
The distribution of US labour…
The distribution of US labour by occupation and hourly wage rate. @DeutscheBank Torsten Slok. https://t.co/lBrLFlqcuw
The distribution of US labour by occupation and hourly wage rate. @DeutscheBank Torsten Slok. https://t.co/lBrLFlqcuw
"the world is “short” roughly $11.5trn, compared to $3.5trn worth of euros and $0.39trn of Japanese yen”… https://t.co/KlRqlHhB7h
Employment trends in US since 2008 diverged starkly by educational level: 13m increase in employment of BA grads v.… https://t.co/T0EW6TJpx6
Welfare states DO make a difference but most of the difference in post-tax gini btw Norway and US is explained by l… https://t.co/ftLo9pNJkH
Employment trends in service sector and goods producing industries in US have dramatically diverged. @DeutscheBank… https://t.co/HpAZMeJoeD
Since the early 2000s UK growth has been extensive i.e. driven not by productivity increase but by adding workers,… https://t.co/HRTu4zPiaW
Total employment in the US at an all time high of 149 m. @DeutscheBank Torsten Slok https://t.co/2DB3rxPWoN
'While Argentina and Turkey are big standalone stories, I am not sure we can claim that EM is heading for a systemi… https://t.co/1C8qFS2PHD
In 2009 BlackRock’s acquisition of iShares was indicative of shifting balance of power on Wall Street to the buy s… https://t.co/xR8JUzu4pB
@groys @nytimes this is Geithner’s mantra. He at times even seems to suggest that whether something is truly unpopu… https://t.co/wjR3Hh6Oeh
However it started out, NAFTA hardly looks like an elite conspiracy now. A majority of US citizens support it. Mexi… https://t.co/iQKCIsrvuI
US has been running a modest trade surplus with Canada on a huge volume of trade. But can anyone tell me what happe… https://t.co/GkiUXXR41X
The restriction to hold profits overseas was meaningless to corporate treasurers as long as they could borrow again… https://t.co/6bnvzjvBa9
Quantitative tightening is now adding up to real numbers: Fed balance sheet down $260bn since peak. @SoberLook https://t.co/TWYS4nvwpV
Tariffs have little relationship to current account balance, but what does is the savings-investment gap. In fact C… https://t.co/tf8JYZ8jWz
Big chunks of US consumer population are worrying about tariffs … so are the vast majority of producers. @SoberLook… https://t.co/OJD6A8lEvE
If for sake of argument we treat the EU and US as analogous economic units -> degree of trade openness of UK, Franc… https://t.co/NZFwrQkfQB
The current US economic expansion is the 2nd longest in history. @NordeaMarkets @SoberLook https://t.co/4nYFZhVfDY
Useful chart reminder of the three global regimes of debt: high public debt – Japan (Italy); high household debt -… https://t.co/CjFapopYiB
China’s dependency ratio by 2040 could be worse than that of the US. @SoberLook @CreditSuisse https://t.co/qZ9hKLY2fH
@BelaAnda1 @berndulrich Neh nicht in Der plumpen form!
America’s growing global market for LNG. Widely thought to be a driver of current US energy “diplomacy”. @SoberLook https://t.co/m3iCtdGG1k
The surge in local government debt in China since 2008 has been dramatic. @SoberLook https://t.co/E2AiMTs136
Peak inflation: Markets think surge in Turkish inflation will peak at c. 25 % in spring of 2019. And that is not fa… https://t.co/hT64CfFTSU
Foreigners are offloading Italian at rates even more rapid than at height of eurozone crisis. @SoberLook https://t.co/xqR9NPZJ6s
@ThomasMore2112 @adam_tooze @ForeignAffairs https://t.co/kAD5pjeDBL
Were there or were there not "hunting parties" in Chemnitz? Tagesschau fact finders v. Verfassungsschutz … It is… https://t.co/QhoZU3pMGT
The Wealth Effect: Changes in consumption are closely correlated with changes in household wealth. @SoberLook https://t.co/pjquvTvGhG
Since 2008 the Indian rupee is down 45% with most of that coming since the taper tantrum of 2013. https://t.co/tnUbp60lDa
Having recovered from the 2008 shock, US household net worth is at record levels in relation not GDP. @soberlook https://t.co/WWCItF3Zpa
"Beijing is tightening offshore yuan liquidity (in Hong Kong), making it costly to short China's currency." The tec… https://t.co/yAQGTAosya
"The smoke of the chimneys is the breathing of Soviet Russia" Soviet poster, 1920s https://t.co/kdUTKfxpbg
US manufacturing industries that compete against China lost more jobs than those that did not. h/t @Noahpinion… https://t.co/X7PydkXYa2
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