At beginning of 2020 the US higher ed sector (private and state) employed over 4.6 m people. At the trough that had fallen to 4.2
The trend in Germany’s trade surplus seems to be in the right direction i.e. towards balance. @SoberLook https://t.co/y8ohwFB7vz
Since 2000 markups in US have surged v. Flatline in the EU. Suggests more competitive environment in EU v. Increasing oligopoly in the US. H/t
RT @bechara58: Think to myself, is it good, bad ou just ugly? Corporate equities and mutual fund shares by wealth percentile group @SoberLo…
Financial crisis and above allll the Euro area crisis did profound damage to legitimacy of EU. We are off peak anti-EU sentiment, but level is
The Euro area’s basic problem: GDP per capita divergence since 2008 shock btw Germany, France and Italy. @DeutscheBank https://t.co/rC8JBbVDLY
The degree of globalization prior to 1914 as measured by trade was impressive but pace of growth was gradual by comparison with the extraordinary, prolonged
RT @ArmorCollection: For the first time, we have our "Class of '45" together: the American M26 Pershing, the Soviet IS-3, and the British C…
RT @lindyli: .@CNN poll by gender: Men: Trump 49% Biden 47% Women: Biden 66% Trump 32% Ladies, we’re going to be the ones who save
RT @RowlandWhite: Everything about this picture of HMS Hermes during the Falklands War is epic. This was the sort of feeling I wanted to tr…
@arnoblalam Thanks for the clarification!
10. Lessons in Asymmetric Adversarial Reasoning (LiAAR) 11. Analysis of Corporate Access, Ownership, and Control I like the fact that these topics follow on each
"A Unified Theoretical and Computational Framework for Narratives in Information Operations" My favorite DARPA topic proposal for young faculty.
Cutting the Cold Chain (C3) DARPA proposal for young faculty awards. If cold chain is what I think it is, that is kinda malevolent.
Email with the subject heading: 2021 DARPA Young Faculty Awards … I kinda blinked before I realized what this was. Yup. DARPA as in Defense
The degree of globalization prior to 1914 as measured by trade was impressive but pace of growth was gradual by comparison with the extraordinary, prolonged
RT @SmithHelmut: In the event that we in the US need to see how its done. October 9 in Leipzig was the breakthrough day, but
RT @AP: BREAKING: WHO reports highest daily global total yet of new coronavirus infections: more than 350,000. apne.ws/eoCula7
RT @doberah: Germany's Bundestag approves plans for major new Nazi documentation center in Berlin focused on the suffering of people in the…
RT @EmilKalinowski: @adam_tooze @jeannasmialek @nytimes The best artist spinning colors about macroeconomics today is #DavidParkins illustr…
Since the financial crisis, business investment in the US has been falling further behind the long-term trend path capital accumulation had been on up to
34% of small businesses in the US could not pay rent in October. 46% of beauty salons, 40% restaurants and gyms. This clearly isnt sustainable
The Ruhr (sic) "in search of narratives and images that no longer speak of the triumph over the world, but of a conscious interaction with
RT @PulpLibrarian: Do YOU have what it takes to be a pulp nurse? It's a demanding, exciting, glamorous and sometimes dangerous occupation y…
RT @NickWhithorn: Italian Life Senator Liliana Segre (90), survivor of Auschwitz and the death marches, today made her last ever public spe…
Faced with corona shock and unexpected surge in government support payments, US households have sensibly built up substantial financial reserves. @MorganStanley via @SoberLook https://t.co/4zQgnObLKw
Governing the climate? Very happy to have gotten my copy of this crucial book. And it will be good for my French. But why is
How the labour share of GDP shifted btw 1980 and 2020. Gotta say that I found these numbers surprising. Very small shifts in UK and
"If you envision dialectics as thought in motion, a thought that constantly faces up to circumstances, to the relation of forces, with concrete goals in
The rise of mobile internet worldwide is an astonishing trend. From 0 in 2007 to 5 bn plus people worldwide. economist.com/graphic-detail… https://t.co/Ya0us7bMEw
The City University of New York had 50,000 or more students who lost their jobs “overnight” following corona lockdown in the spring! And then the
72% of Latino and 60% of Black households in the US report facing serious financial problems during corona crisis so far! @RWJF @NPR rwjf.org/en/library/res… https://t.co/q1dTbEI5eF
RT @HKaaman: Thinking about the plumber who sold one of his trucks to a dealership in 2013. The truck later showed up with Jaish al-Muhajir…
In 2020 a remarkable thing happened in the midst of an epidemic and the lockdown-induced recession. Poverty declined in America! Poverty at US rates is
RT @DenisMacShane: IATA says of the 1.2 billion airline passengers since the beginning of 2020 just 44 have been confirmed as being infecte…
The changing geopolitics of energy. Excellent roundup by @TheEconomist of the competition btw fossil fuel US and the new Chinese (and European) ”electrostates". economist.com/briefing/2020/… https://t.co/ht5YkYsJit
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