Bill Papadakis
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Just bein’ curious macro, markets, politics, cinema, music, design, photography, football. Sarcasm. @macrotourism when Twitter was a thing.
Should things escalate further and today goes down in history as the end of American hegemony future UK historians may be surprised to find the papers focusing on the Beckhams falling out.
Indeed, and this culminated in the explicitly and deliberately racist Commonwealth Immigrants Act of 1968, accurately described by wikipedia below. This is not an example from history Labour (or any government) should be emulating
John Rentoul@rentouljohn.bsky.social · last yr.Echo of history via @georgeeaton.bsky.social
you may not believe this but the UK and China have extremely different export profiles
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · last yr.US Commerce Secretary Lutnick: The UK deal helps ease reliance on the China supply chain a bit.
always hidden in the often bad faith 'we can't saddle the future generations with debt' line is the fact that that way, you're also never bequeathing them any assets
The Atlantic, for the fifth time in its history, makes a presidential endorsement. Once for Lincoln. Once for LBJ (from concern about Goldwater) and three times for the opponents of Trump, because he represents a unique threat to America's government and values.
Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 2y ago"Having devoted her life to public service, Harris respects the law and the Constitution. She believes in the freedom, equality, and dignity of all Americans. She’s untainted by corruption, let alone a felony record or a history of sexual assault.... www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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#151: Monetary Iatrogenesis — Raghuram Rajan
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The Brexit playbook, in Germany: run down public services and infrastructure to the point of collapse, blame immigrants for the fallout. And the country is falling for it, too.
China observers are basically catchers working with knuckleball pitchers in economic research world. Weekends and Tuesday evening wine and dine with friends are always in the crosshairs of unexpected announcements. Quite a few developments today in Beijing. A quick summary:
As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).
Suspect Poland & Donald Tusk will now emerge as a very big player in EU - across the piece, but esp (even more so) on Ukraine, intra-EU reforms to prepare for Kyiv's accession, on rule of law issues, and on who should run institutions after EU elections next year. Also regarding reset with the UK
EU gas import tracker: -LNG imports never this low since Feb22 -imports from NOR picked up again -imports from ALG decreased -reverse flows into UA went down -EU27 storage already exceeds 2022 peak (that was 3 weeks later) bruegel.org/dataset/euro...
Purchasing Power Parity calculations are intrinsically impossible, but I feel like "being alive rather than dead" features in everyone's consumption bundle and so is more likely to be comparable across different societies
Great series of photos of newsstands and their operators from around the world. The stands and their proprietors are definitely of a kind but also differ so much in the details. [kottke.org]
I had expected this, but not, to be honest, so remarkably quickly.
Laurence Boone@lauboone.bsky.social · 3y agoHi all, nice to be here, and curious to hear your feedback on this:
Can people please post links to news organizations that set up here, so that people can follow and retweet interesting/important stories? The success of the move to Bluesky will come through the access to and ability to distribute solid content. If there is good content--please share!