RT @BJMbraun: Collective response to the appallingly bad-faith Schäuble piece. Full rebuttal in tireless @Frank_vanlerven’s thread below.…
RT @Frank_vanlerven: Mr. @Wolf_Schauble makes the shocking claim that public borrowing exacerbates inequality🤬. Regressive taxes + deep sp…
Come September it is really crucial that @Die_Gruenen take a strong line on fiscal policy in the coalition negotiations. Delighted to hear Robert Habeck so
Given concerns about state of democracy in UK and US it is easy to underestimate scale of dissatisfaction also in Germany over issue of lobbies
Rolls-Royce's 'Spirit of Innovation' aircraft aims to exceed 480kph to break the speed record for electric-powered flight. Remind you of anything? thenationalnews.com/business/aviat… https://t.co/LAUwjmeOk1
The 500bn euro investment program of the German Greens is in the ballpark of the Biden program and would deliver a considerable growth boost both
RT @zeitonline: Das 500 Milliarden schwere Investitionsprogramm der Grünen verspricht einen spürbaren Wachstumsschub für die deutsche Wirts…
RT @Frank_vanlerven: 🗞️New🗞️: "It’s time Europe stopped fetishising fiscal discipline" Letter to @FT from 142 leading mainstream + heterod…
RT @Jmhaas: Bin sehr gespannt auf ihre Antwort, @ArminLaschet . Wie wollen Sie die Klimaziele erreichen? Setzen Sie auf den CO2-Preis wie d…
RT @boell_stiftung: „Es ist wunderbar zu hören, dass die @Die_Gruenen dafür eintreten die Schuldenbremse in Richtung #Investitionen zu öffn…
His portrayal of Dick Turpin has haunted my dreams …. 🙂 twitter.com/PulpLibrarian/…
Heat pumps are generally considered a key to energy transition in domestic heating. Scandinavia leads the way. Germany barely on the map. Huge need for
RT @Holger_Nehring: @DEHEdgerton Yep . Some material here ucldigitalpress.co.uk/Book/Article/5…. Some assembly sites have even been designated as heritag…
Das große Rad drehen: Ökonomie und Psychologie der ökologisch-sozialen Transformation Moderiert von Ellen Ueberschär (Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung) entwickeln Adam Tooze (Columbia University NY), Robert Habeck (Bündnis 90/Die
RT @newschannelnine: There are more than 250,000 jobs available in Tennessee right now, but some lawmakers say there’s a catch with that nu…
RT @ezraklein: On the right, the barest glimmer of worker power is treated as a policy emergency, and the whip of poverty, not the lure
"Iranian crude has nowhere else to go, so China has been quietly buying it at a 20%-30% discount," a market source in Japan said. "This
RT @picharbonnier: L'horizon d'un capitalisme décarboné est-il le seul qui s'offre à nous, comme semblent l'affirmer 🇺🇸 et 🇨🇳 ? Dans ce t…
“We are inside.” – Mark Hulliung, Sartre and Clio. Encounters with History (2013), p. 10.
The threat of inflation makes daily headlines right now. In most advanced economies, only people over the age of 40 have any personal experience of serious inflation. But scary historical episodes are easily to hand. The 1970s ghost through policy-talk.
Whether or not such historical clichés are at all relevant to our current moment, is one line of debate. I am on the skeptical side of the fence. Fifty years on from the last great inflation in the West, the political economy, has radically changed. The bargaining power of labour is far weaker. Today, the risk of a wage-price spiral seems slim. The global headwinds that dampen inflationary risks continue to be strong. Indeed, so stark are these differences that it seems surprising that simple historical analogies are taken seriously at all. What is truly intriguing, however, is a deeper and more basic question. If there are underlying changes in the regime of price-setting, is our current system of inflation measurement set up to give us a good handle on 21st-century price dynamics? How do you deal with a shock like 2020? In its aftermath, how do you recognize inflation when it does arrive?
Gerade erst hatte die Kryptowährung Bitcoin einen Rekordwert von über 60.000 Dollar erreicht, inzwischen hat sich aber im Vergleich dazu ihr Wert in etwa halbiert.
This newsletter is strong stuff, more Wages of Destruction than regular Chartbook fare. Some of the material is disturbing.
The battle of Stalingrad raged between 23 August 1942 and 2 February 1943 when the last of the German 6th Army surrendered. It cost the Red Army, the Wehrmacht and its allies, the Italian, Romanian and Hungarian forces, a combined total of c 2.5 million casualties, over 1 million of them KIA. It was the end of the last major German offensive on the Eastern Front, a turning point in the war and, thus, in world history.
In the last couple of months I’ve immersed myself in Vasily Grossman’s two-volume epic about Stalingrad – For a Just Cause (1952) published in English in 2019 as Stalingrad and the sequel Life and Fate (1960), which has long been famous in the West as an account of the war that the Soviet censors tried to suppress. Reading the books back to back was engrossing. It became a habit. A daily need. These aren’t books that it is easy to be “finished” with.
Financial capital and the courts are quietly creating the conditions to stop global warming—if politics does its part, too. Will the spring of 2021 prove
Last week the US government took the decision to extended temporary protected status to c. 150,000 people of Haitian citizenship living in the US. This status, first granted by Obama in 2010, had been put in question by the Trump administration. Deportations had gathered pace at the beginning of 2021. In recognition of the situation of crisis in Haiti, they have now been, once again, halted
Haiti’s conditions are extreme, but large parts of the Caribbean and Central America region are currently under huge stress. This flickers on the US radar in the form of the refugee crisis on the US-Mexican border. The most desperate migrants come not from Mexico, but from the Northern Triangle of Central America. UNCTAD warns of the risk of debt crises afflicting small island developing states in the Caribbean. Even in the Caribbean territories of France and the Netherlands, tensions are rising.
There was a time when the world still seemed a good – and above all simple – place for monetary authorities. Every few weeks, they
Call to Europe with FEPS – Europe needs to go big! What can the EU learn from the US and Biden experience in this recovery
Back in autumn 2019, when COVID was still just a twinkle in Satan’s eye, the world was already hurtling toward crisis. The Arctic Sea ice was
A roundtable discussion with: Anusar Farooqui, Yakov Feygin, Daniela Gabor, Robert Hockett, JW Mason, Saule Omarova, and Tim Sahay, moderated by Adam Tooze.
At the time of writing, the pandemic is continuing to take a heavy toll on the European economy, and even though an economic collapse has
The question of public debt hangs over Europe’s future. Brussels prefers to talk about other things—the Green Deal or social Europe. The European public is
When we think of tackling the problem of climate change we might think of smoke-belching power plants, or gas-guzzling trucks, or the guilty pleasure of
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RT @70sBachchan: @adam_tooze Utility-scale & transmission infra focused multilateral orgs hv misjudged rapid diffusion of 𝙤𝙛𝙛-𝙜𝙧𝙞𝙙 diesel g…
@tobilobalawson The point is that they cope without a grid to an astonishing extent.
In terms of $ of GDP per kWh of grid electricity, Nigeria is the highest performing economy in the world. A triumph of improvisation in
RT @JennaMC_Laugh: Catching up on this great insider tale of the Soleimani strike from @JackMurphyRGR and @zachsdorfman this AM: https://t.…
For anyone thinking about global energy futures it is truly instructive to share at least for a while the struggles of folks who have to
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