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Who really holds all the financial cards: Trump or bond market? If international investors become less willing to hold US government bonds, the cost of financing America's government debt would increase

Useful. From Alex Dryden @soasuni.bsky.social via @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social

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The How to be British Collection Volume 1 A perennially popular collection of colour cartoon illustrations, with accompanying texts, on the endearing oddities of our British life and character.

Not sure if it helps, but... www.britishmuseumshoponline.org/the-how-to-b...

I had to stop reading for a bit when I got here because I started to cry.

Alex Pretti seems to have grown up to be everything his parents could have hoped he would be. And then they killed him literally because he was good and decent, brave and righteous.

SpaceX’s Starlink dodged 300,000 satellite collisions in 2025 The company’s mega-constellation is having to perform a huge number of manoeuvres to prevent a collision in Earth orbit

SpaceX's Starlink dodged 300,000 collisions in 2025.

That's nearly 40 maneuvers per satellite, and it's rising fast – possibly hitting 1 million maneuvers in 2027.

"If they make a mistake, we’re in really big trouble.”

Story by me in @newscientist.com

www.newscientist.com/article/2512...

while the richest person on the planet cannot shut up about satellites, we mere mortals (w. @joschabels.bsky.social) are left to study the pesky cables here down on earth in the mud (or rather on the seabed).

Check what we found out in our new open access paper in Globalizations: lnkd.in/ep4q94XK

Photograph of Matthias Koenig (1971–2026)

We are deeply saddened by the sudden passing of our colleague Matthias Koenig (1971–2026), Professor of Sociology at Heidelberg University.

Matthias was at the forefront of comparative research on diversity governance, and his empirical and theoretical contributions were widely recognized... 1/2

Blue Origin plans bespoke high-speed Starlink rival Blue Origin aims to start deploying more than 5,400 satellites from late next year for its own Starlink broadband competitor, targeting up to 6 Tbps capacity for enterprise, data center and government...

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ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.

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Angry with her because of what she did with Rosalia in Berghain.

Fireside chat is an amazing way to describe this whole exchange in a World on fire.

Standing ovation for this talk? Davos never ceases to amaze.

Pretty much.

Greenland, Iceland... he is quickly moving on the map. Where next?

The world according to Trump: "we pay for everything, get nothing in return." Getting market access for US corporations on favorable terms does not count, I guess.

Davos live: Trump says Europe ‘not heading in right direction’ as he addresses world leaders Rolling coverage of the World Economic Forum in Davos, where the US president is addressing world leaders

He is still talking and now says "I won't use force" if you believe it: www.theguardian.com/business/liv...

After the Thaw As temperatures rise and the Arctic thaws, capital is eyeing new opportunities: for extraction, for shipping and for extending a lifeline to business as usual.

For control over trade routes see: www.break-down.org/after-the-th...

Here’s why Greenland is wanted so much, according to a geologist The island’s concentration of natural resource wealth is tied to its hugely varied geological history over four billion years

Trump explicitly says we are not interested in Greenland's rare earth materials. So what is he after? 1) Oil, and 2) Trade routes. For oil, see www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

Methinks the EU needs a special anti-Musk regulation at this point.

Elon Musk mulls buying Ryanair amid spat with airline boss Elon Musk has asked his followers on X if he should buy Ryanair after a spat with the European budget airline's outspoken CEO Michael O'Leary.

Here we go... www.dw.com/en/ryanair-e...

Chart showing U.S. bond holdings of Danish pension funds. Value of US bonds in Nov 2025: DKK 5.66 billion, or USD 887 million.

AkademikerPension announced it will sell its U.S. Treasuries, worth $100 million. Do Danish pension funds sit on a giant pile of Treasuries that they could dump?

Sorry to inform you: no. In fact, they've been selling U.S. bonds for years: $3.2bn in Jan 2023; down to $890mn in Jan 2026. 1/2

This would be a great Horizon project--ERCs are more individual-led.

Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

More Davos speak.

Translating Davos speak www.ft.com/content/ab4f...

I'm with the FT's Katie Martin and Pimco on this.

I assign this book chapter by Arrighi and Moore to my students. It effectively provides a good political economy perspective to make sense of today without falling into the mad king bias. Note that it was published in 2001. I repeat, 2001. jasonwmoore.com/wp-content/u...

The first sentence will be the Davos 2026 summary when people write about it in the future.

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