This morning has brought more warning signs for the Euro area economy. This adds to the backdrop where the PMI business surveys have been suggesting a decline of 0.4% for GDP in the quarter just ended.
Geopolitics
BBC: IOC bars Indonesia from hosting Olympic events over ban on Israeli athletes
Indonesia gets sanctioned before Israel. We need to decolonize sport urgently. Indonesia said it would not grant visas to the Israel team for the ongoing World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Jakarta because of the country’s […]
EU politics
Thomas Piketty: Rightward shift, Macron’s fault
How can we explain the rightward shift of the French political landscape? Even if the question is complex and admits of multiple answers, there is little doubt that the experience of Macronism in power bears […]
Finance
Chris Dillow: Class, sympathy & solidarity
The conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell has promoted some sympathetic headlines. Both ABC and CBS write of her “fall from grace” and the BBC of her “downfall”. All of which reflects Rachel Johnson’s attitude, that “it’s […]
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