August 19, 2020
March 2020 Covid shock induced a $1trn move into cash that has so far not been reversed. @ISABELNET_SA via @SoberLook https://t.co/m1NwW5eClF
March 2020 Covid shock induced a $1trn move into cash that has so far not been reversed. @ISABELNET_SA via @SoberLook https://t.co/m1NwW5eClF
In 2000 South Africa was the #1 gold producer. By 2020 no longer! @macdonaldajm wsj.com/articles/gold-… https://t.co/rw4C6bFQoa
Since the GFC there has been a huge surge in foreign ownership of US equities. Presumably this is the global effect of QE-induced hunt for returns. @MorganStanley via @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2020/08/18/the… https://t.co/UuIpbjRdww
Foreign plaintiffs won 89% of all patent infringement cases, according to Rouse, a consultancy. Up from 85% in 2017. Higher percentage than locals. economist.com/briefing/2020/… patentlyo.com/patent/2018/02… https://t.co/oBZy9yXZm1
Gold is getting more and more expensive to mine. @macdonaldajm wsj.com/articles/gold-… https://t.co/FbWCiKH0AH
RT @lijukic: Fortune 500 companies over time 1995: USA 151 China 3 2020: USA 121 China 124 twitter.com/adam_tooze/sta…
The Polio vaccine was introduced in the US in 1955, the measles vaccine in 1963. The impact was dramatic. That is what we are hoping for in 2020, or 2021 or ASAP. @OurWorldInData ourworldindata.org/microbes-battl… https://t.co/kzvaibe9iU
18 August 1920 Red defeat: Realizing that counterattack launched by Pilsudski’s Polish strike force from South on 16 Aug was unhinging his position, Tukhachevsky orders retreat. But it is too late. Red Army is disintegrating under impact of flanking attack, Poles take 10k POW. https://t.co/mtPABwweE7
The Asset Economy Lisa Adkins, Melinda Cooper, Martijn Konings What a line up of authors! Connecting 21st c inequality to an analytic of class. Excerpt from @LAReviewofBooks here: lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-as… By @politybooks politybooks.com/bookdetail/?is… https://t.co/b7KcHODw24
China now has more companies in the Fortune 500 than the US. @ISABELNET_SA via @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2020/08/18/the… https://t.co/sYqRQUVSPE
China GDP & mortality v. Europe & US. If COVID had arisen simultaneously across the world, challenging public health systems and economic policy with the same, minimal amount of warning, these data would be shocking. But that isn’t what happened …. W/t @SoberLook @FT https://t.co/ih9HLIgG5w
China’s exports, adjusted for price changes, have held up surprisingly well compared to world trade volumes. @SoberLook https://t.co/HxS0LHHjIu
The BoJ is really MOABS (Mother Of All Balance Sheets) @MorganStanley via @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2020/08/18/the… https://t.co/718hv2KczK
The Polio vaccine was introduced in the US in 1955, the measles vaccine in 1963. The impact was dramatic. That is what we are hoping for in 2020, or 2021 or ASAP. @OurWorldInData ourworldindata.org/microbes-battl… https://t.co/7QRfIFudVB
RT @jackaldane: “…the use of the term ‘post-‘ was a marker of our helplessness, the intellectual equivalent of a blind man’s stick probin…
18 August 1920 Red defeat: Realizing that counterattack launched by Pilsudski’s Polish strike force from South on 16 Aug was unhinging his position, Tukhachevsky orders retreat. But it is too late. Red Army is disintegrating under impact of flanking attack, Poles take 10k POW. https://t.co/BaFlYifV2v
The Asset Economy Lisa Adkins, Melinda Cooper, Martijn Konings What a line up of authors! Connecting 21st c inequality to an analytic of class. Excerpt from @LAReviewofBooks here: lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-as… By @politybooks politybooks.com/bookdetail/?is… https://t.co/NKFPjQbymF
After French withdrawal to West from Metz was stopped on 16 Aug 1870 by a single Prussian corps, on 18 Aug main armies confront each other. Prussian infantry suffer horrendous casualties at hands of superior French rifles, but French driven back to East (sic), sealing their fate. https://t.co/kk1ZNrFrc5
18 August 1870: Battle of Gravelotte-St Privat, 1st encounter of full French & German armies effectively decides outcome of Franco-Prussian war. After atrocious casualties on both sides French Army of Rhine retreats to Metz where it is besieged -> French forces split. @Krieg7071 https://t.co/7lTDe1xr4O
China now has more companies in the Fortune 500 than the US. @ISABELNET_SA via @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2020/08/18/the… https://t.co/lxiQYMmc0q
China GDP & mortality v. Europe & US. If COVID had arisen simultaneously across the world, challenging public health systems and economic policy with the same, minimal amount of warning, these data would be shocking. But it didn’t …. W/t @SoberLook @FT https://t.co/le95g27Apr
China’s exports adjusted for price changes have held up surprisingly well compared to world trade volumes. @SoberLook https://t.co/BDKEIrUksE
The BoJ is really MOABS (Mother Of All Balance Sheets) @MorganStanley via @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2020/08/18/the… https://t.co/1RtbnZLHug
@AntonJaegermm Hobsbawms conservatism on jazz is the most disconcerting aspect of his entire intellectual and cultural persona. And I mean entire …
RT @boes_: "The Federal Reserve bought $451 million of notes sold by New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, making the beleaguer…
RT @Mr_Czaplicki: @adam_tooze @SoberLook regulatory factors: waste collection,excise tax on alco&tobacco,minimum wage hikes' impact on cert…
RT @delliottburke: @adam_tooze @harasp82 @IEG_Mainz Carl Schurz most of all
@davidbent TOTALLY … damn you are right. So that would be the triptych of: 2007 IPCC, Failure of Obama’s 1st Green New Deal, Copenhagen.
@harasp82 Its a great project. Do you already have publications from out of it?
Viewed from the perspective of 50 or a 100 years from now, will the most significant event around 2008 be the financial crisis, the breakthrough in smartphones/social media or the sudden collapse in DNA sequencing costs? Asking for a friend. nap.edu/download/25525 https://t.co/UYvHFvsa08
Number of publications listed in Scopus with “bio-based economy,” “biobased economy,” “bioeconomy,” or “bio-economy” in their titles, abstracts, or keywords. Surges in the new millennium. SOURCE: Birner, 2018. One for @SoberLook nap.edu/download/25525 https://t.co/h6FykRAEWZ
In 2019 Chinese exports of 1,200 products accounted for 22 % of the world’s exports, 3 points down on 2018. Trade wars really are shifting supply chains. @KathrinHille on new @bakermckenzie data. ft.com/content/bfef28… https://t.co/7MEF0tsRKu
"When biological vulnerability became a commodity, an infinite source of profit making appeared & global bioeconomy prospered again" Caduff, C. (2014). "On the verge of death”, Annual Review of Anthro. Hmm? Really? Would make sense. But what if things are more perverse than that? https://t.co/uOyPkYyOuZ
Poland’s inflation is interesting. Anyone have a good story? From 2012-2017 it is following general disinflation. But then prices recover and take off in 2019. Unusual! @SoberLook /thedailyshot.com/2020/08/18/the-ongoing-shift-to-suburbia-in-search-of-home-office-and-classroom/ https://t.co/VhLYw7UCoz
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