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“I don’t want to have this . . . becoming a dog’s breakfast . . . rather than an actual FT lunch.” Fiona Hill on wh… https://t.co/pUxYTSnSFD

Alexander Kerensky head of the provisional gov in Petrograd in 1917, at age 36. After teaching for many years at th… https://t.co/Wr7ew9gOLC

9 am 31 January 1943: Field Marshall Paulus surrenders at Stalingrad "My God, what a contrast between the two side… https://t.co/ZKSiXlrezB

Decoupling? As Trump admin raises tension with China, will business decouple from China or from the US admin policy… https://t.co/FfsbSqvS5z

9 am 31 January 1943: Field Marshall Paulus surrenders at Stalingrad "My God, what a contrast between the two side… https://t.co/mdE78y6EEK

Wang Dingguo, a legendary Red Army veteran who completed the 12500 km Long March btw 1934 and 1936 died of illness… https://t.co/mKkK98XiD5

Av­er­age Rent in Bei­jing in one of these Neo-brutalist beauties was USD$650 a Month in May 2020 down 2.3%.… https://t.co/RX7ax9tX0m

Inessa Armand (1874-1920). Director of Zhenotdel and inspiration for feminist wing of early Bolshevism. Key figure… https://t.co/d0cUKffHTn

In 2019 C. 42% of Americans of all ages currently profess a “positive view of socialism”. Up from 40% in 2010.… https://t.co/e4oKJVYaLx

By early June the share of Republican-leaning Americans socializing in public places was 35% = twice that of Democr… https://t.co/2AeT0TjjUp

Not only did tens of millions of mainly low-wage Americans lose their jobs in April 2020, but better-off Americans… https://t.co/91H4mmubZ9

Famous “miscalculation error” that the @BLS_gov Is struggling with may not affect the trend btw April & May. Both a… https://t.co/rnN7TAzyhA

Faced with a dramatic collapse in GDP and (eventually) also in employment, a quarter of UK employers think hiring w… https://t.co/m28nXfoxic

The global garment industry is facing a catastrophic fall in rich-country demand. Devastating blow to millions of v… https://t.co/xkoKlyZybk

The UK is one of the few countries that publishes monthly GDP figures and the story they tell in April 2020 is outl… https://t.co/AGzxymg8Ia

“April’s fall in GDP of 20.4% month on month (no annualizing funny business) is the biggest the UK has ever seen, m… https://t.co/FYwG1rzwV0

US has lead in key chip manuf technologies but when it comes to actually making dinner plate-sized wafers that are… https://t.co/5LdtlTCT83

As the betting odds shift in favor of Dem control of the senate expect corporate America and those invested in it t… https://t.co/Wx6t12CPOc

To turn a corner at speed, sometimes you have to hit both the brakes and the gas. A petrol-head image for an aggres… https://t.co/Kf7f9Ggq1P

As 20th century networks of gold trading are displaced by new EM players, gold, the globe’s universal currency and… https://t.co/m63MuoxZZ4

Btw 1990 and 2008 total trade in relation to global GDP rose from 20 to 35% = “globalization”. Of that increase 11%… https://t.co/qQb9GQVdaS

Zoom “developing technology over the next several DAYS that will enable us to remove or block at participant level… https://t.co/zKZ653mBbY

UK economy has small-country levels of dependence on imported inputs to production. Just saying … @OECD… https://t.co/AvvUoCLhkg

"Five years or more of income growth could be lost in many countries by the end of 2021” @OECDaufDeutsch… https://t.co/RhUDS5jxbI

From the World of Science to the World of Research? Science is certainty; research is uncertainty. Science is detac… https://t.co/7yYqhfgQV6

Tight financial controls following 2015/6 crisis -> Shanghai’s Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone did only $2bn in offshore… https://t.co/HvWaSrKaO3

Will an African candidate emerge as a tie-breaking option to head the WTO btw EU and US? If so, which one? Ex World… https://t.co/KZIULS70jn

The disparity in COVID-19 trajectories btw Democrat and Republican congressional districts tells you a lot about th… https://t.co/YYPC3080bS