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Trump openly siding with Russian aggression, not just rhetorically but now with US policy intervention that boosts the Russian economy and facilitates Russian attacks in Ukraine, appears to have broken a dam. Leaders who held back in an attempt to keep Trump on side are admitting that didn't work.

The author argued that rising violence in France had increased the chance of a law-and-order backlash among voters that could bring far-right leader Marine Le Pen to power. They added that if the financial situation worsened and the campaign focused on who could rescue the economy, it would expose what they described as Le Pen’s weak point. https://t.co/sIK8RvCGnW #France #LePen #Elections #FR

The author’s Tuesday brief said the Bank of Japan might leave rates unchanged this month, the People’s Bank of China planned a bond-liquidity backstop, U.K. payrolls had rebounded and German industry had lost nearly half a million jobs since 2019. https://t.co/8e1JR7km6e #Economy #Finance #Markets #JP #CN #GB #DE

The author cited an Ifo study saying Germany had lost nearly 500,000 industrial jobs since 2019, while arguing that the country continued to create jobs and that this was the real problem with the German economy. They added that the losses could be higher if certain estimates for temporary workers were included. https://t.co/mWwTxJIfjx #Deutschland #Wirtschaft #Industrie #DE

The author wrote that Prince Muhammad had made three major bets as he rose to power a decade ago: that he could defeat the Houthis, reshape the Saudi economy and count on Donald Trump as a reliable ally. The author said all three had gone awry at once. https://t.co/NeC8siwd65 #SaudiArabia #MiddleEast #Politics #SA #US

Republicans have lost their biggest political advantage: the economy. In July, they led Democrats 34%-33% on the economy. Now Democrats lead 37%-28%. On inflation: Democrats +14. On taxes: Democrats +7. Yes — even on taxes. That’s a political earthquake. Dems should press this advantage hard.

The author said equality was a fundamental right that strengthened the economy and urged EU member states at EPSCO to agree on the Equal Treatment Directive, arguing that equality could not wait another 18 years. The author also presented a second progress and implementation report on equality.

The author said the US was paying more than $1.05 trillion a year in interest on its debt despite the economy performing relatively well. They wrote that net interest payments on federal debt reached $1.05 trillion in fiscal 2026, up from $970 billion in 2025, and said they accounted for nearly 20% of federal spending. https://t.co/7BOP7ImvAa #Economy #Debt #Finance #US

RADIO ARC 101:“NEWSSTANDS, ‘ENDANGERED SPECIES’ LIKE CAFÉS: MONEY LOST AND HOPES FROM STANFORD” by NANDO SILVESTRI SOURCE: https://radioarc.it/edicole-razze-in-estinzione-come-i-bar-soldi-persi-e-speranze-da-stanford/ Newsstands are another repository of humanity and knowledge, in many respects similar to cafés, at least as far as the unfortunate fate that has befallen many of them is concerned. The smell of printed paper, coloured card, variegated covers, surprise packets and cellophane was an olfactory molasses that once intoxicated young and old alike and represented, at the same time, a sought-after destination for daily walks and pauses. Stopping by the newsstand meant drawing upon knowledge, entertainment, culture, imagination and creativity. All prerogatives lost on account of the shapeless and amorphous surrogates disseminated by the web. This is the principal reason for the cumulative and recurring closure of a great many Italian newsstands: in economics, one speaks of a sector in demand collapse. But it is not merely a newsstand that closes; a piece of the local and national economy closes with it. From 35,000 newsstands in 2005 to about 20,000 in 2024: -43%. With them goes direct turnover of over €400 million per year, but the real hole is the indirect economy that is never calculated. Each average newsstand in a small town generated distribution worth €15,000 per year in margins for local distributors, couriers, and printers. Moreover, the customer who bought the newspaper would have a coffee, buy a bus ticket, place a bet. Download the Medium App One must consider that without a newsstand, the village cinema loses its only physical promotional outlet, not to mention the losses in terms of advertising. When it closes, it is not only the newsagent who loses. The café loses, the driver loses, the printer loses. In Irpinia, over the last five years, Avellino has lost six newsstands, Ariano Irpino three, Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi two. The total loss in Irpinia amounts to about 22% of outlets. All this means that many of the closures mentioned above have deprived Irpinian cafés of several dozen customers, harming workers, distributors and suppliers. These are jobs that do not make the news, but they exist. Another hard blow inflicted upon the local and national economy in the name of a false progress that almost always favours the business of fixers and the usual suspects. However, what is happening in Puglia, a few kilometres from Irpinia, opens up scenarios of renewal based precisely upon the reconversion of disused newsstands. These are prospects so unique and innovative as to have aroused interest worldwide, especially at Stanford University. This is news of enormous significance that few news programmes have disseminated, in the name of a perennial pre-emption by technologies contemptuous of common sense, tradition and art. In San Severo, 40 km from Upper Irpinia, a newsstand abandoned for six years in Via Matteo Tondi became, on 27 March 2026, the Teatro-Edicola Foyer’97: six chairs, four square metres, an idea by Francesco Gavino. The well-received 10- to 15-minute shows have piqued the curiosity of Stanford University. Its academic journal, the Stanford Social Innovation Review [SSIR], has chosen the Teatro Edicola in San Severo as an international case study with the reportage “The Six-Seat Revolution”. Why is Stanford watching us? Because it has realised that those four square metres can once again generate indirect economic activity. Indeed, 60 spectators in an afternoon can become 60 coffees at the neighbouring café. With a symbolic ticket price of €5, we are talking about a cultural micro-economy. Not to mention the indirect income from tourists and journalists who arrive and frequent B&Bs and restaurants. It is the model Irpinia needs: not to leave the void, but to reconvert it virtuously. Every closed newsstand can become an information point, a micro-cinema, a service hub. Otherwise we shall continue to count only the lowered shutters, without counting the money that no longer circulates.