Gavin Jackson
@gavinjackson.bsky.social
Mumbai correspondent at the Economist
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” www.economist.com/britain/2025...
November 13, 2025 at 7:48 AM
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” www.economist.com/britain/2025...
The city of Mumbai is quite literally built on top of past stock market booms
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November 3, 2025 at 7:42 AM
The city of Mumbai is quite literally built on top of past stock market booms
economist.com/finance-and-...
economist.com/finance-and-...
Don't think this is accurate. Is it at all credible that Danish mothers were doing 5 minutes of childcare a day in 1965? It is based on a very limited set of data and a model fitted to that which essentially assumes that time spent on childcare increases exponentially.
October 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Don't think this is accurate. Is it at all credible that Danish mothers were doing 5 minutes of childcare a day in 1965? It is based on a very limited set of data and a model fitted to that which essentially assumes that time spent on childcare increases exponentially.
Shakespeare probably meant the sword dollar introduced north of the border by his patron James VI of Scotland and I of England. But it would be like setting a play in Revolutionary France and having the characters use euros.
October 29, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Shakespeare probably meant the sword dollar introduced north of the border by his patron James VI of Scotland and I of England. But it would be like setting a play in Revolutionary France and having the characters use euros.
This is what I think of as the most important chart in British politics. It shows the amount people spend on retail sales and the amount they get. Compared to Feb 2022 people are spending about 16% more but consuming 4% less.
October 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This is what I think of as the most important chart in British politics. It shows the amount people spend on retail sales and the amount they get. Compared to Feb 2022 people are spending about 16% more but consuming 4% less.
Makes me think of this travelogue from India. samkriss.substack.com/p/numb-in-in...
October 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Makes me think of this travelogue from India. samkriss.substack.com/p/numb-in-in...
That is a legacy of Brazil’s military dictatorship that encouraged settlers to occupy as much land as possible. It is perpetuated by criminals who use cattle as a means to illegally occupy land. Agriculture is “extensive” and inefficient.
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October 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
That is a legacy of Brazil’s military dictatorship that encouraged settlers to occupy as much land as possible. It is perpetuated by criminals who use cattle as a means to illegally occupy land. Agriculture is “extensive” and inefficient.
economist.com/the-americas...
economist.com/the-americas...
If you were looking for one of the lowest cost ways of preventing climate change, you might head for the “deforestation frontier” in the Amazon rainforest.
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October 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
If you were looking for one of the lowest cost ways of preventing climate change, you might head for the “deforestation frontier” in the Amazon rainforest.
economist.com/the-americas...
economist.com/the-americas...
Headlines coming for NY
October 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Headlines coming for NY
Asked and answered.
October 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Asked and answered.
This is what the designers of the spectrum auctions said about it. pages.stern.nyu.edu/~wgreene/ent...
October 13, 2025 at 9:20 AM
This is what the designers of the spectrum auctions said about it. pages.stern.nyu.edu/~wgreene/ent...
Which is a misleading picture because living standards are far more similar across regions of Britain than incomes. ifs.org.uk/news/londone...
October 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Which is a misleading picture because living standards are far more similar across regions of Britain than incomes. ifs.org.uk/news/londone...
Guess where there's a cliff edge in marginal tax rates.
October 12, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Guess where there's a cliff edge in marginal tax rates.
If you don't happen to be playing with game theorists, however, the next best strategy is probably to play dumb.
October 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
If you don't happen to be playing with game theorists, however, the next best strategy is probably to play dumb.
I guess another thing we know is that the hard right has a very different record in government compared to the rhetoric in opposition.
October 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
I guess another thing we know is that the hard right has a very different record in government compared to the rhetoric in opposition.
RIP Tony Harrison. Think about the line “a prick tease of the soul” regularly.
September 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
RIP Tony Harrison. Think about the line “a prick tease of the soul” regularly.
Will Mr Trump’s successor - Don Jr, JD Vance or perhaps even a Democrat - undo his tariffs? Don’t count on it.
September 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Will Mr Trump’s successor - Don Jr, JD Vance or perhaps even a Democrat - undo his tariffs? Don’t count on it.
I think people in Westminster enjoy coups and leadership contests but other than BoJo they have a record of failure.
September 16, 2025 at 9:09 AM
I think people in Westminster enjoy coups and leadership contests but other than BoJo they have a record of failure.
Wasn’t the 2024 budget the biggest tax raising one in half a century?
September 16, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Wasn’t the 2024 budget the biggest tax raising one in half a century?
September 9, 2025 at 11:24 AM
You could also see it as three distinct eras in sentiment
September 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
You could also see it as three distinct eras in sentiment
This is also the finding of this NBER paper looking at sentiment in 13,000 US local newspapers for 170 years. Since 2008 sentiment as reported in papers has, in the best years, only touched the lows of the previous 150 years. www.nber.org/papers/w32026
September 9, 2025 at 9:24 AM
This is also the finding of this NBER paper looking at sentiment in 13,000 US local newspapers for 170 years. Since 2008 sentiment as reported in papers has, in the best years, only touched the lows of the previous 150 years. www.nber.org/papers/w32026