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forever amazed at how much the Danish welfare state model depends on exporting expensive pharmaceuticals to privatized healthcare systems

Ahead of this week's seminal U.S. election, here's an insightful and timely piece in Euractiv by my Open Markets Institute colleague Claire Lavin on the need for a coordinated transatlantic push to break up Google's digital advertising monopoly. euractiv.com/section/tech/o…

NOBODY: WALL STREET/ SILICON VALLEY: what if private credit bubble was combined with AI bubble and then Nvidia related-party transactions were thrown in just for fun??? on.ft.com/48B5JUW

my work calendar completely packed this week

who europeans would vote for in america’s presidential election, by country:

I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna take a victory lap. And I'm even going to drag my co-author Sandeep Vaheesan into it whether he likes it or not.

UK exit polls: bing bong, here’s the prime minister US exit polls: is it better to be loved or feared? Give your answer to the nearest cubit

The US elections send a clear signal to us here in Europe: Unite! It’s high time to make the EU able to act - geostrategically and united. We can’t afford the veto in foreign policy. We can’t afford Orban undermining our security. We can’t afford nation-first economic policy.

If there's a 'It's the economy stupid' side of the Trump victory, it's this one.

Uber's chief legal officer (who also happens to be Harris' brother-in-law) convinced Harris to stop attacking big business during the campaign, in order to get more CEOs on board. Couldn't make it up.

More than 40% of Harvard graduates end up working in consulting or finance. What a waste of young talent for society. We do not talk nearly enough about this and the broader implications.

Now that corporate power and Trump power are jumping into bed together without sneaking around about it anymore, is there anyone who does not see why antimonopoly is a democracy issue?

This is insane: Musk is already joining sensitive calls with world leaders and using them to pitch his business interests - in this case selling Starlink to Ukraine. The second Trump presidency is about to redefine the meaning of corporate state capture. theguardian.com/technology/202…

No one understands this moment and how we got here better than Carole Cadwalladr. If ever there was a “must read” essay, this is it. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Threats and Awakening? How Geopolitics & Security Change the EU and its Law, 28-29 November. Our 3rd roundtable asks whether economic security is the right paradigm for the new challenges the EU faces? With Anna Marhold, PhD, Nathan Meershoek & Max von Thun. acelg.uva.nl/content/events…

For Inequality.org, my Open Markets Institute colleague Max von Thun and I wrote a short op-ed detailing what competition regulators can do right now to prevent Big Tech from monopolizing AI. inequality.org/research/its-n…

NEW from Max von Thun in ProMarket promarket.org/2024/11/11/the…

Europe must “muscle up” on tech, or be bullied by Trump + Musk. Big item today: a plan for @vonderLeyen to add coherence & muscle to European tech enforcement (comp, data, AI, etc). Published by the think tank of her own CDU Deutschlands party Adenauer-Stiftung kas.de/documents/2520…