"That the Ethiopian project should have so dramatically unravelled is a tragedy not only for Ethiopia but for a continent that looked to it as a plausible model of development" and thus also for the world …. ft.com/content/0a9a17… https://t.co/p3G09pEYvU
A lot of people have been raving about this wonderful essay by @HelenHet20 on the EU and the HABSBURG empire (yup Im aware of the blooper in Top Links #43) and it really is wonderful. emerald.com/insight/conten… https://t.co/dmBaO5nwMo
Gazprom expects to generate record net income of more than Rbs2tn ($27bn) for 2021 and pay a dividend in excess of Rbs45 per share. ft.com/content/a0bc79… https://t.co/QUDPGSWwhn
2021: "a year where the world went nuts about inflation, and gold traded solidly sideways.” What is next for an analogue hedge in a digital world? ft.com/content/83d3db… https://t.co/EXW0Kd8zyj
German gov bailed out Commerzbank in 2009 and remains its single largest shareholder with a 15.6% stake! Will new Finance Minister Lindner speed up privatization? Bank CEO Knof would rather not. ft.com/content/daa2cd… https://t.co/A1j8W5PjR8
RT @PeterBofinger: @adam_tooze Here is the text inside: https://t.co/Cxhn3B67MI
"Earlier this month, Khan, Kanter and Vestager met in Washington, where they launched the EU-US Joint Technology Competition Policy Dialogue.” Fascinating this on trans-atlantic antitrust cooperation on big tech ft.com/content/03a2df… https://t.co/xsremNHqpP
2021 has seen some decline in political/jihadi violence in Mali, but a dangerous spillover of insurgency to Burkina Faso. Important end of year review from @neiLmunshi ft.com/content/5153ca… https://t.co/GmKm5ppTJj
"Do not be afraid" – this is the xmas card of the German Finance Ministry? For Real? twitter.com/PeterBofinger/…
“We always knew this thing had an expiration date,” How NSO’s Pegasus software was used to hack US diplomats’ iPhones in Uganda bringing down upon Israeli firm, the weight both of Apple & US sanctions. ft.com/content/319e69… https://t.co/Og5fHDCuR1
Italian Premier Mario Draghi said Wednesday his government has accomplished most of what it set out do to in fighting the pandemic and restoring economic growth — signaling for the first time that he may be ready to run for the Italian presidency nhregister.com/news/article/D… https://t.co/VViWBY7SSZ
@avvwrites @HenryPorters @TheStalwart Yes. Clearly. That too a lesson from S. Korea. Quick and dirty is key. If not terribly accurate, test and retest. Volume and speed are key.
RT @RussInCheshire: Having taken the decision to rehabilitate criminals rather than simply lock them up, The Netherlands now has just 30 pe…
RT @RussInCheshire: After 30 years of research, scientists have developed an effective vaccine for malaria, which currently kills around ha…
RT @RussInCheshire: 79-year-old Tom Brown from N Carolina has spent his retirement doing apple detective work. In the last 2 decades, he's…
Thank you! That is a lovely cover to appear on. Much appreciated. twitter.com/PhilipLeventha…
@avvwrites @HenryPorters @TheStalwart So how do you create the platform for an evidence-based critique of FDA that would actually enable reform in something like real time?
@avvwrites @HenryPorters @TheStalwart So the way I read you, and I appreciate this interesting exchange, is that we are caught in a “risk society” (Ulrich Beck) trap. We are check-mated by a regulatory bureaucracy backed by claim to scientific authority which systematically produces dysfunctional results.
For all the $trillions at stake & all the algo firepower in play, it is astonising to learn, yet again, how untransparent the largest and most important financial market in the world – the market for US Tresuries – actually is. ft.com/content/6d2532… https://t.co/UiVdBDB1E2
@avvwrites @TheStalwart The question is not magic. The question is why they are not working 24/7, with max human resource, unconstrained budget and fear of god in them …
@avvwrites @TheStalwart In other words they have failed to accelerate sufficiently which is what we are saying. They are behind the curve in forcing the FDA to recognize urgency and act.
As European gas prices surge, Minerva Chios, a US LNG tanker, was heading east near India on December 15 but has since turned round and was now on course for the Suez Canal, suggesting a delivery to Europe ft.com/content/4885b7… https://t.co/dUXjTLrh2N
@avvwrites @TheStalwart Pointing finger at FDA just begs the question. Its issues are well-known. Put together a crisis team, knock heads together, flood the problem with money.
@avvwrites @TheStalwart All this does is to restate the problem. 200 m per month is silly. If you are doing this for real, you need to test multiple times per week across large share of the entire population. 300 m per week would be ballpark.
@avvwrites @TheStalwart But that isn’t an answer. You have a broken piece of the state machine, it is up to the administration to wage all out effort until that piece is fixed. This isnt about blame it is about results.
@avvwrites @TheStalwart Yup. Got that. Reuters has this from late October: The U.S. government has so far invested around $3 billion to procure rapid COVID-19 tests. reuters.com/world/us/us-in…
@avvwrites @TheStalwart Or was it $1 billion? … two peanuts! washingtonpost.com/health/2021/10…
@avvwrites @TheStalwart $665 m here which is PEANUTS! hhs.gov/about/news/202…
Violence continues to escalate across Sahel region whilst relations between France and Mali deteriorate to new low and Russia’s Wagner mercenary group overs in background. Important this from @neiLmunshi ft.com/content/5153ca… https://t.co/y26RjxxTzL
And yet if there was ONE thing we learned from Feb/Mar 2020 it was that RAPID TESTING IS KEY. Not 100% accurate testing, but RAPID TESTING OF LOTS OF PEOPLE. twitter.com/TheStalwart/st…
AND HOSPITALITY, FOOD SERVICE, TRAVEL, TOURISM ARE NOT SMALL SECTORS. Far larger than typical “just transition” concerns e.g. car manufacturing. twitter.com/PawelAdrjan/st…
The fact that the US has not preemptively ramped up production and availability of billions of rapid tests ahead of entirely predictable winter 2021/2 COVID surge is staggering. Wasn’t COVID competence supposed to be a Biden talking point? Totally with @TheStalwart on this! twitter.com/TheStalwart/st…
RT @dylanmatt: The institutional failures at the FDA documented here are just staggering propublica.org/article/this-s…
"One of Hong Kong’s enduring puzzles has been how the city managed to miss Asia’s tech boom for so long.” Hong Kong did not have a single “unicorn” to its name until 2017. Fascinating this by @JKynge ft.com/content/1aadf2… https://t.co/THPIa8F0bF
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