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"We are in the middle of a rapid-fire monetary easing in China. The chart below shows the 7-day interbank interest… https://t.co/rYGXugo2Ec

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Health care expenditures are rising for everyone in the US. But they account for 19% of the disposable income of po… https://t.co/gQr3kNWoY8

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Broad measures of labour market activity – U6 and discouraged workers – suggest that US is approaching pre-crisis l… https://t.co/5NCFnasHrs

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Across the US farm economy the mood is shifting decidedly for the worse. @SoberLook https://t.co/An2aTv1Ro6

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165k migrants left Libya for Italy since January 2017. About 1/5 did not make either because they drowned or were s… https://t.co/4IxainrY6N

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Even worse than the sustained depression in Greek GDP is the collapse in investment. Down to 40% of precrisis level… https://t.co/3uR8Drx8E5

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China’s GDP is about to overtake that of eurozone (at current exchange rates). It accounts for 15% of world economy… https://t.co/cCfmvGqnG3

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“Safeish” assets: worldwide there are about $7trn in bonds rated BBB or better offering 3% or more. Hence the restl… https://t.co/zG0ujs9PUy

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Tokyo Storm Warning: both Plender at the @FT and @TheEconomist are running stories about Japan’s lopsided financial… https://t.co/klzhdeth70

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China’s Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Mechanism is increasingly dominating the water politics of the Mekong river. US-… https://t.co/zx3yRrAE9Y

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"The reversal of globalisation is by now in full swing in goods markets but nothing remotely comparable is happenin… https://t.co/br7spVLTD8

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@davidchungpark @WSJ @global_thoughts Thank you David!

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As renewables increase their share of generating capacity bursts of sunshine and gusts of wind generate surges in p… https://t.co/o92QwaFEdk

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The @WSJ raves CRASHED by @adam_tooze “is economic history on an epic scale.” CRASHED is available now! Start readi… https://t.co/jqAdYAQkBW

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Half of US investment in America’s celebrated Q2 2018 of 4% growth came from energy. Does the White House really wa… https://t.co/pydvGuulPm

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Black Sea wheat crop (Russia, Ukraine, Romania) has been slashed by 20 % by blazing heat and drought, leaving Germa… https://t.co/ZFOkpfz9wI

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Market for turkish lira on Monday was even worse than this graph makes it look. Demand disappeared altogether -> th… https://t.co/JALuxzEuwQ

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The Sino-American trade stand off is a distorting mirror for thinking about the world economy. Since 2008 China's t… https://t.co/zdfn46rNo0

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Australia’s population growth has been running at 1.5% since the 1990s. Not hard to see how this will drive a 27-ye… https://t.co/a6ru5AllcC

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@nminkmar Some things bear repeating. Often!

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@SDullien Whenever I see some version of this graph it triggers the same sense of disbelief!

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Contrast btw demographic growth of Australia, Canada v. Japan and Germany is remarkable and makes the debate about… https://t.co/SGWQcwJrDn

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The story of the Eurozone since the 2000s is not fiscal indiscipline due to lack of “rules”, but the implosion of a… https://t.co/5gu0tqUbu1

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This is the view of a parched central Europe from space. Grist to the mill of @leninology https://t.co/LxrEJZ8gnw

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“Will Turkish banks maintain access to the foreign funding they need to keep economic activity humming” … if that d… https://t.co/EqI6HPja7s

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A $50bn bump in defense spending is adding to America’s growth since Trump’s election. c. 7% increase in defense sp… https://t.co/gBdYIJxXoW

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Segment at 1:30 pm ET on @WNYCMidday will be on 2007-8 financial crisis, audio will be posted here:… https://t.co/ZlbSY0gU1T

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"The meat glut, spanning Minnesota turkey barns, Iowa pork plants and Southern chicken hatcheries, has been buildin… https://t.co/nr5oAjxiJy

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"sex life morbidity: Under our most conservative estimate, we find that television ownership is associated with c.… https://t.co/6Hu2Xrh9Vo

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If shale production expands chaotically overstretching pipelines who benefits? The refineries that can gorge on ch… https://t.co/0hUuZF7KEh

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Trade war to make America great again … do we really have to? Alcoa largest aluminum smelter in US and presumed ben… https://t.co/JBcZYz9HND

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Straddling the UK and China, HSBC is a sensitive indicator of one of the most fragile axes in the global economy. I… https://t.co/skvoGl2P9r

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10 years on from the crash: Trump, MMT, new utopianism, loss of faith in markets, a paper by Romer and Ackerloff. T… https://t.co/wRUe5O6IWs

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"Central bankers’ caution may have cost more in lost livelihoods than the recklessness of private bankers.”… https://t.co/c97TVjW8cV

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