Wait.
I’ve never met anyone preparing coffee wearing ray-ban glasses. 🕶️
My moka pot has not broken once since I bought it twenty years ago. ☕️

AI is doomed

'The Algorithm'

I wrote a short letter in the Financial Times on the proposed UK mobile merger.
The merger will not work for UK consumers or for the UK economy.

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This is such a wonderful book!
It has all the elements you should know: power, concentration, inequality.
Is it Big tech? No, much more fundamental. Seven stories of seven food barons.
Bravo Austin Frerick!

It happened again. I was at a 'policy' seminar on the use of economics in antitrust.
First motivating slide of a presenter: populists vs principled, ideology vs evidence-based, bad vs good. With the picture of Lina Khan.
I find it so ignorant. So offensive. Stop please.

My Monty Python moment: read my latest piece for ProMarket

What Have The Consultants Ever Done For Us? promarket.org/2024/02/28/wha…

Yemen sadly is in the news these days. Not many know that its principal port once was Mokha, long known for its coffee trade.
 
It gave the name to the moka pot, invented by Italian engineer Luigi Di Ponti in 1933 who sold the patent to Alfonso Bialetti, an aluminum vendor.

Rome, January 7th 2024.

Rally with thousands of fascists performing the “Roman” salute.

By the way, it’s against the Italian constitution – but hey-ho, don’t be picky.