Who in America “lives with family”? A question that reveals 1. Stark differences by race/ethnicity 2. Divergent trend of Latino community 3. Much sharper COVID
Purchases of US real estate by non-resident foreigners have plunged. Chinese purchases have fallen most. wsj.com/articles/forei… https://t.co/NBno1MicJR
Job losses in US airline industry are only just beginning. @StatistaCharts via @SoberLook https://t.co/gcsnuU9bKb
USPS NYC UWS portico: Archaeological evidence suggesting that at some point in the past someone gave a damn! https://t.co/EWPODAqcxa
30 Aug 1870: Main German armies having diverted from march on Paris to intercept MacMahon's relief effort for Metz catch the French at Beaumont. Decisive
As 1st phase of Franco-Prussian war moves towards its climax, French army encircled at Metz plans breakout to the West to link up with MacMahon's
RT @simontorracinta: every NLR profile: this recent book by a public intellectual can only be understood by reviewing their entire oeuvre (…
RT @michaelxpettis: This is a great graph. It would be even more interesting if it could show the breakdown between top-tier hukou and othe…
RT @AntonJaegermm: “As soon as one admits the uncertainty of the forecasts that guide economic behavior, equilibrium has no more importance…
Hmmm …. auch hier als Thema angedacht @AchimTruger faz.net/aktuell/wirtsc… twitter.com/AchimTruger/st…
.@metmuseum show about artist Felix Vallotton last year presented him as the painter of bourgeois disquiet whilst downplaying his politics. This from 1895 is Vallotton,
Félix Fénéon by Félix Vallotton (1898) @metmuseum had show about Vallotton “painter of disquiet” that was entirely psychologizing metmuseum.org/exhibitions/li… @MuseumModernArt has a show about Fénéon
RT @Shahinvallee: Merci à la nouvelle Mairie de Marseille et aux marins du Louise Michel. Vous nous faites honneur. Force et courage. https…
RT @alexandrascaggs: The year is 2070. Somewhere in the Republic of Appalachia, I sit at a handmade desk & type out the following on the
Museums finally reopening in NYC. Been to @MuseumModernArt twice. This little show about Félix Fénéon – anarchist, art critic, art promoter and gallerist was excellent!
With Mexico’s exports recovering and imports depressed by COVID recession the trade surplus is in record territory. @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2020/08/28/mar… https://t.co/MJ7tlU0axB
Turkey is unique in many ways: It is issuing substantial volumes of debt in fx but with very little international buy in this merely reshuffles
Fed’s dovish stance has a global ripple effect. After months of rupee depreciation with the Indian central bank buying $30bn to build reserves, all of
Assuming it is found to be an accident, the Beirut explosion is going to destroy Lebanon’s insurance industry, which is linked to its ailing banks,
For fixed-income investors, hell is other bondholders – great on the tactics of sovereign bond negotiations (and on Pac Man). Plus another bit of exceptionally
Greater Seoul is home to half of South Korea’s population & vast majority of economic activity. Housing prices are rising fast & rental market fuels
“Privileged insularity” @GitaGopinath: $ share of global trade invoicing was 4.7* larger than US share of value of imports, & 3* share of world exports
RT @parkersewell1: @adam_tooze My fear is that Trump loses and uses his massive platform to spread conspiracies about the efficacy and safe…
RT @mredmond88: Very helpful table here showing what kind of variables are considered in the Global Exchange Rate Assessment Framework http…
RT @lugaricano: @adam_tooze I agree. I have learned a great deal from this long read on virus, which is indeed beautifully written. @TheEco…
"An individual animal embodies & maintains the restless metabolism that made it. A virion is just an arrangement of matter. The virus is not the
The way that humans walk is sometimes described by biomechanists as controlled falling. Your feet are just coming down and catching yourself. How robots have
It is not obvious that a solid majority of Americans will actually take a COVID vaccine if we can get it: resistance varies from 70
China’s urban population grows at c. 15 m p.a. almost ALL of it in 30 major cities. Smaller cities shrinking. Big cities are issuing greater
US Treasury Global Exchange Rate Assessment Framework models tells it that Vietnamese dong should have been 22,134 not 23,224 in 2019 -> calls subsidy. But
People in rich countries are less willing to believe that vaccines are safe but they are more willing to trust science and doctors -> the
China’s urbanisation is astonishing: 850m 61% of Chinese now live in cities. *5 1980. 15m people join them each year. But c. 230m people stilll
There is no precise way to measure undervaluation multilaterally and especially bilaterally. But the US Treasury has a model and it may be about to
Many thought BRI would internationalize rob lending. Instead, in BRI Chinese banks have become big intermediary for $ EM financing: $600bn by end-2019 -> increases
Adam Cotter @OMFIF Asia: "despite pro-democracy voices, HK’s future lies inescapably in further integration with the mainland and specifically the Greater Bay Area: combined pop
In little noticed case involving Vietnamese tyres, US Treasury may have set off tremors for international monetary system, concluding for 1st time that currency undervaluation
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