90 % inflation, the strike calendar, deaths of despair & the Taliban economy
90 % inflation, the strike calendar, deaths of despair & the Taliban economy
Great reading, links and images from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Saint George and the Dragon, Paolo Uccello 1470s, National Gallery London. The first painting I am conscious of having seen in a gallery. A favorite ever since.
90 percent inflation
In the summer it seemed outlandish to suggest that Argentine inflation would hit 90%. It just did.
Source: Daily Shot
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The strike calendar in Britain in December.
Source: FT
Architect billing
In a sign of slowing in US construction, billing by architects across the US is contracting.
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The tiny Paris pastel shop that changed art history
La Maison du Pastel supplied materials to Degas, Vuillard and Winston Churchill. This is a truly beautiful piece by Imogen Savage in the FT.
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As recently as 1992, barely 25 percent of the US workforce had a College degree.
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Today, around 40 percent of job adverts in the US require a college degree.
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Perhaps not unrelated …
Deaths of despair
A brilliant thread on how educational disadvantage links to a surge in mortality in modern America.
Great news from Berlin
A large part of the priceless jewels stolen from Dresden’s Green vault has been recovered.
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Taliban
Since coming to power the The Taliban also dismantled the network of roadside checkpoints that had collected rents for powerbrokers in the provinces, as well as checkpoints operated by the Taliban as insurgents, earning them an estimated US $245 million in annual revenues under the former Republic.
Source: XCEPT-research
Top Links Film Pick - Two Lives
Europe 1990, the Berlin wall has just crumbled: Katrine, raised in East Germany, now living in Norway since 20 years, is a war child: the result of a love relationship between a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier during World War II. Katrine enjoys a happy family life, with her mother, her husband, daughter and grand-daughter. But when a lawyer asks her and her mother to witness in a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of the war children, she resists. Gradually, a web of concealment and secrets is unveiled, until Katrine is finally stripped of everything, and her loved ones are forced to take a stand: What carries more weight, the life they have lived together, or the lie it is based on?
Source: Cineuropa
Harsh!
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Childhood Fears, 2009 Nalini Malani
