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Economist interested in energy, environment, and climate EBS19 (E4 B3 S12), H123 ORCID https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0002-8012-3988
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Too simple to even try and cover his tracks.

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Corruption is the most important story in the world, part 211

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The USA grew from third-richest to richest between 1870 and 1913. The gap with the second-richest was larger in 1913 than in 2018. This was not because of tariffs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

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Can we call them Nazis now?

submitted 22 hours ago • 19 comments

Eggfinger

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

Y’all

submitted 22 hours ago • 30 comments

Siegfried Woldhek in the Dutch paper NRC.nl (for some reason cartoon seems unfindable via search on their website)

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Well, turns out there’s another layer to his dubious background. According to independent journalist Jacob Silverman, Coristine is the grandson of Valery Martynov, a former KGB spy. Per Silverman’s research, Martynov was an officer in the technical espionage division… gizmodo.com/doge-staffer...

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Why would Mussayev suddenly come out and say this now? bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...

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The Zucman tax should apply to all who do business in France, rather than to all who reside in France.

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Still entirely unclear from contradictory reporting if Trump is offering to sell Zelenskyy military assistance in exchange for mining rights, or demanding mining rights as retroactive repayment for past US assistance that will now be cut off forever.

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So let's get this straight: The U.S. and Elon are now extorting Ukraine and threatening to turn off their Starlink Internet access unless they give their critical rare earth minerals to the United States? Staggering levels of corruption.

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Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

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So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

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If you could use some amazing good news, here it is

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Beerensteyn!!

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KUDLOW: "There could be some short term, one-off price hikes. But at least for now, the economic signals are flashing slower growth and higher inflation. Not good." 😬😬😬

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Beerensteyn!

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Amanda Zurawski, one of the Texas women who nearly died due to the states abortion ban, has been named one of Time’s Women of the Year.

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Urban energy poverty is more than power outages. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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*stares in historian*

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Me describing Team Trump at work...

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‘Everything is dead’: #Ukraine rushes to stem #Ecocide after river poisoning Destruction of the natural environment; another tactic of #Russia's war of aggression. Suspected of deliberately leaking chemical waste into a river, w/ deadly consequences for wildlife. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...

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Republicans are screwing up data collection so we won't know how badly they've broke our country.

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Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia has published a letter sent to him by Trump’s Department of Justice threatening to potentially prosecute him for criticizing Elon Musk.

submitted 2 days ago • 511 comments

Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

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Canadians are now referring to the United States as the 11th province

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Taylor!

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Superb from Private Eye

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Central banks can mitigate the impact of extreme weather www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #energysky

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Climate policy steers syndicated loans towards renewables www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #energysky

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A machine learned to forecast carbon prices www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #energysky

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Connectedness and spillovers between energy subsectors www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #energysky

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A senior prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., resigned on Tuesday, citing an improper demand by Trump administration officials to freeze assets and launch a criminal investigation.

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Carbon capture and storage is more expensive if it reduces coal's capacity factor www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #energysky

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Climate policy uncertainty improves energy efficiency www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #energysky

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Flue-gas desulphurisation increases PM and infant mortality www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #energysky #greensky

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Quantile return and volatility spillovers between energy and crypto www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #energysky

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China ETS reduced emissions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #energysky

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Renewable imports from China crowd out (in) domestic R&D in the short (long) run www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #energysky

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OPEC+ reduced volatility but price too www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #energysky

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The Senate just voted, 51-49, to confirm conspiracy theorist and election denier Kash Patel to be FBI Director. ALL Democrats and two Republicans — Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski — voted NO. 51 Republicans voted YES.

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