@MatthiasBuck4 Oh I completely agree re WWII. In fact, Cold War is FAR better analogy for the necessary effort level than WWII. We need is spending at Bundeswehr levels in 1980s. But that is precisely what haunts me: what if we cannot even do that …. It does after all sound a bit familiar.
@genedide @dkedrosky Make that Alan Milward 😉 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Milw…
RT @pseudoerasmus: (2) The chart above tells you, in an instant, that the level of agricultural productivity in Japan was probably not high…
RT @nicolas_veron: "China's most remarkable achievement during the past three decades [is having made] low-income groups far better off in…
RT @JeremyCliffe: This helps show why SPD overtaking Greens could change 🇩🇪 election dynamics: Scholz may stand a better chance of winning…
RT @COdendahl: Striking detail: voters of the #FDP (!) want Scholz rather than #Laschet. Even among CDU-voters, Scholz is a close second. h…
RT @NenaDarling: Hey, it could have happened to anyone 🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️ ——- Merkel phone rings during meeting with Putin https://t.co/lJHEHF…
RT @x_delcourt: Un état des lieux des informations disponibles sur les finances de l'Afghanistan à l'heure talibane. https://t.co/Wjiigvn1…
"Unlike people living in years before WWI, we won’t be sandbagged by catastrophe. With its atmosphere of dread foreboding, our time more resembles the years preceding 1939, a sensation of helplessly sliding down a slippery slope” Kim Stanley Robinson ft.com/content/ff94df… https://t.co/RWofPKmHKo
Afghanistan’s trade deficit in 2020 was $5.69 billion. Its GDP in the same year was c. $20 billion. Its deficit was more than a quarter of GDP! It has now lost most forms of external funding. A catastrophic implosion looms. For more check out Chartbook adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-13… https://t.co/7s78mhU69X
Fear mongers in Europe are warning of millions of Afghan refugees. Warsaw is mobilizing troops and putting up a fence. Merkel says lets pay Pakistan and Iran to avoid another 2015 when we cut rations in Jordan. Greens remind Europe of 20 yrs intervention. ft.com/content/15549b… https://t.co/OMDcFnkOc3
A really bad bout of Delta does not seem to have thrown the UK’s recovery off course. At least as viewed through UK public accounts. ft.com/content/88de87… https://t.co/EFm6g65cfQ
Joaquim Pereira Leite, virtually unknown just months ago, now has one of the most important posts in climate politics. The destruction of the biome is no longer a distant prospect. Who is he? Agroindustrialiist? Bolsonaro operator? ft.com/content/43a386… https://t.co/hzmebMqgZC
Through his vivid live tweeting of his exit from Kabul, Afghanistan’s central bank boss Ajmal Ahmady has become a key source on the crisis. But who is he? In Top Links #13 I dig deeper into Afghanistan’s financial situation. Sign up here: adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-13… https://t.co/b9arkPPOTs
“Sell-off for Chinese tech stocks, triggered by Beijing’s regulatory broadside has taken index down c 53 % from peak in Feb. Tens of billions of $ have been obliterated from the wealth of tycoons” Just try to imagine writing something similar about USA! ft.com/content/c5572f… https://t.co/C50uXlL18B
RT @tedfertik: “‘Seeing like a state’ can be capricious.” @adam_tooze adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-33…
Without aid, Afghanistan will face huge problems financing its trade deficit. Chartbook Top Links #13 on the challenges facing the new rulers in Afghanistan. Check it out here and sign up to receive regular emails. adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-13… https://t.co/oAYddmPygg
The new deserts: Should have been obvious perhaps but until I saw this, I did not grasp the extreme heat implications of climate breakdown for Latin America! ft.com/content/3ff5ab… https://t.co/XrE8PFi40Q
"China’s biggest tech stocks dropped after the country approved a strict data privacy law, prompting renewed concerns among investors over the intensity of Beijing’s regulatory crackdown.” @KangHexin Roll that one around in your mind for a moment! ft.com/content/c5572f… https://t.co/90w0k5TnXW
With Taliban in power, China eyes lucrative rare-earth mines in Afghanistan Warns @bsindia business-standard.com/article/intern… https://t.co/4mUscPAXAL
The failure to adequately supply the global vaccine campaign continues. Moderna and Pfizer are nowhere near their end 2021 targets. @GitaGopinath sounding the alarm! Most of the world has received no vaccine and the rich countries are talking 3rd dose. twitter.com/GitaGopinath/s…
RT @KeiranJHarris: We might record a follow-up Q and A to our most popular 80,000 Hours Podcast episode ever, on having a successful career…
RT @70sBachchan: you: Industrial Agriculture is kinda like a machine that turns fossil fuels into foo… John Deere (bursts in): THIS IS SP…
RT @BortolettoMD: No joke – in the 16th edition of Williams Obstetrics “Chauvinism, male, voluminous amounts pg 1 – 1102” Bravo to the f…
How are Haiti’s political class using the moment of the double disaster? This is interesting foreignpolicy.com/2021/08/18/hai… Also check out Chartbook #33 adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-33… https://t.co/y29LcK4o8N
Of the 305,000 tractors bought in N America in 2020, only 6605 were massive combines. They generate most profit. But the biggest market segment are sub 40 hp. @tracyalloway @TheStalwart can we have the tractor episode please! bloomberg.com/features/2021-… https://t.co/lIQnv62z9M
RT @BrutalHouse: ________________ TOKYO NAKAGIN CAPSULE TOWER POSTER (No.6) ________________ A1 — Normally £40 Now £35 +pp A2 — Normally £3…
RT @bandoblue: The Watches of Destruction, A Thread (with apologies to @adam_tooze) So the other day this little guy arrived for me in an…
RT @DuncanWeldon: A superb @dlknowles piece from 2019. economist.com/asia/2019/05/1… https://t.co/3uKm830i2A
@DanielaGabor @LukeBMM @pseudoerasmus Cool: So there is the full package: 1->2->3 But also: 1, 3->2 🙂
RT @wboneat3: @adam_tooze @MehdiShoghi @MESandbu With the change in wind-direction comes a change in economic analysis. Class is in and the…
@pseudoerasmus @LukeBMM Hi P and L From the long exchange especially with @DanielaGabor it would seem there are three separate decisions 1. Price liberalization – forced 2. Privatization – botched/crony 3. “Stabilization” – punitive austerity Obs you can stitch 1-2-3 together, but it is not necessary.
@Sebashoppe Thank you. This does look really fascinating! Much appreciated. There is definitely something fishy about the social theory here. Look forward to reading v much.
"Every downturn rekindles interest in John Maynard Keynes. This one should call attention to Michal Kalecki, Keynes’s contemporary.” @MESandbu ft.com/content/a91aa7… https://t.co/DkradEm05N
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