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Intellectual property theft? Despite Western narrative that China acquires expertise by stealth, as Lardy of the… https://t.co/mnn4AJKHtG

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"Who would be better positioned than a German ECB president to calm the unspecified and typically unsupported fears… https://t.co/gpDQKekmSo

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The tax evasion industry works its magic in Scandinavia allowing the wealthiest to avoid 25% of their tax liability… https://t.co/LPDKkIoYVs

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We are witnessing an abhorrent violation of international law & human rights in #Gaza. 38 confirmed dead, including… https://t.co/oGP3jT8Wwb

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Latin American econoies have seen an alarming failure of investment since the setback to EM following 2013.… https://t.co/FBLkRSLq4n

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Growth in total factor productivity in Britain over the last ten years is disastrous by historic standards.… https://t.co/o6BfvqGuXU

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The more exotic the EM the nastier the spike in yields in recent weeks. h/t @_Kate_Allen https://t.co/AsUXnqx5Sp https://t.co/04DDONbBVj

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@geofflgordon @adam_tooze 70% of the banking sector's FX debt is in dollars (most of the rest in euros). For non-fi… https://t.co/5HpI8zkEE5

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Panic? What panic? A twitch in Italy's yield spread on the news of a 5*Leaague government, but once again we see th… https://t.co/6l9YY3kZYb

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"Turkey’s overall stock of private sector debt has jumped from 33 % GDP in 2007 to 70 %, … a world away from Argent… https://t.co/zID1tnVzh6

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Is European integration antisocial? @MESandbu insists we distinguish: "the deepening of the single market, the adop… https://t.co/BHMXG84wO2

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Mesmerizing animated map of global shipping moments. https://t.co/vtQ3PY8JbG https://t.co/q3hlXaPQ7p

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Going under the hood in an age of black boxed tech, Ifixit wants to restore the right of everyone to repair everyth… https://t.co/4bh5XiOpyt

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The "right to repair" movement is a fascinating challenge to the increasing black boxing of technology and the rema… https://t.co/0Kzz3ADMXO

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Since the 2008 crisis China has entirely dominated the global creation of private credit! Surely the most stunning… https://t.co/sKkzZoeAtB

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Where Iran’s oil goes. How might US sanctions impact these flows? https://t.co/SgUdJycFtV https://t.co/qEQNq1b79C

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The current EM “correction” is on the same scale as 2013 “taper tantrum”, which by 2014/2015 matured into something… https://t.co/je65md7OON

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When Ireland’s growth is driving the entire Eurozone you know something is wrong with the GDP data. @Brad_Setser st… https://t.co/EP7s3XbwWK

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As real wages stagnated from 1970s, non-wage income has been increasingly important for average American families.… https://t.co/iJ9lZLkFdZ

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The swing in the balance of power against blue collar labour in the US from the late 1970s to the late 1990s starkl… https://t.co/RVYbuXhcU4

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The age dynamics of labour market participation of American men and women are broadly similar, but shifted in a pos… https://t.co/vdGS7w7YLc

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Vulnerability of just in time supply chains exposed simultaneously at Ford 150 plant due to fire and China’s ZTE du… https://t.co/2kwi8CKSzU

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Mesmerizing animated map of global shipping movements. https://t.co/vtQ3PYqk3e https://t.co/REvdN5A0mt

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If the demographic link to inflation identified by Juselius and Takats (2018) holds up, then there are inflationar… https://t.co/Xu0MfjJfCQ

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“Inflationary pressure rises when the share of dependants increases and, conversely, subsides when the share of wor… https://t.co/UddhabqO1A

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Given employment and investment trends, Germany has been on a far more labour-intensive track since 1999 than have… https://t.co/1AdI9jitf0

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Rates of investment in business value added in Germany run at 20% v. 30% in US. https://t.co/jyyfS1JYcG https://t.co/dyER5k3VX6

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If these data are to be believed German net capital stock has grown less rapidly that that of Italy since 1999.… https://t.co/di60lmnDh9

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“embargo” comes from the Spanish verb embargar, meaning to arrest. Used from 1590s in the long war with the Dutch h… https://t.co/rJpmekJrN8

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The Yellen era was the peak era for “global” concerns at the Fed. @SoberLook https://t.co/96PLXl6Rto

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"Feel Good Factor": The day Trump was elected America’s small businesses stopped complaining about red tape, regula… https://t.co/sDhuSW9EsQ

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Latin American violent crime leads the world, thoughtful @TheEconomist piece asks whether combination of youth bulg… https://t.co/3aUPrdZ2p3

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BY 2010-14, 14 MILLION PEOPLE LIVED IN EXTREMELY POOR NEIGHBORHOODS across the US —5 MILLION MORE THAN BEFORE THE D… https://t.co/eVx8AVzklm

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Persistent segregation – northern Democratic strongholds like New York, Chicago and Philadelphia seem stuck in the… https://t.co/tmd04XikDs

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Archaeology and genetic testing are about to put the “out of India” version of the early history of the subcontinen… https://t.co/i0Fl7QmXcA

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China’s MASSIVE canal system for diverting water from South to North is spectacular in every way including the huge… https://t.co/vD1Xu4Qzw8

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