Banning phones could make the difference between passing and failing, and potentially reduce dropout rates and increase graduation rates over time, according to one researcher who looked at bans in Britain

This is Bloomberg's measure of bond market liquidity, which compares actual yield curves to synthetic smooth yield curves for each country. The more kinks you have in the yield curve, the higher this index and the worse is liquidity. UK off the charts, France rising rapidly. Germany and US are ok.

📐 Measuring GDP at risk in the low-carbon transition

🔎 This Working paper by Dirk Schoenmaker and Willem Schramade develops a model for measuring the shares of national GDP that are vulnerable to transition, using the EU's energy transition as an example.

🔗 Read here: buff.ly/4lDvguR
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"Putin has maxed out the benefits of “war Keynesianism” of fully mobilizing domestic and available foreign resources. There is no slack left to exploit, and the damage to non-war-related sectors and activities is beginning to show"

@martinsandbu.ft.com highlights our analysis of Russia's economy ⬇️

🇵🇱 Official results:

Nawrocki 50,89
Trzaskowski 49,11
Turnout 71, 63

Nawrocki - 10,6 Million votes
Trzaskowski - 10,2 Million votes

Bad news for Tusk - and Poland

Massive blackouts across Spain and Portugal www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Important article by @efinkel.bsky.social . I know fm listening to some Russian 'liberals' that even in 'enlightened' Russian intelligentsia the idea that Ukraine is inherently Russian & can't be allowed to make its own foreign policy choices is deeply rooted. Conflict won't end till that changes.

REPORTER: Are you gonna make it US policy that the US wouldn't defend NATO countries that don't pay their fair share?

TRUMP: Well, I think it's common sense. If they don't pay I'm not gonna defend them. No, I'm not gonna defend them.

There is no country/zone with a) high prices and low carbon emissions or b) with low prices and high emissions.

The higher the carbon emissions from electricity generation in 2024, the higher the prices and vice versa.

HT Esko Heinonen

Water supply of strategic Baltic island Gotland was sabotaged last night.

Someone broke into the pump controls and destroyed them.

The pumps serve a large part of Gotland (pop 61k) and had it gone unnoticed could have left all island without water.

Security services are notified. Water is ok.

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

Interesting report by the European Parliamentary Research Service: the future of European electric vehicles

“Right now, Europe purchases the lion’s share of its arms from abroad; this practice must come to an end. A credible security provider must be able to meet most of its own defense needs.”

CDU’s @nroettgen.bsky.social in Foreign Affairs. reader.foreignaffairs.com/2024/11/22/e...

“The pillars of Germany’s postwar economic miracle — free global trade, its auto industry and Nato — are shaking at the same time,” said Moritz Schularick, president of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy,

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