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RT @AnthonyBarnett: @adam_tooze Tyll brought it alive for me theguardian.com/books/2020/feb…

Joe Biden last night completed fist leg of a journey that began 33 years ago! I gotta admit, I find this image of his 1987/8

RT @rgpoulussen: 1945, Hamburg, Germany. For the technical guys and gals among my followers. A cross section of a U-Boot. #WW2 #HISTORY htt…

RT @RobinBrooksIIF: Lots of skepticism that FX devaluation boost export volumes, with many blaming Dollar-invoicing. But most FX moves are…

RT @RobinBrooksIIF: Turkish Lira is down as much in 2020 (horizontal) as in 2018 (vertical). But at this point in 2018, Lira was recovering…

RT @DanielaGabor: the big question now, to me, has morphed from 'have we properly regulated shadow banking' to 'how are shadow banks stra…

RT @RobinBrooksIIF: Some market participants see the change in Turkey's central bank governor as a regime change that clears the way for ra…

The THIRTY years war is conventionally dated to 1618. The first battle that is widely remembered did not take place until 400 years today, 8

RT @i_aldasoro: These effects are weaker for countries that have higher degrees of capital inflow controls. Controls on capital inflows can…

@BuddNicholas @IdleMrBridle @UNARMOUREDworld @PeterOlsson Mate, your twitter is very meaningful! … dont mean to embarrass you but for real.

@UNARMOUREDworld @BuddNicholas @IdleMrBridle @PeterOlsson This is precisely right from @UNARMOUREDworld @IdleMrBridle Start with the blog. The posts really don't need to be anything more than

RT @AaronBastani: We now know @joebiden will be the next President of the United States. What might his presidency mean for working class…

Why the bond market might keep America’s next president awake at night Over the past year or so, the world’s most important asset market has

There is a lot of political instability around the CESEE region, but Turkey is where a financial crisis could really have wider implications! “Systemic", perhaps

An @TheEconomist Round up on the US economy under Trump. Conclusion: It is hard to identify any Americans worse off in Jan 2020 economic terms

In a major corona study in India, 70 percent of those who tested positive infected nobody. 10 percent of cases caused 60 percent of transmissions.

Regardless of whether Biden passes big stimulus in 2021, US budget deficit will likely stay above 8% of gdp = historic surge in debt ->

We tend to talk about the “plumbing” of the financial system. But this BRILLIANT illustration by @satillus about the US Treasury market, has me wondering

“As I stood on the edge of Germany’s historical abyss, feeling the burden of millions of murders, I did what people do when words fail”.

"EU has failed miserably as a development engine for neighbors with no accession perspective. It is still a little-understood issue why being in neighborhood of

How to fix the market for Treasury bonds: There is a danger that America’s financial plumbing cannot cope with surging government debt. Technical, but v

RT @cszabla: someone really needs to write a history of late west germany just so they can use the subtitle “vom kniefall zum mauerfall” ht…

@BuddNicholas @PeterOlsson This stuff is really priceless precisely because do not know enough about how small group infantry or for that matter armor combat units

A large part of infantry work in 20th century warfare was carrying ammunition for machine-guns! twitter.com/BuddNicholas/s…

As usual @BuddNicholas threads in which he reads apparently mundane WWII images are fascinating … twitter.com/BuddNicholas/s…

In a Ethiopian civil war, because Tigray was on front line of war with Eritrea, it has a large militia force manned by veterans. Northern

Hi @GustavAHorn all the very best to you and your family for a speedy recovery and a few restful days at home. Thinking of you!

RT @sovietvisuals: "Research Institute of Genetics" painting by Gennady Golobkov, USSR, 1976 https://t.co/l8A5yUqGAa

RT @ANPIBsCarmine: 🎂Birthday. Italian WW2 freedom fighter Mario Fiorentini — 102 today! An urban warfare unit (GAP) officer in the Resistan…

RT @The_NewArab: Erdogan and Turkey's finance minister, his son-in-law Berat Albayrak, have often blamed Turkey’s economic woes on foreign…

Thanks for this. Completely agree. Great prompt for our @jainfamilyinst seminar on Monday: "Global Power in the North-Atlantic Financial System” We may well engage with

The shock to EM funding in 2020 was grievous. Unlike in 2008 it did not provoke a financial crisis. One of key reasons is macrofinancial

In other news, Erdogan fires head of central bank for failing to prevent devaluation of lira. How will markets react? Or is Turkish central bank

RT @samuelpepys: To see “The Tempest,” an old play of Shakespeare’s, acted, I hear, the first day. And so my wife, and girl, and W.

Interesting list for the Bavarian Book Prize. twitter.com/intellectures/…