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RT @jessefelder: How to think about a trillion… nytimes.com/1986/09/28/opi… https://t.co/Q8ZmfyCRR4

London’s silver highway: photographs of the Thames at work. From the early 20th century when the city was still an industrial hub. ft.com/content/16ea46… https://t.co/L7MtVGOcth

"yield curve control was not warranted in the current environment” – remember Aug 2019 when Bill Dudley suggested that the Fed should join the anti-Trump

Since March 23 we have been in conjuncture defined by expansive Fed, declining $, recovery in equities. If Fed had committed to yield curve control

Watched #Coup53 new documentary about overthrow of Mosaddegh by Taghi Amirani. It really is engrossing. Montage of footage from different eras is fantastic. You won’t

Tech dominance of S&P500 is a big theme right now. I found this @FT graphic of rebound from low of 23 March eye-opening. There are

“What we’re trying to do is become as regulated as is possible” – why Wall Street and US power utilities love the regulated business. ft.com/content/cd66e8…

Hail to the Pencil Pusher American Bureaucracy's Long and Useful History – a while back @rortybomb re-upped this essay in the @BostonReview from 2015. He

"The Fed Shouldn’t Enable Donald Trump: The central bank should refuse to play along with an economic disaster in the making”. Bill Dudley Aug 27

Steel-for-fuel-for-profit favors green energy in US. The more they sink money into wind turbines, solar farms and batteries, the more they increase the “rate base”

"Pets are not cuddly toys,” – “one rule for all dogs”: Germany: Dogs must be walked twice a day under new rule. dw.com/en/germany-dog… https://t.co/niVYMPcbIG

America’s roads are deteriorating and there is no funding in state and local government to fix the problem. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/UTmT7zv2FU

RT @M_C_Klein: China’s Weak Consumer Recovery Is Bad for China—And World Trade barrons.com/articles/china… <– Europe and the U.S. have had r…

Aug 19 1870: "Undoubtedly, if General Moltke be old, his plans have all the energy of youth. Not satisfied with having once already pushed his

Even with current unsustainable fishing practices maintaining a constant production of fish per capita of global population will require continued growth in aquaculture. @FAO @UNCTAD

Since 1980s global consumption of fish has doubled but virtually the entire increase was met by aquaculture. @FAO via @UNCTAD h/t @SoberLook unctad.org/en/Publication… https://t.co/XoZ3a81aXw

Google has a 71% share of search driven advertising! @profgalloway And we wonder why the big 5 tech firms are driving surge in US stock

It takes Netflix and Amazon a lot of money to generate an Emmy! More great graphics from @profgalloway profgalloway.com/fire-fawning https://t.co/xJTX7nYx3L

The relatively recent surge in plastic production has rapidly created a huge problem of global waste and it is going to get worse fast. Huge

82% of American homes have Amazon Prime, more than voted in the 2016 election, have a pet, attend church, or decorate a Christmas tree. These

Amazon and Alphabet/Google both have more lobbyists than there are sitting Senators in the US Congress. @profgalloway profgalloway.com/fire-fawning https://t.co/hB1Up1x96G

RT @Joefranks72: @adam_tooze @ISABELNET_SA @SoberLook Given Sean Starrs' research on national ownership of largest companies, this indicat…

Last year, Amazon paid $162 m in federal tax while your largest competitor, Walmart, paid almost $3 billion. Do you think this level of participation

@sumlenny No doubt we will refer to UK as post-Brexit. But, in any case, the suggestion that membership in the EU was analogous to subordination

@sumlenny In fact, for a long time we did call Hungary post-socialist until it underwent one very dramatic transformations and then another. And, very obviously,

@sumlenny I am sorry, there is an obvious and far from merely formal distinction btw independent states in soviet bloc e.g. GDR, Poland and Soviet

RT @ryanstruyk: Do you personally know someone who has been diagnosed with the coronavirus via @CNN polling: APRIL: 22% yes, know someone…

Golden Age? How good a bargain are the TV/film streaming services? It depends- $ in subscription per $bn of content. What could possibly be funding

Ten years ago big tech/Silicon Valley did not spend much money on lobbying. No longer. @StatistaCharts via @SoberLook https://t.co/lDB1kviMvO

RT @ShazCoder: @adam_tooze Nope. One thing to note is that conception of rule of law is somewhat different in PRC. The purpose of improving…

@nboserup The argument of @TheEconomist piece was that the administrative law cases actually do involve challenges at least to the state if not, perhaps, the

Reversing economic time or shoots/snakes & ladders. We rolled a bad die & COVID GDP- shock/eurozone/2008 has hurled us back to: Q3 1993 if you

China’s legal system is a tool of political oppression but it is also, increasingly, a tool of property rights protection: huge surge of administrative &

What is China’s share of global luxury consumption? Is it really as low as the 10% share in this @FT @laureni chart? ft.com/content/c93882… In fact,

Louis Vuitton’s 2020 live show in Shanghai was attended by 1,500 people in person and another 104m online — roughly 2 % of global netizens!