Thorvald Grung Moe @finstab

🚨🗣️ Elliot Anderson on the physical nature of the game and the early incident with Enzo Fernández: "To be completely honest, the first ten minutes were an absolute blur. I remember turning to protect the ball, and the next thing I know, I felt a massive knock on the back of my head from Enzo. Everything went dark, and I was completely out for a few seconds. When I finally came to, the medical staff were asking me if I knew where I was. But it’s a World Cup semi-final, you don't come off the pitch unless your legs are broken. You just keep fighting. But when you look back at that moment... how a player can intentionally strike someone in the back of the head and only get a verbal warning, I will never understand. It immediately set the tone for the refereeing for the rest of the night. We came out here expecting a football match, but it felt like they were allowed to play by a completely different set of rules."

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Zambia has just signed contracts with a consortium of Chinese firms to build a two-megawatt solar plant, with battery storage, in every one of its 156 constituencies. That’s 312 megawatts of decentralised clean power, wired into the national grid, in a single nationwide programme. The $238 million Presidential Constituency Energy Initiative is expected to create more than 15,000 jobs. It builds on projects like the Chinese-built Chisamba solar plant, which added 100 megawatts to the grid last year. Zambia now has over a gigawatt of solar operating and another 1.6 gigawatts under construction, making it one of the most dynamic renewable-energy markets on the African continent. Zambia’s recent power crisis has been driven above all by climate change: the country depends heavily on hydropower, and a devastating drought crippled its dams, plunging much of the nation into blackouts. The response, made possible by Chinese finance, technology and manufacturing, is to leapfrog straight to distributed solar in every corner of the country. For all the hypocritical and idiotic Western hand-wringing about “debt traps” and “Chinese influence”, it is China that turns up with the panels, the batteries, the financing and the engineers, on terms that leave ownership and revenue in Zambian hands. The countries that spent centuries extracting Zambia’s copper offer lectures; China offers modernisation and clean energy. This is South-South cooperation in action: not slogans, but a solar plant in every constituency. A poorer country developing on its own terms, with a partner that treats it as an equal. It is exactly the future the imperial order is desperate to prevent. english.news.cn/africa/2026071…

‼️The US f*cking did it again About an hour ago, US missiles struck near Baghaei Hospital in Ahvaz, where cancer patients, especially children, receive chemotherapy. The hospital is being evacuated and patients are being transferred elsewhere.

All the nasty fouls Argentina got away with v England

Israel is maniacally bombing Palestinians in tattered tents again tonight. Every. Single. Day. Not a single shot from Hamas for more than 10 months & Israel has killed more than a thousand Palestinians since — including more than 200 children.

Well, that's it, folks. After 47 years of sanctions, these are the ones that'll finally break Iran's back.🙄

Lloyd's List @LloydsList

19 hours ago

The US announced more than 50 sanctions on people, companies and vessels it alleged were part of Iranian oil magnate Mohammad Hossein Shamkhani’s shadow fleet empire lloydslist.com/LL1157853/US-s…

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There was a time when openly threatening to destroy another country's civilian infrastructure would have been universally recognized as barbarism and a blatant war crime. Today it is presented on American television as a negotiating strategy.

Acyn @Acyn

a day ago

TRUMP: Ultimately, we'll hit energy targets in Iran. Next week comes the bridges. We're going to knock out all of their power plants. We'll knock out all of their bridges unless they get to the table and negotiate

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The official, explicit aim of these bombings is to ensure the Strait of Hormuz remains opened. The Strait was free and open before the war. It was only closed due to the joint US/Israel attack. The abject stupidity and failure of this war debacle is impossible to overstate.

U.S. Central Command @CENTCOM

13 hours ago

At 3 p.m. ET, U.S. forces launched operations for a second wave of strikes today against Iran. The strikes are targeting Iranian military capabilities used to threaten vessels freely transiting through the Strait of Hormuz, an international waterway vital to global commerce. The

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Louis-Philippe Rochon @Lprochon

14 hours ago

@tyillc I was one of the first to argue, some 27 years ago, that so understood money, perhaps even better than Keynes. I used to say her views on money go back to 1956, but now I think they go back to 1943.

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Har aldri hatt mer blandede følelser foran en fotballkamp. VM. Semifinale. To storheter med en helt spesiell forhistorie- skapt ikoniske øyeblikk. Men så gnager det gnagsåret som ikke lar seg lege med et plaster....det skulle vært Norge.

Palantir has become a *very* shady company. Its CTO pretty much calls for war with China. It's extremely worrying that prominent business leaders hold such ignorant views about China — and that mainstream media outlets are willing to hand them a platform to voice these views.

Shyam Sankar @ssankar

9 months ago

We offered China peaceful coexistence. We funded their industry, educated their children, brought them into the global economy. They murder our children with fentanyl. Sabotage our critical infrastructure. Strangle our supply chains. America has a positive sum spirit. No

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The most popular justifications for central bank emergency lending appeal to (1) Bagehot’s _Lombard Street_; (2) the Diamond-Dybvig model; and (3) the bank run in _It’s a Wonderful Life.” And not one of them can withstand scrutiny.

Macro Musings @Macro_Musings

3 days ago

Stephan Luck says that economics professors are missing a key element of the It’s a Wonderful Life bank run analogy: youtube.com/shorts/6vfvAP7…

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BREAKING: Trump is threatening to drop bombs on all of Iran’s power plants, bridges, and energy infrastructure. Not military targets. The systems millions of civilians depend on to keep the lights on, travel, and survive. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure is a war crime and a crime against humanity.

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Nordic News @Nordic_News

3 days ago

Ro! Ro! – Norway's World Cup team "rows" with 90,000 people outside Royal Palace in Oslo tv.vg.no/video/383250/f…

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La Universidad de Chicago acaba de decir en voz alta lo que muchas facultades de Derecho todavía no quieren aceptar: la inteligencia artificial ya rompió el modelo tradicional de enseñanza jurídica. Hoy un alumno puede entregar una demanda, un ensayo o una investigación impecables sin haber leído, razonado ni comprendido realmente el problema. El riesgo no es solo el plagio. Es algo mucho más grave: simular que alguien sabe Derecho cuando en realidad solo aprendió a pedirle respuestas a una máquina. La respuesta de Chicago no es prohibir la IA ni rendirse ante ella. Es formar abogados capaces de pensar sin tecnología, trabajar con ella y, sobre todo, cuestionarla. Por eso vuelve al aula sin pantallas, fortalece el método socrático, exige exámenes presenciales y obliga a los estudiantes a defender oralmente sus trabajos. La lógica es brutalmente sencilla: si no puedes explicar, sostener y corregir lo que entregaste, entonces probablemente nunca fue realmente tuyo. La inteligencia artificial no va a acabar con los abogados. Va a acabar con una forma mediocre de ejercer el Derecho: memorizar, copiar formatos, repetir jurisprudencia y producir documentos sin criterio. El abogado que sobreviva no será el que escriba más rápido que una máquina, sino el que sepa detectar cuándo la máquina se equivoca, entender lo que está en juego, tomar decisiones difíciles y responder por sus consecuencias. El futuro de la abogacía no está en producir más texto. Está en tener más juicio. law.uchicago.edu/news/ai-strate…

@Lprochon Yes, thanks, that worked well

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Louis-Philippe Rochon @Lprochon

23 hours ago

CALL FOR PAPERS Joint symposium: @ReviewofPE and Economia e Sociadede WHAT SHOULD CENTRAL BANKS DO? "It is of course one thing to recognize that monetary policy has distributive or ecological consequences, but asking central banks to address these issues is a matter of great

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This is the part of Adam Smith that you will never hear Hoover Institution, AEI, The Financial Times cite. They cite Smith (as they do with others)...let's say, selectively.

Branko Milanovic @BrankoMilan

2 days ago

“Our merchants and master-manufacturers complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price, and thereby lessening the sale of their goods both at home and abroad. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits”. (Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter 9,

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Det er fantastisk at politikere fra ulike partier er villige til å investere milliarder til idretten- til VM i fotball. Da skal dere få et godt forslag: Vi trenger ikke VM. Men vi trenger i aller høyeste grad en haug mindre kostbare anlegg landet rundt. Bruk pengene til det

CALL FOR PAPERS Joint symposium: @ReviewofPE and Economia e Sociadede WHAT SHOULD CENTRAL BANKS DO? "It is of course one thing to recognize that monetary policy has distributive or ecological consequences, but asking central banks to address these issues is a matter of great debate. Does this fall into the mainstream trap of accepting ‘monetary policy dominance’, as coined by Rochon and Setterfield? Are central banks equipped to deal with these additional problems, or should they be relegated to fiscal policy?" Abstracts due August 15 2026 For more information, see the call for papers here: docs.google.com/document/d/1-L…