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Why So Few Matt Levines?

Why are popularizing educational newsletter-frequency writers of important fields like Matt Levine for finance so rare? Because most fields are too slow or ambiguous, and writers of the right combinat...

A tenner says Johnson concocted this lunatic plan purely to put it in his memoirs.

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Dame Maggie Smith Has Passed at Age 89

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Who could have seen that coming? www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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Austria’s Cosa Nostra

My quip on a TV show gave me an insider view of how the dominant People’s Party exerts its influence throughout the country.

🤦🏼‍♂️ (on so many levels)

Of course the Germans kept the receipts. (Replying to a ridiculous Russian foreign ministry tweet about the Soviets invading Poland in 1939 to protect them against the Nazi’s.)

For the record, if one were to be worried about a future Le Pen presidency, one might want to leave the public finances in a pretty bad state for her. Otherwise she'll just start handing out money to her supporters.

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Le déficit public « risque de dépasser » 6 % du PIB en 2024

Le déficit public « risque de dépasser » 6 % du PIB en 2024

Le nouveau ministre du Budget, Laurent Saint-Martin, a ajouté que le projet de loi de finances pour 2025 serait présenté aux parlementaires « la semaine du 9 octobre ».

The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pur...

In Germany it only takes support from a quarter of the Bundestag to set up a committee of inquiry: www.bundestag.de/en/committee...