Ik ben dringend op zoek naar een huurhuis in de stad / gemeente Groningen, waar ik met mijn zoons (14 en 12) kan wonen, dus met drie slaapkamers. De verhalen kloppen: Er zijn bitter weinig woningen beschikbaar, dus daarom ook dit bericht.

Iedere tip (of huurbaas die die leest🙂) is meer dan welkom!

NEW from me:

Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.

That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀

Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

Attention is on NEETs today, but the problem is much worse.

NEETs include stay-at-home parents & jobseekers.

Strip those out to focus on people not working, not seeking work, not in education & not parenting: this group of economically & socially dislocated young adults has *doubled* in a decade.

Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market.

Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army.

Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.

UK vehicle manufactures have fallen to the lowest level since 1953 reports BBC and Guardian. Lots of stuff on Trump tariffs and EVs. Yet, looking at the data the dramatic rupture seems to be in 2016. A total mystery what that was....

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🔍 we call for a debate on alternative #regionaldevelopment models & policy.

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Britain’s export competitiveness has been eroding for years, but since #Brexit the decline has accelerated. The UK is losing global market share across nearly every sector. Reversing this slide must be part of any growth plan.

🆕insight by @antonspisak.bsky.social

Read here: buff.ly/eTsNvzx

Just in time processing and long value chains: waiting for the supply shock
prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

The dataset is a system of interregional social accounting matrices (SAMs) for the EU for the year 2017 consistent with the Eurostat regional and national data used as input. The dataset uses Eurostat’s microdata on labour income and educational attainment. 3/5

This is simply astonishing. They have published the “methodology” for calculating the supposed reciprocal tariffs, and it’s even worse than if they had just fudged and pretended they were some actual tariffs with non-tariff barriers included.

Another great thread.

More than 50% of the public now think Brexit was "Wrong", and the gap between whose who think it was "Wrong" vs. "Right" is now 25%.

=> the room for manoeuvre in their "reset" of the UK's relationship with the EU is probably larger than Starmer & co. think

UK car production falls to lowest level since 1954 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Hoogste tijd voor een verbod op vuurwerk door particulieren, in combinatie met professioneel vuurwerk waar iedereen veilig van kan genieten.
vuurwerkverbod.petities.nl

Contrarian take: What if the global economy has room for a couple of tech hubs and financial centers, which ended up in America (and London) less because of fundamental factors than because of historical accidents? I'm not 100 percent there, but geography should be considered 5/

Draghi report argues that *all* of the US excess productivity growth has been in digital tech (although mentions finance as a secondary source, which is why I include Manhattan). But is this a story about America and its risk-taking business culture, or a story about regional external economies? 4/