Simona Heidempergher

Doctors, teachers and junior bankers of the world, unite! The rise of middle-class consciousness

Middle class consciousness is on the rise: Doctors, teachers and junior bankers of the world, unite! 
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Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment

Peter Marks gone from the FDA will have huge impact on gene therapy research in the US www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

Forgot to mention he can run the London marathon in 3.31

Europe sweltered through its hottest March on record, according to Copernicus. It was also both the “driest” and  “wettest” month in half a century in different countries, thanks to heatwaves and torrential rains. Average temperatures were 1.6°C hotter than pre-industrial times

The president stands as much chance of reindustrializing the U.S. as you do of getting your frozen laptop to work by smashing the motherboard with a Minecraft hammer.

Niall Ferguson: Trump’s Tariffs and the End of American Empire The president stands as much chance of reindustrializing the U.S. as you do of getting your frozen laptop to work by smashing the motherboard with a Minecraft hammer.

Niall Ferguson: Trump’s Tariffs and the End of American Empire
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It was former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani who rang the bell opening the stock market yesterday. Giuliani represented Newsmax, the right-wing media channel with ties to Trump. As soon as the market opened, stocks fell straight down. cit. @hcrichardson.bsky.social

'End the Fed'?

Casual talk of “ending” the Federal Reserve is unlikely to improve confidence in the US currency or economy

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#EconSky

I hope you will keep sending them even without the Unicredit banner

e come per la madre non dice nulla e spera che le galline non se ne accorgano?

Secondo me è a fare la stagione sciistica in Germania

Eccomi

The whole point of studying the 1930s is to foster hyper-awareness.

We should be nervous, pessimistic, jumpy. We should call out the first rumblings, the accidental tells, the faintest glimmers.

Because it was so monstrous that even the whiff of it is existential

These Economist quotes would be great economics exam questions. (See below for context.)
“The chancellor is caught in a credibility trap, where abiding by one promise made in the name of credibility undermines another.”
“When caught in a credibility trap, media hysteria is inevitable.”

So we are basically living somewhere between Dr Strangelove and Citizen Kane

'Many of us...have a feeling that we are living in a country where fanatics, hooligans and eccentrics have got the upper hand.'

British Ambassador to Berlin, 1933.

#Trump ist, wenn‘s selbst der Dolmetscher irgendwann nicht mehr aushält…
(Bis zum Ende anschauen!)

Starting to spend more time here

SpaceX's Starship explodes in flight test, forcing airlines to divert A SpaceX Starship rocket broke up in space minutes after launching from Texas on Thursday, forcing airline flights over the Gulf of Mexico to alter course to avoid falling debris and setting back Elon Musk's flagship rocket program.

A SpaceX Starship rocket broke up in space minutes after launching from Texas, forcing airline flights over the Gulf of Mexico to alter course to avoid falling debris and setting back Elon Musk's flagship rocket program reut.rs/4fWCy0J

30-Year Mortgage Rate Rises Above 7% for First Time Since May The latest jump threatens to sideline more buyers and sellers.

The average rate on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages surpassed 7% for the first time since May, Freddie Mac reported on Thursday, extending a weekslong climb that could push more buyers and sellers to the sidelines.

Anduril Industries will build Arsenal-1 in Columbus, Ohio, propelling its plans to pump out tens of thousands of autonomous vehicles, sensors and weapons.
The production lines could go hot as soon as July 2026, according to the company. from Axios

best analysis read so far on the Greenland issue

An important new study provides further evidence that the rise of far-right parties is primarily a consequence of a shift from socio-economic to socio-cultural issues. This allowed these parties to tap into their full electoral potential.

Question now is: how and why did this shift happen?

Exclusive: Google alumni and Owkin researchers raise $41m to build GenAI models for biology The funding comes less than a year after a $35m seed round, with no commercial product available yet

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Afd, in platea ora c’è la borghesia incattivita e stregata da Weidel: “Basta sprechi e migranti” Delegati e militanti non vengono più dai margini. Sono impauriti e radicalizzati

Non sono i "nuovi mostri", in platea del congresso #Afd ora c’è la borghesia incattivita e radicalizzata. "Basta sprechi e migranti”.

L'ultima volta che il Bildungsbürgertum tedesco ha perso la bussola, è arrivato il nazismo.

Il mio reportage da #Riesa

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Amsterdam Rotterdam and
Milan included

The New Rasputins Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.

Forget the division of Left and Right. We are entering the age of the New Obscurantism: politics fused with magical solutions, superstition, an aura of spirituality and the cultivation of fear

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The Pentagon designated Tencent, a tech giant, and CATL (battery maker) as “Chinese military company” operating in America.

Anthropic is opening a new office in Zurich, adding to its European presence in London and Dublin.
OpenAI also announced last week it would be opening an office in the Swiss city.