Extremely serious economic analysis for your Friday.

"You can't say the cost of a puppy is $200 because that was the adoption fee." The Pentagon's $25B price tag does exactly that — it ignores veterans' care, disability payments, and decades of interest. The true cost of war shows up long after the fighting stops.

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Right now, the AI boom mostly shows up as investment: chips, data centers, infrastructure. ⁣ ⁣ The real question is whether those foundations eventually help workers and firms do more with less.

"If we don't have immigration and population growth, the number of people who can pay off that debt just went down." That's the key mechanism.

"The big story right now is oil. The next story is food." ⁣ ⁣ That's the transmission channel people miss: if fertilizer is "caught on the wrong side of the Strait of Hormuz," food prices can be next.

The problem with a gas tax holiday? Lower gas prices encourage more driving.⁣ ⁣ If the goal is relief, send checks based on last year's gas spending instead. Similar help for households, without increasing demand.

“He failed to understand the interconnectedness of the world economy.” ⁣ ⁣ That was true in the trade war, and it’s true now.

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Opportunity cost is Econ 101 with real stakes: the cost of a choice is not just dollars spent, but what you gave up. For war, that means not only destruction, but all the prosperity that never gets a chance to exist.

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Helen also goes on to talk about the importance of intersectionality and building alliances, as the far right is significantly more fragmented than us.

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Verhitte discussie over het gebruik van het woord "omvolking" Markuszower heeft spijt. Gideon van Meijeren en Lidewij de Vos blijven het actief gebruiken. Mona Keijzer: Het is geen complot, wel is de helft van de bewoners in Amsterdam van allochtone afkomst.

The original Bluenose was wrecked on a reef off Haiti before I was born, but here’s a short video of the Bluenose II firing a salute as she sails past the HMCS Sackville (not in video) and CSS Acadia (pictured on right) in Halifax Harbour.

This fucking guy pisses me off. He tosses out the basic principles of economics. He doesn't that shit to cover for Dear Leader...

Judging from this video clip, which would you choose? I think I know the answer, but what the hell. 1. Trump is a brazen liar. 2. Trump is mentally deficient to be president. 3. Both 1. and 2.

When did Bollywood stop telling India's full story? Film critic Anna MM Vetticad, journalist Raza Rumi & editor Nayantara Narayanan on Hindi cinema's Hindutva turn: https://youtu.be/DjR9rtrhGL0

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☎️ Hello police... Yeah we can't have street code & thriving communities. This Aint tv dammit, one's gotta go.

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Just casually comparing President Trump's arrest for falsifying records to hide a payment to a pornstar to the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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Don't talk about it be about it it is time to stop bluffing it is time to start acting those Senators that voted against the interest of the democratic voters who dealt with 6 weeks of government shutdown because we understood what was on the line and they threw us under the bus

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Standard Operating Procedure for these soulless pieces of shit. This must end soon and all those responsible has to be held accountable. This is cruel and inhuman.

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Al Jazeera confirms Israel illegally captured Beaufort Castle, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Lebanon. The Zionist regime is occupying historical landmarks in its deepest invasion in 25 years. The Trump administration is fully complicit in these war crimes.

G’mornin’, happy Friday :)

Here's the moment of launching FP-1 drones | 2. Note how low the drone flies over the terrain after being launched with a jet accelerator.

Experts note that such boats logically fit into Iran's concept of a "swarm fleet" and pose a threat to large, unwieldy US ships.

If this were just another platform, it would follow familiar patterns. It doesn’t. The signals we’re seeing aren’t about features. They’re about fatigue and readiness. There’s a difference between disruption and structural change. This conversation is about the latter. Join → @wsocial.eu

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Los ingresos máximos que marcan las comunidades autónomas para acceder a una vivienda protegida son, en general, bastante altos. ➡️ Madrid: Más de 6.560€/mes. ➡️ Islas Baleares: 5.000€/mes. Muy superiores al salario más frecuente en España, que en 2023 era de 15.574,85€ brutos anuales. 👀 ⬇️ 🧵

…pro tip: straight alcohol will lower the blood sugar…

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US citizens: "Everything is too expensive, please help us." Trump: "Our pool is bigger than skyscrapers."