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Using the ratio of mean to median as an index of inequality, the United States and Germany are neck and neck …. https://t.co/l3zHx1bZXK

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On the origins of the CCP’s “positive energy” campaign in 2012/3 this is interesting. @dbandurski @chinamediaproj… https://t.co/i4nr5QfBZ2

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Did you know that W.E.B. Du Bois won a gold medal at the Paris 1900 World's Fair for his astonishingly modernist di… https://t.co/wz7UDh3oDz

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Professor @paulkrugman's newsletter today. 👇🏿 https://t.co/nvUmUcEsSx

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This is America’s most senior soldier wearing a combat uniform to accompany Trump across a street in America’s own… https://t.co/nwQJoRgkVI

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Washington DC as "Battle Space": As extremely knowledgable sources are pointing out it is UNPRECEDENTED for a Chm o… https://t.co/6r797vvUVQ

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2nd World Congress of the Comintern, Moscow, July-August 1920 meeting at high point of revolutionary enthusiasm wit… https://t.co/rxbQxMCkFX

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If Congress does not deliver another round of assistance to American welfare recipients they will be severely disap… https://t.co/jzrWpDF8XP

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"He has a slightly more pessimistic vision than mine, I’d say, but in general he's quite lucid about the world and… https://t.co/h965p24bMo

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Instead of enforcing curfew, police officers appear to pose for photo with white "self-defense" group in Philadelph… https://t.co/m0S3GNRkLV

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Chicherin and Litvinov the two key figures in early Soviet foreign policy brought alive by amazing colorization.… https://t.co/l6ytVpaNi7

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US Manufacturing PMI are slightly less bad. But still deep in contractionary territory <50. Via @SoberLook https://t.co/oChJc2AwRP

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France’s hard-driving Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire sometimes finds himself under attack from conservatives on ac… https://t.co/PSVy2Ru0U9

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Red Square parade 1925. It wasn’t paved in its modern style until 1930. https://t.co/q9EPANjJRP https://t.co/bZIwYRsUZm

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Alexander Kerensky in color from fantastic collection of colorized Russian history images. https://t.co/t6qwku8t2R https://t.co/UdvQfyHpgb

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The Fed’s deflation probability indicator has spiked to dangerous levels. FRED via @SoberLook https://t.co/WLC3rgoKWK

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Lenin in 1922. https://t.co/e5FDNkrrTc https://t.co/TIESqE2rrT

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Politics all the way down: 72% of Democrats think US COVID-19 understate true deaths as do 44 % of independents. 50… https://t.co/qsvtYEoHHC

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Given track record of their colleagues in us police, isn’t the question @dandrezner whether they need orders to sho… https://t.co/QdndScy5tM

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Treasury-Fed accord: “Unless inflation (of 21%) is controlled, it could prove to be an even more serious than more… https://t.co/UQQXTOjHho

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39% of Canadian workers have filed for unemployment insurance through the country’s Emergency Response Benefit, whi… https://t.co/UpdCKL0Qdo

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Data from JP Morgan’s chase credit card business strongly suggests a swoosh-shaped recovery. @jpmorgan https://t.co/R7zh5Iqcra

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Felix Dzerzhinsky (1922) head of Checka and OGPU. https://t.co/P7MgHIoFJc

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COVID-19 is delivering huge shock to debt to GDP ratios worldwide. In many cases it is rendering austerity implausi… https://t.co/LVgz580Vmt

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Alexandre Alekhine – dominant chess player of the interwar period. Anti-Soviet exile in France.… https://t.co/E2GxUHfRel

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We talk a lot about the EU caught btw USA & China. But Australia is far more exposed to China than US & the EU has… https://t.co/CjYjwuENa1

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Great news … congratulations to @PeterVerovsek on the appearance of his new book: Memory and the future of Europe… https://t.co/tCXKHwxias

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Moodys downgrades India for the 1st time in 22 years. Because, you know, times are tough … https://t.co/WTD01YJQoy https://t.co/uMvkXThnDb

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If you are wiling to regard “velocity of money” in a mechanical fashion as a leading indicator of inflation then th… https://t.co/7OWG7aSPmi

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Ivan Pavlov and his dog (1914) https://t.co/BhenQhsjRW https://t.co/NpVqg3NTea

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@ArborData @SoberLook As various folks have pointed out, it isn’t just Fed interventions in play here. The recovery… https://t.co/d7NpBpmrk5

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@nosunkcosts @michaelxpettis @SoberLook Thank you. Very helpful.

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@michaelxpettis @SoberLook And PBoC happy to see the yield surge from 2.4 to 2.8 in a matter of weeks? Seems pretty major!

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Hard not to agree with @TheStalwart Of triptych of issues I addressed in LRB piece https://t.co/dWR7VUxESu – US/… https://t.co/6uAqwSC4la

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Beijing can bully Hong Kong, but replacing it as a financial center will have real costs, if it has to …… https://t.co/4pfN9svd6y

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For over 20 yrs, when I give talks abt journalism I start by saying the industry is going through two parallel cris… https://t.co/vuZdfEyMUB

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