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By modern standards the performance of S&P500 in original gilded age was quite modest https://t.co/AU5RNb7sYW https://t.co/ZkdkXCY5qU

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Incomes of bottom half of Russian population appear to have fallen since end of communism https://t.co/dysRHfyynu https://t.co/oduJBdQELc

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Another way of viewing the end of the cold war: 1 % income share convergence between US and Russia… https://t.co/jGYnl71vPH

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2nd revolution: restructuring of Russian society in early 1990s was as dramatic and more rapid than in revolution… https://t.co/obA4cKlDac

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Good day for walk to Franz Sigel monument: 1848 Baden rebel, abolitionist & (terrible) general in Army of Potomac… https://t.co/xcs4IfbjZR

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End of cold war and triumph of capitalism in one graph: rise of private wealth in Chn & Rus to Western levels… https://t.co/Mk4bM39PAs

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@BrankoMilan @PSMNolan Not querying the general trend. We have to explain the T34. But taking Germany with huge col… https://t.co/pNUr4QCsgr

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@BrankoMilan @PSMNolan Excellent idea to benchmark Soviet Union in 1920s and 1930s v. France with its less extreme… https://t.co/ELihile7xD

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I don’t know whether I buy argument but this is a great image: Sam Huntington overshadows Trump @stephenwertheim… https://t.co/RObKj5F7Ie

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@MarkkuHusso @DrLeoStrauss @gabriel_zucman link in the tweet … those were the kind of questions that prompted me to tweet

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Measured in terms of wealth it is Putin’s era, the era of the commodity price boom that is the age of the oligarchs… https://t.co/uxhZ194CPT

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@monerty1 @LeftistEcon stick a h/t @789897897 or w/t abcdefgh in so that word gets around and the community expands… https://t.co/HdQuyGTXAM

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@monerty1 @LeftistEcon hmmm that selection looks a bit familiar 😉

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“Shadow-banking” remains major provider of credit to US econ but banks have made a come back h/t @alexandrascaggs… https://t.co/DlnU4L32GS

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@DrLeoStrauss @gabriel_zucman link to paper is in my tweet. My point is not to approve or criticize their point jus… https://t.co/TYEEfFGVFy

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Paper on Russia by @gabriel_zucman Novokmet & Piketty offers strikingly positive view of Stalinist econ hist… https://t.co/AsjF4sckPu

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Heading back towards Marx world: within country inequality was 20 % total inequality in 1988 v. closer to 33 % toda… https://t.co/vEy5udZ4IM

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Crystalline by @MESandbu on three key moments in onset of the financial crisis 3Q2006, June 2007, Aug 2007… https://t.co/rzQ0rE9p4Q

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The latest Ebola outbreak had 8 victims of which 4 died. But think back to 2014-2015: It’s not if but when.… https://t.co/S3MhVoQxYK

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@nowherenorthere yup. I couldn’t help wondering how the question was framed.

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Unfurnished and undecorated: Chinese property recovery is driven by speculation not household formation… https://t.co/gbHTQmn4BN

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In China recovery from 2015-16 SOE profits have been leading the way https://t.co/Hw9M5QkMzW https://t.co/iEyIsYPoVL

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Time for people with loud voices to back @alexandrascaggs in her one woman campaign to save independence of the OFR… https://t.co/QAfVIMfCJb

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WWII era, Turing-designed, electro-mechanical computers at Bletchley Park are AMAZING. One “Bomb” actually works. V… https://t.co/GUVl9FefTH

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Returns to education in the UK: earnings relative to what would be expected on basis of background, high school etc… https://t.co/JE0Di3Gk1W

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@SevaUT Yes. I have to say, and this may be my West European/WWII historian bias speaking: I am more surprised by Czechs than Slovaks.

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@paul1kirby @banquedefrance @szignago Hi paul! Nice chart but seriously mislabeled. This is gdp growth. In age of… https://t.co/1N9pL2xZ4q

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What's wrong with the Czechs and the Slovaks? If these are credible dark ethnocultural preoccupations are revealed… https://t.co/aErVKWF4ie

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Australia’s position on this chart is a bit of a surprise! https://t.co/uYlbmkmAJ8

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Flight to safety: US bank holdings of high quality and safe assets @MoneyBanking1 https://t.co/ViigCk9NZi https://t.co/t2hvdjI7Ot

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This is true story of EU in crisis NOT decisive action but austerity —> social crisis @eu_comission… https://t.co/FytA8Jy8Rq

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The day the world turned: 9 August 2007 and collapse of the Asset-backed commercial paper market w/t @MoneyBanking1… https://t.co/pJAz0wGSWy

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@Intetyst compare deutsches numbers with jpmorgan to see what I mean

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Outrages from EU on “decisive action” in response to crisis due to “exposure” to US! Its positively Orwellian!… https://t.co/vaRhns8WJo

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Here they are .. the G-SIBs in all their glory. The big European banks are really still in relatively poor shape https://t.co/7yuFOqMSpi

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As a piece of historical denialism this from the EU Commission on 10th anniversary of crisis takes some beating! Ou… https://t.co/kDipUlyrVn

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