34% of small businesses in the US could not pay rent in October. 46% of beauty salons, 40% restaurants and gyms. This clearly isnt sustainable
The Ruhr (sic) "in search of narratives and images that no longer speak of the triumph over the world, but of a conscious interaction with
RT @PulpLibrarian: Do YOU have what it takes to be a pulp nurse? It's a demanding, exciting, glamorous and sometimes dangerous occupation y…
RT @NickWhithorn: Italian Life Senator Liliana Segre (90), survivor of Auschwitz and the death marches, today made her last ever public spe…
Faced with corona shock and unexpected surge in government support payments, US households have sensibly built up substantial financial reserves. @MorganStanley via @SoberLook https://t.co/4zQgnObLKw
Governing the climate? Very happy to have gotten my copy of this crucial book. And it will be good for my French. But why is
How the labour share of GDP shifted btw 1980 and 2020. Gotta say that I found these numbers surprising. Very small shifts in UK and
"If you envision dialectics as thought in motion, a thought that constantly faces up to circumstances, to the relation of forces, with concrete goals in
The rise of mobile internet worldwide is an astonishing trend. From 0 in 2007 to 5 bn plus people worldwide. economist.com/graphic-detail… https://t.co/Ya0us7bMEw
The City University of New York had 50,000 or more students who lost their jobs “overnight” following corona lockdown in the spring! And then the
72% of Latino and 60% of Black households in the US report facing serious financial problems during corona crisis so far! @RWJF @NPR rwjf.org/en/library/res… https://t.co/q1dTbEI5eF
RT @HKaaman: Thinking about the plumber who sold one of his trucks to a dealership in 2013. The truck later showed up with Jaish al-Muhajir…
In 2020 a remarkable thing happened in the midst of an epidemic and the lockdown-induced recession. Poverty declined in America! Poverty at US rates is
RT @DenisMacShane: IATA says of the 1.2 billion airline passengers since the beginning of 2020 just 44 have been confirmed as being infecte…
The changing geopolitics of energy. Excellent roundup by @TheEconomist of the competition btw fossil fuel US and the new Chinese (and European) ”electrostates". economist.com/briefing/2020/… https://t.co/ht5YkYsJit
@BristbyJohn @howmuch_net Wow! If true, obviously meaningless. You kinda gotta rely on your sources on something like that. How plead you @howmuch_net ???
Yet another week with a catastrophic number of more than a million folks signing on for unemployment benefits. Presumably, at this point, many people are
The trading arms of state-owned oil giants sinopec and China National Petroleum Corporation are now two of the three largest traders of crude cargoes priced
The Bay Area gets a huge amount of attention as a key hub of US economy. If you believe these numbers, its GDP is essentially
Energy future: Its hard to construct a scenario in which a. Oil demand hasnt’t peaked & b. Electricity demand is not going to surge. Some
2019: for first time, women outnumbered men amongst US employees. 2020: for first time women’s unemployment surges above male. @livrockeman @readep @catarinasaraiva bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/YhIZp9P97k
In Manhattan the return to work since March 2020 shutdown has been very limited. @WSJ via @SoberLook https://t.co/Ww92qEzk6P
Germany’s short-time working schemes have been extended. Given the numbers still enrolled in September you can see why (on premise of a rational policy process).
To combine the attractions of chess and poker. East and West. Guy Debord’s Game of War as a navigation the blocs in the Cold War.
If the ECB had hit its 2% inflation target since 2009 -> price level would have been 20 points higher. If you are a debtor,
Guy Debord à Champot 1983 with his “Jeu de la Guerre”. Interesting interview with Emmanuel Guy in @diacritik diacritik.com/2020/10/08/emm… https://t.co/ENpeSmhXks
9 October 1870 Léon Gambetta calls for a levée en masse to meet the German invasion and siege of Paris. twitter.com/Krieg7071/stat…
Fossil fuel industry sells carbon capture and storage as the magic bullet for the climate crisis. Right now 21 plants in operation. Mainly being used
Ok the candidate list for “peak 2020” just keeps getting longer and longer. This is John Brennan ex-Obama CIA director quoting John and Oko ….
Where is the eurozone’s labour market heading? Excellent round up of latest EU labour market data by @senoj_erialc ftalphaville.ft.com/2020/10/07/160… https://t.co/VzAns8G7Ue
Credit to large US corporations has surged in 2020. But credit to SME has expanded rapidly as well. @IIF via @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2020/10/08/stu… https://t.co/YMZnVX3TqC
There are 21 large-scale carbon capture and storage schemes operating worldwide. They are mainly used to pump CO2 into aging oil fields to boost production
Fascinating-sounding new biography by Natalya Semenova of turn of the century Russian art collector Ivan Morozov. Along with Tretyakov and Shchukin her helped urned Russia
Renewable energy production is surging in US, but as a share of total energy portfolio it is still painfully smalll. @pearkes @TheStalwart via @SoberLook https://t.co/IvSmiY3i6X
Public Investment in Adaptation to Climate Change: Needs and Aid Flows Currently aid flows running at $10bn would need to double to meet needs. Bangladesh
"For China’s leadership today, the problem is not so much keeping China fed but rather providing middle-class Chinese consumers with the foods they desire at
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