Its right to say that the BoJ was a pioneer of monetary policy in face of new lowflation regime in the 1990s. BUT in quantitative terms 2008 clearly is the break to a new regime of intervention. Natixis via @SoberLook https://t.co/7kp7HaaeSa
RT @Jayati1609: Fascinating Per Jacobsson lecture @BIS_org from Catherine Schenk, with insightful inputs from @adam_tooze @Brad_Setser and…
RT @DavidBeckworth: @R2Rsquared @adam_tooze @Brad_Setser @BIS_org Fascinating comments, @R2Rsquared. Will your comments be available as a d…
The first Fed swap line network: created in 1960s to manage tensions within Bretton Woods system. Remarkable data from Catherine Schenck Per Jacobsson Lecture. Streamed here: bis.org/events/per_jac… https://t.co/a0fP9A8f0a
@in_evenflow @Jayati1609 @DanielaGabor @Lagarde Point well taken. But no additional stimulus response in 2020, as far as I understand.
@ykazakv Hi Yuri can you point me to the source for the Dostoevsky quotes from the World Bank?
Even as temporary layoffs have fallen, permanent layoffs in the US have now hit recession levels. @TS_Lombard via @SoberLook https://t.co/TikqYIuFcP
@Jayati1609 @DanielaGabor @Lagarde IMF/World Bank seem to be playing an almost schizophrenic role: both urgently advocating “quality spending” & warning about long-term “sustainability" and building austerity into fine print of the programs. Symptom of a combined and uneven adjustment & conflicting interests.
RT @Jayati1609: @adam_tooze @DanielaGabor @Lagarde Absolutely @adam_tooze. India is among the most severe cases of continued self-imposed e…
US Fed government spending on unemployment has plunged since the summer. thedailyshot.com/2020/10/21/mar… https://t.co/moXnOcV0My
Fed bilateral swap lines developed in 1960s to manage Bretton Woods exchange rate pressure and $ funding pressures rose in scale to match those in first phase of Fed intervention 2007-8. Remarkable charts from Catherine Schenk’s BIS lecture streaming here. bis.org/events/per_jac… https://t.co/Yj0IEJAmPM
Fed reserves swap lines, 1962-1998. Catherine Schenk breaking new ground in her Per Jacobsson Lecture. Streaming here: bis.org/events/per_jac… https://t.co/WqnnIQ8CR7
Both copper and aluminum prices are surging on demand from China. thedailyshot.com/2020/10/21/mar… https://t.co/lPVyZuLSH2
As natural gas prices in Europe have quadrupled since May -> demand has spilled into the market for coal which has seen rising prices despite all the talk about decarbonization. wsj.com/articles/coal-… https://t.co/khNdRLXp75
Imagine if there were to be a Dem clean sweep, gigantic stimulus for the US economy, years of giant bond issuance … what would you expect to happen to interest rates and bond prices. The market in recent weeks is positioning accordingly. thedailyshot.com/2020/10/21/mar… https://t.co/aP5oIvbc0T
For the swap line crowd, Catherine Schenk’s presentation and the discussion is not to be missed! Bombshells about the 1960s. twitter.com/R2Rsquared/sta…
@Jayati1609 @DanielaGabor @Lagarde Hi @Jayati1609 Looking forward to our discussion. Is it India that you have in mind on the hawkish side? Mexico (somewhat surprisingly)?
As a hedge against financial uncertainty, real estate prices in Turkey are surging. @SoberLook https://t.co/UuCNdAJAQp
How UK spending in pubs rebounded from early July. Full recovery yoy by late September. And now …. @LongviewEcon via @SoberLook https://t.co/x9L4uQDUdq
Funding for strategic emerging sectors in the Chinese economy is booming. @Gavekal via @SoberLook https://t.co/M4py23whMv
Funding for strategic emerging sectors in the Chinese economy is booming. @Gavekal via @SoberLook https://t.co/FY1JygQGgH
RT @M_C_Klein: GDP Growth Was Massive. There’s Still a Long Way to Go. barrons.com/articles/gdp-g… <– would take until end of 2022 for GDP t…
RT @jasonfurman: One way to understand what is going on in the economy is by looking at monthly GDP. Unfortunately the government does not…
RT @TheEconomist: Our Marjorie Deane intern will spend three months with The Economist writing about finance and economics https://t.co/1By…
RT @business: Walmart has temporarily pulled ammunition and guns off its shelves ahead of any possible civil unrest that could take place f…
Peak Trump Tweeting was on evening of June 3 2020 when he fired off 122 tweets/retweets in a single 60 minute period. His average is 5.4 per hour. @pbump washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/… https://t.co/CrHQWf68n5
From 2012, tight oil capital investment dwarfed shale gas and outpaced conventional fields equinor.com/en/news/202010… https://t.co/AJDL4d8aLU
Investment in agriculture as a share of GDP extremely low fao.org/3/i2490e/i2490… https://t.co/s3lfNiTGq9
RT @AestheticaMag: .@LeedsArtsUni highlights "the Leeds table" – a group of artists, including Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, who enroll…
More bad news for the Arctic: the Laptev Sea hasn’t frozen Yet another symptom of man-made climate change economist.com/graphic-detail… https://t.co/lXo6zIWpMj
“Only one thing matters — to be able to dare,” International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told the annual meeting of her organisation last week, quoting 19th century Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. progressive.international/wire/2020-10-2… https://t.co/L8Qngh95pu
RT @marinamaral2: That was an unexpected find and I swear I wasn't even doing such a specific search. It's Tsar Nicholas II. Swimming. N…
RT @dean_frey: #NationalCatDay Michel Foucault and his cat Martine Franck, Paris, 1978 https://t.co/9bUVcPNbXU
Ahead of the 2008 crisis the Euro was beginning to rival the $ as a currency for foreign-currency denominated debt issuance. Since 2008 a gap has reemerged larger than at inception of Euro project. From John Grahl’s essay in @NewLeftReview …ftreview-org.ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/issues/II125/a… https://t.co/xY886YczxX
Deforestation over last 30 years is concentrated above all in S. America and Africa (though there are presumably large offsetting movements e.g. in Indonesia and China with effect of neutralizing Asia). @FAO fao.org/3/ca8642en/CA8… https://t.co/TctbjwSmyt
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