Even with current unsustainable fishing practices maintaining a constant production of fish per capita of global population will require continued growth in aquaculture. @FAO @UNCTAD
Since 1980s global consumption of fish has doubled but virtually the entire increase was met by aquaculture. @FAO via @UNCTAD h/t @SoberLook unctad.org/en/Publication… https://t.co/XoZ3a81aXw
Google has a 71% share of search driven advertising! @profgalloway And we wonder why the big 5 tech firms are driving surge in US stock
It takes Netflix and Amazon a lot of money to generate an Emmy! More great graphics from @profgalloway profgalloway.com/fire-fawning https://t.co/xJTX7nYx3L
The relatively recent surge in plastic production has rapidly created a huge problem of global waste and it is going to get worse fast. Huge
82% of American homes have Amazon Prime, more than voted in the 2016 election, have a pet, attend church, or decorate a Christmas tree. These
Amazon and Alphabet/Google both have more lobbyists than there are sitting Senators in the US Congress. @profgalloway profgalloway.com/fire-fawning https://t.co/hB1Up1x96G
RT @Joefranks72: @adam_tooze @ISABELNET_SA @SoberLook Given Sean Starrs' research on national ownership of largest companies, this indicat…
Last year, Amazon paid $162 m in federal tax while your largest competitor, Walmart, paid almost $3 billion. Do you think this level of participation
@sumlenny No doubt we will refer to UK as post-Brexit. But, in any case, the suggestion that membership in the EU was analogous to subordination
@sumlenny In fact, for a long time we did call Hungary post-socialist until it underwent one very dramatic transformations and then another. And, very obviously,
@sumlenny I am sorry, there is an obvious and far from merely formal distinction btw independent states in soviet bloc e.g. GDR, Poland and Soviet
RT @ryanstruyk: Do you personally know someone who has been diagnosed with the coronavirus via @CNN polling: APRIL: 22% yes, know someone…
Golden Age? How good a bargain are the TV/film streaming services? It depends- $ in subscription per $bn of content. What could possibly be funding
Ten years ago big tech/Silicon Valley did not spend much money on lobbying. No longer. @StatistaCharts via @SoberLook https://t.co/lDB1kviMvO
RT @ShazCoder: @adam_tooze Nope. One thing to note is that conception of rule of law is somewhat different in PRC. The purpose of improving…
@nboserup The argument of @TheEconomist piece was that the administrative law cases actually do involve challenges at least to the state if not, perhaps, the
Reversing economic time or shoots/snakes & ladders. We rolled a bad die & COVID GDP- shock/eurozone/2008 has hurled us back to: Q3 1993 if you
China’s legal system is a tool of political oppression but it is also, increasingly, a tool of property rights protection: huge surge of administrative &
What is China’s share of global luxury consumption? Is it really as low as the 10% share in this @FT @laureni chart? ft.com/content/c93882… In fact,
Louis Vuitton’s 2020 live show in Shanghai was attended by 1,500 people in person and another 104m online — roughly 2 % of global netizens!
Due to the surge in lumber prices, its horribly expensive to build houses in the US right now. @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2020/08/18/the… https://t.co/4YiP9ayyiE
Blue-collar jobs were the first to go in the COVID shock, but now, in the UK, US and elsewhere, middle management and office roles are
March 2020 Covid shock induced a $1trn move into cash that has so far not been reversed. @ISABELNET_SA via @SoberLook https://t.co/m1NwW5eClF
In 2000 South Africa was the #1 gold producer. By 2020 no longer! @macdonaldajm wsj.com/articles/gold-… https://t.co/rw4C6bFQoa
Since the GFC there has been a huge surge in foreign ownership of US equities. Presumably this is the global effect of QE-induced hunt for
Foreign plaintiffs won 89% of all patent infringement cases, according to Rouse, a consultancy. Up from 85% in 2017. Higher percentage than locals. economist.com/briefing/2020/… patentlyo.com/patent/2018/02…
@camiel_coenen @Krieg7071 @ARTEde THANK YOU. Great recommendation.
Gold is getting more and more expensive to mine. @macdonaldajm wsj.com/articles/gold-… https://t.co/FbWCiKH0AH
RT @lijukic: Fortune 500 companies over time 1995: USA 151 China 3 2020: USA 121 China 124 twitter.com/adam_tooze/sta…
@KetoAlfa Norman Davies Red Star White Eagle
The Polio vaccine was introduced in the US in 1955, the measles vaccine in 1963. The impact was dramatic. That is what we are hoping
18 August 1920 Red defeat: Realizing that counterattack launched by Pilsudski’s Polish strike force from South on 16 Aug was unhinging his position, Tukhachevsky orders
The Asset Economy Lisa Adkins, Melinda Cooper, Martijn Konings What a line up of authors! Connecting 21st c inequality to an analytic of class. Excerpt
China now has more companies in the Fortune 500 than the US. @ISABELNET_SA via @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2020/08/18/the… https://t.co/sYqRQUVSPE
China GDP & mortality v. Europe & US. If COVID had arisen simultaneously across the world, challenging public health systems and economic policy with the
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