Giulio Mattioli

14, July #TrendHysterie

Giulio Mattioli: This is the best & worst thing...

This is the best & worst thing about football: for so many key decisions it's damned if you do damned if you don't. This maximizes the possibility for recrimination. Ultimately, *that's what the fans want* (they'll find it boring otherwise) but they don't often admit it.

https://x.com/giulio_mattioli/status/2076952036508160050

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Giulio Mattioli

13, July #WirtschaftWackelt

Giulio Mattioli: What I remember from the 2010s...

What I remember from the 2010s is many arguing that a large trade surplus is proof of sound policymaking & industriousness & something all countries should aspire to (or suffer what they must) It would be good if we could use this crisis to revisit those assumptions a wee bit

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Giulio Mattioli

09, July #TrendHysterie

Giulio Mattioli: This is very interesting...

This is very interesting: France's railway is the most affected and Italy's the least affected by heatwaves. But read the fine print https://chuuchuu.com/heatwave

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Giulio Mattioli

08, July #TrendHysterie

Giulio Mattioli: This whole saga has exposed quite an interesting psychology...

This whole saga has exposed quite an interesting psychology: - winning is the most important thing - anything is allowed to win - redefine everything that stands in the way of winning as "unfair" and to be overturned - if you lose, argue you could have won if you had tried

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Giulio Mattioli

06, July #TrendHysterie

Giulio Mattioli: Another symptom of the Italianisation of Europe

Another symptom of the Italianisation of Europe: that famous Churchill quip about Italians ""losing wars as if they were football matches, and football matches as if they were wars" now applies to Europe

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Giulio Mattioli

02, July #Merzomat

Giulio Mattioli: Strikes me as a measure fully in the Berlusconi...

Strikes me as a measure fully in the Berlusconi / Meloni style of populism in that it's entirely symbolic stuff and it will either be ignored or circumvented or it will actually make the problem it tries to address worse.

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