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Hit by hurricanes and citrus greening Florida’s citrus production collapsed last year to lowest since WWII.… https://t.co/ILIwmByAUd

J-curve effect: devaluation is causing Turkey’s current account to deteriorate before it gets better as substitutio… https://t.co/GLGPi8DwmH

good points from Nordvig. https://t.co/DTfSGHZlzM

Turkey’s support for Qatar in the clash with Saudi pays off with $15bn loan. Map by @Stratfor… https://t.co/QwnnOCrLjO

Why you should all follow Karthik. https://t.co/Qh8hJ8z4Gt

China’s weakest banks are probably in the postindustrial North, but its most overburdened local governments are in… https://t.co/Xtw7b5WTE6

“Turkey’s gotten hit by a double whammy this year: It’s among the most dollarized economies among emerging markets,… https://t.co/WUopwf1h7M

Though, like everything else, central government spending in China has been growing, it is really at the local leve… https://t.co/2jxrYozZqU

In 2015-2016 the fall in Shanghai stock exchange triggered frantic response by Beijing, this time the market adjust… https://t.co/lnqPG3OtYh

Energy makes up 2/3 of turkey’s current account deficit! While global oil is up only 6 % on the year for the Turks… https://t.co/2lAVDmzosg

"All told, the signals hint that this year's Beidaihe is going on for longer than usual. If rumors are correct, Xi… https://t.co/6ogqBx2ew0

@anilvohra69 @SoberLook Poops sorry

Disunited States: The cultural and political zones of the US mapped by type of settlement and colonization. Why mak… https://t.co/CmiOtkfRtf

@davidfickling @RajaKorman One of those exchanges that makes you feel really good about twitter!

@georgemagnus1 @Brad_Setser @davidfickling great point!

@davidfickling I totally agree. I used to teach a lot of Mark Harrison’s stuff on inflation in the soviet system an… https://t.co/Z2U7VQnEDf

@davidfickling the overland point is very well taken. That figure you have for $1bn of merchandise on a big container ship is mind-blowing!

The India-auto discontinuity to come: Currently sales of cars and commercial vehicles in India are only 4m units v.… https://t.co/xV6I2xaypQ

@davidfickling Really learned a lot from it. Its a fascinating theme.

China’s huge investment push is spread inefficiently across many unproductive regions. Will this lead to “imperial… https://t.co/NeoFSSS7Zf

Value of freight btw Europe and Yiwu on land route is only $330m in 1st 4 months of 2018 = one third of what you’d… https://t.co/kFn0DVk22c

Is China underspending on the maritime Silk Road and concentrating too much on difficult and uneconomic land routes… https://t.co/tz0vMYuGKh

Railways, ports, coal mines, roads, industrial districts, airports – One Belt One Road Projects across S and SE Asi… https://t.co/uLHHqzFuxr

This graph is supposed to illustrate that China is hitting the limits of its labour force. But what I find more str… https://t.co/8uezrcNlAK

Stop-Go: The belt-tightening at Chinese SOEs is showing up in reduced investment following the stimulus surge of 20… https://t.co/rd0V9L7JH1

Though inequality in Turkey has been falling in the last decade, it has no redistributive tax or welfare system to… https://t.co/HCXTOkofWy

The EU is a transfer union of sorts, just hopelessly undersized in relation to the degree of interconnection. Germa… https://t.co/1GfUHUPARk

@thescottwolford Im really looking forward to reading you on U Boats.

Wow this really looks like a lot of fun! Look forward to reading. https://t.co/TXLW3oZYCI

Putting the Turko-American trade war in perspective: Iraq and UAE are more important export destinations for Turkey… https://t.co/gVDPCnWtar

Opting out of the trade war: Over 16,000 requests for exemptions from tariffs have been filed by American business… https://t.co/cvSGxs9TAQ

The unemployment trend in Turkey has not looked good since 2012. Rate has crept up from 8 to 12 % with latest burst… https://t.co/n3evW5ETJT

9% of American consumers are tangled up with debt collectors v. 12.5 % before medical bills were removed from the d… https://t.co/0aDK6Npgo2

The ONS spells it out: 2008 crisis ten years on: https://t.co/EbnSSyNUiC