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@summaecodex Was hoping someone would say that … so what are your sources of phosphate optimism?

"This isn't about ideological purity, but about transformation of the rules and practices of everyday life, as a matter of existential urgency.” @davies_will on the

This passage in @davies_will interview with @NewHumanist magazine is brilliant: In current crisis, critical social science must do what liberalism can no longer do i.e.

Since April the number of COVID vaccine candidates has exploded from 115 to 321 on 3 September 2020. 6 are in Phase III trials =

Clinton grumbled in another early 1993 economic meeting. “We’re Eisenhower Republicans here, and we are fighting the Reagan Republicans. We stand for lower deficits and

Say, just say, that Biden wins in November, how long before GOP starts worrying about the deficit, and invoking gloomy CBO debt forecasts? Nice article

Whilst the whole world is talking of uncoupling btw China and West, western financial institutions are going the other way. Looking for any route into

In East Africa, in collaboration with local special forces, the CIA and MI6 are continuing the war on terror. Remarkable report on "kill or capture”

The pattern of Europe’s trade is truly that of a workshop economy: big surpluses with US, UK. Deficits dominated by logic of cheap labour (China,

Institutionalized mercantilism. European Commission display of trade data: Imports, Exports -> trade balance, which starts with the largest surplus and works its way down. You

Bob Frankston, the programmer who designed VisiCalc the first spreadsheet program with Dan Bricklin in 1978/9, noted that "instant hard figures, so recently a luxury,

Peak phosphorus? Mined from rock phosphate. Combined in mineral fertilizers with sulphuric acid, nitrogen, and potassium. KEY to current agricultural production systems. Existing rock phosphate

In a world of globalized supply chains, firms that import also export -> US tariffs since 2018 have been equivalent to a 2-4% tax on

"“by the break of day … a flash” interrupted the kósmic seasons of our economy” – GWF Hegel Phenomenology In this case the flash was

Is “state capitalism” a useful category? Useful critical review of literature. Alami Dixon State Capitalism Redux? (2019) H/t @madeline_woker journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… https://t.co/LIkrpCezNK

RT @RobinBrooksIIF: Dollar weakness is all wrong. The fall vs G10 (black) is the US reflating at expense of Euro zone & Japan, which have

Has anyone read anything good on “Grand Theories” of EU’s development and 2020? There was a flurry of debate in recent years between liberal intergovernmental

Last week the ECB took a ever so slightly hawkish position on inflation in 2021. But the most pressing problem is not the average across

If Europe’s relations with China are now also becoming more frosty, which European companies will feel the pressure? Not sure this @ReutersGraphics looks quite right.

CalFire, California’s fire-fighting agency, says about 3 million of the state’s 12 million homes are at high risk from wildfires. Could that destabilize mortgages, MBS

"to surprisingly little fanfare”, the ECB has introduced rocket fuel to central banking: dual interest rates! @ericlonners @economistmeg Make the case for a (not so)

"After years of shaping its Asian strategy around China, Germany has made a sharp break and will focus instead on stronger partnerships in Indo-Pacific region

“I’m afraid that we’re in a new reality”: Golden Gate Bridge September 2020. "I looked at the forecast . . . [and] they didn’t say: ‘Oh, and there’s

America Is Trapped in a Pandemic Spiral As the U.S. heads toward the winter, the country is going round in circles, making the same conceptual

@Matt_Caron You are absolutely right. Let me fix that …. Sentence is a copy and paste from article. But I was too bleary earlier this

"Ironically, Africa is simultaneously world's largest exporter of phosphate rock – key for agricultural fertilizer – and continent with the largest food shortage.” The “Irony”

RT @DrJLHazelton: Good lord. Also, yes, a great article. "And it is crowned by the reframing of that history as tourism and prestige proper…

In 2019 c 40% of VW sales were in China. 30% by Daimler and BMW. BASF also heavily invested -> hitherto China has been pivot

Ironically, the African continent is simultaneously the world's largest exporter of phosphate rock, which is key for agricultural fertilizer, and the continent with the largest

Remarkable essay on War Office of the British Empire sold off for luxury apartments, hotel, retail, dining experience …directly on Whitehall. ft.com/content/f2e32f… https://t.co/reBGqD8Y89

Last week the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission released 1st-ever report under the auspices of US Fed gov warning of risks posed by climate change

Though @OlafScholz polls well against likely CDU/CSU successor to Merkel, his party, Germany’s SPD still stuck in doldrums. Greens way off their highs of last

David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill walking down Whitehall, 1915 © Getty Images https://t.co/GTEqenxnvn

RT @artinsociety: This remarkable galley, intricately carved in ivory, is actually an automaton with mechanically-powered rowers, created i…

RT @KadriLiik: Soviet Estonia, 1980s. A decoy missile base (with expired and/or wooden missiles) scaring American satellites and entertain…

America’s remarkable mortgage system (30-year fixed rates with unlimited refinancing) is working its magic -> 20 million borrowers can lock in historically low interest rates