Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?

from the annals of getting high on your own supply (gift link) www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

⚠️The extreme wealth of the superrich is making our economies insecure

How did it become so extreme, and what can governments do about it?

This Swedish-inspired infographic breaks it down and explains how a #WealthTax could help 👇
taxjustice.net/2024/08/19/i...

#TaxTheSuperRich

Xi says world in ‘disarray’ as Spain pushes China to help end Iran war Chinese president says Spain and China are ‘morally upright’ nations that should strengthen their co-operation

Xi says world in ‘disarray’ as Spain pushes China to help end Iran war ft.trib.al/B4fsG7v

I think that as economists we should be a lot more concerned that everyone feels like they've got poorer when the data show they haven't. We certainly shouldn't just be assuming that the customers are wrong, rather than that we're no longer measuring things that are most relevant to wellbeing

China’s Xi recognizes Spain’s Sánchez as key interlocutor between Beijing and the EU The Chinese president committed to forging stronger ties with Europe and working to “reject the world’s return to the law of the jungle.”

Chinese President Xi Jinping has recognized Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez as a key interlocutor between Beijing and Brussels following their meeting.

📊 Chart of the week: General government net financial liabilities in G7 countries, % of GDP

🗾 What fiscal adjustments will be needed for #Japan to ensure debt sustainability?

📑 Read the Working Paper by Tomomi Miyazaki, @marie-lappe.bsky.social and @roeldom.bsky.social
🔗 buff.ly/jmHCi9N
#EconSky

www.politico.eu/article/spai...

BREAKING: The blackout in Spain and Portugal in April 2025 did NOT happen because of renewables.

The final ENTSO-E report on last year's Iberian blackout is out — and it's essential reading for anyone working on the energy transition.

www.entsoe.eu/news/2026/03...

Les femmes âgées, victimes invisibles des violences conjugales

Les femmes de plus de 70 ans représentent une part importante des victimes de féminicides, mais les violences conjugales les frappant sont encore peu documentées. Et elles-mêmes tendent à les minimiser.

Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies.

www.ft.com/content/ac77...

How Sánchez became Trump’s nemesis in Europe Spain’s premier tells US president what no other European leader dares to say but some say he has miscalculated

How Sánchez became Trump’s nemesis in Europe ft.trib.al/ypuPjwt

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An interesting reading on how AI can slow others down and increase their workload.

Thinking like an economist about AI, labour markets, and AGI How do economists think about the economic impacts of AI today? And will our current economic paradigm still make sense if we reach AGI?

voxdev.org/topic/labour...

La internacional antigènere a Catalunya i a Espanya: així s’organitza l’ofensiva global contra els drets sexuals i reproductius De l’Opus Dei a Hazte Oír i la Fundació Pro Vida: l’Estat espanyol és el cinquè país d’Europa amb més finançament d’entitats d’extrema dreta i organitzacions religioses ultradretanes

🔎 L’Estat espanyol va ser el cinquè país europeu pel que fa al volum de finançament d’organitzacions, fundacions i lobbies contraris als drets sexuals i reproductius entre el 2019 i el 2023

Amb la col·laboració de @lassociaciodsr.bsky.social 

¿Puede la IA destruir todo el empleo? ¿Y que hacemos si pasa eso? – El Capital Básico Universal En el último año o dos mi trabajo está cambiando de manera considerable con la inteligencia artificial generativa. Desde estimar parámetros de un modelo de redes por variables instrumentales, hasta ge...

nadaesgratis.es/cabrales/pue...

Economics has failed on the climate crisis. This complexity scientist has a mind-blowing plan to fix that Doyne Farmer says a super-simulator of the global economy would accelerate the transition to a green, clean world

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Poco a poco se hace economía política de Espan̈a. Seguimos a an̈os luz de otros países porque lo de revisar nuestro siglo XX es aún tabú, pero avanzamos.

Economic growth is still heating the planet. Is there any way out? Rising GDP continues to mean more carbon emissions and wider damage to the planet. Can the two be decoupled?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Sanchez is right: the choice is btwn "becoming closed & impoverished societies or open & prosperous ones". In the Routledge Guide to the European Union, 2nd ed, I wrote that countries discouraging migrants wd be losers; those that welcomed them & fitted them into economies & societies wd be winners.

Opinion | I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants. In Spain, it is our duty to become the welcoming and tolerant society our ancestors would have hoped to find on the other side of our borders.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“MAGA-style leaders may say that our country can’t handle taking in so many migrants, that this is a suicidal move — the desperate act of a collapsing country,” writes Pedro Sánchez, the prime minister of Spain. “But don’t let them fool you. Spain is booming.”

Trump’s $10 trillion crash: Why gold & silver plummeted - Varoufakis & Munchau | The Econoclasts YouTube video by UnHerd

The Econoclasts are back connecting the dots between the gold&silver crash, Warsh’s Mar-a-Lago family ties, the toxic legacy of Quantitative Easing & the inevitable shift toward fiscal dominance, exposing why the crash is a symptom of a dying central banking era. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTYe...

TfL wants to create a publicly owned bus company for London If established, it would be the first major publicly owned bus company to operate in the capital for thirty years.

Publicly-owned buses across Britain have already reinvested profits back into networks, delivered high quality services & rising ridership numbers.

They're also innovators — leading the transition to electric buses & free Wi-Fi.

www.cityam.com/tfl-wants-to...

Good to see Spain trolling … every other country, more or less.

“Bucking a Global Trend, Spain Offers Undocumented Migrants a Legal Way to Stay” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/w...

AI Is Causing Cultural Stagnation, Researchers Find Generative AI may already be inducing a state of "cultural stagnation," leading to a convergence of generic ideas, a new study has shown.

"No new data was added. Nothing was learned. The collapse emerged purely from repeated use."

El economista jefe del FMI: “España no solo crece por la mano de obra, ha mejorado en productividad” Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas señala que Estados Unidos “está pagando los aranceles” y ve una “gran oportunidad” para Venezuela

El economista jefe del FMI: “España no solo crece por la mano de obra, ha mejorado en productividad”
elpais.com/economia/202...

Quite aside the shocking moral disregard for women's lives, the report cited here v dramatically underestimates the economic contribution of women's unpaid labour, leading to a deeply fallacious conclusion about women's monetary value.
It's what happens when men make decisions without women present

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Roblox’s AI-Powered Age Verification Is a Complete Mess Kids are being identified as adults—and vice versa—on Roblox, while age-verified accounts are already being sold online.

Kids are being identified as adults—and vice versa—on Roblox, while age-verified accounts are already being sold online.

How conspiracy theories entered the mainstream in Spain Conspiracy theories have become mainstream in Spain, with actors on both left and right adopting conspiracy narratives for short-term political advantage.

Conspiracy theories are increasingly prominent in Spanish politics. Their narratives are being instrumentalised by both the radical right and left to shape social perceptions and delegitimise institutions. blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...