November 14, 2020
UPS and DHL are building football field-sized ‘freezer farm’ for cold storage of Covid-19 vaccine deliveries. pharmaceuticalcommerce.com/cold-chain-foc… https://t.co/hjX3q39556
UPS and DHL are building football field-sized ‘freezer farm’ for cold storage of Covid-19 vaccine deliveries. pharmaceuticalcommerce.com/cold-chain-foc… https://t.co/hjX3q39556
Last week was another week with initial jobless claims running at more than 1 million per week. If this is an improvement it is very modest! @OxfordEconomics via @SoberLook https://t.co/N07fXWWpcj
181,000 new covid cases in the US in one day, yesterday! https://t.co/aYacIERjOh
Pfizer/BioNTech’s vaccine is reliant on a cold chain that can keep it at a stable minus 70C = exceptionally cold for a vaccine -> big opportunity for medical freezer manuf. ft.com/content/020775… https://t.co/ImpX0yg8z6
I’ll admit to being genuinely surprised to learn that Mitch McConnell attended MLK’s I Have a Dream Speech and has a lifelong commitment to civil rights -> fundamental conflict with his stance on social legislation and voting rights. Whoda thunk it … nytimes.com/2015/07/11/us/… https://t.co/QFeG5LI7Ce
As investors pile into mRNA biotech firms, BioN Tech is now worth more than Deutsche Bank. ft.com/content/c4ca84… https://t.co/igJWQAwzhr
"In 2010 the Commerce Dept prepared data for Obama admin’s Middle Class Task Force, headed by VP Joe Biden. Sidestepping knotty problems of just who was middle class they proposed a host of expectations that a mc family would hold.” D. Roeriger againstthecurrent.org/the-increasing… https://t.co/vk0FODQSK9
Zambia is set to be first African country to default on its debt since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Interest payment deadline missed on Friday. Creditors not satisfied by transparency over China loans & want iMF involved. @TomStub @journofletcher ft.com/content/fc82cf… https://t.co/RtdFuVaK3Y
RT @silverstoneauc: SOLD! Lot 434, the 1982 #Renault 5 Turbo Group 4 which is one of Renault’s most historically significant competition ve…
“The need to lead”: I didn’t know until I read @JamesPoliti profile that Lael Brainard and David Lipton published a paper in 2008 on American global economic leadership. Fascinating! H/t @01factory ft.com/content/48ab6a… papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… https://t.co/gj2FI5FXux
Improvised temple btw two railway tracks: ‘Rail Diwali’ photos capture celebrations in Kolkata’s trackside slums Arko Datto ft.com/content/c1f42c… https://t.co/b4dX1qzolV
No big stimulus. Corona rampant -> “We’re back in a world where growth is relatively scarce and you are willing to pay a premium in the market for it,” said Mike Pyle, BlackRock’s global chief investment strategist -> Big Tech driving a stock rally. ft.com/content/3eba8b… https://t.co/VJoqnZ3ODg
“Weber was hardly the only social theorist to over-structure reality, to mistake the suspended animation of a moment for the immobilisme of an epoch. … Weber needed the malady. The question is: Do we?” @CoreyRobin @NewYorker newyorker.com/books/under-re… https://t.co/bcxq3DwOhR
News of a possible vaccine -> $44.5bn, mainly from institutional investors, piled into funds that buy stock in a single week. ft.com/content/91cb39… https://t.co/5cZ65nknJW
“The need to lead”: I didn’t know until I read @JamesPoliti profile that Lael Brainard and Peter Lipton published a paper in 2008 on American global economic leadership. Fascinating! H/t ft.com/content/48ab6a… papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… https://t.co/nqOXplGOLH
Turkey and Azerbaijan have proven that Moscow is not the only military power capable of redrawing de facto borders in the post-Soviet space. @HenryJFoy & @laurapitel ft.com/content/f81e89… https://t.co/9y0nrIVLgo
The German “print” media landscape in early 2020. I didn’t know SZ was bigger than FAZ. Or that Die Welt was so tiny or shrinking so fast! Kudos to @handelsblatt and taz. facebook.com/photo?fbid=101… https://t.co/5dekIriMoo
Armenian lost 2317 servicemen out of a population of 2.965 m In a matter of 6 weeks! Compare to similar US casualties in Afghanistan, out of population of 300 m over more than 15 years! Nagorno-karabakh is no small thing … twitter.com/AFP/status/132…
Will Lael Brainard be the first woman to serve as Treasury Secretary? Interesting profile by @JamesPoliti Not a Warrenista, more a diplomat? ft.com/content/48ab6a… https://t.co/TOUoo82JBB
Great thread by @ojblanchard1 An example to follow. Think through the calls you got wrong. Add that, to the "to do list". twitter.com/ojblanchard1/s…
RT @RailwayMuseum: This gorgeous LNER poster highlights the importance the railway played in supporting the North East's industry. And YES…
"While the Nagorno-Karabakh truce affirms Russian president Vladimir Putin’s role as an indispensable regional arbiter, it comes at the cost of recognising Turkey as a geopolitical actor in the Caucasus” @HenryJFoy @laurapitel ft.com/content/f81e89… https://t.co/NayjHxU3z2
How “prepping" went upmarket. Concierge, personalized medicine, bunkers and air filters, how America’s rich are preparing for climate change. @hannahkuchler ft.com/content/79781c… https://t.co/REkukiQVdu
"l’histoire de la production et des techniques dans l’entreprise a connu un renouvellement majeur depuis une génération. Ce « tournant productif » fait de l’entreprise un laboratoire de l’histoire.” Liliane Hilaire-Pérez Thought of @DEHEdgerton cairn.info/revue-entrepri… https://t.co/ULv6sBovkN
The Gerhard Richter Market is still on fire: even if volumes of work auctioned worldwide are down, prices are holding up! @KinsellaEK report is totally fascinating. @artnews news.artnet.com/market/gerhard… https://t.co/M6utkiiOtp
One stimulus a Biden administration could deliver to US economy would be to end tariffs on imported washing machines! And no, most of benefit would not go to China. Most of value added is in the logistics chain that brings them to and sells them in US. @SoberLook https://t.co/0KiNqxRP1M
Whatever the fees, big law has had enough: "firms that have represented President Trump and his campaign are now distancing themselves from a quixotic effort to overturn the results of the election won by Biden." nytimes.com/2020/11/13/bus… https://t.co/hsYmga4U19
How prices of household cleaning products surged in the US in 2020. @SoberLook https://t.co/7Hi5kdCSEn
Dank an die Begegnung mit Schäuble letzte Woche, kommen mir im Moment verstärkt die Heidelberg flashbacks, inklusive an meinen langjährigen Flötenlehrer Elmar Bringezu, der hier eine RotKäppchen Version der erwachsenen Sorte zum Guten gibt: youtube.com/watch?v=uLwvr_… https://t.co/3Ny0kVVUtZ
RT @sdonnan: I eat way more sardines and get way more joy from them than I used to. Not sure if this an age/grumpy ole man thing or a pande…
RT @bucephalus424: Come see Daniel Immerwahr give a talk on November 18! https://t.co/8Bm6ZYj2gF
RT @aldatweets: "It was a gigantic mistake to make the election a plebiscite on Trump’s bungling of the pandemic without an all-out effort…
RT @70sBachchan: @BrankoMilan Sadly, things have come to pass as I feared in January after Hubei lockdown. West (unlike E Asia) got stuck i…
RT @BrankoMilan: If the ratio of deaths between China and the US were the reverse, how many articles, papers, books would be written about…
Giorgio de Chirico, Il Pomeriggio di Arianna Ariadnes Afternoon. (1913) Sold for $15.9 million at @Sothebys in October establishing a new record for the artist. Photo courtesy Sotheby’s. news.artnet.com/market/sotheby… https://t.co/h7eF0KrDcI
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