“Frankly we welcome slightly higher inflation. The kind of troubling inflation people like me grew up with seems unlikely in the domestic and global context we’ve been in for some time,” Jerome Powell Is January 2021 the moment we left the 1970s behind? ft.com/content/3f860e… https://t.co/F73GhHzYyh
German headline consumer price inflation rose from minus 0.7 per cent in December to 1.6 per cent in January. Big shift. Sure. But no no no no no you do NOT get to scream about the second derivative. You just don’t! ft.com/content/9957ce… https://t.co/y6cg6z7eCh
Daimler-Benz’s earnings will be up in 2020 over 2019 thanks in large part to sales in China! ft.com/content/620a88… https://t.co/FYBgd4W8ff
"although advanced economies’ public debt has doubled as a share of GDP from 60 per cent to 120 per cent over the past 30 years, interest payments have halved from 4 per cent of GDP to 2 per cent.” Vitor Gaspar of @IMFNews announces the new fiscal line! ft.com/content/4041ea… https://t.co/J5aZzSSdf8
What's between green and brown, tastes bitter and yet fresh and appetizing? … olive! Has @gilliantett hit the jackpot in characterizing the new climate capitalism? ft.com/content/e37bb0… https://t.co/0ehxUtiVpC
For 1st time PBOC is spelling out what constitutes a monopoly for 3rd-party payment companies in China: based on single and joint market shares. Alipay and Wechatpay are clearly in the frame! asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Caix… https://t.co/9kxGcaHy1O
. @alanbeattie on song on topsy-turvy UK/EU Brexit/vaccine narratives! twitter.com/DavidHenigUK/s…
RT @stephenburanyi: Basically every pharma giant should be forced to become like the Serum Institute of India: just a fucking massive hyper…
RT @stephenburanyi: This is awesome. Tiny Novavax with the first strong results for a traditional protein based vaccine. Beating basically…
I didn’t know that Joe Biden’s 1st Presidential bid collapsed in 1988 admidst allegations that he had plagiarized … Neil Kinnock!!!! time.com/5636715/biden-… https://t.co/NsY0QbCFZM
As of January 2021 The World Health Organization's (WHO) European chief says 95% of the 23.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines that have been administered around the world so far have been given out in just 10 countries. voanews.com/covid-19-pande… https://t.co/zvBdtROefN
RT @SCBriand: 95% of World's Vaccines Being Administered in 10 Countries, WHO Official Says voanews.com/covid-19-pande…
RT @hofrench: This is enormous. "G.M. Will Sell Only Zero-Emission Vehicles by 2035." nytimes.com/2021/01/28/bus…
RT @AOC: I am happy to work with Republicans on this issue where there’s common ground, but you almost had me murdered 3 weeks ago so you c…
Why there should be NO room for complacency about the state of the EU economy. socialeurope.eu/europes-long-c… twitter.com/KubisiakA/stat…
@KubisiakA @RobinBrooksIIF @heimbergecon @ilo Hi. This is an amazing graphic. Do you have a source I can quote?
RT @RobinBrooksIIF: Labor market data for southern Europe understate how big slack really is, as female participation is rising. Take Spain…
Can you do a translation of the complete graphic. Priceless! twitter.com/Nigelgd1/statu…
RT @AlexKokcharov: In #Russia, according to analysis by @novaya_gazeta, the Kremlin spent $609 billion in the past 20 years on #geopolitics…
China Inflation Rate 1987-2021 The burst in the late 1980s and in mid 1990s is particularly telling! @tedfertik macrotrends.net/countries/CHN/… https://t.co/Lpi1lMyzMA
"In 2012, there were 99m impoverished people in China. Beijing spent some 1.5tn renminbi lifting them up and sent 2.9m officials to the poorest villages to implement relief plans” = China as "campaign state, or a mobilisational regime” @kristenelooney ft.com/content/3223de… https://t.co/evRshm8Jw1
“Power without revenue is a bubble.” Alexander Hamilton. https://t.co/cniY4rc34C
RT @DFesterling: @adam_tooze quite a number of the russian officers were from baltic areas, speaking german; other officers hired guns from…
RT @GeorgyKantor: @adam_tooze When Koenigsberg was under Russian occupation he petitioned the Empress (in Russian, I assume someone transla…
RT @njtmulder: "At a Princeton conference organised by R.R. Palmer, Castro reassured his audience that his revolution would take its cue fr…
@AlexBMcauliffe Organized as it is shown in this contemporary water color? As a 20th-century historian it is so hard to avoid back projecting.
The fact that Immanuel Kant delivered public lectures in Koenigsberg during the 7-Years War to audiences including large numbers of Russian officers always blows my mind. Kaliningrad museum, painter unknown https://t.co/gWC7nch3J7
I love the fact that the British painter Stanley Spencer moved his equipment around in a battered old pram! culture24.org.uk/art/painting-a… https://t.co/YicuN91N9Y
Executions by firing squad at Gigantes near Nantes as part of Vendée repression 1793-4 My hunch is that this kind of mass execution – “par balle” as French Holocaust scholarship will later call it – is novel. Am I right? https://t.co/FkOQblDqwL
This conversation btw @DanielaGabor and @DavidBeckworth Financial Globalization, Capital Controls, and the Critical Macrofinance Framework is as excellent as you would expect. mercatus.org/bridge/podcast… https://t.co/9hjqAHn21g
"For many in Western history, games of chance represented a portal of possibility, not a heresy to be demonized or a statistical probability to be managed.” This by Jackson Lears is fascinating. laphamsquarterly.org/about-money/fo… https://t.co/nOJonDmmRp
RT @MkBlyth: @adam_tooze tells it as it is for the Eurozone, and as usual its a disappointment despite all the bluster about NextGen funds…
RT @PhilippaSigl: @adam_tooze The headline is a bit over optimistic though. He is calling for a grace period and wants to put the date by w…
“Investors cannot fight the global, co-ordinated monetary policy. It’s almost disheartening. The only place in the world that pays any kind of real yield is US fixed income”. ft.com/content/45770d… https://t.co/qWXPRTeyQl
The EM contained damage from financial shock early in 2020, but their economies nevertheless took savage hit from virus. Latest @IMFNews make dramatic reading! Via @ChrisGiles_ ft.com/content/341577… https://t.co/TCs2myjMdL
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