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Kind of Trump to lower debt servicing costs for France and Germany (yields on 10-year bonds)

San Francisco-based OpenAI published an "EU Economic Blueprint" — a list of suggestions for EU policymakers to boost the economy using AI. I get this is standard lobbying, but it's not the best *timing* for a U.S. tech giant to try and give economics lessons to Brussels.

I haven't seen anyone use the Why Can't You Just Be Normal meme in a while.

Tons of journalists cursing right now as the 1000 word story they just finished has to be thrown in the bin (don't ask how I know).

I like that the two leading theories about what's going on are that Trump: a) is playing 4-dimensional chess to fundamentally restructure the global financial system on the back of the latest innovations in AI and automation or b) he doesn't understand comparative advantage

🚨Deutsche Bank is officially quoting Lenin 🚨 I repeat, we've reached the point that Deutsche Bank is quoting Vladimir Lenin 🚨

Me trying to understand what's going on in the Italian banking sector right now

If I were a European central bank and Powell gets removed from the Fed I'd be feeling very nervous about continuing to store my gold reserves in the U.S. Particularly given a U.S. administration that feels like Europeans are freeloaders.

I don't follow health closely anymore, but for those that do, this is one of the best accounts to follow.

In Switzerland, there are coins minted over 140 years ago that are still in circulation. The country *really* likes its traditions. From a speech by central bank president Martin Schlegel

After all, as anyone who has ever played Mario Kart knows, even if you’re dead last, you can still end up in first place if the two players ahead of you start tripping each other up. politico.eu/article/why-us…

Industrial policy does work, sometimes. Figuring out why China got it right — I'm guessing a combo of: big internal market, focus on few objectives, and ruthlessness in culling losers — will be key for EU policymakers looking to replicate its success. wsj.com/world/china/be…

"In some of the largest economies, it is not an exaggeration to conclude that growth would have been much slower in the absence of foreign workers." Foreign workers contributed to more than half (!) of Spanish GDP growth between 2019-204 From the ECB ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/dat…

🚨 BREAKING: The “Pfizergate” verdict: The EU Commission was wrong to refuse the release of Ursula von der Leyen’s secret texts. Read the developing story: ow.ly/L2f150VSi3I

You can STILL read some paywalled articles by pressing the stop loading button on your browser quickly enough. All those years of playing super smash bros as a kid paying off.