“Caesarization of the accountant” … Oh GOD what a phrase by Pessoa about Salazar! Thank you @AntonJaegermm Further evidence for the austerity politics of 1920s as one of the seedbeds of modernity. twitter.com/AntonJaegermm/…
Why I LOVE twitter. Express an interest in something you found on a documentary soundtrack and Spotify and you end up with recommendation like this! The Turkish Psychedelic Explosion: Anadolu Psych 1965-1980 Daniel Spice 2018 amazon.com/Turkish-Psyche… Thank you @hazanirayidfada ! https://t.co/3znAzMfONw
RT @theoryhack: @adam_tooze 70s Turkish rock/folk is absolute gold. The god Baris Manco, Fikret Kizilok, Bulent Ortacgil…
Has the BoJ stealthily ended QE? thedailyshot.com/2021/06/21/yie… https://t.co/C2Dz4XQ0JO
@Boondoggle2 @LalehKhalili I was actually asking the hive mind of twitter for precisely this answer. Thank you for providing it. So the question is what enters into such an assessment and how it licenses an exercise like this. Can you suggest anything I might read?
From a position of total ignorance I have to say that for the last few days I have been uplifted by the music of Selda Bagcan. What a voice! Why is there so little in English to locate the music in context? Dostum Dostum particularly delightful. Anything I can read? Engl/Fr/Ger? https://t.co/msunEH7uGc
The South American pandemic is not at the desperate levels of the winter of 2020/21 in Europe and the US, but it just keeps on growing. @OurWorldInData @EricTopol https://t.co/joylxjE9MU
Is the US Navy required to carry out an assessment of the damage caused by an exercise like this to marine life? If not, why not? H/t @LalehKhalili twitter.com/SCMPNews/statu…
Colombia’s politics may be in intense turmoil, but the economy appears to be bouncing back from the shock of 2020. thedailyshot.com/2021/06/21/yie… https://t.co/RmyZj9pF72
Lumber prices are now plunging as rapidly as they rose. thedailyshot.com/2021/06/21/yie… https://t.co/RjVl7ySS6y
RT @jordanschnyc: Larry Summers coming on ChinaTalk this morning! What should I ask him?
US 30 yr Treasury yields are back down to 2% but what happens when the Treasury has run down its cash pile and needs to issue new debt. thedailyshot.com/2021/06/21/yie… https://t.co/Q1uEvlBM8l
US 30yr yield less the core CPI is in territory not seen since the late 1970s. thedailyshot.com/2021/06/21/yie… https://t.co/suE8f4V5Zi
RT @russophiliac: "What Germany encountered in 1941 was not 'Slavic primitivism', but the first and most dramatic example of a successful d…
RT @LalehKhalili: This is horrific. The destruction of subsea life, the anthropogenic earthquake, so a deathly institution can test out the…
2020: another year in which US military spending is greater than that of the next seven powers combined and one of those is Saudi and three others are members of NATO. thedailyshot.com/2021/06/16/ret… https://t.co/3qg2LUb5mc
Not only has 2021 seen a major rebound in oil, but the market’s enthusiasm for alternative energy has turned. How long will the narrative of the market-driven energy transition stand up? thedailyshot.com/2021/06/16/ret… https://t.co/aQKzHsBSWw
Not only has the Greek 5-year yield gone negative, but the 10-year spread over German Bunds is at an all-time low! thedailyshot.com/2021/06/16/ret… https://t.co/gPgUlv6FOl
Cañada Real, a 14 km informal settlement running along a drovers rode on the outskirts of Madrid. The largest shanty town in Europe with c. 8000 inhabitants. I did not know this place existed. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca%C3%B1a… https://t.co/sV3x0dbLbd
Last year $435bn-worth of junk bonds were issued. As a result, the average high-yield borrower now has debt equivalent to an unprecedented six-and-a-half times their trailing 12 months’ gross operating profits, or EBITDA. Is a wave of defaults coming? economist.com/finance-and-ec… https://t.co/bwjWFIPAa9
Why buying stuff in the US is kinda hit or miss right now. thedailyshot.com/2021/06/16/ret… https://t.co/lDQoBiEbHy
A paradox? China has relaxed its hold on yuan at a time when CCP has sought to exert greater control more generally. But being in control does not mean nailing everything down. To better control credit, Beijing has chosen to allow currency to fluctuate. economist.com/finance-and-ec… https://t.co/5hDvPRLuF9
Prices for GPUs have risen so much that even geriatric graphics cards, such as amd’s rx580, have gained value. It was released in 2017 at a suggested price of $229, and is now listed at more than $700. economist.com/graphic-detail… https://t.co/24bsUDwfEL
Crypto-miners are probably to blame for the graphics-chip shortage Secondhand graphics-card prices move nearly in lockstep with those of Ethereum economist.com/graphic-detail… https://t.co/RnWD4x4zBF
India’s exports hit a plateau in 2011. They have bounced back from lows of 2020 to new highs but unclear whether this constitutes a new upward trend. thedailyshot.com/2021/06/16/ret… https://t.co/c5QURFFv6y
RT @jwdwerner: @adam_tooze This is excellent, thank you! In the “pushback” column, I think it needs to be added that a group of us active o…
RT @danhancox: There are so many wild parts of the story – like the time Isle of Dogs residents unleashed sheep at an LDDC meeting, or the…
RT @EricTopol: If we wanted to get the pandemic contained, we'd be doing a helluva lot more to help South America @OurWorldInData https://t…
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