#SLOWDOWN

What does the world look like when people #stayhome ? The unprecedented global slowdown caused by COVID-19 has resulted in drastic and fascinating changes.This collaboration between @Newsy + Bellingcat shows

Think the framing on this WSJ story is backwards -- real question is how long can China rely on the (weak) rest of the world to drive its own recovery

1/ Coronavirus put her out of work.Then debt collectors froze her savings account. Every single dollar in her savings account was seized. “That’s money for my mortgage. I can’t even

Newly-reported US COVID-19 deaths:Mon 4/6—1182Sun 4/5—1184Sat 4/4—1352Fri 4/3—1178Thu 4/2—1084Wed 4/1—954Tue 3/31—807Mon 3/30—511Sun 3/29—463Sat 3/28—435Fri 3/27—367Thu 3/26—263Wed 3/25—225Tue 3/24—204Mon 3/23—73Sun 3/22—126Sat 3/21—53Fri 3/20—59Thu

I'm seeing a lot of analysts arguing today's jobs numbers aren't so bad because the slowdown was driven by the late/partial reopening of schools.A thread: On the one hand, this

In early February, a Japanese glass supplier got an unexpected message from a Chinese government trade group: How can we help? As China feels coronavirus pain, it's reaching out to

The New York Times

The number of new coronavirus cases each day appears to be falling in some nations — what’s known as flattening the curve. But the number of new confirmed cases is

The coronavirus hasn’t stopped the world’s biggest asset bubble from getting bigger. In March, 288 apartments in a new Shenzhen development sold out in eight minutes. Important story on China's

Dominic Campbell

dominiccampbell

While I intuitively like the notion of this period being called ‘the slowdown’ it really does come from a position of privilege. Ppl referring to it as that tend to

US GDP per capita growth averaged 2.25%/yr in the back half of the 20th century, but only 1% so far in the the 21st century. Is this evidence of recent

Wow, big drop in unemployment rate to 8.4%.And that was for good reasons as LFPR went up.EPOP up by 1.4 percentage points! Private-sector payrolls up by 1 million in August,

Kathleen Henehan

kathleenhenehan

This is very good news, and worth putting into context. 1/9https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1310696707806683145 Even before the coronavirus and the economic crisis that has come with it, @resfoundation have shown that more than

Arvind Subramanian

1/ The India-vs.-Bangladesh GDP per capita comparison (post @IMFNews WEO) has sparked anxiety & acrimony But wrong numbers being compared NO, on more appropriate metric, India has not been

Short Thread — on Developmental Pessimism. Essentially a reaction to an article in Dissent called ‘End of Development’. More precisely it’s about the end of development as industrialisation.https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/th

#VishhalThakkaar®🇮🇳

Every cloud has a silver lining. This economic slowdown too has offered us a once-in-a-generation window of opportunity. 2020 could be the year when 1992 is revisited. I've been saying

Every cloud has a silver lining. This economic slowdown too has offered us a once-in-a-generation window of opportunity. 2020 could be the year when 1992 is revisited. I've been saying