“Nigeria is fuelled by off-grid diesel and by developing gas the government is really going to be retiring that diesel generation in-country and replacing it
RT @Gilberto42: #USPolitics Adam Tooze: "An increasingly morbid and dangerous spectacle." twitter.com/adam_tooze/sta…
“Exxon was a superpower — a blue-chip stock, a firm with a calling card to foreign leaders that rivalled top international diplomats, and with geopolitical
RT @davies_will: twitter.com/danieljhannan/… https://t.co/GIa2HabqON
RT @RebeccaSpang: How do revolutions–periods of great political, social, cultural uncertainty + possibility–happen? I have been thinking…
most popular on @guardian US: “Dark COVID outlook” “Poll trackers” Huge spiders on MoD sites Murder hornets Donald Trump Jr and MAGA porn … I
"In Nigeria as a whole, manufacturing value-added accounted for nearly 12 per cent of GDP in 2019, up from 7 per cent a decade ago,
Wilson v. Hughes in Nov 7 1916, in the middle of World War I, was the first American election that was followed by the entire
Nov 1916, in the middle of World War I, Wilson v. Hughes was the first American election, which was followed by the entire world as
In 2013 with exquisitely bad timing, with Vladimir Putin watching on, Exxon signed deals with Russia’s state-controlled producer Rosneft and planned a colossal offshore exploration
JPMorgan reassures clients about Biden's corporate tax plans: “rate has been drifting lower since 1960s. Would require significant political will to push rates higher. Headline
This is spot on: “social market economy” is a pet name for capitalism! twitter.com/popp5201/statu…
"Cheap imports from China and India have wiped a thriving textile industry in the north. Kano, with its famous dye pits, was a major textile
RT @LeapingRobot: @adam_tooze The Turner Diaries came out in 1978…all part of the same survivalist stew. (Thanks for your interest in m…
RT @QLilleyman: @adam_tooze @davidpilling An actual "free market" sounds expensive
"In 1975, the former Green Beret Robert K Brown began publishing Soldier of Fortune magazine out of an office in Boulder, Colorado.” @LeapingRobot on survivalism
@PureGuesswork @glacy Precisely … it is horrifying and thus had the ring of truth. Thanks for clarifying. BIG source of relief. 🙂
RT @teasri: @adam_tooze @GoldmanSachs Taxes are second order–the deficit spending is first order. Levy-Kalecki equation.
Taxes would be “most direct consequence of a Dem sweep” @GoldmanSachs estimates Biden’s tax proposals would cut S&P 500 earnings by 9 % “excluding 2nd-order
@PureGuesswork @glacy Wow … sorry. That is a crazy error. I will unretweet …. Jeezus …. Why cant folks get this kind of basic stuff
Hertie Foundation: Commissioning an Independent Study into the Nazi History of Hertie – Sign the Petition! chng.it/cYCPsw4Z via @Change This is an important initiative which
“In order to go into any form of production in Nigeria, you have to create a mini-state: your own security, water, electricity, roads. That inevitably
RT @fab_hinz: Not to be outdone by Egypt, Algeria ups the ante in the regional shirtless parade competition. https://t.co/SifXwvySBN
Despite today’s sheen of Day-Glo nostalgia, the 1970s were saturated with dark, doomy and unsettling currents. Survival supplanted revolution as the new decade’s vital watchword.
Shanghai container rates have surged to near record levels as China’s exports boom. thedailyshot.com/2020/10/23/us-… https://t.co/vxGI5f6FCY
Françafrique has a rather different geography if you focus on billions of euros in FDI rather than language and historic colonial connections. @nssylla @madeline_woker ft.com/content/c86587…
In Cartagena, on Colombia's Caribbean coast, only 41% of households are eating three meals a day, down from 82% before Covid-19 left its tourist hotels
RT @CFBONFOX: Oklahoma State tried to get Texas to miss the field goal by putting up yellow lines on the video board https://t.co/Ac7wSVg5…
Not enough attention is being paid to deadlock in EU over July recovery package. Come Nov if the US elections go wrong way, we could
Yes, the Euro area needs to talk about the budget rules. A squeeze like that after 2010 could mean a lost decade. @WSJecon via @SoberLook
RT @Capt_Darling: At times like this, I turn to the wisdom of Malcolm Tucker: “Nobody moves, nobody gets truncheoned in the face. This is a…
UK agriculture needs to recruit foreign workers for the 2021 harvest but Brexit puts this in jeopardy: "We are over the other end of the
It was Japanese week on Bake Off & the Brexit-addled UK Department for International Trade is confused about where UK’s soy sauce actually comes from.
"Most of those looking to follow Mr Trump, such as Mike Pompeo, his secretary of state, or Tom Cotton, the Arkansas senator, are harder-line versions
“Some believe in accelerating response to risk of climate change, and suggest that our industry won’t recover,” Darren Woods EXXON CEO told 75,000k staff. “But
2020 the year when we track German hoarding of toilet paper. A new run is beginning. @SoberLook https://t.co/LQAoIgQZhg
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