Notes on Social Theory (7) nHow commodities become commodified – McKinsey explains n"Let’s review why there is… https://t.co/gwj3836S6M
Before Medicaid, poor children saw the doctor much less often than middle-class kids. After, the gap disappeared.… https://t.co/qWBGensflk
Europe's Political Economy nBofE Governor on Marx, monetary policy, specters and things no one alive has… https://t.co/qKB90yQy45
America's Political Economy (34)nTo think of America's railway system as shockingly bad at moving people may… https://t.co/Ii3HSpeyEs
America's Political Economy (33)nStunning visualizations of America's ramshackle infrastructure networks:… https://t.co/Xo4VT4PhGg
The bit of US infrastructure that really works: rail freight, above all for moving non time sensitive coal around M… https://t.co/3yoDssAqrm
Corporate America’s gigantic cash pile of which 60 % in offshore: https://t.co/Ca9HX2CUih
Bond fund outflow hits records last seen in taper tantrum https://t.co/o3gc7grqNn
Turkish Lira continues its plunge: https://t.co/0nRxpt2Lvh
The gigantic 10 year Eurozone banking expansion that set the stage for North Atlantic crisis of 2008-2012 https://t.co/WQDf5KN1XG
Putting declining US GDP trend in perspective, pop growth also halves from 2 to <1 % 1950-2016 https://t.co/ExRS40WWtP
Slower productivity growth and migration take US trend growth rate from 4 to 2 % https://t.co/IDS7pKgMPJ
Just like Brexit and Trump, #italyreferendum was not just populist vote. Even if #populism was crucial to their success, so was non-populism
Vega rocket to send Turkish Earth-observing satellite Gokturk into orbit in 50 minutesnLIVE 📹:… https://t.co/FV7InTbgHQ
In Clinton-Bush-Obama sequence, Obama admin era is one of major retrenchment in US government sector https://t.co/U28ZcQfAT2
Where pockets of the recession still linger in US labour markets: youth unemployed and those on fringes of labour m… https://t.co/IZwmSV0jw9
#Women spend more time cleaning, shopping and caring for other household members – via @BLS_gov #labor… https://t.co/yZ8wjljc9L
Affordable Care Acts effect in holding down medical costs in US is fading https://t.co/EfPJ9SuIDn
Intermediate imports are key in many US manufacturing sectors. Buy American will have wrenching impact https://t.co/VYSpAHuTXM
Fannie Mae after Trump Treasury Sec nominee mentions privatization… and yes rates would go higher! https://t.co/E4nLuZofyj
Ali Smith on Brexit: "what had happened whipped about by itself as if a live electric wire had snapped off a pylon in a storm"
Indonesia #coal benchmark pricennJan – Dec 2016 https://t.co/oZvXWrLkKW
Renzi's #referendumcostituzionale rejected mostly by the youth. That's his biggest defeat tonight.n#Italy https://t.co/bTHJ2iimyp
One in 10 people who voted FOR Brexit regret their vote. Those who voted to Leave followed advice of ordinary peopl… https://t.co/bPkyHhLGo8
戸村 茂樹 / Shigeki Tomura, Born in 1951, Japanese Print maker. https://t.co/pLqatIUCeH
Hans Memling (active by 1465 – 1494 Bruges) – Florero (reverso). https://t.co/LuSuSNDmjw
Giovanna Garzoni (1600-1670), Two Butterflies https://t.co/cpjA4By2pY
In the early 1980s, it took 10.1 man-hours to produce a ton to of steel. In 2015, it was 1.9 man-hours. Not the wis… https://t.co/aeG7MpLN9z
Of course the veil is so very un-English…..(Lincoln cathedral x3 and Wickhampton) https://t.co/8zMxmeV8dv
Trump Didn’t Flip Working-Class White Voters. The Rust Belt Revolt Is a Myth. https://t.co/mUkLxsL7Gg
Eichengreen kommt nach #Berlin. Ich hatte vor kurzem die Freude, ihn für podcast zu interviewen (mit Martin Wolf)… https://t.co/FBXA4r5Iec
“All creative art is magic… for the edification of mankind.” Joseph Conrad, born on this day in 1857, on art… https://t.co/mCHR94xlGE
America's Political Economy (32)nThe top flight US universities are linked to gigantic pools of wealth. Oxford is… https://t.co/K0T75O8olc
WWII generation in US 3* more likely to claim it is essential to live in a democracy than those born 1980s… https://t.co/C11kdhXv3V
Decline in approval for democracy across generations and across time is remarkable especially in US https://t.co/KJgRV48WVf
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