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Aden to Brunei: The true end of the British Empire between 1967 and 1984. A table connecting the dots that mark out… https://t.co/HBPH3qPJhU

Fascinating piece on the troubles afflicting Rio’s massive copper investment in Mongolia. @hjesanderson @humenm rep… https://t.co/6s4FNIeRCb

"Today’s politics is often billed as a backlash against globalising liberalism. But it is closer to the truth to se… https://t.co/heUhCMBsVN

„Between fiscal years 1978 and 2018, spending by the U.S. Energy Department on research in renewable energy came to… https://t.co/3l10aScyE1

@mr_autumn Thanks. Agree that there needs to be a part II … it is one of the limitations of the kind exercise in in… https://t.co/AEvbxI0UAX

"It is a salutary consequence of rise of strongman populism to remind rule-worshipping internationalists among us h… https://t.co/ZBMboob0uO

Important reading for all central bankers, macroeconomists and those who claim that CBs should just carry on with b… https://t.co/39Umn1NxpK

Paul Volcker at the Senate Banking Cttee summer of 1979, months before triggering the “Volcker shock” on 6 October… https://t.co/zT1nbrPH0b

With sovereigns flexing muscles for better and worse, “the alleged impotence of the state looks like a bluff. That… https://t.co/NHALCWNrDS

Devastating thread from @EdwardGLuce on how Trump is messing with … oh … America’s complicated role in the fraught… https://t.co/Z732w4AHlX

There are 7300 family offices worldwide, up 38% since 2017 managing $5.9 trillion in assets for the super wealthy.… https://t.co/AiveKGZAMM

@aaseiger @ForeignAffairs Thanks @aaseiger One correction: it is in @ForeignPolicy not @ForeignAffairs

“when European governments simply decide to go ahead & tax tech giants, their citizens are entitled to react by say… https://t.co/cmdsT9Cekw

The White House just told reporters it's going to end food stamp benefits for 3 MILLION AMERICANS. That will appar… https://t.co/ga7hNd00Mi

"…learnt helplessness in the face of inequality and stagnation helped to fuel the rejection of establishment part… https://t.co/QbKu3h7Iir

Tarkovsky films for free on youtube from Mosfilm h/t @openculture Ivan's Childhood 1962) Andrei Rublev (1966) Sola… https://t.co/8qhkAXdzOR

The @IMFNews cannot expect to retain global reach and resources “unless countries gaining in importance … gain ap… https://t.co/qI2Ph4z5iH

Zoraster (1878) the first truly successful oil tanker built for the Nobel brothers. Compact design means that it ca… https://t.co/fBr7gACAr9

Our world: @FT @HornbyLucy reporting on fact that Chinese "Communist party is now hammering out its 14th five-year… https://t.co/N4qe3HHRk8

Read this. @ischinger is spot on. This reply by Cordesman to NATO’s annual report is devastating. Beyond squabbles… https://t.co/KI7dlqpBLi

Hard to credit but Jeff Bezos’s vision of future space colonization is an amalgam of 1970s sci-fi with a dose of Li… https://t.co/MpwXzY7gt8

3.8 % of German manufacturers have cut their workers’ hours. IFO expects 8.5% to move to short time in nxt 3 months… https://t.co/7ma5O3Qavn

Worth reminding oneself periodically how politicized even “economic sentiment” has become in the US. The Univ Mich… https://t.co/kDkKJoM4g1

"The Chinese leadership’s decision not to adopt a widely anticipated target of doubling GDP again by 2035, compared… https://t.co/cmK1IGUW8V

@andrewbatson @greg_ip Love it!

@greg_ip Hi Greg. Sorry for sloppy paraphrase. Clearly your main point was about future prospects.

@andrewbatson @greg_ip thanks for the clarification @andrewbatson that is what I was trying to get at. It is not ev… https://t.co/gLCbv0IaW3

And there's a town in Louisiana that is (probably) named after Egyptian revolutionary Ahmed 'Urabi… https://t.co/N3VchZz4pD

@ofriel @greg_ip Early 1990s would put China on the same trajectory as S Korea!

@cusackandrew @herandrews But the town was named for him in 1846 when he was a famous anti-French resistance leader!

There is Bismarck, there is Versailles and there is the town of Elkader Iowa named in 1846 in honor of the Emir Abd… https://t.co/lAHZEIRacP

"I took a class on Hegel with Heller. It was like sitting in on world history itself. Hard to describe how incredib… https://t.co/FfSIj6miwN

Between now and 2050 35% of all urban population growth worldwide will be driven by India, China and Nigeria. We si… https://t.co/pJdMiNgfg3

The worlds’ rural population has now probably plateaued at c. 3.2 billion. All population growth from here on out i… https://t.co/ogfxns72Gt

Our China activity tracker diverges substantially from official GDP, which is oddly smooth. Activity slowed a lot i… https://t.co/l4BLwnDdoa

As oil production ramps up every day the Texas fracking industry either releases or flares over 700 m cubic feet of… https://t.co/yslIpjl4KI