Internet usage soared 25% within a few days in mid-March as the coronavirus pandemic started forcing Americans to stay home. Great data from @Lilliannnn wsj.com/articles/coron…
Very interesting thread about QE and inequality in the UK and Bank of England’s defensiveness on the topic. From @Frank_vanlerven twitter.com/Frank_vanlerve…
The household-directed component of America’s fiscal response to the COVID shock will go down as one of the most timely, adequately-scaled and effective in history.
@johnpmcdermott @TomMcTague @onlmaps Got a map by chance?
RT @Frank_vanlerven: As Carney said ‘all monetary policy has distributional effects, but it is the role of elected governments to take mea…
"Continental scale” If you put Japan (pop 126m) down the Atlantic coast of the US it stretches from end to end @onlmaps If you lay
If Japan were in the Atlantic, it would stretch the length of the American coastline. H/t @onlmaps https://t.co/OSawMCAi0l
The collapse in childcare in US is having a devastating impact on the ability of women to participate in the labour market. @censusbureau via @SoberLook
If Japan were in the Atlantic, it would stretch the length of the American coastline. H/t @onlmaps https://t.co/cLrSvu5eLV
August 19 1870 French army of Rhine is besieged in Metz cut off from new French armies forming to the west. twitter.com/krieg7071/stat…
RT @Krieg7071: Die #Rheinarmee ist in #Metz eingekesselt. Die sechs Korps unter #Bazaine umfassen etwa 180.000 kampffähige Mann und 18.000…
RT @DavidBeckworth: Maybe I shouldn't be, but I find this poll surprising. 🤔 https://t.co/sDzUhGvWBU
RT @geoffmanaugh: Architect Ronald Rael has launched an Instagram account documenting center-pivot irrigation landscapes around the world—w…
RT @EdwardGLuce: Warning to anyone who cares about their earnings – never, ever bank with The Royal Bank of Scotland. They've frozen my UK…
RT @Daniel_K_B: Photo by Edgar Degas, 1895-1896 https://t.co/HQXtXBC8tH
RT @williamsonkev: 2018: Of 13,000 Californian firefighters over 2,500 in prison. Salaried firefighters earn $74,000 pa + benefits. Prisone…
RT @hshierholz: Good lord the evacuation zone is closing in (the evacuation zone is in red, I am at the left X, and Alan's mom
RT @eric_weinberger: @samuelmoyn @davidrieff @boyd_vandijk Can't find what this Congres is on the Google – do you know? https://t.co/4mBGDK…
Thames barges at Vauxhall, with Vauxhall Bridge in the background, 1920-40 © Historic England Im fascinated by presence of working sail on the river down
RT @xtophercook: A lot of British politics makes more sense when you remember how bad median education was until the 1980s/1990s. The post-…
Are the battle lines over fiscal policy in a Biden presidency already being drawn? twitter.com/shawnsebastian…
RT @jessefelder: How to think about a trillion… nytimes.com/1986/09/28/opi… https://t.co/Q8ZmfyCRR4
London’s silver highway: photographs of the Thames at work. From the early 20th century when the city was still an industrial hub. ft.com/content/16ea46… https://t.co/L7MtVGOcth
"yield curve control was not warranted in the current environment” – remember Aug 2019 when Bill Dudley suggested that the Fed should join the anti-Trump
Since March 23 we have been in conjuncture defined by expansive Fed, declining $, recovery in equities. If Fed had committed to yield curve control
Watched #Coup53 new documentary about overthrow of Mosaddegh by Taghi Amirani. It really is engrossing. Montage of footage from different eras is fantastic. You won’t
Tech dominance of S&P500 is a big theme right now. I found this @FT graphic of rebound from low of 23 March eye-opening. There are
“What we’re trying to do is become as regulated as is possible” – why Wall Street and US power utilities love the regulated business. ft.com/content/cd66e8…
Hail to the Pencil Pusher American Bureaucracy's Long and Useful History – a while back @rortybomb re-upped this essay in the @BostonReview from 2015. He
"The Fed Shouldn’t Enable Donald Trump: The central bank should refuse to play along with an economic disaster in the making”. Bill Dudley Aug 27
Steel-for-fuel-for-profit favors green energy in US. The more they sink money into wind turbines, solar farms and batteries, the more they increase the “rate base”
"Pets are not cuddly toys,” – “one rule for all dogs”: Germany: Dogs must be walked twice a day under new rule. dw.com/en/germany-dog… https://t.co/niVYMPcbIG
America’s roads are deteriorating and there is no funding in state and local government to fix the problem. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/UTmT7zv2FU
A return to some of the issues discussed with Politics, Theory, Other in March, including the pandemic’s role in the rise of China, the increasing
RT @M_C_Klein: China’s Weak Consumer Recovery Is Bad for China—And World Trade barrons.com/articles/china… <– Europe and the U.S. have had r…
Aug 19 1870: "Undoubtedly, if General Moltke be old, his plans have all the energy of youth. Not satisfied with having once already pushed his
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