In July, Chinese food prices rose by 13 % yoy. Amidst trade wars with US & Australia & swine flu, Beijing is worried about food
In 2019, 60% of sales through Amazon were on the third party marketplace. @benedictevans ben-evans.com/benedictevans/… https://t.co/Jizv38NyFE
COVID unemployment has hit all of the key battleground states in the US and some of them have been hit very hard indeed. bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-… https://t.co/0fu433pNRw
@benedictevans @MNMooreofBoston Sorry???? I did: "it’s only the international business that’s losing money.” International business = ROW … ?
RT @LizAnnSonders: Permanent job losses rising while temporary layoffs declining (left), which is typical in recessions; but not as typical…
‘First party ecommerce’, where Amazon sells you things on its own behalf on Amazon website, is now only c. 1/2 of revenue. 1/3 comes from
It is no longer true that AWS alone sustains Amazon’s profits. The US business as a whole is a profit engine. ROW loses money. ben-evans.com/benedictevans/…
Head of International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers makes clear that it was willingness of Stephen Hahn of FDA to “bypass normal approval procedure” that triggered
All of big pharma – AstraZeneca, BioNTech, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Moderna., Novavax., Pfizer & Sanofi – have signed on to refuse any short
Last week, India accounted for roughly 30 per cent of all new cases in the world. The virus has been spread from city to countryside.
Turkey’s involvement in Libya -> opened door to defining a Turkey-Libya sea boundary that cuts across Greek plans for a pipeline to the West from
As environment Minister, Markus Soeder of CSU, now potential Merkel replacement, declared end of internal combustion engine by 2030. Now he is a lobbyist for
369,548 Chinese students = 34 % of foreign students at US universities. If they are no longer welcome -> devastating impact on US college finances.
“It may be the end of Hong Kong as we knew it, but it will not be the end of Hong Kong.” Despite political turmoil,
"houses are for living in, not for speculation”: Learning from Singapore & distancing itself from Hong Kong, China’s southern megacity of Shenzhen plans to have
With fx reserves below $1bn, less than annual debt payments and recent downgrade to Caa2, Laos is on the brink of default. Last Asian sovereign
Uncoupling? China’s top financial regulators unveiled new draft rules to make it easier for foreign investors to access the country’s $15.4 trillion bond market in
Beijing is preparing broad support for so-called 3rd generation semiconductors for the 5 years through 2025. $1.4 trillion through 2025 for technologies ranging from wireless
369,548 Chinese students = 34 % of foreign students at US universities. If they are no longer welcome -> devastating impact on US college finances.
“It may be the end of Hong Kong as we knew it, but it will not be the end of Hong Kong.” Despite political turmoil,
"houses are for living in, not for speculation”: Learning from Singapore & distancing itself from Hong Kong, China’s southern megacity of Shenzhen plans to have
With fx reserves below $1bn, less than annual debt payments and recent downgrade to Caa2, Laos is on the brink of default. Last Asian sovereign
Uncoupling? China’s top financial regulators unveiled new draft rules to make it easier for foreign investors to access the country’s $15.4 trillion bond market in
Beijing is preparing broad support for so-called 3rd generation semiconductors for the 5 years through 2025. $1.4 trillion through 2025 for technologies ranging from wireless
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RT @kevinlaughlin: And Moscow State University has a Department of Permafrost. twitter.com/adam_tooze/sta…
RT @HaoGao12: Drone swarms in combat experiment with PLA combined brigade. @jpg2t785 @KushigumoAkane @z5J6NWig6ByNnsC @nose_anpo @Rupprech…
Human land use change began 8000 years ago. But (only) in the past century has more than half of the terrestrial biosphere been transformed into
New word – homogenocene Coined in 1980s by Gordon Orians and other ecologists to describe the global mixing of species. In becoming a global species,
Permafrost, the jumbled layer of soil, ice, prehistoric plants and the occasional frozen mammoth covers 67 percent of Russia’s land surface! More and more is
Changes in Earth’s carbon cycle are often presented as prime evidence of a human-altered planet. Yet there are many reasons why anthropogenic changes in Earth’s
The final credits of Disney’s Mulan remake offer “special thanks” to eight government entities in Xinjiang, including the public security bureau in Turpan, a city
RT @Rainmaker1973: Not all demolitions can be implosions, because each type is its own form of art. That's the case for the construction si…
RT @gareth_gore: @adam_tooze I grew up round the corner – close enough to be able to smell what they were making. Back in the 80s,
Humans account for about 36 percent of the biomass of all mammals. Domesticated livestock, mostly cows and pigs, account for 60 percent, and wild mammals
> 28 million Americans continue to receive regular unemployment or pandemic unemp assistance every week. But there is little momentum in Congress for a stimulus
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