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Tax havens not dark matter explain the 3 % difference in rate of return btw foreign inv in US and US inv abroad.… https://t.co/f9AJHSkjac

The battle of Verdun and the bombing of Berlin in 1910. Wilhelmina era War-Sci-Fi. From publisher that seems to spe… https://t.co/zrRtRAGn0r

"As I tackle my schnitzel, Weidmann is losing his cool.” Oh to have been a fly on the wall. Great interview by… https://t.co/X9GmMpgEKh

It is hard to do justice to the scale of the Chinese stimulus from 2008. This paper by Christine Wong does "THE FIS… https://t.co/2fM7e0FCFv

Unhealthy balance: Whereas investment expenditure by US state and local government has barely budged since the 1950… https://t.co/C06b48KCxP

In "China’s Ideological Spectrum" Pan & Xu offer fascinating opinion poll analysis confirms that higher inc & ed pe… https://t.co/WU5rXAaUf5

Since the millennium, caps on state and local spending driven by local political coalitions have meant that a large… https://t.co/UnsKy4E4cZ

Legendary encounter between Kaiser Wilhelm and Theodor Herzl in 1898 as photomontage! Apparently the zionist kids c… https://t.co/wmF6CznzqM

It was the final splurge of the Bush administration as much as the Obama stimulus that made gov spending positive i… https://t.co/fjhU5S5uiw

Revisiting Alex Watson’s excellent Wolfson-prize-winning Ring of Steel Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I (… https://t.co/41nZX9jaWi

At worst point in the US housing crisis more than a quarter of mortgaged homes had negative equity. It is a long wa… https://t.co/yOBqD58Ga8

Comparing central banker salaries: Powell earns 164k euro v. Weidmann at Bundesbank who earns 371k base plus bonus… https://t.co/2vTaDvo0hy

The success story of antiretrovirals in combating HIV mortality is remarkable testament to combination of activism… https://t.co/uQye1oT1RC

After hurling back the Austro-Hungarian forces in 1914, in October 1915 the crushing of Serbia begins with Bulgaria… https://t.co/CaS2kJYAc6

Allowing for age-adjusted value of statistical life to estimate the cost of lives lost to opioids raises the CEA’s… https://t.co/WtlRMbEq1Z

The politics of war commemoration in Germany are not easy: The Würzburg Studentenstein of 1927 renamed the Langemar… https://t.co/8VzyHIar44

If there is one area where one wishes Trump trade policy well, it would be in making the argument against what rema… https://t.co/rpGHI0767X

The surge in gov subsidies for agriculture in high income countries in 1980s is an underexplored contradictions of… https://t.co/TZ8FO59h1K

For working-class Americans in work the 1980s were really the worst. Real av hourly earnings fell across entire cyc… https://t.co/q4DALRjAjM

US workers displaced from manuf do not appear to drop out of the workforce. That happens to folks in retail (more l… https://t.co/p7u7SksqdF

Trump’s CEA is working the numbers to shake the depressing consensus about the stagnation of median incomes in the… https://t.co/OlmI6LBqk9

The New Deal and WWII made the modern state in the US (and some Americans are still smarting!) – how Fed tax revenu… https://t.co/3H0ci0uAOJ

Hugely uncertain estimates of losses due to theft of trade secrets are key to Trump admin trade policy alarmism.… https://t.co/JqkiuDTest

@georgemagnus1 NO problem. At the very least one would need to distinguish stages of aging v. real existing old soc… https://t.co/jM9ea0pJ1k

Fifty years since the Kerner report on Black-White socio-economic disparity in the US the gaps are painful and in m… https://t.co/F1DmeUpcw6

Three eras of US economic history as defined by the trade balance: colonial-civil war; civil war-Vietnam; since the… https://t.co/5OUjoEZO9E

Sixty million people live near the world’s 50 largest dumpsites, most in low and lower middle-income countries.… https://t.co/tqkYfkhzvT

Why isn’t the US taxing petrol? Real revenue is same as it was in early 1990s. Of course we know the answer. But re… https://t.co/2v04h9nyQQ

Corporate net dividend payment as share of US GDP have risen since 1970s and now fluctuate at twice the level they… https://t.co/0MXLYAlBH6

Infrastructure spending would be good for blue-collar America. 60 % of workers in “infrastructure occupations” have… https://t.co/0wEzKOmtMa

"The cremator’s rule of thumb is that 100 pounds of human fat is the equivalent of 17 gallons of kerosene. If you h… https://t.co/ql5v4diNOO