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Chartbook: Top links 183 Indonesian modernism, sunflower stabilization, commercial real estate & what America cooks with adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-18…

RT @Schuldensuehner: Deutsche Bank and the ghost of crisis past: Investors search for the next weak link in European banking after Credit S…

RT @RobinRohwer: Mom asked, "I wonder when cherries bloom in Japan?" So I found 1200 years of data online and made her a plot. https://t.co…

@Ruby__Redshoes @matuk @gsignoret @MvembaDizolele A landslide is burying the entrance to an informal mine shaft. The guy is dodging rockfall to keep the entrance open for the men still inside.

RT @MorganRicks1: I had a great time on @ezraklein's podcast — check it out! https://t.co/blfvRIJjci

RT @JenniferLFeeley: Dorothy Tse 謝曉虹 and her colleagues at Hong Kong Baptist U have put together a delightful Chinese-English bilingual cre…

RT @GhassanMoazzin: Very cool cartoon from 1883: Chinese minister to France Zeng Jize in a card game with French prime minister Jules Ferry…

RT @MvembaDizolele: Congo. Worth a thousand words. https://t.co/C6FisjlCHZ

One of the effects of the failure of reconstruction efforts in Iraq since 2003 is that organizations like the World Bank start sketching power maps like this, to explain the impasse. Chartbook Newsletter 204 on the 20th anniversary of the invasion. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-20… https://t.co/jFzKLQrHYa

On the disastrous legacy of the 2003 invasion of Iraq @OnesandToozePod podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why… And Chartbook Newsletter #204 adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-20… https://t.co/WLVdPx7cXu

RT @zeithistoriker: @DrDuncanBell Duncan, have you ever thought Wells and Keynes together? Reading your great chapter in Dreamworlds alongs…

RT @DrDuncanBell: On why I think that H. G. Wells should be seen as the most high-profile pragmatist political thinker at the start of the…

The curve of infant mortality delineates the disaster of Iraq's stalled development since 1990. Once a leader in public health, Iraq now trails the rest of the region. Chartbook 204 on 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-20… https://t.co/OVLrIzjcpj

"Olaf Scholz has rejected comparisons between Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse as a slump in the German lender’s shares sparked a further day of turmoil for the banking sector." ft.com/content/963d8f…

Sri Lanka reels from aftershocks of debt crisis. What an image! ft.com/content/a896a4… https://t.co/jLIMCsJFuC

RT @DaPepsicle: @adam_tooze @pinakothekderm Gallery design is often underrated. My favorite example is the Van Gogh museums, which starts o…

Thank you ⁦@pinakothekderm⁩ https://t.co/R64Wn2cg5z

Frame it with Otto Freundlich’s Ascension 1926 and all of a sudden your rather nondescript 1930 Picasso comes alive. Bravo ⁦@pinakothekderm⁩ https://t.co/i4cOjeIPq6

Kokoschka/Hoedicke … 1916/1983 … hanging genius at ⁦@pinakothekderm⁩ https://t.co/jrS8kiJQxL

Lehmbruchs Fallen Man / Protzens grim 1930s Sachlichkeit. Yet another great gallery at ⁦@pinakothekderm⁩ https://t.co/lB2sqCreHJ

Brilliant use of space and light ⁦@pinakothekderm⁩ to make Otto Mueller really pop!!!! https://t.co/FaM6Odru3z

Stunning juxtapositions at the ⁦@pinakothekderm⁩ in Munich! https://t.co/XBc5Iveolz

Land as a frame for water – Bangladesh https://t.co/NpbcQKMfmd

With $3.4tn of wealth management assets, UBS would become the second-largest private bank in the world, just behind Morgan Stanley — or an “asset-gathering juggernaut”, as Andrew Coombs, analyst at Citigroup, wrote. ft.com/content/52729d…

"Strains in the $5.6tn market for commercial real estate loans have deepened in recent months as the Federal Reserve’s year-long series of interest rate rises leads to sharply higher borrowing costs and weakening property valuations." ft.com/content/c172f9… https://t.co/KKnTRF8s37

“There’s this mythical, enormous loan book,” said one person involved in the process. “It’s complicated because it’s huge. Everyone is scurrying around, looking for a partner or needs an insurance arm.” ft.com/content/0db909…

RT @archetypekafka: @adam_tooze the liquidity is elsewhere. Why would you be selling treasuries as a bank when you can just pledge them wit…

Treasury market liquidity deteriorated since the SVB fiasco. Highlighting how sticky the market has been since early 2022, at least according to this index. thedailyshot.com/2023/03/23/a-c… https://t.co/NA7HWWX54S

So far the efforts to boost First Republic bank have been unavailing. thedailyshot.com/2023/03/23/a-c… https://t.co/u4gk66sGPZ

RT @Intractabilis: @adam_tooze Inspired by your newsletter. A must see when visiting Copenhagen! ‘Spring’ “Harald Slott-Møller: 'Foråret',…

Despite the blow to valuation of big tech, the dominance of Apple and Microsoft in S&P500 has surged to over 12 percent. thedailyshot.com/2023/03/23/a-c… https://t.co/OuFmVE5F06

Strains in the US banking sector are roiling a roughly $8 trillion bond market considered almost as safe as U.S. government bonds. Hundreds of billions are held in bank balance sheets. wsj.com/articles/anxie… https://t.co/navFatPmp8

The consolidation of the US banking system is a slow moving process thedailyshot.com/2023/03/22/som… https://t.co/nzNT2uP0Wi

RT @RaulACarrillo: .@adam_tooze – following up on your post…you may be interested in today's @LPEblog "rapid roundtable" on SBV! https:/…

"We are generally admirers of Jay Powell’s press conferences…. Yesterday, though, his subject matter got the better of him. At this point, the US economy is so weird that it defies plain speaking." @rbrtrmstrng ft.com/content/939e81… https://t.co/aHMJwQjVC0

"cycles don’t end smoothly or predictably. Jerky, non-linear events, like banks breaking, change the economic picture in an instant." @EthanYWu ft.com/content/939e81…