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RT @jeuasommenulle: Has anyone ever done an internship as cool as that? https://t.co/OXwdiYPZW3

RT @RobinBrooksIIF: The EM growth picture: 1. EM growth was trending down pre-virus 2. COVID-19 is now reinforcing this slowdown 3. Investm…

RT @JedKolko: Employment in industries where people can work from home is still down 3.9%, with little recovery. That's equal to peak-to-…

“If, for lack of fiscal stimulus, improvements in real US economy continue to lag badly, the Fed risks being blamed both for greater inequality &

Summer dream: the recovery in European tourism was real – a surge back to close to 2019 levels. No less real, is the 2nd collapse

RT @S_Rabinovitch: The first few rejections were frustrating. After the 15th, I had a lead. Amid all the focus on US-China decoupling, fina…

“CEOs have been much more downbeat in their outlooks than investors,” said Max Gokhman, head of asset allocation for Pacific Life Fund Advisors. “If you

So far in 2020 almost 5 m Americans purchased their first gun. Retailers reported that 40 % of sales were to customers who had never

India’s # of new COVID cases reported daily in India is now *2 US, with the country poised to overtake Brazil as the nation with

Excellent short thread by @schieritz on how endless growth on a finite planet may, for all practical purposes, be possible if value is subjective and

“Fiscal policy should not get used to a lax course, nor should it rely on interest rates to remain so low in the long run.

The Irish tax take as a share of GDP is half that of France. ft.com/content/c80dab… https://t.co/mkfut4mOOM

Low petrol prices in the US are a political choice. Only c. 20% of final price is made up of tax. Huge difference to Europe.

The demography of Ireland is dominated by one massive historic shock. Total population of Republic and N. Ireland is still almost 1.5 million LOWER than

Consumer spending in both Germany and NL has rebounded strongly from COVID shock. Data via @SoberLook https://t.co/u6bw1bsnrl

The Saving > Investment gap: Why a big Japanese government deficit is anything but a problem. Essential to maintaining the macroeconomic balance (on top of

Hearing a fascinating lecture by art historian Julian Brown on colonial Paris, starting with WWI memorials. Opening of fall series of talks being offered by

Freue mich dass mein @LRB Aufsatz zum US-China Konflikt nun in den @blaetter erschienen ist. blaetter.de/ausgabe/2020/s… https://t.co/JLS26T8dUh

RT @nick_kapur: Athens, GA is where the University of Georgia is located. 2 weeks after the university reopened with mandatory in-person cl…

RT @chuckmcshane: Rural areas hit even harder with urbanization, too. Leitrim, for example had 155,000 people in 1840, and only 32,000 toda…

RT @KevinMKruse: I thought the “what’s in it for them?” comment was jaw-dropping, but I didn’t realize Trump allegedly said it to John Kell…

“Fiscal policy should not get used to a lax course, nor should it rely on interest rates to remain so low in the long run.

The Irish tax take as a share of GDP is half that of France. ft.com/content/c80dab… https://t.co/VIHTbYwQTS

The demography of Ireland is dominated by one massive historic shock. Total population of Republic and N. Ireland is still almost 1.5 million LOWER than

Consumer spending in both Germany and NL has rebounded strongly from COVID shock. Data via @SoberLook https://t.co/esCP66brZ1

The Saving > Investment gap: Why a big Japanese government deficit is anything but a problem. Essential to maintaining the macroeconomic balance (on top of

RT @michaelxpettis: In this very important article @adam_tooze asks: “What is the proper role of central banks? What is the political basis…

RT @oonahathaway: I thought I could no longer be surprised by this President, but this is shocking: The Commander in Chief calls war dead "…

“Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than

RT @heimbergecon: German Bundesbank president Weidmann is again calling for fiscal austerity in the aftermath of the Corona crisis. It seem…

Since 1970: the population of New York, Chicago and Boston have all contracted. Even San Francisco’s population is barely greater than it was in 1970.

China’s financial system is organized around a complex system of interest rates with a large gap btw deposit rate and lending rate. @DanskeBank_DK via @SoberLook

Hearing a fascinating lecture by art historian Julian Brown on colonial Paris, starting with WWI memorials. Opening of fall series of talks being offered by

Delighted to be in September issue of @blaetter blaetter.de/ausgabe/2020/s… https://t.co/nP8cPOhHJo

RT @artvallotton: The Good market (Triptych), 1898 #swissart #felixvallotton https://t.co/OFZbTQiO0n

Globalization constrains national economic sovereignty. But there are ways, at a price, of softening those constraints. For EM with large export potential one route is