America's housing market has seen both demand and supply withdraw -> mortgage applications at historic lows. ft.com/content/4e6399… https://t.co/9s5gd1Hsh6
from Capital Economics’ Sam Hall, is a chart of US mortgage payments as a proportion of incomes. Houses were last this unaffordable in the mid-1980s. ft.com/content/4e6399… https://t.co/91fpMq1mvT
RT @SophiaKianni: Scotland's forest cover is nearly back to where it was 1,000 years ago! https://t.co/nuXy5SvByu
“Our goal is to make sure that the United States . . . is the only country in the world where every company capable of producing leading-edge chips will be doing that in the United States at scale,” What is Raimondo actually saying here?? ft.com/content/9f4f96… https://t.co/cF1TaBOAWh
BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink has said Republican state treasurers last year pulled about $4bn from the asset manager over ESG concerns. ft.com/content/f5fe15…
A dozen big US financial companies including BlackRock, Blackstone, KKR and T Rowe Price added language to annual reports cautioning that pressures such as “divergent views” or “competing demands” on ESG investing could hurt financial performance. ft.com/content/f5fe15…
@BJMbraun Your sins are forgiven. Go in peace 😉 Seriously, Ben, thanks for taking the time!
Chartbook: Surging Chinese car exports, Indo-Pacific geopolitics, American mental health and the mystery of Russia's reserves adamtooze.substack.com/p/surging-chin…
That feeling when your 11-hour 1st leg is 2 hours delayed and you make your 10-hour connecting flight with 3 minutes to spare. You sit in the dark and reflect on hours of stress that came down to a time interval measured in seconds.
RT @wang_seaver: "Mechanisms and impacts of Earth system tipping elements" If you’ve ever been interested in climate tipping elements, che…
RT @bens_280_chars: This from @adam_tooze (with @HyunSongShin node graphs) is a good reminder that globalization was always a regional / se…
RT @Phil_Free_: “Any technocrat who celebrates the decline of the bargaining power of organised labour because it makes inflation-control e…
RT @ekryski: Global banks had 0.003% of their assets exposed to crypto. Mostly in N.A. Given how nominal the exposure *actually* is it's p…
RT @x_delcourt: .@martinwolf_ emboîte le pas à @adam_tooze: "The west must give Ukraine what it needs (…) Unfortunately, western rhetoric…
RT @youngdavidh: I'm proud to have led the talented team that wrote SIGAR's latest report, "Why the Afghan Security Forces Collapsed,” whic…
RT @dpcarrington: Carbon emissions from global SUV fleet now outweighs most countries – Fast rising sales driving a third of higher oil…
RT @benbawan: In 2001, the average Serbian 🇷🇸, Bulgarian 🇧🇬 and Romanian 🇷🇴 had about the same purchasing power. In 2021, the Bulgarians…
RT @rhaplord: Map showing the Navigable sections of the Niger river using Barges (8-14ft wide, 40-90ft long, 10-80 tons capacity) This nav…
RT @chen_long: There has been a lot of chatters about HK losing ground to Singapore. This chart shows that it really started 20 years ago.…
RT @lteal: Hey, sovereign debt nerds: Ever wanted to have @IMFNews LIC DSA debt distress list in convenient .csv format? I'm sure you h…
Chartbook: Global credit booms, the French baby bust, China's dwindling farm land & the best books on spying. adamtooze.substack.com/p/global-credi…
RT @waiterich: The only thing I'll add to the tomatoes-in-February discourse is that although eating local & seasonal food can be delightfu…
Charting the network of globalization, In Chartbook Newsletter #198. Also yet another appreciation of @HyunSongShin fundamental work. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-19… https://t.co/4CyGD3n3QV
RT @x_delcourt: " La mondialisation " réelle " et la mondialisation financière ne sont pas des processus distincts mais étroitement liés. "…
RT @vpalsmith33: Fascinating from @adam_tooze. Feb 2020 paper perfect illustration of what Keynes meant, "Madmen in authority, who hear voi…
RT @yarbatman: The idea that the GFC represents an inflection point for globalisation is also the subject of @adam_tooze's latest newslette…
Chartbook — Chartbook #198 Globalization: The shifting patchwork adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-19…
Singapore and Hong Kong's prime office real estate is moving in opposite directions. ft.com/content/d74f0b… https://t.co/b5PljRqaSF
Air traffic and office rentals may show Singapore stealing a march on Hong Kong. But in terms of financial fundamentals Hong Kong is in a different league. ft.com/content/d74f0b… https://t.co/M5whUPCBGu
Ford this month announced plans to cut 40 per cent of its entire European engineering team. Last summer, Ford cut about 3,000 product development roles in the US, Canada and India. ft.com/content/d8d97d…
RT @FrankFabel: Accounting is much more than #excel and airconditioned offices. The chief accountant of Rut Seafood in Bangkok perfectly co…
@jull_oliver @yarbatman @NATO From the FT piece: "the west’s unspoken aim is not just to prevent a Russian victory, but to avoid a decisive Ukrainian success, for fear of escalation by Vladimir Putin’s regime."
RT @zachdottokyo: Looking for some Sunday reading? Check out this deep dive into the inequities and hierarchies of the Cacao industry and t…
RT @FilmstoFilms_: It sucks having to start all over again . twitter.com/filmstofilms_/…
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