Also, ICYMI, the General Court of the European Union on Wednesday took Russian billionaires Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven off an EU sanctions list. (Paywalled) pro.politico.eu/news/178288

A shock ruling from the ECHR this week has determined that being protected from climate change by your government is a human right. 'The court effectively concluded that humans have a right to safety from climate catastrophes — a move which immediately established a potent…

Why Is Europe Losing the Productivity Race? BARRY EICHENGREEN project-syndicate.org/commentary/why…

Interesting take on the AI race and why non-english LLMs are at a disadvantage: politico.eu/article/europe…

International bank supervision walk-back alert: politico.eu/article/eu-cou…

This cannot be an overall net efficiency for the economy (at least without growing inequality): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Very sorry to hear Peter Higgs has died. I was fortunate enough to meet him several times, and beyond being a famous physicist - I think to his embarrassment at times - he was always charming and modest. And of course his name will be remembered as long as we do physics in the…

You can't libel the dead. (Family probably has a point.) bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The four leading privately-owned energy traders — Vitol, Trafigura, Mercuria and Gunvor — have made combined net profits of more than $50 billion in the past two years trib.al/9Qysacb

Polish local elections - winners in the county councils' vote

🔹Law and Justice (PiS) - conservative
🔸Civic Coalition (KO) - liberal
▫️local committees
🟢 Third Way (TD) - centre-agrarian

Just remembering this. Hindsight suggests OAN had the big scoop all along. youtu.be/H2euMNmsb_s?si…

Just caught up on this, 👀.

telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024/0…

Why did America demolish the world's most beautiful train station?

And what it says about us... (thread) 🧵

Great read on what went wrong at Boeing: effectively idiocracy, the corporate edition. Reminiscent too of the processes that made Soviet industry collapse. prospect.org/infrastructure…

Convenient. It wasn’t us guvnor, it was all the fault of the guy who has been dead since 2015.

The cost of sustainability is feeding through into agri commodities. This is largely about achieving a breakeven rate that allows for investment that qualifies as green, and in so doing cleans up and industrialises a currently very decentralised and under funded cottage…

Oil trader Pierre Andurand’s hedge fund bet on higher cocoa prices ahead of a massive surge last month trib.al/Y29aLRr