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RT @YanQinyq: 'Limit Coal consumption is an important task in China's 14th Five-year-plan, with new energy and renewbles meeting the needs…

RT @YanQinyq: 🇨🇳 “ Carbon Neutrality & long-term low carbon development strategy and transition pathway for China” workshop on October 12 (…

RT @YanQinyq: 🚨China will unveil the first official 2060 Carbon Neutral pathway and scenarios results on October 12 👇 Live-streamed worksh…

RT @tituslcarus: Big news for fellow Machiavelli and History of Political Thought scholars: they just found 100 cards of previously unknown…

RT @StuartHumphryes: This is Sunday 31st March 1912 – a fortnight before the sinking of the Titanic. In Arizona, USA, a Hopi Snake Clan pri…

RT @DEHEdgerton: Everyone interested in tech needs to read this wonderful book from @STS_News @RussellProf https://t.co/HByTISw1tF

RT @jnordvig: I started using twitter in earnest this year, and today I reached 10K followers. I do not know all of you personally, but I d…

By the end of July there were 2% fewer jobs in America paying more than $60,000 a year than in January. But jobs paying under $27,000 were 16% scarcer. @OppInsights data economist.com/special-report… https://t.co/8OEAh2GvMk

The topology of international business travel. 65% of all business travellers can be accounted for by country pairs in the top 1% of bilateral flows. Apart from GDP & gravity, equity ownership and FDI seem to drive it. Coscia Neffke Hausmann nature.com/articles/s4156… https://t.co/3SK5PsDn8a

In May 2020 two-thirds of American GDP was produced from peoples’ houses, a shift in production techniques unmatched in peacetime. Reverses one of great trends of modernity = Separation of home and work @Jose_MariaRD Bloom Davis @SIEPR bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/upl… https://t.co/NZihowWZ1x

1 bouteille COGNAC NAPOLEON 1811 Grande Réserve … imagine tasting something that might have been at the table of the Emperor! invaluable.com/auction-lot/1-… https://t.co/oH3A7dPHB2

"Our dreams of conquest henceforth resemble the Concorde, the supersonic airplane now suspended at the end of a runway at Charles de Gaulle airport, a sort of involuntary memorial to past futurisms." Latour, Bruno. Facing Gaia (p. 233). Wiley. Kindle Edition. https://t.co/UpmcDJhf81

RT @DanAwrey: Does everyone else see two octopuses fighting? twitter.com/i_aldasoro/sta…

RT @RobinBrooksIIF: US frustration that others with fiscal space aren't matching its stimulus is fair (lhs), especially vs Euro zone where…

France 1870: German troops execute French irregular Franc Tireur. Those who were captured with weapons were shot. twitter.com/Krieg7071/stat…

RT @RobinBrooksIIF: China did a huge service to the world during the global financial crisis, as its infrastructure stimulus in 2009 was a…

2020 Corona shock produced a youth unemployment surge in the US that took it to levels on a par with the tough European cases. @DeutscheBank https://t.co/kNth3BkvpN

American families (with “head" of family in age range of 35-54) took a huge hit to family net worth after 2007 from which they have not recovered. @DeutscheBank https://t.co/6Wv0k654Nu

Corona shutdowns were huge shock to low-wage Americans. Easy to see why when you look at top 10 occupations for low-wage full time work: cashiers, sales, cooks, waitstaff .. @DeutscheBank https://t.co/oY0EkUrWRN

Europe’s July 2020 compromise is a great step forward (though getting final agreement is a work in progress). But the basic issue for the euro area remains Itay’s debt level. Painfully stabilized since 2014 around >130%. Now heading towards >150%. @DeutscheBank https://t.co/XhUtjHxuGH

RT @RobinBrooksIIF: Big misconceptions is that Euro is undervalued due to the c/a surplus. The surplus reflects big output gaps, i.e. Spain…

RT @SergiLanauIIF: Nigeria's current account deficit shrunk in Q2 due to falling imports but financing was still precarious. If it wasn't f…

After sixty years of expansion, 2020 saw a sudden and wrenching shock to staffing in US higher education. @danbauman77 @chronicle chronicle.com/article/how-th… https://t.co/brVR8b87YG

With 337k job losses, in August higher ed in the US was #5 on the list of sectors badly hit by the corona crisis. Ahead of gyms and the arts. Alarming report by @danbauman77 for @chronicle chronicle.com/article/how-th… https://t.co/IUjfortCLG

At beginning of 2020 the US higher ed sector (private and state) employed over 4.6 m people. At the trough that had fallen to 4.2 m. By Aug there were still 337k fewer staff. But whereas there is recovery in private, in state colleges squeeze continues. chronicle.com/article/how-th… https://t.co/EZIXPQVs2g

The trend in Germany’s trade surplus seems to be in the right direction i.e. towards balance. @SoberLook https://t.co/y8ohwFB7vz

Since 2000 markups in US have surged v. Flatline in the EU. Suggests more competitive environment in EU v. Increasing oligopoly in the US. H/t @bryanoloughlin @Bruegel_org @ThomasPHI2 bruegel.org/wp-content/upl… https://t.co/5EZf8Vucnv

RT @bechara58: Think to myself, is it good, bad ou just ugly? Corporate equities and mutual fund shares by wealth percentile group @SoberLo…

Financial crisis and above allll the Euro area crisis did profound damage to legitimacy of EU. We are off peak anti-EU sentiment, but level is still alarmingly elevated compared to pre-2008. % who “tend not to trust” EU. @DeutscheBank @EurobarometerEU https://t.co/lLjLgncQPu

The Euro area’s basic problem: GDP per capita divergence since 2008 shock btw Germany, France and Italy. @DeutscheBank https://t.co/rC8JBbVDLY

The degree of globalization prior to 1914 as measured by trade was impressive but pace of growth was gradual by comparison with the extraordinary, prolonged surge from the trough of 1945 to the peak of 2008. Since then we are on a plateau but not, yet, a treat. Data @DeutscheBank https://t.co/1M557xJyla

RT @ArmorCollection: For the first time, we have our "Class of '45" together: the American M26 Pershing, the Soviet IS-3, and the British C…

RT @lindyli: .@CNN poll by gender: Men: Trump 49% Biden 47% Women: Biden 66% Trump 32% Ladies, we’re going to be the ones who save our r…

RT @RowlandWhite: Everything about this picture of HMS Hermes during the Falklands War is epic. This was the sort of feeling I wanted to tr…

@arnoblalam Thanks for the clarification!

10. Lessons in Asymmetric Adversarial Reasoning (LiAAR) 11. Analysis of Corporate Access, Ownership, and Control I like the fact that these topics follow on each other in the list of proposed topics for DARPA young faculty awards.