"Although Brazil’s largely tropical climates limit wheat cultivation, it has exported more of the grain this year than in the whole of 2021.” The real opportunity is to replace Ukraine/Russia in corn. ft.com/content/4b1346… https://t.co/aPB42dtcVH
@tengukozume Im sorry to hear you are feeling you are drawing blanks. The world is certainly inspiring right now. But you never know from where. So … take ANY inspiration the comes along. That taste of tea, the weather, some detail about the war, whatever … truly anything.
RT @OzlerAltan: A thoughtful essay on the cycles of development and destruction over the years in the critical region that encompasses #Mar…
Nazi Billionaires: Really looking forward to this discussion of @davidthejong new book on Wednesday Register here: history.columbia.edu/events/nazi-bi… twitter.com/davidthejong/s…
RT @jdomerchet: L’histoire de Marioupol et Azovstal grâce à @adam_tooze adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-11…
RT @jraimo: No general metaphor does as much justice to history as 'palimpsest,' and @adam_tooze excels in using it to explore longer histo…
RT @bandoblue: See @adam_tooze today on Azovstal and Mariupol — Mariupol's last defenders fighting in the literal, physical labyrinth of t…
RT @pphaneuf: 580 people died in car crashes in the UK in all of 2021. 1,061 people had COVID on their death certificate in the last week…
The siege of Mariupol looks likely to end in tunnel-fighting around the steel complex of Azovstal. What kind of place is this? Chartbook #114 on the twisted history of Ukraine’s steel complex. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-11… https://t.co/uS4xtePkAN
RT @halpernrick: Absolutely brilliant column from @adam_tooze today! Will be of special interest to historians of the factory https://t.co…
RT @BuddNicholas: @adam_tooze Thyroid problems amongst women in Mariupol was attributed to the poor air quality caused by the industry ther…
RT @AnnPettifor: This. Fascinating by @adam_tooze on Mariupol's last stand…adamtooze.substack.com/?r=nle0&s=r&ut…
@nbunkerauthor @nytimes No one denies this. The first plant in Mariupol was started by Americans and Belgians. We know what we know about Magnitogorsk in large part due to American participants.
Azovstal and its partner steelworks made Mariupol one of most polluted cities in the world. Now last bastion of defenders of the city. Chartbook #114 on the history of a steel city. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-11… https://t.co/8VcUlqML58
Azovstal Mariupol where the long siege seems destined to end. Impressive youtube video: youtube.com/watch?v=_4bt8q… Chartbook #114 out today is a mini-history of the plant as a site of Ukrainian and Soviet history. adamtooze.substack.com/publish/post/5… https://t.co/LmfjjBP4HP
The smokestacks of Azovstal loom in background of this prewar video of Mariupol. Today it is the battlefield in last stand of Ukrainian forces. youtube.com/watch?v=_4bt8q… Chartbook #114 is a memorial to an unlikely site of Ukrainian national heroism. adamtooze.substack.com/publish/post/5… https://t.co/GoujSNqTrq
The original managers of the Soviet-era Azovstal plant in Mariupol which is now the final battlefield of the siege. An astonishing Abebook find this morning illustrates Chartbook #114, a mini-history of Ukraine’s steel hub and Alamo. adamtooze.substack.com/publish/post/5… https://t.co/A1tYjSGLqZ
RT @hehemantgang: @adam_tooze Absolutely mind boggling piece of journalism mate Cheers
Staying with the trouble. Chartbook #113 takes lessons from Donna Haraway for thinking about the global dollar system. dukeupress.edu/staying-with-t… adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-11… H/t @CecPhil https://t.co/15XZ9KKiRJ
Azovstal: This morning I simply could not get Mariupol out of my head. So I did Chartbook #114. A short history of a post-Soviet industrial site. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-11… https://t.co/wxhOnsmW0N
RT @CecPhil: This is why I read @adam_tooze "A realistic analysis needs to resist the temptation to escape into the future and instead to s…
RT @hhebig: More on Azovstal by @adam_tooze: adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-11…
@rickperlstein @ChrisGiles_ THANK you! Brains are cheap and tasty I guess ….
In 1933 the same engineers that built legendary Soviet steel works Magnitogorsk – as in Kotkin’s Magnetic Mountain – finished the original Azovstal steel plant, where Ukrainian forces are now making their last stand in Mariupol. Chartbook #114 adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-11… https://t.co/IjVsLZEQDX
HUGE discrepancy btw US and EU gas prices. You would think there was a way of arbitraging that. There is! LNG. Problem is it takes years to build and billions in investment. ft.com/content/6275bd… https://t.co/BztXSonIxa
“The future for US LNG is off the charts”, CEO Freeport LNG. Exports to Europe surging. ft.com/content/6275bd… https://t.co/gVnvltA2LO
This 1973 march in New York against food prices has provided historians and journalists with all-purposes images for 1970s inflation fear for some time nowd. Can twitter historians help us to contextualize it? @ChrisGiles_ ft.com/content/ae07d1… https://t.co/8UAuIuRz9O
Brookings-FT Tracking Index for the Global Economic Recovery, comparing indicators of real activity, financial markets and confidence with their historical averages showed marked loss of growth momentum since late 2021 in AE and EM. ft.com/content/e2f2c5… https://t.co/ojcbkThsF0
@Doekes @i_aldasoro Agreed. But hedging costs are the issue commonly cited in market commentary.
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