The Colors of Puerto Rico, 2020-2021

Not just a desert kingdom. The Omani Empire once ruled a maritime network from Arabia to Africa. It's a forgotten oceanic power.

Megatron It's time to charge the Israel supporters with treason and expel the rest.

The purpose of an economy is not to clear markets efficiently or generate profits for businesses, but to make, improve, and distribute enough things to support a good life for as many people as possible. There is no fixing an economy if that is not the central focus of analysis.

Michelle Xia is a name everyone should know. She is the founder and CEO of Akeso, the Chinese biotech company with a new cancer drug that recently outperformed Merck’s industry-leading $30 billion/year Keytruda in Phase 3 clinical trials for lung cancer. wsj.com/health/pharma/…

🇨🇳 At President Xi Jinping’s invitation, 26 world leaders will attend China’s commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the WWII victory: 🇷🇺 Russia – Vladimir Putin 🇰🇵 DPRK – Kim Jong Un 🇰🇭 Cambodia – King Norodom Sihamoni 🇻🇳 Vietnam – Luong Cuong 🇱🇦 Laos – Thongloun Sisoulith 🇮🇩

Foreign central banks now officially hold more gold than US Treasuries — for the first time since 1996.   Let that sink in.   If you think this buying streak is ending, just look at what happened in the 1970s.   This is likely the beginning of one of the most significant global

🇬🇧 London seen from above at night.

Xi shows Trump who holds the cards by hosting Kim and Putin bbc.in/4mEvSbH

Remember how Milei the libertarian was going to shrink/ clean the state? Turns out his sister and close ally been running a scheme to defraud the State Agency for Disability Benefits. Yeah, you read right, stealing from the disabled budget. share.google/OBOvJ46y8rzuRG…

3/ More specifically central bank independence became popular because policymakers became convinced that central banks had used technocratic wizardry to solve the inflationary problems of the 1970s and early-1980s.

Soil quality in Europe

Leipzig, 1968

The U.S. Air Force expects a second B-21 Raider stealth bomber to take flight before year’s end. Northrop Grumman is ramping up production after receiving an extra $4.5 billion in Congressional funding. (Source: Defense One)

This is one of the books that inspired me to pursue a master's degree in development economics. I remember being consumed by it during breaks in a summer job I had in 2009 in Tromsø, my hometown. Sometimes I even hid in remote bathrooms just to read a little more.

Neoliberal ideology is so strong (since it claims to be simply common sense) that many people do not even associate central bank independence with the core neoliberal project, not know how relatively recent that idea is in most countries, nor how the idea was spread around the

🇺🇸 U.S. military presence across the world.

Claudia Sheinbaum says Mexico's "neoliberal period" is over, announcing a slew of new public works. Continuing AMLO's Fourth Transformation, Mexico is building passenger rail, highways, airports, 200K+ affordable homes, and more.

Visionary

The end of the Banking cartels