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Edward Quince was the pseudonym used by Ben Bernanke for confidential email communication in 2008-2009.… https://t.co/FeKuFgexqp

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Between April and June 2020 not a single Hollywood film had a national film release. https://t.co/tGwX2nller https://t.co/StMw8tr6Ko

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The monstrosity that is the American Dream mall in New Jersey (en route to Newark airport) is circling the drain.… https://t.co/oAa90psAba

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Excess deaths per region since the beginning of the pandemic https://t.co/S9XA54ie5l https://t.co/Ik5IqjBMsv

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Yemen’s disaster becomes “cataclysmic” https://t.co/DJ6aikB3iI https://t.co/iUfw1VwvIL

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Dharavi, a slum in Mumbai where 850,000 people are packed into 2.5 sq km and as many as 80 people share each toilet… https://t.co/xvZeqZNyH7

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The contraction of UK GDP in 2020 is likely to be the worst macroeconomic shock in 310 years. @bankofengland via… https://t.co/lJZusOTk9t

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The COVID disaster in the UK has been associated with no significant excess mortality for those below the age of 45… https://t.co/zOb4n05c89

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What if … Arctic shipping lanes open up? @TheEconomist has an entertaining and illuminating section of climate chan… https://t.co/PPySWknIvV

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From the 1870 Statistical Atlas: A fiscal chart showing US revenues, expenditures, and public debt, 1789-1870… https://t.co/lfYCKs2ndS

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Esimate, made in 2019 by Howard J. Herzog of MITy, was that removing 1m tonnes of carbon dioxide a year from the ai… https://t.co/twso9o4y8w

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After the IRS started examining a lot of rich people's tax returns, Republicans successfully slashed IRS funding an… https://t.co/8b7nxCf1Rm

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As ever, essential commentary on the ongoing labour market disaster in the US by @hshierholz Another 2.4 m folks a… https://t.co/WPDAGXxf9g

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The benign view of the "retail apocalypse" is that job losses in brick & mortar retail (blue) will be made up elsew… https://t.co/yeG0KkThGc

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And one might add it would have been even worse for capital had not so much of the cost been covered by states in m… https://t.co/x4cZ4VGjnc

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2015-19 was 1st period since Orville & Wright in 1903 in which airline industry covered cost of capital. Buffett, o… https://t.co/yyCY0gqELD

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With heavy hearts, the Bank Street Bookstore has made the very difficult decision to permanently close at the end o… https://t.co/xgWKOQj0dA

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Tesla: com­pa­ny’s equity mar­ket cap is more than $250 bil­lion, and now roughly equal “the com­bined val­ues of T… https://t.co/9zGKautQab

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In celebration of Chesapeake Energy’s hubris. Ultimately doomed, but it in the mean time it “changed the world”. Th… https://t.co/wNM3WUe1vb

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Last week, 2.4 million workers applied for unemployment benefits. This is the 16th week in a row that unemployment… https://t.co/wSmReL11xh

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At times in the 2000s Chesapeake was considered the Google of energy. It had negotiated land leases for gas frackin… https://t.co/VrJnvrasL1

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Offshore wind is beginning to gather momentum in the US but it looks to lag far behind EU, China and Korea (in pro… https://t.co/8KWPKA1mkU

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US investment in offshore wind power is predicted to rise from nothing 10 years ago to a level that nearly matches… https://t.co/hVaDf26BJU

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The pain of unemployment falls unequally in all economic crises. But COVID has been devastating for low-waged worke… https://t.co/IEVlIKw9aI

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We don’t talk enough about the COVID disaster in Belgium, host of the EU: 853 deaths per million. The US will surpa… https://t.co/pMimd7n9l4

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"HSBC appears hopelessly politicised -> to be avoided by sensible investors. Rule with blackmailers is that they ne… https://t.co/Cl2QaPp2V1

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How the mafia got to our food Value of the so-called agromafia business has almost doubled from €12.5bn in 2011 to… https://t.co/J2mzvyep2L

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Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta uses financial engineering to get paid for (sub standard) services its businesses provide to… https://t.co/PO5axHiuo0

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CFE constructs Chiron SPV that buys €50m of unpaid healthcare invoices, including bills originating from Calabria a… https://t.co/WyToPK0Lxs

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Abbas the Great had a very Hegelian moniker, "sahib-qirān-i-ʿAlā" (Supreme Lord of the Auspicious Conjunction) grou… https://t.co/DMbpde7mxR

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How the ’Ndrangheta discovered Italy’s health system as a giant cash machine & money laundering system.… https://t.co/hKMwYO24Zn

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Ideas and ideologies competing for China’s future. A map from 2017 of how online pluralism challenges official orth… https://t.co/XjGrvN0qYR

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@EdSacredProfane @DonaldClark @adam_tooze If one is poor and the kids are young GenZ (primary/middle school) and th… https://t.co/eFurK9zR9f

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In UK, > 50% of foreign multinational companies currently report no taxable profits. In the US, 91 companies on th… https://t.co/ccUaIaqe97

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Couldn’t agree more. It is heartbreaking to watch. https://t.co/wMBntzhScA

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