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Malcolm Sparrow in the streets, Stafford Beer in the sheets. Once I wrote about fraud and its detection; currently writing about the industrialisation of decision making in general
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3 articles in Spain covering my main message: worry less about static deficit metric & more about dynamic measures of the impact of strategic public investment in areas that foster long run inclusive & sustainable growth–driven by innovative and symbiotic (not parasitic) collaborations. Links ⬇️ 1/2

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Wrote a new piece on what sell side research needs to do to get more love and more money from the buy side and stop the perennial shift to becoming a cost centre 🧵

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lmao The Sun has a livestream of the “LA riots” on YouTube and when you click on it it’s a bunch of troops standing around doing nothing you can literally hear birds singing in the background what a time to be alive

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Great science can be improved with just a touch of social science thinking like ‘how will people feel like swallowing something we are marketing as Poo Pills?’

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doctor who should do an episode where he passes his surgeons exams and starts to call himself mr who. [everyone gets mad at me] ok ok next week he could time travel back and fail them

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IMO it is very undignified to be the other side of 50 and caring about what's in the charts. It's like sleeping with the light on or watching doctor who

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City centre traffic

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It was Colston Goes Splash Day yesterday and I missed it, but for anyone still celebrating a couple of very kind people have recommended my book Fallen Idols, which is about pulling statues down and was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize. There’s a whole chapter on Colston and his statue!

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4½ months in and they’re already at “After protests over our masked agents shoving people into vans and militarized raids at Home Depots, courthouses, restaurants, and middle schools, we’re putting troops in the streets over the objections of cops and the Governor”. Not much room left to escalate.

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This is a real "state of the nation" news story - if JPM feels able to tell private equity to get lost, a balance of power has changed www.businessinsider.com/jpmorgan-cra...

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This is really interesting and I had no idea. Also speaks to the perverse incentives that the 10y budget window CBO scoring process creates. It creates a huge tilt towards Congress instructing the eating of the seed corn.

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The Financial Times editorial board calls on all members of the European Union to -Ban trade with Israeli settlements -Sanction settlers and settler organizations -Suspend offensive weapon exports to Israel -Sanction Smotrich and Ben-Gvir -Recognize the State of Palestine

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What’s that: people lying in what they have presumably convinced themselves is the national interest but is coincidentally heavily in their own interest, to people who are not overly inclined to check the truth of the matter? In Britain? In the 2020s. Heaven forfend

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Okay, all - in more serious news: If you haven't heard about the Boeing deal, you should read this. And please follow Bill.

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