Why is French-based scholarship on Sudan so damn good? Raphaëlle Chevrillon-Guibert, Laurent Gagnol, Géraud Magri, Mohamed Salah, Jérôme Tubiana … none seem active twitter but if you want go grasp Sudan read them! Chartbook 209 on Sudan and gold. tinyurl.com/ywt5ea8d https://t.co/dRp97Cv596
How an artisanal gold revolution in Sudan turned Darfur into the launching pad for General Hemeti the warlord who is challenging for power in Khartoum. Read Chartbook Newsletter 209 and sign up for free here: tinyurl.com/ywt5ea8d https://t.co/waJdNjnFNn
RT @ben_golub: As someone who lectures in the United States, I can confirm our comparative advantage is in lectures. (It certainly isn't i…
RT @artistsofcolour: FORO ROMANO, Mequitta Ahuja, 2014 https://t.co/AeNHQN3LWq
RT @ajebson: Some tweets I simply cannot "like" twitter.com/adam_tooze/sta…
RT @RajaKorman: There is a spectrum from Cold War to Great Power Conflict that runs from “OMG, they are going to abolish private property a…
RT @MartyLeary1: I’d like to take this opportunity to thank @GoodJobsFirst for tracking state and local subsidies like these for more than…
Follow the gold! The artisanal Sahel gold rush is one of the amazing African economic stories of our time. In Chartbook 209 I tease out its connection to the current warlord upheaval in Sudan. Read and sign up for free here: tinyurl.com/ywt5ea8d https://t.co/dobyI5N3Go
Sudan on your mind? You could follow ex-Janjaweed commander @GeneralDagllo aka Hemeti on this site. But if you do, for mental balance, may I recommend this absolutely beautiful session. One for @Jderbyshire youtube.com/watch?v=7dNTMU…
Something really beautiful from Sudan this morning: Noori & His Dorpa Band — Saagama (Beja Power! Electric Soul & Brass from Sudan's Red Sea Coast youtube.com/watch?v=h0YKkQ… https://t.co/wrKqg7QCBU
RT @toddntucker: "The deals with “right to work” states have been good for European companies, but terrible for European labour unions — in…
RT @Brad_Setser: Happy to give my answer to these questions — Bottom line is that at best the bottlenecks that were blocking all progress…
@Brad_Setser @David_McNair @leee_harris @JKynge @KevinPGallagher @WorldBank @G20 TOTALLY understand!
Running like a thread through South Africa's polycrisis is the disastrous failure of Eskom. Insurers have now declared they will not cover losses in S Africa event of total power failure. Chartbook Carbon Notes #4 on the roots of the disaster. tinyurl.com/25zx88nu https://t.co/vPKziVfowE
"Investors have already started avoiding bills that mature in late July/early August — the time that experts think the US may run out of money. An auction of three-month Treasury bills this week was met with poor demand." MMF worrying about liquidity! ft.com/content/a97464…
Turkey is a major importer of energy -> first gas deliveries from Black Sea fields (Just ahead of elections) are a big deal. ft.com/content/959b6f… https://t.co/18R48Nxl4v
"I'm a historian by education …" Kara-Murza interviewed in 2022. Citing 1905, 1917, 1991. twitter.com/RusVerstehen/s…
@policytensor Couldnt help wondering whether AA's relationship with BA and the Bermuda triangle of baggage that is Heathrow.
"Germany’s new power structure seems uninterested or unwilling to think in European terms. Without them, Macron has little hope of realising his vision of a “sovereign” Europe & hard to see how giant Ukraine/Moldova deals get done." @Mij_Europe ft.com/content/03d672…
RT @CleanPowerDave: Generally, I don't suffer with climate anxiety much.. until I started to follow this account. I am shocked how much ex…
@Brad_Setser @David_McNair @leee_harris @JKynge @KevinPGallagher @WorldBank @G20 Russia was isolated on MDB, or China?
RT @joethw8s: @David_McNair @leee_harris @adam_tooze @JKynge @Brad_Setser @KevinPGallagher @WorldBank @G20 Same with the World Bank-IMF Dev…
"The French-German “motor” that has been at the EU’s heart for six decades has broken down. The biggest culprit is the new government in Berlin. Chancellor Olaf Scholz is mostly concerned with the unity of his coalition and Germany’s economy" @Mij_Europe ft.com/content/03d672…
Panic about the "total onslaught" on part of Apartheid leadership set South Africa's electricity system on feast-famine cycle of investment, charted in Chartbook Carbon Notes #4 tinyurl.com/25zx88nu https://t.co/77iYA8ekpy
RT @Phil_Free_: “If wages are not rising along with other prices, then you are not dealing with a general inflation at all, but rather a on…
US LNG development is one of the truly HUGE swing variables in the global energy system. Right now USA-Australia-Qatar level pegging. Qatar has firm medium-term expansion plans, leap-frogged by 70% US expansion by 2027. Beyond that, sky the limit? ft.com/content/e7f368… https://t.co/jyS37RsOOC
"April US tax collections of $300bn or below could bring the debt ceiling deadline forward to June or July, .." Thoughts you would rather you never had to have! ft.com/content/a97464…
Since 2020 the UK has not just fallen below its growth trend, it is currently on a NO-growth tend. Latest from @martinwolf_ is pretty grim. ft.com/content/55f6af… https://t.co/AGKj9TFPvr
It is tempting to think of pension funds & insurers as long-term, patient investors. But their money is managed by asset managers whose incentives are quite different. Interesting this by Brett Christophers. ft.com/content/0cbd88… https://t.co/MQY7YhVrPP
Payoff from IRA/CHIPS so far: $204bn in CHIPS and clean energy projects 82k jobs Causation fuzzy Big surge seemingly over Anyone else feeling underwhelmed? @amandalanchu @ollie @70sBachchan @toddntucker ft.com/content/b6cd46… https://t.co/m6JAXtg5YP
RT @Andrew__Roth: Kara-Murza gets an unprecedented 25 years for his political opposition to the Kremlin and the war against Ukraine. He cho…
Kudos to @tracyalloway & @TheStalwart for having the brilliant @humford & @davideoks on Odd Lots …essential listening! twitter.com/tracyalloway/s…
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