"the Financial Times’s advice page for would-be opinion writers complains that, in their pitches, “lots of people spin doomsday scenarios about robots”. But now these robots are actually on the battlefield…" ft.com/content/04a071… https://t.co/BpuJBhPBZN
Rather than an unproductive dispute about carbon pricing/carbon border adjustment, EU&USA should be cooking up common North Atlantic industrial/R&D policy for: Cars Airplanes/engines Steel h/t @toddntucker @Tim_L_Meyer In tune with @dcullenward Victor foreignpolicy.com/2021/08/06/cli… https://t.co/Dm2H34yEEd
RT @toddntucker: "If Europe and the United States are going to pursue carbon border adjustments for steel imports, let them do so together…
Project Hamilton: Last year Boston Fed asked MIT to embark on a project to build and test “with boldness [and] ingenuity” the computing systems needed to support a US-backed digital currency. As @gilliantett points out, Fed lags behind all other CB. ft.com/content/14b0fc… https://t.co/y9U46Fd1Tt
If you were shocked by the pictures of the German floods. If you are into wine. If you would like to help. Buy “flood wine” aka Flutwein. You can do it here: startnext.com/flutwein https://t.co/M3RnVhUAX9
Did a piece for @ForeignPolicy on North Atlantic carbon diplomacy. Special thanks to @toddntucker @dcullenward @zcolman @yayitsrob @KateAronoff for inspiration and background. foreignpolicy.com/2021/08/06/cli… https://t.co/hWzSy8zNXP
This is fascinating on scale of Ramaphosa’s reshuffle after the “attempted insurrection” (SIC!) in S Africa following Zuma’s jailing. Security services reorganized. Key ANC player for the Finance Ministry. ft.com/content/ba2cef… https://t.co/uw1edUk9TV
RT @dan_ness: @adam_tooze Time to call in a paleoscatologist? ladbible.com/news/latest-th…
They had me for much of this, but then we got to: “We welcome our new robot colleagues” twitter.com/davies_will/st…
“mass animal deposition.” Embedded 16 inches deep in a bog on French side of the Traversette is a thin layer of churned-up, compacted scat that suggests a large footfall by thousands of mammals. Tracking Hannibal’s path across the Alps. smithsonianmag.com/history/how-ha… https://t.co/IwJa9FXoTl
"In some ways China’s moves are laudable. They want drivers for apps to have rights, web businesses to benefit society. Some in Biden admin might envy Beijing’s power. But these actions show that shareholders’ rights are not a priority.” So, they sold. ft.com/content/539472… https://t.co/gGxiVdIiA0
The Tokyo track is made up of layers of vulcanised rubber with “air-filled chambers”, which “act like bowstrings, projecting athletes up and forward”, according to manufacturer specifications. ft.com/content/3b56d1… https://t.co/VTUH0Rrx6v
China Evergrande’s Ocean Flower Island, $15.5bn project that is set to fully open next year and includes hotels, theme parks, opera house, once part of long-term diversification away from apartment complexes, is now on auction block. ft.com/content/a50e50… https://t.co/ZBoI8Y5Wgr
"symbols matter deeply in money making. One big appeal of bitcoin is how it acts as a symbol of anti-authoritarianism. If Boston Fed’s Project Hamilton digital CB currency project gathers momentum it will change the symbolism of crypto” @gilliantett ft.com/content/14b0fc… https://t.co/J1NUdCLjxY
In a China selloff who is most exposed? Tech devotees, value investors, those heavily exposed to EM which are dominated by 37.5% China weighting. ft.com/content/539472… https://t.co/C31IBIagkZ
“Flutwein” — or “flood wine” — a scheme to sell the mud-covered bottles retrieved from inundated cellars, with the proceeds going to flood victims. Set up under two weeks ago, it has already raised more than €2.5m. ft.com/content/3d564a… https://t.co/3McK71b6aZ
RT @MiddleEastEye: "If Saied is not listening, more and more Tunisians around him are – because the instability of his flakey, one-man, sho…
"Andrew Bailey, BoE governor, was not in a mood to be transparent when discussing the committee’s new stance He declined to answer simple questions about the balance of opinion on the committee and the definition of “modest”.." ft.com/content/133288… https://t.co/FPHM5nzSx3
"Obama quipped after leaving office that his big mistake was underestimating power of Trumka and his members to sink the TPP, a Pacific Rim trade deal that failed to pass through Congress. “I smile every time I think about it,” Trumka told the FT." ft.com/content/a92f14… https://t.co/5ENP7YbgFU
@rachelmillman @dennismeaney91 @DuncanWeldon NO … you guess right. Meme? What meme? Me clueless. But, I did figure it must be some kind of inside joke 🙂 All good.
RT @cfmeyskens: "From the Ever Normal Granary System to Sinograin's Global Push" The title of paper I'll never write but wish someone would…
@rachelmillman @dennismeaney91 @DuncanWeldon Thank you for clarifying. I was getting a little nervous 😉
Why "mud" is one of the key arenas of the climate crisis as @70sBachchan put it. twitter.com/GernotWagner/s…
@hilalatici @ummodern Might one reconcile this difference, by saying that the agendas of energy independence & Climate mitigation with their policy logics, are selectively acted on by the networks of social interests?
I have always loved the fact that Bertha Benz took off seemingly spontaneously on the first Majorca journey in 1888. twitter.com/hoyer_kat/stat…
RT @Sam_Sacks: My aunt Edie is selling her amazing bookstore, Owl Pen Books, with its 35,000 books, as well as a 19th-c. farmhouse and the…
RT @hilalatici: @adam_tooze In short: The only reason for Turkey not to ratify Paris is because Turkey is in Annex 1 – bargaining to get fu…
RT @dkedrosky: Apropos of my quest for #econhist audiobooks: @adam_tooze has just released (as of two days ago, I think) the audio version…
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