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🚢 🏗 The @port-of-rotterdam.bsky.social has big plans for the Dutch energy transition. But is it a smokescreen for business-as-usual? 🤨 Our new research reveals the flaws in their roadmap and outlines what a truly transformative strategy could look like. Read the piece ⤵️ 🔗 bit.ly/4jw1YUA #CSS

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Why is Schoof thinking that the downfall of his cabinet is "unnecessary" and "irresponsible"? After all, he is a technocrat (as per the definition of the only article I read on this - dont @ me, it's marking period ) and so should be right in his element.

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The PVV has left the Dutch coalition. What does this mean? Will there we be new elections? When? Who will win? Which government will form? 🧵

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For those interested in Dutch politics: Far-right leader, Geert Wilders, just pulled the plug on the government coalition that his party PVV was a part of. Because other parties are not “signing up to his party’s asylum plans” May I add that this happened as his party was slipping in polls…

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In the history of Haribo, no one ever bought a kilo pack of Happy Cola F!ZZ and ate them in moderation. Poor folks were probably high like a kite for 5 mins and then bad tripping right into the ER.

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One of the companies implicated in a major Dutch financial scandal is quietly making a comeback in Europe – this time in Belgium and Greece. With tactics that look all too familiar: high fees and hidden costs eroding returns for savers.

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Well I guess that's a piece of evidence that might challenge the explanation advanced in that book www.reuters.com/markets/us/m...

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The English language international press is going to have fun with the last name of the new German FM.

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It's the US guy

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Take home assignments will have to become increasingly of the sort: here is an output gpt generated based on the following prompt. Did gpt get it wrong? And if so, what did it get wrong? (Though one might end up teaching students prompt optimization rather than the content of the course)

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Trump's version of Merkel's "vollstes Vertrauen"

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Dutch government intends to use Climate Fund money to subsidize the energy costs of its industry. www.nu.nl/politiek/635... Would be interesting to see how this came about (i.e. which sector lobbied for this, or whether it's "just" a spatial lag variable).

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This part in Hayek's Bastards on Brimelow reminds me of how parts of Dutch media and a very established university's law dept dealt (and continue to deal) w/ the far-right: treating them as mere provocateurs, "naively missing or cynically misreading the earnestness of their ideological project

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Gezonde overheidsfinanciën > gezonde mensen

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"Hayek's bastards": Fascinating read about the origins of the paleolibertarians and their populist rhetoric/strategies

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There goes your (bijna) gratis kinderopvang... www.nu.nl/politiek/635...

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Disembedded competition law: no longer a tool to achieve socially desirable goals, but increasingly a goal in itself, whereby all societal activities and functions that are not subjected to the market are forced into a market competition frame. Thats the benign interpretation

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Kinderopvang wordt juist duurder voor lage inkomens. Lees meer 🧵

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Weaponizing interdependence, but with a twist: the coercing state is not a central node, the target state is.

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When some Dutch politicians plead for lower corp taxes they just want to make the otherwise existing tax haven (largely away from public view) official 🧵 👇

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

$119 Springer cancer treatments book: ‘As an AI language model …’ pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/12/1... - text www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3dI... - video

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

Interesting and important reporting by Follow the Money on how Tesla uses the NL to avoid taxes it would need to pay in Germany for its battery factory. Little surprise here both on account of Tesla doing this and Dutch lawyers happy to help them.

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Tesla heeft in Amsterdam-Zuidoost een bv die een belangrijke schakel vormt binnen Elon Musks imperium. Op papier is deze Amsterdamse dochter een giga autofabriek: de bv genereert 26 miljard euro. Toch betaalt het vrijwel geen winstbelasting in Nederland.

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"Despite increasing rhetoric around “decoupling” the underlying trade data highlights how slow, complex, and potentially disruptive such a shift would be." alexandreafonso.substack.com/p/21-what-do...

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What's the likelihood that someone in Trump's advisory circle read a "current account" version of the Triffin Dilemma and thought: "we could engineer such a dilemma".

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www.barrons.com/articles/tre...

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Should we expect rating agencies adjusting their sovereign ratings for the US? According to the argument in Barta and Johnston's "rating politics" global.oup.com/academic/pro... we shouldn't for two reasons

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"Dit is 14 μm Ebola virus. Het is zo klein dat je het wss niet kan zien. Sterker nog, ik heb hem laten fallen." hatjoe

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