And so it begins … Maersk is taking the biggest step yet to decarbonise the shipping industry by ordering eight new vessels capable of carrying 16,000 containers on the China-> EU route that can run both on traditional bunker fuel and “green” methanol. ft.com/content/800fae… https://t.co/Sn6NASmYhc
“Desertification is one of the world’s big four environmental areas of concern, together with climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution”. Due to overuse and over-irrigation of agricultural land. Spain most threatened in EU. ft.com/content/0d38e8… https://t.co/D7AzG1Dmzi
"The hawkish “Vulcans” in the Bush admin were named after the Roman god Vulcan because Condoleeza Rice’s hometown Birmingham, Alabama, had “a mammoth fifty-six foot statue . . . [in] homage to the city’s steel industry”” @alexburns journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjo… https://t.co/PfHa9pCpj5
@MitchellBernar2 @FT Fair question, but I would say @sarahoconnor_ would have a fairly credible answer to the suggestion you are implying. For my money, she is one of the outstanding labour/social affairs journalists writing anywhere. For e.g. ft.com/content/0b26ee…
RT @fietsprofessor: The school run is the aggregate of individual mobility decisions. But which options do we support and which do we limit…
Before WWII Congress specified terms, duration, purpose in detail. In early 1970s Treasury established auction calendar. In mid 1980s new accounting system that made it easier to trade Treasuries. Fascinating this by @bhgreeley ft.com/content/b537d3… https://t.co/NWlNo0Ffhq
Hong Kong banks have refused to take business from officials sanctioned by the US, including Carrie Lam. Beijing has prepared a law sanctioning banks that apply US sanctions. But has so far held off from applying it to Hong Kong. So far … ft.com/content/173730… https://t.co/uA5ADGu9Yl
RT @economics: The Taliban appoint Mohammad Idris as acting governor of Afghanistan’s central bank, hours after his predecessor warns of an…
RT @70sBachchan: scenes from the Chota Nagpur plateau https://t.co/ZOKwbE69it
"Burkina Faso has declared another state of national mourning after suspected jihadis killed at least 80 people in an attack in the west African country’s restive north-east.” @neiLmunshi tracking violence across gold mining belt. ft.com/content/83c84f… https://t.co/TPCjtPmsZh
Initially my response to the headline was "…?????? really". Until I realized that in @ft -speak, “miners” are foreign mining firms not Peruvian mineworkers. ft.com/content/3f6db0… https://t.co/Ed9zN9JXCK
"To say now that the effort to build a functioning Afghan state was always doomed is a perverse diminution of responsibility … The real ignominy is the west’s 20-year-long neglect of a winnable peace.” Bravo @MESandbu ft.com/content/4f9b45… https://t.co/ggljrY7Nsl
RT @tracyalloway: BIG NEW ODD LOTS @TheStalwart and I speak with @aahmady, Afghanistan's former central bank chief, about how the Afghan e…
The Tata Group’s centrality to India’s modern history, Mircea Raianu suggests, goes beyond other corporate empires such as Hong Kong’s Swire or Anglo-American in South Africa. Looks fascinating! @Harvard_Press ft.com/content/b1d00d… https://t.co/X7sRkxQMun
It hasn’t been a disastrous summer for economic news, but it has been a downshift. Rather than exceeding Wall Street forecasts, the flow of news has tended to underperform expectation. ft.com/content/f8eaf8… https://t.co/91sGPHoYgh
@cowanusa Oh if only it had a romantic touch … I was thinking more late-middle age, WW2 “anoraks”.
"Will this quantitative tightening mean Treasury yields go up or down? Will stocks do better with rising or falling bond yields? And, a linked issue, is the stock-bond relationship that has held for the past three decades going into reverse?" @jmackin2 wsj.com/articles/what-… https://t.co/eFK1ZnhY9R
The $22trn US Treasury market is in no state for big news: “Liquidity is lousy, and it could absolutely cause potential problems next week if Powell has something big to say” remarks one major trader. @kateduguid ft.com/content/3c3e43… https://t.co/62DL3eU6XG
“If needed, there will be not just a base here [in Belarus]. All the Russian military forces will be based [here] in case of a new world war outbreak.” Dudes! … seriously? ft.com/content/8cff39… https://t.co/8SWVCvnaSx
@JoWiedner @TheEconomist How much Uni expansion has there actually been in Germany?
"The Chinese Communist party has warned thousands of officials in the city of Hangzhou, home of leading technology companies such as Jack Ma’s Alibaba, to root out any “conflicts of interest” they or their family members may have with local businesses." ft.com/content/815a4b… https://t.co/wRtgT9Xgdo
Excellent Afghanistan compilation this. Highly recommended. History, economics, politics. Great stuff. H/t @AbhasKJha twitter.com/AbhasKJha/stat…
@seekranker @athenogenes It would be back in the early modern period, as you suppose. But data for that period are really very sketchy.
For obvious reasons a lot of attention focuses on China v. US competition. But China’s overhauling of Russia is a dramatic reversal of Eurasian balance. pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10… https://t.co/JeGmq5dE4D
@JoWiedner @TheEconomist Mismatch higher in UK overall: Overqualification declining Germany, rising to high levels in UK. Underqualification rising from very low levels in Germany, falling strongly from very high levels in UK. Driving this is the University expansion in UK? Do I have that right?
RT @GavJacobson: Superb conversation between @KaiserKuo and @adam_tooze on the rise of China, which builds on Adam's NS essay from July htt…
@_TimBarker @finstab Hi Tim … totally fascinating. Lawrence Klein of LINK opining on military Keynesianism in 2002. More More …. Which other economists spoke out? @paulkrugman obviously.
As ever @KateAronoff in @newrepublic nails the cognitive dissonance and conflicts of interest that bedevil the climate policies of the Biden admin. newrepublic.com/article/163274… Pairs very well with Chartbook #32 adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-32… https://t.co/WJmFe3mShg
Sorting machines: the reinvention of borders. Very cool looking book by @MauSteffen This going to be translated? twitter.com/JoachimRock/st…
RT @bsarwary: Eight days since the banks closed in Kabul and across Afghanistan. ATM machines are empty. https://t.co/DQzbyPXG8r
RT @DissentMag: "The onus is on all of us who support the Green New Deal to help make the case for how our overlapping crises are indeed in…
Chartbook Audio #3 just dropped. Links to podcasts with @JeremyCliffe @emilyctamkin @KaiserKuo Such a privilege to be part of these conversations. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-au… https://t.co/IS3HVdjZMk
This is one of those truly wonderful threads by @ProfPaulPoast in which he takes us on a tour of a key area in IR theory. Just great stuff. Thank you. twitter.com/ProfPaulPoast/…
@finstab Cool. Thank you. Add this to the list of “economists respond to 9/11”. Fascinating project actually.
RT @charbonneau_b: Crucially relevant to #climate #security crowd by @adam_tooze RE War on Terror: "The tragedy is that better projects wer…
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