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@adam_tooze @Gallup October 1938: 57% of French agree with the Munich agreement (uncertain data). March 1939: 70% o… https://t.co/m61yFP66td

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This is interesting on the 1967 protest movement in Hong Kong against labour conditions and British rule that left… https://t.co/8nBqxti6Kr

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@Intetyst Clearly you are right about heterogeneity. But you dont think the decline of the SPD is a nationwide trend?

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Not just trade war. With a “compelling structural story”, Vietnam is now the new darling of EM investors.… https://t.co/JXK3m5tsPW

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Germany's political realignment continues: In Thuringia Die Linke still leads at 28% but AfD has surged to 25% and… https://t.co/qFdqxBWYPT

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One of symptoms spooking Draghi was fear that flattening EZ yield curve would cause bank lending to contract.… https://t.co/TMIf4lQQjN

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Around 30% of euro-denominated EM debt (€115bn), now trades with a negative yield including debt from Poland, South… https://t.co/ZSU4KcbLhJ

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Neat graph of US economic expansions and recessions. @OxfordEconomics via @SoberLook https://t.co/1MvHVrY1K6

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"Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Emerging Monetary Mood Indicator, based on robotic scanning of keywords used in th… https://t.co/yBpblFiQ8n

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In Feb 1940 @Gallup polling showed that 1/3 of Americans were willing to see Czechoslovakia remain in German hands… https://t.co/CgrHb8ghnp

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Btw 1980-2018 share of top 400 in total US wealth rose from 1 to 3.5%. Warren’s wealth tax would have capped increa… https://t.co/JpNuFLZY0c

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As WWII began, Americans were split 58/42 on whether the US should sell airplanes and war supplies to Britain and F… https://t.co/j1mtFW9U4Q

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"the impact of trade uncertainty on Chinese GDP has been about three times larger than the direct trade impact, mak… https://t.co/Or9uM3LEFk

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The Bundeswehr’s “elite” Altenstadt barracks named after Franz-Josef Strauss with its museum celebrating the glorio… https://t.co/ydUXg04IPJ

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"Rocket fuel”, “nuclear option”: Draghi’s latest round of stimulus at the ECB has initiated a new era in hybrid mon… https://t.co/SiMGEIcOMw

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The Fed’s Caldara et al attempt to quantify trade policy uncertainty. On one measure the Trump shock is uniquely se… https://t.co/s6HygZw3yA

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Re: Draghi new measures. Wouldn't the euro area be better off today if there was a different fiscal/money mix. I… https://t.co/ST9VVDYmgH

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On July 1st I’ll be starting as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy Sc… https://t.co/QgK5iyS1nO

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My book now has a cover and publication date: January 2020! Thanks to @OUPHistory and @GermanHistSoc Check it out… https://t.co/6FWlc1lgSs

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V cool portrait of @HelenHet20 ! https://t.co/B6KsM84Gfl

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1) Thread: This week’s ECB decision is historic. They have done something very similar to proposal here https://t.co/ByfVAU1pOD

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Self destructing kapla structure with dominos https://t.co/GUn5jULcBJ

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Inflation in Asian EM has uncoupled from inflation in the rest of the EM. @gavekal via @SoberLook https://t.co/RXwrmu1RmI

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Euro-area economies vary dramatically in their ability to achieve further fiscal easing @Nomura via @SoberLook https://t.co/a42yt1kx8N

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The downward revision of the ECB’s inflation forecasts for 2020 between June and September 2019 was dramatic.… https://t.co/zVwwaLN8j4

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The shift in the structure of US retail in the last 20 years has been truly spectacular. @SoberLook @IIF https://t.co/o32q0RmxS6

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Inflation in rents is stable, but at 3% is consistently above CPI. @SoberLook https://t.co/cm2WJgcziG

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The left-right divide over climate change is wider in the US than anywhere else. @jburnmurdoch @ @lesliehook… https://t.co/Cy8c8oDGwF

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15 per cent of Americans believe either that the climate is not changing at all, or that it is not changing due to… https://t.co/3TISXa6Ogn

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“Vertical farming” promises to allow supermarkets to grow their own food! Saw this in a fancy restaurant in Berlin… https://t.co/rfZZuCvo2u

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Historicist pastiche or the cornerstone of Berlin’s reconstruction? Great review of the arguments over the reconstr… https://t.co/uU7IYl2w8C

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Remarkable factoid from @MFratzscher Germany has a peculiarly warped combination of high taxes on income from labo… https://t.co/7HhFjEJyiq

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If you cant get to 2% why not lower the ECB’s inflation target to 1.5%. This TRULY TERRIBLE IDEA is favored by Robe… https://t.co/NkHc4GXXdO

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"They are trying to satisfy the market without spurring them to price in more” Shahid Lahda BNP quoted by… https://t.co/45sSPp9yLT

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Stafzinsen: "The question is, for how long can ECB independence withstand the full weight of public scrutiny, and t… https://t.co/UYirUREOoJ

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Ms Georgieva who is set to take over at the IMF from Lagarde likes to "listens to Beethoven’s fifth symphony when s… https://t.co/VLOLddzII5

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