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Americas editor at The Economist
you're both looking at the wrong thing. CBC just does a "nowcast" ie what would happen were the election held today, based on the polls. a newspaper you might have heard of publishes the only actual forecast of the result of the election www.economist.com/interactive/...
April 16, 2025 at 10:44 AM
the Carney bump lands in!!! www.economist.com/interactive/...
March 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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March 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
March 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
i totally agree x.com/halhod/statu...
March 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
March 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Trump fentanyl riffs are just not credible

the CBP seized 13 grams (grams!!!) of fentanyl at the Canadian border in January. That is down by a factor of 180x since Trump was elected

The CBP seized 16x more fentanyl at interior ports in 2024 than it did at the Canadian border
March 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Deepseek's training-compute economy seems to me like a deeply bearish signal for Nvidia, and yet...

what am I missing?
January 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Here is the English transcript of Kinley Salmon's remarkable interview with Javier Milei

www.economist.com/the-americas...

Many jaw-dropping moments, including
November 28, 2024 at 10:18 PM
far from it, as our leader says very clearly
November 28, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Argentina is exceptional, but there is still a lot to learn from Mr Milei's first year in office

www.economist.com/leaders/2024...
November 28, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Mr Milei has been running the most interesting economist experiment on the planet

www.economist.com/the-americas...
November 28, 2024 at 1:33 PM
On Monday Kinley Salmon, our Latin America correspondent, interviewed Javier Milei in Buenos Aires

Our cover story examines his dramatic reform programme in Argentina, one year after he took office, and the lessons it holds for the rest of the world
November 28, 2024 at 1:30 PM
this story by Mat Youkee is gruesome and fascinating, an ecological phenomenon at the intersection of migration, deforestation and climate change

www.economist.com/the-americas...
October 28, 2024 at 11:38 AM
good times over on the other app
October 10, 2023 at 12:02 PM
nothing says long weekend like a blocked drain and the bubbling heat of sulphuric acid
April 28, 2023 at 6:01 PM
bambam!
April 28, 2023 at 3:08 PM
goodnight from munich, bluesky fam
April 27, 2023 at 11:42 PM