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How inflation/deflation pressure is dispersed across the different components that make up the CPI. Very cool graph… https://t.co/HDX1qOe5aO

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Just rebalancing his giant wealth portfolio! Zuckerberg’s sales of facebook stock make for interesting reading.… https://t.co/WSVD2serfw

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The decline in the number of Americans earning poverty level wages is driven above all by improvement in labour mar… https://t.co/3RuSkoIigr

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Math of ship scrapping: 720 VLCC in global fleet, 20% excess capacity, 25 year normal life, at 15 yr major maintena… https://t.co/bSkKH8tv6m

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The struggle over labour law is a struggle over trade unions in the public sector, because that is where they are!… https://t.co/wuJu7fomtu

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Culling the VLCC – as global demand for bulk movement of oil falls, scrap yards in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh a… https://t.co/0Zbx3FRTfG

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Record numbers of Americans over the age of 85 are working including thousands who are truckers!… https://t.co/ud7dSfNB6y

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Two things stand out from this @blackrock graph of Chinese credit growth: 1. how bank credit creation dominated gov… https://t.co/ARN2J1xYHI

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Good to know that our banks and their stability are securely founded on solid profits & that the Fed is keeping a c… https://t.co/YiFKQAoNtW

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China’s forex debt increased 29% you in 2018Q1 to a record $1.8trn. 53% of that is $. EUR surged 60% to $109bn. The… https://t.co/VtWtMBnjDm

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NAFTA exports account for 30% of Mexican GDP and 20% of Canadian. Trump fatigue comes easily and obviously there wo… https://t.co/bbfH3Hxk4k

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Turkey is a natural experiment in international political economy right now: Can you flaunt investor opinion and co… https://t.co/zySK1WpUvI

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The boom & bust of Europe’s banking system created a spike in cross border banking claims, but, either way, as for… https://t.co/2XOfAaCUeX

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Cheddar hits lows not seen since 2009: “it’s a nightmare” “uncertainty is devastating”. How the trade war threat is… https://t.co/R2UGsSZmao

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Yield curve flattening is a danger sign, but when the spread falls below 20 basis points history suggests that a re… https://t.co/jrcgvbr6tI

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Shrinking the state: whereas private sector employment in the US has grown 9.1% relative to pre-crisis highs, local… https://t.co/M6Sr4Ho2S1

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Ten years after the recession 13.5m more Americans are claiming food stamps than in 2007 = 50 % increase.… https://t.co/elpQINiC0P

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In a world of low interest rates, credit cards are really a miraculous business! Never charging less than 12.5% eve… https://t.co/OWMP7Bli9m

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What competition and lack of it has done to America in the last twenty years! https://t.co/d9yoX5ywiZ

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“People were trying to get stuff out before the imposition of the tariffs,” – how the threat of tariffs has cause c… https://t.co/vSi4xfmrZm

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Edgertonians alert! @DEHEdgerton has started a new website/blog. Follow it to follow the unfolding debate around hi… https://t.co/Q05mXhiuIh

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Measure American Growth Accurately: Why “average of GDP and GDI” is the best real time estimate of US GDP growth, w… https://t.co/cySZMAd0O8

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I don’t understand all this unhappiness about the UK being reduced to the status of a colony. Doesn’t that mean we… https://t.co/n0iVrZFGE0

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@marcmakingsense @jonasgoltermann My head, of course, says you are both right. But my wonkish heart beats for Coeuré.

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Dirty work: "The disclosure that McKinsey was working with ICE “caused a lot of discussions and alumni reactions,”… https://t.co/jrjk2lPU1J

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Russia’s Anschluss project: 19 km bridge at cost of 3bn Euro connects Crimea to Russia, open for traffic since May.… https://t.co/1nRPSCrcRM

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"The ECB recently received legal advice that Benoît Coeuré, could be elevated to president …”. Very good news for t… https://t.co/cXH4qtnCgp

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“f**ck business”? How relations between Merkel, the CDU and German big business have soured. Fascinating piece by… https://t.co/5cCepcB4Pw

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“The Americans and the Luftwaffe want Germany to buy an American aircraft (to replace Tornado), & political leaders… https://t.co/RyAEdnabFe

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"Why were there no fireworks at Trump’s July 4 tariff launch?” Typically subtle piece by @sdonnan on rhetorical shi… https://t.co/PEYEXHwzan

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Setting aside chlorine chickens, is European food really safer than American? @MESandbu thinks so: “each year rough… https://t.co/iHIsSAHo8a

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One Belt One Road in Trouble? 14% of 1,674, Chinese infrastructure projects have hit snags. Western think tanks bla… https://t.co/REg4S54UNN

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Executive presidentialism comes to Turkey’s central bank. Remember how the markets’ 1st response to AKP victory was… https://t.co/Mchzflppfe

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The gap between U.S. military spending and that of its European allies has widened and narrowed before. #NATOSummit… https://t.co/GEvEjWyTRW

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The key difference in US and European experience since financial crisis is that US banks raised capital v. European… https://t.co/sECjz21ePD

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