The humanitarian catastrophe engulfing Afghanistan is staggering in its scale and urgency. Western sanctions are compounding the damage done by withdrawal. Chartbook #78 adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-78… https://t.co/fyZ5MGl0Kw
RT @heimbergecon: German tabloid Bild insinuates that the ECB is responsible for expensive fuel bills. This lack of intellectual honesty ma…
RT @DanielaGabor: This is proof both that philosophers do intimidating close reading of one's work and that @nssylla doesn't blink when sum…
RT @yarbatman: A tough read from @adam_tooze, who provides a rundown of the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and the horrendously slow in…
RT @RupertStone83: A must-read by @adam_tooze on the disaster unfolding in Afghanistan: “Time is critical. Afghanistan’s situation now i…
RT @rajan_menon_: @adam_tooze in his latest Chartbook presents the magnitude of the disaster unfolding in post-American #Afghanistan. So wh…
The "frozen hell" of Afghanistan. Chartbook #78 just dropped. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-78… https://t.co/Fve9RPu6OZ
RT @d_khrennikova: To all those wondering if the new Gazprom deal with China can lead to lower flows to Europe: the current infrastructure…
RT @NewLeftEViews: 23 million people in Afghanistan are facing a cold winter without enough food, while Madagascar is about to be devastate…
RT @Ch_Schubert: Von Italiens Finanzpolizei lernen: Finanzminister Lindner besucht Rom. In der europäischen Haushaltspolitik bleiben die Di…
Inflation expectation indices derived from swaps show Uk investors expecting inflation at 4% 5-years ahead. But lets not confuse this with a wage-price spiral. Real wages set to fall 2% in 2022. ft.com/content/4ebc27… https://t.co/dHbdvun2Aa
In early 2000s, the promise of uncorrelated returns though diversification helped establish commodities as an asset class -> $200bn AUM in indices like BCOM/GSCI. But those indices are relatively narrowly based. Do not include European energy! ft.com/content/97d273… https://t.co/Q1uYDeNbp5
Australia’s LNG industry has called for more land to be opened up for exploration after the EU issued a proposal that declared some forms of the fossil fuel a green energy source. ft.com/content/748e6e… https://t.co/BxWwt9IiWd
In some cases, analysts say Ark’s investor inflows were clearly the main driver of the performance of its stocks and, as the tide turned, Ark being forced to sell was the primary cause of their subsequent pummeling. ft.com/content/b8898b… https://t.co/41U2gS51CX
"Over the strong dissents of Fed board governor Lael Brainard, the central bank has repeatedly weakened the stress tests.” Sheila Bair checks in! ft.com/content/625377… https://t.co/IKiPXI1KnX
The majority of Nato’s members continue to fall short of their common goal of spending at least 2 per cent of gross domestic product on defence by 2024 ft.com/content/97d479… https://t.co/qFNEYy7S08
Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s liberal competition commissioner, has pushed back against the idea that semiconductor investment will require a loosening of the EU’s state-aid rules, arguing that the current regime is equipped to help promote investment. ft.com/content/97d479… https://t.co/nCW4gUcTvK
“What a mess,” said @ErikFossing chief economics adviser at UniCredit, adding that Lagarde was “clearly shaken by the latest inflation number and wanted to buy insurance — but [caused] chaos in the process “. ft.com/content/1e8f61… https://t.co/xrXvUUm4bl
RT @b_judah: Cocktails named after oped clichés: — What Putin Really Wants 🍸 — Why I’m Leaving New York 🍹 Anymore?
RT @70sBachchan: 7/ Here is headline you'd see if Media wasn't so hungry for war in Europe: "Republicans adamant that US cannot allow the T…
RT @lieven_anatol: As a European, I am getting very tired of this hypocritical, dangerous bloviating by the NATO secretariat and some Europ…
RT @Shreyas_Shende1: Chartbook #77: More than 7000 deaths per day … and we talk as though it is over: @adam_tooze adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-77……
RT @timothymfrye: Good detail here from @JasonBordoff Regardless of Russia’s gas cutbacks, Europe’s own policies have made shortages and p…
RT @PP_Rubens: Snowy landscape near Antwerp, with house burning down on this side of the river. A common winter danger, back in the day! He…
This is the opposite of new news, but the surge in child poverty in Thatcher’s Britain in the 1980s is staggering. From Cooper&Szreter, After the Virus (2021) https://t.co/tN6CtQgOut
"vaporware China economic policy” this long read on Biden’s China-policy dilemmas by @bobdavis187 is essential reading! politico.com/news/magazine/… https://t.co/lvMleB1R3n
The vaccines have been the great success story of the COVID disaster. But even the pathbreaking, record-fast mRNA vax relied on decades of prior research in basic science. Chartbook #77 on the continuing debate about pandemic preparedness. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-77… https://t.co/tMdGDtOa60
"Orsted’s “brown” gas and power assets helped shield the world’s largest offshore wind developer from a blow to earnings at its “green” business amid unfavourable weather conditions and the European energy crisis” @lesliehook ft.com/content/a9193b… https://t.co/lnCzTaUoFl
Why has COVAX been such a weak offset to the massive imbalance in global vaccine supply? Reports by @MSF & @TBIJ feature in Chartbook #77, a roundup on the ongoing COVID pandemic. Sign up here: adamtooze.substack.com https://t.co/iZdIYWsnGs
In 2022 we will have capacity to deliver 20 billion vax doses = enough to amply cover entire global population but 1. Will funding and organization be there? 2. Why have producers been allowed to call the shots to degree they have? Chartbook #77 adamtooze.substack.com https://t.co/zUPzu1CKlc
The average global cigarette consumption is over 3 per day! And in the last twenty years the reduction in smoking prevalence has slowed to a crawl. And international treaties dont seem to make much difference. Depressing this. bmj.com/content/365/bm… https://t.co/yXWaMJd55K
RT @MitchellBernar2: @adam_tooze @e_sarotte @FT @e_sarotte's work on the the historical basis of the current confrontation is a perfect cou…
In 2022 we will have capacity to deliver 20 billion vax doses = enough to amply cover entire global population but 1. Will funding and organization be there? 2. Why have producers been allowed to call the shot to degree they have? Chartbook #77 adamtooze.substack.com https://t.co/50NyQ9XL0g
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