December 31, 2020
@BuddyYakov hi yakov, history a dead discipline …? dead as a discipline? never a discipline? or just plain dead?
@BuddyYakov hi yakov, history a dead discipline …? dead as a discipline? never a discipline? or just plain dead?
RT @LeChouNews: Sinkhole Opens Up In Kent Lorry Park, Truckers Drive Inside And Make Bid For Freedom https://t.co/Hcslthkz13
RT @blankaut: Amsterdam Central Station, 2018. Ph by Yang Cao. https://t.co/X0y87bUw5A
@UliVolz @ediecontooze @Tate Happy new year @UliVolz What a funny coincidence 🙂 And “study” is really the right word, I just realized.
RT @UliVolz: @adam_tooze @ediecontooze @Tate This is the David Roberts in my study ("Jaffa"). When living in Cairo my father became a big c…
"Grandma died, or a good mother as they say here on the border between the Romanian granic land and the Sixth Nosnerland" … Go to facebook to read the moving memorial to his grandmother by @cornelban73 a fascinating glimpse of Romanian history. https://t.co/768QYyAZLY
"The number that truly reverberated in Berlin was not the 306 electoral votes for Biden but 74.2 m for Trump … Against this backdrop, the only responsible path forward, in Merkel’s view, is to hedge.” @noahbarkin foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/31/wha… https://t.co/fdaPGnbjOI
David Roberts 1796–1864 Ronda, Spain 1834 Why am I looking at this beautiful image? Because it is on the Frame TV that @ediecontooze persuaded me to get for my office. Samsung has an image share agreement with @Tate and many others. Its fantastic! tate.org.uk/art/artworks/r… https://t.co/pwSP3wjZSJ
ECB’s Dec decision to boost its emergency debt-buying program by 37% to 1.85 trillion euros is enough to neutralize any pressure on European rates even with borrowing in excess of 1.1 trn. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/jhpRJ1S1B7
RT @animal0lovers: This is what happens when a bubble freezes ❄️ https://t.co/YWPrTTxqly
Uneven and combined development imprinted the corona crisis response: On one hand, unprecedented commonality of response across virtually all states around world i.e. versions of shutdown & stimulus. But scale of stimulus vastly different. ft.com/content/cd075d… https://t.co/EZpFmddeso
A "dirty history" of neoliberalism in the UK might well start with Adam Curtis’s extraordinary The Mayfair Set: Who pays Wins. It traces genealogy of Thatcherite vision of “entrepreneurship” to adventurism of post-colonial British elite. youtube.com/watch?v=tuqYbo… https://t.co/WaZLpPpg9X
Paris Club/bilateral official debt negotiating machinery is seriously French. Not only is the Club run out of French Treasury by top officials (literally the DG), but for low-income (DSSI) countries, France is also the leading (non-Chinese) creditor. @Monde_diplo @eurodad https://t.co/mIGD40HyeE
Across advanced economies, it is lower income people that have been hit worst financially by the corona crisis. ft.com/content/cd075d… https://t.co/2hTzjUhvBJ
Paris Club of bilateral official creditors is seriously French! Chair is traditionally a senior official of the French Treasury, currently the DG. Co-Chairman/Vice-Chairman are French Treasury. The address of the Club is French Treasury in rue de Bercy! clubdeparis.org/en/communicati… https://t.co/9VSwp37bxt
Caged Man From Zeno at 4 am. William Kentridge 2001 moma.org/collection/wor… I keep trying to recycle the @Monde_diplo special issue on debt, but the illustrations are just too good. monde-diplomatique.fr/mav/173/ https://t.co/1roHxk7s2c
According to @WorldBank the corona crisis will throw back poverty reduction worldwide by c. 4-5 years. C. 100 m people face extreme poverty as a result. ft.com/content/cd075d… https://t.co/ahmjMYtLgv
After a few years of more restrained growth since 2016, China’s macro leverage i.e. the ratio of all debts (public and private) to GDP, soared in 2020 from c. 250 to 275% of GDP. Priority for 2021 is to restablilze the ratio. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/rvyHP6HjuD
Gotta say New Years Eve 2020 is a good twitter day …. everyone is out and bringing their A game. I guess we cant wait for this to be over. twitter.com/DanielaGabor/s…
RT @ykomska: Is anyone writing Soviet/Stalinism history from the graphic sausage design perspective? https://t.co/QB8qhwmdWr
This is a truly fantastic thread from @davidfickling on shipworm, coppering, the industrial revolution and the slave trade, complete with brilliant illustrations. FANTASTIC stuff! twitter.com/davidfickling/…
RT @davidfickling: Here's a story about how a ship-eating clam helped bring about the Industrial Revolution: https://t.co/Oa9XlFNPjy
RT @itsnicethat: What your toys say about you: Spanning 58 countries, Toy Stories is a photographic study of the objects children love most…
The last ten years have seen an explosion of new psychoactive substances that are causing risks of overdose for users and problems for crime agencies like @UNODC unodc.org/documents/scie… https://t.co/smHArao4sG
RT @Tate: #Onthisday in 1946, painter Ruskin Spear looked out of his front-room window at a very snowy London. ❄️ What can you see outside…
48.3% of private firms in China had Party organizations in 2018, up from 35.6% in 2012, meaning average annual growth of 2.1% over Xi’s tenure. The surge in the 1990s was in fact far steeper. macropolo.org/party-committe… https://t.co/CAg1uMwtsw
RT @StefanSasse: @adam_tooze I'm always shocked that when the Soviet Union dissolved, the Kriegsgräberfürsorge found the old battlefields o…
RT @VonHitchofen: @SiGornick @506176656C @adam_tooze It was the narrow undercarriage that did for the Spitfire in Russian service. Very poo…
@Chris_Hoeland @MSchularick @BMG_Bund Das also die Frage: was ist die weltweit-maximalste Kapazität für mRNA Impfstoff Produktion? Klar gibt es eine gewisse Flexibilität -Schweiz, Schweden, Indien – aber das ist an sich keine Antwort auf die Frage: wieviel?
Quite a lot of huffing and puffing coming out of PBoC: "Over the past month, the People’s Bank of China has had to work especially hard to rein in borrowing costs after a surge in credit defaults damped commercial lenders’ enthusiasm to make loans” bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/7S32OHtPjh
One of my favorite conversations of the year was with @EricLevitz An essential follow and read at @intelligencer Altogether, the team at New York Mag is outstanding. @dwallacewells twitter.com/EricLevitz/sta…
RT @506176656C: @adam_tooze "The P-39 was used by the Soviet Air Force, and enabled individual Soviet pilots to collect the highest number…
Arthur Cockfield, British architect of Europe’s single market: "Had Cockfield been born in France, with its respect for intellectual brilliance & tradition of authoritarian technocracy, he would have become one of the pillars of the governing class." theguardian.com/news/2007/jan/… https://t.co/rn3SXI3DlY
RT @ahistoryinart: Joan Eardley's pastel drawing reflects much of what Glasgow's tenements looked like in the 1950s. This is possibly Glasg…
Once you have seen a Russian buffet spread, there is really no going back … its like nothing Ive ever experienced. twitter.com/Russia/status/…
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