Strategically itβs incredibly clever the EU is eroding the key levers of the green transition.
As a net oil and gas importer being susceptible to repeated geopolitical supply and terms of trade shocks is just such a great place to be.
Why rivers in the far north are turning orange
- brightly coloured waterways in the Arctic are a sign that permafrost is thawing, with potentially hazardous consequences
#climatecrisis
www.ft.com/content/2ffa...
amazing Merz came back from China peddling neoliberal 'we dont work hard enough' nonsense instead of ' the Chinese State can do industrial policy like no one else'
He's the Keir Starmer of Germany, learning nothing, doubling down on the same disastrous strategy
This was a lot of fun!
go big or go home: get chatGPT to set the interest rate
The primary role of central banks is now to defend monetary sovereignty, discuss
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At least in the US, Epstein seems to have played the role mythically ascribed to Klaus Schwab, who ultimately turned out to be just a Conference Organizer (a job I too once had).
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"Zo ongeveer de hele energie-intensieve industrie van Europa wil dat de afbouw van COβ-emissierechten in het emissiehandelssysteem stopt. Dat zou de bodem onder het Europese klimaatbeleid wegslaan, en de pas aangescherpte doelen van de Green Deal onhaalbaar maken.."
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If China's emissions had kept growing at previous levels emissions would like, what, maybe a full GIGATONNE higher....the area of avoided emissions here is like deleting the emissions of entire countries. This is happening at a scale that will very clearly have an effect in lessening disasters
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January data from PIOMAS was just released, showing the average Arctic ice volume for January, 2026, was 2nd lowest on record since 1979, just slightly higher than the record January low volume set in 2017.
The Climate 8-ball says, "No BOE for you!"
For those familiar w/ "ARkStorm/ARk2.0" flood scenarios for California, a comparable event has been unfolding on the Iberian Peninsula. These ridiculous rainfall accumulations, caused by a long series of extremely moist atmospheric rivers, have brought widespread severe flooding to Spain & Portugal.
If you enjoy this you'll *love* the document that came out of the 2025 strategy assessment
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Lucky Ken Rogoff, to be reviewed in @nybooks.com in such excellent company.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Back in 2020 it wasn't a good career move in the climate space to shit talk Bill Gates' and point out his climate hypocrisy. I was the only person quoted in an article on that issue in a VICE piece.
And that was before we knew of the Epstein connections.
However, I was right.
βThe International Energy Agency reckons that if the current global expansion of data centres continues, the CO2 emissions for which they are responsible, currently around 200 million tonnes per year, will be about 60 per cent higher by 2030.β
Donald MacKenzie on AI.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
This chart seems to suggest a striking pattern: Kevin Warsh's speeches are consistently hawkish, except when Trump is President and about to appoint a new Fed Chair.
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
Dat lost die repo toch op?
Is een commerciele transactie
Thanks Antoine!
Big step for the ECB, but also, no good reason why offering collateralised loans to other central banks had to involve so much drama - you can lend on these terms to the Sparkasse SaarbrΓΌcken, why not Banco Central do Brasil?
Exclusive: The European Central Bank is working on opening up its liquidity facility to more countries, making it cheaper and easier to access in a bid to foster the international role of the euro, three sources told Reuters reut.rs/4r2973D
Interesting move from the #ECB, especially in light of the calls to strenghen the international role of the #euro : most of them consider the expansion of the swap lines as a mandatory first step to internationaliste the euro
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