the best thread I‘ve read on AI and jobs maybe ever
Random thought - maybe re-prioritising the allocation of public space isn’t increasing “division” of society, but it’s just making pre-existing division between privileged vs. non-privileged groups more obvious - and the previously privileged don’t like it?
"Granted, being more predictable than America under Donald #Trump, less revanchist than Vladimir #Putin’s Russia or less autocratic than #Xi Jinping’s China is a low bar to clear." www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
Yes, solar is so rare still that it can generate a lot of value on the market.
You have the same plan?
Another day, another stupid Excel chart.
Italy, energy-wise, is a mystery to me.
I’m currently implementing a broad AI strategy inside a professional services firm. It feels very much late “90s dot com” with significant challenges on platform, delivery & products as well as change costs.
With few solutions a offering robust support or delivery KPIs.
Our cover this week.
economist.com/briefing/202...
Vorabend.
The Budapest Megaphone blares populism to the world.
or how Viktor Orban has built an illiberal intellectual patronage system of think-tanks, media, conferences and institutes to sway politics beyond just Hungary.
My Charlemagne this week (free if you register)
www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
The sheer strategic stupidity of bailing Russia out of its economic hole by launching a war that entirely foreseeably spikes the oil price - and then having no minesweepers in place to deal with the foreseeable fallout. Rank incompetence.
Our take on the global economic effects. 👇
Nothing to add.
Also das ist dem Kölner Klüngel gegenüber doch etwas unfair.
The shift to electric vehicles is going global🚗⚡
EVs make up 25% of new car sales worldwide in 2025, up from just 3% in 2019. This shift is now being driven by rapid growth in emerging markets, leapfrogging legacy auto markets.
Liz Truss. Never miss the opportunity to point this out as probably my finest UK politics bragging right.
I guess.
Uff.
Well played.
Fair.
Indeed. Weird.
True.
With Britain in the €, The Beatles would surely have been on the €5er.
Same. Especially since public squares is on the largest note.
I suppose the highest value being the court of auditors is appropriate
Even I am conflicted, as a German, whether Beethoven is the right one. Shouldn't it be Bach? And didn't we have Bach on the last 50 DM note? (We did not.)
Here are the suggested motifs based on which designers are currently asked to hand in their drafts. Deadline is April 2026.
Europeans are great at agreeing on things, especially which culture is the most sophisticated and Europe-defining. So expect no fights at all on whether Da Vinci should make the €100 note.
It's either the IMF or the ECB, choose your fighter.
Anyway, the themes that won the public consultation was "rivers and birds". Lovely stuff. The ECB's top brass then decided that this is lame, and added "European culture", as another theme.
