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PUTIN acknowledges the DECLINE of the Russian economy for the FIRST TIME! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/01/putin-acknowledges-the-decline-of.html

"When LLMs learn to take shortcuts, they become evil."
(Article in The Econimist)
Lousy Language Models?

Mark Carney says that the center of gravity in the global economy is shifting.
He’s right.
US autohegemonicide makes the US less important. It already has.
Carney on when he last spoke to potus: https://youtube.com/shorts/tiFlQahla9I

INVESTMENTS REFORMS: EU prepares Ukraine for economic leap forward #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/29/investments-reforms-eu-prepares-ukraine.html

National job stereotypes need updating
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/01/22/national-job-stereotypes-need-updating
Archive https://archive.ph/Y1ZuB
'According to newly released data, the PIGS have, perhaps for the first time, a lower unemployment rate than Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Finland and Denmark (see chart 2). In Greece joblessness is just 8.2%; hoteliers are complaining about labour shortages. By contrast, Finnish unemployment recently rose above 10% for the first time since the 1990s.'
Via Matt Steinglass
@mattsteinglass.bsky.social

“Taking it to the [Wall] Streets…”
Scott Galloway Proposes National Economic Strike
https://youtube.com/shorts/4xqgoS2c1u4?si=jt0nIE1IKzNN10Jx

Shapiro shreds Trump's economy (Adam Wren/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/09/trump-interview-economy-shapiro-00683823
http://www.memeorandum.com/251209/p137#a251209p137

While fascist ideas never found a foothold among the majority of Americans,
they exerted considerable influence during the period between the first and second world wars.
Extremist groups like
the Silver Shirts,
the Christian Front,
the Black Legion and
the Ku Klux Klan claimed hundreds of thousands of members.
Together they glorified a white Christian nation purified of Jews, Black Americans, immigrants and communists.
During the 1930s and …

America faced domestic fascists before and buried that history
Although thousands of Americans embraced fascist ideas during the interwar years, a new study examines why the US has had little appetite to remember that past.

Ich dachte erst, #Schnieder hätte tatsächlich eine #Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung auf Autobahnen durchsetzen können, aber das ist Spanien...

22% GDP – Russia is stifling its own economy! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/06/gdp-russia-is-stifling-its.html