May 5, 2021
RT @emile_chabal: Our launch events were scuppered by the pandemic so we wrote this essay about what our huge Hobsbawm bibliography can tel…
RT @emile_chabal: Our launch events were scuppered by the pandemic so we wrote this essay about what our huge Hobsbawm bibliography can tel…
In March 2021 only a quarter of US jobless claims resulted in payments. What is going on here? Perhaps @hshierholz could give us an explainer? Cheeky request. @PantheonMacro via @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2021/05/03/wag… https://t.co/sKBEeGU2uI
Amid the calamitous second Covid wave, the ruling BJP party tried and failed to win the coveted West Bengal elections. Surely one of the underreported political stories of the moment. theguardian.com/commentisfree/… https://t.co/dFHWFysyQT
As of April 27 2021 India needed more oxygen than the rest of the EM world put together to keep its COVID patients alive. thedailyshot.com/2021/05/03/wag… https://t.co/x0SnFEG3ib
Congratulations to @jhv85 and @BostonReview on the first long-form review of Levy’s Ages of American Capitalism. An extremely helpful review! This is clearly going to be taking up head space over the summer. bostonreview.net/class-inequali… https://t.co/9Hwf9lpmcz
China has pledged c. 500m doses of its vaccines to more than 45 countries inoculations with Chinese vaccines already have begun in more than 25 countries, and the Chinese shots have been delivered to another 11 Musterkind Chile leads the way with Sinovac. apnews.com/article/china-… https://t.co/jboorXJprE
RT @HelenCRobertson: Asia is home to three of the top four oil-guzzling nations and more than a third of global crude processing capacity h…
Naci Agbal Turkey’s former central bank governor may have been fired by Erdogan after ordering an internal probe into central bank’s dollar sales under his predecessor. I thought it was rates that were the issue. Scoop by @TheEconomist ? Other sources? economist.com/finance-and-ec… https://t.co/xupyyX3z9U
Might the collapse of the Venezuelan economy – down 87% since 2011 – be slowing? Loosening currency controls, import restrictions and informal dollarisation may slow the implosion. But forecasters disagree wildly with IMF on pessimistic side. ft.com/content/789bed… https://t.co/Gn1IqjMfC7
RT @McwilliamsBen: World Bank also working with real-time electricity data as a rapid tracker. At: bruegel.org/publications/d… we provide ele…
India’s economic data suffer from serious time lags -> world bank team uses daily electricity consumption data and satellite images to track shifting impact of lockdowns in March 2020 and spring of 2021. economist.com/finance-and-ec… https://t.co/TVHjzH3AFy
The island tourist economies remains severely depressed by the Covid shock. This is Jamaica’s tourist arrivals. thedailyshot.com/2021/05/03/wag… https://t.co/Eqnqfc5opK
There’s a lot of chatter right now about frantic M&A activity … its for real. Number of deals being done is at a record high. thedailyshot.com/2021/05/03/wag… https://t.co/wZLtRJQW5C
High rate of vacancies in the US economy is striking: Continued fear of COVID and churn/labour market mismatch seem like most obvious interpretations -> likely transitional. economist.com/finance-and-ec… https://t.co/2WC4p5u4mD
RT @Vertical_Hist: Here are shown, graphically, the principal sizes of ‘records’ used in almost every line of business . . . It is believed…
RT @heimbergecon: This overemphasis on noisy movements in inflation data is irresponsible, because it unnecessarily contributes to making p…
RT @paulkrugman: "If it should happen to rain, we have umbrellas," says treasury secretary. Panicked pundits say she's predicting a hurrica…
Like many others, I'm puzzling away at turn to "pay fors” of Biden admin. a. If this was always the plan can we really pin this on Yellen? b. Given lack of economic logic do we not have to read this mainly in political terms? prospect.org/first100/defic… prospect.org/economy/janet-… https://t.co/qO6ZGqRxIa
Falling Behind After the Great Recession, it took much longer for those at the bottom to claw back lost income than those at the top bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/yFW9iYOpxK
The U.S. collected less corporate tax in 2018 than any other OECD country. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/4vfERLNLGI
RT @FredSimonEU: Not long ago, people in EU policy circles were referring to the €50/ton as some kind of distant prospect that will trigger…
RT @fbermingham: Just for clarity, this was the quote AFP used to say they were suspending ratification: "We now in a sense have suspende…
RT @fbermingham: NEW: Hearing from a source in DG Trade that this line has been taken out of context. Position on ratifying the CAI has n…
RT @RogerPielkeJr: Hot off the press The latest from Vaclav Smil on the energy transition via @jpmorgan am.jpmorgan.com/us/en/asset-ma… https://t.…
Interesting this survey on maximum potential vote of German parties and share of voters who would never consider voting for parties. SPD is obnoxious to the least voters. AfD to the largest number. Greens have largest potential voter pool. No party comes close to 50% in potential twitter.com/dawum_de/statu…
RT @NathanTankus: insane that the first presidency we have talking up interest rates is the one with a former Fed chair as Treasury Secreta…
RT @ted_knudsen: @adam_tooze @paulkrugman Ah this finally got published! Spent many hours scanning moldy old books of German trade statisti…
Nominal spending figures understate China’s military might Entry-level pay for soldiers is 16 times higher in US than in China. On other hand @TheEconomist some types of technology are prohibitively expensive for China!? Let the military PPP wars begin. economist.com/graphic-detail… https://t.co/ztQyRcQLcC
How ‘classical’ has the world ever been? To what extent can ‘new’ trade theory help us to understand the 1st globalisation? One for @paulkrugman Hungerland and Wolf examine trade date for Imperial Germany pre 1914 to show importance of new trade effects. voxeu.org/article/panopt… https://t.co/E3Op2NSWYM
Applying constant exchange rates, the share of dollar in global official holdings of reserves has fallen by 10% since 2008. Euro shows no pronounced trend. It is is "other currencies" that have risen. ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/dat… https://t.co/YFo87XVE75
How the central bank swap line network backstopped funding for the global banking system in the spring of 2020. Nice graphics on funding costs and amounts from helpful explainer by Panetta and @Isabel_Schnabel ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/dat… https://t.co/sRFt6SZu6y
Reflecting the combined impact of lower tax rates and ruthless tax optimization strategies, the median effective tax rate for the world’s biggest firms has halved — dropping from 35% in 1990 to 17% in 2020. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/k7QsViZqRd
The South American drought that’s helping push corn and soybean prices to multiyear highs isn’t just threatening crops, but also the ability to haul them on waterways that are drying up. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/c5NfVA1qfS
There is a 5.5% range of real interest rates on offer around "emerging Asia”. Should S Korea really be on this list? Isn’t it really an AE case? bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/eHKNPmtYhW
The pace of flows into public bitcoin funds and Bitcoin ETFs was counted at the turn of the year in hundreds of millions of dollars per week. thedailyshot.com/2021/05/03/wag… https://t.co/V5McOo9fFU
After being sanctioned by the Chinese, the EU parliament is now being sanctioned by Russia too! @mdelaBaume Parliament makes a convenient target given that it takes strong positions but has little real power. politico.eu/article/russia… https://t.co/JPZ9At31lz
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