ADAM TOOZE

This looks interesting: Democratizing Our Data A Manifesto By Julia Lane A wake-up call for America to create a new framework for democratizing data. mitpress.mit.edu/books/democrat… https://t.co/K5CjBnEZGZ

Alarming report on lax FDA supervision of clinical trials by @ScienceMagazine despite rising budget. science.sciencemag.org/content/370/65… https://t.co/LqFzsQ07lx

In 2020 the number of Americans in poverty was lower than in 2019. Over 13 million more people would have been in poverty without unemployment insurance and stimulus payments @EconomicPolicy epi.org/blog/over-13-m… https://t.co/yf7TIydFNc

The impact of corona shock on global GDP on day by day basis estimated by @GoldmanSachs from lockdown index. Via @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2020/10/07/us-… https://t.co/Ey16uyY940

China heads four of the 15 UN* and UN-affiliated agencies or groups that collectively function as the machinery of the UN system. “The fault is not of those who win. The fault is of those who lose.” @GerardAraud wsj.com/articles/how-c… https://t.co/mt87uTW9ce

RT @CalibreObscura: A recent image of a gun shop in #Idlib. Lots of weapons can be seen, including AK-74, AK-74M/AK-103, AKM/S, PSL, Star…

RT @engineers_feed: This day on October 8, 1871, flames spark in the Chicago, igniting a two-day blaze that kills between 200 and 300 peopl…

US and Uk households have accumulated substantial volume of “excess” savings during 2020 shock. Via @SoberLook https://t.co/trAomoKkGU

RT @EricTopol: And today @nature weighed on this in with a feature nature.com/articles/d4158… by @jefftollef https://t.co/Brzb1jLHaT

RT @eisingerj: Chicago School coming in for a beating here at Chicago's @StiglerCenter conf on antitrust. This slide from Gary Reback. http…

RT @LeBrunJames81: Today in 1571, the Holy League smashed the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto; the last major all-galley engagement…

How Germany could step around its debt brake to finance investment important new study out from @IMKFlash tomorrow. @SDullien Report by @schieritz online at @zeitonline twitter.com/SDullien/statu…

RT @theharshdesai: Indeed, an amazing map from the @WorldBank's Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020 report. All of the report is worth readi…

RT @Brad_Setser: As @michaelxpettis noted in response to the FT's story on the US trade deficit, the US really has been the locomotive powe…

Remarkable document of the prosaic workmanlike business of much of modern war. The moment of firing is simply a pull on a trigger, recoil contained, modest amounts of smoke … twitter.com/rgpoulussen/st…

Cyclone Idai in 2019 gave warning: the overlay of poverty and flood risk across Sub-Saharan Africa, home to more than half of 588 m poor people worldwide facing high flood risk. Amazing map from @WorldBank report just out. openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/hand… https://t.co/5SDO7m0vCK

In 2018, half of the poor were children younger than age 15, even though this age group accounted for only a quarter of the world’s population. Excellent report by @WorldBank team led by @samuel_freije openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/hand… https://t.co/6pSwyCeQMG

Globally, some 1.47 billion people are estimated to be living in areas with high flood risk. Of those 588m live on less than $5.50 per day. This report by @WorldBank team led by @samuel_freije pulls NO punches in characterizing the crisis of 2020! openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/hand… https://t.co/hDVnFAFnJP

"In 2020, an estimated 88 m people worldwide will be pushed into poverty under the baseline COVID-19 scenario and as many as 115 m people under the downside scenario” Extremely alarming report from @WorldBank especially in S Asia & SAA h/t @RMontgomeryUK openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/hand… https://t.co/iBoRbg167C

WARNING from the @WorldBank Corona shutdowns -> poverty as measured by the international poverty line is expected to rise in 2020 for the first time since 1998. We did this collectively. We need a collective global response. H/t @RMontgomeryUK openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/hand… https://t.co/eujAQw4sHE

RT @jeannasmialek: Welp. "In addition, most forecasters were assuming that an additional pandemic-related fiscal package would be approve…

RT @DrRadchenko: Khrushchev and Mao Zedong on the future world government. Surely counts among the strangest conversations among world lead…

RT @davies_will: If I was running a business whose vast profits were made on the back of grant-funded research, unpaid peer reviewing and e…

RT @RobinBrooksIIF: Wider US trade & current account deficits aren't due to Asian FX manipulation or failure of US tariffs. Instead, they'r…

"These were times, Fromm asserted, when if you weren’t out of your mind, it meant you didn’t have one." twitter.com/AntonJaegermm/…

RT @njtmulder: Much to admire in Stefan Link's sweeping yet meticulous Forging Global Fordism, but especially its 'political history of mas…

Oct 4 1870: whilst besieging French army in Metz, German Jewish troops conduct Yom Kippur celebration. Later commemorated in this (very exaggerated) depiction, which becomes a widely cherished icon of successful Jewish integration into new German state. twitter.com/Krieg7071/stat…

Oct 5 1870: a month after battle at Sedan, Alfred Krupp finally receives a report from his confidant-lobbyist General Voigt-Rhetz who celebrates the superiority of Krupp's cast steel cannons over their bronze competitors. Krupp, delighted, dispatches tokens of his appreciation. twitter.com/Krieg7071/stat…

The Tsingtao brewery, founded in 1903, with its iconic German architecture and a Chinese-English sign reading: “Tsing Tao Beer can give you passion and happiness.” online.ucpress.edu/gastronomica/a… https://t.co/rE6a4pMjBf

October 1870: War and interior minister of the French 3rd Republic Leon Gambetta escapes from besieged Paris by balloon, survives Prussian attempts to shoot him down and lands 100 km from Paris in unoccupied territory. twitter.com/Krieg7071/stat…

Kirin beer advertisement in a Korean newspaper in 1927 fosters pan-Asian strength through the consumption of western-style beer. H/t @ykomska from this paper by @JeffreyPilcher5 online.ucpress.edu/gastronomica/a… https://t.co/3wujLTBU7D

"This paper examines taste as a factor in beer’s arrival as a symbol of modernity in India, Japan, and China” FASCINATING @Gastronomica online.ucpress.edu/gastronomica/a… https://t.co/wyE7YcYb27

In absence of US Federal stimulus a lot depends on whether or not muni debt market with Fed backing will support spending by cities, states, local health systems etc Some signs of uptick in issuance. @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2020/10/06/a-d… https://t.co/0VLtE9AC5B

Analysts are trying to gauge risk from disputed 3 Nov outcome. What to compare to? 1960? 2000? Kennedy assassination? Nixon resignation? Clinton, Trump impeachment? Depends a bit on the militia doesn’t it? SCOTUS? Pentagon? 2020 … @LPLResearch @Gavekal thedailyshot.com/2020/10/06/a-d… https://t.co/UMwWPgHhng

There may still be coal production in US out beyond 2030 but the downward trend is inexorable. Time to make plans for a just transition for what remains of the workforce & to steer young folks away. Perhaps some role in carbon storage? @FitchSolutions via thedailyshot.com/2020/10/06/a-d… https://t.co/88uMtefARD

Investors who were brave enough to get into EM bonds at the turning point of Monday 23 March made great returns in dollars & in local currency by 1 October. thedailyshot.com/2020/10/06/a-d… https://t.co/eqm3erN5Fc