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From drilling rigs to offshore wind: BP plans to achieve zero emissions by 2050. But the dilemma is that “It takes capital to transition and

SharkWatch50: "Activist Surveillance In an exclusive offer to Conference Board members for public companies to stay abreast of shareholder activism, track AGM votes, and compare

Post 2008 the world economy appears to have seen a downshift in labour productivity growth. @Conferenceboard one for @SoberLook https://t.co/pthmc03yle

Whereas fossil energy sector collapsed in March and has stayed down, alternative energy stocks have pulled away. @Gavekal via @SoberLook https://t.co/najC1xHvDX

"To begin with, all the “probablys” in Mr Ball’s chronicle seem a weakness. Soon, though, the conjectures become pointed. All of this happened, whether or

The Party is Over: How did COVID affect drug use? Unsurprisingly cannabis up, ecstasy down! One for @SoberLook economist.com/graphic-detail… https://t.co/7daK5I4jYf

Every facet of the Thai economy was contracting in Q2 2020. @SoberLook https://t.co/k9b1Y2Cpi2

"wouldn’t an America of 1bn people be horribly crowded? No, it would be as sparsely populated as France is now.” @TheEconomist reviews @mattyglesias economist.com/books-and-arts… https://t.co/o2TFmMDUFF

“Extinguish your heart”: What bothered him was that S-21 was meant to be a tool to find out truth. Or so he had convinced himself.

Egypt’s core inflation has seen a remarkable decline from 35% in 2017 to near zero in the summer of 2020. @SoberLook https://t.co/BviiDmhUE0

RT @gunner_schmulke: Armour boneyards https://t.co/JZFExWIeZ1

RT @PaulaSKirby: Life in the #DDR: #Berlin Alexanderplatz, 1989, looking towards the Rathaus © @wilfredlegebeke https://t.co/raLWMh6sYg

RT @jdmccafferty: A broadside with a rebus, satirising in form of a gypsy's prophecy Frederick V's defeat at the White Mountain & subseque…

RT @YesSirHumphrey: Oh, well, Minister, as long as you are not asking me to resort to crude generalisations and vulgar simplifications such…

@davies_will @NewHumanist Seriously, I am going to adopt a suitably adjusted paraphrase as my mantra (with credit to you). It is the bridge Ive been

@summaecodex Was hoping someone would say that … so what are your sources of phosphate optimism?

"This isn't about ideological purity, but about transformation of the rules and practices of everyday life, as a matter of existential urgency.” @davies_will on the

This passage in @davies_will interview with @NewHumanist magazine is brilliant: In current crisis, critical social science must do what liberalism can no longer do i.e.

Since April the number of COVID vaccine candidates has exploded from 115 to 321 on 3 September 2020. 6 are in Phase III trials =

Clinton grumbled in another early 1993 economic meeting. “We’re Eisenhower Republicans here, and we are fighting the Reagan Republicans. We stand for lower deficits and

Say, just say, that Biden wins in November, how long before GOP starts worrying about the deficit, and invoking gloomy CBO debt forecasts? Nice article

Whilst the whole world is talking of uncoupling btw China and West, western financial institutions are going the other way. Looking for any route into

In East Africa, in collaboration with local special forces, the CIA and MI6 are continuing the war on terror. Remarkable report on "kill or capture”

The pattern of Europe’s trade is truly that of a workshop economy: big surpluses with US, UK. Deficits dominated by logic of cheap labour (China,

Institutionalized mercantilism. European Commission display of trade data: Imports, Exports -> trade balance, which starts with the largest surplus and works its way down. You

Bob Frankston, the programmer who designed VisiCalc the first spreadsheet program with Dan Bricklin in 1978/9, noted that "instant hard figures, so recently a luxury,

Peak phosphorus? Mined from rock phosphate. Combined in mineral fertilizers with sulphuric acid, nitrogen, and potassium. KEY to current agricultural production systems. Existing rock phosphate

In a world of globalized supply chains, firms that import also export -> US tariffs since 2018 have been equivalent to a 2-4% tax on

"“by the break of day … a flash” interrupted the kósmic seasons of our economy” – GWF Hegel Phenomenology In this case the flash was

Is “state capitalism” a useful category? Useful critical review of literature. Alami Dixon State Capitalism Redux? (2019) H/t @madeline_woker journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… https://t.co/LIkrpCezNK

RT @RobinBrooksIIF: Dollar weakness is all wrong. The fall vs G10 (black) is the US reflating at expense of Euro zone & Japan, which have

Has anyone read anything good on “Grand Theories” of EU’s development and 2020? There was a flurry of debate in recent years between liberal intergovernmental

Last week the ECB took a ever so slightly hawkish position on inflation in 2021. But the most pressing problem is not the average across

If Europe’s relations with China are now also becoming more frosty, which European companies will feel the pressure? Not sure this @ReutersGraphics looks quite right.

CalFire, California’s fire-fighting agency, says about 3 million of the state’s 12 million homes are at high risk from wildfires. Could that destabilize mortgages, MBS

"to surprisingly little fanfare”, the ECB has introduced rocket fuel to central banking: dual interest rates! @ericlonners @economistmeg Make the case for a (not so)