Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
EURONEWS: Huthis erobern Stadt am roten Meer und rücken auf Bab al-Mandab vor de.euronews.com/2026/09/10/h... Damit hätte der Iran die zweite Blockadeoption für den internationalen Handel …
Huthis erobern Stadt am roten Meer und rücken auf Bab al-Mandab vor
Die jüngste Offensive der Huthi soll Irans Hormus-Blockade am Bab al-Mandab nachahmen. Küstenstädte und Inseln am Roten Meer gehören zu ihren nächsten Zielen.
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The whole coast seems to have collapsed and the Houthis are said to be back at Perim island after a decade. They have Bab el-Mandeb. This is a disaster.
If Abdul-Malik seizes the coast and islands this week, you haven't yet seen an energy crisis you will be witnessing once it happens.
Absolutely, and the related fragmentation of the global economy (trade, security, etc) is sending us back to a pre-globalisation world of constant supply and demand shocks, necessitating higher rates over time.
The appeal used to be anti-Euro, then anti-immigration. Now the AfD has positioned itself as a party for people who are dissatisfied with the status quo for all kinds of reasons. Upset about criminal foreigners? AfD. Upset about deteriorating health care? AfD. Upset about woke whatever? AfD.
So what you are saying is that the appeal of AfD isn't simply about migration? That there are other other aspects of the AfD offering that seem to resonate with the electorate? What might they be?
Germany is the epicentre of the China Shock 2.0 reverberating in global markets In a new joint paper, CFR's Brad Setser and I show the shock is a key driver of Germany’s economic malaise. And it's accelerating Berlin needs to stop admiring the problem, and join efforts to fight back 1/many
Thread on Trump’s humiliation at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson: It again demonstrated Trump’s fundamental misunderstanding of how authoritarian leaders operate. 1/7
Trying to distill Trump’s about face on tariffs (except China) into some kind of transactional madman theory is nonsense. Like much of nationalist populism, Trump’s stance on trade is driven by emotion and instinct. What Trump wants is to resurrect a past golden age of global US economic