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If the ECB has to follow through on ending QE but doesn’t want to throttle the EZ, one wheeze would be launch new r… https://t.co/4TqHgR361t

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After a few quarters of slightly less than lifeless activity the Eurozone is relapsing again, so the appropriate po… https://t.co/8KXs3KtUBD

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US export base is now so diminished that not obvious that it can offset a domestic slowdown @Brad_Setser "10 % fall… https://t.co/7AhlN6LvEM

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A lot of history in this graph of Bloomberg’s index of US consumer confidence. I doctored a graph from @SoberLook https://t.co/igiv0ooFvX

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Some bad news from Apple and look what happens to market expectations of a rate cut. Jumps from 10 to 50% Data from… https://t.co/hSWPoHM2ud

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@warde_paul @njamescouk Hi Paul … But the scales are totally different. Of course you can get rapid growth starting from close to zero.

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What seems striking about the UK’s current account apart from the persistent large deficit is its composition: defi… https://t.co/lPXJskta8s

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Backdrop to compromise btw Rome and Commission includes very bad news from Italian economy: Italy's manufacturing o… https://t.co/xOJs2assAN

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The scale of Brazil’s 2014-2016 recession can be read off the fiscal balance. Data from @GoldmanSachs via @SoberLook https://t.co/uK9AGWOW62

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Whoever is going to take a hit in the US high yield corporate bond market it is not going to be retail investors wh… https://t.co/BN8blPNHAF

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@njamescouk Not on that time scale. Ind rev doesn’t come close

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2 basis points from inversion: The US 10yr-1yr spread is about to invert. The essential graphs of @SoberLook of the… https://t.co/wC48v4rPYB

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This is an extraordinarily sad story. Such fond memories of visiting the Peoples Palace and the gardens with family… https://t.co/W51zB3CxRV

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@OliverCooper thanks for the addendum. I was wondering about that.

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Our World: "Serbia: China’s Open Door to the Balkans” Yup. Serbia-China. Tito&Mao weren’t tight. But Belgrade, f… https://t.co/naAFIBzRXW

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Arguably THE most dramatic graphs in all of economic history: surge in global steel production from 400m tons in 20… https://t.co/OXr8SwrSUc

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@Noahpinion @martinwolf_ Hi @Noahpinion I think you are being a bit kind. Martin isn’t talking about living standar… https://t.co/gPNSAsU2UV

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Steel industry is the largest industrial producer of CO2, responsible for 70-9% of all direct emissions from fossil… https://t.co/pTTmlnUg7j

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Our world: "Stung by impact of GFC, the hilly city of Yunfu in Guangdong province decided in 2009 it was time for a… https://t.co/Sd8k4vinGz

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Peak China. @martinwolf_ takes seriously a forecast by @CapEconMarkets that has China’s share of global GDP lower i… https://t.co/fG9c0VpDVT

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China’s share of GDP will be lower in 2040 than in 2018 … yup you read that correctly. That at least is the forecas… https://t.co/AoLLiQyutz

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"Do not extrapolate from the recent past" argues @martinwolf_ throwing cold water on idea of an inevitably Chinese… https://t.co/VMPleA9cAK

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China’s PMI is back in territory it has not been in since 2016. In retrospect the shock to the Chinese economy in 2… https://t.co/UEFMpiDHkI

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Long or short 20th century? Or should that be a half millennium back to 1492? Entertaining and thought-provoking ri… https://t.co/8A8wGmnZsg

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The only authenticated image of Abraham Lincoln at the Gettysburg Address. 1863 https://t.co/8ZS1I7NerH

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@zeitonline This take down of Angela Merkel’s bland new year's speech by the brilliant polemicist Mely Kiyak is hilarious!

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@AHWilkes @Noahpinion @martinwolf_ Or one could say that @Noahpinion is objecting to @martinwolf_ own exercise in e… https://t.co/BIx4tIL7RO

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Could china be the big new customer that India’s peasants desperately need? Chinese commentators are skeptical.… https://t.co/64LMtswNAw

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Fantastic rant by @Noahpinion this morning in response to some sloppy logic in @martinwolf_ opening piece of the ye… https://t.co/kHKnisAzUk

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How cobalt has become so valuable that it is stolen out of warehouses in Rotterdam. Great atmospheric report by… https://t.co/tYDBa98HPo

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@D_Blanchflower Point of Maginot was to set up a battlefield in North on which French thought they could win again.… https://t.co/Yh0g0I85I5

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@D_Blanchflower Hi @D_Blanchflower please don’t tar Maginot by association with Trump’s ghastly folly. Point of Mag… https://t.co/BuEu4scdpD

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Sherman's men destroy a Confederate railroad outside Atlanta, 1864. More images: https://t.co/O9mUbgpuUj https://t.co/fasWik6Oei

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Entrepreneur zero: Zhang Huamei, a button and clothing-accessories trader from Wenzhou, was the first person in Chi… https://t.co/23ija6yGnS

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"China’s liberals do not admire Mr Trump. It is more that they hope he will prove a bigger bully than Mr Xi. On thi… https://t.co/mmhW0bhIk3

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Agatha Christie’s Poirot "is a topical figure, a Belgian refugee, at a time when Belgian refugees were both very mu… https://t.co/k9L7GNLvSy

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