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@benmarrow @FTAlphaville had not seen this. thanks!

Devastating on the economics of Uber: "Results show that per hour worked, median profit from driving is $3.37/hour… https://t.co/5N89kccHdH

Building up of Forex debt by EM is dwarfed by their local currency borrowing! Facinating @FT long read by jonathan… https://t.co/RDMAHykWKQ

Counting the cost of austerity – @sjwrenlewis puts figures on the anti-austerity case and they are big! 10,000 quid… https://t.co/FuRTlHPsnU

@DanielaGabor goes back to 1990s fiscal reforms and before I think

As Duchamp once said: “While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.” https://t.co/5DBjbjdZfh

The dominance of local government in Chinese public spending is remarkable. NB: its local units are the size of Eur… https://t.co/zYxSoEeETI

At 46 % China’s savings rate is down from its peak of 52 % in 2008. But it is still in a league of its own!… https://t.co/NncbNlLcvz

@odtorson The idea of a zweite schuld or the sense of a nationale Schuld transmitted btw generations that Bernard G… https://t.co/OOl0Ci7CW4

@nicolas_veron @odtorson Ok I am going to suppress desire to make flippant comment about German resistance to eurob… https://t.co/2jaxXEZTNP

@odtorson On that I completely agree with you. Wish I had tweeted collective guilt not resp. But the exchange has b… https://t.co/q7zuVjMunU

@odtorson it would have been fantastic if they had asked about Scham! I will dig for some data on the 1970s and 198… https://t.co/4rOmhAxyHb

@odtorson The right wing continue to argue Germany somehow needs to escape the shadow of the past. the point of the… https://t.co/S52OKRMgnu

@odtorson @EuquinimodM That kollektivschuld was always controversial we agree. That it was rejected after Nurnberg… https://t.co/VzAxDqMA4A

@odtorson That sense of a weird inherited personal guilt was strong in 1970s&1980s. That is what has clearly lifted… https://t.co/VXAECpUrUq

@odtorson And I tweeted out the Moralische Verwantwortung slide too. But that is not the same thing as Kollektivsch… https://t.co/IDZ2peTkN0

@Euqinomist The strong from of Kolletivschuld implied an (admittedly weird) transmission of a personal form of guil… https://t.co/WmFn4ZdDC6

@odtorson The phrase is Kollektivschuld not Kollektivverantwortung.

@AndrewWattEU I also tweeted out the chart which DOES show solid majority of Germans accepting a special moral resp… https://t.co/clNiKq9Yxw

@AndrewWattEU Hi Andrew. I agree I am making a shift, but would argue that if you don follow shift you probably don… https://t.co/rFurTfnlgp

Saving rate of Chinese households mapped against tumultuous political history since early 1950s. https://t.co/CSBAWhikxh

Given different stance of Fed and ECB the fact that inflation rate btw US and Germany are not more divergent is rem… https://t.co/iGkReqrf96

Fox hails Trump as “Man of steel” – Do you think they know who else carried that name? https://t.co/ngxg6VTeuX

54 % of modern Germans claim a member of their family as a “victim” of WWII. Not hard to see how, if you do the mat… https://t.co/JPGqWdH9Cl

Households and mutual funds along with the Fed have been absorbing a large part of US Treasury issue since the cris… https://t.co/02rVRNBPcU

0.8 % of Germans mentioned Holocaust as “most important” event in German history since 1900 v. 39 % reunification a… https://t.co/TteG1Jcnxx

The common view of WWI as a static war in which defense dominated offense is predicated on a Franco-British perspec… https://t.co/GmFwlsrFAP

"Endlich wider stolz – Finally proud again to be German” – 54 % agree with quietly resentful aspiration to patrioti… https://t.co/9CS7XlX18P

As many Germans believe their forebears helped victims of Nazism as will admit that they were perpetrators. In fact… https://t.co/gwJmhU2Xsw

Should kids learn about extermination camps in German schools. Yes opinions do vary by political party but the ques… https://t.co/F7jxZywE2q

Doing well out of the war: sectoral profit rates of German industry 1914-1918 – IG Farben and co earned 28.6 % on e… https://t.co/VFansxvh3o

“I don’t think he’s trying to hurt us, … He’s pursuing something other than what economic reality is.” America’s ma… https://t.co/47IKuuv8p9

It is a fiction that modern Germany is overshadowed by overwhelming sense of inherited collective responsibility fo… https://t.co/kovaCpeU3m

The sounds that shells make – truly imaginative and fascinating history of the acoustic experience of World War I.… https://t.co/Bm9XTpGipr

Trump delivering tariffs is delivering on promise to blue-collar midw. But 415,000 folks work in steel & aluminum a… https://t.co/17gvZGIp1J