Honda’s scooters were a workhorse of 1st stage motorization across much of the world. Still today sales of 20 m bikes/scooters pa, of which 18+m
On and on: as has been the case since May, there is the COVID crisis of the Americas and then there is the rest of
BMW dealerships in Shanghai are having a really good rebound. But the same cannot be said for the rest of urban China. Great review piece
At just over $40/b, oil price is above shale pain threshold -> risk of a large supply response just as OPEC discipline is breaking down.
"Japanese investors almost never sell foreign assets during turmoil. March-2020 showed biggest monthly Japanese net purchase of foreign assets on record.” @MacrobondF @NordeaMarkets So it
China’s affluent consumers are shopping so hard they are having to restrict the crowds at Prada. Meanwhile overall urban consumption is still declining. ft.com/content/e0e294… https://t.co/XG8xSXhXiC
Is political uncertainty about US election showing up in markets? One way that it might is in underperformance in stock vulnerable to corporate tax hikes.
In terms of global oil demands there are three worlds: OECD, non-OECD ex-China, China. Since 2019 growth in Chinese demand has more or less made
The recovery in China is two-speed, strongly favoring the better off. Sun You & Yuan Yang give great details. But why, despite all its rhetoric,
Does Trump only reach for “god”/bibles/churches when he is really, really desperate? Can anyone suggest anything good to read, specifically on his relationship to religion.
RT @mark4harrison: Since @DanKaszeta circulated it, I’ve been thinking about this meme twitter.com/DanKaszeta/sta…. It's attributed to the olde…
RT @RabalFrancesco: Saul Leiter https://t.co/KogF4Lkcpo
RT @greg_ip: @Birdyword @jbarro Yves St Laurent having same effect on me
RT @Birdyword: @greg_ip @jbarro 'Hail Europe's Central Bank' at the top there is making the hair on the back of my neck stand up
Eight of the 10 American counties with the highest food-insecurity rates are more than 60% Black, according to Feeding America. Those eight are located in
c. 1/3 of Black tenants, tenants with less than high school and incomes < $25k missed rent payments in the US July 16-21 2020. The
Almost a third of people in some states of the US have little or no confidence they can pay August's rent or mortgage. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/lFOYNPkjnY
RT @Samir_Madani: I just learned the NASA will launch the long-awaited LandSat 9 satellite on my birthday; April 8th, 2021. LandSat 5 snap…
RT @AdamPolitics: @davies_will It's the paradox of depoliticization – obscuring the political nature of decisions tends to define the very…
RT @schieritz: Ein Masterplan mit dem Ziel "Diskussionen so zu lenken, dass ein rot-rot-grünes Bündnis mit großzügiger geldpolitischer Begl…
Peter Clarke is always an elegant historian with a fine sense of judgement. In his Keynesian Revolution in the Making you also see a truly
RT @frankr_colson: A powerful and indispensable read @adam_tooze twitter.com/JohnRentoul/st…
Both in the US and worldwide there is a striking contrast between ever slower development of vaccines & surge in vaccine-related patenting from 1980s. From
In 1902 the US regulated the production of vaccines for the first time. The industry then went through a remarkable century of expansion and contraction.
3D-printing an animal-free meat formula with color in the laboratories of Redefine Meat Ltd. in Ness Ziona, Israel. Demand for plant-based meat substitutes has soared
So, in the Gulf, there are businesses that earn their living by delivering ice with which folks cool their outdoor private pools … Now, if
Peru has not only suffered a devastating COVID epidemic. Its (urban/official?) unemployment rate has surged to over 16%. @SoberLook https://t.co/DmyGCoRp8V
@Noahpinion Noah you are too kind! Thanks.
Colombia’s GDP contraction in Q2 2020 of 15.7% is a disaster not just for the country but, given the chaos in Venezuela, for the entire
RT @MaxCRoser: We’ve just done the daily update of all our work on the Coronavirus pandemic: ourworldindata.org/coronavirus The latest data for s…
Capital flight out of EM is no longer at March/April rates. Indonesia/India seeing inflows. But 1. Not enough to offset losses. 2. Turkey & South
RT @MichaelShurkin: My Beaufre library. I have the rest on Kindle except for "Stratégie d'action." Still need that. https://t.co/gGnJvnr63s
RT @JohnRentoul: Peter Clarke, The Keynesian Revolution in the Making, 1924-1936: brilliant book; the history of an idea; intellectually de…
RT @JohnRentoul: Some lovely photos in Richard Carr’s book too: Bill & Hillary meet Reagan, 1983, from Ronald Reagan Library https://t.co/K…
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