Did Truman understand that Hiroshima was a city? Horrifying questions from @wellerstein twitter.com/wellerstein/st…
The world economy at the end of the short 20th century: The number of employees in the world’s largest 100 companies by turnover 1990. European
"heteromorphic formation” Janos Kornai on “third way” market socialism. https://t.co/HG9EA1V107
"A large part of the jobs can be saved”. VW boss Diess tries to talk down anxieties about the shift to e-mobility. twitter.com/egghat/status/…
RT @vsualst: Nice to know that the famously imprudent (sarcasm font) Dutch are worried, but you’ll have to hold our Heinekens. Here’s the…
RT @JoeriRogelj: Look out for Monday: 3 years of work by an amazing author team finally concludes. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…
RT @yayitsrob: The New IPCC Report: Does It Slap?
@etbadabim @TheEconomist But it gets us headed in the right direction!
RT @LostArchitectre: "Moskva" Swimming Pool. Built in place of demolished church of Christ the Savior in 1960, demolished in 1994, replaced…
@MartyManley Thank you! Needs a bit of a push this morning 
At stake in trans-Atlantic carbon border adjustment fracas is far more than just technicalities of carbon pricing. Long Read for @ForeignPolicy And Chartbook #31 on
Things looking grim on the COP26 front in the UK! twitter.com/James_BG/statu…
"Removing the tax break on mortgage interest payments is one of the conditions Brussels has sought from the Netherlands in return for its share of
Decarbonization is costly @TheEconomist says but then spells out that "making cement with a third less carbon adds some 15% to the cost”. If that
RT @cdaffara: If you have any interest in understanding the complexities of political economics, Adam's Chartbooks are exceptional. Making…
Starting with @ForeignPolicy Long read Chartbook #31 is deep dive into carbon political economy. Picking up @dcullenward and Victor. Throwing a line across chasm to
"The Dutch property market has become a burning political issue. Prices of existing homes in the Netherlands rose 14.6 per cent in the year to
RT @161arti: super spannend um das linke argument *gegen* co2-preise zu verstehen (die linke lehnt ab ich glaub inzwischen auch fff) https:…
Carbon markets, a mirage? Chartbook #31 just dropped: An appreciation of @dcullenward and Victor pairs with @ForeignPolicy long read on trans-Atlantic carbon diplomacy & musings
By 2030 under EU proposals cbam-covered companies will receive 145m fewer tonnes of annual allowances = €12bn pa = 2% of the newly covered sectors’
Move lower in Treasury yields has confounded policymakers & investors: Clarida, Fed vice-chair = “surprised” Chair Powell called out investors who had pointed to “technical
“Document No. 15” circulating among Chinese banks in early July caused unease. It said that banks should stop lending to local-government financing vehicles with debts
In March on back of expectations of rapid recovery & inflation, yield on US 10-year Treasuries surged to 1.8%. Then as bonds rallied surprisingly strongly,
“Seeing that there is a lot of under-investment in [oil] supply it’s a great opportunity for us …. We are diligently working to increase capacity.”
China’s CNOC & France's Total are investing in Uganda’s last-ditch effort to become an oil exporter with a $3.5bn heated pipeline along lake Victoria and
At present, America is producing more output than it managed just a year and a half ago, with roughly 6m fewer workers. But will there
This weekend, Taliban over-ran Sheberghan, capital of northern Jowzjan province = stronghold of Abdul Rashid Dostum, powerful anti-Taliban warlord, formerly vice-president to Ghani. ft.com/content/7cb630… Check
RT @marinamaral2: Isambard Kingdom Brunel was an English civil engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures i…
RT @AlexSteffen: It is very difficult, though, for most people—especially those who don't live in the West—to understand the sheer scale of…
RT @BoneyAbroad: Today is an important and misunderstood #OTD for the Hawker Typhoon. The 7th August 1944 saw the launch of von Kluge's Op…
Back in February 2019 I sat down with two friends – Mark Blyth of Brown University (he of “austerity” and “angrynomics”) and Brendan Greeley of the FT – to talk about political economy, the 1970s, the “China shock”. It was a really good conversation. Recalling the scene – I think it was in my Columbia office – it seem as though it comes from another world. But the content has stood up well.
RT @_ppmv: hear me out, what if climate dismissal and denial are not unfortunate dysfunctions to 'solve', but vital signals of the function…
RT @CyrilPedia: 'Western aid spending often exceeded the measured size of Afghan GDP. The figures have a surreal quality. How could you fit…
RT @NewStatesman: In the 1990s, the Taliban exploited and took charge of a country eviscerated by war with the Soviet Union. Will it do t…
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