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How wealth undermines human empathy... Dr. Robert Sapolsky (from TikTok)...

Two other stories. The strategic situation really has not changed for a month. Trump wants out, Iran is not letting him, and everything else is hot air. The US is facing the limits of its power. Also, the oil markets do seem to be optimistic--hope they are right.

Nicht für jedermann..?

The woman who thinks violence is in our genes | The Observer A tendency to aggression and antisocial behaviour is encoded in certain people’s DNA, argues Kathryn Paige Harden – and it could have profound implications for crime and punishment

'Behavioural genetics makes people uncomfortable because it gets at the fundamental tension of being human, “which is that we are both caused creatures and experience ourselves to be subjective agents” '.

New interview in @theobserveruk.bsky.social

observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

Accommodating spending US President Trump has suggested a de facto extension of the Gulf ceasefire (to Wednesday evening, US time) but no further extension. Markets are looking to Iran’s reaction to giver credibility to the...

Accommodating spending

US consumers are expected to find ways to keep on spending on non-oil products in March. The longer the war lasts, the harder that is to do.

www.ubs.com/global/en/we...

#EconSky

First: hilarious.

Second: A core belief of Trump-brand conservativsm is there are and never have been difficult problems, only dumb leaders without the strength to be cruel enough to solve them.

It's why they always look so baffled when pushing the "more cruelty" button doesn't seem to work.

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

Primarily, we have a media and social media problem…
People are - deliberately - not informed.
The agenda of those who own the media is in direct conflict with the best interests of the country. And the agenda is a race to the bottom, removing rights and protections to better exploit people.

Policy responses An Israeli-Lebanon ceasefire has been agreed, lessening the risks to a wider peace settlement in the region. US President Trump asserted (without offering evidence) that a peace deal with Iran is look...

Policy responses

A selection of central bank speakers have been signaling a cautious, watchful response to the Gulf war.

www.ubs.com/global/en/we...

#EconSky

The Middle East lockdown US President Trump vowed to continue investigating the Federal Reserve, and possibly fire Fed Chair Powell. Fed Chair nominee Warsh’s confirmation continues to be blocked by Senator Tillis. Markets do...

The Middle East lockdown

Economically, the Gulf war acts like the pandemic lockdown for the region. States are borrowing to keep economies moving.

www.ubs.com/global/en/we...

#EconSky

The three stages of life:

1. Too young
2. Too busy
3. Too old

LOL

„Esko Aho’s Law“

• Goodhart’s Law
Campbell’s Law
• Parkinson’s Law
• Gresham’s Law
• Benford’s Law
• Hick’s Law

"you never know what worse institutions your bad institutions have saved you from" is the story of our age

Interesting. Didn’t know about this 1933 Business Plot.

But I do know that the 2025 Business Plot worked!! They had to wait some 90 years…

NFT‘s anyone? Same same something but totally different…

Ei häiriö ihmisiä yksinään pelota, vaan paljon pahempi peikko: kiinteistöjen ja alueen arvonmenetys. Eurot.

Turussa oli tämmönen keissi myös vuosia sitten…

Blasphemy!!

Keeping the optimistic bias US President Trump suggested talks with Iran could begin within two days. Investors have received enough independent confirmation to give the idea credibility. The “always look on the bright side” men...

Keeping the optimistic bias

There has been enough talk of further Iran-US negotiations to give the idea credibility, and markets are credulous of anything optimistic.

www.ubs.com/global/en/we...

#EconSky

Who would have imagined that between the US and Iran, it’s the latter that is winning the meme war?

Yeah. I voted 6000 times. So there.

IMF analysis: Wars cause large, lasting economic losses in affected countries and spillovers to others - often worse than financial crises or natural disasters. Recovery dependent on sustained peace: War contributes to inflationary pressures. Early macro stabilization important.

Europe’s choice: Grow, or become a vassal Europe faces economic stagnation amid Middle East conflicts, with leaders divided on reforms needed to scale startups into large companies and achieve geopolitical sovereignty.

Without the creation of a leading pack in the EU, “a future looms in which reforms are blocked at every step of the way by the Viktor Orbans of the day,” argues Ulrike Malmendier, an economist

Punainen sydän... kommari!!

It’s in the prompt. Anybody who has the prompt? 😐

Samoin.

Die rechtsextreme Partei Unsere Heimat (Mi Hazank) übersprang mit 5,9 Prozent der Stimmen die Fünf-Prozent-Hürde und errang 6 Mandate. Sonst schaffte es keine weitere Partei ins Parlament. In der neuen Volksvertretung wird es keine linken, grünen oder liberalen Parteien geben.

#Unkari

Perin mielenkiintoinen havainto eilisten vaalien jälkeen:

Unkarin parlamentista ei löydy vihreitä, vasemmistoa tai liberaaleja.

Interesting. What was the topic? Nature/nurture, stress, determinism..?

This result was inevitable once Viktor Orbán went woke, by Matt Goodwin for The Free Press.