@adam_tooze Do Konstantin Rokossovsky & Wladimir Woytinski share the prize for the most _interesting_ 20th century life?
@adam_tooze Do Konstantin Rokossovsky & Wladimir Woytinski share the prize for the most _interesting_ 20th century life?
Yeah .. 280 characters just not enough for Rokossovsky career! Lived through 2 staged “executions”. Always carried… https://t.co/vuuFatz1Kh
Konstantin Rokossovsky: survivor of Stalin’s purges, commanded defense of approaches to Moscow in 1941, at Stalingr… https://t.co/mMeV6pwiNS
Dallas-based, anti-CCP, hedge fund manager Kyle Bass is launching a fund to make all-or-nothing wagers on a collaps… https://t.co/gcdIPHSbq6
What if the recovery is not a V, or an L or a swoosh, but K-shaped? @Peter_Atwater insists we have to talk about in… https://t.co/KRqDkMiWew
As a share of GDP, the EU spends 33% more than the US on police and 60% less on prisons -> ratio of police/prison s… https://t.co/eAk6BDGUn1
How the ratio of police to prison spending was upended in the US by mass incarceration. https://t.co/AnDJ36gmvc https://t.co/i94o0mwKx1
In the US it is prison rather than police spending that has surged since the 1980s. With the result that the EU on… https://t.co/P5ByeFObo4
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk By the amazing colorist “Olga” https://t.co/Gb9qCk1726 https://t.co/BhmNGB5onm
GREAT thread here from @michaelxpettis on the problematic data published in @yicaichina appearing to show greater m… https://t.co/iNYLk3I705
A comparative political economy of housing regulation would be REALLY interesting and its impact on wealth distribu… https://t.co/v8YTQezzmz
…economies are usually quite sloppy. Second, that no matter how you cut it, the US has a truly vile distribution of income and wealth.
As a share of GDP In the US police and prison spending tripled btw the early 1960s and 2010. Does anyone have inte… https://t.co/7YEcqhlZGC
Back to normal? "Drawing a straight line through the rebound in air travel suggests that activity will fully recove… https://t.co/CpHV8JbddR
Mao Zedong, 1937 Color by “Olga” https://t.co/0tAMvDvgS2 https://t.co/BmuQ89D52q
@adam_tooze @Jderbyshire Not just a jazz pianist, but apparently (according to QI) someone who toured with Chet Baker and Dizzy Gillespie.
Employment data has increasingly uncertain foundations: The CPS household Survey Response Rate has been declining s… https://t.co/JgwxzQnbOg
Soviet soldiers in battle in a destroyed village in the Kiev region. Photo by S. Fridlyand Colorized by “Olga”… https://t.co/2TpcWlHKF3
“Minus our Hong Kong operations, StanChart is non-existent. Our usual approach is to aggressively sit on the fence… https://t.co/dM9MWkdTMT
One of Mussolini’s sons was a Jazz pianist. One for @Jderbyshire https://t.co/Wn4IJi6miF
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk By the amazing colorist “Olga” https://t.co/FhKEW4ryPk https://t.co/RC7CNaje5y
“From time you join HSBC, it is repeated over and over again, ‘We are a multipolar business, we do not take sides,… https://t.co/tZOXjcMno9
Benito Mussolini playing a violin. The color is so disorientating I double-checked and this really is Mussolini.… https://t.co/bNvCZctWDu
On 3 June water level on Rhine river at Kaub near Frankfurt dropped to as low as 1 meter threatening navigation on… https://t.co/QvpQb3KAy9
The collapse of HSBC’s profits in Europe since 2011 has left it painfully dependent on its business in Hong Kong an… https://t.co/BStQ142FRe
Hotter in the Arctic Circle than in Spain today 📈 Today saw immense heat at very high latitudes while cold continu… https://t.co/J3thUJ3FaD
Are urban Chinese wealthier than Americans? Data for urban China suggest median wealth is c. $200k in 2019 v. $104k… https://t.co/SYeF9Jengq
Watch the Tibetan plateau: “India has been active in many of US plans that target China,” “If India hastily joins a… https://t.co/5GuPtLrujQ
Cathay carries half of passenger traffic and nearly two-fifths of cargo traffic into HK -> government is mounting… https://t.co/frHxLW9vKg
Ratings agencies have India one notch above junk. But crucial weakness is not in sovereign but in private financial… https://t.co/OWARz5xItW
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