"On one side will be around 35,000 Ukrainian soldiers, bolstered by western battle tanks. They will face more than 140,000 enemy troops along a 950km frontline." What share of Ukraine's armor will be Western by this spring?????? ft.com/content/01a819…
On top of IRA/CHIPS act, US state and local gov have doled out $13.7bn to attract high vis industrial investments. Biggest giveaway? $5.5bn! from New York state to Micron. Given state of public infrastructure/services those had better be some good jobs! ft.com/content/b6cd46… https://t.co/lR0GmI141M
RT @joshbudlender: I think this reflection on the political-economic causes of load shedding in SA by @adam_tooze is really quite brilliant…
@joshbudlender Thank you! Truly. Im on a learning curve, as you point out 🙂
So on the most modest estimate 8200 people die EVERY DAY from effects of outdoor air pollution. EVERY DAY. And we wonder why climate science has a hard time persuading us to do things about catastrophes in the future. twitter.com/craigxmartin/s…
RT @prospect_clark: 1/ If we want to turn the tide on poverty, here's a plan — for a new "triple lock" We know it can work, because it…
RT @David_McNair: @adam_tooze @JKynge @Brad_Setser @leee_harris @KevinPGallagher @WorldBank I increasingly feel that Putin is weaponising t…
RT @KevinRothrock: The judge who sentenced @vkaramurza to 25 years in prison today, Sergey Podoprigorov, is the same one who jailed Sergey…
@David_McNair @JKynge @Brad_Setser @leee_harris @KevinPGallagher @WorldBank Thank you David, that is what I had pieced together too … it seems so slight that I felt I must have missed something BIG.
RT @RencapMan: About China's challenge to the US dollar. In terms of interest rate derivative trading, China's CNY sees trades worth $30bn…
RT @KyivIndependent: Human Rights Watch said the charges against Kara-Murza were "unfounded and constitute blatant persecution for his enti…
Cue: urgent discussion of the inevitable demise of the dollar. twitter.com/sdonnan/status…
Rising tide of defaults. Nice graphic this from @JKynge But after a hectic spring meeting week, where are we on debt restructuring, common framework, mdb reform? Any actual progress? @David_McNair @Brad_Setser @leee_harris @KevinPGallagher ft.com/content/da01c5… https://t.co/DWRe2ViLQM
In the $205bn CHIPS and green energy investment surge in the USA, the states that are winning most are South Carolina and Georgia. Great data this by @amandalanchu @ollie ft.com/content/b6cd46… https://t.co/fzustUvwFe
On airports and lectures: Never underestimate the degree to which neoliberalism really was first and foremost a discourse i.e. "lectures" twitter.com/samhaselby/sta…
RT @toddntucker: "The most effective use of the Chips Act subsidies geared to advanced chipmaking, according to CSET, would be to apportion…
RT @PauloFMBCF: @SFischer_EU @adam_tooze @IMFNews It's like a pill to stop be thirsty: if you swallow it with 3 glass of water, it works!
@kajleers @amandalanchu @ollie Yeah and so far that looks like a bluff tbh. They certainly arent at the front of the queue in US.
@kajleers @amandalanchu @ollie Yup agreed. So your thesis is that EU is really worried about direction of US, Taiwan, S Korea, Japan FDI? Fair point but not how the discourse around IRA generally sounds tbh.
Are Dems playing 4D political chess with CHIPS/IRA subsidies – pouring money into Red states to swing constituencies? Or is it simply fact that if you give subsidies to business, biz prefers Red states? Or states with right conditions happen to be Red? ft.com/content/b6cd46… https://t.co/brILeGnRzG
Europe is up in arms about alleged impact of IRA in sucking investment away from EU towards USA. But, so far, tiny share of $205 bn announced in US possibly linked to IRA OR CHIPS comes from Europe. @amandalanchu @ollie ft.com/content/b6cd46… https://t.co/4WGRHfUW1k
"In the opening days of his administration, Lula and his closest allies took aim at the recently independent central bank and its technocratic president Roberto Campos Neto." Story to follow! ft.com/content/067798…
RT @xinwenfan: From 2010 to 2021, only 376 Chinese crossed the Darien Gap. That number surged to 2,005 last year. Then, from January to Mar…
"Global regulators are considering imposing tougher rules on smaller lenders and requiring all banks to ready themselves for faster runs on deposits as officials search for lessons from the recent turmoil" ft.com/content/eda3dc…
RT @robinwagener: Wladimir Kara-Mursa (@vkaramurza) wurde in einem Schauprozess zu 25 Jahren Lagerhaft verurteilt. Weil er #Russland|s Angr…
RT @visegrad24: BREAKING: The real opposition leader of Russia, Vladimir Kara-Murza, was just sentenced to 25 years in prison for publicly…
RT @gbrew24: Reading Diplomatic History aloud, for the sake of the gnomes. https://t.co/3WZstPuGn5
RT @DanielaGabor: Aye, but the question is Cui Bono from pretending it's around the corner.
RT @plfrnz: @AntonJaegermm Kicking himself his editors didn't let him call it "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Life Inside the T…
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