Kolumne: BMW ist der Konzern, der sich am heftigsten am Verbrennungsmotor festkrallt. Kräftig unterstützt von Union und FDP. Warum? Vielleicht spielen ja in Summe über 8 Millionen Euro Spenden eine Rolle? In jedem Fall ist der Kampf um den Verbrenner mit Blamagen gepflastert - und ein absoluter Irrweg.
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/bmw-will-nach-2035-verbrenner-verkaufen-und-wird-unterstuetzt-von-union-und-fdp-a-dd8c9f97-441c-41b3-bb59-0a2f1576a557
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On Russia, Ukraine, Trump and Autocracy - with Al Franken
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My article for The Guardian just dropped.
"With no changes to how the industry operates and no watchdogs to check the abuse and greed that have defined it over its now-15 years of existence, we are doomed to see history repeat itself. More Bankman-Frieds will emerge to take his place, drawn by the promise of easy money and the low likelihood of consequences."
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The Trump integrity trap https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-trump-integrity-trap?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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"The push to seize Russian sovereign assets reflects a shared desire to show Moscow that it would not be able to outlast western resolve to aid Ukraine, both economically and militarily"
Yes - and this is why Russians are struggling so hard against it
https://www.ft.com/content/d206baa8-3ec9-42f0-b103-2c098d0486d9
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The accounts given by Ukrainians who have fled the occupied territories sound like accounts of people who escaped Stalin's Soviet Union https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-border-crossing.html
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"Right now, even if Zelensky agrees to negotiate, there is no evidence that Putin wants to negotiate, that he wants to stop fighting, or that he has ever wanted to stop fighting. And yes, according to Western officials who have periodic conversations with their Russian counterparts, attempts have been made to find out."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/us-ukraine-support-putin-defeat/675953/
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Rich kids are more likely to get into an Ivy League school than middle-class kids with the exact same test scores. Here's a big reason why.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UsBI7QTkYQ&ab_channel=RobertReich
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I went on NPR's Weekend Edition this morning to talk about the FTX collapse and what I think it means for the wider cryptocurrency industry.
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/05/1210734163/ftx-is-now-defunct-does-crypto-have-a-future
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Netflix and bill – the high price of a subscription lifestyle
One of the modern classics of economics is an article from 2006 with the self-explanatory title “Paying Not to Go to the Gym”, in which researchers Stefano DellaVigna and Ulrike Malmendier studied the behaviour of nearly 8,000 gym members and found it “difficult to reconcile with standard preferences and be
https://timharford.com/2023/11/netflix-and-bill-the-high-price-of-a-subscription-lifestyle/
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From Jan-Werner Meuller, a reminder that "it is elites, not the “masses,” who destroy democracies"
https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/populism-far-right-relies-on-mainstream-conservative-elites-by-jan-werner-mueller-2023-10
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Some myths about the economy are like zombies — they just keep crawling back. Here are the three that eat at me the most.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3vbYwZecFU&ab_channel=RobertReich
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ICYMI, my post on CBDCs and why current central bank thinking is going in the wrong direction. Long and a bit nerdy, just right for Sunday reading. And hopefully a welcome relief from wars.
https://coppolacomment.substack.com/p/cbdcs-going-in-the-wrong-direction
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Sometimes a random solution is best
Just over a decade ago, Egypt’s Coptic Christians chose their new pope. The names of three favoured candidates were placed in a glass bowl, then a blindfolded boy selected from the trio at random. Religious people can appeal to the idea that the outcome wasn’t truly random; God himself decided on Tawadros II. Yet it is a seemingly unsettling way to deal with
https://timharford.com/2023/10/sometimes-a-random-solution-is-best/
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Ubiquitous yet hated – what does the triumph of PowerPoint teach us about Generative AI?
The aesthetic of our age was shaped in Paris in 1992, in the Hotel Regina. The occasion was carefully stage-managed by a team of technicians fussing over a huge colour projector that cost as much as a small house. The big unveiling came when Robert Gaskin
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The art of making good misstakes
Do good teams make fewer mistakes? It seems a reasonable hypothesis. But in the early 1990s, when a young researcher looked at evidence from medical teams at two Massachusetts hospitals, the numbers told her a completely different story: the teams who displayed the best teamwork were the ones making the most mistakes. What on earth was going on?
The researcher
https://timharford.com/2023/10/the-art-of-making-good-misstakes/
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Amidst a sea of bad news, here's something cheerful: Poland's far-right ruling party tried every conceivable trick to hold onto power, but with a massive turnout voters rejected the effort
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WDR ZeitZeichen: Eine Naturgewalt, ein Getriebener: Der Chansonnier Jaques Brel (gestorben am 9.10.1978 https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/zeitzeichen/audio-eine-naturgewalt-ein-getriebener-der-chansonnier-jaques-brel-100.html #podcast
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