If Europe’s relations with China are now also becoming more frosty, which European companies will feel the pressure? Not sure this @ReutersGraphics looks quite right. VW too low. HSBC? BASF? Nevertheless, some interesting names and numbers. graphics.reuters.com/USA-CHINA-MARK… https://t.co/td355Nebsy
CalFire, California’s fire-fighting agency, says about 3 million of the state’s 12 million homes are at high risk from wildfires. Could that destabilize mortgages, MBS & unleash financial chain reaction? Should Fed step in, as @NathanTankus has argued? reuters.com/article/us-cli… https://t.co/ZEk0STgtPI
"to surprisingly little fanfare”, the ECB has introduced rocket fuel to central banking: dual interest rates! @ericlonners @economistmeg Make the case for a (not so) mini revolution. voxeu.org/article/dual-i… https://t.co/PQBOctiIZY
"After years of shaping its Asian strategy around China, Germany has made a sharp break and will focus instead on stronger partnerships in Indo-Pacific region with democracies such as Japan and S Korea” @JunIshikawa9 asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Inter… https://t.co/y8h5O6ic7n
“I’m afraid that we’re in a new reality”: Golden Gate Bridge September 2020. "I looked at the forecast . . . [and] they didn’t say: ‘Oh, and there’s a high likelihood that it will look like Mordor tomorrow. Alex Trope, resident psychiatrist, U of Cal ft.com/content/a315bf… https://t.co/tT0aEMRVUq
America Is Trapped in a Pandemic Spiral As the U.S. heads toward the winter, the country is going round in circles, making the same conceptual errors that have plagued it since spring. This by @edyong209 is excellent. theatlantic.com/health/archive… https://t.co/HOR6KzaJ4q
@Matt_Caron You are absolutely right. Let me fix that …. Sentence is a copy and paste from article. But I was too bleary earlier this morning to get the phrasing right.
"Ironically, Africa is simultaneously world's largest exporter of phosphate rock – key for agricultural fertilizer – and continent with the largest food shortage.” The “Irony” to be understood, as @Matt_Caron suggests, in relation to existing glob system! sciencedirect.com/science/articl… https://t.co/a85fe03ra0
RT @DrJLHazelton: Good lord. Also, yes, a great article. "And it is crowned by the reframing of that history as tourism and prestige proper…
In 2019 c 40% of VW sales were in China. 30% by Daimler and BMW. BASF also heavily invested -> hitherto China has been pivot of Merkel’s Asian policy. Now @HeikoMaas foreign ministry wants to chart different course. What will be pressure points? asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Inter… https://t.co/FWAxkgYFPD
Ironically, the African continent is simultaneously the world's largest exporter of phosphate rock, which is key for agricultural fertilizer, and the continent with the largest food shortage. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… https://t.co/MvfRZMYx93
Remarkable essay on War Office of the British Empire sold off for luxury apartments, hotel, retail, dining experience …directly on Whitehall. ft.com/content/f2e32f… https://t.co/reBGqD8Y89
Last week the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission released 1st-ever report under the auspices of US Fed gov warning of risks posed by climate change to the stability of the US financial system. @WorldResources @CFTC cftc.gov/sites/default/… https://t.co/fT4xGBkQ5x
Though @OlafScholz polls well against likely CDU/CSU successor to Merkel, his party, Germany’s SPD still stuck in doldrums. Greens way off their highs of last year. Good news here is that AfD is <10%. twitter.com/dawum_de/statu…
David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill walking down Whitehall, 1915 © Getty Images https://t.co/GTEqenxnvn
RT @artinsociety: This remarkable galley, intricately carved in ivory, is actually an automaton with mechanically-powered rowers, created i…
RT @KadriLiik: Soviet Estonia, 1980s. A decoy missile base (with expired and/or wooden missiles) scaring American satellites and entertain…
America’s remarkable mortgage system (30-year fixed rates with unlimited refinancing) is working its magic -> 20 million borrowers can lock in historically low interest rates through refinancing. Exposes lenders to some really nasty risks unless GSE-backstopped. @SoberLook https://t.co/e6L9z53iaI
Sep 1870: Strasbourg under German siege. Swiss delegation arrives to evacuate women, children, elderly and sick. Conveys news of emperors capitulation. twitter.com/krieg7071/stat…
RT @CoalFreeDave: "Why do you just work on coal power?" The IEA has a graph for that… #BeyondCoal iea.org/reports/energy… https://t.co/…
America’s remarkable mortgage system (30-year fixed rates with unlimited refinancing) is working its magic -> 20 million borrowers can lock in historically low interest rates through refinancing. Exposes lenders to some really nasty risks unless GSE-backstopped. @SoberLook https://t.co/fHzEd0y6pM
Though the number of US unemployed receiving regular state benefits is declining, the total figure for all programs has turned up again to just shy of 30 million. @OxfordEconomics via @SoberLook https://t.co/QZWkTbOX7O
A crisis in the making: US wholesalers are running short of booze! For unearthing this alarming but vital data in the FRED database h/t @SoberLook https://t.co/RZu2k6NU7h
RT @artnet: Photographer Jeff Frost has been chasing California wildfires for years. This season is the worst he's ever seen: https://t.co/…
RT @alanigolanski: I suspect that the unrest has a still deeper source, namely, the sense that, before a terrifying background of ecologica…
Like @zeithistoriker says … the list of proposed topics sets a marvelous agenda in its own right! twitter.com/zeithistoriker…
@tgrdebate @SDullien @michael_huether Apropos Sebastians Punkt … es handelt sich bei Umfragewerten in den 2000ern ja in der grossen Mehrzahl nicht um persönliche Erinnerungen sondern um vermittelte Geschichte(n) die immer wieder aktualisiert werden muessen. Das verlangt “Erinnerungsarbeit”.
Sep 2020: Horrifying swarms of mosquitos, displaced by hurricane Laura, are killing livestock and deer in Jefferson Davis (sic) and other counties across Louisiana. cbsnews.com/news/hurricane… https://t.co/YzKrsWP5Ax
RT @C_VargasHarle: Une belle photo du char Renault FT aux couleurs de 1940 de l'association Le Miroir pendant la journée de la chenille 🐛 ,…
RT @Jderbyshire: Boris Johnson has been dismissed in the German press as a 'spätimperialistischer Oxfordschnösel' (late imperialist Oxford…
RT @YohannesBecker: What Germans are afraid of: 1. Trump … 17. Corona virus (in case you asked: 2. Inflation, 3. Money losing its val…
Air freight rates are spiking due to lack of capacity globally at same time as empty airports -> passenger prices have plunged. FRED via @SoberLook https://t.co/lOCzt8q7Ii
RT @ImKevinYoung: We're hiring! You will: • Work on @TheEconomist's digital newsdesk • Liaise with various teams to publish stories • Cura…
RT @dannyctkemp: Crazy @NASA picture of the smoke from US wildfires visible from the Deep Space Climate Observatory 1 million miles from Ea…
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