May 26, 2022
RT @Schuldensuehner: This chart shows what is at stake for #Germany. Limiting exports to #Russia is still economically bearable; but w/#Chi…
RT @Schuldensuehner: This chart shows what is at stake for #Germany. Limiting exports to #Russia is still economically bearable; but w/#Chi…
Just $290bn, or 17 per cent, of Vanguard’s $1.7tn in actively managed assets are aligned with net zero by 2050. ft.com/content/435a93… https://t.co/rHOYLOvsqT
Apple told staff on Wednesday that the hourly pay for US retail workers would rise to $22 per hour or more — up 45 per cent from 2018. ft.com/content/a9190b… https://t.co/ictsoByUhY
In a shortsighted decision, the Brooklyn-based Gambino family failed years ago to appreciate the rise of containers and ceded much of the Jersey side of the port to the Genoveses ft.com/content/f2d126… https://t.co/obyIEzQYIr
in Nanjing, Jiangsu’s capital, and other regions judges and arbitrators who had previously ruled largely in favour of workers were now more likely to back employers. “China’s attempts to revive the economy tend to support business but not workers,” ft.com/content/95eef3… https://t.co/RTGZcaC48F
Port of New York that employed 36,000 workers in 1958 had just 5,801 as of June 2020. ft.com/content/f2d126… https://t.co/2sjJKSP8YH
RT @elinaribakova: Russia's FX inflows are going from strength to strength thanks to high commodity prices. This is despite the severe disc…
RT @sneweyy: Some good global health news! Sleeping sickness has been eliminated in Benin, Uganda and Rwanda who.int/news/item/24-0…
RT @70sBachchan: "current moment of monetary interregnum demands creative responses. We desperately need a better democratic language to de…
RT @stefeich: It's 🎉 publication day 🎉 for THE CURRENCY OF POLITICS: THE POLITICAL THEORY OF MONEY FROM ARISTOTLE TO KEYNES! Thanks to t…
RT @Davidwillashley: Ahead of #AfricaDay, a very interesting read on the implications of Africa’s demographic transformation – with lots of…
RT @jraimo: John Raimo Bruno Latour (@BrunoLatourAIME), Quelles entre-deux-guerres ? / Naomi Klein (@NaomiAKlein), Guerre et climat : le pé…
RT @g_passamonti: It’s a pleasure to read Chartbook, and this is one of the best I’ve read since signing up. @adam_tooze https://t.co/u5sPs…
Discussing Poland and world economy with @JosephEStiglitz @mmpiatkowski @piotrarak today at @PLHouseDavos was a LOT of fun! twitter.com/PIE_NET_PL/sta…
RT @michaelxpettis: 1/18 Oh dear, this again. A British academic says “China’s track record of maintaining steady, relatively high growth a…
RT @idreesali114: Yesterday on an official trip with Deputy U.S. Defense Secretary Hicks, my phone was confiscated by a DoD official, locke…
In 1965 Rayner Banham wrote an extraordinary essay on the gadget or gizmo and its role in American ideology. It is eerily prescient of the ideological charge attached to weapons such as Javelin in war in Ukraine. Chartbook #123 on the ideology of ATGM. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-12… https://t.co/hz9tpsU8nh
"half-breed American, Winston Churchill, responded to crisis of 1941 in terms that were pure gizmo-culture: “Give us the tools and we’ll finish the job!”” In 2022 Biden repeats the basic gesture of gizmo ideology. Chart book #123 channeling Rayner Banham adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-12… https://t.co/HZjePEJXae
"If a US ally is in trouble, Uncle Sam rolls up the sleeves of his Arsenal-of-Democracy sweatshirt and starts packing arms in crates for shipment” – Rayner Banham on gadgets as a kernel of American ideology. 1965. Chartbook #123 on the meaning of Javelins. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-12… https://t.co/RIxRe5yAr2
The war in Ukraine is a dramatic ideological (re)generator – on just war, NATO but also in mode of war-fighting itself. Chartbook #123 on the ideology of the Javelin and the great American gizmo (h/t Rayner Banham ’65). adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-12… https://t.co/roiTF7LCfw
Chartbook #123 just dropped: The war in Ukraine and the triumph of the all-American anti-tank gizmo Channelling Rayner Banham for 2022 adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-12…
Postwar Modern New Art in Britain 1945-1965 at the @BarbicanCentre is a stunning exhibition. barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2022/… https://t.co/JaY5tnwD1T
“The decision to extend the escape clause shouldn’t be seen as a precedent or a prelude to reform of the fiscal rules,” Christian Lindner. ft.com/content/dc3e67… https://t.co/AUHcRpeE7q
US spending has been lifted in recent years by homeowners tapping enhanced values of their homes for cash. More than 40% of refinancings in Q4 2021 saw homeowners pull cash out of their homes. That will likely have come to a halt in 2022. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/6IkBf68GdR
RT @olan_mcevoy: Just found out that the birthplace and childhood home of Weimar-era German Chancellor Gustav Stresemann is now Tresor, one…
Not "launching negotiations" but “consulting” prior to negotiations: Joe Biden waters down his Indo-Pacific Economic Framework in an eleventh-hour move to attract more countries to join the deal that he will unveil in Tokyo on Monday. ft.com/content/91207c… https://t.co/4dTdgLDzI9
Currency appreciation shields Switzerland from global food price inflation. ft.com/content/12d6af… https://t.co/IcXgjxUBqq
Currency appreciation (Switzerland), energy mix and energy price caps (Spain) mean that energy price inflation varies sharply across Europe. ft.com/content/12d6af… https://t.co/AzgG7pqgdT
"Foreign investors in China need to reckon both with US sanctions and with limits Beijing might impose on their investment gains.” Tom Slater of @BaillieGifford ft.com/content/2a6850… https://t.co/FNZpNu4b9i
“This is a very targeted approach . . . basically highlighting their desire to support the real estate sector, which is clearly under stress’ on China’s record rate cut ft.com/content/ddddbc… https://t.co/Np2NhL1Vgh
Did a skeptical piece for @NewStatesman on the current NATO revival newstatesman.com/international-… Pairs well with Tom Meaney’s excellent long read on history of NATO in @guardian theguardian.com/news/2022/may/… https://t.co/LwucXxTCjt
RT @MehrsaBaradaran: Cool to wait a hundred years to determine that the SEC was unconstitutional. Wonder what changed in the meantime
RT @michaelxpettis: 1/3 New home prices in China declined month on month for the 8th consecutive month, and are now 0.11% below their price…
RT @RajaKorman: IMO this from Ed Luce in the FT today nails the problem of relying on USD centrality as a stick with little willingness (gi…
RT @rajan_menon_: Given Russia’s lackluster military performance against a much weaker Ukraine, a Russian GDP 15% that of the EU,and Sweden…
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