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Trade balances are complicated, and my favorite metaphor is that applying them is to statecraft what applying leaches is to medicine. So what does a trained economist and Prome Minister do on response? Read on deanblundell.substack.com?utm_source=n...
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April 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Trade balances are complicated, and my favorite metaphor is that applying them is to statecraft what applying leaches is to medicine. So what does a trained economist and Prome Minister do on response? Read on deanblundell.substack.com?utm_source=n...
This is an advanced summary I’ve recently heard on the state of the environmental situation (11:04) modernism and the left’s tug to anti-pluralism.
“A very tough knot… too fetishistic and ideological” to succeed democratically, he says of the environmental movement.
youtu.be/cGArVcE-42Y?...
“A very tough knot… too fetishistic and ideological” to succeed democratically, he says of the environmental movement.
youtu.be/cGArVcE-42Y?...
The left - and socialism - in a Trump world
YouTube video by Vlad Vexler Chat
youtu.be
February 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This is an advanced summary I’ve recently heard on the state of the environmental situation (11:04) modernism and the left’s tug to anti-pluralism.
“A very tough knot… too fetishistic and ideological” to succeed democratically, he says of the environmental movement.
youtu.be/cGArVcE-42Y?...
“A very tough knot… too fetishistic and ideological” to succeed democratically, he says of the environmental movement.
youtu.be/cGArVcE-42Y?...
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#Russia will collapse and the signs of that collapse are now written all over their economy.
#Ukraine must only hold out and keep on increasing attrition rates.
The #ruble has been turned into rubble.
Check mate Russia. Your barbaric venture will end in failure.
medium.com/@snowythefir...
#Ukraine must only hold out and keep on increasing attrition rates.
The #ruble has been turned into rubble.
Check mate Russia. Your barbaric venture will end in failure.
medium.com/@snowythefir...
“Russia plays ruble roulette as their currency slides into the trash bin of history”, Dr.
For a lack of cash, Russia uses gold and diamonds as barter for food. Russian diamond exports have increased 18 fold at the Hong Kong…
medium.com
December 1, 2024 at 5:35 PM
#Russia will collapse and the signs of that collapse are now written all over their economy.
#Ukraine must only hold out and keep on increasing attrition rates.
The #ruble has been turned into rubble.
Check mate Russia. Your barbaric venture will end in failure.
medium.com/@snowythefir...
#Ukraine must only hold out and keep on increasing attrition rates.
The #ruble has been turned into rubble.
Check mate Russia. Your barbaric venture will end in failure.
medium.com/@snowythefir...
Imagine being an outcome person/statistician in a world of consensus administrators at a government agency. It wasn’t always milk and honey. But reading this gives me hindsight…
open.substack.com/pub/overcomi...
open.substack.com/pub/overcomi...
The Two Big Games
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities about it.
open.substack.com
December 2, 2024 at 7:21 PM
Imagine being an outcome person/statistician in a world of consensus administrators at a government agency. It wasn’t always milk and honey. But reading this gives me hindsight…
open.substack.com/pub/overcomi...
open.substack.com/pub/overcomi...
Vlad Vexler, a political philosopher from academia in England by way of Russia, Israel and Ukraine, is my nominee for the most acutely and well informed analysts.
Especially on the subject of the politics surrounding the Ukrainian War and Putin’s regime.
bsky.app/profile/vlad...
Especially on the subject of the politics surrounding the Ukrainian War and Putin’s regime.
bsky.app/profile/vlad...
bsky.app
November 26, 2024 at 2:44 AM
Vlad Vexler, a political philosopher from academia in England by way of Russia, Israel and Ukraine, is my nominee for the most acutely and well informed analysts.
Especially on the subject of the politics surrounding the Ukrainian War and Putin’s regime.
bsky.app/profile/vlad...
Especially on the subject of the politics surrounding the Ukrainian War and Putin’s regime.
bsky.app/profile/vlad...
www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
I’m not surprised, just that this is a good way to think about the issue.
I’m not surprised, just that this is a good way to think about the issue.
Inside your body, aging unfolds at remarkably different rates
New research shows aging is not a uniform process. Parts of our bodies start aging earlier than others, right down to our organs and cells.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 25, 2024 at 1:15 PM
www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
I’m not surprised, just that this is a good way to think about the issue.
I’m not surprised, just that this is a good way to think about the issue.
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I think about this a lot as I'm panicking in my shower.
November 24, 2024 at 3:16 PM
I think about this a lot as I'm panicking in my shower.
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Your leaders may call this a “hybrid attack”. That’s cos if they called it an “attack”, they’d be expected to do something about it.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
DHL cargo plane crashes near Lithuania airport
Officials say one person dead and three injured after plane crashed into house on approach to landing at Vilnius
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2024 at 10:40 AM
Your leaders may call this a “hybrid attack”. That’s cos if they called it an “attack”, they’d be expected to do something about it.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...