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When College students take on a big American university, what kind of power are they struggling with? Chartbook Newsletter 279 dips a toe into the political economy of @Columbia Univ.

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Adam Tooze

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The Millennial generation, born between 1981 and 1996, control just 4.6% of U.S. wealth even though they are the largest in the workforce with 72 million members. @BSteverman @atanzi

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I want to associate myself with Rashid Khalidi's devastating critique of the Columbia University administration infringement of free speech and blatant bias against pro-Palestinian students. This should not stand in a self-respecting university. It is a disgrace.

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@Tarik_Endale

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Professor Rashid Khalidi in an open letter to Columbia University administration in response to an email sent by deans on Dec 21st, 2023.

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We are in truly dangerous spiral: Brave Ukrainian resistance frustrates Russian attack -> Kiev refuses humiliating negotiations. Russia about to ramp up destructiveness of attack NATO members rushing weapons to Ukraine EU/US announce major sanctions. What is Russia’s next move?

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@adam_tooze

6 months

I fully support this letter.

Katherine Franke

@ProfKFranke

6 months

Columbia/Barnard faculty have signed an open letter supporting our students, making the point that identifying with the suffering of Gazans and historically contextualizing the current war in Israel/Gaza is not anti-Semitic. Please read and share.

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Adam Tooze

@adam_tooze

2 years

Turkey’s official inflation rate hit a 23-year high last month of 73.5 per cent year on year in May

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@adam_tooze

2 years

EVERYONE should be retweeting and amplifying this. There is a massacre going on in Sharif University in Iran.

Masih Alinejad 🏳️

@AlinejadMasih

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Students from Sharif University are under attack by security forces. They don’t hesitate to spill the blood of these bright students who shout “death to the dictator” #Mahsa_Amini #IranRevolution

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@adam_tooze

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Tom Cotton in NYT: Send In the Troops Tom Cotton in NYT: The Case for Killing Qassim Suleimani Tom Cotton in NYT: We Should Buy Greenland Do the responsible editors of @nytimes think publishing this kind of dangerous and risible nonsense contributes to “diversity” or “balance”?

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The disappearance of the home priced at less than $300k in American markets, is a striking development of recent years.

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@adam_tooze

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So we are now in spectacularly dangerous territory: Brave Ukrainian resistance frustrates Russian initial attack -> Kiev refuses humiliating negotiations. Russia about to ramp up destructiveness of attack NATO members rushing weapons to Ukraine EU/US announce major sanctions.

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@adam_tooze

3 years

America’s rate of incarceration is so anomalous that it practically needs a separate graph. Its truly its own regime type!

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Adam Tooze

@adam_tooze

3 months

Check out the difference in front pages btw the FT and NYT this morning!

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@adam_tooze

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Americans are wildly overoptimistic about chances of upward social mobility. Europeans are pessimistic. Actual mobility higher in Europe than in the US.

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@adam_tooze

4 years

Mao Zedong (center-left) and Zhou Enlai (far left) in Yanan, 1935 Amazing color work by “Olga”

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@adam_tooze

10 months

Despite fond liberal imaginings, WWII was not won by New Deal or FDR's bomber program. At home USA barely broke sweat. Work of crushing Nazis done by Stalinist SU. If we are "declaring war on climate change", will it be China carrying fight this time?

How Climate Change Has Supercharged the Left

Global warming could launch socialists to unprecedented power—and expose their movement’s deepest contradictions.

foreignpolicy.com

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@adam_tooze

3 years

UPS and DHL are building football field-sized ‘freezer farm’ for cold storage of Covid-19 vaccine deliveries.

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@adam_tooze

2 years

If rich countries are building houses at less than half the rate we did in the 1960s should we be surprised that real estate prices are rising to record levels? Asks @TheEconomist

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Adam Tooze

@adam_tooze

10 months

Shouldn’t we ask whether the debt brake in Germany is in conformity with constitution? How can a temporary super majority bind all future parliaments to an arbitrary numerical target without reference to a fundamental value on pragmatic grounds alone?

Nurder Koch

@NurderK

10 months

„Schuldenbremse ist für mich Angst vor der Freiheit, man unterstellt man könnte nicht selbst haushalten.“ @adam_tooze bei #Lanz 🫳 🎤

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We have got to KILL that attitude.

Financial Review

@FinancialReview

8 months

Gurner Group founder Tim Gurner tells the Financial Review Property Summit workers have become "arrogant" since COVID and "We've got to kill that attitude."

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Adam Tooze

@adam_tooze

1 year

Has anyone written about UFOs as a symptom of Anglo-American hegemonic anxiety?

Albert Pinto

@70sBachchan

3 years

hey aliens, the planet is a sphere. You can go around the Cape of Good Hope and Columbus India.

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Adam Tooze

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Astonishingly, America’s EPA preannounces the days on which it will monitor PM2.5 pollution. Using satellite data Eric Zou confirms that on the other days businesses pump out much higher levels of filth.

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@adam_tooze

6 months

American voters favor a ceasefire and de-escalation in Gaza and support US use of leverage over Israel by a HUGE margin. This is not a marginal position but completely mainstream, across both parties.

Data for Progress

@DataProgress

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NEW POLL: 66% of likely voters agree that the U.S. should call for a ceasefire and de-escalation of violence in Gaza to prevent civilian deaths.

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@adam_tooze

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Habeck's dilemma: conflict in Gaza drives 1 anti-zionism, 2 anti-semitism, 3 islamophobia. 1&2 strictly incompatible with understanding of German post-holocaustal identity. Unable to address root cause, he compounds prob: backing gov of Israel, repressing 1/2, accelerating 3.

DW Politics

@dw_politics

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In a much debated video message, German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck found clear words to explain why Israel's security is a fundamental principle for every German government.

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Initially my response to the headline was "…?????? really". Until I realized that in @ft -speak, “miners” are foreign mining firms not Peruvian mineworkers.

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Adam Tooze

@adam_tooze

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Brazil’s 600 real per month auxílio emergencial actually turned 2020 into a remarkably good year for poverty-reduction. Brazil’s gini fell in 2020 from 0.55 to 0.49! Extreme poverty and inequality are a political choice. How will it choose in 2021? #LatAm

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@adam_tooze

4 years

Looking at this scatter plot of Covid mortality and GDP loss across EU, rather than a trade off, you might be tempted to say that there were simply some countries that handled the crisis well and others that did not.

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@adam_tooze

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Unused vaccines are a crime. 95 % of the AstraZeneca vaccine delivered to German state of Saxony have not been used. Further deliveries should cease. Reallocation to low income countries NOW.

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@adam_tooze

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By verbal instructions of German police @yanisvaroufakis was issued with a general ban on all activities „Betätigungsverbot“ apparently on orders of Interior Ministry without naming legal basis. This cannot stand!

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Adam Tooze

@adam_tooze

7 months

Just in case you were wondering where @TheEconomist stands on this whole end of neoliberalism/new Washington consensus thing ...

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@adam_tooze

4 years

Ho Chi Minh at the Congress of the French Communist Party in Marseille, 1921.

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Adam Tooze

@adam_tooze

3 years

France had administered 16% of 1.1m doses of AstraZeneca received. Germany, Italy 20%, Spain < 33%. Unless that rate rises all new supply should be reallocated to low income countries. We need to get shots in people’s arms. Unused shots = a crime.

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@adam_tooze

3 years

The richest 1% of US households own 53% of all equities and mutual funds held by American households. The richest 10 % own 87%.

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What else could go wrong in commodity markets you ask! How about the worst winter wheat crop in history in China …

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This @columbia is what an “abundance of concern” should look like.

katie smith

@probablyreadit

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During Jummah (Friday prayer) this afternoon, Columbia University students formed a human shield with blankets to provide privacy to those students participating in prayer after a video showing students praying on the lawn began circulating on social media 📸

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WTH?

BreakThrough News

@BTnewsroom

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UPDATE: The NYPD have now arrested the legal observers at the Columbia University Palestine solidarity encampment

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This statement by @NDeitelhoff und Rainer Forst, Klaus Günther und Jürgen Habermas should disqualify all of them from any further serious discussion. NO MENTION OF THE OCCUPATION from folks supposedly interested in "normative orders"?

Normative Orders

@NormativeOrders

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Unsere Sprecher*innen @NDeitelhoff und Rainer Forst haben mit Klaus Günther und Jürgen Habermas die Stellungnahme "Grundsätze der #Solidarit ät" zur aktuellen Situation in #Israel , #Gaza und hierzulande verfasst. Zu finden ist sie auf unserer Website ➡️

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"With borrowed money you cannot generate growth in the long-run." Why does @c_lindner team provide him with absurd lines like this and why does @faznet print them? @Lars_Feld

Haushalt 2024 leitet Zeit der Konsolidierung ein

Die Herausforderungen der Gegenwart lassen sich nicht mit immer mehr Geld lösen. Ab jetzt muss konsolidiert werden. Das gebietet nicht nur die Schuldenbremse, sondern auch die ökonomische Vernunft....

www.faz.net

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"When the NYPD Strategic Response Group—which the New York Civil Liberties Union has repeatedly characterized as “notoriously violent”—is welcomed onto campus with open arms, it is Shafik who “disrupts campus life” and infringes on her supposedly paramount principle of safety."

David Menschel

@davidminpdx

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Fucking blistering editorial by the Columbia University student newspaper.

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Brexit Britain truly is in blow-your-own-brains-out mode right now!

Martin Smith

@martinrsmith

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The UK is planning on massively increasing visa costs. Currently a researcher looking at a 5-year Global Talent Visa, together with their partner and two children, needs to find £13.4k. All up front. A big ask. But that’s now slated to increase to… **£20.9k**

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By the end of the century, Africa will be home to 40% of the world’s population – and nowhere is this breakneck-pace development happening faster than this 600-mile stretch between Abidjan and Lagos. This piece by Howard W. French is really eye-opening.

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Adam Tooze

@adam_tooze

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So on point!!!! Who has reason to be afraid here? Who has the power? The power to punish and destroy and disrupt lives? How can we abdicate judgement in this grotesque way!

Natasha Lennard

@natashalennard

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When i wrote this @theintercept column on the weaponization and warping of "safety" for conservative & anti-Palestine aims on campus, i didn't imagine how grimly far it could go. calling in mass of cops against protestors camping on their own campus

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“If you want to re-establish a complete semiconductor supply chain in the US, you will not find it as a possible task,” Excellent this on the IMMENSE complexity of chip supply chains.

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@adam_tooze

3 years

Biden’s vaccine triumph is a triumph for a policy of "America First". Unlike Trump, it doesn’t trumpet that fact, but it is all the more effective on that account. EU has exported five times more vaccine doses to America’s NAFTA “partners" Mexico&Canada than the US has.

Dave Keating

@DaveKeating

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🇺🇸 is currently sitting on over 100 million unused vaccine doses. An estimated 35-40m are #AstraZeneca , which 🇺🇸 still hasn't authorised to use on Americans and probably never will. It is an absurd situation while half of all doses made in 🇪🇺 are exported (chart @jfkirkegaard ).

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The US footprint in the Middle East right now is remarkable.

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3 years

The Dutch culture of cycling is not a fact of nature. It is the product of history, of sustained political action.

Cycling Professor 🚲 

@fietsprofessor

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'Yeah, but we aren't Amsterdam...' So wasn't Amsterdam! It took political will and consistent, hard work. ~Rokin, 1950s - 2020 (via @zeeger & @IGC_Adam )

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@adam_tooze

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India's rail investment has pushed electrification beyond levels in France and the UK

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@adam_tooze

2 years

Meet Germany's new Agriculture Minister with his certificate of appointment clipped on the baggage rack of his bike. I kid you not.

Felix Zimmermann – Account ruht, bis Elon weg ist

@felixzimmermann

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Schön die Ernennungsurkunde auf den Gepäckträger geklemmt. #Özdemir einfach ein pragmatischer Typ

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@adam_tooze

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The length of electrified railway lines in India has more than doubled since 2014, from 21,000km to more than 50,000km in 2022. The proportion of electrified lines reached 65.8 per cent in 2021, higher than France’s 60.3 per cent and the UK’s 38 per cent

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@adam_tooze

4 years

International evidence could hardly be more clear: if you control the virus, spending in restaurants, entertainment venues etc bounces back. If not. It doesn’t. @FT tracker

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The holocaust can only be explained in context of imperialist war. The early scholarship that sought to screen off the war fell woefully short.

Samuel Miller McDonald

@sjmmcd

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"The fact that the Holocaust can’t be explained by theories of imperialism" is an absolutely insane thing for anyone, especially a German, to suggest. Lebensraum was the justification for basically everything the Nazis did, including the Holocaust

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"There’s no playbook for this kind of crisis!” … well, now you mention it … What about the 69-page color-coded 2016 NSC document helpfully labeled ... “PLAYBOOK for Early Response to Infectious Disease Threats" @ddiamond @nahaltoosi

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Adam Tooze

@adam_tooze

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Exec committee of Columbia Univ Senate—the body that the President should consult pursuant to Section 444—did “not approve the presence of NYPD on our campus at this time,” Shafik "consulted" but did not gain agreement & then invited in NYPD riot squad.

Shafik authorizes NYPD to sweep ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment,’ officers in riot gear arrest over 100

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

www.columbiaspectator.com

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In 2022, the six largest western oil companies made more money than in any year in the history of the industry: over $200bn, largely from pumping and selling the fossil fuels the world must replace to avert the climate crisis.

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Barilla supplies 22% of pasta & 39% of sauces eaten in Germany -> lockdown requires 2-3 dedicate barilla trains from Parma to Ulm carrying 490 tonnes of pasta, 60 tonnes of sauces and 50 tonnes of pesto.

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Vaccine makers have warned US officials that temporarily scrapping patents for Covid-19 shots would risk handing mRNA technology to China and Russia … you kind knew this was coming didn’t you! Last refuge of scoundrels etc.

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"Bitcoin mining’s energy consumption eclipses that of major global tech companies providing entertainment and services, looking at annual electrical energy consumption values from various reports:” and ALL EV!

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US corporate profit margins surge to highest level since 1950.

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"Dodging answers" - what a great way of defining the state of German public debate about Gaza.

Ruairí Casey

@Ruairi_Casey

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Remarkable exchange between Mustafa Barghouti and an interviewer from Taz, Germany's largest left-wing newspaper

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@adam_tooze

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Extraordinary interview with Friedrich Hayek on John Maynard Keynes: "Keynes was Brilliant, but Economics was Only a Sideline for Him." "Not well read. Not a master of the subject …”. And so on and so forth … breathtaking!

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14 m laid off due to corona: Can this be correct? If these numbers are even remotely right, it is the most savage shock in economic history and will unleash a spiraling downturn in demand the likes of which we have never seen. The US consumer is still #1 driver of world econ.

SurveyUSA

@surveyusa

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9% of working Americans (14 million) so far have been laid off as result of Coronavirus; 1 in 4 workers have had their hours reduced. Latest from SurveyUSA:

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CRASHED wins the 29th Lionel Gelber Prize. Truly delighted to be in company of Eric Hobsbawm & Jonathan Spence

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@adam_tooze

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“CEO of Virgin Galactic laid out a goal of taking tourists to the edge of space at a rate of more than one flight a day …”. This has to be stopped! Given the climate emergency we don’t have the carbon budget for the elite's planetary escapism!

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Bitcoin mining electricity usage is now above that of Sweden

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Houthis blow open murky world of ship nationality - well I guess someone had to do it!

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Ford’s new electric truck can store so much power in its batteries that, in a blackout, it can supply a house’s normal power usage for three days! Its a technology of resilience. @yayitsrob

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@adam_tooze

3 years

In 1984 Reagan won 80 out of the 100 counties with the largest share of college degrees. In 2020 Trump won 16 of them. Great data in this piece by @aaronzitner

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@adam_tooze

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This is insane! A travel map of the Roman empire that allows you to plot journey times btw locations depending on weather and mode of transport. h/t @simongerman600

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Adam Tooze

@adam_tooze

4 years

Military history of mayonnaise: after French invasion of Menorca in 1756, Duke Richelieu acquired taste for local dressing made of eggs and olive oil. He liked it so much that he took the recipe back to France where it was duly called mahonnaise sauce in honour of Port Mahón.

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Planes made by Boeing and Airbus aren’t faster than they were in the 1970s, but they are 70% more efficient per passenger and mile. Even long-haul flights now beat cars for fuel efficiency per passenger/mile.

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Adam Tooze

@adam_tooze

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Ok folks. Lots of us have experience of cooperating with @BoellStiftung We need to make a collective response to their canceling of Gessen. Get in touch through the obvious channels.

Benjamin Braun

@BJMbraun

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The Green party foundation just withdrew from the ceremony for the Hannah-Arendt prize it was going to award to @mashagessen this Friday. For an essay in the New Yorker. Hannah Arendt! Masha Gessen!! In the New Yorker!!! German liberals have truly, completely, lost the plot.

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Churchill's defense of the Balfour declaration.

William Dalrymple

@DalrympleWill

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"I do not admit that a wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly-wise race … has come in & taken their place”

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Wow! New Euro coin marks 1970 moment when German Chancellor Brandt, on visit to Warsaw to pursue his controversial detente policy, fell to his knees in front of memorial to Warsaw ghetto uprising. At time, plurality of West Germans thought gesture excessive. Now, an icon.

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UK & USA are poor societies with rich people in them. So spot on from @jburnmurdoch

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5 years

When we say that the German car industry is in trouble, we mean 2008 kinda trouble! @yardeni via @SoberLook

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The US is the only advanced economy in which maternal death rates are rising. US death rates are now higher than those in Russia. Italian death rates are c. 1/9th of those in the US. Can this be right? If it is, why is it not a HUGE public health issue?

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10 months

China's youth unemployment rate matching that of Italy. One thing I did not have on my bingo card for 2023.

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2 years

"Elon Musk’s company is likely to circumvent German requirements for workers to be represented on boards, and is reportedly recruiting for its new factory from nearby Poland."

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Why has Italy proven so much more susceptible to corona epidemic? Fascinating hypothesis of @kuhnmo that problem is number of middle-aged people stuck living at home with parents due to economic stagnation -> more intergenerational transmission which is disastrous with #COVID -19

Moritz Kuhn

@kuhnmo

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@christianbaye13 & me have been thinking about the big differences in mortality rates so far during the corona outbreak in Europe. The differences in case-fatality rates are humongous. Italy has one of 6% while countries like Norway, Denmark & Germany have rates still close to 0.

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The transformation in German political discourse at this point is dizzying.

Olaf Storbeck

@OlafStorbeck

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Amazing. German finance minister @c_lindner - traditionally a fiscal hawk - just disparaged leader opposition @_FriedrichMerz for warning that higher defense spending could increase public debt. Says it’s first and foremost an investment in our freedom.

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Because Florida’s online unemployment insurance application system has broken down, hundreds are forced to stand in line and risk corona exposure. Shameful!

ABC News

@ABC

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Aerial footage above South Florida shows hundreds of residents risking possible coronavirus exposure — lining up to get paper applications for unemployment benefits as the state tries to fix problems with online filing.

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Italy’s government is currently borrowing on better terms than any public borrower in Italy for the last 700 years! Yup back to 1310. @DeutscheBank via @SoberLook

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@adam_tooze

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Since 1995, the Italian state has posted a primary surplus in 24 out of 25 years; the crisis year 2009 was the only exception so far. Thats a GENERATION of austerity! This summary of Italian situation by @heimbergecon is must read.

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@adam_tooze

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The successful social policy response to COVID shock showed that widespread poverty in USA (and any other rich country) is a matter of choice. You either spend the modest amount necessary to ensure that large numbers of children do not grow up poor. Or you don't.

Elise Gould

@eliselgould

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More ambitious—but economically sustainable—expansions of our generally stingy welfare state could essentially eliminate poverty completely. While this vision isn’t politically realistic in the short run, the policy lessons of 2020 and 2021 should not be lost with today’s report.

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@adam_tooze

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Despite all the talk of Zeitenwende, defense spending counted by NATO increased dramatically ONLY in Poland btw 2023 and 2022.

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@adam_tooze

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Germany is significantly less unequal than the US (after taxes and benefits). But it is NOT more socially mobile as measured by father and son’s incomes. UK far more mobile! Very striking data from @OECDeconomy

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@adam_tooze

9 months

Doing" pretty well on the metrics that actually matter.” @TheEconomist on France offers some interesting metrics.

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Adam Tooze

@adam_tooze

4 years

20 Indian soldiers killed in clashes with China yesterday on Tibetan plateau. Hand to hand combat. Improvised weapons! Clash between countries with 36% of world’s population. Nuclear powers. And dudes are killing each other with their bare hands!

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Adam Tooze

@adam_tooze

10 months

Turkey's life expectancy has overtaken that of the USA. @sarahoconnor_ W Virginia's life expectancy is that of N Korea! pairs well with @OnesandToozePod of a week back.

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Adam Tooze

@adam_tooze

2 years

“If you’d told me a year ago that the second-biggest piece of a signature bill of this Congress was $280bn in tax giveaways to millionaires, I’d have told you the Republicans were in charge,”

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Adam Tooze

@adam_tooze

3 years

Between 1840 and the 1930s 150 million people (world pop in 1900 = 1.6 bn) left their homes to resettle -> huge upheaval and background for formation of exclusionary ethnic nationalisms.

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Adam Tooze

@adam_tooze

3 years

Germany has built up a stockpile of 1.75 m unused doses of AstraZeneca vaccine. In East German states delivery is as low as 5%. This is a grotesque misallocation of resources that are critically scarce at global level. Reallocate to low income countries NOW.

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Adam Tooze

@adam_tooze

2 years

Bangladeshi textile industry exports grew from $32mn in 1984 to $34bn today. In 2020, Bangladesh earned twice as much from garment exports as all 54 African countries combined.

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Adam Tooze

@adam_tooze

9 months

And yes, before you ask, of course I blame the Schuldenbremse!

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Adam Tooze

@adam_tooze

6 months

@ConStelz By all means: the fundamentally illegitimate and oppressive order in Palestine and the radicalization it produces.

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Adam Tooze

@adam_tooze

4 years

Those cruel editors at the @FT

Bruno Maçães

@MacaesBruno

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Adam Tooze

@adam_tooze

4 years

Since the 18th century, no generation of Americans have had such a tough start as Millenials. Over the first 15 year of their working lives, the national economy grew by just over 15% v. 60% for the GI generation.

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Adam Tooze

@adam_tooze

10 months

COMPLETELY agreed ... but you say this, like it is a bad thing ... ?

are you experienced?

@drumm_colin

10 months

if we're going to have anything like a "democratically managed economy," you are going to need to teach everyone accounting starting in middle school and there will have to be regular, nation-wide debates about how we count things.

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Adam Tooze

@adam_tooze

9 months

Both Spain and Italy have introduced windfalls taxes on banks for failing to pass through interest rates to savers. You might say their banks were asking for it.

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Adam Tooze

@adam_tooze

3 years

China just finished 435km of railway line, through Himalayas half under tunnels, at altitudes close to Everest base camp (5000m), speeds up to 163kph as part of its infrastructure incorporation of Tibet. Now, what was that about the Jobs Plan and Amtrak?

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Adam Tooze

@adam_tooze

2 years

Did you know that the peace sign is the combination of the flag semaphore for N and D, which spells nuclear disarmament? h/t my friend Elaine Fong.

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Adam Tooze

@adam_tooze

3 years

How the right->left shift amongst educated voters and rise of mass higher education has flipped a crucial axis of western democracy. “Brahmin Left versus Merchant Right”, by Amory Gethin, Clara Martínez-Toledano and Thomas Piketty (working paper, 2021)

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