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Economist. US expat from Chicago ❤️ Euro repat, London-based. Opera aficionado. Views are my own. He/him. 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🔸
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Main thing I'm taking from the German election result is that Musk and Vance support for the AfD made no positive difference whatsoever. In the current scheme of things that really matters.

submitted 5 hours ago • 21 comments

Never thought that saving Europe from fascism would mean praying for German rearmament. But here we are.

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

Sooo… who had Gaz-a-Lago on their February bingo card?

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

The ISM Manufacturing PMI finally broke above 50% in January, ending 26 months of contraction... right before tariffs are set to go into effect. Source: www.ismworld.org/supply-manag...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Leopard: I will eat your face Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp

submitted 22 days ago • 209 comments

Never underestimate John Hicks’ fundamental insight: “The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life”.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

This will be a very interesting test of competing public choice theories. On the one hand, we have rarely seen a more deferent party than present-day Republicans. On the other hand, Trump is a lame duck, and congressmen do not take it kindly when interfering with their powers to spend… 🍿 🍿 🍿

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

One thought about the #AI market #meltdown yesterday. Maybe, MAYBE, if #BigTech would focus more on... tech and innovation, and less on politics, they would not be in need to catch up with #DeepSeek now...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Never been a fan of scooters; in fact: never rode one. I wish my first time wouldn’t be on a dark, rainy night in a city whose traffic I am not familiar with. But, hey, I have a ticket for #Rigoletto at @deutscheoperberlin.bsky.social , #BVG is on strike, what else to do?? #SemprePazziPerlOpera

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

This paper by the late, great Nick Crafts, on competition and productivity in the UK, well worth a read: cepr.org/voxeu/column...

submitted 32 days ago • 6 comments

A fair and very balanced assessment of Furtwängler, a very honest assessment of Gergiev, and the differences between the two. Worth reading.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Feeling surprisingly triggered by some Palestinian commentary this morning. “Did anyone create a word to describe how a person feels after a genocide is over?” Dude, why don’t we ask Moshe Ridler, who actually survived the Holocaust? 1/2

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Swapping innocent hostages for bloody murderers is the right thing to do — but it still makes me want to puke.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

The second episode of Lives in Song: Donizetti is now live. So proud to have produced this brilliant and informative series for Opera Rara! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mXy...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Badenoch saying it was a mistake not to have a growth plan for Brexit highlights that she doesn't understand what happened. There was no growth plan that all parts of the Leave coalition could have agreed on. Winning required implying different outcomes to different people.

submitted 38 days ago • 62 comments

"... a good man, but also proof of how far a pukka accent and background can take an empty vessel on the inert sea of British public life..." www.ft.com/content/8178...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

On Wednesday, I’m presenting a bill for an 🇪🇺EU-UK Youth Mobility Scheme🇬🇧 Labour must step up and back this—it’s time for action. Young people have lost out on so much due to the Tories' awful Brexit deal—not least the chance to study, work, and experience life in Europe.

submitted 41 days ago • 13 comments

Thought of the Day. It is easy to romanticize squalor when you do not live in it.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

mid January all of us teetering on the precipice #SenryuSunday #senryu

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Do you own a Kindle? I used to love mine — a ‘space’ for undistracted, focus reading without the temptation from other apps, email, etc. Eventually, though, I drifted away to the iPad Kindle app. Two reasons, (1) I’d rather carry one tablet instead of two, and I need the tools in the iPad, and 1/4

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Not everyone should get to have an opinion on everything. Some of you are dumb.

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Sooo… who crashed the economy??? 😉

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Lawyers for Liz Truss have asked me to stop saying Liz Truss crashed the economy. I only said Liz Truss crashed the economy because Liz Truss did crash the economy. If she wanted me to not say Liz Truss crashed the economy, she shouldn’t have crashed the economy. Please don’t share.

submitted 45 days ago • 74 comments