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interfluidity » Quick thoughts about airline economics

It's a cliché that the government builds "bridges to nowhere" that the private sector never would build. That's true. And it's a credit to the public sector. Bridges to nowhere are what turn nowheres into somewheres. We need many, many more bridges to nowhere.

by generic on Tue Feb 26th, 2019 at 01:53:13 PM EST

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"highest fixed costs"?

I don't know the history or the industry well enough to make claims ...

evidently

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Tue Feb 26th, 2019 at 03:11:45 PM EST
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Bertille Bayart: «Oui, on peut privatiser les aéroports!»

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Wed Feb 27th, 2019 at 01:18:06 AM EST
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Les Républicains have to stake a claim somehow to being the Opposition (they have a numerical advantage in Parliament, though they are consistently out-polled par the far right), so they are opposing the government.

Also, they are as bitterly divided ideologically as the left (but have a better survival instinct so stay in the same party)... The majority strand are in awe of all the shit they never dared to try and Macron gets away with... but there are statists among them.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue
- Queen Elizabeth II}

by eurogreen on Mon Mar 4th, 2019 at 10:40:33 AM EST
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Dutch increase Air France-KLM stake to counter French influence

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Wed Feb 27th, 2019 at 03:48:33 PM EST
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