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Léon Cornelissen

@leonmwc.bsky.social
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Economist, rambler, cinephile, Wagnerite, chess aficionado

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 5h
I blame Max Otto von Stiershitz* *yes, this is unashamedly niche
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 10h
This raises a really important question: A) Moby Dicks B) Mobys Dick Or C)Mobies Dick
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Léon Cornelissen @leonmwc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
« The EU budget is where grand strategy meets petty squabbling…and petty squabbling always win Europe has no shortage of fights worth having. How to perpetuate a budget designed for another era is not one. » economist.com/europe/2026/...
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The EU budget is where grand strategy meets petty squabbling
And petty squabbling always wins
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Léon Cornelissen @leonmwc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
« …een voltreffer in de VVD-achterban… »
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Léon Cornelissen @leonmwc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
« While the current rise in interest rates seems to be a rational repricing of French fiscal risk, a higher spread may make investors worry about the euro zone more broadly. » economist.com/europe/2026/...
economist.com
Bond markets give France a whacking for fiscal irresponsibility
Deficits, spreads against Germany and the risk of President Le Pen are all rising
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Léon Cornelissen @leonmwc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
« …een onbetrouwbare regenrivier… »
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Léon Cornelissen @leonmwc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
« Past Hormuz performance is no guarantee of future results—especially if Iran feels cornered. » economist.com/middle-east-...
economist.com
Has Iran lost its grip on Gulf oil exports?
Exports through the Strait of Hormuz and beyond are soaring but prices remain stubbornly high
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Antonio Fatas @antoniofatas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That is a steep climb for the French-German spread...
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen: We are not dwarfs. There's a dwarf that behaves like a giant. That's true. And that's Russia.
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eindelijk weer eens een columnist die gewoon oproept tot geweld tegen een politicus. Dat had het publieke debat echt even nodig.
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Léon Cornelissen @leonmwc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
European industry is doing better than you may think economist.com/business/202...
economist.com
European industry is doing better than you may think
The firms most exposed to China are suffering. But many are adapting
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JauntyWunderKind @jauntywunderkind.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
But I really think @himself.bsky.social nailed the sequence with Philip K Dick & the invasion of the fake humans. www.bostonreview.net/articles/hen...
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Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans
We live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s.
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Léon Cornelissen @leonmwc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Re-enter, centre stage, John Maynard #Keynes economist.com/britain/2026...
economist.com
Re-enter, centre stage, John Maynard Keynes
A star-studded new play brings back an old star economist
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Roel Maalderink @roelmaalderink.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hoe vinden Meta-medewerkers hun eigen Meta-bril? (Samen met @bitsoffreedom.eurosky.social)
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Léon Cornelissen @leonmwc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
« As for Mitch McConnell — well, let’s not speak ill of the undead. » www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/b...
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Why Did These Powerful People Kowtow to Donald Trump?
In “Profiles in Cowardice,” Jacob Weisberg offers a grim twist on John F. Kennedy’s collection of heroic biographies.
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Léon Cornelissen @leonmwc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
« [W]hen placed under mild authoritarian pressure, an extraordinary number of powerful Americans, ostensibly honorable and right-thinking, quickly revealed themselves to be cowardly and unprincipled and made of the wrong stuff. » www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/b...
nytimes.com
Why Did These Powerful People Kowtow to Donald Trump?
In “Profiles in Cowardice,” Jacob Weisberg offers a grim twist on John F. Kennedy’s collection of heroic biographies.
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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The question is increasingly not "if" but "when".
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Joanna Nicolson @joannanicolson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is a fascinating read by the author of the book on which the film is based engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-b...
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The battle to bring General de Gaulle to the screen
Antonin Baudry's imaginative adaptation of my biography of de Gaulle, ‘A Certain Idea of France’, raises questions about which liberties film-makers may take when depicting the past.
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Léon Cornelissen @leonmwc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Hyperbool du jour www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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Jetten: ‘Gigantische beweging gemaakt’ wat betreft bezuinigingen op sociale vangnet
Pro-fractievoorzitter Jesse Klaver vraagt premier Rob Jetten nogmaals of het kabinet bereid is om de bezuinigingen op het sociale vangnet „uit de boeken te halen”. Jetten hapt niet toe. Volgens hem he...
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Léon Cornelissen @leonmwc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🤣
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Léon Cornelissen @leonmwc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Heb de indruk van niet.
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GOETHE @dailygoethe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Eines Morgens riechst du den Herbst. Es ist noch nicht kalt; es ist nicht windig; es hat sich eigentlich gar nichts geändert – und doch alles. 🍁 Kurt Tucholsky 🍂
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Léon Cornelissen @leonmwc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Kabinet regelt alsnog bescherming voor arbeidsmigranten die minister Paul blokkeerde www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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Kabinet regelt alsnog bescherming voor arbeidsmigranten die minister Paul blokkeerde
Huisvestingskosten: Over het plan, dat de positie van arbeidsmigranten in Nederland moet verbeteren, ontstond eerder grote politieke ophef. Toenmalig minister van Sociale Zaken Mariëlle Paul (VVD) inf...
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★ govert schilling @govertschilling.nl · 05/09/2026
vandaag 50 jaar geleden (5 sep 1977) werd voyager 1 gelanceerd. de ruimtesonde verkende jupiter en saturnus, maakte de pale blue dot foto, heeft een boodschap voor aliens aan boord, en bevindt zich inmiddels op een kleine 26 miljard km afstand (bijna één lichtdag). 🛰️
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Léon Cornelissen @leonmwc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
« Europe’s disadvantage can be summed up in one word: #France. » economist.com/europe/2026/...
economist.com
America has a whopping debt. But Europe has the whopping debt problem
The French-size problem at the heart of the EU
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Léon Cornelissen @leonmwc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
« Has Mr Warsh now backed himself into a corner? The crowd at Jackson Hole was split.» economist.com/finance-and-...
economist.com
Central banking has a forbidding future
But Kevin Warsh has bought himself time
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Vera Vrijmoeth @veravrijmoeth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Het kabinet lekte dinsdag strategisch een paar tabellen uit de eerste Prinsjesdag stukken. De bezuinigingen op de sociale zekerheid zouden 'grotendeels geschrapt’ zijn. Maar klopt dat wel? (1/9)
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Léon Cornelissen @leonmwc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
« As the sociologist Marion Fourcade has written, whereas in Britain economic authority is “more fluid and informally defined”, in America economic competence is “more firmly rooted in the possession of a specialist university degree”. »
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Léon Cornelissen @leonmwc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hahaha…iets minder?…totaal niet!
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Léon Cornelissen @leonmwc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Wat de pizzeria is voor de Italianen, is de melkbar voor de #Polen” www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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Bouwvakker Biedul bestelt gehaktballen bij de melkbar. Maar die blijken te zijn gestolen
De Bedrijfskantine over de grens: Deze zomer luncht NRC mee bij bedrijven en werkenden in het buitenland. Deze week: de melkbar in Polen.
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Léon Cornelissen @leonmwc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Good thinking: “Maar, merkt Brekelmans op: ‘Er is in Nederland geen rechtse meerderheid voor [bezuinigingen op] sociale zekerheid.’” www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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VVD-fractievoorzitter Brekelmans: ‘Er ís helemaal geen economisch rechtse meerderheid’
VVD-fractievoorzitter Ruben Brekelmans staat bekend als een koele politicus. Maar misschien blikt zelfs hij met enige nervositeit vooruit naar de Algemene Politieke Beschouwingen over twee weken. Dan ...
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Léon Cornelissen @leonmwc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“Don’t call it a reaction function and certainly don’t call it forward guidance, but Mr Warsh offered a firm steer that the Fed’s next move on interest rates will be upwards.” economist.com/finance-and-...
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Kevin Warsh tries being a normal central banker
And markets like it
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/08/2026
Google Maps has now capitulated to Donald Trump and changed the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America. Apple Maps still uses the correct name.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/08/2026
Trump pays tribute to astronauts: "Everybody thinks I ran in 2016. I actually announced in 2015."
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Léon Cornelissen @leonmwc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“Front pages have been filled, hands have been wrung. Everyone has, in short, been enjoying themselves tremendously. And the monarchy has been doing its job perfectly.” economist.com/britain/2026...
economist.com
Harry and Meghan are ghastly and back in Britain. Good
Britain needs something to cheer it up. This will do
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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I have no idea how the German government's ambition of having high speed rail connecting Berlin and Warsaw is to play out when DB is incapable of handling something as elementary as getting a relatively straightforward track in order.
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Laura Bromet @laurabromet.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
‘Wat echt oneerlijk is, is om die vermogens onaangetast te laten en steeds als er geld nodig is de rekening neer te leggen bij mensen die er wel voor werken.’ www.trouw.nl/opinie/neder...
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Nederland geeft netto subsidie aan vermogens en dat is van de zotte
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Léon Cornelissen @leonmwc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“If this is socialism, it is a variant that is surprisingly good for yacht sales.” economist.com/europe/2026/...
economist.com
How Sweden became a country of big-state libertarians
A Rorschach test with a side of meatballs
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Eclipse glasses running out before 99% of people knew there was an eclipse happening is a failure of modern consumer capitalism.
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Léon Cornelissen @leonmwc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The #Bayeux Tapestry’s Long and Bumpy Road to #London www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/a...
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How the Bayeux Tapestry Got to the British Museum
French art experts insisted the fragile 900-year-old masterpiece could never travel. Political will, cutting-edge engineering and unorthodox diplomacy proved them wrong.
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Léon Cornelissen @leonmwc.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
”Despite the Nazis’ imprimatur, the ‘Ring’ reads more as a dream of the left than a fascist fantasy.” economist.com/culture/2026...
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Why you should sit through 15 hours of opera
At 150 years old, Richard Wagner’s “Ring” cycle still commands attention
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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This is so good. Does Silicon Valley dream of Philip K Dick? www.ft.com/content/bdcf...
ft.com
Does Silicon Valley dream of Philip K Dick?
His 1960s science-fiction visions are a guide to our age of erratic billionaires, wild space fantasies and glitchy, invasive technology
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Léon Cornelissen @leonmwc.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
“[W]hat kind of future are we really hurtling towards? Increasingly, it is looking much more like the one anticipated by the drugged-up 1960s oeuvre of Philip K Dick, filled with deranged billionaires, machines that claim consciousness, hallucinated worlds and political breakdown.”
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Léon Cornelissen @leonmwc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
« Big Mac isn’t a globally traded good…the most important ingredient in a Big Mac is probably semi-skilled labour…to the extent that it isn’t an index of labour costs (…) it’s probably got something to say about another big ingredient: city centre commercial rent. »
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Home - Financial Times
News, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics
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Léon Cornelissen @leonmwc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Global weirding
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Laura Bromet @laurabromet.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Wandelen wandelen wandelen www.trouw.nl/sport/hoe-bl...
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Hoe blijven Kamerleden fit? ‘Ik heb ieder reces wel lichamelijke klachten’
Het werk in de Tweede Kamer is ongezond. Debatten duren lang, Kamerleden eten op onregelmatige tijden en zitten veel stil. Hoe gebruiken ze het reces om bij te komen en fit te worden?
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Léon Cornelissen @leonmwc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
What the Big Mac index reveals about a global currency beef economist.com/interactive/...
economist.com
What the Big Mac index reveals about a global currency beef
It highlights economic problems—and helps explain how to solve them
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Léon Cornelissen @leonmwc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
McCarthy era revisited…anyone calling Fauci a fifth amendment communist yet? www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07...
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Update from Sheryl Gay Stolberg
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Léon Cornelissen @leonmwc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Tot eind oktober is in Het Natuurhistorisch Museum in Rotterdam hun foto- en videotentoonstelling Complex individuality te zien. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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‘Korstmossen kunnen onder extreme omstandigheden overleven, dankzij hun onderlinge verbondenheid’
Ingeborg Klarenberg | ecoloog: Korstmossen zijn levensvormen die tot de verbeelding spreken. „En natuurlijk zijn ze ook gewoon mooi, door al die verschillende vormen en kleuren.”
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