The news sources I turn to

There are a few sources I return to for fresh thinking and informed insights.

Each year, the list seems to get smaller. I still find reading good and informed writing one of the best ways to pick up useful insights that I can apply.

Peter Ludlow’s Eurocomment. The most informed Newsletter on how key decisions in the EU are reached.

Farnam Street. Shane Parirsh’s podcast brings some of the most successful business people around for a deep conversation. The subscription transcript is useful.

Paul Krugman’s Substack: A Nobel Prize winner who can write wonderfully and uses real evidence.  I sometimes have to pinch myself he is still allowed to publish.

Cass Sunstein’s Substack: the godfather of Cost-Benefit Analysis and sound public policy (I’m nostalgic for those times).

Paul Cairney’s blog post: proof that academics can write clearly and concisely.

Catherine E De Vries’s Substack, Respect the Marble, is excellent on the skill of clear thinking and writing.

The caveat is fresh thinking and informed insights. This combination is hard to find.  Ludlow, Krugman and Sunstein are excellent writers.

For professional updates, I’m down to the FT and professional updates (chemicals) via Foresight.

My French is too poor for Contexte.

I left The Economist when it started to sound like the Daily Mail.

I have no interest in gossip and self-serving spinning, so for real insights, speaking to a few of the people who are in the room is the safest bet.

If there are informed sources I should follow, let me know.