“If Agbal fails to act decisively, expect the lira to fall sharply to new lows.” Following reshuffle in Turkey’s economic portfolios markets ARE now expecting that interest rate shock. 15% is consensus. Will Erdogan stomach it? @laurapitel ft.com/content/cd94cf… https://t.co/WeiF2w9PB2
The volume of apparel and footwear being produced globally is forecast to increase by 81 % to 102m tons by 2030 on top of gigantic growth since 2000. @laureni ft.com/content/d174e7… media-publications.bcg.com/france/Pulse-o… https://t.co/SYg89BCpbX
The latest mantra of the @IMFNews is quality public spending. Public investment is key. Estimates for no. of jobs to be expected vary btw sectors and across AE-LIC. imf.org/en/Publication… https://t.co/TXXI9GB7LT
Good news on the vaccine is not necessarily good for the tech sector which has been a defensive play during the corona crisis. @katie_martin_fx @RobinWigg ft.com/content/4e0f8c… https://t.co/G8EzcRVe5M
By FAR the largest sports franchise in the giant and rapidly growing Indian market is cricket. Guess who owns the TV rights? Disney! Market gigantic and it can easily be extended by broadcasting in languages other than Hindi. ft.com/content/91f222… https://t.co/DONMHRLUCq
RCEP: On Sunday 15 Nov the leading Asian economies, Australia and NZ signed what is by some measure the largest trade deal in history, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership. Shallower than TPP, but more encompassing & China is dominant partner. ft.com/content/2dff91… https://t.co/KJjSQRr0QU
In a desperate effort to stave off worst affects of corona lockdowns, coverage of social assistance worldwide was extended to an extra 22% of population, in S Asia to 39% and LatAm to 35% of population. imf.org/en/Publication… https://t.co/7IKEgZtUw1
RCEP: On Sunday 15 Nov the leading Asian economies, Australia and NZ signed what is by some measure the largest trade deal in history, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership. Shallower than TPP, but more encompassing & China is dominant partner. ft.com/content/2dff91… https://t.co/Z6J8fGJB9w
Pandemonium was the capital of hell in Milton’s Paradise Lost. It was made of solid gold. As imagined by John Martin, 1841. https://t.co/SakuiT8GBd
RT @CardiffGarcia: .@adam_tooze is experimenting with a new chartbook format, which "may ultimately form the backbone of a regular newslett…
RT @economics: Singapore is one of the world's most densely populated countries, intent on building up, down and out. The key to that expan…
Surely a staged photo! If so, who did it? Not a combat one thinks of In chivAlrous terms. twitter.com/c_vargasharle/…
RT @DanielZamoraV: What are the best marxist/leftist takes of Ronald Coase's theory of the firm ?
This settler vision resonates with John Locke’s pregnant phrase, “In the beginning, all the world was America.” Purdy, Jedediah. After Nature (p. 75). https://t.co/eMGV4yppWF
Publications like @IMFNews Fiscal Monitor make great twitter feed. But pinging charts out, one by one loses the coherence of the argument. In a new series of chartbooks, compiled out of the twitter flow, I want to put the coherence back. Check out #1 here: adamtooze.com/2020/11/15/cha… https://t.co/Qqit8MnpE9
RT @liminalhackney: Gorbals, 1964 by Oscar Marzaroli. https://t.co/mhmsVjuYGR
RT @GuyPlopsky: 1/ "Manoeuvres, when unpredictable & rapidly undertaken, can disrupt the enemy significantly and compensate for lack of num…
RT @DrLindseyFitz: Welcome, new followers! Here's a medieval skull fused with (chain)mail. This soldier died at the Battle of Visby in 1361…
RT @DrEricDing: 📍NEW: Chilling video of El Paso jail inmates hired to move bodies of #COVID19 deceased patients into mobile overflow morgue…
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RT @halftroll: Twitter has been evolving into a new literary form for some time. Threads have emerged as a way to tell stories and curate c…
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Im compiling my daily flow of tweets into a series of chartbooks. Very interesting exercise e.g. I was suddenly struck by the coincidence of Turkey’s involvement in the Armenian-Azerbeijan war & the upheaval in financial policy in Ankara. Check out #1. adamtooze.com/2020/11/15/cha… https://t.co/BRx4Lxu5AN
RT @CosmonautMag: In Yugoslavia “784,000 apartments were built from 1953 to 1984…Apartments were allotted for a lifetime and rents were f…
“J.G. Ballard has described Kindness as narrating “my life seen through the mirror of the fiction prompted by that life.”” Great point from @thegreatkellino new book Extraterritorial. https://t.co/kEo1uRPBhY
"Ballard's fiction transgresses but doesn’t transcend; it resists definition but ends up in the dictionary.” @thegreatkilleno -> lexicographers of the Collins English Dictionary thought to add “Ballardian” to their stock of adjectives. https://t.co/QotBDTnhco
"To exercise sovereignty within an international system means choosing when and how to refrain from claiming territorial jurisdiction as well as deciding to assert it." @thegreatkellino new book is fascinating! cup.columbia.edu/book/extraterr… https://t.co/1enuXffzzL
RT @EricTopol: Yes, United States, there is actually a state with a 59.5% test positivity rate, 165 per 100,000 residents with new infectio…
RT @distractedfilm: GREAT ACTOR RETRO: Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole. https://t.co/7nhbkfsDs2
RT @labour_history: Nye Bevan on the Miners Life – Daily Express – 1932 “Here are the sudden perils: Runaway trams hurtling down the line…
RT @AntoineVanner: In 1878 excursion steamer Princess Alice was sunk in the river Thames just downstream of #London. At least 640 people di…
"If every state with a Mediterranean coastline were to make max jurisdictional claims that sea would contain no “free” space at all.” @thegreatkellino new book Extraterritorial A Political Geography of Contemporary Fiction Could hardly be more topical! https://t.co/HX7zbCP4eM
Chartbook #1: Over next few weeks I’m experimenting with a new format that will pull together the best charts, data, links, book suggestions etc from the last few days of twitter in a single compact document. Feedback welcome. Check out #1 here. adamtooze.com/2020/11/15/cha… https://t.co/7CzFIIIr39
"Perhaps, in the end, modern history and politics already is Anthropocened politics. Our ways of talking and acting politically, and our sense of modern history are coterminous with the various times of the Anthropocene” hmm? Kelly , Duncan. Politics and the Anthropocene (p. 103) https://t.co/45G1Tswcrj
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