The share of restricted products in the world food trade measured in calories has surged to 17 per cent, the same level seen during the 2007-08 food and energy crisis and far more extensive than during COVID. ft.com/content/b1753a… https://t.co/CgPZvvOd87
The fact that the news about Indian wheat export ban moved prices as much as it did is, given modest size of Indian wheat exports, a sign of how jumpy markets are right now. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/5UASfE5vIC
Tesla’s Shanghai plant closed down for three weeks in April. The factory, which typically ships around 60,000 cars a month, delivered only 1,512 vehicles last month bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/2LVjAqyAON
@postmodernadab @NewStatesman Perspectival. From point of view of German mainstream. Not from perspective of German left, which has been critical of US from 1950s rearmament through Vietnam, Iran etc etc etc
@RWerpachowski @NewStatesman Fair. But it is not so much attitudinal – arrogant or not – but methodological and conceptual. Habermas has espoused an evolutionary, theory of societal development for more than half a century and that is what is being brought to bear here.
In an area stretching from northern Kenya to Somalia and swaths of Ethiopia, up to 20mn people could go hungry this year as delayed rains exacerbate what was already the worst drought in four decades. @AndresSchipani @davidpilling ft.com/content/081ac9… https://t.co/pheGIC0Btd
On that China-demand-deflation effect, check out this graph from @AndreasSteno and his sub stack newsletter! He sees demand rolling over hard. andreassteno.substack.com/p/stenos-signa… https://t.co/PZBBBkrSSd
As China’s industrial output slumps, so too does electricity generation by 4.3% yoy. Thermal power output plunged 12% = biggest drop since 2008. Coal is being cut by surging solar capacity, with more installed in Q1 than expected. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/88bdkfHPmn
RT @davies_will: This is fascinating on German political and intellectual history from 1945 to today twitter.com/newstatesman/s…
"A China that is actively contracting would be a deflationary force for the rest of the world". One would expect this to show up in energy markets first? Oil? Correct? @johnauthers ? bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… https://t.co/1U3SYulqj6
Between 2016 and 2021(!) the # of people worldwide in food crisis or worse soared by 78%. This is for 2021 ahead of 2022 price surge. The war has not created the crisis it has exacerbated an already dire situation. This huge UN report entirely pre 2022! fightfoodcrises.net/fileadmin/user… https://t.co/4hBXJ4Uda3
In April due to lockdowns NOT A SINGLE car was sold in Shanghai, a city of 25 million in which 12 months ago 26k were sold. Across China car sales were down by 36% = world’s most important market. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/dp1dCmQEuy
COVID lockdowns have put a damper on a talk of a revival in China real estate. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/xaJZF4YgCp
RT @PEWilliams_: At-cost projects should be another tool in the toolbox for public developers. Cross-subsidy, public vouchers, and at-cost…
@opinion_left @ABarbashin @APHClarkson If you know what you are doing with it, it is an awesome tool.
RT @oliveri_pablo1: @christoph_dimke @mjbyers333 @Rinoire @bourdyot_ @pjlm2 @Cars_no_go @junjokerando @ren_119 @Danielwdm911 @MarcoBruni_ @…
@opinion_left @ABarbashin @APHClarkson OMG …. You are right. Mind-blowing! Try shooting one of those without a scope, ear protection and adequate training. Forget it ….
@ABarbashin @APHClarkson They are favored by collectors in the US for that purpose aren’t they?
@ABarbashin @APHClarkson With scopes like that are they using them as sniper rifles?
RT @venessb: “We triumphed in science, and failed in economics and politics.” Thank you, @adam_tooze, for using your @Columbia graduation a…
RT @JacquesR: .@adam_tooze with a provocative and persuasive essay on the complexities of international relations, as manifest by Habermas…
@AndrewM_Fischer @unpopulation It seems we are agreeing on substance. What I understand you to be objecting to is my suggestion that the African experience contradicts contemporary demog theory and I am more than happy to concede that to you. Sorry for misstating. Thanks for your illuminating thread.
"The rise of China was a unique event. Indian growth will be world-changing. But you should neither hope for, nor fear, a reprise of the Chinese experience” smart this from @TheEconomist economist.com/finance-and-ec… https://t.co/tlMahd3k4Y
Disappointing for EZ that after all the efforts over past decade to make system crisis-proof, Italian BTP behaves not like a bund but like an investment-grade corporate bond—spreads narrow in calmer times but blow out at the whiff of trouble. economist.com/finance-and-ec… https://t.co/TxC1v6jv5a
@jraimo @EditionsduSeuil @ekleinberg Me too … I was quite delighted to find this cache. Thank you as always John!
On basis of trading partner data @TheEconomist estimates that Russian imports have fallen by about 44% since invasion of Ukraine, while its exports have risen by roughly 8%. Running out of fx is not going to be Moscow’s problem. Running out of stuff is. economist.com/finance-and-ec… https://t.co/ePhYfTFoVl
@AndrewM_Fischer @unpopulation @jotadesina @DrSeanFox Thanks for this list. Will follow up with reading. 🙂
@AndrewM_Fischer @unpopulation @jotadesina V important point, which Paice does address and I regret not discussing more in both chart book and FP piece.
@AndrewM_Fischer @unpopulation Paice’s point is not that they refute transition theory but that they stretch it beyond what we have come to expect form LatAm and Asian examples -> that slower transition in large countries has huge impact on the overall population totals.
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