RT @StuartHumphryes: Edwardians in Colour! It's hard to believe this is 111-years-old, but today I've restored a stunning autochrome which…
62 % of COVID mortality continues to be in the Americas. BUT the rise in the Indian numbers is very alarming. The epidemic could easily
Because of its poorly structured social security contribution system and its heavy taxes on consumption, Germany's tax system is not very progressive. twitter.com/MFratzscher/st…
"Libya’s storms of history The turmoil in the nation is reawakening memories of conflicts between the Ottoman empire and Arab nationalists." This piece by Chris
30 August 1870: in the embarrassing debacle at Beaumont the French army is court literally napping without pickets posted. Their camp is overrun by Prussian
“So we find ourselves in the early twenty-first century in a highly paradoxical situation: an Asian billionaire who would like to pass on his fortune
"I refused these conditions, so at this stage it looks as if Capital and Ideology won’t be published in China" Thomas Piketty scmp.com/economy/china-… https://t.co/H32PuuZ6kH
The expiration of Pandemic Unemployment Compensation payments will likely reduceworkers' take-home pay by about 6% in August. Will consumer spending drop with it? Will Fed
"Libya’s storms of history The turmoil in the nation is reawakening memories of conflicts between the Ottoman empire and Arab nationalists." This piece by Chris
When power fails you need a portable generator -> $1bn business. But carbon monoxide is lethal, killing 70 people pa. Industry resists regulation & CPSC
30 August 1870: in the embarrassing debacle at Beaumont the French army is court literally napping without pickets posted. Their camp is overrun by Prussian
“So we find ourselves in the early twenty-first century in a highly paradoxical situation: an Asian billionaire who would like to pass on his fortune
"I refused these conditions, so at this stage it looks as if Capital and Ideology won’t be published in China" Thomas Piketty scmp.com/economy/china-… https://t.co/1tRyvbf6jJ
@jaylyall_red5 Sorry man. Was remembering my old friend who passed in 2013 today. Wrote 3 books with me. Responded to sound of computer shutting down.
RT @70sBachchan: Speed at which India's containment fell apart in August is staggering. Unlike US, where affluent fled NYC in March spreadi…
In the early 1990s China’s cinema complex was tiny. 1994 foreign films 1st allowed in. In 2019 its box office was approaching that of US
Aug 30 1870 French General August-Alexandre Ducrot describes the situation of MacMahon's armies at Sedan: "It is a chamber pot in which we will be
After being pummeled at Beaumont, MacMahon's French army is encircled by German forces at Sedan. twitter.com/Krieg7071/stat…
Americans with high school or less think Trump will win, that he is better for “the economy” 41/22 & better for their personal finances 32/16!
"Many higher-earning & better educated Americans believe that a President Joe Biden would be better for the U.S. economy but worse for their wallets. The
Boeing's737 MAX emerged in early 2019, the valueof unsold civilian aerospace inventories hassoared almost 30%. @M_C_Klein does a deep dive on US manufacturing in @barronsonline
RT @perseidcapital: @adam_tooze I have a hypothesis that 2012 was the watershed year, where movie making plots changed to better suit inter…
"In 2013 “Pacific Rim” – robots-versus-monsters by Legendary Pictures – became 1st US film to take more money in China than at home. After that
RT @fpleitgenCNN: Massive QAnon turn-out at the anti-COVID measures demo in Berlin, Germany. Many flags / signs hailing @realDonaldTrump in…
Engels August 26 1870 MacMahon's plan is not that of "a strategist, but of an “Algérien,” used to fight irregulars; not of a soldier, but
Cardiovascular disease kills 25,000 people each day worldwide. who.int/news-room/fact… https://t.co/QE3cMIKIT7
China’s banks are carrying main burden of stimulus: 1.6 trn yuan in new credit to manufact in 1st 7 months of 2020 = 2* all
Hollywood cannot afford to ignore the China market. In the past 15 years China’s box-office takings have risen 35-fold, to $9.7bn. That is not far
This profile of Dutch tech-regulating politician Marietje Schaake has its puff piece moments. But it is also a very readable and rather devastating critique of
Not uncoupling: “Mulan”, which opens on Sep 4, is an invasion in more ways than one. Disney, Hollywood’s biggest studio, has spent 5 years and
The two big US exchanges – intercontinental that includes NYSE & Chicago – head the big league of global stock exchanges. economist.com/finance-and-ec… https://t.co/hwGtnMpEZC
America’s Consumer Product Safety Commission which oversees almost every product Americans use in their home, office, or out in the yard, save for food, drugs,
Love image of Félix Fénéon Editing La Revue Blanche (1896) by Félix Vallotton in @MuseumModernArt show. The concentration on his craft, the pen poised. Begs
To repeat, if we do manage to develop a COVID vaccine, there is not, currently, a solid majority of Americans intending to take it. Scepticism
Over the last decade the world’s largest stock exchanges have themselves become very large business organizations. economist.com/finance-and-ec… https://t.co/PYHiDrnN2M
Core role of stock exchanges is still to match buyer & seller: NYSE says it received over 300bn messages across its systems on peak days
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