More than 11m people under 40 in the US lost their jobs in spring alone. More than a quarter of those under the age of
Surely the US economy chart of the year: new claims for unemployment insurance. A data series starting in 1967 with a previous peak of 695,000
Developing and purchasing modern military aircraft is just the beginning of the bills. Operating and maintaining them is outlandishly expensive. @StatistaCharts via @SoberLook https://t.co/1oEX7ssIrR
With the damage to the EU economies from the latest shutdowns, the latest update of @GoldmanSachs global GDP tracker took a turn for the worse
RT @laurimyllyvirta: I'm working to compile a plant-level emission inventory for air pollutants from coal-fired power plants in Russia, as…
The Debt Service Suspension Initiative is a sticking plaster on a gaping wound. Official bilateral debt service temporarily suspended (red). No buy-in from private creditors
At 25%, the major Western central banks own a five-times larger share of a much larger stock of public debt than they did 15 years
RT @JoMicheII: Right, let’s do this. Joan Robinson on investment and saving in 10 tweets or less. 1/ https://t.co/Nv07oifWnh
RT @AaronBastani: The first ever human genome was sequenced between 1990 and 2003 at a cost of billions of dollars. Today that same procedu…
Looking back on 2020, the Debt Service Suspension Initiative is the only coordinated debt-relief effort for LIC that the G20 managed this year. It is
RT @ianduhig: "New Year is nothing more than the continuation of Xmas festivities by other means." — Santaclausewitz
America’s big tech companies own a considerable amount of Treasuries. @DeutscheBank via @SoberLook https://t.co/BohYg09nnt
Of the 73 low-income countries covered by the DSSI, 43 are scheduled to spend more on debt repayments in 2020 than on the health of
China’s debt run up suggests the relative modesty of the fiscal effort. A surge of 3.5 trn yuan 2020 v. 2019. NB: Does not account
The Swiss central bank, which one might expect to be a bastion of monetary conservatism owns equities and ETF to thee tune of 25% of
@Jo_Barnes It may help that the drums are empty.
@PRoufos Hi Pavlos all power to you. Find a way to love, or at least to romanticize it. Love your “inner stakhanovite”. Above all Dont
@Luis5Henrique @UNCTAD This is ownership not registration. @UNCTAD has separate data for registration in which Panama is huge.
RT @alfredo_cunha: @adam_tooze Absolutely, but the aggregate number doesn't tell us the whole story. Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Brasil…
HI Uli Hi Robin … pinwheel …. Thinking of how best to reply to both of you 🙂 twitter.com/UliVolz/status…
RT @AlanSmithee1987: @adam_tooze @daily_barbarian In this sense, the functional equivalent of Metropolis is, I'm afraid, Nolan's Batman ^^
RT @AlanSmithee1987: @adam_tooze @daily_barbarian Pace Kracauer, Metropolis is symptomatic of Germany's failed revolution, it's about the l…
RT @vsiv: The Energy Act of 2020 is now law! And it's the first step toward tripling clean energy innovation funding to $25 billion by
I wonder whether there might be an analogy to the role played by Fritz Lang Metropolis (1927) and Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936) in their epoch.
RT @wang_seaver: …and of the top twenty, fifteen are ports in East or Southeast Asia. Also note that Shenzhen and Hong Kong basically to…
RT @PaulHRosenberg: Though, if LA & Long Beach were a single port, they'd make the top 10. twitter.com/adam_tooze/sta…
16.4, 16.3, 16.0: According to the latest ICP project data from the @WorldBank those were the global GDP shares of China, the US and EU
If the fiscal crisis in US states is turning out less bad on the income side than previously expected, this has to do with K-shaped
RT @just_KarlJ: Great listening to Jan Hatzius and his wise views! His suggestions are always valid! Godley’s sectoral balance approach | (…
RT @JMilla43874993: For those wondering how is Switzerland on the list. It is home to MSC, the world's second-largest shipping line in ter…
RT @e_sarotte: @adam_tooze Thanks! See also the English translation of Bozo… berghahnbooks.com/title/bozomitt…
Less stimulus than security checks: What Americans planned to do with stimulus checks. 50-55% used them to pay off debts/save. Crucial for well-being & sense
Of the ten largest container ports worldwide, only Rotterdam is not in Asia. @UNCTAD unctad.org/system/files/o… https://t.co/9E2vlLcQUX
The global shipping and passenger fleet is worth c. $950 bn Half of it is owned by Greece, Japan, China, US, Norway. according to @UNCTAD
Asian ports accounts for just short of 2/3 of global container traffic throughput. @UNCTAD unctad.org/system/files/o… https://t.co/55oIxh4LlT
RT @Antcon7062: Son just asked me there about machines invented in Ireland. Behold The humble syringe. Hope of the world in the coming mont…
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