Jaime Sabal

I am a retired professor of Finance in Barcelona, Spain. Interested in Venezuela, Spain, International Affairs, Economics and Finance.

[Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano]

A clean society managed by a corrupt political class?
While my dear Spain is going once again through a spasm of hard-to-believe political corruption, everyday interactions, in hotels, shops, restaurants, with police forces, public services, continue to be remarkably honest and trustworthy. For instance, I never heard of anyone paying a policeman to get out of a fine; or unlike e.g. in the UK, in a bar typically the waiter will not demand payment upon placing the order. It seems to me (pls correct me if I am wrong, Spanish sociologists) that corruption belongs only in the high political sphere. A remarkable two-speed system.

[Jaime Sabal @jaimesabal]

@GonBernardos @PSOE DESILUSION...CON S

[altan tutar @altantutar]

London is the one of the major AI centers on earth, right behind San Francisco.

Just think about all of this:

1/ Wayve (self-driving) raised $1.2B Series D at $8.6B valuation, with robotaxis already being seen in London.
2/ OpenAI & Anthropic launching offices in London, and hiring aggresively.
3/ Nscale raised £1.5b Series C for AI infra, building the UK's largest AI supercomputer with OpenAI & Nvidia.
4/ Ineffable Intelligence raised $1.1B at $5.1B with David Silver out of DeepMind being its cofounder
5/ Palantir made London their Europe Defence HQ
6/ Google Deepmind still standing strong at King's Cross
7/ Anthropic reportedly buying Fractile's AI inference chips, a company founded by an Cambridge PhD.

The future is bright!

[Jaime Sabal @jaimesabal]

@EYakoby @arcog1 Grave e increible!

[Jaime Sabal @jaimesabal]

@arcog1 @mdubowitz Used it against Israel means MAD. Iran would be wiped out.

[Jaime Sabal @jaimesabal]

@mdubowitz @arcog1 Ahh...I forgot. And the world economy in hands of Teheran for the foreseable future...

[Jaime Sabal @jaimesabal]

@arcog1 El antisemitismo aumento mucho a raiz de la campaña en Gaza. Alto precio a pagar para Israel y el judaismo. Hoy en US Palestina tiene practicamente el mismo apoyo q Israel.

[Jaime Sabal @jaimesabal]

@arcog1 Dos posibles resultados extremos un nuevo Iran amistoso, o ayatollas con bombas atomicas (ahora una necesidad impostergable) y terrorismo masivo internacional. Tambien fragmentacion y caos o quien sabe que pasara. Mucha incertidumbre. Crucemos los dedos.

[Jaime Sabal @jaimesabal]

Entonces, no mas temor a Iran con bombas atomicas o a disrrupciones futuras en el golfo persico? El problema irani se esta solucionando definitivamente? Suena muy optimista. Ojala me equivoque.

[Aaron Cohen @arcog1]

Excellent piece. Right on target...

https://t.co/Eir3TjnrzM

[Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano]

Hubo un tiempo en los que a la izquierda le interesaba la inversión pública: vivienda, innovación, energía. Ahora todo es kirchnerismo. Como le dijo a mi mujer una peluquera venezolana hace 6 años "cuando les regalen lavadoras, sabrán que ya no hay remedio."

[Jaime Sabal @jaimesabal]

@ianbremmer Same applies for the US

[Jaime Sabal @jaimesabal]

@arcog1 What to do about it?

[Jaime Sabal @jaimesabal]

Agree. And a similar radical Right group of lunatics too.

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: Trump says we have a 'Radical Left group of lunatics out there'

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

Notice to flat-Earthers in the Eastern Hemisphere witnessing a Total Lunar Eclipse right now:

Please alert the authorities if your eclipse tonight looks like this:

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: Trump orders shooting down any Venezuelan jets that approach US naval ships in threatening manner

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: CBS reports that Venezuelan aircraft flew over USS Jason Dunham for a second time overnight

[VoxEU @voxeu]

Strategic autonomy for Europe requires economic growth
Luis Garicano @lugaricano @LSEnews @Bruegel_org
https://t.co/inucFuKLda

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: The UAE has warned the United States that Israeli annexations in the West Bank would 'harm the Abraham Accords and undermine the president's hopes of expanding them', according to Axios report.

[Jesús Fernández-Villaverde @JesusFerna7026]

📌 Recordatorio periódico: la idea del cupo para todos es una estupidez. Ningún país avanzado del mundo lo tiene porque ningún país puede funcionar así.

❌ “Cupo para todos” NO es el sistema de EE. UU., NO es el de Suiza, NO es el de Alemania, NO es el de Canadá.
❌ Y no, esos sistemas no son “equivalentes” a un cupo para todos ni se le parecen remotamente.

👉 Quien diga lo contrario o miente o es ignorante (o ambas cosas).

Lo que han acordado ERC y PSC tampoco se parece en nada, absolutamente nada, a los sistemas de EE. UU., Suiza, Alemania o Canadá.

Estar en contra de los cupos no es estar en contra del federalismo fiscal ni de la descentralización tributaria ni de la responsabilidad de las comunidades autónomas. Es estar en contra de la estupidez.

Aquí lo explico en detalle 👇

https://t.co/28c7c6Nm2o