July 8, 2020
"The problem is not so much Mr Trump as that so many Americans want him to lead them. The western crisis is a crisi… https://t.co/kR59uGHeyA
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A B-52 Stratofortress bomber flew halfway across the world to join two aircraft carriers in an exercise on 4th July… https://t.co/BlaQ2CMYtl
We started this crisis talking about Xi’s Chernobyl moment. Now we have Harold James debating America’s "Late Sovie… https://t.co/WAw6BZkMLL
"Not intimidated #AtOurDiscretion" … seriously, this is how the US navy responds to the nationalist propagandists… https://t.co/7REjo9BgtA
From a North Atlantic (W Europe-NY) crisis to an EM crisis: the balance of COVID mortality is now c. 80%+ EM with I… https://t.co/zN4qlddmpJ
“Safe China Construction": Xi establishes a special working group on political security on top of law enforcement t… https://t.co/rM5Y0yoyO7
Calabrian organized crime network Ndrangheta is a c. €44bn pa business. And what does a billion business do? It sec… https://t.co/k04sbByRdD
June 29, 2020 marks publication of third volume of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" in both Chinese and Englis… https://t.co/3VNEUGUjGa
Sterling’s faded illusion of sovereignty: 3 part @FT series on £ as EM currency: 1. Original provocation… https://t.co/4FrD932k7m
C-9 League (red) Project 985 (blue) Project 211 (pink) Are the three key groupings that dominate the upper reaches… https://t.co/t8jTmboOzV
"Foreigners sold more than $500bn of US government bonds during the second quarter 2020, and perhaps one-third of t… https://t.co/lH7cUbwfOR
In terms of FDI, China stands apart from all other EM, if that is even a sensible category. India, despite its bulk… https://t.co/wSkwMFEB6l
Philosophy, history and corona: Gotta love a public TV station like Swiss SRF that thinks that what we need now is… https://t.co/MA6prrVmEu
The opening of the Indian economy from the early 1990s was premised on huge reductions in tariffs. But has this pro… https://t.co/Q5qqgMiUQI
Foreign corporations are making big investments in India. The driver of these investments is often the need to buil… https://t.co/tJITjBt7zl
The EM to worry about: according to the IMF it would seem to be Egypt, Chile, South Africa, Turkey and perhaps Mala… https://t.co/d9r3zrxPNb
Earnings expectations for European banks are as grim as the IMF’s growth forecasts for Europe. IMF GFSR update Jun… https://t.co/5YTSSzSdM7
This comparison of Fed and ECB balance sheet expansion is instructive. Scale to date is remarkably similar but Fed… https://t.co/p6D1RwTLFn
Freue mich ausserordentlich über diesen retweet von @FabioDeMasi ! https://t.co/HCurtbIZTl
"History is a daily invention, a permanent creation; a hypothesis, a game, a wager against the unpredictable. Not a… https://t.co/2wSIM1rlvc
July 7, 2020
Philosophy, history and corona: Gotta love a public TV station like Swiss SRF that thinks that what we need now is… https://t.co/wUgN8Pdchj
The opening of the Indian economy from the early 1990s was premised on huge reductions in tariffs. But has this pro… https://t.co/NS9aqVPiQk
Foreign corporations are making big investments in India. The driver of these investments is often the need to buil… https://t.co/d2o6HfiwQm
The EM to worry about: according to the IMF it would seem to be Egypt, Chile, South Africa, Turkey and perhaps Mala… https://t.co/jBBrQ7OhjV
This comparison of Fed and ECB balance sheet expansion is instructive. Scale to date is remarkably similar but Fed… https://t.co/BoZFfyajF8
Earnings expectations for European banks are as grim as the IMF’s growth forecasts for Europe. IMF GFSR update Jun… https://t.co/m95Noi0q9h
Igor Stravinsky taking flowers to the grave of Sergei Diaghilev, Venice https://t.co/JOgFKGCq9F
@njtmulder @DominikLeusder @AntonJaegermm Piece saying the same re: Lyotard in @faznet https://t.co/QFo5Hs8zkP
@DominikLeusder I mean this is really the wheelhouse of @AntonJaegermm but Baudrillard's writing from the 80s and 9… https://t.co/jIJyeYP0q5
"History is a daily invention, a permanent creation; a hypothesis, a game, a wager against the unpredictable. Not a… https://t.co/Ha07rpO8DF
Poplar, London in 1975, a glimpse into a lost world by David Granick. If you are a young photographer remember to p… https://t.co/gGmtp6vah7
Aleksandr Bogdanov e Lenin giocano a scacchi durante una visita a Maxim Gorky, Capri, 1911. https://t.co/1jcXEJ7YVS
Ennio Morricone and Sergio Leone in primary school, 1937 https://t.co/Hyc5KWCthI
Monday COLD WAR joke Ceausescu orders new postal stamps with his portrait, but they won’t stick. Livid, Ceausesc… https://t.co/T4kAbkPCE3
Spain has plenty of mass graves - this one in Burgos. Fascism is death. https://t.co/PfRpqGXqWh
Fear God & Dread Nought: why make another Downton Abbey when you could do Admiral Sir Jacky Fisher, who dragged the… https://t.co/ihT0MXCJDA