April 25, 2021
The 2008-2014 dash for gas by the big fossil fuel companies has left them with tens of billions in impairments. Has it locked the world into a fossil-fuel dead end? economist.com/business/2021/… https://t.co/mUG7z8E4wS
The 2008-2014 dash for gas by the big fossil fuel companies has left them with tens of billions in impairments. Has it locked the world into a fossil-fuel dead end? economist.com/business/2021/… https://t.co/mUG7z8E4wS
There’s a passage somewhere in one of the Freiburg volumes on Germany in WWII in which a general complains that infantry are increasingly just ammo porters for MG. twitter.com/BuddNicholas/s…
Congratulations @AnnaArabindan What fabulous news! twitter.com/SPHLibrary/sta…
RT @gray_sky_guy: @zeithistoriker @adam_tooze @JWMason1 This writer should read Tooze's latest in the New Statesman about how Biden's clima…
RT @LRB: ‘The mantra on everyone’s lips is a blunt statement of Krugman’s position. Do not repeat the mistakes of the early Obama administr…
RT @ProgressTechno: This is excellent from @zachdcarter h/t @TheStalwart @jeannasmialek @bencasselman @boes_ @greg_ip @adam_tooze @chrislha…
RT @saadmohseni: So the man who helped develop the Mars helicopter is originally from Gaza, Palestine..his most interesting observation: ea…
"New historical national accounting data suggest that the Great Divergence dates to 18th rather than 19th c.” Pomeranz has conceded this timing which modifies his dating, but confirms his point that divergence does not go back to middle ages. Broadberry. voxeu.org/article/accoun… https://t.co/ymodPEiDVg
EU loves to think of itself as a climate leader. In fact, its commitments to exit coal/gas lag behind those currently envisioned by UK and US. Nevertheless, as @EmberClimate shows, clean electricity by 2030s is an emerging consensus en route to net zero. ember-climate.org/wp-content/upl… https://t.co/07RHdZqktK
Bitcoin boom fuels fight over money creation Throughout history, hard coin and credit have circulated together Typically smart and elegant this by @bhgreeley ft.com/content/79105b… https://t.co/zBYSfMPOKF
"Compared with us Bolsheviks, Peter the Great was a mere child—though it may be decades before people fully grasp what a geological shift we’ve effected!” Vasily Grossman’s anthropocenic take on Soviet construction. https://t.co/itdkiclVxN
"The devastating Siberian wildfires last year were caused by changing climactic conditions taking place across the planet, according to the latest data from Copernicus, the European Union’s earth observation programme.” @lesliehook ft.com/content/4fe55c… https://t.co/sw3TlFto1e
By the end Trump’s lawyers were a joke. But the real legal powerhouse of the GOP is Cleveland-based Jones Day ex of Standard oil, Nixon, Reagan, NRA, RJ Reynolds, McDonald’s, Chevron and Goldman Sachs. ft.com/content/f4cb0a… https://t.co/ZYrh8SJwTK
Central bankers’ emotions are latest frontier for quants Study finds remarks delivered in positive way can raise stock market returns by 200 basis points. AI confirms that Powell’s voice is gloomiest of all! ft.com/content/4cb930… https://t.co/TbfF4LlPCD
In 2020 as consumers shifted from services to goods -> China’s exports benefited. China’s recovery also meant that its markets absorbed unusually high share of exports from Germany, Japan, S Korea and even US. @DragonEconomics @Gavekal research.gavekal.com/content/macro-… https://t.co/45nRejdm7H
In 2010 Amundi was formed by merging asset management arms of Credit Ag and SG with AUM of 650bn euros. Today it has 1.73trillion AUM. To grow that further and compete with BlackRock’s $ 9 trillion it needs to break out of French base. economist.com/finance-and-ec… https://t.co/53zU2DpNqZ
America’s use of sanctions has become progressively wider, more imaginative and scatter shot. Could it undermine its own efficacy? economist.com/finance-and-ec… https://t.co/an9oQxnYMl
Whilst service sector in general has rebounded in China, catering continues to lag. @DragonEconomics @Gavekal research.gavekal.com/content/macro-… https://t.co/covY4LU8g8
"Roughly 100m farmers depend on coffee cultivation. For billions of others coffee is a near-essential adjunct to life. But coffee bushes grow best in a rather narrow range of temperatures, so their cultivation is threatened by a changing climate!" economist.com/science-and-te… https://t.co/S6p7ZaATFA
"Mars has 1/3 of Earth’s gravity, which sounds as if it might make the task of flying there easier. But Mars’s atmosphere has a mere 1/100 of the density of Earth’s. This means there is little air to push against when attempting to fly.” April 19 7.34 am economist.com/science-and-te… https://t.co/OQnr5QgBfr
Children born to the richest 1% of parents in the US are ten times more likely to grow up to hold patents than kids born to the bottom 50%. Bell et al (2019) cited by @johnvanreenen cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/… https://t.co/SK15P9FsA6
The US is not exporting COVID vaccines. But it IS a crucial source of key components for vaccine production elsewhere. Now there is mounting anxiety in India and EU about US supplies & Defense Production Act limits on exports. Important from @TheEconomist economist.com/science-and-te… https://t.co/r2LJyrmcSQ
The slow pace of Germany’s coal phaseout sticks out like a sore thumb in the @OECD Top priority for a new Berlin government including greens should be to accelerate exit. Great report this on clean energy by 2030s from @EmberClimate @CKRosslowe ember-climate.org/wp-content/upl… https://t.co/nAq8fc4d1S
RT @njtmulder: For those interested in sanctions, interwar history, and political economy: my book "The Economic Weapon" is coming out with…
RT @guardian_sport: A dog ran onto the track during a high school relay race in Utah – and covered 100m in 10.5 seconds https://t.co/pqe3qq…
RT @DEHEdgerton: Historians of Contemporary Europe, please share! Article prize for early career scholars – deadline Sept 10. Publication…
The essential new history of economic sanctions by @njtmulder in production at @YaleBooks twitter.com/azraisakovic/s…
Final Report of National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence chaired by Eric Schmidt ex of google mentions China 608 times on its 756 pages! H/t @70sBachchan assets.foleon.com/eu-west-2/uplo… https://t.co/33lloOZrkV
RT @JeremyCliffe: The Laschet effect? As with other striking German polls recently, worth waiting for the numbers (and the dust) to settle…
@RobinBrooksIIF Hi Robin are these global growth data based on GDP measured in PPP? Eye-balling it, India’s weight looks big.
RT @RobinBrooksIIF: It's terrible to watch Turkish Lira, We're approaching $/TRY 8.50, which is the pre-Agbal level. What's worrying is thi…
After spiking in January, China’s official data show COVID as effectively suppressed. Outbreaks are isolated and small. research.gavekal.com/content/macro-… https://t.co/sw2ybIdWcg
The World Bank estimated this at 1.7 billion adults in 2017. Will a currency backed by facebook fill that gap? How many of the 1.7 bn people who dont have bank accounts have smartphones/facebook accounts? moneyinsideout.exantedata.com/p/is-it-to-be-… https://t.co/8mVXH9s0QY
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