World Bank’s Doing Business index is widely followed as an indicator of “reform”-> highly political. Currently suspended after whistleblower exposed irregularities for data concerning … Azerbaijan, China, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. economist.com/finance-and-ec… https://t.co/fmwEvJVrDY
RT @tribelaw: This “asshole” defense is really something twitter.com/renato_mariott…
RT @LalehKhalili: This is a feature, not a bug. And it is absolutely gross. twitter.com/freedlander/st…
How does monetary policy in a transformed world work? @bankofengland research agenda for 2021! Check it out. Lots of opportunities for cooperation/collaboration here. bankofengland.co.uk/research/bank-… https://t.co/I3Ga8KjqaS
Germany is grappling with 30 year anniversary of unification. twitter.com/dneuerer/statu…
Gertrude the pig has one of Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain computer interface chips inserted into her brain. It will be inserted by a robot in a procedure taking less than an hour, without general anesthesia. economist.com/science-and-te… https://t.co/sVUD217Xi1
“They’ll never just completely open and be fine with us crushing the locals,” says one Western banker on the cost of doing business in China. Gov is engineering mergers to create what it calls an “aircraft-carrier” investment bank to repel foreigners. economist.com/finance-and-ec… https://t.co/fIxTPb9zuC
As share of GDP, UK taxes are close to postwar highs. ft.com/content/d8f7af… https://t.co/xc53B2baH0
RT @RobinBrooksIIF: The strong Euro trade hit the wall this week. Chief Economist Philip Lane signaled ECB discomfort at the strong Euro on…
RT @Schuldensuehner: GE, once world’s biggest comp, heads towards zero, JPM says. GE's core ind business has enterprise val of $65bn, based…
RT @zeithistoriker: pitying (purely hypothetical) future historians trying to make sense of lines like this https://t.co/ftxVCaGQp1
RT @Jderbyshire: The Great Bardfield artists, Fry Art Gallery, Saffron Walden https://t.co/4d7lv5i70S
Based on research in Iraq, ARTIS’s behavioural scientists have studied willingness to fight & die for customers in 21 countries incl Britain, Egypt and Guatemala. Goal is to develop predictive software e.g. for USAF Warfighter Effectiveness Research Centre economist.com/science-and-te… https://t.co/wtj6Ehus7x
Approval granted to BlackRock for a Chinese fund-management company came with conditions. Unlike for Chinese-owned entities, the regulator demanded adherence to Internet Security Law -> client data stored within China and accessible to state. economist.com/finance-and-ec… https://t.co/ETX4NoAxdP
Assar Lindbeck, economist, 1930-2020 A pragmatic believer in free markets and the welfare state, successor to Gunnar Myrdal at IIES, reminder of how diverse and contentious Swedish political and policy debate was even at height of social democratic era. ft.com/content/63cf4a… https://t.co/UNDDf9WjOE
How did Americans use their coronavirus stimulus cheques?42% of the money was spent. Another 27% was saved. The remaining 31% was used to repay debts. Paper by Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Michael Weber nber.org/papers/w27693 featured in economist.com/graphic-detail… https://t.co/sVH1pExNb5
RT @youngindia: @adam_tooze What they saw was en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhauladhar part of the lower himalayas..not the high himalayas..
The investable wealth of Chinese retail clients is projected to grow from about $24trn in 2018 to $41trn by 2023 and the industry is immature. Little wonder that for all the talk of Cold War, Western asset managers can’t stay away. @OliverWyman data economist.com/finance-and-ec… https://t.co/7qHNC7R2pj
Paramilitary Violence and Fascism: Imaginaries and Practices of Squadrismo, 1919–1925 By @AlexSaluppo Contemporary European History Volume 29, Issue 3 August 2020 , pp. 289-308 Truly graphic phenomenology! https://t.co/z5g2c85XrF
Main health benefit of lockdowns in Delhi? COVID? No deaths averted from decline in air pollution. 4644 January 1st to August 25th economist.com/graphic-detail… https://t.co/ftIdQgUk5v
RT @Aelkus: I read this 2017 story about Chinese simulating Americans wrecked Chinese in Chinese training exercises after I read a 2020 pie…
You decouple if you want to. The money is (still) going the other direction: c. $200bn foreign funds have flowed into China over past year. Foreign holdings of Chinese stocks & bonds at end of June were, respectively, 50% & 28% higher than a year earlier economist.com/finance-and-ec… https://t.co/5PzmYiRc5s
Structural transformation in Japan, 1874-2008 was profoundly dramatic. A harbinger of rapid transitions to come. From @EcHistSocReview blog ehsthelongrun.net/2020/08/31/bau… https://t.co/MRDQRXQoYN
The “silent crisis” in financial system of Modi’s India and the struggles of RBI in responding documented by two books. Urjit Patel, Overdraft. Saving the Indian Saver. Viral Acharya Quest for Restoring Financial Stability in India economist.com/finance-and-ec… https://t.co/lC4lIlQILQ
This spring marked the first time in decades that residents of Jalandhar in northern India were able to see the snow-capped Himalayan mountains, 160km (100 miles) away. economist.com/graphic-detail… https://t.co/74I99LtrDd
"If you want a sure-fire way to get rejected, try asking Western financial firms for interviews about how geopolitical tensions have affected their strategies in China.” Because Wall Street is not decoupling! economist.com/finance-and-ec… https://t.co/5Tysg3YBjJ
Rethinking European Integration History in Light of Capitalism. EXCELLENT project. Vol 26 2019 European Review of History tandfonline.com/toc/cerh20/26/4 https://t.co/CIaYjFA7JX
JP Morgan leads Western banks with exposure to fossil fuel companies. ft.com/content/38d0da… https://t.co/I0NfoOSa2X
The world’s 35 biggest banks have lent and underwritten $2.7tn to oil, gas and coal companies since the 2015 Paris climate agreement, according to the Rainforest Action Network. ft.com/content/38d0da… https://t.co/xUrZFX4tzJ
The US needs to take seriously the huge damage that the COVID crisis, lockdowns, unemployment and loss of remittances are doing to Central American neighbors which are major sources of immigration. @pewresearch pewresearch.org/fact-tank/ https://t.co/OSO7hymH9A
Uniformly across practically all major economies there has been a deterioration in public assessment of economic conditions. @pewresearch pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020… https://t.co/MCasjGqdZ8
As a result of COVID crisis the share of 18-24 year olds living with their parents in the US leapt from 63 to 71%. Confirms existing trends & intensifies experience of prolonged inter-generational cohabitation. @pewresearch pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020… https://t.co/xV3dKHVWzP
This is a truly disturbing report on hunger in America in 2020. By Adrian Nicole LeBlanc nytimes.com/2020/09/02/mag… https://t.co/X5riaKKVi1
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