way to deal with Farage or Trump type populism is to do what Farage or Trump happens to be shouting about at the time.

Identity politics on your christmas tree

Polarræven er truet i Skandinavien, bl.a. fordi den røde ræv udkonkurrerer den i områder, hvor trægrænsen forskyder sig pga. klimaforandringer