Jan Mazurro
@janmazur.bsky.social
Cities, urban development, finance
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Since Trump’s return to power, some of the companies that have seen the biggest drops in market capitalisation have come from Silicon Valley.
Check out the FT’s interactive ranking for more details: https://on.ft.com/457cJJu
Check out the FT’s interactive ranking for more details: https://on.ft.com/457cJJu
June 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Since Trump’s return to power, some of the companies that have seen the biggest drops in market capitalisation have come from Silicon Valley.
Check out the FT’s interactive ranking for more details: https://on.ft.com/457cJJu
Check out the FT’s interactive ranking for more details: https://on.ft.com/457cJJu
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Professor @ben-rog.bsky.social will be hosting a discussion on how city governments can inspire just and democratic green transitions with speakers including @janmazur.bsky.social at the #ACTNOW Mayors' Conference 2025. 5–6 May | Vienna City Hall
Still time to register!
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Conference - Act Now
The next ACT NOW MAYOR’S CONFERENCE 2025 takes place from 5 to 6 May 2025 in Vienna Register Here! 100% of past participants recommend taking part in the conference. Carla Nunes Semedo Executive Counc...
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April 30, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Professor @ben-rog.bsky.social will be hosting a discussion on how city governments can inspire just and democratic green transitions with speakers including @janmazur.bsky.social at the #ACTNOW Mayors' Conference 2025. 5–6 May | Vienna City Hall
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How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?
Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵
Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵
April 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?
Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵
Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵
And coming soon to your finance & law handbooks and textbooks next to Ponzis and Madoffs of the world:
April 8, 2025 at 5:59 AM
And coming soon to your finance & law handbooks and textbooks next to Ponzis and Madoffs of the world:
Risk management’s tricky: one tends to underestimate the risks that never materialize in their own lives.
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Risk management’s tricky: one tends to underestimate the risks that never materialize in their own lives.
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Funny, the countries that didn't get tariffs:
Russia
North Korea
Cuba
Venezuela
Berlarus
Somalia
Burkina Faso
are, except for Cuba, which abstained, the same countries the US voted together with against the UN resolution condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Russia
North Korea
Cuba
Venezuela
Berlarus
Somalia
Burkina Faso
are, except for Cuba, which abstained, the same countries the US voted together with against the UN resolution condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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April 3, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Funny, the countries that didn't get tariffs:
Russia
North Korea
Cuba
Venezuela
Berlarus
Somalia
Burkina Faso
are, except for Cuba, which abstained, the same countries the US voted together with against the UN resolution condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
🤔
Russia
North Korea
Cuba
Venezuela
Berlarus
Somalia
Burkina Faso
are, except for Cuba, which abstained, the same countries the US voted together with against the UN resolution condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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I wonder how much of insider trading there has been prior to Trump’s tarriffs or other (non-)econ policies. Even US Congress members are infamous for their insider knowledge driven trades. Massive transfers of wealth.
April 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I wonder how much of insider trading there has been prior to Trump’s tarriffs or other (non-)econ policies. Even US Congress members are infamous for their insider knowledge driven trades. Massive transfers of wealth.
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The EU is our risk manager. As any risk management tool, it needs to be taken care of perpetually and sustainably, not opportunistically as our gvt typically does.
We have today paid an advance of €100 million to Spain for post-DANA storm recovery, to help finance its recovery efforts.
The EU remains fully committed to supporting the people and region of Valencia through this challenging recovery.
#EUSolidarity
The EU remains fully committed to supporting the people and region of Valencia through this challenging recovery.
#EUSolidarity
March 31, 2025 at 10:35 AM
The EU is our risk manager. As any risk management tool, it needs to be taken care of perpetually and sustainably, not opportunistically as our gvt typically does.
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Some countries were more affected than others by the US aid cuts. The Democratic Republic of Congo was significantly impacted, where two-thirds of the funding came from Washington.
March 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Some countries were more affected than others by the US aid cuts. The Democratic Republic of Congo was significantly impacted, where two-thirds of the funding came from Washington.
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Musk: I mean, have you Tim Walz, who is a huge jerk, running on stage with the Tesla stock price.. What an evil thing to do. What a creep, what a jerk. Like who derives joy from that?
March 29, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Are employees and other shareholders of companies co-owned by Musk completely at his will? Don’t they have any say in how he ruins value of their companies and their products?
Elon Musk has lashed out at Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, branding him “small man” after Sikorski objected to Musk’s claim that he could collapse Ukraine’s entire front line by turning off the Starlink system. This adds to the friction between Team Trump and Europe
March 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Are employees and other shareholders of companies co-owned by Musk completely at his will? Don’t they have any say in how he ruins value of their companies and their products?
That’ll teach ‘em liberals!
Kids may die from preventable diseases, but libs will cry.
March 1, 2025 at 7:05 AM
That’ll teach ‘em liberals!
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Good point from Heinrich Wefing (DIE ZEIT):
Every European politician is now sitting in Zelensky's seat.
Every European politician is now sitting in Zelensky's seat.
Jeder europäische Politiker sitzt jetzt auf Selenskyjs Platz im
Oval Office #Zelensky
Oval Office #Zelensky
February 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Good point from Heinrich Wefing (DIE ZEIT):
Every European politician is now sitting in Zelensky's seat.
Every European politician is now sitting in Zelensky's seat.
“The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”
February 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
“The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk supported Ukrainians.
February 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk supported Ukrainians.
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Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024.
You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?
Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.
You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.
You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?
Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.
You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.
Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in Income
This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent.
truthout.org
February 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024.
You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?
Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.
You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.
You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?
Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.
You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.
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🚨The recent overnight freeze on US foreign aid and the shutdown of anti-disinformation initiatives—while Russia invests $1.5 billion in its influence operations—will have serious consequences for Central Europe, including for journalism.
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February 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
🚨The recent overnight freeze on US foreign aid and the shutdown of anti-disinformation initiatives—while Russia invests $1.5 billion in its influence operations—will have serious consequences for Central Europe, including for journalism.
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🇵🇱⚖️🇪🇺 Excellent article "Strategic Litigation in a Time of Populism: Poland’s Experience" by @aploszka.bsky.social in German Law Journal outlining the shifts in human rights/rule of law litigation in Poland over the last 10 years - including the catastrophic decline of the Constitutional Tribunal.
January 27, 2025 at 7:51 AM
🇵🇱⚖️🇪🇺 Excellent article "Strategic Litigation in a Time of Populism: Poland’s Experience" by @aploszka.bsky.social in German Law Journal outlining the shifts in human rights/rule of law litigation in Poland over the last 10 years - including the catastrophic decline of the Constitutional Tribunal.
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Trump just undid the only good thing GWB did in his entire 8 years.
Many sudden and shocking health care developments this week. But this was a big one: The Trump administration on Friday paused funding for PEPFAR, the famed program to fight HIV/AIDS around the world.
@mradamtaylor.bsky.social @johnphudson.bsky.social Missy Ryan + a little help from me
@mradamtaylor.bsky.social @johnphudson.bsky.social Missy Ryan + a little help from me
Funds for fight against HIV/AIDS paused in Trump aid freeze
The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, is credited with saving 25 million lives worldwide and has long enjoyed bipartisan support.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 25, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Trump just undid the only good thing GWB did in his entire 8 years.
Around 60k pro-EU gathered to protest the outrageus shifts in gvt policies in Bratislava, and additional dozens of thousands around Slovakia. This comes after the gvt issued statements in the past few days that there were foreign groups trying to overthrow it. Clearly misguided and untrustworthy.
January 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Around 60k pro-EU gathered to protest the outrageus shifts in gvt policies in Bratislava, and additional dozens of thousands around Slovakia. This comes after the gvt issued statements in the past few days that there were foreign groups trying to overthrow it. Clearly misguided and untrustworthy.
Never have political, social and financial capitals been more interchangeable. We’re rewriting history every day.
January 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Never have political, social and financial capitals been more interchangeable. We’re rewriting history every day.
Or rather kleptocratization of democracy?
The TrumpCoin is the democratization of kleptocracy.
January 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Or rather kleptocratization of democracy?
Our daily dose of absurdity: seems like an upcoming US president participates on a cryptoshite scam hours before taking office. Some one please tell me how crypto solves important societal and business problems 💸
January 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Our daily dose of absurdity: seems like an upcoming US president participates on a cryptoshite scam hours before taking office. Some one please tell me how crypto solves important societal and business problems 💸