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Norway is about to start production of oil from the Johan Sverdrup N. Sea field that holds about 2.7bn barrels of o… https://t.co/nRweyLBaxg

China’s urban “slum” redevelopment program has required 100m people to be rehoused. The pace is slowing in 2020 aft… https://t.co/4rWZwxzORT

In US farming GM modified seeds go hand in hand with commercially branded weedkillers -> seed developers insert gen… https://t.co/yUETHdm0V6

Ireland’s budget is back in surplus. The total tax haul was a record €59.3bn, almost double the €31.8bn received in… https://t.co/mdKi1RI35k

America’s drone arsenal really came of age under Obama in a wave of strikes first in Pakistan and then Afghanistan.… https://t.co/ZMjMOjqnr7

"The United Kingdom may be finally coming to an end.” @DEHEdgerton in the @nytimes this morning!… https://t.co/8BuiBXfbu7

Party like it’s 1999: The percentage of listed US comps in the red is close to 40%, highest level since late 1990s… https://t.co/kx1LTYm2FT

Btw 2010 & 2018, the 3 largest publicly listed miners, BHP, Rio Tinto PLC & Vale, reported 117 deaths globally. An… https://t.co/9xVZ7hqAwH

"The old economics was based on a variety of prejudices.” George A. Akerlof (2001) on the “golden age” of economics… https://t.co/BPvu5jxeoh

Btw 2001 & 2015, 36 states, 30 in Africa, had $76bn of debt wiped off as part of Heavily Indebted Poor Countries &… https://t.co/t3FNcYPwx4

"Real public spending per person in the Republic of Congo more than halved between 2015 and 2018, while it fell 35%… https://t.co/fSBsBhS3yr

Xi pledged in 2015 to cut the number of people with a yearly income of less than Rmb2,300 ($335) from more than 50m… https://t.co/UFbXYkEYcy

First built in 1953 & still in production, the 1 millionth Corvette come off the production line today in 1992. Che… https://t.co/4edXIZwFje

I'm just going to repeat this tweet below, but in caps: IN SOUTHERN AFRICA ALMOST 9.5 MILLION PEOPLE ARE FACING SE… https://t.co/eZn3IupVK2

Xi pledged in 2015 to cut the number of people with a yearly income of less than Rmb2,300 ($335) from more than 50m… https://t.co/PDXjMnQfTe

The dollar is woven into the fabric of the world economy as we know it. As recent history causes its role to be que… https://t.co/NtKYGvdam7

The government estimates that each additional dollar spent on tax enforcement could yield more than $4 in revenue.… https://t.co/ZsxM9AIR6i

There will no further sunsets available today. Please come back tomorrow for one of our five scheduled sunsets. Thi… https://t.co/WVwG6RCgIV

The tightening of fiscal policy ordained by Toronto G20 in June 2010 was one of the disasters of economic policy th… https://t.co/y5EeutWLh1

Cross-currency basis swaps let investors holding Japanese gov bond swap the yen-denominated interest and principal… https://t.co/TTAvtoTbmA

Global trade growth is inversely related to USD strength. @HyunSongShin argues this has to do with increasing impor… https://t.co/hvNjA0BMGu

"For Peace, Collect Wars; For Future, Collect Lessons; For Peace, Collect Disasters; For Inheritance, Collect Folk… https://t.co/eclSDyBwSg

“They Want Docile” How Nursing Homes in the US Overmedicate People with Dementia. The prevalence of prescription re… https://t.co/PM77AKbLzc

Transportation is now the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S., and emissions have been essential… https://t.co/wVfFaVA61t

c. 1/6 adult Americans take at least one psychopharmaceutical regularly (80% long-term) https://t.co/RZReNQwzr9 20… https://t.co/vtsZt2wPIp

Overall, U.S. greenhouse gas emissions fell about 2 percent in 2019. That is driven by a 10% fall in power sector w… https://t.co/EMymXFQPpB

The waste of food in the supply chain in Europe, N America and industrialized Asia is shocking. For cereals it amou… https://t.co/vSkGitRWzV

Decline of the car and rise of “light trucks” is the trend that dominates US auto industry. Overall sales are relat… https://t.co/kPIOuyFMzc

If the numbers are to be believed the excess mortality produced by burning coal and oil in CIS amounts to a hidden… https://t.co/pzHRC96wV1

Beijing's restrictions on outbound investment, heightened regulatory reviews in U.S. & Europe, slower economic grow… https://t.co/jijgeQu1al

The underpricing of the externalities of coal burning stand out as the great hidden subsidy to fossil fuels. Local… https://t.co/rPV1J1bg6V

"Growth of fx swaps leaves more of what is effectively $ debt hiding off balance sheets around the world. So when y… https://t.co/U0lUK7kpbp

How good was #Erasmus for you? ("Better than tinder" as one person put it…) As the UK votes against much-loved… https://t.co/Xfu2xBtWSa

Prices for energy (yellow dots) do not generally cover the full cost of their use. But coal stands out. Prices are… https://t.co/42OhBAYMis