Breaking: @bbclaurak sacked by BBC. I have no way of verifying this, but put it out there any way. I can always de… https://t.co/B1X4uwGYDW

News from Germany: Finance minister Scholz (SPD) backs the SPD's recent resolution that public investment that is i… https://t.co/mgTVv3rKnl

1/n As negotiators battle it out in Madrid over Article 6, time for me to share my (perhaps controversial) views o… https://t.co/79xOQo0o2N

Global electricity inequality is a tale of two continents: Asian convergence & African divergence. Decisions on fin… https://t.co/W4TyOqYMCe

@adam_tooze @abenanav @gabrielwinant Only a few articles on China's massive cuts to heavy industry -mainly Steel &… https://t.co/3iaI9g2bA6

Interesting that in French modernization discourse in the 1950s, planning was not advanced as an alternative to cap… https://t.co/ru0XS4hznL

Eugenics ... there’s an app for that! https://t.co/zftnSvMQzg

Ordiberalism in China https://t.co/Z8QeUGnZbu

Pelosi on Lighthizer tonight: “He’s been wonderful... We don’t waste each other’s time.”

@jpiacenza @facebook @Twitter @FoxNews DID YOU KNOW @FoxNews is the most-watched cable news outlet in nearly 70% of… https://t.co/OW3DqOqnDE

There's been little room for public debate on economic policy in China in recent years, so interesting to see some… https://t.co/8T95eoOdVw

Ich bedanke mich für die zahllosen Glückwünsche zu meiner Wahl in den Parteivorstand. Ich werde mich nach Kräften b… https://t.co/6BHswxRfGd

Schamanenkult #SchwarzeNull? @CDU hängt am "Fetisch", FDP nun am "politischen Symbol"?!? Wie wär's mal mit ökon. Pr… https://t.co/cgxrOnGhiJ

To make an ichnographic map in 1502 without access to an aerial viewpoint Leonardo Da Vinci had to walk each street… https://t.co/3VRKg9oGWH

"A gleaming skyscraper is an awesome sight. But when we admire one, we often overlook its foundations … that does n… https://t.co/7t6xvq5Fzx

There is an ominous correlation between Amazon deforestation and the Brazilian cattle herd. https://t.co/CCsXme3Ylp https://t.co/3wmRYkxf3o

Distress in the US energy sector HY debt market is idiosyncratic and not a sign of any wider systemic issues in the… https://t.co/vg06EnagkW

The flooding across the Midwest of the US has inflicted havoc on America’s farms and generated $5.3 bn in insurance… https://t.co/Jrvkvteuva

There are 114,659 homeless students in the New York City public school system = c. 1/10 of the student population!… https://t.co/wQqCdbARZ0

Government investment as a share of GDP places Scandinavians, Pacific and E Asian economies at the top, Eurozone ec… https://t.co/mBBdkbPsoT

Drill, baby, drill? Why Republicans are turning against offshore drilling in their backyards.… https://t.co/1sRvqdsc7l

@michaelxpettis Thanks very much to @adam_tooze @rodrikdani and Ernesto Zedillo for their generous early reviews of… https://t.co/zD8fWrIktQ

The implosion of the Argentine economy is indexed by the fall in car sales. @SoberLook https://t.co/J3U86zpVpo

If you had bought German bank shares in 1989 you would have lost money. @jsblokland via @SoberLook https://t.co/hMBSjqaVRe

There is a metaphor in here ... maybe something about expensive but fictional walls and fake problems! https://t.co/I9nZ0Bk2Mo

The French are *more* likely than Americans to have jobs during their prime working years 3/ https://t.co/E9gCrac81l

India doesn't have climate science denial but air pollution denial @adam_tooze. "Indian studies have not shown a co… https://t.co/JIoZb1QkGk

US has a higher gdp per capita than Canada, but that is due to the very much higher incomes in the top 10% of the A… https://t.co/SgWx3VWmYI

If you believe official figures, as ofn2016 Canada pulled ahead of the U.S. in median household income, with a $59,… https://t.co/sBSYRitVCM

The decline of coaltown USA. Extraordinary essay by @portereduardo h/t @paulkrugman https://t.co/MRwS7NoQRS https://t.co/BIl65hG6pm

This is a really excellent description of a coal town in terminal decline, which gets at several of the issues behi… https://t.co/qPyQtA67kP

Productivity slowdown in the US means that whatever wage increases do take place go immediately to unit labour cost… https://t.co/Li9SXCcHqG

White House and Congressional Republicans move to block any @WorldBank lending to China. @JamesPoliti… https://t.co/fizMyRnxJP

The world’s first very primitive "oil well" was drilled on the Absheron Peninsula near Baku as early as 1846.… https://t.co/QeSmZXunj6

Remarkable historical photo essay on Russia’s oil industry. BORIS EGOROV @dolphin278 https://t.co/q3w3QdlY3o https://t.co/WdfVFwQ1U7

"The global car market will have shrunk faster in 2019 than at the height of the financial crisis, with 4m fewer ve… https://t.co/LwUA6Ne6yl