Ever since start of summer COVID-19 has been a killer above all in the Americas. Relentless. ft.com/content/a2901c… https://t.co/8axoQkSThL
Leopold Pilichowski Portrait of Theodore Herzl, artsy.net/artwork/leopol… https://t.co/Dn8TrX8GpB
“Ability of central banks in the west to respond [to the pandemic] to an unimaginable extent and the limits of our ability to respond are
“We’re constantly on tenterhooks that we’re going to wake up to a tweet saying something like: ‘JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs: GET OUT OF CHINA!’” @patrickjenkins_ on
"OECD drafts principles for $100bn global corporate tax revolution Technical blueprint would raise 4% more tax but still needs political agreement” Such a telling headline,
RT @Grand_Continent: — @stephenwertheim, Tomorrow, the World. The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy, @Harvard_Press — Gérard Chaliand, Des g…
RT @70sBachchan: Xi's "Climate Neutrality by 2060" commitment at UN, with its implicit msg of marginalising the US, is now being challenged…
The generational shift to central bank independence between the 1970s and the 1990s as mapped by the @ecb ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpops… https://t.co/WTHMZ63x2D
In 1900 there were 18 central banks in the world. In 2010 there were 180. ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpops… https://t.co/iRHsWigLek
Enjoyable to follow the progress of Stuart Elden’s study of the young Foucault in diary format. Out next year. I look forward to getting Aner
Whereas early on in the Covid crisis the US led the world in terms of fiscal stimulus, this is no longer the case. All the
The generational shift to central bank independence between the 1970s and the 1990s as mapped by the @ecb ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpops… https://t.co/1MaTb06Uq9
In 1900 there were 18 central banks in the world. In 2010 there were 180. ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpops… https://t.co/JibWMnsbcq
Enjoyable to follow the progress of Stuart Elden’s study of the young Foucault in diary format. Out next year. I look forward to getting Aner
Whereas early on in the Covid crisis the US led the world in terms of fiscal stimulus, this is no longer the case. All the
"JR Central’s maglev train returns to the station after setting a new world speed record in a test run at the Yamanashi Maglev Test Track
As US army pivots to focus on "large-scale combat operations” -> counter insurgency, complex urban warfare etc are no longer top priorities. Out of frying
Data for hours worked give a less distorted impression of labour market conditions worldwide than unemployment figures which are warped by short-time working schemes. @OECD
A 2014 report issued by an independent think tank offered the dire prediction that by 2050, half of Japan’s regional cities and towns would be
Japan’s first bullet train line, between Tokyo and Osaka, opened in 1964. They have become a national icon and a valuable export. But what is
RT @VisualCap: Visualizing the World’s Top Plastic Emitting Rivers 💧 visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-th… https://t.co/SG39FyAlAz
RT @EuropeanArtHIST: The Eclipse of the Sun in Venice, July 6, 1842 – Ippolito Caffi (Italian, 1809–1866). #art https://t.co/EC8SrNeNHC
“Milton Friedman isn’t running the show anymore,” Biden told Politico in April. @alaashahine on the shift from monetary to fiscal policy. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/BOT8hI3MLF
The gap between China and India (and Mexico, and Brazil and South Africa) revealed by @OECD estimates for global GDP in first half of 2020
The gap between wages of married white men in the US and everyone else, including single white men, is really dramatic. @SoberLook stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy… https://t.co/FXAC7vKG1O
Where should the vaccine be made available first: 44% Americans plumped for the US v. 25% of Germans! Variety of different factors in play here
If you wanted to hedge against the polarization of American politics this year, one thing you could have bought were shares in gunmakers! Data via
RT @GWilliamThomas: @adam_tooze Strong Tinker, Tailor energy there
Carbon pricing? As @mmildenberger @leahstokes argue, it may be a counterproductive dead end. bostonreview.net/science-nature… But with expansion of Chinese system it will cover >20% global
Last week @BizRoundtable announced it “supports a goal of reducing net U.S. GHG emissions by at least 80% from 2005 by 2050.” = US 2016
There is something about the juxtaposition of Carl Schmitt’s aura on left and the 1970s outfit on the right that I can’t help finding very
Clearly it is true that China in 2020 isnt the locomotive of stimulus it was in 2008/9. BUT. It is only G20 economy going to
What share of workforce works in farming? What share of GDP comes from ag? In discussing what makes an “EM” and how they differ we
Carl Schmitt with his high school class of 1904. Paul Noack, Carl Schmitt – Eine Biographie, 1993, S. 181; commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carl… https://t.co/Y524mpr6ZA
Golden handcuffs? As its fx reserves drain away, Turkey seems bent on testing how far big EM can go in asserting national sovereignty v. The
As talk of uncoupling from China reaches new heights, foreign bond inflows into Chinese debt surge. Its a fascinating "trial of strength” btw different types
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