“I'm not sure we've ever had a pandemic in a Civilization game. We’re all in the midst of this experiment. We're not the scientists; we're the guinea pigs.” Sid Meier bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/fh1kp0GUtr
In August the share of unemployed Americans who cannot meet their expenses out of unemp insurance income doubled. @MorningConsult via @SoberLook https://t.co/Upzvxhcdij
As the overall US unemployment rate surged in early 2020, so too did the Black-White unemployment gap! FRED via @SoberLook https://t.co/vxzvOcKbTL
Just under 60% of US households with incomes less than $49k have suffered a loss of income from employment since March 13th. @SoberLook https://t.co/vQfVYL5pMH
Low wage employment in the US has bounced back from the COVID trough but there is a VERY long way to go. @MorganStanley via @SoberLook https://t.co/CxtsHUersd
Apropos of a piece in the @guardian on the new and uncanny world that central banks are stumbling into. theguardian.com/commentisfree/… twitter.com/PositiveMoneyE…
Minus petroleum, the US trade balance presents a rather dramatic picture! @SoberLook https://t.co/vcpXqVgGFH
Partners for Peace: manned and unmanned (sic) Because, you know, peace sometimes needs a pilot sometimes just a gyroscope … twitter.com/doctorow/statu…
RT @70sBachchan: Every surge of unemployment levels — whether the 1930s or 1970s or 2020 — brings with it struggles over the control of m…
RT @paldhous: San Francisco right now: a sickly orange glow https://t.co/iZQ99oUGqG
After rebounding, the New York Fed’s near-real-time weekly economic index has stalled at levels below those last seen at trough in 2009. reuters.com/article/us-usa… https://t.co/9l0Sg9zUn2
RT @stefeich: I think this qualifies as the first product of the new working group on the Democratic Politics of Central Banking that @MkBl…
RT @RMontgomeryUK: Very interesting opinion piece on future plausible scenarios as major Central Banks experiment with how to deal with the…
RT @Noahpinion: Approximate income increase since the turn of the century: Ethiopia: 3x Rwanda: 2.5x Ghana: 2x Tanzania: 2x Kenya: 1.5…
Labor productivity in US spiked last quarter as employee hours collapsed. Many firms may decide to maintain lean staff through the recovery, which could keep productivity elevated. @SoberLook https://t.co/Z3whD8a7qP
At its peak the US census mobilizes a workforce of 287149 workers! @WSJ via @SoberLook https://t.co/OIfUn2caSW
RT @ABaronGG: Do NOT miss this piece on the immediate future of central banking by @adam_tooze. Key question: twitter.com/adam_tooze/sta… https…
What we are witnessing is not the Wagnerian end of the postwar dollar-centric world, but "the end of the uniform central banking model of the 1990s. What central banks do is becoming more complex, more diverse and more multipolar." theguardian.com/commentisfree/… https://t.co/x1OSx4B4zs
RT @BJMbraun: "a collective move away from the conservative bias ingrained in the 1990s model of central banking" after the "social forces…
RT @ProfMarkWilson: The military-industrial complex is in the news this week, thanks to the White House. As @julianzelizer says, DJT is no…
RT @cossovich: Re the Fed's change on inflation @adam_tooze writes: "the Fed is acknowledging that the bargaining power of labour is far lo…
"a hybrid assemblage that combines market mechanisms with massive intervention & limitless credit. Its Frankenstein quality is undeniable, but what kind of monster it is, remains to be seen.” On central banks in 2020 for @stefeich @MkBlyth & the gang! theguardian.com/commentisfree/… https://t.co/G8QfnAkjok
An inflationary surge? End of dollar? NOPE … I did a piece for @guardian on what is actually going on with the central banks. theguardian.com/commentisfree/… https://t.co/Ju3EtCppZ7
RT @heimbergecon: Good piece by @adam_tooze: The problem actually facing central banks is how to avoid deflation. The response by central b…
RT @HmsGerlach: This is a good piece by @Adam_tooze! — The world's central banks are starting to experiment. But what comes next? | Adam To…
Remember back in 2018 when folks started live tweeting the 30 years war. We are just about 2 years in! Just realized that I will be lucky if I am still alive when we are tweeting the Treaties of Westphalia in 2048 and climate change, well … twitter.com/vor400/status/…
RT @writersdoing: Samuel Beckett, burning something. https://t.co/K9PCBgWOlG
RT @grist: 1/“This job is killing us.” One of the deadliest jobs in America is one you might never have heard of. When an older building u…
RT @holdengraber: Walter Benjamin’s notebook in which he wrote down all the books he read since he was 18 https://t.co/Cimux1iQ73
RT @trekonomics: (if you look at the end credits, Reggio thanks Guy Debord, think about this for a minute)
RT @trekonomics: There was this theater in Paris near Gobelins where they'd show Koyaanisqatsi every saturday night at like 10PM – a bit li…
RT @spectatorindex: JUST IN: AstraZeneca has put its phase three vaccine trial on hold due to an unexplained illness in a participant
RT @weatherdak: There's so much burning right now on the West Coast. Just dreadful satellite imagery. https://t.co/TkdvHW7PKN
May 2010 team led by Craig Venter announced that they had built a genome and created synthetic life. Huge deal you would think! How much did it cost? Total spend US$40m & 20 people over 10 years. Peanuts = Betsy deVos’s yacht! We don’t spend enough on science. https://t.co/GWYcg9csrw
In 1890 perhaps 200 million people lived in cities worldwide, but by 2000 the figure had leapt to three billion, half of the human population. Steffen, Crutzen, McNeill 2007 classic Anthropocene essay. @OurWorldInData ourworldindata.org/urbanization One for @SoberLook https://t.co/56Qz3yf2Vq
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