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The oldest pair of existing Levi jeans, dating to 1879. Jeans were commonly made in France from Nîmes. Because so m… https://t.co/rG3XJV2Mka

The downward shift in the Fed’s outlook on interest rates since September 2018 has been dramatic. Baloisse asset ma… https://t.co/ZeTQdxQZjG

Following the terms of trade shock of 2017-8, 33% of Egypt’s 99m people were classified as poor last year, up from… https://t.co/34oPkJEQgj

China’s currency may not be freely traded but it has an impact on the entire network of EM currencies with which Ch… https://t.co/uTZmncsWtQ

As far as the German manufacturing sector is concerned, the PMI indicators are now looking worse than 2012.… https://t.co/xrAs5fi0pM

The share of the top 5 tech firms in the US stock market is now greater than it was before the… https://t.co/CEKnArI2ra

Since 2013 there has been a fivefold increase in the farmland being used for solar power generation = source of rel… https://t.co/YJyd1NH3XC

The bankruptcy of the giant Blackjewel mine in July this year heralded a deep crisis in Wyoming coal-mining.… https://t.co/oYePwx5UEY

It is very much to be welcomed that the Commission has responded to the CANOO campaign on output gaps.… https://t.co/Brubl1D2ns

Campaign against Nonsense Output Gaps (CANOO): our main goal has always been to encourage debate on output gaps, so… https://t.co/zB4DWYhIgx

High corporate profitability retained in family businesses is the link between Germany’s giant current account surp… https://t.co/BkUTMP8E3D

Metals-trading in London can be traced back as far as 1571. A metals-only exchange that traded mostly copper and ti… https://t.co/IP8FrACWPO

Layers of Berlin: the ruined foundations of Gestapo headquarters, the remains of the Berlin Wall, the Nazi Air Mini… https://t.co/cV7okUcJKT

The painfully uncomfortable armchairs used for China’s diplomatic meetings are made by a single company, Tiantan (o… https://t.co/S61VLSB3Aw

In sub-Saharan Africa, 8m are in tertiary education (Univ, & vocational colleges). That is about 9% of young people… https://t.co/IZG0pSK7fV

Chinese universities produced a record 8.3m grads this summer. Up from 5.7m a decade ago -> 2/3 of job market entra… https://t.co/y00T1DR3XR

The labor force of the 21 countries between the Baltic Sea and the Balkans will shrink by more than a quarter by 20… https://t.co/ahdyaFna3H

over 90% of assets avoiding the Common Reporting Standards designed to limit tax evasion have been herded into the… https://t.co/ACHxhNSOfW

When an international conference on Black Power took place in British Protectorate Bermuda on July 10-13 July 1969,… https://t.co/GXeHYhWm7R

Last October Lena Reimann of Kiel University published a warning that 37 of the 49 unesco world-heritage sites loca… https://t.co/xzKC0bcC0A

Draghi associate and Bank of Italy boas Fabio Panetta will replace Coeure on the ECB executive board, taking the It… https://t.co/WulIiPo4g8

New York is paying almost $800m for the Big U, a necklace of parks, walls and elevated roads to shield lower Manhat… https://t.co/oaro0hKTIe

First suggested in 1970s, marine-ice-sheet instability was long considered largely theoretical. In 1995 the Larsen… https://t.co/YyRbPqgJvk

@WhelanKarl @RobinBrooksIIF Lets just say that someone was suffering from sleep deprivation … and then, oddly, it caught on!

Each black dot marks a spot where we should expect a “once a century” sealevel event to occur annually from 2050 ev… https://t.co/W11wWmQWTV

“During my meetings and sessions in Asia last week, America and China were the hot topics of conversation. Europe w… https://t.co/4NpMjXKZKD

How modern Portuguese nationalism reinvented the rural traditions of the Minho region to capture the essence of an… https://t.co/wfUOCLvZmU

Is the dissent in the ranks of the ECB over quantitative easing a symptom of the hiatus before Christine Lagarde ta… https://t.co/x6D8jiMULg

The art museums of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon are amongst the best-curated I've ever had the good… https://t.co/QlqDoKZbzE