I've read nothing like this before—a painfully honest piece about the cruelty and patriarchy of academia, viewed through the lens of a grieving wife. Lang Chen remembers the last days of husband @Xiaohong__Xu, a brilliant, beloved sociologist from China who passed away at age 45.
Lithium has become essential in recent years, primarily due to the boom in electric vehicles and other clean technologies that rely on lithium batteries 🔋
We've visualized the world’s largest lithium producing countries: https://t.co/OlDGSEtqnx
Navy SEALs are some of the world's most elite warriors.
What's their secret weapon?
Breath control.
Here's how they train it (and how you can master it too):
Salut à toi jeune entrepreneur !
Savais-tu qu'on pouvait prédire le cours de la bourse... à l'aide du top 200 Spotify ?
Des chercheurs viennent de montrer que l'ambiance de musique écoutée dans un pays permet de prédire l'évolution des cours boursiers la semaine suivante. 🧵
Upload data, and give instructions in plain English.
It does everything, cleaning data to generate insightful visualizations.
A full-fledged Data Scientist 🧑🔬
Thinking about a PhD in Economics? Or just started one and looking for frameworks Beyond Optimizing Agents? Then take a look at our summer school, deadline for applications next week 5th April! https://t.co/oZ1FsU4djt @PEGFA_@ysi_commons @LeedsUniBSchool @KarstenKohler2
🚨Coordinated central bank action to enhance the provision of US dollar liquidity
« liquidity provision via standing dollar liquidity swap line arrangements
…increase frequency of 7-day maturity operations from weekly to daily
…from 03-20 to end April »
https://t.co/CtMRMFdI4P
Schrodinger’s solvency: if you open the box (htm->afs) you are insolvent. As long as you don’t open the box, you are both potentially insolvent and effectively solvent.
Why open the box? Cause you need liquidity. Reinforces @PMehrling’s corollary in exchange we had with @JWMason1
kind of incredible, but US Fed's emergency lending to US banks was higher over the past week than during the global financial crisis/Lehman moment in 2008
Bon courage à @Lagarde demain … Si le taux refi est relevé de 50 pts de base on craindra l’instabilité financière et s’il ne l’est pas on craindra l’instabilité monétaire ! L’étau se resserre… https://t.co/NWKHkv7ERy
forget about SBV liabilities for a second, the real bailout story is the regime-change in the Fed's treatment of collateral:
par value goes against every risk management commandment of the past 30 years.
it turbocharges the monetary power of collateral