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German Greens: gotta love a party manifesto that weighs up carbon pricing/just transition and plumps for 60 Euro by 2023 rising in conjunction with subsidies

In light of many obstacles facing national climate policy in US, worth remembering that subnational actors with significant climate commitments (e.g states, cities, businesses) represent

2/3 of global bond market is government debt. US+China account for half of all gov debt. Japan takes their share to 62%. A visitor from

@retepelyod @OECD @LauBooneEco If you look at the CBO numbers gross/net doesn’t explain the discrepancy. The @OECD figures line up with BEA data for the

RT @cath_slessor: There's a ship that ships ships. https://t.co/YOLE1LztVE

RT @RobinWigg: Found an old Norwegian newspaper at our cabin from April 9, 1940 – the day Germany invaded Norway. https://t.co/NcsPyygDid

Cost of solar in US to be driven down by 60% Great headline. Then you discover Dept of Energy plans to spend $128 million …

RT @RobinBrooksIIF: We've been banging the drum on how the US bond market sell-off risks doing serious damage to EM, by sparking a reversal…

The Korean War “shock” is really underestimated as a transient but fascinating moment in postwar economic history. HUGE significance for early history of West Germany

@markkuilmari @OECD @LauBooneEco Thank you. Thats really helpful. So BEA data agrees precisely with @OECD … so I am left struggling to understand gap to

2020 brought a shift in fiscal stance in Germany. BUT if these @OECD numbers are to be believed it was FAR from being enough to

@p_ceretti @genericecon @OECD @LauBooneEco That was my 1st idea too. But checked the net issue. As you can see from the US data. Nowhere near

“Rip-roaring” Haldane v. “More stimulus” Tenreyro … debate inside the Bank of England MPC over UK outlook are getting interesting! bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/LGiDPrDmWw

RT @blaetter: Das #Coronahilfspaket der #EU ist von historischer Bedeutung, sagt der Wirtschaftshistoriker @adam_tooze – und kritisiert das…

Central banks purchased half the net new issuance of government debt in @OECD in 2020. One for @SoberLook oecd.org/daf/fin/public… https://t.co/aXFvPCerw8

@genericecon @OECD @LauBooneEco I thought about that but state level debt in US is not big enough to account for difference … I think.

In Euro Area the fiscal response to 2020 – measured in terms of borrowing rather than guarantees etc – was in fact not much larger

What is the @OECD counting when it claims that US general government interest expenses come to almost 4% of GDP? Standard US sources e.g. CBO

At level of @OECD The fiscal shock of 2020 was far bigger than in 2007-8. One for @SoberLook oecd.org/daf/fin/public… https://t.co/mTV5JfiVEA

This is fascinating on German infantry tactics from the always interesting @BuddNicholas twitter.com/BuddNicholas/s…

@BuddNicholas Hi Nick what is the weapon slung over the shoulder of the Landser in the front far left of this picture?

RT @davidpilling: Thanks to @NOIweala @NgaireWoods @paragkhanna & @adam_tooze who helped me with this piece >> New Suez crisis: a global ec…

RT @MGSchmelzer: Wusstet ihr, dass der Schweizer Zementriese LafargeHolcim viermal soviel CO2 emittiert, wie die gesamte Schweiz? Aus Soli…

RT @LeusderListicle: I’m tapping the “rapid and accelerating cultural decline” sign again.

RT @COdendahl: The raw polling data on voting intentions in #Germany already has the #Greens ahead of the CDU, at 28 to 27. https://t.co/nJ…

RT @MerliAless: @adam_tooze @lucasguttenberg "Allowing itself" is also too restrained. I think they are a more than willing participant in…

@PhilippaSigl @mheger78 @Isabel_Schnabel @DanielaGabor No no … thank you for highlighting it. Super interesting. Hope all well at @DezernatZ !

@robertvz1704 @constantinweiss @schieritz @lucasguttenberg @SZ @BVerfG And the court is doing no one a favor by taking these cases the way that it does. It

@hsc55 @SCMPNews And I thought you were tweeting about Karlsruhe 🙁

RT @schieritz: @adam_tooze @lucasguttenberg Which as we learned thanks to @SZ have been paid by a right-wing billionaire in the past.

@lucasguttenberg Hi Lucas thank you for this clarifying tweet. But isnt your language almost too restrained. Again the court is allowing itself to be instrumentalized

RT @lucasguttenberg: The German Constitutional Court orders federal president Steinmeier not to sign the ratification law for the Own-Resou…

It seems that despite majorities both in Bundestag and Bundesrat the German constitutional court is holding up ratification of NextGen EU to hear opposing case

Restructuring the American Dream … literally. Why would a bunch of very smart money invest in a mall in New Jersey in 2017? Wasnt retail

In thinking about energy transition, reality check on what consumers spend their income on is helpful. In Europe in 2019, immediate purchase of food and

RT @tedfertik: @andrewelrod To my knowledge no one has done for the 70s what Maier, Feldman, Migone and others did for the 20s. Though ha…