This by @martinwolf_ on UK economic track record since 2010 is devastating. Investment well below @OECDeconomy average -> lower productivity growth -> tougher zero sum political trade offs. ft.com/content/217f6d… https://t.co/jY9Ujn1xrV
From 1999 to 2018, more than 232,000 people died in the United States from overdoses involving to prescription opioids. cdc.gov/drugoverdose/d… -> COVID epidemic has been twice as bad! https://t.co/Qj8Pom4WJL
@AlanSmithee1987 Cool was not aware of the jung. Nice editions you have!
More than 2.7m vaccinations have been administered to Chile’s population of 19m so far — more than in all of Africa. “Unideological” approach to buying Sinovac vaccine. China is Chile’s main trading partner. ft.com/content/c4c97a… https://t.co/pH3jctxJhW
Didn’t know that senior partners at scandal-ridden McKinsey’s vote on who will be the CEO every 3 years! Kinda fascinating. Anyone done a study of that voting process? ft.com/content/63f241… https://t.co/3BWxASFs0G
Wow … some pretty graphic early 1900s French White wall v. “yellow peril” propaganda. Graphic stuff! twitter.com/jessnevins/sta…
"News that HSBC is to relocate some of its senior leaders from London to Hong Kong should not come as a surprise. Banks follow the money" = corporate Realpolitik in face of decoupling. ft.com/content/c0a60d… https://t.co/5NZUIX4Nw6
Since 2000 global demand for soya beans has doubled. @AlkireAdvisory via @SoberLook https://t.co/6smZO1uiUF
There are c 50,000 small to medium plastic converter companies in Europe, turning plastic resin into food packaging products, plastic bags, plastic films, containers and bottles. Wow! 50k! Now Polyethylene/polypropylene prices are hitting 6 year highs! ft.com/content/f97d65… https://t.co/lj0g8My1KC
RT @MaxCRoser: Incredible what Chile is achieving in their vaccination rollout. Within the last three weeks Chile overtook all EU countrie…
RT @olgatuleninova: Cacti and Semaphore. Georg Scholz, 1923 https://t.co/jCwJEeBaBM
How did the repo machine get built? Its not just “markets” in the abstract. JP Morgan is key to this. This paper by @csissoko is fascinating! syntheticassets.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/sissok… https://t.co/7c6UHWXgPa
The new politics of climate change Nice review this by @pilitaclark ft.com/content/b6bdc4… https://t.co/Qy7QBAebXS
Who are the most influential economists in economics? This Ideas Repec citation chart is a bit of a reality check. Food for thought for @SoberLook perhaps? ideas.repec.org/top/top.person… https://t.co/Ny2hsWDQCw
Current fed funds futures pricing is nowhere near the levels seen during the 2013 taper tantrum. @NordeaMarkets via @SoberLook https://t.co/j2nH4aPCDb
Copper, the world’s most important industrial metal, climbed above $9,000 a tonne for the first time since 2011 on Monday, fueled by speculative bets on higher prices from China. @humenm ft.com/content/ce8405… https://t.co/b0UuKdmyAQ
The Political Economy of Textbook Writing: Paul Samuelson and the Making of the First Ten Editions of Economics (1945-1976) by @YannGiraud is fantastically interesting! ygiraud.wordpress.com/publications/ https://t.co/TWmK6phONL
Ford, that near-century-old dinosaur, has outperformed Tesla over the past three months! Why? Analysts love its new electric car, the Mach-E. With “old auto” going EV the lines are getting blurred. What about an EV F-150!!!!! ft.com/content/9ce35a… https://t.co/dGWBfiX5kg
Gotta love the cover of Pop Internationalism, @paulkrugman polemic on Clinton-era trade policy debate. Is this the first example of an unconventional but blue chip insider policing boundaries of how far the neoclassical synthesis is permitted to move? https://t.co/97ZPiJpH1F
Well that’s a lovely photo of Karl Jaspers and Gertrud Mayer. twitter.com/EdJorgePrats/s…
RT @70sBachchan: 31/ Deaths in US are falling fast. US has vaccinated over 1.5 million people a day for more than a month. Nursing home re…
Levee en masse decree of 23 Feb 1793 triggers the Vendée rebellion …. twitter.com/Histoire_image…
Otto Freundlich: underrated master of early large format abstract art. Killed in KZ in 1943. twitter.com/HesseHelge/sta…
In 2019 the US yield curve had inverted, now the 10yr-2yr spread is back to >1.2 = first meaningful widening in a decade! @MDR_Research via @SoberLook https://t.co/GJ1fdFHt7M
Inflation Inequality Financial stability risk @elerianm makes the @LHSummers critique of US fiscal/monetary policy 3-dimensional. Answer: Shift balance squarely to fiscal. Target on growth and low income. Add macropru. Read this piece. ft.com/content/625497… https://t.co/bJip60YCz9
RT @olgatuleninova: Cold. Hans Baluschek, 1917 https://t.co/m6POkrwRAJ
RT @JonathanPJWhite: Good to see this out in book form – Ideologies and the EU, w/ @cinvernizzi1983. Thanks @wiko_berlin & @ECPR for the wo…
"Führer was not a concept that belonged to the classical political vocabulary of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries” As a political idea it began to circulate widely around WWI. Radkau, Joachim. Max Weber . Wiley. Kindle Edition. https://t.co/Hu9LMSgBia
@ergunah1 @mattyglesias Would have made a good (d) for those spare characters.
RT @prchovanec: Feb 17, 1921 – Lady Violet Bonham Carter, daughter of former Prime Minister Asquith, helping to campaign for the Liberal Pa…
@mattyglesias Im impressed @mattyglesias You NAILED early Weimar Econ history in one tweet and you had characters to spare!
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