Romanian GDP down 12.3 QoQ Hungary GDP down 14.5 QoQ HUGE hits to Eastern European economies. @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/category/the-d… https://t.co/6fe5rWR8pR
RT @JohnRentoul: Atkinson, Inequality, Apr 2015, uncorrected page proofs, to keep the link (he died 2017, a life’s work unfinished)
RT @JohnRentoul: Tony Atkinson, Economics of Inequality, 1983, early layer of sediment on the bookcase: still remember its explanation of P…
RT @JohnRentoul: The white (bleached out) spine is The Wealth Report, ed Frank Field, 1979, just as Thatcher started to widen the gap https…
RT @NASAEarth: A Third of the U.S. Faces Drought earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/147118/… https://t.co/7m7ky1L81R
@Ben35846532 @SoberLook Have deleted the tweet. Thanks for clarifying.
@Makroint @SoberLook Of course. Happy to. Thanks for your clarification.
The ruins of Berlin’s railway stations as a postwar playground. twitter.com/MenschOhneMusi…
At much lower levels of per capita income, China’s household leverage (debt/gdp) is converging with that of the US. @business Charlie Zhu via @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/category/the-d…
“dumb-ass American money” Chinese investors think US money flowing into China is misguided. Americans see China as just another big EM -> pick consumer sectors.
RT @CarnegieRussia: This may sound modest compared to the vision of a union state, but better to give up illusions & save lives & money tha…
"AND THE BEST PART, connected to the home is a 2500 sq ft legitimate jail with 9 cells, booking room and 1/2 bath. The cell
Falling consumption was already exerting a severe drag on Japanese GDP in late 2019. In 2020 consumption slumped. Unlike any previous recession. @jsblokland via @SoberLook
Even on the @ecb relatively optimistic forecast of recovery path it is a very long way back for Eurozone GDP. @PantheonMacro via @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/category/the-d… https://t.co/lti1kRhKLs
The fact that real disposable personal income actually surged in the US thanks to COVID assistance makes 2020 shock quite unlike any previous US recession.
The politicization of consumer expectations survey in the US continues to be extreme, but COVID seems to have flipped “independents” from the Rep to the
GDP per capita: Poland, Russia, Belarus, Moldova. Current$ v. PPP Tell same basic story but Poland’s extreme growth rate is moderated by PPP. https://t.co/YOra1jXbFW
Comparisons to growth rate in Poland make most countries in Europe look bad. But these are absolute figures and the comparison with Belarus is telling!
As political tension intensifies and the banking industry suffers recession in Hong Kong, mainland Chinese investment banks continue to hire. @KangHexin ft.com/content/abbbfc… https://t.co/ci4S4oEjmW
The head count at mainland Chinese investment banks in Hong Kong has long overtaken Hong Kong-native banks and is catching that at international banks. ft.com/content/964e6a…
Weird … two versions of the same graph off the @FT One with captions one without. China v. US … thought I was seeing things.
Spending on renewables in China v. US. Oddly the version via @FT graphics has captions. One for @SoberLook https://t.co/P6SxAYXyfN
China v US spending on renewable energy sources. Im guessing dark blue is US v. Light-blue China. @FT please fix! Important piece by @derek_brower on
@Westmoorland83 Fighting in the armies of the partitioning powers in the main i.e. Germany, Austria, Russia.
Domino theory you say … twitter.com/70sBachchan/st…
RT @daniel_dsj2110: Hannah Arendt and Raymond Aron, Milan, Italy, 1955: https://t.co/qvhLNdmpwe
RT @yayitsrob: Love how there’s a stratigraphic layer in the laundry hamper that’s “clothes I was very fond of, used to wear every day, and…
RT @PeterBrannen1: @yayitsrob Pandemic-mediated fashion fractionation seen in sedimentary fomites (Meyer, 2020)
RT @AntonJaegermm: Trotsky was right, after all, that "Americanism marks the true dividing line between the Middle Ages and the modern worl…
The clash at Mars la Tour that halted French westward retreat from Metz was intensely bloody. 31k casualties in a single day! Lethal artillery and
RT @tobiaschneider: @adam_tooze @OspreyBooks The Musée de l'Armée at the Hotel des Invalides periodically hosts some really fascinating exh…
@Misanfrog Nor in Wawro … such an issue with military history publishing in general. @OspreyBooks consistently does a good job.
For a short military history of Franco-Prussian war in which the maps do not make you want to scream with frustration, highly recommend Stephen Badsey
$ trade weighted value is still above its end-2019 level. Slight depreciation v. AE & appreciation v EM – which itself was similar to its
Four good reads on the Franco-Prussian war/19th Prussian military history, in English: G. Ritter, The Sword and the Scepter Vol I Howard, The Franco-Prussian War
RT @LawDavF: @adam_tooze @NewLeftReview @wstreeckblog Actually think Engels was pretty orthodox in his views on military strategy. When he…
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