There’s an interesting trend happening: the sale of American treasuries by European countries, including their insurance companies and pension funds. The volume isn’t high yet but American media did notice this trend (eg, Bloomberg-2026). The above seems trivial but the devil is in the details: Any increase in sales will lower any market price, and/but a lower...
I just had an intriguing thought: is everything in Life, Nature and the Universe multi purpose? Water is multi purpose (eg, gas, ice, snow, thirst). Light is also multi purpose (eg, energy, sunlight, UV-radiation, warmth). I cannot imagine that's a coincidence. Is multi purpose an element of reciprocity? My next thought was about reciprocity and its common dualistic...
In 2023 schreef Ben Tiggelaar een NRC artikel waar ik lang niet in heb geloofd: De ‘magische’ formule voor goede relaties. Inmiddels denk ik er daar toch echt anders over. De P/N factor bestaat mijn inziens wel in relaties. Vooral de N's blijven lang hangen. Het optimum is wellicht iets voor een andere blog. Hierbij de opening van dat NRC-artikel: "Hoeveel...
Some time ago, a Belgian politician wondered how to define common in ‘common interest’ when nearly everything and everyone is being doubted today. That issue also applies to common knowledge and common sense. What is common nowadays? A country’s Ministry of Defence used to be common. Nowadays, the American Department of Defence has been renamed into the Department...
Some people have deep connections. Others have not. Deep connections survive about everything. Other connections will (ultimately) fail. My diagram is about the ingredients of such connections, like the how, what, when, where, & who. The presence of ingredients will provide a (good or bad) mix. Most ingredients are from my 2022 blog The 7 elements that define...
Afgelopen dinsdag las ik de volgende wetenschappelijke quote in het Vlaamse dagblad De Standaard, een typisch voorbeeld van het EN-OF dilemma: "De zee zit vol plastic troep. Eén man is de verpersoonlijking van de grote schoonmaak: de Nederlander Boyan Slat met zijn Ocean Cleanup. Maar mariene wetenschappers blijven sceptisch. “We stoppen onze beperkte middelen beter...
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