Brussels by light ... Sociologist. Quality jobs, quality organisations. Netherlands- Belgium - Australia. All for a better future.https://bsky.app/profile/dhondts.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/dhondts.bsky.social/post/3mdbmwb3nok2cTo a new financial system? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-26/trump-us-dollar-keynes-bretton-woods-economy/10626083225 Jan 2026 21:03 +0000at://did:plc:odtzixhap3wrkrdltf6qwlfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdbmwb3nok2chttps://bsky.app/profile/dhondts.bsky.social/post/3md3nfuu3p22pHere you have it. We all don't understand the American president correctly. He wants a Coup Denmark! Please send him one.23 Jan 2026 11:56 +0000at://did:plc:odtzixhap3wrkrdltf6qwlfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3md3nfuu3p22phttps://bsky.app/profile/dhondts.bsky.social/post/3mco4ntwui22wGradually, the play of the American administration is becoming clear. The Greenland strategy is only meant to break up the European Union. The support for the radical right was a first step to do this. The flip-flop on Ukraine fits this strategy. And now Greenland. More EU is desperately needed.18 Jan 2026 02:51 +0000at://did:plc:odtzixhap3wrkrdltf6qwlfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mco4ntwui22whttps://bsky.app/profile/dhondts.bsky.social/post/3mbvvr2esmk2nDoes the EU have baby leverage in discussions with the US? Maybe the EU should oblige European pension funds to disinvest from the US stock markets? Drop Blackrock and other such institutions in coordinating EU funds? That may help.08 Jan 2026 11:44 +0000at://did:plc:odtzixhap3wrkrdltf6qwlfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbvvr2esmk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/dhondts.bsky.social/post/3mbr4g352ss2cThe Dutch and the US have working for years on stopping drug boats coming from Venezuela. Thousands of kilos of drugs have been intercepted by the Dutch authorities. The persons apprehended by the Dutch were delivered to the Americans for justice. -/--06 Jan 2026 14:00 +0000at://did:plc:odtzixhap3wrkrdltf6qwlfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbr4g352ss2chttps://bsky.app/profile/dhondts.bsky.social/post/3mbjhoxkjrc2qHave the American policymakers gone totally mad? Capturing an active president, how illegal this president may be, is totally unacceptable. The precedent is sets, is unbelievable. For the same reasons, the Canadian prime minister can be kidnapped. -/--03 Jan 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:odtzixhap3wrkrdltf6qwlfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbjhoxkjrc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/dhondts.bsky.social/post/3mak7evkibk2jIt was an honour working on this project over the past years. As always, learned a lot about how economist think and approach subjects. Refreshing. Good to know that sociological perspectives are equally needed. Thx to EEP! [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Dec 2025 02:39 +0000at://did:plc:odtzixhap3wrkrdltf6qwlfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mak7evkibk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/dhondts.bsky.social/post/3m7cju2bfes2kI am fully for dogs wearing helmets!06 Dec 2025 08:00 +0000at://did:plc:odtzixhap3wrkrdltf6qwlfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7cju2bfes2khttps://bsky.app/profile/dhondts.bsky.social/post/3m6abvf35j22fAvoiding an AI bubble requires human centricity. NVIDIA tries to convince the market that the AI revolution is far from finished. I guess that if I had a quasi monopoly in my market, I would contend the same. However, the LLM revolution is showing cracks. -/-22 Nov 2025 17:07 +0000at://did:plc:odtzixhap3wrkrdltf6qwlfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6abvf35j22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/dhondts.bsky.social/post/3m4lk3mzfks2iAthens by night ... allemaal lichtjes01 Nov 2025 17:42 +0000at://did:plc:odtzixhap3wrkrdltf6qwlfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4lk3mzfks2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/dhondts.bsky.social/post/3lrxkowu7p22nThe US Administration says it has not decided to go all in on attacking the Islamic Republic of Iran. This is portrayed as strategic behaviour. However, the Israelis supply of weapons will run out soon. When that happens, the decision to defend Israel has already been taken. -/--19 Jun 2025 12:48 +0000at://did:plc:odtzixhap3wrkrdltf6qwlfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrxkowu7p22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/dhondts.bsky.social/post/3lrksuh4tv22aAre American manufacturing jobs coming back? Obama 2= 399.000 manufacturing jobs created; Trump 1 = 160.000 manufacturing jobs destroyed; Biden 1 = 541.000 jobs created; Trump 2 after 4 months: 4.000 jobs created. Estimate for Trump 2 = 48.000 created?14 Jun 2025 11:10 +0000at://did:plc:odtzixhap3wrkrdltf6qwlfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrksuh4tv22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/dhondts.bsky.social/post/3lqootueikk2eMy message for the Bridges 5.0 scientific conference [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Jun 2025 06:43 +0000at://did:plc:odtzixhap3wrkrdltf6qwlfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqootueikk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/dhondts.bsky.social/post/3lqfbd43vvs2lDOGE will remain after Musk leaves. This means that the US will operate under chaos. Managing the public sector requires different approaches. Many systems were developed over time. E.g. zero based budgetting was a technique to give some rationale to down-sizing. ../..30 May 2025 12:47 +0000at://did:plc:odtzixhap3wrkrdltf6qwlfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqfbd43vvs2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/dhondts.bsky.social/post/3lonea5f5o22a@bnr.nl bracht item over sociale kosten van gedrag van Nederlandse bedrijven. Interessante framing. Het klonk alsof bedrijven duurder uit waren als gevolg van IMVO. Het rapport zegt iets anders. Negatieve sociale kosten zijn 31 mrd euro. Oftewel, dat is wat bedrijven niet betalen shorturl.at/aqmK8 https://shorturl.at/aqmK808 May 2025 07:10 +0000at://did:plc:odtzixhap3wrkrdltf6qwlfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lonea5f5o22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/dhondts.bsky.social/post/3lmgtn5zzrs2jToday at HFES Annual Conference. Explaining #Industry5.0 to Human Factor specialists @seismec.bsky.social @bridges5-0.bsky.social @tno10 Apr 2025 06:07 +0000at://did:plc:odtzixhap3wrkrdltf6qwlfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmgtn5zzrs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/dhondts.bsky.social/post/3lma5mdftm225My prediction: the US administration will change their tariff policy by the end of the week!07 Apr 2025 14:17 +0000at://did:plc:odtzixhap3wrkrdltf6qwlfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lma5mdftm225https://bsky.app/profile/dhondts.bsky.social/post/3lm7tuipruk25The only thing that tariffs will bring to the US are robots. Most of the robots will come from outside of rhe US. Even with tariffs, these robots will remain competitive to expensive blue collars jobs. -/--07 Apr 2025 11:22 +0000at://did:plc:odtzixhap3wrkrdltf6qwlfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lm7tuipruk25https://bsky.app/profile/dhondts.bsky.social/post/3lm2ap6rot225Tariffs make the US administration blind for reality. The Netherlands gets sanctioned for having a trade deficit with the US. This deficit exists since decades and has only grown. The Dutch government should forbid ASML to send machines to the US. Agree? To keep some sane logic. See #DeVolkskrant05 Apr 2025 05:56 +0000at://did:plc:odtzixhap3wrkrdltf6qwlfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lm2ap6rot225https://bsky.app/profile/dhondts.bsky.social/post/3llgdoj2cr224Two strange mistakes when thinking of tariffs as a means to make your country great again. The first is that you cannot divide more gains by making the total cake smaller. You may get a bigger slice of this cake, by being a serious bully. But your slice is going to be smaller. And, second, most -/-28 Mar 2025 07:56 +0000at://did:plc:odtzixhap3wrkrdltf6qwlfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3llgdoj2cr224https://bsky.app/profile/dhondts.bsky.social/post/3lknpayl6jk2fJust don't know what the US republicans are thinking. Even if new jobs may be created by tariffs, this will not be blue collar jobs. It will be jobs that cater to highly educated groups. Probably jobs that have a democratic leaning? Oh yes. Make America Think Again?18 Mar 2025 12:47 +0000at://did:plc:odtzixhap3wrkrdltf6qwlfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lknpayl6jk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/dhondts.bsky.social/post/3ljiamu4wks2rAnother prediction. Trump will impose tariffs, even if everyone says this is plain stupidity if you want to reduce inflation. My prediction: as Erdoğan did in Turkey, Trump will start forbidding any economic statistics on inflation. Let us see. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/03/economy/tariff-choas-threatens-risky-economy/index.html03 Mar 2025 15:16 +0000at://did:plc:odtzixhap3wrkrdltf6qwlfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljiamu4wks2r