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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 19h

Why don’t the poor kill us? A new book has India’s rich asking themselves exactly that.
economist.com/asia/2025/10...

What rich Indians fear

And what should really scare them

economist.com

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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 20h

Presumably you have to cash back in again as no one is going to let you leave $1bn in a bank account

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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 21h

If you don't happen to be playing with game theorists, however, the next best strategy is probably to play dumb.

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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 21h

Of course the best way to play the traitors is to have everyone assigned a random number and coordinate voting week-to-week based on that random number rather than trying to figure out who is lying.

Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 3d

Traitors is back on telly tonight. Here was my attempt to apply some game theory to the show.

www.economist.com/finance-and-...

“The Traitors”, a reality TV show, offers a useful economics lesson

It is a finite, sequential, incomplete information game

www.economist.com

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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 1d

Just at the moment when Google is already losing control over search.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

Google told to loosen control over search by UK competition regulator on.ft.com/4ocbajA

Google told to loosen control over search by UK competition regulator

Big Tech company becomes the first to be designated with special status under strict new digital laws

on.ft.com

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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 1d

It was when he said he didn’t need to bother understanding Corbyn voters because they were thick as pig shit

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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 1d

India wants to be a developed country by 2047, the 100th anniversary of its independence from Britain. But what does that actually mean? I have a go at crunching the numbers.

www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Narendra Modi’s paltry target for India’s growth

The prime minister wants a $10trn economy by 2047. He should be bolder

www.economist.com

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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 1d

They will only be increasing in frequency now

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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of market chatter trying to reconcile exuberance in stocks with pessimism reflected in gold prices… maybe it’s just that both have Trumpy vibes.

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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure how much the data it was based on stands up to revisions.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

Starmer calls for India to have permanent UN Security Council seat on.ft.com/47hO3hW

Starmer calls for India to have permanent UN Security Council seat

UK prime minister discusses Ukraine and fossil fuels in meeting with Indian counterpart Narendra Modi

on.ft.com

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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 1d

That's not what "true believers" or pointing out Mr Day is a former head of Greenpeace suggests to me. In fact it is the direct opposite of the ordinary meaning of the paragraph.

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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. That is what the text says.

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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 1d

Doesn’t the text say that the lawyers did not care about the rolling hills but cared about keeping the oil in the ground?

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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 1d

While I agree with the sentiment, India is mostly a victim of other country’s decisions and even if it invests heavily in renewables then the costs of other countries not doing so may still be enough to stop it from reaching developed country status by 2047.

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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 1d

The lobby going home with a newfound appreciation for Ulez and congestion charging.

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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 1d

My first piece as Mumbai correspondent. I believe there are a lot of other British journalists here at the moment.

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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 1d

India wants to be a developed country by 2047, the 100th anniversary of its independence from Britain. But what does that actually mean? I have a go at crunching the numbers.

www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Narendra Modi’s paltry target for India’s growth

The prime minister wants a $10trn economy by 2047. He should be bolder

www.economist.com

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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 3d

Traitors is back on telly tonight. Here was my attempt to apply some game theory to the show.

www.economist.com/finance-and-...

“The Traitors”, a reality TV show, offers a useful economics lesson

It is a finite, sequential, incomplete information game

www.economist.com

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 2d

Fun bit of trivia this morning

*LEHMAN BROTHERS EUROPE ADMINISTRATION CONCLUDES AFTER 17 YEARS
*LONDON JUDGE SAYS ADMINISTRATION IS ENDED AT HEARING

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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 3d

Traitors is back on telly tonight. Here was my attempt to apply some game theory to the show.

www.economist.com/finance-and-...

“The Traitors”, a reality TV show, offers a useful economics lesson

It is a finite, sequential, incomplete information game

www.economist.com

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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 4d

Apparently they give fake Nobels to disciplines that have to come up with ad hoc explanations for why their mathematical models don’t describe the real world and are unable to reconcile micro and macro. Called “physics”, I hear.

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 4d

Why are people getting excited about the “Nobels”? Everyone knows that the only REAL one is the Sveriges @riksbank.se Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The others are just self-aggrandising PR set up by Nobel himself.

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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 4d

Wasn’t it more export promotion than import substitution in SKs case? (I think a lot of net zero stuff is basically import substitution in practice)

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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 4d

Invest in your health now to make sure you get the most out of any grandkids. They’re faster than you expect.

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