Alberto Rizzi

400,000 (understated) dead Russians are still not enough to alter the Kremlin's calculations about the war against Ukraine, but they are likely enough to determine a future of faster economic decline for the country.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Quanto costa andare in ufficio tra soldi, tempo perso e panini orrendi di bar che vivono di rendita di posizione? Oltretutto lo smart working andrebbe incentivato in periodo di costi alti dei carburanti per tutti quelli che possono farlo, l'unica parte elastica della domanda.

$51 billion is actually a cheap price for Saudi Arabia to end the war with the Houthis, and still a much better investment than topping up Jared Kushner's bank account
wsj.com/world/middle-e… via @WSJ

Quite the headline

(in reality Qatar is trading US LNG and making a profit put it, getting some revenues while its own molecules can't get out of Hormuz, but still)

After the Blue Tsunami in the US midterms, I can only hope Europe stops being completely submissive to a US administration that threatens core European interests and whose policies have been utterly rejected even at home.