Wine as a share of national exports, 2025.
Moldova (3.93%) and Georgia (3.67%) lead the world, followed by New Zealand (2.69%). Among the big producers, France reaches 1.84%, Chile 1.38%, and Italy and Portugal 1.21% each. Spain is at 0.76%. Macao ranks high only b/c its total exports are very small
Bouillie Barousse advertising poster, France c 1920.
An eagle drops copper powder over a vineyard under the slogan “La marque qui plane sur le monde viticole.” After the Bordeaux mixture proved effective against downy mildew in the 1880s, copper sprays became routine in vineyards, applied generously
"when United Airlines began printing its in-flight magazine on lighter paper to save a single gramme, the fuel cost saving across its fleet was close to $300,000 a year".
That is a phenomenal fact.
www.ft.com/content/2f16...
Two cheers for global warming? New Science paper: the Barnes Ice Cap on Baffin I., last remaining bit of the Laurentide Ice Sheet that once covered most of N America, restarted growing ~2K yrs ago but began shrinking ~1960 due to climate change, ending oncoming ice age. /v @erleellis.bsky.social
A few years ago I took a deeper look at regulation in the context of Brexit and Northern Ireland. It turns out that everyone wants individual regulation even while complaining about the cumulative impact. Different bureaucratic structures won't do that. crossborder.ie/newsite/wp-c...
Europe has a (really) long way to go before it can escape reliance on America in space
• The EU's biggest gap lies in satellite internet, where SpaceX has helped America to rocket ahead
• Emergence of other US firms, like Amazon's Leo, could widen America’s lead
www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
Dans ma nouvelle note fipeco.fr/commentaire/... sur le site de FIPECO j'examine le patrimoine des collectivités locales (actifs financiers et non financiers, passifs) à la fin de 2025 et son évolution de 2000 à 2025
Had missed that anti-fuel tax gilets jeunes had joined the French protests.
So we have ‘tax less’ and ‘spend more’ on the same side?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I've been teaching the recent literature on automation to my third years (Acemoglu and Restrepo's task framework, and Autor and Thompson's expertise framework) and it occurs to me that there is a connection to the Cambridge capital controversies. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
"After fighting Chavistas and their Russian, Iranian, and Cuban allies for so long, nobody in Venezuela’s historically pro-American democratic opposition ever expected a U.S. administration to stand in their way. But if it does, they are preparing to fight that obstacle too."
The Trump administration and the Venezuelan government have struck a deal to exploit Venezuela’s oil—but their partnership is good for the rich and no one else, @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu reports. theatln.tc/PANSlDZN
"De 1903 à 1939, le Tour fait effectivement une grande boucle autour de la France. (...) À partir des années 1960, les transferts entre étapes commencent à dépasser 200 kilomètres (...) Désormais, ce sont les massifs montagneux qui ont la faveur des organisateurs" www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeur...
There is something about the Labour Party which makes them unable to understand that employment regulation is regulation, employment bureaucracy is bureaucracy, and outside a few regulated industries, "business" experience of "red tape" is almost entirely what they call "improving worker's rights"
As someone who runs a small business and for some reason pays my taxes…. Today’s “red tape” cut to company paperwork makes no real difference to me or my ability/desire to expand.
As someone who investigates small business high street tax evasion… great news for candy stores and scam dropshippers!
I take the GfK series very seriously. And this is pretty grim.
www.ft.com/content/74bb... ‘Relentless’ cost of living pressures behind collapse in UK consumer confidence
Absent a failed auction/ proper panic, France’s debt service costs rise only slowly. Bond mkt pressure is chronic rather than acute, so competes with other chronic pressures (and likely trumped by those that become acute first).
70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
📣Avec des collègues enseignant.e.s, des parents, et des spécialistes de l'éducation nous lançons une pétition sur le site de l'AN pour que les revendications de la jeunesse soient reprises par les parlementaires.
Vous connaissez le chemin ✒️
petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...
"To save the lake while protecting water users, business leaders can adopt a little-known but powerful economic tool: market design.”
#econskymarketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/10/mark...
Tour de France Femmes et Tour de France masculin. Bourges sera bien sur la carte des deux épreuves en 2027. Le maire de Bourges, Yann Galut, était présent à Paris au moment de l'officialisation du parcours ce jeudi 22 octobre et a réagit aux deux nouvelles.
Du 20 mai au 14 juin 2026, le Palais Rihour accueillait « Les visages de la dépression» , une exposition retraçant l’histoire de cette maladie, dont les formes et les interprétations n’ont cessé d’évoluer à travers les siècles 📈