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3 days ago | adamtooze.substack.com | Adam Tooze

Thank you for your support of Chartbook. Your generosity keeps this show on the road. Carl Grossberg The Belts 1933 Deutsch: Schwingrad mit TreibriemenIn the US prison system as a whole it is easy to exaggerate the importance of privately owned prisons, but for ICE’s immigration crackdown, private detention facilities are key:

5 days ago | adamtooze.substack.com | Adam Tooze

Thank you for your support of Chartbook. Your generosity keeps this show on the road. Electric Power Lines by Fu BaoshiSince Liberation Day, the US has experienced an EM-like reversal of the normal correlation between Treasury yields and the exchange rate of the dollar. Higher yields have gone together with a falling dollar.

6 days ago | adamtooze.substack.com | Adam Tooze

Thank you for your support of Chartbook. Your generosity keeps this show on the road. You Khin (Cambodian, 1947-2009). “Untitled (The Tailors and the Mannequins)” (1981). Source: ArtforumYou Khin (2 March 1947 – 9 August 2009) was a Cambodian architect and artist. He graduated from the Royal University of Fine Arts in 1973 and left Cambodia prior to the …

1 week ago | adamtooze.substack.com | Adam Tooze

Thank you for your support of Chartbook. Your generosity keeps this show on the road. Demand for electricity seems to be reviving in the US, towards 1990s growth rates.

1 week ago | adamtooze.substack.com | Adam Tooze

Thank you for your support of Chartbook. Your generosity keeps this show on the road. Harald Metzkes (German, born 1929). “Die Botschaft (The Message)” (1989). Source: FlickrCome up short every time I see the latest iteration of this graphic by The Crude Chronicles. Whatever else it is, ExxonMobil is not a rapidly expanding fossil fuel producer and has n…