“…cuando un político se salta las líneas rojas, se las ha saltado para siempre para quienes le sucedan, que podrán ampararse en el precedente y en la falta de consecuencias de su acción.”
blogs.elconfidencial.com/espana/mapa-...
Ultimately, no one will have done more for renewable energies than Donald Trump. The irony.
Italy and Spain have given far less aid to Ukraine than Norway, Sweden or the Netherlands, even though their economies are way bigger. Italy and Spain clamor for "solidarity" whenever their bond markets are in trouble, but they don't give it to others...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/what-the-e...
From data and AI to cybersecurity and trust, aviation leaders are navigating a profound digital shift. During #IATAWDS, CEOs from Malaysia Airlines, Thai Airways, Scoot, and IATA discuss the vision needed to drive transformation at scale while building resilience in a rapidly evolving industry.
US trade policy uncertainty reached its highest level on record in 2025, Cato scholars report. Multiple business surveys and anecdotes suggest that this uncertainty undermined long-term business planning and investment.
https://ow.ly/lo8y50YCvEP
All immigrants, both legal and illegal, are less likely to be incarcerated than native-born Americans, the 2010-2024 data show.
Check out the new study by Alex Nowrasteh and Michelangelo Landgrove.
https://ow.ly/XYr950YyQPU
Circle as big as how much your account gets interacted with on X, and Elon Musk is a huge dot in the middle dwarfing everything else like the sun
This is just an incredible visual model of what being on X is like
Wealth is highly concentrated and largely inherited in countries such as Spain, Italy, Austrian and Germany. Inheritances and gifts play a considerably smaller role in net wealth in countries such as Portugal, Hungary or Latvia.
"US democracy is currently in a much faster deterioration process than any other democracy in modern times," the V-Dem Institute at Göteborg University in Sweden says. "Trump's second term can be summarized as a rapid and aggressive concentration of powers in the presidency."
Rising energy prices are pushing up inflation, especially in economies dependent on imported fossil fuels.
The durable solution is structural: improve efficiency, accelerate electrification and scale up renewables.
Energy policy is economic policy.
One strategy is to adopt hard-line policies on immigration and crime to steal the populists’ thunder. The other is to give populists a role government in the hope that they become responsible. Both entail ethical and electoral risks
"Manhattan Institute’s Criticisms Vindicate Cato’s Report on Fiscal Effect of Immigrants: Part 1" www.cato.org/blog/manhatt... via @CatoInstitute @David_J_Bier
China’s latest energy data offers a signal worth paying attention to. In 2025, emissions from energy and industry fell by 0.3%, modest, but notable, even as total energy consumption rose by 3.5%.
The key driver? A continued surge in solar power capacity.
Europe v America: Who’s really winning?
A wonkish but important discussion
(Paul Krugman)
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/europe-v-a...
The Russian puppet states of Hungary and the United States abstained on a motion calling for support for lasting peace in Ukraine at the UN today.
notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
New study by the National Bureau of Economic Research: A survey of 6000 CFOs, CEOS throughout US, Europe, UK and Australia comes to the conclusion that businesses predict that "AI" will improve productivity by a whopping 1.4%. Truly earth shattering.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w34836
This was not an inevitability.
This is the result of decades of political choices that rig the system in favor of the wealthy and powerful while leaving workers behind.
It does not have to be this way.
Wow
Some really striking numbers in this new survey showing the flip in European public opinion about America.
But bear in mind this is only Western Europe. In Eastern Europe, it has been harder to take the blinders off peoples' eyes.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
"Donald Trump’s policies dent international travel to US in blow to tourism sector:
Foreign visitors to the US fell 4.2% in 2025, while international travel worldwide rose 4%"
www.ft.com/content/8f6d...
Reminder: foreign tourism = US services exports
Una candidata a mejor noticia de los próximos años. Que India esté encontrando una vía de desarrollo directamente solar sin pasar por los combustibles fósiles aprovechando la ruta abierta por China.
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
Using all liquid biofuels for aviation would meet just over one-third of demand. Bar chart with two vertical bars: left bar labeled "Global liquid biofuel production" with value 1,400 TWh; right bar labeled "Energy consumed for aviation" with value 3,930 TWh. A note above the chart states less than 1 percent of global liquid biofuels are currently used for aviation and that reallocating all of them to aviation would provide just over one-third of demand. Data sources listed: Energy Institute; International Energy Agency; Bergero et al. (2023).
✍️ New article: Could biofuels meet demand for global aviation?
Biofuels get a lot of attention as a way to decarbonize aviation. A small amount of biofuel is already blended into jet fuel supplies in some countries. For many airlines, biofuels are currently the most practical decarbonization option
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
The disconnect between management and employee on AI usage is big. At the same time, CEOs are reporting they aren't seeing any revenue growth from AI.
🤷
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...
The Kyiv Independent combed through microchip shipments, revealing that American and European microchips continued to enter Russia in large quantities — mainly from China.
Read here: kyivindependent.com/exclusive-am...
Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:
Daily Unique Likers from https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats
Something is happening on @bsky.app. For the first time *ever*, we're seeing durable, modest, realistic growth, and it couldn't be happening at a better time. Are we about to hit escape velocity?
Publishers expect traffic from search to fall by 43% in the next 3 years. This is one of the findings of our new report on media trends. Authored by Nic Newman, it's based on a survey of 280 media leaders.
Full report
buff.ly/Dh2JIuT
7 findings in thread
