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The obvious result of making regulation so nakedly political
is that businesses respond by finding ways to butter-up the president
rather than building a case their deals serve the public interest
https://bsky.app/profile/economist.com/post/3m7snmxfri52h

The Economist (@economist.com)
The obvious result of making regulation so nakedly political is that businesses respond by finding ways to butter-up the president rather than building a case their deals serve the public interest https://econ.st/3KHKcm2

A man blinded by greed, drunk on oil, hungry for more, deaf to the cost.
#Venezuela

The rightwing populist
Laura Fernšndez
has won Costa Rica’s presidential election in a landslide
after promising to crack down on rising violence linked to the cocaine trade.
Fernšndez’s nearest rival, centre-right economist Álvaro Ramos,
conceded defeat as results showed the ruling party far exceeding the threshold of 40% needed to avoid a runoff.
With 94% of polling stations counted, the political heir of
outgoing president, Rodrigo Chaves,
h…

I love these Laws named after people who we have never heard of:
Stein's law says: Everything that can't go on forever eventually stops.
Stein was a conservative (in the political sense) economist who lived in the 20th century. Wikipedia known: Stein observed this logic in analyzing economic trends (such as rising US federal debt in proportion to GDP, or increasing international balance of payments deficits, in his analysis).