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RT @statto: The gross underfunding of international orgs is shocking. @tobyordoxford’s book The Precipice contains the stat that the Biolo…

Starting on 27 Feb 2020 around Idlib Turkish drones and artillery delivered devastating strike agains Syrian armor. Highlight HUGE new threats both to tank and AP carriers that are essential for infantry cover. rusi.org/publication/ru… https://t.co/mTVhPpZZSA

The annual budget of The Who in 2020 —roughly $2.4 billion —is less than a sixth of the Maryland Department of Health’s wsj.com/articles/the-w… https://t.co/lFIdtD1aEq

From drilling rigs to offshore wind: BP plans to achieve zero emissions by 2050. But the dilemma is that “It takes capital to transition and reinvent ourselves. We can’t turn the tap off overnight.” ft.com/content/e1d532… https://t.co/JqWf8Rgk9Z

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Post 2008 the world economy appears to have seen a downshift in labour productivity growth. @Conferenceboard one for @SoberLook https://t.co/pthmc03yle

Whereas fossil energy sector collapsed in March and has stayed down, alternative energy stocks have pulled away. @Gavekal via @SoberLook https://t.co/najC1xHvDX

"To begin with, all the “probablys” in Mr Ball’s chronicle seem a weakness. Soon, though, the conjectures become pointed. All of this happened, whether or not it happened to Lecorgne. He is a looming spectre in a book that is really a portrait of his time" economist.com/books-and-arts… https://t.co/DptQErJOga

The Party is Over: How did COVID affect drug use? Unsurprisingly cannabis up, ecstasy down! One for @SoberLook economist.com/graphic-detail… https://t.co/7daK5I4jYf

Every facet of the Thai economy was contracting in Q2 2020. @SoberLook https://t.co/k9b1Y2Cpi2

"wouldn’t an America of 1bn people be horribly crowded? No, it would be as sparsely populated as France is now.” @TheEconomist reviews @mattyglesias economist.com/books-and-arts… https://t.co/o2TFmMDUFF

“Extinguish your heart”: What bothered him was that S-21 was meant to be a tool to find out truth. Or so he had convinced himself. Yet perhaps 60% of each “confession” was false, and perhaps 80% of those he sent to death did not oppose the regime. economist.com/obituary/2020/… https://t.co/nrdYmAW0z7

Egypt’s core inflation has seen a remarkable decline from 35% in 2017 to near zero in the summer of 2020. @SoberLook https://t.co/BviiDmhUE0

RT @gunner_schmulke: Armour boneyards https://t.co/JZFExWIeZ1

RT @PaulaSKirby: Life in the #DDR: #Berlin Alexanderplatz, 1989, looking towards the Rathaus © @wilfredlegebeke https://t.co/raLWMh6sYg

RT @jdmccafferty: A broadside with a rebus, satirising in form of a gypsy's prophecy Frederick V's defeat at the White Mountain & subseque…

RT @YesSirHumphrey: Oh, well, Minister, as long as you are not asking me to resort to crude generalisations and vulgar simplifications such…

@davies_will @NewHumanist Seriously, I am going to adopt a suitably adjusted paraphrase as my mantra (with credit to you). It is the bridge Ive been fumbling towards by way of @GeoffPMann reading of Keynes. For me what you are articulating is the logic of Keynes’s liberalism a la General Theory.

@summaecodex Was hoping someone would say that … so what are your sources of phosphate optimism?

"This isn't about ideological purity, but about transformation of the rules and practices of everyday life, as a matter of existential urgency.” @davies_will on the coalition of legal and economic rebuilders. newhumanist.org.uk/articles/5682/… https://t.co/Q93uBl00PB

This passage in @davies_will interview with @NewHumanist magazine is brilliant: In current crisis, critical social science must do what liberalism can no longer do i.e. reveal logic and establish rules of game -> maintain non-dogmatic enlightenment hope. newhumanist.org.uk/articles/5682/… https://t.co/kFqSHfdYK2

Since April the number of COVID vaccine candidates has exploded from 115 to 321 on 3 September 2020. 6 are in Phase III trials = unprecedented pace and scale of effort. nature.com/articles/d4157… https://t.co/ruUicIgRy5

Clinton grumbled in another early 1993 economic meeting. “We’re Eisenhower Republicans here, and we are fighting the Reagan Republicans. We stand for lower deficits and free trade and the bond market. Isn’t that great?” jacobinmag.com/2017/07/trump-… https://t.co/TVgin2ZisY

Say, just say, that Biden wins in November, how long before GOP starts worrying about the deficit, and invoking gloomy CBO debt forecasts? Nice article by @JoshuaMound from back in 2017. jacobinmag.com/2017/07/trump-… https://t.co/nABSvvgXiA

Whilst the whole world is talking of uncoupling btw China and West, western financial institutions are going the other way. Looking for any route into the China market. This is why! $30trn pot of assets to manage by 2022. @OliverWyman oliverwyman.com/content/dam/ol… https://t.co/18ykwK3JFq

In East Africa, in collaboration with local special forces, the CIA and MI6 are continuing the war on terror. Remarkable report on "kill or capture” program in Kenya by @nshabibi @declassifiedUK @dailymaverick dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-0… https://t.co/U8IwdQ3DSO

The pattern of Europe’s trade is truly that of a workshop economy: big surpluses with US, UK. Deficits dominated by logic of cheap labour (China, Vietnam, Bangladesh) and energy/raw materials (Russia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Libya, Malaysia, Nigeria). trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/20… https://t.co/qfuZachGzn

Institutionalized mercantilism. European Commission display of trade data: Imports, Exports -> trade balance, which starts with the largest surplus and works its way down. You have to go to page 3 to find the deficit with China! trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/20… https://t.co/jldvrw4Q0X

Bob Frankston, the programmer who designed VisiCalc the first spreadsheet program with Dan Bricklin in 1978/9, noted that "instant hard figures, so recently a luxury, are quickly becoming a necessity.” Older piece by @StevenLevy wired.com/2014/10/a-spre… https://t.co/W92SCdr2Av

Peak phosphorus? Mined from rock phosphate. Combined in mineral fertilizers with sulphuric acid, nitrogen, and potassium. KEY to current agricultural production systems. Existing rock phosphate reserves could be exhausted in the next 50–100 years. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… https://t.co/G50J07vnna

In a world of globalized supply chains, firms that import also export -> US tariffs since 2018 have been equivalent to a 2-4% tax on EXPORTS! @KyleLHandley @farihakamal2011 @rpmonarch voxeu.org/article/supply… https://t.co/Qzt3u1pKqq

"“by the break of day … a flash” interrupted the kósmic seasons of our economy” – GWF Hegel Phenomenology In this case the flash was the French Revolution and the economy was not quite what we understand by economy! But still … love the quote! https://t.co/gOrFJPFU7N

Is “state capitalism” a useful category? Useful critical review of literature. Alami Dixon State Capitalism Redux? (2019) H/t @madeline_woker journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… https://t.co/LIkrpCezNK

RT @RobinBrooksIIF: Dollar weakness is all wrong. The fall vs G10 (black) is the US reflating at expense of Euro zone & Japan, which have f…

Has anyone read anything good on “Grand Theories” of EU’s development and 2020? There was a flurry of debate in recent years between liberal intergovernmental and post functionalist approaches. Would be good to read an update! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… https://t.co/kq3q0eERdR

Last week the ECB took a ever so slightly hawkish position on inflation in 2021. But the most pressing problem is not the average across euro area but divergence since 2013 and descent into deflation in former crisis countries. @PositiveMoneyEU @UureeB positivemoney.eu/2020/09/inflat… https://t.co/eAyQwUmUYg