Fekadu G

Interested in econ, politics, & Social evolution. Anti-tribalist

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@elonmusk It was more left-wing than it was right-wing. I think he nationalised many companies

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@Bhumi__M026 I hate such primitive hospitality. Treat your citizen and anyone else the same way, period

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Inspiring

[Ankor Inclán @ankorinclan]

En 1975, cuando Meryl Streep tenía veintiséis años y era una completa desconocida que acababa de salir de la escuela de teatro, entró en el despacho de Nueva York del poderoso productor Dino De Laurentiis para una prueba de la película King Kong y escuchó cómo él miraba a su hijo y le decía en italiano, convencido de que aquella joven rubia no entendía una palabra: «¿Por qué me has traído esta cosa tan fea?».

El hijo del magnate la había visto actuar en una obra de teatro y había insistido en llevarla al casting del papel que finalmente consiguió Jessica Lange. Cualquier otra aspirante habría salido de aquel despacho llorando o pidiendo disculpas por existir, pero De Laurentiis ignoraba que Meryl había estudiado italiano en la universidad. Sin perder la compostura, la joven le sostuvo la mirada y le respondió en su mismo idioma: «Entiendo perfectamente lo que está diciendo; siento mucho no ser lo bastante guapa como para salir en King Kong».

No fue la única vez que la industria intentó convencerla de que no valía. Catorce años más tarde, en 1989, cuando ya tenía dos premios Óscar en casa por Kramer contra Kramer y La decisión de Sophie, cumplió cuarenta años y comprobó de golpe cómo trataba Hollywood a las mujeres que dejaban atrás la juventud. «Cuando cumplí cuarenta años recibí tres ofertas para hacer de bruja en un solo año —confesó en The Hollywood Reporter—. Y ni una sola oferta más. Tres ofertas para interpretar a una bruja, pero ni un papel romántico, ni una científica, ni una aventurera, nada de nada. Solo brujas. Pensé: "Dios mío, tiene que haber otro camino"».

En lugar de resignarse, se impuso la norma de rechazar todas aquellas brujas con las que pretendían jubilarla a los cuarenta —una regla que solo rompió a los sesenta y cinco años para cantar a Stephen Sondheim en Into the Woods— y, después de soplar aquellas cuarenta velas, sumó trece nominaciones más al Óscar y ganó el tercero, convirtiéndose en la actriz más premiada de la historia del cine.

¿Vosotros creéis que el techo de una persona lo marcan sus capacidades reales o el momento en que decide no tragarse las etiquetas de quienes intentan hacerla de menos?

[Fekadu G @fekadu_g]

@netanyahu You think you are working hard to make sure that everyone fear Israel, but the result is that everyone is developing desdain for Israel. Stop it. I hate closed collective society.

[Fekadu G @fekadu_g]

@aksum_it The idea of God with omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenvolent character hardly make sense given the reality human endured over centuries

[Handre @Handre]

John Cowperthwaite did more for human prosperity than any development economist drawing a government salary ever managed, and he did it by refusing to do almost anything at all.

As Hong Kong's Financial Secretary from 1961 to 1971, Cowperthwaite ran one of the most radically free economies the modern world has ever seen. He kept taxes flat and low (the top income tax rate sat at 15%), ran consistent budget surpluses, abolished import tariffs, and blocked nearly every subsidy request that crossed his desk. When British civil servants demanded economic statistics to justify intervention, he refused to collect them. Not out of laziness. He genuinely believed that giving planners numbers gave them excuses.

The results? In 1960, Hong Kong's per capita income stood at roughly 28% of Britain's. By 1997, Hong Kong had surpassed Britain. That trajectory happened without natural resources, without foreign aid, and without a single five-year plan drafted by well-intentioned economists from Oxford. Hong Kong had a harbor, people willing to work, and a bureaucrat with enough intellectual discipline to keep the state out of their way.

Capital flows toward secure property rights and reliable rules, and flees the moment politicians start allocating it. Every industry Beijing picked as a "priority sector" during those same decades burned through subsidies and produced junk. Hong Kong's industries emerged organically, serving real demand, building real wealth.

You benefit from this history whether you know it or not, because Hong Kong's success gave the world a controlled experiment that still embarrasses every advocate of managed development. The control group thrived. The planned economies didn't.

Cowperthwaite retired to St Andrews, received a knighthood, and gave almost no interviews. That restraint was entirely in character.

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@steve_hanke @TheWJP Worse than his predecessors

[TRT Afrika @trtafrika]

Ethiopian artist Yoseph Bekele, known as BekiArt, creates portraits in unusual ways, using both hands at the same time and even his feet, as well as unconventional materials like candles and mud, to bring his artistic ideas to life

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@Handre Who eliminated the gold standard, Roosevelt? That must be the worst

[Steve Hanke @steve_hanke]

EthiopiaWatch🇪🇹: Ethiopia’s inflation continues to PUNISH Ethiopians.

Today, I measure Ethiopia's inflation at a PUNISHING 75.6%/yr. That's the 5TH HIGHEST in the world.

PM. Abiy Ahmed Ali = ARROGANT, INCOMPETENT & CORRUPT.

[Martin Plaut @martinplaut]

An Ethiopian skeleton has been found in a 7th century grave in the Spanish capital, Madrid
https://t.co/WEgivV3KZC

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@SaniyaHayder @TrendingEx I don't support such barbaric act and don't respect a country that commit such act

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@TrendingEx I don't think one should be penalized no more than imprisonment for few years for making even real sex inside a Mosque or Church

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Do you want to go to this country? Me, no way! Over my dead body!

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Trending Story: Saudi Arabia has exe/cuted two Bangladeshi nationals, Nazrul Islam Abdul Basir and Siri Akhtar, following conviction of immoral sexual act inside a mosque in Mecca.

The “immoral act” was apparently a kiss on the forehead. They were newlyweds who decided to spend their honeymoon in Mecca.

According to reports in Bangladesh, Saudi authorities refused to consider they were a couple, and the forehead kiss was an expression of appreciation to Allah for a beautiful bride.

Their bodies have arrived in Bangladesh in two coffins for traditional burial rites.

Follow @TrendingEx for dailies..

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@TrendingEx This is not a religion

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@TiborPNagyJr Go to your country, is it Bosnia?

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@USEmbassyAddis The Pretoria agreement will be another source of conflict. Stop meddling in an internal territorial dispute

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@atensnut B Kanneman's question

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@nxt888 Lol, I'm an economist in one of those countries and what you say doesn't make a little sense

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@AlemGirma9 @SecRubio You are nut