RT @BharatRamamurti: With Christmas hours away and more packages arriving in time than in previous years, congrats to my colleague Sameera…
@edbrophy There will certainly be no repeat of US (global) hegemony. But (regional) dominance on China’s own (new) terms is surely more likely than not.
RT @RisingValhalla: Chartbook #63: Turkey's financial crisis , by @adam_tooze adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-63… $usdtry #Turkey
Washington County, Utah, and its seat, St. George, were in the bullseye of a 20-year megadrought that became so extreme in 2021 that Utah Governor Spencer Cox in June declared a weekend of prayer for the divine to intervene with sheets of rain. bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-… https://t.co/MvAtm8A5f2
Chartbook #63 just dropped. I take stock of some of the reportage on Turkey's financial crisis adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-63… https://t.co/blGcXAGuMs
"half of Denver’s drinking water comes from tributaries of the Colorado River on the west side of the Rocky Mountains—and the river basin has experienced a megadrought for the last two decades” bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-… https://t.co/YRfigDpHR2
Since privatization, UK water and sewerage companies have slashed investment by 20%. Southern and Thames are the main exceptions. ft.com/content/86ac79… https://t.co/hCuqsXVBtw
Rio Tinto has announced its first major acquisition since ill-fated purchase of coal miner Riversdale Mining in 2011, as it looks to expand into battery metals. Will pay $825m for the Salar del Rincon lithium project in the Salta province of Argentina ft.com/content/bd1a1a… https://t.co/b8i5bbkLYh
Gold production is the largest source of revenue in Kyrgyzstan and Kumtor is the biggest single contributor to its GDP. Nationalist gov just seized Canadian-owned mine citing environmental violations. ft.com/content/cf26a2… https://t.co/OvW9krNeVf
Though CO2 ETS prices in EU are surging to record levels, if you use gas they make up a small part of surging cost of electricity generation. ft.com/content/eefea7… https://t.co/Ln73Q72R4K
IMF internal report admits that biggest-ever $57bn bailout of Argentina in 2018, assumed economic programme which was “too fragile”, put heavy emphasis on “government ownership" could have benefited from capital controls and restructuring of private debt. ft.com/content/0b6688… https://t.co/oGulLwWtm9
The Financial Times is tracking temperature rises and other extreme and record-breaking weather events around the world, using data from NOAA. The group publishes a monthly global report on key climate anomalies, such as record temperatures. Bravo! ft.com/content/1073d7… https://t.co/2Ctmr3F8hN
Champagne prices have been on a remarkable run this year. As tracked by Liv-ex index. ft.com/content/49d6e7… https://t.co/DWACcBce7U
China has approved the merger of three leading rare earths companies, creating a state-owned powerhouse China Rare Earth Group = China’s "aircraft carrier” controling 70 per cent of China’s rare earths output with dominant position at heavy end. ft.com/content/4dc538… https://t.co/qxcVTKtPG0
France, 13 European countries and Canada denounced “the deployment of mercenary troops” linked to Russia in Mali ft.com/content/656071… https://t.co/xM9sgxzeOg
RT @ArderiuRomero: @adam_tooze I would add up those graphics of union density also to put on contrast which is more or less thw turning poi…
RT @MacaesBruno: Interesting review of all my four books. What the author intends as criticism actually makes me happy. My work is not abou…
RT @danielmunevar: There is a LOT to cover in the IMF Ex-Post Evaluation of the Argentina program (it is a 135 pg document after all). Ill…
RT @GeneralTheorist: As @danielmunevar has pointed out, yesterday the IMF dropped an Ex Post Evaluation (EPE) of the Argentina SBA from 201…
Upshot of very helpful set of replies is that deal negotiated for Spanish labour by current government under NextGen EU is the best since TRANSITION FROM DICTATORSHIP in which power of TU was at max i.e. Moncloa pact of 1977. twitter.com/adam_tooze/sta…
“This is the first labour reform made since Spain became a democracy that restores workers’ rights,” said Hoya, deputy Sec Gen of UGT trade union confederation. Im puzzled. Is it really view of Spanish TU that democracy has been bad for labour? Misquoted? ft.com/content/3d0209…
@gideonrachman @ManchurianDevil 2013/4 perhaps. But 2008, in which Ukraine was involved too, was squarely about NATO. EU strategy emerged, in part, as functional substitute.
RT @AlexSteffen: This is a good climate chart, contextualizing action (and the lack thereof) against the necessary target of zero emissions…
"A tale of two elites in Washington and Beijing While American analysts worry about civil war, China’s ones dream of global ascendancy” One of those @gideonrachman op-eds that is going to much cited. ft.com/content/31d265… https://t.co/LJbBhMoRDA
RT @KenRoth: Covid-19 vaccine inequity: "About 73 percent of shots that have gone into arms worldwide have been administered in high- and u…
RT @wokus_dei: @adam_tooze @M_C_Klein When the substack crossover episode happens https://t.co/vdmUKVTYij
Fascinating response from @M_C_Klein to my Chartbook #57 on 1914. Great debate developing here. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-57… twitter.com/M_C_Klein/stat…
RT @IngaRademacher: Kind of cool that Adam Tooze mentions my Bundesbank paper in Chartbook #62 😅; very interesting analysis of historical B…
RT @jeevanvasagar: If you enjoyed this @JeremyCliffe train ride through Europe’s vanished Great Power, it’s worth reading Christopher Cla…
Intel has apologised for a ban on using components from Xinjiang in response to attacks from Chinese nationalist media. Intel said it wanted to “clarify” that the ban was only for compliance with US law and not its “own intention or position”! ft.com/content/59a28f… https://t.co/tX5x7XH4hf
News like this seems to come from another place altogether …and yet it is only if you look closely that you figure these are not trains rumbling in Russia in the last couple of months. twitter.com/ShephardNews/s…
RT @toby_n: Belatedly finished @DuncanWeldon’s book last night. It’s really very good & was a joy to read. Recommend! https://t.co/tolQMERI…
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