“If your subject is but a pig-sty — dignify it,” By painting pollarded trees 1800s landscape painter John Crome broke Gilpin’s convention of the picturesque that shaped Constable et al. Learned a lot from this by Rachel Spence. ft.com/content/cb0063… https://t.co/7nQTq99dh2
China education fracas has got me interested. If you want to invest in Kindergartens what do you buy? Turns out there is an ETF for that! A whole bunch of more or less significant businesses. Im sure you all knew this already. Capitalism innit. But Im choking into my cornflakes. https://t.co/qbYojnkMXt
Tickled by the stories of lumber craziness? Want to invest in timber? In the US there are four big timber real estate investment trusts (Reits), the largest being Weyerhaeuser. Interesting this. ft.com/content/2a4910… https://t.co/OYwGHRXSif
"Shenzhen has issued draft regulations to stop nursery schools from going public” i.e. doing IPOs! "Public kindergartens cannot be taken private and may not get involved in the running of private kindergartens” Its the return of Maoism! yicaiglobal.com/news/shenzhen-… https://t.co/JJ0q3hLzKq
Clothes-Line was an early BBC TV programme broadcast live btw 30 Sep and 3 Dec 1937. It is notable for being the first TV programme dedicated to the history of fashion. Produced by Mary Adams, co-presented by James Laver and a heavily pregnant Pearl "Polly" Binder. https://t.co/isDLQK93MN
“To govern the country well, we must first govern the borders well.” This LONG read in @ForeignPolicy is interesting on China’s invasive settlement policy on the Tibet/Bhutan border. @RobbieBarnett foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/28/chi… https://t.co/wf41ERSqT9
Can we look to a long-dead Englishman – James Laver – who started writing in 1930s (and was an exponent of discredited "shifting erogenous zones theory) to explain the pelvic cut-outs Karadashian wore to the Vatican? Kinda fascinating from @helenbarrett ft.com/content/e36053… https://t.co/eZmnDlv0b5
What does China’s new ambassador to the US do before he sets off for his new posting? Visit the birthplace of the CCP in Shanghai. H/t @niubi https://t.co/pLFd0zU4cS
At some point in the next few weeks, the FTC will make a decision on whether to refile that case with a new explanation of Facebook’s monopoly power. A major test of Lena Kahn’s new model FTC. Important read this by @kiranstacey ft.com/content/eba8d3… https://t.co/0x32qNl3il
Last week, a journalist from the People’s Daily, the Chinese Communist party’s official newspaper, asked Nanjing health authorities how many of the recent infections were people who had already been vaccinated. Within an hour the reporter was disciplined ft.com/content/dd7ca2… https://t.co/NI5hwskABc
@rob_heinze @DanielaGabor Do you happen to have the source fo this interesting quote?
@PhraAthit I think my point, perhaps too succinctly expressed, was that you have to understand precisely this web of complexity to understand cause and effect here. Obviously, smart folks in Berlin think the situation is serious.
Karl Marx University primer for budding journalists on deductive and inductive logic. "Manual of journalistic methodology". twitter.com/Daily_Hegel/st…
RT @Daily_Hegel: Das sollte man heutigen Journalisten auch mal wieder beibringen… https://t.co/ZPIJBdaVAz
“Given the detractors that have come out of woodwork in recent years, augmented by all the changes Chair Khan is imposing, I am not sure that the FTC will be around in five years, and that makes me very sad.” Says GOP commissioner. Where there is smoke … ft.com/content/eba8d3… https://t.co/HfpkhrSo62
RT @Lhatseri: While US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was meeting the Representative of Tibetan exile gov, the first #McDonalds opened…
Gas prices rising -> inflation. Gas producers not keen to increase supply. Net zero horizon -> fossil investment strike. Don’t succumb to blackmail. Focus on using less. Smart this by @OilSheppard ADD (1) relief for low-incomes & (2) BIG Green investment ft.com/content/7bf23d… https://t.co/RKsFKZmd8R
RT @ChassNews: 'After lunch my wife and I sprawl in our four-poster bed. Here is my guess as to what she is thinking: the entire marriage,…
RT @COdendahl: A young, #FDP candidate in Berlin has just one simple message on her election campaign ads: "Mental health matters" with a p…
RT @talmonsmith: The natl debt ‘is merely a historical record of all of the dollars that have ever been spent by our govt but not taxed bac…
"Bork’s insistence that consumers should be placed at the centre of competition policy even to the detriment of employees or smaller companies has informed antitrust enforcement since the Reagan administration.” ft.com/content/eba8d3… https://t.co/XryIR0Geza
Berlin is a remarkable place: a campaign for large-scale compulsory purchase of private apartments triggered by what are, by global standards, modest rent increase. Shows how you have to understand local ecosystems before jumping from cause to effect. ft.com/content/ad96da… https://t.co/kqLgYIXBGg
For me everything became a bit clearer when I arranged Australia, Canada, US in my head as "carboniferous settler colonial polities". Potentially a category you could extend with a little imaginative leap to Brazil … and to Russia. twitter.com/disclosetv/sta…
RT @imbresigau: @adam_tooze Rick Perlestein's book Reaganland gives a good run down on the battles between the FTC and right wingers in the…
Account promising “infrastructure porn” has posted 19 tweets since July. !as 82k followers (including myself)! Beginning to think there may be something to @DanielaGabor skepticism about our infrastructure obsession! In our defense they are nice pictures about trains & stuff. https://t.co/m05WGy5yV0
America’s Federal Trade Commission was temporarily closed in 1970s after it proposed banning advertising to kids under age of 8! A memory conservative voices are today invoking as they warn against Lena Kahn-driven “overreach”. AKA transparent threats! ft.com/content/eba8d3… https://t.co/qxOc2yz8GJ
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“Our investment thesis with respect to China remains unchanged. Ultimately there is a lot of innovation to occur in China.” Softbank is to heading for exit in China. Has anyone written anything interesting about the idea of an “investment thesis”? ft.com/content/8b98db… https://t.co/lLu8lD1Otl
How we make up inflation. This conversation btw @JWMason1 & @EricLevitz is excellent. nymag.com/intelligencer/… Pairs VERY well with Chartbook #22 on Weimar hyperinflation and the calculation of inflation statistics. Sign up here: adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-ne… https://t.co/RXtOXCWbdG
“Taliban captured five Afghan provincial capitals over the weekend, four of which were in the north, a historic bastion of warlords hostile to Taliban rule. A fifth northern provincial capital was captured on Monday." ft.com/content/d2c423… https://t.co/DrYgzm90g8
RT @StructurePorn_: Kechut Reservoir, Jermuk, Armenia https://t.co/m1aCcX9cwJ
How we make up inflation. This conversation btw @JWMason1 & @EricLevitz is excellent. nymag.com/intelligencer/… Pairs VERY well with Chartbook #22 on Weimar hyperinflation and the calculation of inflation statistics. Sign up here: adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-ne… https://t.co/nhk3xbEuuX
RT @Austan_Goolsbee: I’m on there with you. A Marshall Plan for Vaccines. The original was to prevent the spread of communism. This one…
RT @tedfertik: Great interview. @JWMason1 has the clearest account of what inflation is and isn't, and what that means for policy response.…
RT @MarkTKanter: Overhead shot of “I Love Lucy” primary sets. Ricardos’ living room, kitchen and bedroom, and on the far right Ricky’s “Tro…
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