Igor Masten

Da za realizacijo ambicij Slovenije Svoboda ne zmore spisati več kot 2 strani kaže, kako brez ambicij sami so gibanjesvoboda.si/wp-content/upl…

S takim programom nam Svoboda pošilja močno sporočilo: Tako jim dol visi za blaginjo države, da se jim, pretendetom za sestavo vlade, ne ljubi porabiti vnit 5 minut za pripravo programa vlade. gibanjesvoboda.si/wp-content/upl…

Minuta branja za presojo kako lahko sheme pomoči države in kontrole cen kot odgovor na višje cene goriv namesto zaščite ljudi pred inflacijo, inflacijo dejansko propagirajo. open.substack.com/pub/johnhcochr…

😂Poslušam tole novo »afero Black Cube«, ki so jo lansirali naši dežurni reševalci demokracije z Inštituta 8. marec in Mladine. Dajmo to »zgodovinsko vmešavanje v slovensko demokracijo« prevesti v jezik zdravega razuma in poglejmo, kako po mnenju slovenske levice delujejo elitni tuji obveščevalci. Scenarij gre očitno takole: Vrhunski izraelski vohuni, nekdanji specialci in strategi, ki so domnevno strah in trepet svetovne elite, se odločijo za super-tajno operacijo v Sloveniji. In kako izvedejo to briljantno tajno misijo? Tako, da z zasebnim VIP reaktivcem spektakularno in pod svojim pravim imenom pristanejo naravnost na Brniku. Nato se sredi belega dneva zapeljejo na Trstenjakovo 8 – na najbolj opazovan in prisluškovan naslov v državi, pred katerim imajo slovenski novinarji praktično stalno postavljen tabor. Tam jih pred vrati, pred očmi celotne javnosti, pričaka prvak opozicije Janez Janša osebno. Malo poklepetajo, skujejo načrt za padec vlade, spijejo kavo in odletijo v Rim. Enega agenta pa pustijo v Ljubljani – verjetno zato, ker jim je zmanjkalo prostora za prtljago ali pa ni imel drobiža za taksi do letališča. Če bi elitne obveščevalne agencije res delovale na tak način – torej parkirale svoje VIP letalo pred nosom vseh in šle na uradni sestanek na sedež največje stranke –, bi jih razkrinkali že vaški redarji, ne pa Nika Kovač in Borut Mekina. To ni niti komedija, to je čista tragikomedija. Pravi James Bond bi ob tem jokal v svoj martini. Zdi se, da levim omrežjem postaja kristalno jasno, da jih bo aktualna oblast s svojo operativno invalidnostjo pokopala in gladko zmago podarila desnici. Zato očitno prehajamo iz klasičnega političnega boja v žanr slabe znanstvene fantastike.

R.I.P. Christopher Sims (21 Oct. 1942 - 14 March 2026) - a giant in macroeconomics and one of the finest human beings I have ever met -

@matjaz003 @Matej_R81 @LukaMesec Drži, zelo prepričljivo izvajanje. Javna diskusija pa naj pripomore k podajanju dejstev. Če študente učim naj ne zamenjujejo korelacij z vzročnostjo pri podajanju vzročno-posledični trditev, je zgolj logično, da na to opozorim pri diskusiji o ekonomski politiki.

@IgorMasten @Matej_R81 @LukaMesec Ja, ampak noben mu ni znal parirati!

Lahko vam je všeč ali pa ne, ampak @LukaMesec je na zadnjem soočenju razturil. Zdaj pa naj se usuje plaz kritik😂😂😂

Germany names Felbermayr as new adviser to Merz on the economy bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @jrandow

Here is below the full text of my op-ed “Iran Is Headed Towards Regime Collapse” that I wrote last June after the 12 Days war with Iran: project-syndicate.org/commentary/ira… Iran Is Headed Toward Regime Collapse. Radical forces in the Middle East, many funded by and acting as proxies of Iran, have destabilized the region for decades. Regime collapse in Iran following the US bombardment of the country’s nuclear facilities, it must now be hoped, will benefit the entire region. NEW YORK – Last November, I predicted that Israel was likely to attack Iran’s nuclear and other military facilities, even go so far as to eliminate the “regime’s top military and political leaders.” I also argued that “any US administration would inevitably continue to support [Israel], directly or indirectly.”   Regardless of the deep divisions within Israel about the conduct of war in Gaza, the broad consensus across the Israeli political spectrum – including center-left critics of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu – was that Iran was close to developing a nuclear weapon, a perceived existential threat to Israel. If anything, moderate centrist leaders such as Benny Ganz and Yair Lapid criticized Netanyahu for being soft on Iran.   It was only matter of time before Israel struck Iran, which, starting on October 7, 2023, had unleashed Hamas, Hezbollah, Yemen’s Houthis, and Shia militias in Syria and Iraq against Israel. After Israel decimated these proxies and Iran lost strategic deterrence, Iran’s only option was to gain nuclear weapons, an unacceptable outcome for Israel and the West more broadly. Thus, Israel’s attack against Iran. And since some of Iran’s hardened nuclear facilities were robust enough to withstand Israeli weapons, it was clear that the US would intervene to destroy the nuclear facilities, despite the anti-interventionist sentiment of President Donald Trump’s base.   Iran counterattacked against Israel with missile barrages and now threatens US forces in the region. But the regime is so weakened that it can barely defend itself, let alone unleash its limited weapons against US forces. Yes, some Shia militias can try to attack well-defended US bases and troops in the region. But, leaving aside the risk of even more forceful US and Israeli counterattacks, the damage they can do is limited.   Also, the Iranian regime’s ability and willingness to block the Strait of Hormuz, to mine the Persian Gulf, and/or to attack the energy production facilities and pipelines of its Arab neighbors is now limited. The regime is focusing on its survival, but its collapse is likely in the coming months.   True, for now Israel’s attack has led even the anti-regime opposition to rally around the flag. Over time, however, a large majority of Iranians who despise a regime that has brought about the country’s economic and financial ruin – and now its geopolitical and military collapse – will rise against it and replace it with something else. In 1990, Iran’s per capita GDP was almost equal to that of Israel; today, Israel’s is 15 times higher. Iran’s energy reserves rival, or even exceed, Saudi Arabia’s, yet it has lost hundreds of billions of dollars in potential energy revenues in a futile war against the West for the past five decades.   Today, Iranians face skyrocketing inflation, collapsing real incomes, mass poverty, and even hunger not because of US and Western sanctions but because of their rulers’ nonsensical policies. A country that could have been richer than any Gulf oil state is near bankruptcy, owing to the regime’s corruption, incompetence, and strategic recklessness. Part 1/2 Continued in the thread below .

Če svoboda sploh kaj pomeni, potem je to pravica, da ljudem povemo tisto, česar ne želijo slišati. Podpornikom trenutne vlade pa je svoboda govora pomembna samo takrat, ko bi Repić podprl njihovo kampanjo. Takrat bi me postavili verjetno tudi za ministra, neglede na mojo predkaznovanost. 🤡 Braniti svobodo govora, ne pomeni zagovarjati kaznivih dejanj iz preteklosti. V nasprotnem spremenite ustavo in omogočite vstop na volišča samo ljudem s potrdilom o nekaznovanosti.

Na lastni koži sem ugotovil, da je pod to vlado represija nad svobodo govora neprimerljivo hujša kot v času covida. Takrat sem na glas povedal, kaj vse me moti, in me nihče ni označeval za “levičarja” ali me skušal utišati. Pod vlado “svobodnih” pa mi je bila svoboda omejena na načine, ki jih premore le diktatura. Izbrisan mi je bil Instagram račun, ki je bil ustvarjen že leta 2012, na katerem sem vedno povedal, kar mi je ležalo na duši. Tisti, ki me zares še ne poznate, ste morda izgubili upanje, da bom sploh še kdaj spregovoril na glas. Vsi tisti, ki me pa dobro poznate, pa verjamem, da si že pripravljate novo porcijo kokic. Zaradi nastale situacije sem se odločil, da svoj glas prenesem na socialno omrežje X, v upanju, da ostanem slišan. V življenju so me doletele že veliko hujše stvari kot vse to, kar se mi je zgodilo v zadnjih dveh tednih. A kot sem že večkrat povedal … težko me bo utišati ‼️#nismofejk #nepridiprav

Last week, I had the honour to hold the #EugenBöhmVonBawerkLecture of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. I argued that the narrative that Europe is in decline is misleading and that Europe should unlock the full potential of the Single Market by introducing a #28thRegime. 1/20

Burek na stopnicah je svoboda. Škoda k ni reklama posneta na varnostno tvegani coni, da bi bila ironija še bolj mastna.

Net interest expense of the federal government as % of GDP projected* by CBO to increase to 6.4% by 2056. As a benchmark, the US currently spends 3.3% of GDP on defense. Treasury could have locked in low rates but chose not to. We warned about this in our BPEA piece in 2022. brookings.edu/articles/measu… *not a forecast. projection based on current law.

Moj predlog predsednici RS @nmusar za guvernerja @BankaSlovenije: Dr. Damjan Pfajfar iz @federalreserve. Odlično akademsko ozadje, centralno bančna kariera, neodvisnost. Priložnost, da se prekine z negativno selekcijo. linkedin.com/in/damjan-pfaj…

Guverner HNB Boris Vujičić imenovan za podpredsednika ECB. Čestitam! Mesto bi moralo pripadati Sloveniji, prvi vzhodno evropski državi z evrom. Priložnost zapravljena zaradi konsistentnih imenovanj nesposobnih ljudi v Svet @BankaSlovenije

@PrstanSi ZDA

@IgorMasten V čigavem?

Trump bo izsilil Tajvan, da prenese napredno proizvodnjo čipov, ki jo ZDA trenutno ne obvladajo, potem pa ga bo prepustil Kitajski. Če imaš takega "zaveznika", ne rabiš sovražnikov.

The ECB and other European and international central banks stand in full solidarity with the Federal Reserve System and its Chair Jerome H. Powell. The independence of central banks is in the interest of the people we serve.

Moj letošnji teoretični izpit monetarne ekonomije (šteje pol ocene). Zanimivo bi bilo videti, ali ga kdo od kandidatov za guvernerja/ko @BankaSlovenije zna rešiti, saj gre za področje, ki bi ga vodili. Mogoče jih predsednica RS @nmusar vpraša. 1drv.ms/b/c/ac8c918bad…