March 11, 2023
@crd37 Yeah personally Im going to be chuffed if I can still follow the day by day in 2048.
@crd37 Yeah personally Im going to be chuffed if I can still follow the day by day in 2048.
RT @petersgoodman: Superb, clarifying rundown on SVB train wreck from @adam_tooze twitter.com/adam_tooze/sta…
Gotta love this live tweet of the Thirty Years War … which is now … 5 years in! General Tilly's Catholic army has occupied Heidelberg and is causing havoc. twitter.com/vor400/status/…
Chartbook: Chartbook #200 Something Broke! The Silicon Valley Bank Failure – How tech hubris and low interest rates combined to produce a big mess. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-20…
RT @M_C_Klein: The entire bank scene in Mary Poppins so good. Immediately before Michael accidentally starts a bank run there is a hilario…
RT @mmpiatkowski: "The Miracle of #Poland ":a great podcast by @adam_tooze on🇵🇱's econ performance since 1990 during which it has >3x its G…
@IgorRut One is a statement about global demand the other is a statement about (very) local polling evidence. Who is in fantasyland here?
RT @Brad_Setser: To be sure, the associated risks depend as much or more on an institution's funding structure as on the size of the mark t…
"The sell-off on Thursday came just days after data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, a banking regulator, showed US lenders were sitting on roughly $620bn of combined unrealised losses in their securities portfolios." ft.com/content/47e3d4…
Chartbook: The global funding crunch, rebels in the Congo, US high-tech investment & Dutch bikes adamtooze.substack.com/p/the-global-f…
RT @janrosenow: “Let’s not pick winners” and “technology openness” we often hear. But the status quo already picked winners: fossil fuels.…
RT @70sBachchan: If China imposes export controls on its cheaper solar panels, electrolysers, or wind turbines in retaliation to US chip co…
RT @70sBachchan: 7/ All the metals the world mined last year. You have to really squint to find the lithium. You really gotta worry more ab…
RT @70sBachchan: 6/ Average car burns 17,000 liters of petrol over its life, i.e a 25 storey high stack of oil barrels. In the US, 10% of…
RT @heimbergecon: Profit margins of US companies have reached levels not seen since the aftermath of World War II. via @IsabellaMWeber htt…
RT @techreview: Let's bust some myths about mining and climate change. trib.al/oamxPni
RT @PaulJHeer: It's getting really hard to argue with those whose ideological blinders leave them unable (or unwilling) to see either the l…
RT @ChekistMonitor: The State Department's Bureau of Intelligence & Research (INR) Morning Summary for December 17, 1983. "USSR: Did Andro…
RT @colinmckerrache: Internal combustion vehicle sales peaked in 2017. They are down nearly 20% from that peak, and have no real route back…
The Eurozone is experiencing not so much a wage-price as a profit-price spiral. twitter.com/KeineWunder/st…
Public support for climate policy measures is rising in Germany. Particularly for wind farms and particularly in Eastern Germany! twitter.com/BrigitteKnopf/…
RT @EdwardGLuce: Sorely needed corrective to Washington's "paranoia, hysteria and…fears of being branded as soft" on China by @FareedZaka…
@arthurgeyland @SnoozeButtonBen @EdwardGLuce You sure about this idea that there is a "system"?
Premeditated invasion is an eerie thing. 2003 Iraq is one example. 2022 Ukraine another. We now have an inside account of how the Biden administration faced the Russian build up from @politico In Chartbook #199 I tease out some of the implications. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-19… https://t.co/xwGZIrXgOG
In the fall of 2021 the US found itself on the other side of a gratuitous "war of choice". A @politico team wrote a brilliant first history of that jarring moment. In Chartbook #199 I tried to distill out the key moments. Sign up free here: adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-19… https://t.co/plxq5AgsNk
How do you react when you see a war coming? A team including @vermontgmg @ErinBanco @laraseligman @nahaltoosi @alexbward wrote a remarkable oral history politico.com/news/magazine/… In Chartbook Newsletter #199 I tried to draw out some of the implications. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-19… https://t.co/hALCE7bn9u
RT @JonathanBoff: @adam_tooze @curatorian @UkNatArchives Which then they could make available to Records Offices and regional museums all o…
RT @70sBachchan: oh wow looking at assets AND liabilities i.e both sides of a balance sheets. some big brained thinking afoot at the IMF. h…
Ok so here is proposition @UKNatArchives a photography app that every user who wants to take photos of files loads onto their smartphone. Each file you work on you log in the number. Automatically creates a proper databank and you can see photos already uploaded and add new ones.
@JonathanBoff @curatorian @UkNatArchives You could have a National Archive app that automatically uploaded the images everyone took to a single shared database. You could log in the file you were working on. See images that already existed and then snap away.
@JonathanBoff @curatorian @UkNatArchives Its crazy isnt it. All this private manual labour that then sits on personal hard drives. Rather than collectivizing the effort.
RT @PikeGrey1418: @HartMilitary Drawing by German painter Max Karl Tilke (1869-1942) depicting German troops on the march through the Daria…
How the Biden admin confronted war. A team at @politico including @vermontgmg @ErinBanco @laraseligman @nahaltoosi @alexbward compiled a remarkable oral history politico.com/news/magazine/… In Chartbook Newsletter I tried to draw out some of the implications. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-19… https://t.co/WLZwQPF9qh
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