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RT @distractedfilm: GREAT ACTOR RETRO: Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole. https://t.co/7nhbkfsDs2

RT @labour_history: Nye Bevan on the Miners Life – Daily Express – 1932 “Here are the sudden perils: Runaway trams hurtling down the line…

RT @AntoineVanner: In 1878 excursion steamer Princess Alice was sunk in the river Thames just downstream of #London. At least 640 people di…

"If every state with a Mediterranean coastline were to make max jurisdictional claims that sea would contain no “free” space at all.” @thegreatkellino new book

Chartbook #1: Over next few weeks I’m experimenting with a new format that will pull together the best charts, data, links, book suggestions etc from

"Perhaps, in the end, modern history and politics already is Anthropocened politics. Our ways of talking and acting politically, and our sense of modern history

@CornellatYale @SoberLook That is the next step.

NEWSFLASH: Chartbook #1 I’m experimenting with a new format. Every few days I am pulling all the best charts, links, books from my twitter feed

"you get stable politics once you remove the threat of the end of days from daily political life, primarily by denaturalizing it." Kelly , Duncan.

“Suddenly, hope” The cover of @TheEconomist says it all. https://t.co/IlTR46YaQL

"£20m in compensation paid by Brit gov to slavers for loss of their human property equated to 40% of state’s annual expenditure at time. Until

When it comes to the cold chain, mRNA vaccines are extremely demanding. @business via @SoberLook https://t.co/iDuya5uUvo

Biden was touted as unity candidate who would bring white non-college voters back to Dems. It likely didn’t happen. Instead 2020 saw increased polarization amongst

Oct Fiscal Monitor by @IMFNews offers a remarkable sectoral anatomy of global corona stimulus. In AE 9% GDP direct budget, 11 % guarantees. In AE

Between 1950 and 2020, North America saw the smallest increase in its urban population of any continent in the world, including Europe. @StatistaCharts via @SoberLook

The @IMFNews has scored corona stimulus responses by their climate credentials. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, Trump’s USA does not come out well. Can a Biden admin wrangling

In a desperate effort to stave off worst affects of corona lockdowns, coverage of social assistance worldwide was extended to an extra 22% of population,

S Africa unemployment rate is a staggering 30%+ @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2020/11/13/why… https://t.co/QBdoDesOhc

RT @vtg2: Quarles says the Fed has requested membership to the Network for Greening the Financial System, and he expects them to accept.

RT @envidynxlab: I've flipped my @geogsouthampton Y1-S1 survey into a DIY podcast – "Geographies of Risk" – and made it freely available: h…

RT @RobinWigg: Old enough to remember when Schwarzmann compared Obama’s plans to raise tax on carried interest to Hitler invading Poland.

RT @thephilippics: Well, it's complicated. https://t.co/jGM5rBlJRb

I gave up two thirds way through. It was not helping! twitter.com/pathtopraxis/s…

“Allowing high uncertainty, based on projected decline in per capita incomes, 100-110 m people globally are expected to enter extreme poverty relative to pre-COVID projection,

QE-style interventions by central banks are now a spectrum running across AE and EM rather than a distinguishing mark of AE. Purchases of central gov

@alex_callinicos Convened at Yale school of management with tim Snyder as its ideological guide?

Following shakeup in Turkey, promise of a change in policy and interest rate hikes -> exchange rate recovered last week and yields on $-denominated debt

The corona fiscal stimulus in @IMFNews Fiscal Monitor Oct 2020 show both scale difference btw AE, EM, ILC AND the near universality of some kind

Potatoes are a key part of diet in Northern India. Their prices are currently surging at an alarming rate. @SoberLook https://t.co/WjUYqjXwxY

"Economic Demands Test Biden Even Before Inauguration With the recovery slowing and coronavirus cases surging, Democrats must decide whether quick action on federal aid is

This set of slides by the great Bob Jessop on a Green New Deal is fascinating, all the more because it dates to 2011! unrisd.org/80256B42004CCC…

Since 2014 online share of Chinese retail has surged from 10% to close to 27% with pace of transition accelerated by corona crisis. @gavekal via

Issuers from Asia ex-Japan have sold over $323 bn of $ bonds compared with $326 billion for all of 2019. Chinese borrowers led the charge

Pfizer and BioNTech’s Vaccine will ship in ulltra-cold boxes. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/zhcoTCxp5D

Foreigners own almost 10% of China’s Treasury Bonds. Natixis via @SoberLook https://t.co/QKrRCx2AUn