A New lost decade: after stagnating since 2014 ECLAC warns that Lat Am & Carib GDP per capita will slump in 2020 to levels last
The concentration of Lat Am & Carib on food exports is striking: 58% of Argentine exports 37% of Brazilian. repositorio.cepal.org/bitstream/hand… https://t.co/VzddJ9J4ev
ECLAC warns that number of people in Latin America & Carib living in extreme poverty may surge to 83.4 million in 2020. repositorio.cepal.org/bitstream/hand… https://t.co/x1ZzaOqxDC
The story of the financial backing for the Oxford COVID vaccine reads a bit like Inspector Morse crossed with Game of Thrones oh and Huawei
As measured by shares of GDP (which is exploding in size) the story of Chinese economy since 1990 is that of rise of service sector
This analysis of the Polish political scene after the latest PiS victory by Cyryl Ryzak for @DissentMag is truly outstanding. HIGHLY recommended. dissentmagazine.org/online_article… https://t.co/YId0kHk5xU
Lat Am Lowflation: Number of countries with inflation of less than 3% has risen from 6 to 24 between 2006 and 2020. @eclac_un repositorio.cepal.org/bitstream/hand… https://t.co/XjLmKMY3sG
A New lost decade: after stagnating since 2014 ECLAC warns that Lat Am & Carib GDP per capita will slump in 2020 to levels last
The concentration of Lat Am & Carib on food exports is striking: 58% of Argentine exports 37% of Brazilian. repositorio.cepal.org/bitstream/hand… https://t.co/qUNtShkc65
ECLAC warns that number of people in Latin America & Carib living in extreme poverty may surge to 83.4 million in 2020. repositorio.cepal.org/bitstream/hand… https://t.co/QSGTJZCCCV
China holds 57% of global rice and maize stocks. repositorio.cepal.org/bitstream/hand… https://t.co/GDLpymErfn
Republican China Hawks Secretly Approaching Team Biden – this is quite a sinister report on alignment of Republicans who opposed Trump’s Phase I trade deal
@irl_neil @__shaj It is totally worth $14 per month!
RT @nils_gilman: @adam_tooze That thread in part turned into this: noemamag.com/the-long-shado…
@Brad_Setser @arebucci1 @HyunSongShin Unless you are willing to tolerate a fair measure of devaluation?
RT @irl_neil: fyi, the dailyshot newsletter is like the one email newsletter actually worth subscribing to. especially if you are a child l…
How America’s insurance industry builds its 1/3 stake in the CLO market. Some of the smaller players with riskier bets may face big losses. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
@arebucci1 @HyunSongShin That is what several EM have begun to do in this crisis.
Investment-grade corp bonds have become a commoditized asset class, given Fed's $750 billion pledge to purchase a broad index of securities to support “market functioning”
America’s lowest rated CCC junk bonds have exited distressed-debt 10%-spread territory for first time since February. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/yzJcbUL6uZ
There is general agreement that in the period March 9-23 this year, sovereign bonds markets suffered a near fatal heart attack. The funny thing is
This brisk and lucid summary of Sartre’s dense and labyrinthine Critique of Dialectical Reason by Robert Boncardo for @VersoBooks is outstanding! versobooks.com/blogs?post_aut… https://t.co/9JSOqQDCHY
Eyeballing these @OECD data, c. 67.5% of all AE debt issued Jan-May 2020 was issued by the US. One for @SoberLook oecd.org/finance/Sovere… https://t.co/zLjFlqpsvG
RT @ianbremmer: A grain silo in Beirut. After yesterday’s explosion, Lebanon has less than a month’s grain reserves left. https://t.co/dj…
@Intetyst @rickmuir1 Isn’t the latter the effect of the former?
RT @OBraet: @adam_tooze @Intetyst @ForeignPolicy Unoverviewability is the literal translation, for what it’s worth. Same word in Dutch is t…
Saudi Arabia has constructed with Chinese help a facility for extracting uranium yellowcake from uranium ore – presumably to circumvent US restrictions on its nuclear
"Between the assertion of the individual’s right to ego-fulfilment and the notion of the pursuit of the common good, American and British ‘radicalism’ derive from
It doesn’t hurt China to meet its Phase I US ag purchasing targets when domestic demand for corn is running ahead of supply and driving
@Intetyst @rickmuir1 One of the things I find most appealing about Beck is his affirmative relationship to 2nd modernity.
Gold purchases by ETF now add up to the second largest reserve after that held by the US Fed system, surpassing Germany. I didn’t know
The dramatic loosening of credit conditions for major EM, following the sudden shock of Feb-April, is really remarkable: here measured through CDS prices and bond
Turkey’s funding markets have been coming under stress, with the overnight borrowing costs soaring. thedailyshot.com/2020/08/05/wil… https://t.co/vwU4fSdFJK
@rickmuir1 Thank you. My late great brother-in-law Mick Toyne was a career Met policeman interested in risk and Ulrich Beck …. The fit is rather
RT @rickmuir1: I was waiting for someone to do a piece on what Beck teaches us about all this. This by @adam_tooze is great https://t.co/gi…
Crisis of the Americas: a new COVID-era in charts in which the USA is compared to Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Chile, Argentina and Peru … for
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