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Scenarios for our Economic Future
The Anthropic Economics Team models the effects of AI on the economy of 2030.
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September 9, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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18-Uhr-Prognosen von ARD und ZDF: AfD noch stärker als erwartet, absolute Mehrheit möglich. SPD und Grüne sicher drin, BSW auf der Kippe.

Alle Prognosen und Hochrechnungen: www.wahlrecht.de/news/2026/la... #ltwst #ltwlsa
September 6, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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Sonntagsfrage zur Landtagswahl in Sachsen-Anhalt • Forschungsgruppe Wahlen / ZDF: AfD 41 % | CDU 23 % | DIE LINKE 11,5 % | SPD 8,5 % | GRÜNE 6 % | BSW 4 % | FDP 3 % | Sonstige 3 %
➤ Verlauf: wahlrecht.de/umfragen/lan...
🗓️ Landtagswahl: 6. September 2026 #ltwst #ltwlsa
Säulendiagramm der Sonntagsfrage zur Landtagswahl in Sachsen-Anhalt der Forschungsgruppe Wahlen für das ZDF
September 3, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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US nuclear negotiator Ernest Moniz: ‘Iran has the home-court advantage’ - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
US nuclear negotiator Ernest Moniz: ‘Iran has the home-court advantage’
The architect of the 2015 deal with Tehran on how to prevent a new Middle East arms race
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August 14, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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How Britain could afford to pay for war - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
How Britain could afford to pay for war
Keynes’s 1940 financing plan contains lessons for the current government
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June 5, 2026 at 6:03 AM
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Sorry Marc, it’s just not that big - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Sorry Marc, it’s just not that big
Sizing up private credit
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June 4, 2026 at 12:07 PM
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Empire Suicide Watch | Herman Mark Schwartz
Examining the anatomy of US power
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June 1, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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‘I’m fighting two wars. One against the Russians. And one inside myself.’ - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
‘I’m fighting two wars. One against the Russians. And one inside myself.’
A drone pilot and her all-women unit are waging a new kind of warfare on Ukraine’s eastern front
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May 2, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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Anthropic chief Dario Amodei: ‘I don’t want AI turned on our own people’ - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Anthropic chief Dario Amodei: ‘I don’t want AI turned on our own people’
The tech entrepreneur on Claude Mythos, repercussions from the Pentagon dispute — and his message for the super-rich
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April 17, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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Der Europäer
Zum Tod von Jürgen Habermas
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March 15, 2026 at 6:43 AM
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Inside one of the wildest days the oil market has ever seen - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
Inside one of the wildest days the oil market has ever seen
How one London trading floor coped with a record swing in prices
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March 10, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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The pessimist who became a prophet - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
The pessimist who became a prophet
Michael Sandel was ignored by a generation of political optimists. Now he is searching for a way out of the mess he saw coming
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February 8, 2026 at 8:35 AM
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The Termite Thesis on the US dollar.

Good, sober, realistic warning bell by Sobel and Kamin in @alphaville.ft.com

Meanwhile the euro has its problems but on many metrics doesn’t look so bad, boasting the ECB as its financial fortress. The continent rearming will buttress geopolitical heft.
January 28, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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Consumer confidence collapses #EconSky
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January 28, 2026 at 6:25 AM
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Could Europe really leverage its $12.6tn pile of US assets? - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
Could Europe really leverage its $12.6tn pile of US assets?
NIIPing an outlandish idea in the bud
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January 19, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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Anthropic Economic Index report: Economic primitives
This report introduces new metrics of AI usage to provide a rich portrait of interactions with Claude in November 2025, just prior to the release of Opus 4.5.
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January 15, 2026 at 11:34 PM
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Can Europe still afford its generous state pensions? - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
Can Europe still afford its generous state pensions?
Rising numbers of older people across the continent are straining budgets and making for some difficult political decisions
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January 15, 2026 at 7:38 AM
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Can Venezuela settle its debts? - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
Can Venezuela settle its debts?
Nicolás Maduro’s removal has opened the door to a huge and complex debt workout
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January 10, 2026 at 10:25 AM
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The new age of geoeconomics - on.ft.com/4ls9CRL via @FT
The new age of geoeconomics
Donald Trump’s tariff threats are just part of a much wider shift. Gillian Tett explains why commerce is being subordinated to statecraft — and how we can adapt
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July 12, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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This is Europe’s ‘global euro’ moment - on.ft.com/3TryxZ7 via @FT
This is Europe’s ‘global euro’ moment
But greater international prominence will not happen by default — it must be earned
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June 17, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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"How to slash government debt-to-GDP" - on.ft.com/4jFIM6N via @FT
How to slash government debt-to-GDP
A cunning plan we don’t recommend
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June 12, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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The Dollar’s Global Role and the Financing of the U.S. External Deficit
There is too much talk about the dollar’s role as a reserve currency and too little talk about expectations of exceptional returns. Reserve accumulation hasn’t driven the financing of the U.S. curren…
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June 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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May 31, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Can We Afford Large-scale Solar PV?
In the US solar energy has steadily risen in how much of our electricity it supplies.
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May 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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The delusion of private equity IRRs
The dumbest PE performance metric still bamboozles some investors
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May 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM