Simona Heidempergher
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Middle class consciousness is on the rise: Doctors, teachers and junior bankers of the world, unite!
economist.com/britain/2025...
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Doctors, teachers and junior bankers of the world, unite!
The rise of middle-class consciousness
economist.com
May 29, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Middle class consciousness is on the rise: Doctors, teachers and junior bankers of the world, unite!
economist.com/britain/2025...
economist.com/britain/2025...
Peter Marks gone from the FDA will have huge impact on gene therapy research in the US www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...
Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment
www.nytimes.com
May 16, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Peter Marks gone from the FDA will have huge impact on gene therapy research in the US www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...
Europe sweltered through its hottest March on record, according to Copernicus. It was also both the “driest” and “wettest” month in half a century in different countries, thanks to heatwaves and torrential rains. Average temperatures were 1.6°C hotter than pre-industrial times
April 8, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Europe sweltered through its hottest March on record, according to Copernicus. It was also both the “driest” and “wettest” month in half a century in different countries, thanks to heatwaves and torrential rains. Average temperatures were 1.6°C hotter than pre-industrial times
Niall Ferguson: Trump’s Tariffs and the End of American Empire
www.thefp.com/p/niall-ferg...
www.thefp.com/p/niall-ferg...
Niall Ferguson: Trump’s Tariffs and the End of American Empire
The president stands as much chance of reindustrializing the U.S. as you do of getting your frozen laptop to work by smashing the motherboard with a Minecraft hammer.
www.thefp.com
April 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Niall Ferguson: Trump’s Tariffs and the End of American Empire
www.thefp.com/p/niall-ferg...
www.thefp.com/p/niall-ferg...
It was former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani who rang the bell opening the stock market yesterday. Giuliani represented Newsmax, the right-wing media channel with ties to Trump. As soon as the market opened, stocks fell straight down. cit. @hcrichardson.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 5:36 AM
It was former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani who rang the bell opening the stock market yesterday. Giuliani represented Newsmax, the right-wing media channel with ties to Trump. As soon as the market opened, stocks fell straight down. cit. @hcrichardson.bsky.social
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'End the Fed'?
Casual talk of “ending” the Federal Reserve is unlikely to improve confidence in the US currency or economy
www.ubs.com/global/en/we...
#EconSky
Casual talk of “ending” the Federal Reserve is unlikely to improve confidence in the US currency or economy
www.ubs.com/global/en/we...
#EconSky
“End the Fed”?
Overnight US President Trump’s influential donor Musk reiterated a desire to “end the Fed.” Abolishing the Federal Reserve is part of the reported Project 2025 blueprint. This sort of talk, immediatel...
www.ubs.com
March 31, 2025 at 7:58 AM
'End the Fed'?
Casual talk of “ending” the Federal Reserve is unlikely to improve confidence in the US currency or economy
www.ubs.com/global/en/we...
#EconSky
Casual talk of “ending” the Federal Reserve is unlikely to improve confidence in the US currency or economy
www.ubs.com/global/en/we...
#EconSky
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The whole point of studying the 1930s is to foster hyper-awareness.
We should be nervous, pessimistic, jumpy. We should call out the first rumblings, the accidental tells, the faintest glimmers.
Because it was so monstrous that even the whiff of it is existential
We should be nervous, pessimistic, jumpy. We should call out the first rumblings, the accidental tells, the faintest glimmers.
Because it was so monstrous that even the whiff of it is existential
January 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The whole point of studying the 1930s is to foster hyper-awareness.
We should be nervous, pessimistic, jumpy. We should call out the first rumblings, the accidental tells, the faintest glimmers.
Because it was so monstrous that even the whiff of it is existential
We should be nervous, pessimistic, jumpy. We should call out the first rumblings, the accidental tells, the faintest glimmers.
Because it was so monstrous that even the whiff of it is existential
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These Economist quotes would be great economics exam questions. (See below for context.)
“The chancellor is caught in a credibility trap, where abiding by one promise made in the name of credibility undermines another.”
“When caught in a credibility trap, media hysteria is inevitable.”
“The chancellor is caught in a credibility trap, where abiding by one promise made in the name of credibility undermines another.”
“When caught in a credibility trap, media hysteria is inevitable.”
January 22, 2025 at 10:28 AM
These Economist quotes would be great economics exam questions. (See below for context.)
“The chancellor is caught in a credibility trap, where abiding by one promise made in the name of credibility undermines another.”
“When caught in a credibility trap, media hysteria is inevitable.”
“The chancellor is caught in a credibility trap, where abiding by one promise made in the name of credibility undermines another.”
“When caught in a credibility trap, media hysteria is inevitable.”
So we are basically living somewhere between Dr Strangelove and Citizen Kane
January 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
So we are basically living somewhere between Dr Strangelove and Citizen Kane
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'Many of us...have a feeling that we are living in a country where fanatics, hooligans and eccentrics have got the upper hand.'
British Ambassador to Berlin, 1933.
British Ambassador to Berlin, 1933.
January 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
'Many of us...have a feeling that we are living in a country where fanatics, hooligans and eccentrics have got the upper hand.'
British Ambassador to Berlin, 1933.
British Ambassador to Berlin, 1933.
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A SpaceX Starship rocket broke up in space minutes after launching from Texas, forcing airline flights over the Gulf of Mexico to alter course to avoid falling debris and setting back Elon Musk's flagship rocket program reut.rs/4fWCy0J
SpaceX's Starship explodes in flight test, forcing airlines to divert
A SpaceX Starship rocket broke up in space minutes after launching from Texas on Thursday, forcing airline flights over the Gulf of Mexico to alter course to avoid falling debris and setting back Elon Musk's flagship rocket program.
reut.rs
January 17, 2025 at 3:20 AM
A SpaceX Starship rocket broke up in space minutes after launching from Texas, forcing airline flights over the Gulf of Mexico to alter course to avoid falling debris and setting back Elon Musk's flagship rocket program reut.rs/4fWCy0J
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The average rate on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages surpassed 7% for the first time since May, Freddie Mac reported on Thursday, extending a weekslong climb that could push more buyers and sellers to the sidelines.
30-Year Mortgage Rate Rises Above 7% for First Time Since May
The latest jump threatens to sideline more buyers and sellers.
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2025 at 4:37 AM
The average rate on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages surpassed 7% for the first time since May, Freddie Mac reported on Thursday, extending a weekslong climb that could push more buyers and sellers to the sidelines.
Anduril Industries will build Arsenal-1 in Columbus, Ohio, propelling its plans to pump out tens of thousands of autonomous vehicles, sensors and weapons.
The production lines could go hot as soon as July 2026, according to the company. from Axios
The production lines could go hot as soon as July 2026, according to the company. from Axios
January 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Anduril Industries will build Arsenal-1 in Columbus, Ohio, propelling its plans to pump out tens of thousands of autonomous vehicles, sensors and weapons.
The production lines could go hot as soon as July 2026, according to the company. from Axios
The production lines could go hot as soon as July 2026, according to the company. from Axios
best analysis read so far on the Greenland issue
In the first Sunday Wrap of the year I discuss Trump’s military threat to Greenland, and hence NATO (and why it’s complexed), his financial backers’ threat to European politics - and why I’m optimistic that Europe will respond properly.
www.research.unicredit.eu/DocsKey/econ...
www.research.unicredit.eu/DocsKey/econ...
January 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
best analysis read so far on the Greenland issue
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An important new study provides further evidence that the rise of far-right parties is primarily a consequence of a shift from socio-economic to socio-cultural issues. This allowed these parties to tap into their full electoral potential.
Question now is: how and why did this shift happen?
Question now is: how and why did this shift happen?
Decomposing the rise of the populist radical right: How changes in priorities explain the electoral politics of our time
Support for populist radical right parties has increased dramatically across Europe. This column looks at drivers of the rise of the populist right between 2005 and 2020and finds that the primary driver in Europe is changing priorities of voters rather than changes in party position or voter attributes. Older, non-unionised, less-educated men are particularly, and increasingly, inclined to prioritise nationalist cultural issues over a party’s economic positions.
cepr.org
January 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
An important new study provides further evidence that the rise of far-right parties is primarily a consequence of a shift from socio-economic to socio-cultural issues. This allowed these parties to tap into their full electoral potential.
Question now is: how and why did this shift happen?
Question now is: how and why did this shift happen?
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Non sono i "nuovi mostri", in platea del congresso #Afd ora c’è la borghesia incattivita e radicalizzata. "Basta sprechi e migranti”.
L'ultima volta che il Bildungsbürgertum tedesco ha perso la bussola, è arrivato il nazismo.
Il mio reportage da #Riesa
www.repubblica.it/esteri/2025/...
L'ultima volta che il Bildungsbürgertum tedesco ha perso la bussola, è arrivato il nazismo.
Il mio reportage da #Riesa
www.repubblica.it/esteri/2025/...
Afd, in platea ora c’è la borghesia incattivita e stregata da Weidel: “Basta sprechi e migranti”
Delegati e militanti non vengono più dai margini. Sono impauriti e radicalizzati
www.repubblica.it
January 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Non sono i "nuovi mostri", in platea del congresso #Afd ora c’è la borghesia incattivita e radicalizzata. "Basta sprechi e migranti”.
L'ultima volta che il Bildungsbürgertum tedesco ha perso la bussola, è arrivato il nazismo.
Il mio reportage da #Riesa
www.repubblica.it/esteri/2025/...
L'ultima volta che il Bildungsbürgertum tedesco ha perso la bussola, è arrivato il nazismo.
Il mio reportage da #Riesa
www.repubblica.it/esteri/2025/...
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Forget the division of Left and Right. We are entering the age of the New Obscurantism: politics fused with magical solutions, superstition, an aura of spirituality and the cultivation of fear
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The New Rasputins
Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.
www.theatlantic.com
January 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Forget the division of Left and Right. We are entering the age of the New Obscurantism: politics fused with magical solutions, superstition, an aura of spirituality and the cultivation of fear
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Pentagon designated Tencent, a tech giant, and CATL (battery maker) as “Chinese military company” operating in America.
January 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The Pentagon designated Tencent, a tech giant, and CATL (battery maker) as “Chinese military company” operating in America.
Anthropic is opening a new office in Zurich, adding to its European presence in London and Dublin.
OpenAI also announced last week it would be opening an office in the Swiss city.
OpenAI also announced last week it would be opening an office in the Swiss city.
December 9, 2024 at 7:08 AM
Anthropic is opening a new office in Zurich, adding to its European presence in London and Dublin.
OpenAI also announced last week it would be opening an office in the Swiss city.
OpenAI also announced last week it would be opening an office in the Swiss city.
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In my note today, I argue:
- While weak, EU growth is at the global average, and getting better. US is the outlier, and slowing.
- Next year will see European reforms in the right direction. In the US (and probably China) they’ll be in the wrong direction
www.research.unicredit.eu/DocsKey/econ...
- While weak, EU growth is at the global average, and getting better. US is the outlier, and slowing.
- Next year will see European reforms in the right direction. In the US (and probably China) they’ll be in the wrong direction
www.research.unicredit.eu/DocsKey/econ...
www.research.unicredit.eu
December 8, 2024 at 1:53 PM
In my note today, I argue:
- While weak, EU growth is at the global average, and getting better. US is the outlier, and slowing.
- Next year will see European reforms in the right direction. In the US (and probably China) they’ll be in the wrong direction
www.research.unicredit.eu/DocsKey/econ...
- While weak, EU growth is at the global average, and getting better. US is the outlier, and slowing.
- Next year will see European reforms in the right direction. In the US (and probably China) they’ll be in the wrong direction
www.research.unicredit.eu/DocsKey/econ...
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My piece on Patel is up. (Gifted here. Thanks, Bluesky folks.)
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Kash Patel Principle
Trump’s choice for FBI director speaks volumes about his real second-term agenda
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2024 at 3:07 AM
My piece on Patel is up. (Gifted here. Thanks, Bluesky folks.)
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...