October 17, 2020
The Misery Index must be off the charts in India right now: on top of the horrific shock to GDP and employment, India is now suffering from inflation surprises as well. @SoberLook https://t.co/XrnEzD1xRN
The Misery Index must be off the charts in India right now: on top of the horrific shock to GDP and employment, India is now suffering from inflation surprises as well. @SoberLook https://t.co/XrnEzD1xRN
RT @UNDP: Up to 150M more people will fall into extreme poverty in 2021 with 8 in every 10 of the "new poor" in middle-income countries, sa…
ROW: the most rapidly increasing source of CO2 right now is not US, EU or China but rest of world. In this @ForeignPolicy piece, I try to tease out some of the implications. foreignpolicy.com/2020/10/17/gre… https://t.co/XWuT6GfXrF
RT @DailySuffragist: Tye Leung Schulze was the first Chinese-American woman to take the civil service exam and become a federal government…
@_John_Handel I have a longer paper on Eichengreen I should post to the website. More soon ….
RT @_John_Handel: I feel like an idiot for only now discovering that @adam_tooze wrote precisely the NLR profile of Eichengreen I wanted! P…
RT @jvtklooster: Today launching our mammoth treatment of The ECB, The Courts and the Issue of Democratic Legitimacy in light of, but looki…
RT @mariatad: The Italian Premier Conte left the EU summit early to attend a funeral…he delegated on Angela Merkel in his absence – meani…
RT @dw_europe: "It just so happens that making the British prime minister happy isn't the vocation of sovereign leaders of the 27 member st…
As private creditors pulled out of EM in early 2020, official lenders made up at least some of the difference. Great graph from Bulow, Reinhart, Rogoff, Trebesch @IMFNews imf.org/external/pubs/… https://t.co/K5B1yHXVaT
In 1960s Japanese ind development profited from fragmented iron ore market. Today China faces Rio Tinto, BHP and Vale -> China deeply interested in development of Simandou deposit in Guinea in which Chinalco has JV with Rio. But thereby hangs a tale economist.com/business/2020/… https://t.co/78ppl6Xqj3
RT @tzoumio: The Throne room at the hearth of the Bronze Age Palace of Knossos, considered the oldest throne room in Europe. Crete, Greece,…
News of flood disasters can seem like disconnected incidents. But #1 climate change driving more extreme weather, #2 dramatic global urbanization is concentrated above all on rivers, estuaries and coasts -> disasters waiting to happen. H/t @70sBachchan ft.com/content/471c9e… https://t.co/iXCBmJWun7
Whereas global container traffic is organized into 3 big alliances, bulk & tanker traffic is fragmented. Teekay of Canada, owns around 60 vessels = 7m deadweight tonnes out of global fleet of 623m in 2019. Average number of ships per firm is around 5.5. economist.com/business/2020/… https://t.co/B2sTLdDMwY
Mangroves are crucial to regulating influx of seawater in coastal areas. Old data but a nice overview of the main areas affected by recession in this vital ecotope. One for @70sBachchan ft.com/content/471c9e… https://t.co/m072UNMmm4
This is the time of year when Americans stark bedecking their houses with xmas lights … from China? Think again. Btw 2018 & 2019 Cambodia became America’s main supplier of fairy lights. finance.yahoo.com/news/christmas… https://t.co/Nkc7oLr5U8
RT @GunjanJS: The wealthiest 1% own the most stock, accounting for 53% of ALL household stock ownership-Goldman *The top 1% by wealth boug…
RT @DKThomp: Adjusted for population, Belgium is dealing with the US equivalent of 177,000 daily COVID cases a day, on avg. Netherlands: 13…
RT @fwred: Momentum and trimmed inflation measures are collapsing. https://t.co/2tw1pf1q2s
RT @GernotWagner: So yes, the IMF report is rather coy about things here. Massive dry econ reports typically aren't all that riveting, but…
RT @jnordvig: @adam_tooze I think better to do these charts from May. The initial toll was mostly 'an accident' as nobody was ready, and th…
“About a million people move to urban areas every week,” said Mr Jha at @WorldBank “That's explosive, and mostly unplanned”. Concentrated in small & medium cities with “least capacity” to respond -> creates urban sprawl vulnerable to flood & disease. ft.com/content/471c9e… https://t.co/fkU9LuuNf6
Despite container fleet being near capacity, order book for new ships is down to a low of 7% of the existing fleet. New alliances are being more disciplined PLUS decarbonization push -> technological uncertainty on assets that should last 25 years. economist.com/business/2020/… https://t.co/ahsTr8DP66
"Back in 2016 I suggested that you consider buying a small stake in the Iranian stock market.” Index up from 50k to 2m. Little bother with the currency and sanctions, but bold call by @MerrynSW ft.com/content/06a4d9… https://t.co/A7zdOpxzmv
Virtually every country in the world has responded to the corona shock with fiscal policy. But even within EM world there are HUGE differences in the capacity & willingness to respond btw, for instance, India/Mexico and Malaysia/Brazil/Chile. imf.org/en/Topics/imf-… https://t.co/yzY3u95ge5
As global trade has rebounded, and spare shipping capacity has shrunk, container rates have surged well above last year’s rates. economist.com/business/2020/… https://t.co/p0rggMnv6s
Fortune & Freedom: It is time to take back control of your money with Nigel Farage! "I have spent decades fighting for your political freedom. Now comes the next battle – to get your money and your destiny back in your hands.” Unreal…. ftalphaville.ft.com/2020/10/15/160… https://t.co/XGQ5mBwSD2
Turkey’s TB2 drones have been highly effective this year both in Syria and Armenia. economist.com/europe/2020/10… This @theintercept story on Turkish drone program is utterly fascinating! @UmarFarooq_ theintercept.com/2019/05/14/tur… theintercept.com/2019/05/14/tur… https://t.co/4mjnCuUwk2
Looking at this scatter plot of Covid mortality and GDP loss across EU, rather than a trade off, you might be tempted to say that there were simply some countries that handled the crisis well and others that did not. ft.com/content/71c8a6… https://t.co/DVJGu5zYm3
RT @StuartSmeds: @marcgeddes @redhistorian An excellent article – and an excuse for me to post this superb cartoon I came across many moons…
RT @KiwiEV: Now, if this isn't the coolest thing you've seen today then you need to close the refrigerator. It's an animation of how bridge…
RT @Regina_Kenney: I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind. – Edgar Allen Poe #Poetry https://t.co/SPHE20uqS7
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