For all the talk of Sino-American decoupling, the broad pattern of global trade—at least the unbalanced bit of global trade—is remarkably simple right now. China
“What we really want from a vaccine is to stop people being admitted to hospital, going to intensive care and dying,” Exceptional explainer by @AnnaSophieGross
Of Indonesia’s huge population of 270m+ World Bank classifies about 52m as “economically secure”. The other 80 per cent of the population live closer to
Through 2016 Brazil saw a steady rise in inflation. Since then the trend has reversed. @MacrobondF via @SoberLook https://t.co/eLBkZVzQhV
"One silver lining of the pandemic for Indonesia is that it may prompt President Widodo to abandon the plans for a new capital, dubbed “Jokopolis”
RT @CT_Bergstrom: 1. Three weeks ago, everyone was bashing the University of Illinois for having the audacity to run an in-person semester…
Amongst big carmakers VW is leading charge. Will spend $71bn by 2025 on EVs and digitisation. Carmakers typically develop 2-5% of software in-house. In an
Nigeria with 200 m people and Africa’s largest economy seems to be sliding towards stagflation: accelerating inflation coupled by fears of recession -> lower interest
Indonesia’s population of 270m + is rapidly growing. Government has ambition to make it #5 economy in the world. Covid has inflicted the first recession
RT @KenMarch0: 5% of U.S. GDP! 🤦♂️ twitter.com/adam_tooze/sta…
This looks like a fabulous program of talks at @KingsCHoSTM twitter.com/KingsCHoSTM/st…
RT @lisaocarroll: NEW Gove confirms a de facto internal border in Kent – rephrasing previous tweet (this is something transport industry be…
The EV-industrial complex is coming: 60% of big car firms’ R&D is now EV up from 5-10% in 2012. @MorganStanley thinks carmakers will invest $500bn
The outbound section of Shanghai’s container port is really humming! @SoberLook China’s exports are up! https://t.co/zalVWpv8pX
Total market cap of exclusively electric carmakers now exceeds $400bn. Add batteries and ev-industrial complex, is worth at least $670bn. It makes 400k cars. 3/5th
Call to Socialist Competition for the Republic’s Tractorists, 1951, Viktor Karrus and Roman Treuman: oil on canvas, 72 by 108¼ inches. COURTESY ART MUSEUM OF
There are a very wide range of estimates for likely UK unemp by 2021 reflecting different interpretations of what happened in 2008 and structural change
Dream state: Widodo struggles to build his vision for Indonesia President’s infrastructure success has defined him. But he relies on personality not process @benjaminbland ft.com/content/322c7f…
Wealthy countries representing just 13 % of world’s population have bought 51% of the leading corona vaccine candidates’ promised doses. @Oxfam @StatistaCharts statista.com/chart/22945/ri… Prudence as
This is fascinating on the reevaluation of Socialist Realist art across Eastern Europe. By @madaskalewicz in @ArtinAmerica artnews.com/art-in-america… https://t.co/BHC4S6xmjR
RT @marcmakingsense: The $eur is bouncing in Europe from near 2-month low despite disappointing PMI Japanese players return from long holi…
The COVID vaccine race is a complex mixture of nationalist vaccine procurement, transnational corporate pharma and Phase III trials being conducted all over the world.
In the face of a huge fall in employment the CARES Act boosted US household income. @LongviewEcon Via @SoberLook https://t.co/ZsGakhHFoF
@PRoufos @KellyServick Term of art in the social sciences. An exogenous shock that enables you to track causation.
We need to talk more about what happened in the US Treasury market in March 2020. @RobinWigg is bang on about this. ft.com/content/be7007… Look at
Rapid response to COVID-19 under high informality? Peru has a 70% informal employment and one of worst COVID shocks. This @ilo report is excellent on
In Mar 2020 the US launched an unprecedented effort to prop up household incomes with government support. We may also be about to see what
Tracking the Vikings: a massive new database of genetic data retrieved from archaeological digs allows us to reconstruct the remarkable and divergent itineraries of Viking
Big EM led by Nigeria and Indonesia are sliding towards contraction. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/RcOD1Wiap1
Big EM led by Nigeria and Indonesia are sliding towards contraction. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/S5C079Rcbd
"More than just a hobby by today's standards, Frederick the Great's musical activities – concerts, meetings with JS Bach etc – were part of the
In 2016, about 2.8 million, or 13% of America’s food workers were food insecure, relying on the government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as food
“We are no longer projecting a surge—we are experiencing a surge in food insecurity,” "the most significant challenge that America's charitable food system has ever
Frederick the Great of Prussia Being Taught to Play the Flute by Johann Joachim Quantz artuk.org/discover/artwo… https://t.co/I7kXH0ubtq
Tracking the Vikings: a massive new database of genetic data retrieved from archaeological digs allows us to reconstruct the remarkable and divergent itineraries of Viking
Across the US, jail populations plunged by about 25% between March and June in 2020. A natural experiment in decarceration. NO evidence for an increase
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