Europe
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Pieter Levels quoted
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs his internet startups alone
Their wordsSouth Brazil is nothing like what you think when you think of Brazil It's the safest place in Brazil, it's rich and feels a lot like Europe
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
Their wordsStarship, Starlink, Grok, and Roadster. These should all have been Sputnik moments for Europe. Triggered immediate deregulation, mobilization of capital, and ambition to catch up.
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Noah Smith quoted
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter
Their wordsunder Trump, the U.S. has switched our alliance from Europe to Russia
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Paul Krugman quoted
Trade economist, Nobel laureate in 2008 for his work…
Their wordsFrance’s membership in the euro area creates the possibility of an explosive debt crisis — and such a crisis could be destructive to European unity.
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Paul Krugman quoted
Their wordsAs the second largest economy in the euro zone, France may have crossed the line from too big to fail to too big to save.
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Pieter Levels quoted
Their wordsWe should follow what the data says Europe should only be open for people from countries where we have data that previous people from those countries had a net contribution to our society, the economy and stayed out of crime
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Pieter Levels quoted
Their wordsIt shows Europe can still do stuff if they just all get on the same page
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsNone of the climate doomer nonsense Europe has wrung it hands about in the last thirty years has managed to curb the growth in global emissions (but it did wreck the continent's economy!).
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Pieter Levels quoted
Our readingCity states are attracting skilled Europeans with better living, working, and regulatory conditions.
Their wordsThis is great and another example of city states attracting all the skilled Europeans with better living, working and regulatory conditions!
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsDenmark should step out of the ECHR until such a point that the articles are compatible with deporting criminals, denying citizenship to malignant individuals, and allowing the Danes full sovereignty to decide who is welcome and who is not in their country.
- 5 days earlier
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Tyler Cowen quoted
Economist at George Mason University
Their wordsAt times we forget what an amazing wonder the Bundesrepublik Deutschland was. At the end of the World War II, Germany was one of the sickest and cruelest human societies in history, ever. Not too many years later, it was one of the best and most successful societies ever.
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Tyler Cowen quoted
Their wordsSo many policy mistakes have been made. So much leadership lost in the areas mentioned above. So much pessimism, sadly a lot of it seems to be justified.
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsThe constant decel messaging in Europe is insufferable as an adult, but its effect on kids is worse.
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Pieter Levels quoted
Their wordsYou can see the effect clearly within the EU: Countries with low regulatory burden like Switzerland and Ireland have much higher incomes than places like Spain or Hungary where its regulatory burden is high
↗It's really crazy how strongly wealth inverse correlates with regulatory burdenlevels.io
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Gergely Orosz quoted
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer
Their wordsLondon + UK not being part of the EU (and thus not being as bound by regulation that slows down innovation) is a reason the UK's tech industry can pull away from the rest of Europe
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Tyler Cowen quoted
Their wordsArmenia is not dirt cheap, but it is much cheaper than most of Europe and so can be considered a bargain in relative terms.
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Noah Smith quoted
Their wordsEurope should put more tariffs on Chinese products, in order to push Chinese companies to make their products overseas -- which will give industrialization a boost in poor countries all over the world.
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Pieter Levels quoted
Their wordsBecause police doesn't let you file a report anymore for basic crime and people know police won't solve crime so they don't even try to file a police report
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Pieter Levels quoted
Their wordsOne of the reasons crime numbers are going down in many places around the world and especially in Europe is that police simply won't let you report crimes anymore
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Pieter Levels quoted
Their wordsIt's clear that the big European cities are getting less safe and more run down when you visit them but you wouldn't see that from the decreasing crime statistics they publish
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Noah Smith quoted
Their wordsHe has willfully degraded or torn up America’s key alliances, especially with Europe, and created enmity where friendship once reigned.
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Armin Ronacher quoted
Creator of Flask and Jinja
Our readingThe German/Austrian mindset leads to the defense of rules, resulting in their accumulation.
Their wordsThe German/Austrian mindset however is to defend every rule. As a result, we're accumulating more and more rules.
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Armin Ronacher quoted
Their wordsBut what really annoys me about the German speaking world is that the default behavior is to defend every stupid damn rule.
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Paul Krugman quoted
Their wordsactually, there are three economic superpowers in the world by this measure. There’s the United States, there’s China, which is clearly number one, and then there’s the EU, which are roughly co-equal.
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Matthew Yglesias quoted
Writes Slow Boring, a near-daily newsletter on American…
Their wordsBut I think this impulse to gild the lily and attribute the rise of Hitler to deep intellectual trends is an example of a pretty common fallacy of assuming that an incredibly important world event must have incredibly important roots.
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Matthew Yglesias quoted
Their wordsThe real story of Hitler's rise is mostly a history of contingency - bad choices by specific influential politicians first wrecked the German economy and then handed power to Hitler.
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Henry Farrell quoted
Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author
Their wordsThe European Union is big - the third largest economy in the world, but it has great difficulty in transforming economic strength into geopolitical clout.
↗Canada is cosying up to Europeprogrammablemutter.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Pieter Levels quoted
Their wordsI think we should use this kinds of data to completely turn around Europe's immigration policy: - We should have super easy inflow for immigrants from countries whose previous immigrants have shown low crime rates You're from Japan? Just fly here and you can stay forever - We should then almost completely ban any inflow from countries whose previous immigrants have shown high crime rates with instant deportations
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Tobias Lütke quoted
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify
Their wordsMaking trade deals with EU is good for Canada. Anything beyond that is just anchoring ourselves to a block who’s economic ambitions aren’t much higher than being an “open air museum”.
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Adam Tooze quoted
Economic historian, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis…
Our readingGermany's crisis is too deep to be solved by conventional tax, spending, or regulatory adjustments.
Their wordsGermany is in trouble. But the trouble goes deep and cannot be addressed by "more of the same" socio-economic measures in the domain of taxes or social spending or regulation.
↗Chartbook 474: The state is the problem - the AfD’s anti-systemic diagnosis of contemporary Germany. adamtooze.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece