Dirty ships: Bulk carriers, container ships and oil tankers account for majority of shipping CO2 emissions. But LNG carriers rival cruise ships for CO2 emissions per vessel per year. unctad.org/news/covid-19-… https://t.co/0tYcppELXA
RT @DinaPomeranz: The number of people who die from Covid-19 worldwide per day has never been as high as in recent weeks. Over 10.000 each…
With BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna having made the early running, there is still a lot to "play for" in 2021 both for rival vaccine developers & majority of world's population who dont have vaccines under contract. ft.com/content/ac5e5e… https://t.co/B5lHxDxSGA
RT @mclaren_erc: All too predictable. Not only base the promise on a technology of prevarication, but plan to control that technology to en…
The growth in Amazon’s workforce since 2019 has been extraordinary, doubling to 1.2 million in a single year. @KYWeise nytimes.com/2020/11/27/tec… https://t.co/1O7uxEHsdT
RT @Sime0nStylites: Another way to think about Brexit (this Brexit) is that it’s a grand experiment in conceptual time travel or perhaps ev…
RT @damomac: "History is important, because disputes over history are almost always about the present." irishtimes.com/news/ireland/i…
A pleasure talking to @M_C_Klein as always! twitter.com/M_C_Klein/stat…
After the Crimea boost wore off, United Russia, Putin’s political vehicle, continues to sag in the polls. ft.com/content/54fe36… https://t.co/6rDO6NOtbb
More Americans listen to weekly podcasts than attend church, according to data from Statista ft.com/content/e58516… https://t.co/0tr4OuQk12
In terms of reduction in carbon intensity of electricity generation (gCO2/kwh), the UK led world over last decade with US in #2! Ahead of Germany, Australia and China. ft.com/content/66ac52… https://t.co/kGjsV3kXG2
"Only 47 % of Brits could identify that growth of GDP by 1 % meant that the size of the economy had increased by 1 per cent when the other possible answers related to the value of the pound, exports, wages, taxes or the government’s budget." ft.com/content/938212… https://t.co/gJGMony9P8
Containers are cool, but pallets move the world. 400 million new wooden shipping pallets are produced in the United States every year, and nearly 2 bn are in use at any given time in the country accounting for 46% of annual hardwood lumber production! slate.com/business/2012/… https://t.co/FYY7BbDFHR
As the planet gets warmer, heatwaves are having a bigger health impact, particularly threatening the lives of people who are over 65. 296k die on average every year 2014-8. That number will rise. ft.com/content/bc226d… https://t.co/M0JDqX8CBl
“You don’t know what you’re going to say. You don’t even know your way to the end of the sentence. You don’t know anything. Then suddenly you do know. You have to walk blind. And you walk slap into the truth.” Hilary Mantel on fortunetelling and writing. ft.com/content/026191… https://t.co/resWchot67
In an economy of social distancing and a world that needs comfort, the price of purebred dogs is rising faster than bitcoin! Price of Spaniels up 200% yoy. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… https://t.co/uKTsUKxxGP
Did you know that Dieselgate at VW was all the fault of entrenched trade union power? No? Neither did I! economist.com/business/2020/… https://t.co/qcVwBtWrNA
If Indian economy is in a hole, why is stock market booming? Answer from @TheEconomist "The crisis has allowed the government to push through rule changes, such as agricultural and labour reforms” which increase prospect of future profits. economist.com/finance-and-ec… https://t.co/WnoRc2jd5t
Annual investment flows in the energy system are gigantic. Wonder how the vaccine/biotech/pharma/health investment flow compares with this? bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… https://t.co/0tT1zfaMoY
As Brexit talks each endgame: "Over the past two days negotiators have haggled species by species ….”! ft.com/content/554da4… On more of what is at stake, check out Chartbook Newsletter #6 on Brexit at: adamtooze.substack.com https://t.co/LAGdykXVvs
China’s Ping An is by far the most tech savvy insurance company in the world and the largest by market cap. economist.com/finance-and-ec… https://t.co/QEWdbpZh6G
@dandrezner Hi @dandrezner think you might be giving too much credit. 60% of republicans start Nov thinking they will be better off 12 months hence. Then Trump loses and all of a sudden that figure drops by 2/3 DESPITE vaccine! Unless of course, they dont think Trump lost -> US in crisis?
A redistributive, welfarist agenda of the kind Biden is proposing actually garners substantial support from parts of GOP and overwhelming support from “independents” in the US. nytimes.com/2020/12/02/bus… https://t.co/FnTS3k2YPf
RT @NationalGallery: Behind the scenes in Conservation: Restoring the Gallery's oldest painting Assistant Conservator Kristina Mandy shows…
Hard to exaggerate the degree of partisanship in Americans’ assessments of their economic prospects! Only 20% of Republicans expect to be better of a year from now. Whereas Dem share has surged to 40%! nytimes.com/2020/12/02/bus… https://t.co/C31iu8ou5T
RT @LaetitiaLenel: Für @hsozkult habe ich darüber nachgedacht, wie sich unser Blick auf die Vergangenheit angesichts der Corona-Pandemie un…
Remarkable thread on great listening to catch up on! twitter.com/ks1729/status/…
RT @KS1729: 11. Excellently fun & insightful conversation w/ Pratap Bhanu Mehta who talks to two Pakistanis who probe what does it mean to…
RT @KS1729: thread on audio for 2020 1. To the question of what is the Rightist intellectual history in modern India — a thoughtful conve…
RT @ScottDuncanWX: Parts of the Arctic averaged up to +14 °C above normal for the entire month of November. Preliminary data suggesting w…
On the brink of Brexit, the UK’s budget deficit has blown out to an unprecedented degree. On what is at stake in the final negotiations of the UK exit deal check out the new Chartbook Newsletter #6: adamtooze.substack.com https://t.co/adiTIts4X1
The UK’s budget deficit is surging. In 2008 that happened because income collapsed. In 2020 that is compounded by HUGE surge in spending. @TS_Lombard via @SoberLook https://t.co/2fm6Ilumyn
The US fiscal deficit in 2020 may come in twice the size of that of Euro Area according to @natixis forecasts. That is a HUGE difference and will, no doubt, show up in macro performance. thedailyshot.com/2020/12/01/hig… https://t.co/gMuSc3RqI8
The labour market shock of corona in the US in 2020 was intensely hierarchical by income and educational background. thedailyshot.com/2020/12/01/hig… https://t.co/7IPqFXJTyu
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