Ángel Talavera

If you loved that shining beacon of stability and prosperity that was the UK in 2022 you're going to love your new Reform government.

Maybe time for a name change.

Two ways to look at the Free Trade Agreement with India, "the mother of all deals":

- It's an absolute nothingburger at the macro level right now for Europe.

- But, the potential for growth is huge given the very low starting point and India's growth prospects.

It's 2026 in America and a bunch of masked goons can literally execute you on the streets with the full support of the government. I don't think we're really capable of fully comprehend the gravity of the situation yet, it will take years to look back to be able to show how insane this was.

Looks like it's time for another State Visit!

Next up the list for Trump

It's hard not to be cynical about the science ("science?") when the analysis is "blah blah nonsense extreme scenarios but a plausible one is 0.3"

This may be a plain vanilla take but the Union Jack is a really cool design. If only it had a dragon to represent Wales, it would kick major ass.

Is that the same military alliance led by a guy gushing about people calling Trump their daddy?

Don't worry UK friends, it's only two more months of pure winter misery. After that it's one month of hoping to catch a glimmer of light, then the occasional glorious day in spring and boom, it's summer. Which let's face it, it's not that great but feels like heaven for us poor tortured bastards.

If you allow thugs to murder with impunity, guess what, thugs will murder with impunity.

Got it, didnt realised you meant the 77bn as the increase, not the accumulated sum, looked very small, thanks!

Or is $77bn the total US deficit, not the deficit with the EU?

Where are you getting $77bn, I have $191bn January to October?

Uno de los indicadores que muestra la salud de la economía de manera más intuitiva es la venta de coches, que crecieron un 13% en 2025. Aquí se ve claro por ejemplo, como recuperación inicial post-pandemia era en parte efecto estadístico y por impulso externo, y mucho más sólida desde 2023.

I'd love to see which European government is going to make the first move of sending troops to Greenland as a deterrent against the US.

I said realistically.

So if the US actually decided to take over Greenland with some bs pretext, what can Europe do apart from "strongly urging not to"? I mean realistically. This is the burning question no one has a clear answer to.

Ni cotiza que vamos a tener un artículo de opinión más temprano que tarde pidiendo que EEUU haga lo mismo en España que ha hecho en Venezuela.

Happy New Year to all those starting potty training a two-year old today! (admittedly a niche group)

Nothing hard to believe about France protecting their farmers 😒

Then I will have to settle on yelling at cyclists running through red lights I guess.

Can we also have self-driving bicycles then? Signed: a pedestrian

There are a lot more things to bringing up children than parks, obviously, but I feel this is a particular aspect where London is so underrated that I feel it needs to be shouted from the rooftops at times.

This is probably influenced by my own upbringing in Barcelona. A terrific city, and with a livelihood on the streets that I miss every day. But everywhere you look around there is cement and people living in flats with a small balcony. Having a small child now I wonder how I'd transition to that.

Not sure if this is an unpopular opinion but, barring the cost (admittedly a huge issue) I think London is a terrific place to bring up children. Not only do you have the amenities of a global mega city, but you have the type of green spaces that can only usually be found outside cities.

Not sure if this is the case in US stats, but a problem over here is that real income measures do not account properly for the huge rise in housing prices, as they're deflated using CPI, so they tend to overstate families purchasing power.

We're shifting from radio to TV, again, 90 years later. We really do live in the age of wonders.

Momentous day for all nerdy economists who have been clamouring for months that Irish distortions need to be filtered out of Eurozone aggregates 👏

What's a €50bn shift among friends?

It could very well be! ticks a lot of boxes, but if Lagarde's choice taught us something is that no one has a clue 😅