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RT @AllieHBNews: Oxford Circus, London. 9pm Saturday 14th November 2020 https://t.co/f4vporCeUF

At 7 am on Nov 6 Yale SOM Jeffrey Sonnenfeld convened a call with 30 CEO including Goldman Sachs, Johnson & Johnson and Walmart at

RT @JeffSonnenfeld: "Corporate America had been supportive of Biden in the run-up to the election. A survey of CEOs conducted by the Yale S…

So this actually happened … On 6 November some of America's leading CEO convened to discuss possible Trump coup and how to respond. twitter.com/JeffSonnenfeld…

Woah … Full-blown Fox v. Trump camp standoff. twitter.com/rch371/status/…

RT @Jardine_bradley: After a diplomatic trip to Indonesia in 1960 Khrushchev was repulsed by the pungent durian fruit and ordered thousands…

“When Erdogan actually realised that the economy was going to take him down, he pivoted in a way that nobody was expecting.” Essential reading on

@zeithistoriker Precisely … or perhaps we should recognize that we were always already a pharmaceutical-financial-tech-agroindustrial-supply-chained complex totality!

UPS and DHL are building football field-sized ‘freezer farm’ for cold storage of Covid-19 vaccine deliveries. pharmaceuticalcommerce.com/cold-chain-foc… https://t.co/hjX3q39556

Last week was another week with initial jobless claims running at more than 1 million per week. If this is an improvement it is very

181,000 new covid cases in the US in one day, yesterday! https://t.co/aYacIERjOh

Pfizer/BioNTech’s vaccine is reliant on a cold chain that can keep it at a stable minus 70C = exceptionally cold for a vaccine -> big

I’ll admit to being genuinely surprised to learn that Mitch McConnell attended MLK’s I Have a Dream Speech and has a lifelong commitment to civil

As investors pile into mRNA biotech firms, BioN Tech is now worth more than Deutsche Bank. ft.com/content/c4ca84… https://t.co/igJWQAwzhr

"In 2010 the Commerce Dept prepared data for Obama admin’s Middle Class Task Force, headed by VP Joe Biden. Sidestepping knotty problems of just who

Zambia is set to be first African country to default on its debt since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Interest payment deadline missed on

RT @silverstoneauc: SOLD! Lot 434, the 1982 #Renault 5 Turbo Group 4 which is one of Renault’s most historically significant competition ve…

RT @Jderbyshire: Awful news twitter.com/ptr_yeung/stat…

“The need to lead”: I didn’t know until I read @JamesPoliti profile that Lael Brainard and David Lipton published a paper in 2008 on American

Improvised temple btw two railway tracks: ‘Rail Diwali’ photos capture celebrations in Kolkata’s trackside slums Arko Datto ft.com/content/c1f42c… https://t.co/b4dX1qzolV

No big stimulus. Corona rampant -> “We’re back in a world where growth is relatively scarce and you are willing to pay a premium in

“Weber was hardly the only social theorist to over-structure reality, to mistake the suspended animation of a moment for the immobilisme of an epoch. …

News of a possible vaccine -> $44.5bn, mainly from institutional investors, piled into funds that buy stock in a single week. ft.com/content/91cb39… https://t.co/5cZ65nknJW

“The need to lead”: I didn’t know until I read @JamesPoliti profile that Lael Brainard and Peter Lipton published a paper in 2008 on American

Turkey and Azerbaijan have proven that Moscow is not the only military power capable of redrawing de facto borders in the post-Soviet space. @HenryJFoy &

The German “print” media landscape in early 2020. I didn’t know SZ was bigger than FAZ. Or that Die Welt was so tiny or shrinking

Armenian lost 2317 servicemen out of a population of 2.965 m In a matter of 6 weeks! Compare to similar US casualties in Afghanistan, out

Will Lael Brainard be the first woman to serve as Treasury Secretary? Interesting profile by @JamesPoliti Not a Warrenista, more a diplomat? ft.com/content/48ab6a… https://t.co/TOUoo82JBB

Great thread by @ojblanchard1 An example to follow. Think through the calls you got wrong. Add that, to the "to do list". twitter.com/ojblanchard1/s…

RT @RailwayMuseum: This gorgeous LNER poster highlights the importance the railway played in supporting the North East's industry. And YES…

"While the Nagorno-Karabakh truce affirms Russian president Vladimir Putin’s role as an indispensable regional arbiter, it comes at the cost of recognising Turkey as a

How “prepping" went upmarket. Concierge, personalized medicine, bunkers and air filters, how America’s rich are preparing for climate change. @hannahkuchler ft.com/content/79781c… https://t.co/REkukiQVdu

"l’histoire de la production et des techniques dans l’entreprise a connu un renouvellement majeur depuis une génération. Ce « tournant productif » fait de l’entreprise

The Gerhard Richter Market is still on fire: even if volumes of work auctioned worldwide are down, prices are holding up! @KinsellaEK report is totally

One stimulus a Biden administration could deliver to US economy would be to end tariffs on imported washing machines! And no, most of benefit would

Whatever the fees, big law has had enough: "firms that have represented President Trump and his campaign are now distancing themselves from a quixotic effort