RT @Schuldensuehner: Is the #Berlin hype over? The number of inhabitants in the capital is declining for the first time since 2003. Economi…
This is extraordinary on the politics, business and personal dramas of tattoo culture in China. twitter.com/S_Rabinovitch/…
Toys R Us appeared to be a straightforward enterprise, selling toys to pestered parents. Yet its org chart was intricate enough to require colour codes
RT @hshierholz: This is basically the best thing ever. h/t @joshbivens_DC twitter.com/MeanAnimals/st…
"the assemblage's only unity is that of co‐functioning" (Deleuze, 1987) https://t.co/ETsryY3xzG
Flows of global health financing: 2019 – where $41bn came from and where they went. vizhub.healthdata.org/fgh/# https://t.co/kvgKsBwm92
"the assemblage's only unity is that of co‐functioning" (Deleuze, 1987) https://t.co/qInz8qbfjM
RT @DavidAvromBell: @davidrieff @jasonintrator Number of US Ph.D.’s in History anticipated this year: about 900. Number of tenure-track or…
@jnordvig @NathanTankus @Brad_Setser @bcaresearch @SoberLook And it turns out that in an earlier response @Brad_Setser had offered precisely the dissection that I was hoping for.
Thanks for the flowers … Danke für die Blumen … is a really nice German expression! twitter.com/JoergAsmussen/…
As ever a fantastic thread from @Brad_Setser Thank you! twitter.com/Brad_Setser/st…
RT @Brad_Setser: @adam_tooze @bcaresearch @SoberLook b) the dip in the US share of China's reserves in the Sober look chart is from failing…
RT @kent_willard: @adam_tooze @OxfordEconomics @SoberLook 1.4 m new claims didn't even make the headlines in financial news.
@jnordvig @NathanTankus @Brad_Setser @bcaresearch @SoberLook All points well taken. What I had in mind was a more basic question about valuation of the stock. Why
Dollar dominant? Share of dollar denominated asset in China’s foreign reserves has fallen from 70% to just over 50 in last 15 years. Can this
Credit supply to Eurozone households and businesses has followed a very different track in 2020 than in 2008 and 2011! Shock very different. Fiscal response
It is hard to exaggerate the scale of the shock to the US labour market. Another 1.4 m new unemployment claims last week. @OxfordEconomics via
Strikingly, US 10yr inflation swap are approaching 2%. Rather stronger than many people think the outlook might be. @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2020/08/28/mar… https://t.co/BnJ9NzCewh
Coal was nowhere to be seen at the RNC this year. Nice take by @dino_grandoni washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/… https://t.co/VUomknOJ24
"Without our own metaphors, we’ll be forced to live with the ones the nationalist right makes for us.” Instead of supply chains, @zeithistoriker proposes “solidarity
“He held the tube in his hand thoughtfully. ‘Yes, here is the pestilence imprisoned.” – H. G. Wells, The Stolen Bacillus https://t.co/h6LKC5Lr9r
Thought-provoking by @martinhaegglund on COVID & Marxian reading of species being. The philosophic-anthropological move is (always) powerful, but can’t help thinking that it collapses a
Its been amazing to watch/ experience how a labour market catastrophe, like that in US, can become normalized over a matter of months. @hshierholz @EconomicPolicy
Worries about European bank debt have not entirely disappeared since the March spike. But we are off the painful peaks! Big relief for financial sector.
Is @JoergAsmussen one of key German players in eurozone crisis planning a return to frontline of German (economic/financial) politics? twitter.com/JoergAsmussen/…
Uneven recovery: though there is a rebound in consumer spending from COVID shock it is NOT even across the USA and it comes with a
If “epistemology,” is the abstract problem of production of knowledge. For Gramsci “Gnoseology,” “refers to the effective reality [Wirklichkeit] of human relations of knowledge.” I
RT @BuddNicholas: Thanks for the recommendations @adam_tooze @irgarner I have to say, I can’t wait to get stuck into Scharnhorst, tho…
There has been a lot of attention paid to Fed support of corporate debt markets and its spillover effects. But ECB has long bought corporate
Overshooting? What chance is there of Fed actually being able to push inflation above 2%? bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/xHK3yTJ2uT
"Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will”, the line so often attributed to Gramsci was taken from Romain Rolland review of Raymond Lefebvre’s novel
At the same time as Fed has helped big firms to borrow at unprecedentedly easy conditions, small firms face tightening loan standards from banks. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
“pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will” – The phrase attributed to Gramsci has become a cliché. This formidable essay by @generalityiii in @viewpointmag
RT @marceldirsus: This is one of my new favourite Merkel moments. A journalist asks her about Richard Grenell's claim that Trump "charmed"…
After a five-year surge in property prices, what is future for housing/real estate/airbnb/golden visa market in Lisbon one of Europe’s housing hot spots? ft.com/content/5bb98e… https://t.co/pWgkBbsKTU
RT @PaulJSweeney: An early memory of my fascination with the gigantic, superhuman scale of shipbuilding was passing Scott Lithgow's 225T Go…
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