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David Harbord

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Economics, evolutionary game theory. PhD London School of Economics. Director non-profit Colombian Foundation http://ferdescol.org Founder @reservacaracoli.bsky.social Director https://market-analysis.co.uk/

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Keir Starmer orders UK economic reset amid Donald Trump’s tariff mayhem PM ready to ditch ‘old assumptions’ and is debating possible changes to fiscal rules to boost growth

Hopeless and hapless Starmer and Reeves weren't prepared for government nor for the tariffs we've all known were coming for two months now. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

06.04.2025 16:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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03.04.2025 14:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump Suspends Most Tariffs on Canada and Mexico: Live Updates

Tariffs cancelled again. Without claims of fake concessions from Canada and Mexico this time. See you in a month. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

06.03.2025 23:11 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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‘We used to think the ice was eternal’: Colombia looks to a future without glaciers In Sierra Nevada del Cocuy, people have watched the ice fields turn to exposed rock and experts predict these vital water sources could be lost in 30 years

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

27.02.2025 14:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Opinion: Canada’s free-trade agreement with the U.S. has no free trade, nor is it an agreement Withdrawing from the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement may sound like a radical proposal. It is not. It simply acknowledges reality

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

19.02.2025 18:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New Energy Institute Blog Post: Remember When Capacity Markets Were the Solution to Missing Money? - by Jim Bushnell

energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/02/18/r...

18.02.2025 16:57 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 8
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My message to the world

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Javier Milei faces impeachment calls after Argentina cryptocurrency collapse President endorsed $Libra crypto token on Friday before it collapsed, leading some to call it a financial ‘rug pull’

FAFO, Argentina. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

18.02.2025 16:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Oooops . . .

02.02.2025 06:00 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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13.02.2025 16:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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There is.

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Trump’s disdain for South American allies is China’s gain The US is targeting its own allies and its withdrawal from the region has left a power vacuum for China to fill in

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

13.02.2025 12:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘Even the sound of the water has changed’: can Bogotá bring its wetlands back from the brink? The marshes in Colombia’s capital are sacred to Indigenous peoples, provide vital wildlife habitats and could help the city adapt to climate change. But after centuries of development they are close t...

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13.02.2025 12:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The reserve hosted a 2 year long study of the endangered Mico Maicero Cariblanco (white fronted capuchin) by the Asociación Primatológica Colombiana.

12.02.2025 17:37 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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La Reserva Natural Caracoli en la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta es el hogar de jaguares, pumas, más de 100 especies de aves nativas y 5 especies de monos (y mucho más), incluido el famoso mono aullador del Nuevo Mundo que se muestra aquí.

12.02.2025 17:17 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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La Reserva Natural Caracoli en la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta es el hogar de más de 100 especies de aves nativas incluyendo tres especies de tucán, dos de las cuales, el tucán pico de quilla y el aracari de collar, se muestran aquí.

12.02.2025 16:18 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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En 2018, la Reserva Natural Caracoli fue sede de un estudio realizado por ornitólogos de @selvaorgco que encontraron más de 280 especies de aves nativas que viven en la región. Pero no el escurridizo paujil de pico azul, recién llegado a la reserva.

12.02.2025 16:20 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

In 2018 -2019 the reserve hosted a 2 year long study of the endangered Mico Maicero Cariblanco (white fronted capuchin) by the Asociación Primatológica Colombiana
youtube.com/watch?v=ztNL...

12.02.2025 16:22 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Trudeau in Brussels as Canada looks to deepen trade, defence ties with Europe amid U.S. tariff threats The Prime Minister’s one-day visit includes a meeting with NATO secretary-general Mark Rutte and the European Union’s two most senior leaders

www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

12.02.2025 15:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A clear signal to everyone that America can’t be trusted ...

12.02.2025 12:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No, it's an excellent neologism.

11.02.2025 22:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

‪‪Every country in the world - not just Canada, Mexico & Colombia - now understands that there is no such thing as a "trade agreement" with the USA. A world-wide rethinking of international trading arrangements has now become urgent, and will happen.

10.02.2025 15:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“South Africa is doing very bad things,” Mr. Rubio said. He's learned the dialect I see.

06.02.2025 19:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Opinion: Thank you, President Trump: You’ve united Canada Canadians of every stripe have come together in spite of their divisions, to defend their country from their common threat from the south

"Mr. Trump has restored a sense of unity to a divided country. He has bonded Canadians together from coast to coast, igniting their pride and stoking patriotism to a degree we have not seen since the 1972 Canada-Russia hockey showdown." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

06.02.2025 12:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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05.02.2025 20:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Opinion: Canada’s era of outright dependence on the U.S. must end We staked our future on the idea that our southern neighbour would always be a good ally. We were wrong

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

05.02.2025 19:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

‪Every country in the world - not just Canada, Mexico & Colombia - now understands that there is no such thing as a "trade agreement" with the USA. A world-wide rethinking of international trading arrangements has now become urgent, and will happen.

05.02.2025 14:26 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Where Does the Money Go? A Look at USAID Spending in Haiti Discover the significance of USAID spending in Haiti and its implications for US foreign policy. Get expert analysis from Jake Johnston.

"Few countries across the world are as dependent on US foreign assistance as #Haiti," @jakobjohnston.bsky.social writes, and while much of it goes to Beltway contractors & undermines Haiti, "Simply stopping all aid flows overnight ... will have significant effects..." #USAID cepr.net/publications...

04.02.2025 20:35 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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‘The last drops of our water’: how a mine left some of Peru’s poorest high and dry Antamina, in the Andes, makes billions thanks to the green tech boom. But locals say they are being poisoned by arsenic, losing their water and sinking further into poverty

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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