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“The envy of the whole world” Shanghai’s Disneyland became the first to reopen globally. At 20% capacity tickets so… https://t.co/6vwSTwW753

What makes the German Constitutional Court tick? For the best English-language guide see the brilliant history by… https://t.co/LPrYUe1Qw9

@Alex_J_Thiele @KatharinaPistor @GrundSebastian @chwherrmann @hwieduwilt @PeterBofinger @SDullien I had the privile… https://t.co/EjToOmfYUG

@Alex_J_Thiele @KatharinaPistor @GrundSebastian @chwherrmann @hwieduwilt @PeterBofinger @SDullien I mean do we thin… https://t.co/Oq6XVvBtW3

@Alex_J_Thiele @KatharinaPistor @GrundSebastian @chwherrmann @hwieduwilt @PeterBofinger @SDullien Legal niceties as… https://t.co/ywtsH7sESo

@Alex_J_Thiele @KatharinaPistor @GrundSebastian @chwherrmann @hwieduwilt @PeterBofinger @SDullien Thank you Alexand… https://t.co/tAWx3Tst9A

“not one regime, but several, competing among themselves – some tempted by real reforms, others set on accumulating… https://t.co/h8UKjdus8A

“The envy of the whole world” Shanghai’s Disneyland became the first to reopen globally. At 1/3 capacity tickets so… https://t.co/0cCjvkKyZ3

Whilst Tesla is litigating the lockdown in California, in Shanghai the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICB… https://t.co/iRmEZjriGi

On the obscurity of the Spanish Flu pandemic in Germany in 1918/1919 this by Eckard Michels in VfZ is excellent.… https://t.co/u8zs1J2iGS

Not all “tech” firms are powerhouses of research and scientific publication. Microsoft and Google to a degree. Appl… https://t.co/68KHdEtAxP

Whereas in 1980 there was a relative degree of balance btw federally funded, univ and business funded R&D by early… https://t.co/vrTDeMm5XY

The ECB has offered to pay eurozone banks if they keep loans flowing to eurozone businesses but they have not exact… https://t.co/7FAqjTQay6

Germany’s effective national response to COVID-19 will not spare its export-orientated economy from the shock of th… https://t.co/KqEHV082QV

Push-back to debt sustainability worries is that interest rates are low. But we set those interest rates, via polic… https://t.co/lVzTN5FGH7

A shock that destroys 35% of the jobs of the lowest 20 % of the wage scale will have the effect of … raising the

No one at this point can rule out a V-shaped recovery. We simply have no experience, one way or another, to guide u… https://t.co/JxcGoQusdp

The official unemployment numbers are bad enough, but the collapse of prime age labour force participation gives a… https://t.co/shsh4gumNr

The employment-unemployment distinction is of only limited use in capturing the shock to the labour market from COV… https://t.co/7jW4xHPiSe

The numbers for unemployment, horrendous as they are, undercount the huge exodus of people leaving the labour marke… https://t.co/2so3beN56n

The number of those making initial unemployment insurance claims in Kentucky now = 32% of those employed February.… https://t.co/mrT85F3Xrx

The mismatch between human time + viral time: we make heroic efforts to cloister, suffer massive economic consequen… https://t.co/pNOD8ntyy5

The New Yorker on Igor Levit and his incredible living room concerts — his nightly twitter-streamed piano recitals… https://t.co/iqLCR4HTxL

Duration is what makes the Great Depression radically different … quarter after quarter of falling GDP. 2020 may be… https://t.co/3dyI2sw9Ez

I managed to mixed it up again with settlement dates and holidays, but at a €6.8bn average daily pace the PEPP stil… https://t.co/mBGkqjIu77

"there is likely to be a big difference between a downturn that is the worst since the Depression and conditions as… https://t.co/5Esn7pO8z9

Doom-loop in the Gulf? Debts in sectors most exposed to COVID-19 add up to 1/3 of Dubai’s GDP. Excellent piece by… https://t.co/45G6fpupTX

Beyond the DC beltway, views on Fed balance sheet expansion are divided. Such divisions are amplified in the Euro z… https://t.co/CtXIUq4TyF

Great thread from @michaelxpettis laying out his skepticism about prospect of CNY emergence as rival or replacement… https://t.co/cSDbDdktBR

In 2008/9 Dubai came close to bankruptcy. Then crisis-debt was concentrated in real estate and Abu Dhabi stepped in… https://t.co/ZVcm5QpCvm

How Europe splintered over contact tracing apps Centralized v. decent UK/France/Norway v. Germany/Italy States v. A… https://t.co/9cqKThVF9Z

The total number of medical staff deployed by China to Hubei is now up to 42,600. In US there has been some volunta… https://t.co/lJbebncb5p

4 ways of managing risk: 1. Individual – caveat emptor 2. Collective – looking out for your neighbors 3. Hierarchic… https://t.co/Ex1CPNMMqx

"In fact, politics – and specifically emancipatory politics – relies on the act of creation, affirmation, and inven… https://t.co/tktTV8CbBw

As social scientists Mary Douglas and Aaron Wildavsky pointed out in their seminal 1983 book Risk and Culture, “The… https://t.co/3GGUYavXJQ