I have a bit of an obsession with Albert Speer. But it isnt the personality or criminality that fascinate. It is this perverse moment of
I have a bit of an obsession with Albert Speer. But it isnt the personality or criminality that fascinates me, but this perverse moment of
Chartbook Newsletter #25 just dropped. The economic history of WWII raises a lot of technical questions, but the big issue is who gets to make
RT @ErikFossing: We need a full-day seminar on this @adam_tooze twitter.com/benbawan/statu…
Reverting to Cameron/Osborne playbook on China & city of london but now with an aircraft carrier in the “indo pacific” …. Sweet! twitter.com/nvondarza/stat…
RT @70sBachchan: Extreme & prolonged rains/flooding/tornadoes in US midwest & heatwaves in N India are linked by a planetary Rossby Wave. "…
@DuncanWeldon 21st wage-price spiral …
In fact now I think of it: How about a comparative study of the transnational networks of economic expertise in all the European countries: Germany,
Has anyone done a comparative analysis of the transnational networks of German and French economic expertise? Strikingly different as @BachmannRudi remarks here. twitter.com/BachmannRudi/s…
RT @BachmannRudi: Wow. Das haette man so eins-zu-eins in der Bildzeitung und von manchem rechten Ökonomen in Deutschland lesen können, Frau…
Schmand – form of sour cream particularly popular in Bavaria/Austria – has its own entry in Germany's production statistics! twitter.com/destatis/statu…
RT @PeterBofinger: Ich freue mich sehr über die Ernennung zum Senior Research Fellow des @imk und die Zusammenarbeit mit den Mitarbeiterinn…
German politics really is WEIRD … this is @katjakipping of @dieLinke attacking banks for negative interest rates! twitter.com/katjakipping/s…
Deindustrialization, as far as the US is concerned, is almost entirely a relative phenomenon. In 1953 there were 19.35 m in “goods producing” work. In
RT @_SidVerma: "Don't cry because a central bank murdered the market. Cry because it had no other choice." — @TheStalwart in @LorcanRK's u…
@ClausVistesen @MMQWalker @duncanrobinson @ErikFossing @nina_econ Its a statement along the lines of “if we were in 2021 and the ECB was buying Greek bonds, even
@ClausVistesen @MMQWalker @duncanrobinson @ErikFossing Hi all, really appreciate v nice tone of this engagement starting with @ErikFossing Fraid Im not up for rehashing EZ crisis
TWO key trends visible in this US data on construction: 1. Backlog of homes not built 2. Difficulty of finishing construction in 2021 due to
Cash-strapped Iran has put pressure on Iraq’s government which owes $4bn for power/gas imports (sic) -> Iran halted its crucial supply of electric power to
Maersk, world’s largest shipping company, has proposed tax of $50/t of carbon rising to $150. Yet at the @IMOHQ in June, member states could not
In 2021 9% of central banker speeches mentioned inequality or distributional issues up from < 1% in 2009. ft.com/content/2188e9… https://t.co/9Z8SUuPXuP
Meanwhile on the other side the equator …. FROSTS hit Brazilian crops. twitter.com/FarmPolicy/sta…
@hardybazyan @alialsaffar @BasimaAbd @bezianvolt Ahhh I get it.
Why is there an anxious conversation about inflation in Europe? WHY? Core just dipped below 1%. The more I think about the Weidmann tortoise analogy
US real estate market has recently shown itself to be VERY interest rate sensitive. In 2018 30-year mortgage rates rose by about 100 basis points
Latest reading of the influential Case-Shiller national home price index, showed US home prices rising by an annual 14.6 per cent. BUT it is a
The areas in England most deprived of community assets ranging from parks to local retail. theguardian.com/society/2021/j… https://t.co/0f0f4zah3J
“As inflation goes up and the economy improves, the traditional hawk-dove differences across the Federal Open Market Committee are going to start to reappear” (Alan
RT @TheStalwart: I wrote about why all the inflation fearmongering so far has been nonsense. Hitting inboxes shortly. https://t.co/Pl5nZqsN…
@hardybazyan @alialsaffar @BasimaAbd @bezianvolt Fantastic. I guess the question is why it is not EVERYWHERE. It seems such a natural application. Technology is now proven.
@alialsaffar @BasimaAbd I imagine large-scale is very complicated. But I was thinking more of take up by households and small businesses as an alternative to
@LucioMM1 @SajadJiyad Fair point. But given the cost of power being mentioned or the cost of buying a generator, solar will pay for itself VERY
Why isnt Iraq awash with solar-powered air conditioning units? One panel will drive an efficient inverter mini split. @alialsaffar twitter.com/alialsaffar/st…
RT @SajadJiyad: It’s actually hotter right now in Baghdad than Basra, grid electricity is on for 5 hours per day. Generator prices at IQD 2…
RT @KenneyGeorge: Paywall. But this sentence in the second graf caught my eye. And why didn’t I already know this??? “Less than half (48%)…
Japan’s Hitachi will hire more digital talent from India to compete for stimulus/infrastructure/made in America business in US following a $9.5bn deal to buy GlobalLogic,
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