#Global

Fred Destin

fdestin

1/ If you're trying to get a simple macro-view of the current downturn, few people are as articulate as Howard Marks of Oaktree -- I've summarised his key insights below:

bora 🧈

modooborahae

“An increase in sales and more brand recognition overseas...this is why distribution & manufacturing companies say ‘BTS BTS’”Distribution & manufacturing companies are going all in to get @BTS_twt as their

Zara Ahmed

ZarainDC

Did you hear today's episode of #TheDaily from @nytimes with Marjorie Dannenfelser and feel listening to all the anti-choice nonsense? If so, here's the real deal on abortion in

The Financial Philanthropist

Mr_Motiv8_

Some BIG FACTS on BITCOINA ThreadBitcoin is scarce, decentralized, and global digital currency that CAN NOT be:CensoredSuppressedProhibited This means that no central authority or individual can interfere with the blockchain

Caio Borges 包凯越

caiosborges

Today's decision by the World Bank to suspend the publication of the Doing Business is a definitely a major event in the history of global development policy, especially because the

Teresa M. Bejan

tmbejan

1) Academic colleagues I otherwise admire have a tendency to, well, *sneer* when the issue of ‘viewpoint’ diversity comes up as below, especially when it comes to conservatives. I have

World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO

Live: Launch of the #COVID19 Technology Access Poolhttps://www.pscp.tv/w/cZ_KLDI2MTAyMHwxWXBLa1FCUE5uUEpqdpytEMJXNJNJJSeqkoix4L2nmErUAQiPHbeG5QRncI4= "Since the beginning of the #COVID19 pandemic, science has been at the heart of WHO

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

Some thoughts from planet science at this point in the pandemic. The first thing to note is that science is the exit strategy (@JeremyFarrar's great pithy phrase) - clinical science

BBC World Service

bbcworldservice

The official number of deaths from Covid-19 has passed one million people worldwide https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-54336494Despite that huge number, we still don’t know enough about the virus. Here’s are some of

Russ Jones

RussInCheshire

I was gonna leave #TheWeekInTory until Friday, but at their current rate it'll be 1000 tweets long by then, and I'm worried about you, mate.It's OK to get drunk on

Matthew Yglesias

mattyglesias

As you may have heard, I have written a book.It is called ONE BILLION AMERICANS and it will be released on September 15. But this week we are trying to

Solomon Kingsnorth

solomon_teach

6) This *is* what they did, but then the results are passed through so many layers of jargon and academic witchcraft that they end up sounding a million times worse

Cory Morningstar

elleprovocateur

Thread from April 2, 2020."Science shows that early exposure to circumstances that produce persistent #fear and chronic #anxiety can have lifelong consequences by disrupting the developing architecture of the brain."

Alexander Gabuev 陳寒士

AlexGabuev

THREAD Failure to address Moscow's growing dependency on @Huawei will help Beijing embed Russia in a China-centred technological order, a digital #PaxSinica with worrying, global ramifications, I argue in my

Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG)

officialNESG

The Board of Directors of the #NESG issued a 15-point statement today, the 8th of September 2020 on the state of the Nigerian Economy and reviewed the domestic and global

Dr Adam Rutherford

AdamRutherford

Here is an academic (preprint) paper describing the methods in the DNA sequencing tech for one of the two companies that the Gov have procured to test for COVID-19. 1/xhttps://twitter.com/nanopore/status/1293220551637577729