August 1, 2021
RT @dean_frey: Remembering Yves Saint Laurent on his birthday 🎂 At home in Paris in front of his portrait by Andy Warhol Photo: Martine Fra…
RT @dean_frey: Remembering Yves Saint Laurent on his birthday 🎂 At home in Paris in front of his portrait by Andy Warhol Photo: Martine Fra…
"To paraphrase Gramsci, crypto is the morbid symptom of an interregnum in which the gold standard is dead but a fully political money that dares to speak its name has not yet been born.” Substack #15 on Crypto is still one my favorites – Check it out here. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-ne… https://t.co/bXaVczhWjm
@_kompromat Refugee return is the crucial additional variable here. @njtmulder
@zeithistoriker Time for the great refusal. I think we are suffering from the political economy equivalent of the “twisties”!
RT @raycraib: @LarryGlickman @adam_tooze From Gregor McGregor to Peter Thiel: Central America (and the island Pacific) forever on the cutt…
"To paraphrase Gramsci, crypto is the morbid symptom of an interregnum in which the gold standard is dead but a fully political money that dares to speak its name has not yet been born.” Substack #15 on Crypto is still one my favorites – Check it out here. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-ne… https://t.co/L4Z886KNMP
Anonymous mega-donor to an evangelical church in an unbanked El Salvadorian surf town sponsors “bitcoin beach”: world’s largest live and legal crypto experiment. I’ll just leave that there … twitter.com/Quicktake/stat…
Urban Afghanistan has modernized in last 20 years. 50% of country has cellphones -> Where does power come from? New generating capacity? Well yes, but mainly power imports frm Uzbekistan etc. Chartbook #29 on Afghanistan’s uneven economic development. adamtooze.substack.com/p/adam-toozes-… https://t.co/WTMqMRQ4Dc
RT @kapturak: Heute ist der 77. Jahrestag des Beginns des Warschauer Aufstands, den die Deutschen brutal niederschlugen, rund 200.000 polni…
Andrew Bacevich at @QuincyInst @RStatecraft rightly insists that we must ask why American power failed in Afghanistan. responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/07/23/don… The economy might be a place to look for some answers! Chartbook #29 lays out some of the key dimensions. adamtooze.substack.com/p/adam-toozes-… https://t.co/jDYAy9Nj4G
The "New Silk Road" vision that US cooked up 2009-2011 in conjunction with Afghanistan surge, just prior to Clinton’s 2011 Asia-Pacific pivot and, of course, Xi’ BRI push in 2013 is totally fascinating. Gotta dig deeper on this. In meantime Chartbook #29 adamtooze.substack.com/p/adam-toozes-… twitter.com/RassBariaw/sta…
Since overthrow of Taliban by US & allies in 2001, urban Afghanistan has modernized, but the benefits have been unevenly spread. Poverty has increased as gdp per capita grew -> opening the door for Taliban to return. Sign up for Chartbook #29 here. adamtooze.substack.com/p/adam-toozes-… https://t.co/o0LS3PJ6jK
In China “the profit pool [investors] chase exists within parameters set by the state.” Peter Milliken of Deutsche Bank. economist.com/business/2021/… https://t.co/vV1gz8ni3u
Since the early days of the cold war, Canada has served as North America’s first line of defence from Russian bombers and, later, ICBMs. It needs upgrading but is it beyond modernization? economist.com/the-americas/2… https://t.co/Htzw9bgYzm
RT @WWIIpix: This day in 1944, Polish resistance movements began the Warsaw uprising. In brutal street fighting, Warsaw was largely razed t…
How many Afghans were killed in the Soviet-Afghan war is debated. But it halted Afghanistan’s demographic growth! dergipark.org.tr/en/download/ar… Since 2001 the story is VERY different. Poverty, lower-intensity violence and rapid population growth. Chartbook #29 adamtooze.substack.com/p/adam-toozes-… https://t.co/sDuGqY1psx
"Climate change will ensure mismatches btw supply and demand of foodstuffs" -> good news for food traders ADM, Bunge, Cargill, Louis Dreyfus, aka ABCDs -> expect to bounce back from lull since 2014. Adding to workforce of 240k & investing in new business. economist.com/business/2021/… https://t.co/tAjhsvcz8S
"Drawings for Bolt-hole, the fifth and final episode of the author’s thesis, New Zealand’s Rural Enigma (2018) unpacks the spatial motives of a ‘Peter Thiel’, a sovereign freethinker preparing for the collapse of the welfare state.” @Leifrisk architecturenow.co.nz/articles/again… https://t.co/7mqd7TAq10
If it is confirmed that China is building 120 new nuclear missile silos, it is the largest such program since the 1980s Cold War. A MX-style shell game Launch on Warning capability? economist.com/china/2021/07/… https://t.co/6L3sJJbX3J
RT @JasonBordoff: @adam_tooze @EIAgov Coal’s share is driven by gas price. Which is why after falling for a decade, continued electricity G…
20 years $2.2 trillion Hundreds of thousands of lives. Millions displaced 55% poverty rate. Chartbook #29 on the legacy of Western intervention in Afghanistan. Read it here: adamtooze.substack.com/p/adam-toozes-… https://t.co/08s9lIWSVq
Coal is making a global comeback. America’s @EIAgov forecasts that coal’s share of domestic electricity production will rise to 26% this year, from 22% in 2020. Why is this not setting alarm bells ringing in the Biden admin? economist.com/finance-and-ec… https://t.co/IuKNBRTxwm
Having humiliated government forces, Tigray’s TPLF is rampant. Threatening to cut off links to Djibouti = 65% of Ethiopia’s trade. Moving South towards Addis Ababa, the federal capital. Abiy invokes Adwa and calls for total war. economist.com/middle-east-an… https://t.co/XfXOUSral1
Pegasus isnt a one off. Israel’s new government has close ties to the burgeoning cyber-industry. economist.com/middle-east-an… https://t.co/BCRLbuV8Jx
Chartbook Top Links #6 just dropped. Featuring writing/tweets on Soviet post-war economics, weather modification drones, trans-Atlantic inequality, China’s debt, salary man super heroes. Sign up here: adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-to… https://t.co/b1h7XNyLjE
China has no bankruptcy law for overstretched individuals, who can face harassment, intimidation and blacklisting. Shenzhen ha introduced an experimental system, the first in China. economist.com/finance-and-ec… https://t.co/rrofhJx3YK
Of the 5 highest-earning family names in Florence in 2011, four were above-average surnames back in 1427. Indeed, three of the four were in the top 10 percent. H/t @OctaveOctet www-vox-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.vox.co… https://t.co/aItGewrcHg
@Seanmatty123 I dont disagree. I make that point quite explicitly in the newsletter. Thanks for the compliment.
RT @ennuid1: @adam_tooze Afghanistan is also the graveyard of demographers: lack of cohesive state, very low pre-Soviet lifespan, high orga…
I’m a big fan of the collage graphics by Klawe Rzeczy. behance.net/klawerzeczy instagram.com/klawerzeczy/?h… https://t.co/8vcbdKkcuZ
Turkey’s statistical agency TUIK has brought an ominous criminal complaint against the independent Inflation Research Group which claims inflation is 40 not 17.5%. economist.com/finance-and-ec… https://t.co/Fv2mgd913v
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