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RT @70sBachchan: @adam_tooze @BasuAshis "… education is now a sharper differentiator of expected years of life between 25 and 75 than is ra…

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RT @adam_tooze: U.S Small-Area Life Expectancy Estimates Project tracks life expectancy at census tract level. As of 2017, the average life…

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@heimbergecon @RobinBrooksIIF @PhilippaSigl Awww …. Looks like a cozy place. Gemütlich. Thanks for sharing. Hit that paper.

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RT @LeoniaBatlan: Weekend subway ridership is recovering far faster than weekday — a clear indication non-work trips are far more resilient…

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RT @_amasso: Unbedingt hörenswert! Wer sich für Geld und Wirtschaftspolitik interessiert (sollten wohl alle🙄): @adam_tooze bietet dazu wic…

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SSE’s-Davies plans to increase investment in net zero infrastructure such as offshore wind farms to £12.5bn by 2026, up from a previous plan to spend £7.5bn to 2025. ft.com/content/0e8b88… https://t.co/YtSlOwQxEj

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@CASporleder @DEHEdgerton amazing. Thank you

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274 Americans died every day of drug overdoses in last 12 months. That is ONE EVERY FIVE MINUTES. twitter.com/jasonzweigwsj/…

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Yeah …. by the late 1980s Wall or not the actually existing project of socialism was dead! This is an ad for a GDR spark plug firm in 1987. GDR! … the huge car clearly American and the outfits are straight out of Grease (1978). Not photoshop? For real? twitter.com/DDR_Reklame/st…

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US currently has 93 nuclear reactors that have supplied 20% of its power since 2000. @rhodium_group predicts half will shutdown by 2030. Right now DC seeing is seeing a quiet but determined push to keep them alive. ft.com/content/faba7e… https://t.co/IDpCykthVA

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Shock of the old: I find it kinda fascinating that hardware laid down in the 1930s had a life span into postwar period. I know its obvious, but fact that postwar Italy had Mussolini’s fleet to scrap is not part of my image of 1950s … fascinating. @DEHEdgerton twitter.com/DramaWarship/s…

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The question is being posed. Should the Greens join the climate-unambitious SPD/FDP in government? twitter.com/wblau/status/1…

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The $1.2tn bipartisan infrastructure bill that Biden signed into law on Monday provides $6bn in grants for struggling nuclear reactors. The president’s “Build Back Better” spending bill would also establish a nuclear power production tax credit worth bns. ft.com/content/faba7e… https://t.co/c1HtkEHQOK

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RT @RobinBrooksIIF: Turkish Lira is now in a violent sudden stop. The sudden stop in Aug 2018 saw Lira fall 30% within a few weeks. It has…

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China was involved in global climate diplomacy in the 1990s. Does anyone know anything good to read on internal Chinese arguments about the climate implications of their world-historic coal-fueled growth burst after 2000, as it happened? Or was critique mainly pollution centered? https://t.co/16QEHCdknC

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@NewLeftReview @cedric_durand Ok. Thanks for the great response. Next up: what actually happened in China in 2021. A door I opened for Cédric, wider than I should have 😉

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@LavendelVicky Es besagt neuerdings, dass eine Inflation VON 2 Prozent erreicht werden soll, das wiederum impliziert Abweichungen in beiden Richtungen.

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Innovate, cut costs or die: Amazon is to stop accepting payments using UK-issued Visa credit cards from the start of next year. ft.com/content/510ddf… https://t.co/bGceFPWdUM

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“This is something that happens every single year without fail. Half a billion people on the Indo-Gangetic Plain get completely shrouded by this toxic smog.” Lavakare of @CareForAirIndia cited by @AmyKazmin ft.com/content/7192e3… https://t.co/AYp7w9FveR

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Creative destruction? EV company Rivian has overtaken VW in market value. Rival start-up Lucid surpassed Ford. VW, the world’s #1 carmaker, generated €9.7bn in net profit last year and sold 9.3m cars globally. Rivian, best 2009, has no meaningful revenue. ft.com/content/a05751… https://t.co/PERhXQxPxL

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Brussels is seeking to ban imports of beef, soy, palm oil, coffee, cacao and timber from areas at risk of deforestation. Fines up to 4% of turnover! But why not rubber? ft.com/content/545b5d… https://t.co/E3iEdVO2RJ

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Converted into $ the Japanese stock market has stagnated since the early 1990s shock and this despite BoJ buying 5% of market in ETFs. ft.com/content/595400… https://t.co/sMJ8xNWfOJ

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How do you keep a B52, a giant 60 year-old aircraft in the air. This is fascinating about maintenance @STS_News @DEHEdgerton thedrive.com/the-war-zone/4… https://t.co/Pujj9mSZJp

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RT @Shahinvallee: I don't think we are paying enough attention to the emerging debate at the @ecb on fiscal rules reform. This speech by Ph…

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@StefanAykut @guardian Delighted to be on same page. Agreed about reenchantment. But it is a different kind of charm isnt it? It seems to be all about sectoral, industrial, entrepreneurial progress rather than the old formula of carbon pricing & its new version i.e. blended finance at IMF/global level.

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Dollar at highest level in 16 months and EM – Turkey, SAfrica, Mexico – are feeling the pressure. ft.com/content/349f74… https://t.co/HWQU8kFFoA

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… und angesichts des Zieles 2 % Inflation zu erreichen – nicht mehr, nicht weniger – und 7 Jahre 2014-2021 in denen dieses Ziel weit UNTERschritten wurde, kann man im Moment etwas entspannt sein und abwarten was kommt. twitter.com/CyrusdelaRubia…

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RT @BBCYaldaHakim: Day 61 of Taliban ban on girls returning to secondary school in Afghanistan. For more than two months now teenage girls…

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RT @CJFDillow: Moral condemnation of the hypocrisy here misses the interesting psychology. Is this a tendency to see objects of policy as l…

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RT @DavidHenigUK: @Sime0nStylites @APHClarkson @timoconnorbl I'm still saying the US just re-floated a trade deal if the UK backed away fro…

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RT @trevorw1953: New Delhi has shut down schools until further notice, urged people to work from home and banned non-essential trucks from…

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"The transition to net zero presents the greatest economic opportunity since the Industrial Revolution” John Kerry ft.com/content/b044fe… Pairs well with this interpretation of what Kerry is about, I did yesterday for @guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/… https://t.co/mBGCOQPYrA

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RT @RajaKorman: @adam_tooze @_TimBarker @FT Well, considering US plans to spend c. 8 trillion on defense (using standard reporting conventi…

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RT @RajaKorman: @_TimBarker @adam_tooze @FT Please remember that all USG civilian budget outlays are reported in 10 year terms in the US pr…

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