@BristbyJohn @howmuch_net Wow! If true, obviously meaningless. You kinda gotta rely on your sources on something like that. How plead you @howmuch_net ???
Yet another week with a catastrophic number of more than a million folks signing on for unemployment benefits. Presumably, at this point, many people are
The trading arms of state-owned oil giants sinopec and China National Petroleum Corporation are now two of the three largest traders of crude cargoes priced
The Bay Area gets a huge amount of attention as a key hub of US economy. If you believe these numbers, its GDP is essentially
Energy future: Its hard to construct a scenario in which a. Oil demand hasnt’t peaked & b. Electricity demand is not going to surge. Some
2019: for first time, women outnumbered men amongst US employees. 2020: for first time women’s unemployment surges above male. @livrockeman @readep @catarinasaraiva bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/YhIZp9P97k
In Manhattan the return to work since March 2020 shutdown has been very limited. @WSJ via @SoberLook https://t.co/Ww92qEzk6P
Germany’s short-time working schemes have been extended. Given the numbers still enrolled in September you can see why (on premise of a rational policy process).
To combine the attractions of chess and poker. East and West. Guy Debord’s Game of War as a navigation the blocs in the Cold War.
If the ECB had hit its 2% inflation target since 2009 -> price level would have been 20 points higher. If you are a debtor,
Guy Debord à Champot 1983 with his “Jeu de la Guerre”. Interesting interview with Emmanuel Guy in @diacritik diacritik.com/2020/10/08/emm… https://t.co/ENpeSmhXks
9 October 1870 Léon Gambetta calls for a levée en masse to meet the German invasion and siege of Paris. twitter.com/Krieg7071/stat…
Fossil fuel industry sells carbon capture and storage as the magic bullet for the climate crisis. Right now 21 plants in operation. Mainly being used
Ok the candidate list for “peak 2020” just keeps getting longer and longer. This is John Brennan ex-Obama CIA director quoting John and Oko ….
Where is the eurozone’s labour market heading? Excellent round up of latest EU labour market data by @senoj_erialc ftalphaville.ft.com/2020/10/07/160… https://t.co/VzAns8G7Ue
Credit to large US corporations has surged in 2020. But credit to SME has expanded rapidly as well. @IIF via @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2020/10/08/stu… https://t.co/YMZnVX3TqC
There are 21 large-scale carbon capture and storage schemes operating worldwide. They are mainly used to pump CO2 into aging oil fields to boost production
Fascinating-sounding new biography by Natalya Semenova of turn of the century Russian art collector Ivan Morozov. Along with Tretyakov and Shchukin her helped urned Russia
Renewable energy production is surging in US, but as a share of total energy portfolio it is still painfully smalll. @pearkes @TheStalwart via @SoberLook https://t.co/IvSmiY3i6X
Public Investment in Adaptation to Climate Change: Needs and Aid Flows Currently aid flows running at $10bn would need to double to meet needs. Bangladesh
"For China’s leadership today, the problem is not so much keeping China fed but rather providing middle-class Chinese consumers with the foods they desire at
Tim Mitchell’s thesis in Carbon Democracy about ME oil displacing labour-intensive coal should be taken with huge pinch of salt. Through to the 1980s coal
Dematerialization is NOT a helpful way to think about modern economic development. Point well argued by @jasonhickel in @ForeignPolicy foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/18/mor… https://t.co/HwgMlS3QZA
As foreign investors have sold Indonesian, Thai and Malaysian domestic currency bonds, central banks, but above all local banks have stepped in to finance deficits.
"Historians and the Planet", this new essay by Christophe Bonneuil needs translating. Brilliant on the regime of “planetarity” around 1900. https://t.co/pX7T7HHCWI
Drug companies like drugs on which they can earn sustained profits w/o unleashing backlash about unfair pricing. Antibody treatment for COVID touted by Trump is
The downward pressure on Turkish lira is relentless. @TS_Lombard via @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2020/10/08/stu… https://t.co/eDKT3HR5VG
Beijing on Thursday joined the $18 billion Covax initiative that aspires to give lower-income countries the same access to vaccines as wealthier nations, bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/dVlHMZ7qbO
RT @diacritik: Emmanuel Guy : "Le Jeu de la guerre peut permettre une relecture stratégique de la vie et de l’œuvre de Guy Debord" entretie…
RT @michaelbauer_hh: Several critical voices (incl. on #econtwitter) have questioned the push by the @ECB to incorporate #climatechange con…
Obituary of activist Swami Agnivesh in @TheEconomist draws attention to problem of bonded labour in India. economist.com/obituary/2020/… This Reuters report of 2018 cites official figures
Good news from Italy! Italy's industrial production grew more than in any other major European economy, nearly closing the gap with last year’s level and
Europe’s short-time working schemes might be thought of as a new form of “automatic” stabilizer. Not so much a jobs guarantee as a pay guarantee.
Don't be afraid! twitter.com/NatalieAmiri/s…
RT @WarshipPorn: [2054 x 2795] HMS Hibernia in dry dock, Malta likely between 1855-60 from /u/An_Anaithnid at #WarshipPorn ➡ https://t.co/i…
The growth in global wealth of billionaires around the world since 2009 has been staggering. But the surge in China btw 2019 and summer of
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