Building offshore wind farms requires specialized $500m vessels which jack up & mount huge cranes. US Jones act requires ships operating point to point in
'You're nothing but a cloud’ Xi's message to Jack Ma. Did Alibaba/Ant boss ill-advisedly pick a fight with Liu He and Wang Qishan? This is
The next generation of cable laying vessels on which future of internet/tech/comms #infrastructure depends, can carry 8000 tons of cable at a time. gcaptain.com/van-oord-order… https://t.co/JH3B7KLMLZ
Van Gogh's iconic "Sunflowers" series in Tokyo in 1987 after it was purchased by Yasuda Fire and Marine Insurance Co. for a record-breaking $39.9 million
John le Carré on Hampstead Heath, Royal Free hospital looming in background. economist.com/obituary/2020/… https://t.co/poFAWCXxm4
RT @_Eric_Reinhart: I suspect the gap is actually even wider than this makes it appear, as much of the “punitive” spending in Denmark’s reh…
RT @asgeirbt: Adam Tooze in the Financial Times: Talk of a global economic reset must not ignore grim realities on.ft.com/34sDurQ by…
“we’re essentially in a triage situation” Overwhelmed by container traffic, Port of Los Angeles is prioritizing containers with xmas presents/toys! #logistics gcaptain.com/nations-busies… https://t.co/UWMLqvidRj
An interesting long read on the way that Hong Kong great business families are negotiating their way through the overturning of one nation two systems.
"When “The West Wing”, a television show, gave its fictional president a “secret plan to fight inflation” in 1999 it was as a joke, not
RT @MattZeitlin: The entire world found out on accident that you can eliminate poverty by giving people money and now seems determined to f…
Brazil’s 600 real per month auxílio emergencial actually turned 2020 into a remarkably good year for poverty-reduction. Brazil’s gini fell in 2020 from 0.55 to
V2 Reading @Robert___Harris latest and having chance to discuss it with him: youtube.com/watch?v=lP9QrS… …has had me thinking about miracle weapons, V2s, v-shaped recoveries and vaccines.
Brazil’s 600 real per month auxílio emergencial actually turned 2020 into a remarkably good year for poverty-reduction. Brazil’s gini fell in 2020 from 0.55 to
Japanese forecasters now expect China GDP to overtake the US by 2028-29. By 2035 China will match the US and Japan together. #chinaus asia.nikkei.com/Economy/China-… https://t.co/YBZ0g8Hh2u
Zambian lead-mining town Kabwe "is the most polluted place for children on the planet,” Campaigners are bringing a suit against Anglo American. 5mg of lead
Italy’s HARD-right “Brothers of Italy” party is currently riding high in the polls. It is another toxic byproduct, of the eurozone crisis and Berlusconi’s 2011
RT @FuturesInfinite: Talk of a global economic reset must not ignore grim realities via @FT @adam_tooze on.ft.com/3h1jFg9
Xie Zhenhua, China’s former special representative for climate change affairs and the technopolitical muscle behind Xi’s historic announcement on 22 September. bloomberg.com/news/features/… https://t.co/ylaDK1U9tx
RT @hh_bruun: Cool study on ivory in a 500+ y shipwreck. It turns out that the habitat niche of Afr Forest Elephant was more in
RT @katie_martin_fx: Horror fans! Relive the year that pushed markets to the brink and all the way back again. (I genuinely got sweaty pal…
RT @DLangiu: @adam_tooze worth reading opinion on @FT: we don’t need to repeat the same economic mistake of a decade ago, if we would lik…
Also a plug for @Robert___Harris excellent V2! twitter.com/Jderbyshire/st…
RT @Jderbyshire: .@Adam_tooze on how to win the Covid peace on.ft.com/37vMMoy
RT @70sBachchan: 11/ We know Oil & Coal made hierarchical world order. But do we get China's "monumental historical paradox of demonstratin…
According to German sources, EU is pushing to get investment deal with China done ahead of Biden administration so as to demonstrate “strategic autonomy” and
RT @BungaCast: Excited about our last episode of the year, out on Tuesday. It's about Hegel. No no wait, come back! It's not like that!…
RT @TheStalwart: Oh hell yeah @Brad_Setser bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/cNxB8XlCAj
Since wealth is so concentrated in hands of very rich in the US and above all in the hands of very rich white people, comparing
"A majority of households in the bottom quintile of the US income distribution pay more than 40 percent of their disposable income to landlords or
In accounting for America’s high post-tax/benefit income inequality its niggardly social welfare system plays a key role. #USpoliticaleconomy nymag.com/intelligencer/… https://t.co/d8jUlW74Zz
Solar v. Diesel generators: In a developing country context that is often the choice. Bad news: At current prices, it takes years before solar pays
Ratio of social to punitive spending in Denmark is >3 that in the US. @EricLevitz in @intelligencer nymag.com/intelligencer/… https://t.co/A47MtCGs6G
The US Treasury has designated Vietnam a currency manipulator. As @jasonfurman argues in @PIIE blogpost its a very weak case. Vietnam in 2020 one of
A Small Town in Germany: John Le Carré evocation of the British embassy in Bonn is ludicrously well done! ft.com/content/04df98… https://t.co/ezBlxAyae8
Very low-profile drug smuggling vessels are fascinating beasts. This one apprehended in the Pacific in early December with $100m in cocaine stowed on board. H/t
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