Dua Lipa'nın 2026'daki öne çıkan adımları:
• Samsung'a dava açtı.
• İsrail'i desteklediği gerekçesiyle Disney ve HBO ile ortaklık tekliflerini reddetti.
• Coca-Cola ile ortaklığı reddetti.
• Jeffrey Epstein'ı alenen eleştirdi.
• İsrail bağlantısı nedeniyle 3 farklı şirketle sözleşmesini feshetti.
• Filistin ve Ukrayna için bağış kampanyası düzenledi.
• Babasıyla birlikte bir hayır kurumu kurdu.
Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi has urged Japan to more openly debate nuclear weapons' role in the country's defense, a rare instance of a sitting Cabinet member broaching the highly contentious issue. https://t.co/lqcmdsM7d3
Unpopular opinion: The fact that they can quickly install data centers nationally means they could've been updating infrastructure which they claimed was too difficult and expensive.
Hi @anthonyloke, please ask @askrapidkl@myrapidkl to stop deliberately closing the shutters EARLY at the KJ-LRT3 interchange at Glenmarie 2 Station before the last LRT3 trains have even passed!
The Japanese government has unveiled its new fee structure for residence permits that it plans to implement from October, which would see applicants pay multiple times more than current rates. 👉 https://t.co/92XdJyhX4j
Malaysia has been urged to mandate free drinking water at all licensed eateries as part of efforts to cut sugar consumption and encourage healthier lifestyles.
The requirement should be enforced through legislation or licensing conditions, the Galen Centre for Health and Social Policy said.
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Prof. Jeffrey Sachs on the farce of Western countries telling Congo to ‘just govern properly’:
‘The Kingdom of Belgium created a slave colony in Congo for 30 years. The government of Belgium ran the slave colony for another 40 years.
The CIA assassinated Congo’s first popular leader Patrice Lumumba, and then installed another dictatorship for the next 30 years.
And then Glencore and others now suck out your cobalt without giving Congo tax income. We don’t reflect on that. We say what’s wrong with you? Why don’t you govern properly?’
Japan's Amova Asset Management has taken control of Malaysia's second-largest asset manager, Aham Asset Management, after increasing its stake to 97.6% from 20%.
The acquisition followed the purchase of shares from CVC Capital Partners and other shareholders, and Amova intends to acquire the remaining 2.325% stake held by Aham's executives at a later stage.
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The UN has officially declared Gaza a genocide. And that Israel is deliberately targeting children and babies
Only took them 3 freaking years to get there
Few things seem to confuse economists more than the concept of "comparative advantage". Comparative advantage exists only for those sectors of the economy that are relatively more efficient than other sectors of that same economy, and this comparative advantage remains in place whatever the level of the currency (adjusting for import prices).
This means by definition that a country cannot have a comparative production advantage in "almost everything". Instead, a country can only have a comparative advantage in producing roughly half of what it consumes and invests, and a comparative disadvantage in producing the rest.
This is why trade is supposed to maximize output – a country produces more of those goods in which it has a comparative production advantage than it can consume domestically. It does this so that it can export the excess in order to pay for imports of those goods in which it has a comparative production disadvantage. That is arithmetically the only way to maximize production.
But if a country exports not in order to pay for imports but in order to acquire foreign assets, this is the classic definition of mercantilism, under which the benefits of comparative advantage do not exist. In that case what the county has is "competitive" advantage, and this competitive advantage can be eliminated simply by allowing the currency to appreciate to its fundamental level.
Note that in Ricardo's famous example, Portugal had a competitive advantage in producing both wine and textiles, but a comparative advantage only in producing wine. That is why Ricardo was able to prove that total production would rise if Portugal produced only wine and England only textiles, with each selling part of what it produced to the other in order to acquire what it didn't produce.
Had Portugal instead done what surplus countries do – suppress domestic consumption in order to sell both wine and textiles to England, while getting paid in the form of a net acquisition of English assets – total production would have declined, not risen.
There are many problems with the concept of a country specializing in its area of comparative advantage, but in general it results in a rise in global production and global demand. When a country specializes in gaining across-the-board competitive advantage, however, it reduces global production by suppressing domestic demand and externalizing the consequences. Keynes explained how this happens perfectly well at Bretton Woods.
For those who are interested, I explain this further here: https://t.co/RzK2vyDlhY