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RT @Nemo_719: Anita Berber – Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922) https://t.co/scANswGGe2

RT @gowdav: #30JahreEins Latest essay by the great Juergen Habermas on German AND European unity translated by me for @socialeurope https:/…

“In the presence of market failures, market neutrality may not be the appropriate benchmark for a central bank when the market by itself is not

RT @DinaPomeranz: 36% of respondents got this wrong: Africa has by far the largest land mass – Africa: 30.4 million km² – India + US

RT @JamesMelville: Age test: This image has had more screen time (around 70,000 hours) than anything else in British TV history. Please re…

RT @Aliide_N: Slovakian photographer Mária Švarbová's socialist-era swimming pools https://t.co/eoNmXfBzok

RT @sometimesbklyn: BREAKING NEWS: Cat attacks Marine One while enroute to Walter Reed medical center. Full story @nypost https://t.co/DafP…

RT @ProfMarkMaslin: There are now more #Lego mini people than real people on Earth. This event horizon happened sometime between 2016-2018.…

"Can Tata Sons regain its footing? The Indian conglomerate’s structure is straining under internal and external pressure” Nice explainer on the Indian icon that has

“a little razzle-dazzle to juke the algos” – JP Morgan’s spoofing in the dock. economist.com/finance-and-ec… https://t.co/3aSKLwaFHf

The Fed has managed to reverse the sudden upward spike in the dollar. But, it is FAR from reversing the rise in REER since 2014.

Is Evergrande, China’s biggest property developer, truly too big to fail? Despite size, regulators want it to save itself. Land on its books is nominally

European corporate credit still depends heavily on banks. The ECB is propping banks up, as best it can. But markets take a grim view of

Contentious commentary on this tweet of “life satisfaction” data on Germany since unification suggests range of opinions out there on 30th anniversary of reunification. twitter.com/MFratzscher/st…

Gilded age fixed income Mid-century equities 1980s financialization -> alternatives The historical sequence of asset allocation by US university endowments is very telling. Fascinating paper

Post unification are East and West German families converging around norm of 1.5 jobs per household, with mothers in part-time job? @TheEconomist reporting on interesting

90% economy? Eurozone equity markets are certainly looking that way. Drifting since July. @Gavekal via @SoberLook https://t.co/yleztorpB0

The enormous wealth of America’s private universities depends crucially on endowment (aka asset) management. Fascinating historical analysis of Univ as pioneers in portfolio management. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Younger women in both East and West Germany have tougher view of trade off btw full time work and relationship with toddlers. Shift in norms?

Municipal governments across Mexico have an official cronista, recording noteworthy events. Juan Villoro, a writer of chronicles, calls the form “the platypus of prose. Most

RT @thephilippics: We're living through an era that was practically made for Foucauldian biopolitical analysis of power justified on basis…

US & Eurozone inflation have sharply diverged. Europe is hoping this is a transient effect driven by collapse in travel-related services. On the other hand

“A plague, but not on houses”: Monetary & fiscal policy support and demand for more space for homeworkig -> house have helped to prop up

Imports to the US through Port of Los Angeles are running at a fair clip! But is this more than a rebound from the spring

Math scores of kids in rich countries are higher even if they are from poorer families. How do you compare very different tests? Have one

"The revenge of strategic yogurt". How did “French” notions of economic autonomy/strategic autonomy/sovereignty trump free-trade talk in EU? @TheEconomist struggles to make sense of an

Many American households are cash poor and house-rich. $10trn in equity after decade of recovering house prices. Wall Street funds are gathering money to make

Rothschild heir in new legal fight over Nazi-seized Vienna assets City authorities accused of cover-up over fate of charitable bequest seized in 1938 named after

RT @OrsCostantini: 1/5 My take on EU fiscal rules reform: conditions for that debate to happen democratically & free from financial blackma…

“I want to do a singles garbage night,” she said. “I mean, I might meet my guy leaning over a garbage can.” UWS matchmaker seizing

One of bright spots in US economy in 2020 is that the housing market is relatively robust as are household balance sheets: 2.7% of homes

Clean energy group NextEra surpasses ExxonMobil in market cap. Oil major once had world’s biggest equity value but has been overtaken by green upstart. Apple

"Answering the apparently simple question “How old is Germany?” is far from simple.” But 3 October may be its best birthday. theguardian.com/world/commenti… https://t.co/ILM7s6EWOw

“the standard of living of the average American has to decline.”¹ Did Volcker really say that in Oct 1979? No. What Volcker was saying was

RT @JoaquimCampa: Snowball fight in 1896. Lyon, France. Louis Lumière. #DeOldify https://t.co/dnoE4KHRKe

RT @dwallacewells: This chart of the most destructive wildfires in California history is simply terrifying. https://t.co/P3i1PVKLJW