The Lotus Seven. Launched in 1957, the car was designed by Colin Chapman as “an affordable sports-racer” weighing just 329kg. Ron Hickman hoped to give
The geoeconomic imagination is drawn to visions of new Arctic shipping routes. But, as @alanbeattie points out, the trend in world trade is towards more
"Since the early 1990s India has been an exemplar of export-led growth, not only in services but also in manufacturing. Its export growth has been
The abandonment of conservative parties by young people both in UK and US is remarkable. Data from @DeutscheBank https://t.co/mbTJ4AIcy0
To build an internationally competitive textile sector China and Vietnam both drew on huge volumes of imported materials. Due to tariffs on synthetic fibre imports
RT @shoumitro_c: Based on new research with @arvindsubraman, we write about India’s Inward (Re)Turn and consequences for growth. First oped…
Talk of new global middle class far too easily elides HUGE differences btw China & India. Applying a $15 per day standard -> market in
In face of a 10% contraction of GDP India launches a $10bn stimulus. To call that “Underwhelming” is exceedingly polite. @AmyKazmin ft.com/content/c0d234… https://t.co/ZLmKCXBlEE
RT @BrutalHouse: Targeting Computer — Star Wars https://t.co/43SPt5vHwu
RT @70sBachchan: Barrett is a product of decades of Carbon firms (Shell, US Steel,Kochs etc) steering judiciary to support extractive proje…
RT @Frank_vanlerven: 🗣️Thread Alert🗣️ The @ecb preseident madame @Lagarde drops yet another 💣BOMBSHELL💣on the market neutrality principle.…
The PWC report on global billionaires makes for dizzying reading. But the illustrations are something else. I think they are suggesting that these are vehicles
Remarkable report on China’s power stations from above. @wiwo @LiveEO_space wiwo.de/wirtschaft-von… https://t.co/LL358hX6Jq
The @IEA says that new utility-scale solar projects now cost $30-60/MWh in Europe and the US and just $20-40/MWh in China and India, where “revenue
Trajectory of inequality in US & Russia post Cold War is telling. In early post-Soviet period it surged to unprecedented heights in Russia. Then stabilized
RT @jknyman: 2020, summed up by Tolstoy in 1867: https://t.co/jb0HKBeowg
Only One Earth, June 1972, the UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm. Indira Gandhi, the only head of government to attend other than
In the early 1970s amongst US University Faculty c. 30% identified conservative and 5 % far-left. By 2015 c. 12% each. This is the big
Want to know what currency markets think about US/Trump elections? Track the Ruble/Peso rate (sic). Ruble rises with Trump as peso falls and visa versa!
LBJ on Immigration President Lyndon B. Johnson's Remarks at the Signing of the Immigration Bill Liberty Island, New York October 3, 1965 lbjlibrary.org/lyndon-baines-… https://t.co/lIKJcHeWvh
"Washington in … 2018 was several months into a trade war. It was vicious, no doubt, but somehow reassuringly practical too. Among the neo-Roman grandeur
1965 marks a watershed in US demography and in the trans-Atlantic conveyor of migration. ft.com/content/72b8ca… https://t.co/serygeNFQd
Since 2005, nearly $220 billion of capex has been spent in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, bringing recent production to all-time highs above 2 million
"America’s 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act gets lost in lore of 1960s, but few events outside war and Depression have done more to change USA.
In the last 20 years life expectancy around the world has converged towards the AE norm of low 80s. Some low-income countries have made spectacular
The dash for gas or How fracking changed the US gas industry = crucial to the “all of the above” climate agenda of Obama administration
International Comparison Program (ICP) released new PPP on basis of which we calc shares of global GDP etc. Small revisions for 2017 marginally reduce share
Top decile share of national income in 1980–2016. Distribution of national income per adult, before taxes but after social transfers (pension and unemployment benefits). The
Great thread this on Otmar Issing’s latest “intervention”. twitter.com/zeithistoriker…
Chinese stock market used to be driven by retail investors. Today it is 70% institutional and 5% foreign. Huge shift in market dynamics. @KangHexin ft.com/content/7e2d1c…
Output gaps Oct 2020 edition: @RobinBrooksIIF @heimbergecon and the CANOO crew of all vintages have been waging a sustained campaign against these estimates. But, even
Hannah Arendt Arendt's 2nd major work, The Human Condition, began as a book about Karl Marx “the traditionalist”. twitter.com/Samantharhill/…
Coal cons per capita over the long-run. High-Income country data casts serious doubt on “substitution” version of Carbon Democracy thesis. In 1970s coal intensity is
Who Bet on Shale? Selected companies and the bet taken in shale gas and tight oil (Net M&A + Capex) BUSD real 2020 equinor.com/en/news/202010… https://t.co/mqJr3CQhNE
Yesterday Italy sold €3.75bn 3-year zero coupon bond priced at a slight premium to its face value, giving it a yield of minus 0.14 per
We used to pat ourselves on back for getting through 2008 without Smoot-Hawley 2.0. But @gtalert data, in fact, paint a grim picture of rising
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