In H1 2020, Germany has recorded its first substantial budget deficit since 2010. @markets via @SoberLook https://t.co/O5hV935gla
In H1 2020, Germany has recorded its first substantial budget deficit since 2010. @markets via @SoberLook https://t.co/kEKiKD9fxi
In June 2020 according to @Conferenceboard data, confidence levels amongst Americans under age of 35 fell to lows not seen since 2011. @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2020/08/26/con… https://t.co/JfsjtpaCps
As ever, an essential thread by @70sBachchan on the petrochemical complex in the path of #HurricaneLaura twitter.com/70sBachchan/st…
There are 30 million Americans currently receiving unemployment benefit of which only 40% now expect to return to their pre-crisis jobs. @ISABELNET_SA via @SoberLook https://t.co/3Ia3N9qFGQ
The $600 extra unemp benefit payment lapsed 25 July -> $15bn per week is taken out of incomes of some of most vulnerable people at
RT @mehdirhasan: To be clear: there is no other Western democracy I can think of where armed men in camo and other military-style gear regu…
RT @QuickTake: Cattle ranchers in coastal Texas move livestock as #HurricaneLaura nears landfall https://t.co/6DVlyi92JW
RT @DanHillHistory: The Arras battlefields still hold plenty of reminders of what once happened here. This unexploded artillery shell was o…
RT @bneeditor: 1/ This significant. BYN already dropped to record low (we reported this AM). Ppl are changing into USD partly as anticipate…
RT @M_C_Klein: Ignore Aerospace, and U.S. Manufacturers Had a Good July. Falling Inventories Are a Concern. barrons.com/articles/ignor… <– n…
RT @UliVolz: The shirt. The picture. Wow! Robert Zoellick sets entirely new standards for colour compositions in webinars. 🖌️ https://t.co…
RT @MaxJerneck: @Fullantho @M_C_Klein @NathanTankus @jonsindreu @_Financeguy @JWMason1 @MonaAli_NY_US @AltSpinelli @jeuasommenulle @Daniela…
Men yoked to the plow: First generation of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corp labour “ate bitterness”. beijingcream.com/2014/07/dfxj-t… For the current situation see economist.com/business/2020/… https://t.co/vYKvNX3Tf1
1st phase Franco-Prussian war ends at Sedan. Why was French army so far North & not in front of Paris? MacMahon was attempting to relieve
China’s era of trade surpluses began in 2000. Twenty years on, it is heading towards a record. @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/category/the-d… https://t.co/uXbbZDmd0T
RT @ONS: We’ve seen a drop in the number of girls named Alexa from 332 in 2016 to just 39 in 2019, possibly as a
Aug 25 1870: German forces that are heading for Paris realize that Fr Gen MacMahon is driving NE via Sedan to relieve Metz -> initiate
Since 2005, negative sentiment towards China has hugely increased in the US: 81% of older Americans are now hostile to China v. 56% of those
Pimco is closing its Emerging Markets Currency and Short-Term Investments Fund after it made significant losses and suffered fund withdrawals. ft.com/content/5075e9… https://t.co/A1rWkj8gAh
"The world has few more Orwellian conglomerates than the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps: c. 3m-strong paramilitary-style business”: 100k security guards, 400k cotton farmers producing
American use of “snail mail” peaked in 2000. Since then the volume of mail has halved. ft.com/content/69b78e… https://t.co/jusy7OZU1k
The 21st-century “Eastern Question”: Turkey-(Qatar-Russia?) v. Cyprus, Greece, France, Egypt, UAE, Israel. EU? USA? Clashing fields of interest in the Eastern Med nicely mapped by
Back in the day, Germany’s powerful metalworking trade union started the push for the 35 hour week in Europe. Now it is mooting a campaign
2020 election aside, the US needs to decide what it wants its postal service to be. 2007-2019 it ran up deficits of $85bn and booked
"Underlying much of UAE MBZ’s regional policy is suspicion of mass politics. Arab spring, seen from Abu Dhabi, brought chaos not hope.” Egypt is test
Upon being sucked into investing during South Sea Bubble and losing modern equivalent of millions, Sir Isaac Newton reflected that he could “calculate the motions
“comprehensive no-fault and non-adversarial compensation system, and an exemption from civil liability” – as we move towards possible rollout of unprecedentedly rapid and large-scale vaccine
This looks fascinating. Have always been intrigued by the links btw these two great agrarian expansions of late 19th C. Plus Siberian dairy coops and
Schaffen wir das? After a slow start, Germany’s refugee cohorts of 2013 and after (Syria etc), are now doing better in the labour market than
This summer we were still asking about “Hamiltonian” moments for the EU. But given the reality of US fiscal politics since 2010 & post-COVID, is
“If something cannot go on forever, it will stop,” Herbert Stein’s famous phrase is often misused. It was actually a rebuttal to those who think
"Compose a person entirely from quotations.” Robert Musil 1920. twitter.com/gumarten/statu…
The excellent UK-based project on @RebuildMacro has a slick new website. Check it out for a range of fascinating work including a new paper by
In the late 19th and early 20th century population growth helped to fuel land hunger in the Balkans. Today, the region’s population is shrinking amongst
@cacrisalves @RebuildMacro @angusarmstrong8 @DanielaGabor @YannisDafermos Great work. Thanks for fixing. Much easier to use!
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