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I just did the numbers and this assumption looks to be completely right. Let’s pause for a minute and consider how INSANE this is. 🧵

submitted 9 hours ago • 87 comments

The UK exports £360bn of goods to the EU, on which we now struggle with big non tariff barriers, compared to £60bn to the US. Imagine looking at this sh1tshow and thinking it vindicates Brexit in any way.

submitted 6 hours ago • 36 comments

I was going to get the train today. But I am increasingly concerned at the deficit I’m running with Great Northern Rail. I buy a lot from them and they purchase nothing from me. Tempted to apply a 20% tariff. Sure my tickets will cost 20% more but it might mean I buy fewer and reduce the deficit.

submitted 6 hours ago • 50 comments

You know what? There are not that many people in the US as a proportion of the world. Only 3 to 4%. It doesn’t have to have the role in global trade that it has had.

submitted 16 hours ago • 12 comments

Wichtig: Die Zölle sind einfach eine Bestrafung für Güterhandelsdefizite mit den USA. Je größer das Defizit, desto höher die Zölle. Mehr steht nicht hinter diesen Zahlen. Wer seine Verbündeten so einseitig bestraft, ist nicht „transaktional“ und will keine Fairness - sondern will Schaden anrichten.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

It really is time for Europeans to put the EU economy ahead of their own convenience - no more Amazon purchases - buy local, fck Google - use a European alternative, and ban Microsoft from public institutions - to incentive European alternatives to grow/improve. But mostly, fck Tesla, X & Airbnb

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

There’s a mass exodus from AirBnB to VRBO because of a co-founder & board member’s ties to the Heritage Foundation, Project 25, Tesla, and DOGE… Act accordingly. ✨

submitted 1 day ago • 389 comments

Well... There's always a quote.. VIDEO. When Marine Le Pen called for "lifelong ineligibility" for elected officials convicted of "misappropriation of public funds" www.publicsenat.fr/actualites/p...

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Turns out Le Pen is not mightier than the fraud.

submitted 2 days ago • 423 comments

Liberté, Egalité, Fuckaroundité and Findoutité.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

We're fine with the judgement of voters, thanks. We've been told confidently that Le Pen was about to win for nigh-on a decade now. Every time, French voters reject her. Thing is: She doesn't get to break the law. And now she's learning that lesson the hard way.

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

4 years in prison (2 years suspended) and 5 year bar from office. Le Pen to appeal.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Vive la France.

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

I’ve never been more grateful to living in the EU, and more pissed off that EU citizenship has been stripped from me. I am counting down the days until I can be considered for French citizenship.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

"It’s not the hypocrisy that bothers me; it’s the stupidity." 🎁 from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

This is mortifying. It's the kind of calculation you would normally make about a dictatorship. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

submitted 5 days ago • 82 comments

I still remain steadfast in my belief that Lego Batman is the best of all the Batmen

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

ICE has arrested Iranian national Alireza Doroudi, a doctoral candidate studying mechanical engineering at the University of Alabama. He was arrested at home at 5 a.m. Tuesday. As with some of the others who've been disappeared, unclear why he was detained. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 6 days ago • 50 comments

I have a week off next week and the French sun gods have decided to bless me (it will forever not be bananas to me that the heat from the sun is the result of its nuclear fusion)

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

That people are still traveling to America at his point is bonkers to me. ABA Spring Antitrust meeting? No thanks.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

"A milsec group chat on Signal was a permissible work use" is the new "the lockdown party was a work event"

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

Surely a contender for the funniest thing a judge has ever said www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 8 days ago • 51 comments

I enjoyed my life more when I didn’t watch F1

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Ferrari making it very difficult to like them, after only 2 races. Goddamn it.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Pole for the sprint tomorrow. Are we all getting up at 4am to watch??

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Paul Weiss sold themselves to the devil for $40M.

submitted 13 days ago • 86 comments

Paul Weiss Has Gone “America First” talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/paul-...

submitted 13 days ago • 35 comments

Ive been working on a paper, provisionally titled “Quantum Competition”, which applies concepts from general relativity & thermodynamics to the study of monopolies - black holes & their distortive impact on spacetime serve as an analogy for monopolies, while entropy parallels competition itself…

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Dear allies, the investigation of the Lithuanian prosecutor’s office has confirmed our suspicions that responsible for setting fires to shopping centres in Vilnius and Warsaw are the Russian secret services. Good to know before negotiations. Such is the nature of this state.

submitted 17 days ago • 90 comments

This is going to be a long F1 season for a Hamilton fan I fear. I hope I’m wrong and it’s just the 5am start making me tired and pessimistic.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Up at 6am to watch qualifying with my middle son, which will be followed by a walk to the boulangerie. I’m having a great day already

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I'm so embarrassed for the US. I want to hide under the covers. I can't even imagine how decent Americans feel hearing this shit

submitted 19 days ago • 158 comments

Meta's trying to suppress Sarah Wynn-Williams book because it exposes what an amoral man child Mark Zuckerberg is and how Facebook "doesn't give a fuck" about people. Sarah, who is a friend, knows what she's talking about. She worked at Meta for years. Buy her book! www.amazon.com/Careless-Peo...

submitted 20 days ago • 40 comments

Does anyone have a list of Canadian products we can buy in Europe?

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

A persistent and large gender difference in academic promotion for female economists is found. However, no significant differences in promotion by race is found, from Donna K. Ginther, Shulamit Kahn, and Daria Milakhina https://www.nber.org/papers/w33538

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment