Manuel Aguilar Hendrickson

La clase social importa, digan lo que digan 👇🏻

📉 Sin entrar en causalidades que desconozco, esto se corresponde con mi percepción en la universidad. Y no, no es la manida queja de 'es que los jóvenes de hoy, patatas'. Pasa algo.

Re. individual counties, Spain's Growth Incidence Curve 2018-23 was strongly pro-poor. US was strongly pro-rich except at the very top of income distribution. @lisdata. But Spanish mean growth was 0.1% (i.e. practically zero), US mean growth was 0.9%.

The difficulty of understanding Trump is that of all historical figures that stand at the cusp of a new epoch. They combine the features of the revolved times, often in grotesque ways, with those, dimly perceived, of a new era.

À Paris, les scores les plus élevés de la liste d’extrême droite menée par Sarah Knafo sont en lien étroit avec des revenus et des patrimoines élevés. Ils témoignent de la radicalisation trumpiste d’une partie de la bourgeoisie. 👉 mediapart.fr/journal/politi…

The bird even realized he had won

I think that the biggest difference between the Iran war and the Vietnam war is Donald Trump knew how to get himself out of the Vietnam war.

For the record, the president of the United States is now simultaneously claiming that he has won the war, is currently winning the war, needs help to win the war, and needs no help to win the war. All to destroy the nuclear program he claims to have already destroyed last year.

El maratón en China utiliza un método de cruce tipo péndulo diseñado para permitir que los residentes crucen la calle de forma segura sin interrumpir el desarrollo de la carrera.

Spain has the highest population concentration in Europe, with 90% of its population living on just 2.6% of its territory. (El País)

Right now, in barns and equipment sheds across the American Midwest, farmers are making the most consequential decision of this war. Not generals. Not senators. Farmers. At $683 per ton urea, corn economics have collapsed. Nitrogen is the single largest input cost for corn production. At pre-war prices a farmer could justify 180 pounds per acre and expect a margin. At $683 the math breaks. Soybeans fix their own nitrogen from the atmosphere through root bacteria. They do not need the molecule trapped behind the Strait of Hormuz. The seed decision is being made this week across roughly 90 million acres of American cropland. Once the planter rolls into the field, the choice is irreversible. Corn seed in the ground stays corn. Soy seed stays soy. The acreage allocation locks in. USDA Prospective Plantings reports March 31. That report will tell the world how American agriculture responded to the Hormuz blockade. But the decisions it captures are being made now, in conversations between farmers and agronomists and seed dealers who are looking at nitrogen prices and making the rational economic choice: plant the crop that does not need the input you cannot afford. Every acre that shifts from corn to soybeans tightens the corn balance sheet for the rest of the year. Corn feeds livestock. Corn feeds ethanol. The Renewable Fuel Standard mandates 15 billion gallons of corn ethanol annually, consuming roughly 43 percent of the US corn crop regardless of price. That demand is inelastic. If acres shift and production falls while the mandate holds, corn prices spike. Feed costs spike. The protein cascade reverses. The US cattle herd sits at 86.2 million head, a 75-year low. Poultry and pork margins that were benefiting from cheap feed compress when corn crosses $5 per bushel. This is how a naval blockade 7,000 miles from Iowa reaches the American grocery shelf. Not through oil. Not through shipping. Through nitrogen. The farmer cannot afford the molecule. The molecule cannot transit the strait. The farmer plants soy instead. The corn supply tightens. The ethanol mandate consumes its fixed share. The remaining corn reprices. The feed reprices. The meat reprices. The grocery bill reprices. The decision is not political. It is arithmetic performed on a kitchen table by a person who needs to plant in three weeks and cannot wait for a ceasefire, an escort convoy, or an insurance normalisation that the Red Sea precedent says takes years. The deepest penetrator in the American arsenal cannot reach a sealed Iranian doctrinal packet. But the fertiliser price it failed to resolve is reaching every planting decision on 90 million acres of the most productive farmland on Earth. The war’s most irreversible consequence is not happening in a bunker. It is happening in a barn. And by the time USDA publishes the data on March 31, the seeds will already be in the ground. Full analysis in the link. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

It's pretty obvious that Israel is setting fire to President Trump's potential off-ramps. Feel free to form your own normative judgments about that, but it's hard to deny it's taking place.

Mientras dure la guerra, y mientras Europa avanza hacia la descarbonización de su economía, apostemos por una solución ibérica para toda Europa. Muy interesante esto de @NataliaFabra

18 mars 1871. « Noble étendard du prolétaire, Des opprimés soit l’éclaireur. À tous les peuples de la terre Porte la paix et le bonheur. » Il y a cent cinquante-cinq ans… la Commune de Paris. Photo: barricade à Ménilmontant, le jour du soulèvement.

The war in Iran has already cost $22.8 billion. For $22.8 billion, we could: • Provide Medicaid to 6.8 million kids • Build 2.6 million public housing units • Fund Head Start for 1.3 million • Hire 240,000 teachers • Cancel $20,000 in student debt for 1 million borrowers

Luxembourg is the world’s first nation to offer free public transport for all, tackling traffic and climate change in one bold move. Luxembourg has pioneered a bold new era in urban mobility by becoming the first nation on Earth to eliminate fares across its entire public transport network. This groundbreaking policy covers every bus, tram, and train route nationwide, offering free rides to residents, cross-border commuters, and visitors alike. Financed through general taxation rather than ticket sales, the initiative was designed to tackle the country's severe traffic congestion—once among the worst in Europe per capita—and to sharply cut carbon emissions from road transport. By removing the cost and hassle of tickets, Luxembourg effectively turned public transit into a basic public service, as essential and accessible as clean water or electricity. The impact has been profound and measurable. Ridership surged as people left their cars behind, leading to noticeably less road traffic, shorter commute times, and a meaningful drop in urban air pollution. While first-class rail options remain a paid upgrade for those wanting extra comfort, the standard second-class system is now truly seamless: hop on, hop off, no barriers. Luxembourg's experiment has demonstrated that removing financial obstacles can drive a genuine shift toward sustainable travel habits. It has also served as an inspiring model for other countries and cities grappling with sprawl, gridlock, and climate goals. In an age when radical solutions are needed to address the mobility-climate crisis, Luxembourg proves that treating public transport as a universal right is not only feasible—it can be genuinely transformative.

Azar y género en la universidad: qué se pierde cuando las mujeres no consiguen la plaza nadaesgratis.es/admin/el-azar-… Vía @nadaesgratis #Economía

Esto de Nacho Torreblanca, merece la pena leerlo.

This post has little to do with Habermas (although Habermas does appear there) but his death reminded me of it. It deals with the world of the day and the world of the night. Habermas and pimps The world of the day and the world of the night branko2f7.substack.com/p/habermas-and…

Un Sistema de Salud que te ayude a llegar a los 100 años con vitalidad !! archive.is/rIhMo