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Staying means accepting risks that have already become Ukraine’s new normal: regular Russian drone and missile strikes that kill civilians and leave a trail of economic destruction; the continued conscription of most men — and, eventually perhaps, women; and significant restrictions on democratic rights that Ukrainians repeatedly took to the streets to defend. Wartime martial law means the country hasn’t held an election in six years — an issue now highlighted by popular former Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov. Leaving Ukraine carries its own costs: uprooted lives, divided families and the risk of ostracism at home. The most resilient Ukrainian, according to the survey, is a Kyiv resident aged 45 to 59. This generation was in the vanguard of protests against election-rigging in late 2004 in Kyiv’s Independence Square, or Maidan, helping trigger the pro-European Orange Revolution.  A decade later, their children were the students beaten by riot police for protesting President Vikto...

Simona Mohamsson Utbildnings- och integrationsminister https://www.regeringen.se/sveriges-regering/utbildningsdepartementet/simona-mohamsson/ Bland villorna i Ålsten blir det tydligt varför svensk borgerlighet behöver Liberalerna. Bland partiets fem starkaste valdistrikt vid förra valet återfanns inte mindre än fyra i Bromma. Det femte återfinns i en annan välmående villaförort till Stockholm, Danderyd.   En del skulle säga att det handlar om väljare som har råd med fina principer – luxury beliefs i anglosaxisk debatt.  Vad bensinen kostar spelar ingen roll, man har ju själv sedan länge elbil. Och ingen behöver väl bekymra sig över att Liberalerna, genom att förbjuda många av landets friskolor, kommer att göra det svårare att lämna stökiga kommunala skolor. I Ålsten fungerar närhetsprincipen utmärkt. Svend Dahl Smedjan 22 augusti 2026 https://timbro.se/smedjan/det-liberala-dilemmat-i-bromma/ Tolvanloppet 2026 https://tolvanloppet.se/ Familjen Brogren i Bromma är en av de sto...

Ebola Bundibugyo  The Democratic Republic of the Congo is gearing up to roll out an Ebola vaccine with some doses being used as part of a trial to see if it is effective against the Bundibugyo species of the virus that is currently circulating in the country. The Ervebo vaccine does help protect against the Zaïre species of Ebola but currently there are no proven vaccines or treatments for Bundibugyo. The rollout comes as the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a new warning that Ebola was "growing exponentially" in the north and east of DR Congo and the spread of infections now covered an area bigger than France. BBC 21August 2026 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czxe9n0vxzdo Pragvåren slutade med att Warszawapaktens makter invaderade Prag den 21 augusti 1968 https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragv%C3%A5ren Pragvåren och invasionen var det viktigaste och mest bestående av allt som brukar betecknas som "68". Det som då hände visade att kommunismen inte lät sig refor...

  Varför lyckades inte den förment intellektuella eliten att snabbt genomskåda det uppenbara – att Arday var en bluff? Jason Arday 2023 utsågs till professor i sociologi vid det anrika universitetet i Cambridge i Storbritannien blev han snabbt en internationell akademiker med rockstjärnestatus, med en minst sagt anmärkningsvärd livshistoria.  Under 2026 hamnade Arday i centrum för en omfattande debatt kring sin doktorsavhandling, efter att ett stort antal textlikheter med en tidigare avhandling uppmärksammats offentligt.  Universitetet i Cambridge genomförde en intern utredning vilken friade honom från forskningsfusk. Att hans universitet beskrev kritiken som en del av en kampanj mot hans trovärdighet har dock inte tystat de kritiska rösterna. Att han var verksam inom ett fält där möjligheterna att komma med obevisade påståenden är relativt goda kan säkert ha spelat in. Om han försökt göra en karriär inom naturvetenskap, särskilt en disciplin där man gör experiment, skull...

  A selloff in global bonds is driving up borrowing costs for governments, businesses and families across the developed world. Wall Street sees no end in sight.  https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/bonds-are-getting-hammered-and-wall-street-says-the-rout-wont-end-anytime-soon-895e0ad8 USA:s statsskuld på rekordnivå – 40.000.000.000.000 dollar  ”Även i de mest gynnsamma scenarierna rusar vi mot ett stup utan att vilja vrida om ratten”, säger Margaret Spellings, chef för tankesmedjan Bipartisan Policy Center. DI/TT  20 augusti 2026 https://www.di.se/live/usas-statsskuld-pa-rekordniva-40000000000000-dollar/ Hur ska världens största ekonomi styra undan en hotande skuldkrasch?    Nils Åkesson DI 18 augusti 2026 https://www.di.se/analys/usas-skuldkris-narmar-sig-skrackniva/ Bessent Plan May Be Short-Lived Remedy for Bond Slump Franklin Templeton, Barrenjoey Markets Pty and Nomura Holdings Inc. are among those warning the positive spillover effect to other bond ...

Bessent’s Bond-Burner Wasn’t the Big Move He Hoped The problem, after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made a small but hugely symbolic move to stop the steady rise in longer bond yields, is that even his power appears to be limited. Drastic changes in fiscal policy are needed, not signaling and symbols. Bessent’s key intervention, announced as Wall Street opened, was to double the amount of 10-year and longer bonds that the Treasury can buy back. If you think this sounds like something the Fed would do, you would be right.  Monetary policy ever since the Global Financial Crisis has revolved around quantitative easing (QE) — buying bonds to push down their yields. Kevin Warsh, the new Fed chairman, wants to move away from that and shrink the central bank’s enormous holdings of bonds.  The 30-year yield — at its highest since the eve of the crisis in 2007 —dropped eight basis points. But the upward trend remains intact. John Authers Bloomberg August 20, 2026 https://www.bloombe...

Could Japan bring down the world economy? Japan’s vast hoard of financial assets means that problems in its economy can reverberate across the globe. What caused this mess? Is America right to intervene? And could Japan cause a crisis in the global financial system?   The Economist Recorded on Aug 14th · 41 min https://www.economist.com/insider/inside-economics/could-japan-bring-down-the-world-economy Elections in Ukraine?  Former Ukrainian defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov has launched a sweeping political broadside against Volodymyr Zelenskyy, warning the president that rampant corruption is undermining the country’s ability to fight Russia and calling for extraordinary wartime elections. Financial Times 18 August 2026 https://www.ft.com/content/7bf79169-f84f-44a2-b64d-c1a3d1fb7d08?syn-25a6b1a6=1 The popular former Ukrainian defense minister, whose firing by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy triggered nationwide protests, strongly hinted at his political ambitions with a la...

  https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-it-pays-to-stay-invested-no-amount-of-bad-news-could-stop-the-stock-markets-strongest-run-in-more-than-25-years-54ba3f8a Tunga techfall på Wall Street – Klarna rasade 23 procent De ledande indexen på Wall Street stängde på rött för tredje handelsdagen i rad när inflationsoro kylde ner riskaptiten. https://www.di.se/live/tunga-techfall-pa-wall-street-klarna-rasade/ The rise in the US is part of a broader global shift as investors demand more compensation to protect against the risk of persistently high inflation that’s likely to keep short-term interest rates elevated. The movement is also being fueled by a ramp-up of corporate borrowing to fund the artificial-intelligence investment boom and waning demand from traditional buyers of long-dated bonds. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-17/us-bond-selloff-drives-30-year-yields-to-the-highest-since-2007 Global Bond Slump Sends Long-Term Borrowing Costs to Highest in Decades https://w...

Hans teori styr centralbankers penningpolitik globalt.   – Han sökte sig till striden, säger Lars Jonung. Han är professor emeritus vid Lunds universitet, där även Wicksell var professor. Friedmans idé om att styra penningmängden har övergetts av centralbankerna. Keynes syn på penningpolitiken som underordnad finanspolitiken, med full sysselsättning som mål, har inte heller segrat. Kärnan i Wicksells analys är en skillnad mellan två räntor: låneräntan, som sätts av centralbanken, och ”den naturliga räntan”.  Så fort den naturliga räntan avviker från den bankränta som är gällande får vi ett gap som antingen ger uppgång till en kreditexpansion eller en kreditåtstramning, säger Lars Jonung. Nu lyfter det amerikanska magasinet Fortune fram en ny tolkning av Wicksell, framförd av ekonomer på den tyska storbanken Deutsche Bank. Är tyskarna på rätt väg eller inte?  Jag tror att de tänker fel, säger Lars Jonung. Birgitta Forsberg SvD 2026-08-16 https://www.svd.se/a/Bxzyn7/ra...

De ledande amerikanska indexen stängde på rött under måndagen när förhoppningarna om ett avtal för att avsluta det nästan sex månader långa kriget i Mellanöstern dämpats och oljepriset fått fart uppåt. https://www.di.se/live/techjattar-stretade-emot-pa-rott-wall-street/   Sargassohavet, The Sargasso Sea; a model for global markets  https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2026/08/sargassohavet-sargasso-sea-model-for.html Central Banks; By becoming market makers of last resort, policymakers are pumping up leverage and risk. Leverage 100 times. https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2026/08/central-banks-by-becoming-market-makers.html Knut Wicksell aktuell igen. r*  Styr centralbankers penningpolitik globalt.      https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2026/08/nu-ar-nationalekonomen-knut-wicksell.html Maga Europe Trump’s new right sees the continent as both ancestral home and ideological battleground. https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2026/08/why-maga-came-for-europe.html Sto...

The Sargasso Sea, an elliptical area of the Atlantic around Bermuda, is a model for global markets in the depths of this hot summer. An area of relative calm caused by the space between four major Atlantic currents. As for the obvious geopolitical risks, there is a belief — correct or otherwise — that the market has a handle on them, and that they are less than catastrophic.  Equanimity is a state of psychological stability and composure which is undisturbed by the experience of or exposure to emotions, pain, or other phenomena that may otherwise cause a loss of mental balance.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equanimity Whether markets are right to be this confident is another question. Meanwhile, the greatest risk, also diminished slightly by the slowdown in the recent data, comes from bonds.  But as it stands, Great Earnings + Goldilocks Economic Data + Absence of News = Continued Calm.  Just like eels must leave the Sargasso, this cannot go on indefinitely, but wi...