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RT @LesterZH: @adam_tooze Hard to tease out no? Berlin is a political/tourist destination. Could compare it to Frankfurt… but implicit in…

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RT @FabiusMayland: @AleckSabah @adam_tooze to the contrary Tegel is the platonic ideal of an airport: very short walking distances, and als…

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@sergechaly Agreed. But I kinda want a four-way comparison: Berlin-Frankfurt-London-Paris … and perhaps my question is as about types of network of infection as about quantity.

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@Division_by0 Yeah there are cross cutting effects here … but I take your point.

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@JobbingLeftieH Well that is an AMAZING looking reference. Thank you. .

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Steel was driver of 19th& 20th century industrialization. No accident Euro integ started with ECSC. Now Europe’s industry is 170m t minnow in global industry of 1.9bn t & 500 m t overcapacity. You could shut all of Europe and not fix 1/2 the problem! ft.com/content/f1acff… https://t.co/qVbbQsCrJ4

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Semi-serious question. Has anyone tested whether Berlin’s relatively low impact from corona had to do with the fact that it doesn’t have a (functioning) global airport hub, by comparison with NYC, London? I bet someone has. Idle thought, but actually kinda curious. https://t.co/I8KNycE7MF

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@julien_kloeg @Columbia_MF @BernardHarcourt Thank you @julien_kloeg

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For 72 % of a large sample of investors the biggest investment worry for the remainder of 2020 was a disputed election v. 18 per cent of investors ranking it as their top concern ft.com/content/28c5b5… https://t.co/W6cqmukjN9

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Owner/CEO, of the Serum Institute of India, biggest vaccine manuf in world, clashes with business arm of ultra right-wing Hindu nationalist RSS over how India will pay for vaccine. Compulsory licensing says RSS. ft.com/content/28c5b5… https://t.co/LWrfpKVjiM

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RT @ardenthistorian: An die, die wegen der #TaxReturns Trumps Ende prophezeien- erinnert ihr euch an diesen Running Gag von John Oliver und…

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RT @JenGranholm: If you are a waiter making $25,000 per year, you paid almost twice as much in taxes as @realDonaldTrump over the past two…

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The Turkish lira and the Russian rouble slid against the dollar after clashes between Armenian and Azeri forces in the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. Ankara and Moscow back opposing sides in the decades-long conflict. ft.com/content/28c5b5… https://t.co/hq6m0x7vtA

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For weeks, EU’s council of ministers and parliament have been at loggerheads over “details" of the massive pandemic-era budget package. Guess what is holding it up? Rule of Law conditions i.e. Hungary -> EU & US beginning to look more like parallels ft.com/content/94dcde… https://t.co/vdRdK5mtzK

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RT @AJBousquet: An armourer of the R.A.F.'s Middle East command is preparing a bomb for its mission against the Italian forces during the c…

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@LukePagarani Actually I think it kinda does. @DuncanWeldon @TheEconomist

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@RudolfV10 I like to think so! He blushes …

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RT @SashoTodorov1: @smidon @adam_tooze Combine that with the psychologically pulverizing condensed artillery fires, and you end up getting…

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RT @SashoTodorov1: @smidon @adam_tooze In general, people don't think of WWI as being a big prisoner's war because there's no massive encir…

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Hive mind! THIS IS WHY I LOVE TWITTER … twitter.com/theohonohan/st…

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I love the fact there is an account named for Rudolf Virchow @RudolfV10 https://t.co/EFnrFXDcSA

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RT @paulmasonnews: @adam_tooze There were two enormous mountains on the horizon, identical and symmetrical- "what's that?" we asked… "coa…

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RT @paulmasonnews: @adam_tooze I've been there. https://t.co/01wE4hcABa

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The German fiscal policy debate is really hotting up! twitter.com/ThorstenHild/s…

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RT @heimbergecon: This is what fiscal austerity looks like, €zone style. Strong decline in net public investment (after depreciation) over…

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Complacent insiders sow the seeds of their own demise! After 17 years as a contributor and columnist for @FT @EuroBriefing signs off with a BANG! I, for one, will really miss his hard-hitting takes. ft.com/content/df167e… https://t.co/G1jbG5leao

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Redman Mehldau McBride Blade (Live at The Falcon) | JAZZ NIGHT IN AMERICA Its Straight ahead. No mysteries. No enigmas. But, oh wow the playing is quite something. Had it on as background and the virtuoso playing just stops you dead. You gotta listen! youtube.com/watch?v=SVNKQt… https://t.co/thp6Ea3EUB

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Imagine: you are young English kid, up and coming talent in London, 22 years old, playing Ronnie Scott's as a sideman. Miles Davis and Philly Joe Jones are in the club. Hear you play and announce they want you to replace RON CARTER! In THE Quintet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Holl… https://t.co/1OxBa8v4Qm

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RT @JobbingLeftieH: @adam_tooze Amazingly in the same year Noddy Holder was born just down the road in Walsall and two years later Robert…

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Chris Potter Circuits – Live @ A Vaulx Jazz 2019 Chris Potter: Flute/Tenor Sax Craig Taborn: Keys Tim Lefebvre: Bass Justin Brown: Drum Kit The playing on this is just deliriously good. Especially from about the 30.00 mark. youtube.com/watch?v=AluJK3… https://t.co/tQSNQtTZZj

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@sleepy_fafnir @EuphoricEuler @TheEconomist @TheEconomist @DuncanWeldon @tom_nuttall there is a pretty overwhelming consensus amongst those who know that there is something wrong with your rather wonderful-looking graph about the epidemic. Any chance you could look into it?

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Born in Wolverhampton, England, in 1946 Dave Holland learned to play stringed instruments, beginning at 4 on the ukulele. 23 years later, he is a veteran of a legendary Miles Davis group & in a photo with Barry Altschul, Chick Corea & Anthony Braxton. A CRAZY postwar biography! https://t.co/X5CfAgsJ4p

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CRAIG TABORN QUARTET Jazz & Wine Of Peace 2017 Teatro Comunale Cormòns 28 10 2017 What a recommendation from @adamshatz youtube.com/watch?v=1tZ0as… by way of his unmissable adieu to Stanley Crouch, who grudgingly admitted that Tabor “can play" nybooks.com/daily/2020/09/… https://t.co/BuSfRU5Eo3

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RT @KetanJ0: @adam_tooze Oh yeah my gripes are with the article, not your tweet! I try and dedicate plenty of time to communicating exactly…

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@KetanJ0 @UTSISF @Earthworks To make up for upsetting you Ketan I willl be vigorously retweeting this fascinating stuff 😉

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