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Ukraine is building a security axis across the Middle East — from Syria to Saudi Arabia, writes United24.
Zelenskyy: Ukraine is the only country in the world with combat experience in a real 21st-century war. 1/
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David Borovsky
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@puuromatic @lugaricano You can't be that fucking stupid lol
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@lugaricano 1) You crash the economy. Create inflation and powerty.
2) You let people fight out from it.
3) When inflation is down from 200% you claim victory for the system.
Milei and Trump - so much winning.
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Free markets are the best way to create wealth AND reduce poverty ever discovered.
One of the big puzzles of history is how the same lesson has to be learned again and again. Poland, China, India, and now Argentina are the latest experiments.
Argentina with Milei:
- Poverty down: 53% to 28%.
- Inflation down: 200% to 33% (and continuing to fall
- Growth up to: 4.4% last year.
- Govt surplus: first in 123 years.
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David Borovsky retweetledi
In Germany they regulated rent increases for existing tenants extremely strictly (rent stabilization), meaning there is a massive gap between the prices of existing rent contracts vs the prices for new leases. This leads to a frozen rental market where nobody wants to move.
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INDOPACCOM gonna fight the PLA with a single M2 that they hid under a tarp in the parking lot
Bloomberg@business
The next steps in the US military campaign against Iran will commit nearly its entire inventory of stealthy JASSM-ER cruise missiles, drawing them from stockpiles devoted to other regions. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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@umoren1996 @sentdefender Nigerian grifter again posting his random shit takes hoping he will get a dime from X for engagement farming.
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According to Axios, citing officials familiar with ongoing matters, the Weapons System Officer (WSO) of a U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle that was downed earlier this week over Southern Iran, suffered injuries after ejecting from the aircraft on Friday but could still walk, and evaded capture in the mountains for more than a day, prior to being found and extracted by Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) early Sunday.
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David Borovsky retweetledi
Many of us, liberal Europeans, spent decades pushing back against the European extreme left's cartoon version of America ( it's all oil/ imperialism/getting rich at the expense of others) and then one dumb administration walks in and performs the caricature to perfection.
Financial Times@FT
Pete Hegseth’s broker looked to buy defence fund before Iran attack ft.trib.al/DKXRnPP
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Rent control is the perfect government policy. Does massive damage while sounding virtuous to idiots.
Cato Institute@CatoInstitute
Spain froze rents and capped increases at 2%, but rent control is already cutting supply by up to 50% and not improving conditions for renters. Spain should follow Argentina, which ended rent control in 2023 and has seen housing supply rise 180%, reports Cato’s @hiperfalcon. ow.ly/k7Mx50YztmZ
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David Borovsky retweetledi
Europe's official grid authority has released its report on the nationwide blackout that hit Spain last year. And while the report treads carefully politically, its data make the cause clear.
Wind and solar triggered the collapse.
Within the first 80 seconds, Spain lost 2.5 GW of generation, around 10% of its national supply, with every MW of that early loss coming from renewables.
Gas and hydro remained stable until the cascade was already underway.
The report calls it an unprecedented speed of blackout. This was a textbook inverter chain failure, with renewables dropping so fast that the grid's stabilizers never had time to react.
By midday, Spain's grid had virtually no inertia, nothing spinning fast enough to hold frequency steady.
But to admit that outright would mean questioning Europe's green transition itself, something the report appears unable to do. So the event is officially described as "a rare local disturbance," rather than what it actually was...
A systemic failure of weather-dependent power.
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@ChrisKartalia @jakescottMD @cremieuxrecueil And yet no one needed the fake and dangerous vaccine in the first place other than severe elderly or actively dosed cancer patients with no immune system. 100% of "vaccinated" humans got Covid! That is NOT a vaccine.
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Why has COVID vaccine-associated myocarditis largely resolved?
Several things happened at once. Dosing intervals got longer — spacing doses at least 8 weeks apart reduces risk up to fourfold. Pfizer became preferentially recommended over Moderna for young males. Updated formulations show no meaningful signal. Booster doses replaced the primary series, and the highest risk was always after dose 2 of the original series. Uptake dropped in the highest-risk demographic.
And one intriguing hypothesis: the pool of susceptible individuals has shrunk as cumulative exposure has become nearly universal. Plausible, but not yet proven.
Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil
Huh! Even though the newest COVID vaccines are more effective than the older ones, they don't lead to myocarditis. They got both more effective *and* safer!
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Huh!
Even though the newest COVID vaccines are more effective than the older ones, they don't lead to myocarditis.
They got both more effective *and* safer!
Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil
A new study just came out on this topic. Using data from almost 14 million young people in England, they found that COVID—but not COVID vaccination—was broadly associated with heart problems. The myocarditis bump (which is milder than real myocarditis) was also small.
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Great post. Olivier makes several crucial and in my opinion correct points here:
1) There is no reason to expect Iran to give up the control over Hormuz it has gained. Even if Trump declares victory and leaves!.
2) Hence the shortfall of 20 m barrels a day is long lasting and hard to compensate.
3) SR demand is inelastic. Price up to $200 is completely realistic.
Olivier Blanchard@ojblanchard1
I find it hard not to have as a central scenario where oil prices will remain very high for a long time, higher than the market current prices. I am no expert on geo-politics and defense technology, but this is what I think I have learned: Fully protecting ships in the strait of Hormuz is basically impossible. Not enough time to stop missiles or drones. There is no reason, whether or not Trump declares that war is over, to think that Iran will not continue for some time to threaten to destroy the ships that try. Why should they stop? The risk will thus remain sufficiently high that most non Iranian ships will not take the risk. Thus, the shortfall of 20 million barrels a day is likely to last for long. The scope for increased supply from elsewhere is very limited in the short run. Perhaps 2 million barrels at the most. The 400 million barrels reserve release can only add 3-4 million barrels or so daily. The short run elasticity of demand for oil is very low, at most -0.1, and probably less. This suggests to me prices closer to 150-200 dollars per barrel (or more, but I hesitate to give higher numbers…) than to the current market price. To repeat. I am no expert (As an economist, I have a bit more sense about the next step, namely what such a price would to the world economy). I would be more than happy to be proven wrong.
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Featured in the latest Digest: Impact of Minimum Pay Rules on Gig Delivery Drivers
nber.org/digest/202603/…
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@lynettdoteth @david_borovsky @cafreiman After paying health insurance premiums, college tuition, and rent, I doubt she has plenty left to buy stocks. Her CEO can afford hundreds of thousands of shares though.
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A reminder that if the Starbucks CEO’s salary were divided equally among all Starbucks employees, each one would receive only about $5 more per week.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol makes $95,801,676 a year, while the average Starbucks worker makes under $15K.
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@GibisVB @MartinMrazek8 Co to je za argumentaci?😂 todle dlouhodobě nemůže absolutně fungovat.
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🚀NAPROSTO NEUVĚŘITELNÉ SCÉNY. Dron Šáhed-136 nízko nad dubajskou pláží a za ním se "plazící" F-16E Desert Falcon letectva Spojených arabských emirátů, který uloví dron raketou AIM-9 Sidewinder. A to vše jen několik kilometrů od mezinárodního letiště...
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@loladze @cafreiman They can buy stocks themselves and get dividens, can't they?
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@david_borovsky @cafreiman Well, it seems like the employees would then become shareholders. Just a hypothetical scenario.
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@loladze @cafreiman If this were the case, there would be no shareholders at all because no one would buy their stocks, lol.
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@cafreiman But if shareholder profits were given instead to employees, each employee would get an extra $400 per month.
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@AdoPekco @MartinDuchman11 @econoirsk Prvu hypo beries zvacsa preto, ze niekde potrebujes byvat a ak by si ju nevzal, platil by si dajme tomu 70% tych nakladov za najom. Druhu lebo chces zarobit s tym ze musis platit za removacie, piplat sa s najomnikmi + sa tam tyka 5 rocny casovy test.
@david_borovsky @MartinDuchman11 @econoirsk Páka (hypo) je isté riziko.Prvá hypo na byt, kde bývam mi príde najrizikovejšia. Nemám príjem z nájomného. Druhý byt na hypo mi nepríde rizikovejší. So splátkami pomáha nájomník. Ak to nevyjde, predám ju a spočítam zisk. Geo riziká SR a SAE sú rovnaké. Tiež tu blízko zúri vojna.
Koľkí drobní investori ich majú na páku cez svoje primárne domáce nehnuteľnosti?
@AdoPekco @MartinDuchman11 @econoirsk Kupa x-tej nehnutelnosti na paku a este k tomu v Dubaji nie je uplne to iste, ako ked babicka dostala po zmene rezimu druzstevny byt, alebo si ho rodina kupuje *na byvanie*.
@MartinDuchman11 @econoirsk Vlastníctvo nehnuteľnosti je podnikanie? Tak to každá slovenská babička a vlastne každý na slovensku je podnikateľ.
David Borovsky retweetledi
@mattyglesias it's very funny to me that this policy is close to a mathematical guarantee that pensions will take up an increasing share of British GDP, every single year, forever, and it's politically impossible to change.
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