At its peak the US census mobilizes a workforce of 287149 workers! @WSJ via @SoberLook https://t.co/OIfUn2caSW
RT @ABaronGG: Do NOT miss this piece on the immediate future of central banking by @adam_tooze. Key question: twitter.com/adam_tooze/sta… https…
What we are witnessing is not the Wagnerian end of the postwar dollar-centric world, but "the end of the uniform central banking model of the
RT @BJMbraun: "a collective move away from the conservative bias ingrained in the 1990s model of central banking" after the "social forces…
RT @ProfMarkWilson: The military-industrial complex is in the news this week, thanks to the White House. As @julianzelizer says, DJT is no…
RT @cossovich: Re the Fed's change on inflation @adam_tooze writes: "the Fed is acknowledging that the bargaining power of labour is far lo…
"a hybrid assemblage that combines market mechanisms with massive intervention & limitless credit. Its Frankenstein quality is undeniable, but what kind of monster it is,
An inflationary surge? End of dollar? NOPE … I did a piece for @guardian on what is actually going on with the central banks. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
RT @heimbergecon: Good piece by @adam_tooze: The problem actually facing central banks is how to avoid deflation. The response by central b…
RT @HmsGerlach: This is a good piece by @Adam_tooze! — The world's central banks are starting to experiment. But what comes next? | Adam To…
Remember back in 2018 when folks started live tweeting the 30 years war. We are just about 2 years in! Just realized that I will
RT @writersdoing: Samuel Beckett, burning something. https://t.co/K9PCBgWOlG
RT @grist: 1/“This job is killing us.” One of the deadliest jobs in America is one you might never have heard of. When an older
RT @holdengraber: Walter Benjamin’s notebook in which he wrote down all the books he read since he was 18 https://t.co/Cimux1iQ73
RT @trekonomics: (if you look at the end credits, Reggio thanks Guy Debord, think about this for a minute)
RT @trekonomics: There was this theater in Paris near Gobelins where they'd show Koyaanisqatsi every saturday night at like 10PM – a bit li…
RT @spectatorindex: JUST IN: AstraZeneca has put its phase three vaccine trial on hold due to an unexplained illness in a participant
RT @weatherdak: There's so much burning right now on the West Coast. Just dreadful satellite imagery. https://t.co/TkdvHW7PKN
May 2010 team led by Craig Venter announced that they had built a genome and created synthetic life. Huge deal you would think! How much
In 1890 perhaps 200 million people lived in cities worldwide, but by 2000 the figure had leapt to three billion, half of the human population.
This is an interesting introduction to Man as a Geological Agent: An Account of His Actions on Inanimate Nature, by Robert Lionel Sherlock, 1922 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
"The human enterprise suddenly accelerated after the end of the Second World War” No disagreement. But that is really a phrase to savor. From Steffen,
"Great Acceleration took place in an intellectual, cultural, political, and legal context in which growing impacts upon Earth System counted for little in calculations of
The first commission charged to investigate the evils of coal smoke began work in 1288 medievalists.net/2019/10/how-co… https://t.co/OnF0guWNb9
Already, the ocean is filled with about 165 million tons of plastic. If trends continue, ocean plastics will outweigh fish by 2050. businessinsider.com/plastic-in-oce… https://t.co/BvlK0W2NmO
Since the start of the year, France, Italy and Poland have been battling to provide the next head of the EBRD. Polish candidate is out
The debate amongst German economists over continuation of COVID support has gotten so interesting that readers of @handelsblatt have been treated to a map. More
RT @ruthbenghiat: “He says what others only dare to whisper.” Margherita Sarfatti wrote about her lover, Mussolini. For 100 years this “fra…
South Korea, 3rd biggest customer for Australia’s exported coal, is embarking on a Green New Deal. twitter.com/jj_tilley/stat…
More than 170,000 ‘synthetic mineral-like substances’, produced only because of human activities, have now been identified, from silicon computer chips to industrial abrasives to ancient
Is the Trump administration about to tie itself in a knot twisted out of “merchants of death” and “arsenal of democracy” narratives? twitter.com/EsperDoD/statu…
RT @aaronjakes: This is an absurd distinction and bound to last for only a few short moments. But at present, the book to which I
China offers Taliban road network in exchange for peace. Beijing hopes infrastructure investment can prevent instability in Afghanistan after US troop withdrawal ft.com/content/69110b… https://t.co/Z07Ub8jwNe
Ten countries in the world where population faces worst food insecurity, from @Oxfam If you compare with @WorldBank data -> numbers are for those suffering
"At beginning of 2020, 135 m people around the world were already facing extreme hunger. According to @WFP that figure could rise to a staggering
“In our worst sales quarter maybe since WWII, we were cash flow positive,” Daimler’s CEO, “We adjusted our production so quickly that in spite of Covid-19
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