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Jesse Frederik

Economics correspondent at De Correspondent

Mission

I want to show how seemingly minor policies have the biggest impacts, while examining overhyped narratives in politics and the news.

Now

I'm writing about obscure Dutch tax rules.

Stories

Biography

Blockchain, the amazing solution for almost nothing

What this pandemic will cost us

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Your car has a weight problem and we need to regulate it

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Coming right up after the break ... why most TV ads are a waste of money

The (non)sense of online advertising: when the numbers don’t add up

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The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising