In the Franco-Prussian war, telegraph communications became crucial -> Germans use Uhlan cavalry to cut off French telegraph lines and isolate Paris. @Krieg7071 https://t.co/3XAP291zsP
The American and European COVID epidemics are reconverging. A new stage? @NordeaMarkets via @SoberLook https://t.co/uAs7W4YCV2
Unlike in 2008 the global shipping industry has managed the demand shock shock of 2020 largely by cutting the number of sailings -> prices &
RT @karl_jacoby: @adam_tooze @NPR They have been experimenting with this technology along the US-Mexico border, too.
Well this is quite the story coming from an impeccable source like @NPR twitter.com/NPR/status/130…
RT @oikeios: @adam_tooze Parenti and I are using it in ways different ('tho compatible) from Foucault (and B&F): see also Parenti's Radical…
@musher_usher @BrankoMilan Benefits.
Intercourse between nations spans the whole globe to such an extent that one may almost say all the world is but a single city in
Inequality is a political choice: Germany’s market income inequality has increased sharply & is greater than in USA. Tax is similarly progressive in both countries.
@AndrewWattEU @SDullien @IMKFlash @Chris_ptz Aber Frankreich und Spanien landen vermutlich > 120% BSP
LG Chem the premier battery supplier to Tesla & GM has Won150tn ($125bn) — or about five years’ worth — of orders on its books.
"Chinese producers now hold about 80 per cent of the global rare earths market © Reuters” “Outside of China there’s very little expertise.” Is this
China has advanced scientific establishment of a rich country, but it has a poor country’s willingness to take risks -> it may end up leading
After Huawei, in China concern is mounting about Nvidia (US) $40bn takeover of vital UK-based Japanese-owned chip designer Arm. Will they find themselves locked out
"Open strategic autonomy”: It’s easy in theory, but hard in practice to increase rare earths output, given huge entry costs, skills shortages, IP issues and
RT @Rob_Malley: As I told @nytimes, w/o making too much of a comparison bn the U.S. and countries @CrisisGroup usually follows. simila…
RT @Birdyword: Astonishing numbers, given that Xinjiang has a population of ~25 million by Chinese state figures, perhaps half are Uighurs,…
@SDullien @IMKFlash @AndrewWattEU @Chris_ptz Und wir sind uns darüber im Klaren dass Italien jetzt bei 150% landet -> diese Regeln, sei es 60,90 oder 100,
RT @aaronsojourner: This makes 26 consecutive weeks (a half year!) with every week's number of new state UI claims higher than any of the p…
Despite heroic efforts of labour market statisticians and administrators, due to double-counting the US does not have a system that allows us to say with
It is Thursday so everyone needs to read the latest thread from the indefatigable @hshierholz on the ongoing disaster for American workers and self-employed. 1.5
Seaborne container traffic has surged: c. 100m t in 1980 to 1.8bn t 2017. But difficult to make profit -> whilst driving world economy, shipping
In upward revision of its forecasts @OECD is expecting a 4.5% decline in global GDP in 2020 -> economic output would only return to pre-pandemic
17 September 1870: "Discussing the War in a Paris Café"—a scene published in the Illustrated London News German forces are advancing rapidly to complete encirclement
First China. Then ROW: The two phases of the COVID shock are clearly visible in the global shipping data. @Michael_Pooler @TomHale_ on how the industry
China’s trade surplus with the US has grown almost 25 per cent since the start of the Trump presidency, to more than $300bn on an
You “uncouple” if you like. If, on the other hand, you fancy taking a position on Hong Kong’s Hang Send Tech Index which tracks HK-listed
The damaging impact of coronavirus lockdowns on South Africa’s economy was made clear last week after GDP in the second quarter fell almost a fifth
UK’s economic contraction in Q2 2020 was worse than that of Argentina, which was going through a default. @IIF via @SoberLook https://t.co/DKmNQjnV3e
The UK national lockdown has long since been lifted and the government is promoting a “back to the office” message, but many office workers still
As the case load builds ominously, how rapidly is India’s COVID mortality going to surge? Currently the global pandemic consists of Latin America, India and
Global central banking right now is a hybrid assemblage of policies and regimes. In this @guardian piece I focus on PBoC, BoJ, ECB, Fed. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
RT @sevensixfive: "Our future is a building without a function." https://t.co/mIujmhn4Ij
HMM Algeciras – largest container ship in world launched in April carries 23964 20 foot containers = on train the load would stretch 90 miles!
New Delhi announced this week that it was setting up a control room to monitor oxygen supplies in states, to ensure adequate availability to cope
Nice graph putting the scale of US fiscal and monetary response to Covid crisis in historical perspective. @TCosterg Via @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2020/09/15/for… https://t.co/8EjsvlX5YT
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