August 2, 2021
RT @NickWhithorn: 2 August 1980, the worst terrorist attack in post-war Italian history. A bomb hidden in a suitcase explodes in the waitin…
RT @NickWhithorn: 2 August 1980, the worst terrorist attack in post-war Italian history. A bomb hidden in a suitcase explodes in the waitin…
RT @michaelcdeibert: Mr Lordi, singer of Finnish heavy metal band Lordi, receives his second dose of Covid-19 vaccine in Rovaniemi, Finland…
In the last 20 years, hundreds of thousands of Afghans, tens of thousands of women, gained a university education. But as the US exits, the Western-backed order remains profoundly vulnerable. Chartbook #29. Sign up here: adamtooze.substack.com/p/adam-toozes-… https://t.co/QLHHlJcL7d
The Social Question in the 21st century. This looks absolutely fascinating. ucpress.edu/book/978052030… https://t.co/ykALDYDuCI
It Was His Day Off. Then the Space Station Went for a Spin. Zebulon Scoville and others at NASA’s mission control in Houston spent Thursday righting the International Space Station after a new Russian module unexpectedly fired its thrusters. KUDOS to Zeb! nytimes.com/2021/08/02/sci… https://t.co/T9Y3UlFUjH
The Social Question in the 21st century. This looks absolutely fascinating. file:///Users/adamtooze/Downloads/the-social-question-in-the-twenty-first-century.pdf https://t.co/ztAm3iJtn1
@Chimpan04191711 @familyunequal @TheresaAFallon Super-interesting! Thank you for sharing.
RT @propagandopolis: Cartoon by by Jeff MacNelly published in the Chicago Tribune, 1989, showing Soviet tanks racing across a crumbling bri…
They may be essential materials, but lithium and cobalt btw them account for less than 20% of the cost of a NMC-811 battery. ft.com/content/e88e00… https://t.co/ezLnRw2VOV
RT @StuartLWallace: Wildfires ravaging Turkey are adding to President Erdogan's political woes bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @TurkWonk https:…
@anotherwjames It normally isnt, except in truly dramatic circumstances like Afghan-Soviet war. The depression in natural growth tells you something truly terrible is going on. Since then its been bad, but not enough to stop demographic recovery.
Greenflation is now a thing: ft.com/content/49c19d… https://t.co/5EsPI8RyAD
Always been fascinated by this period in Turkish history. Still in 1980s housing complexes in Kreuzberg Berlin were plastered with different factional posters and banners of the Turkish parties. twitter.com/kevankharris/s…
"The API said it wants the SEC to spare companies from having to report climate disclosures in annual 10k reports where the legal liability is greater for them. It is also concerned about the practicalities of reporting indirect emissions..” Well now! ft.com/content/cd247b… https://t.co/Hc5PruIsAS
“an attempt to give the sense of an aerial battle in operation over a wide area” @KHClem on Paul Nash’s Battle of Britain painting of 1941. theguardian.com/artanddesign/2… https://t.co/MqHPgco524
RT @MarcDavenant: Today I had the privilege of being able to photograph some of the brave and loyal veterans from the Gurkha Regiment who a…
Easy to think of Afghanistan’s history since 1978 as continuity of violence & instability. Population history tells different story. Soviet occupation was epic disaster. Since 1990s with refugee return, pop in country has surged. Check out Chartbook #29 adamtooze.substack.com/p/adam-toozes-… https://t.co/ONhe82xmAd
Swiss bank UBS is one of biggest beneficiary of wealth inequality but also one of its loudest critics amongst banks. @patrickjenkins_ wonders whether if they stopped “self-flagellating” their valuations might not rise close to US levels. Seriously. ft.com/content/652b65… https://t.co/cXSNAtP7XD
“if you can fix the money—you can fix the world.” “I told them, ‘Man, we got this. Bitcoin’s here. We got this.’ ” bloomberg.com/news/features/… https://t.co/n8j2BWQeJi
In the years after the end of Apartheid, whilst the S African economy was growing and per capita income with it, inequality was increasing. Only some were participating in the growth. @jsphctrl grim report. ft.com/content/0131c7… https://t.co/LdH9S3qlsq
"The US president is not even pretending that America is leaving behind a stable & successful Afghanistan.” ft.com/content/68283a… @gideonrachman pairs well with Chartbook #29 on the roots of instability in Afghanistan’s lopsided economic development. adamtooze.substack.com/p/adam-toozes-… https://t.co/TkEVVrCqqh
In 2008 per capita income growth in South Africa stopped. The 2020 crisis added a further shock. This @jsphctrl piece is grim reading. ft.com/content/0131c7… https://t.co/XHAZzrmeiI
"Imagine a capitalist paradise. An island utopia governed solely by the rules of the market and inspired by the fictions of Ayn Rand and Robinson Crusoe. Your own private archipelago.” This, forthcoming by @raycraib sounds pretty fascinating! pmpress.org/index.php?l=pr… https://t.co/TFdcZtg4wS
The corona epidemic is driving a house price escalation more extensive even, than that in early 2000s. And that is worrying Borio at the @BIS_org ft.com/content/2bdcc5… https://t.co/75L8jkw23e
Fighting Like Taliban by @Scholars_Stage scholars-stage.org/fighting-like-… Does pair extremely well with Chatbook #29 on Afghanistan. Only quibble @Scholars_Stage focuses on 1990s v. 2000s not 1980s. adamtooze.substack.com/p/adam-toozes-… https://t.co/RHpkrw91wi
"China Securities Regulatory Commission, Beijing’s market regulator, called on Sunday for closer co-operation with Washington, stressing the country’s efforts to improve transparency and predictability”. Equity markets love it. ft.com/content/f23d14… https://t.co/Lstzu30nlU
@Chimpan04191711 @familyunequal @TheresaAFallon Interesting question. Check out these 19th-century maps here: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:…
Love @HistoryKE for photographic history of Kenya. twitter.com/HistoryKE/stat…
RT @Unseen_Archive: Here's an interesting clip: Kenyatta opens a new computing centre at National and Grindlay's Bank (now KCB) in Nairobi,…
@ahaig8 @Scholars_Stage And your point about fighting to negotiate rather than to kill is fully born out by the data, which show FAR lower mortality in the Afghan civil war than in the battle with the Soviet Union. Of course the numbers are hedged with uncertainty but we are talking orders of magnitude.
Kudos to HWJ 91 for starting with an essay by Geoff Eley and ending with a meditation by Carolyn Steedman. Both in great form! Cheers my 90s soul! History Workshop Volume 91, Issue 1 Spring 2021 How shall I call them? “Ex academic in laws” …:) academic.oup.com/hwj/issue/91/1 https://t.co/oiWov3tFTo
This is a lovely thread! A beautiful, boxy, black, belted YSL Rive Gauche cord jacket is one of my prouder possessions …:) Thank you @dean_frey twitter.com/dean_frey/stat…
@cbeyzad All money is political but in most forms that remains entirely tacit and in that darkness the "Who whom" gets decided. A more transparently political money is no panacea but it throws light where light needs to be shed. That at least is the wager.
RT @arun_42: @adam_tooze This article connected the dots which existed as nebulous ideas in my mind — origins of money, Bitcoin's value pr…
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