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Here are some findings from our close look into China’s 2.3% economic growth in 2020, including some of the data on imbalances. The most important point is that getting Covid-19
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I'm covering the play-by-play for the #MASenDebate between @EdMarkey and @joekennedy, live on @NBC10Boston. Follow along! #mapoli Asked about his supporters' 'cyberbullying' of Broadway stars who were supporting Kennedy, Mar
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Andrew Carnegie is widely known for his steel company and establishing over 2500 libraries, but what is less known is that he was one of the greatest investors in US
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1. Least important news: I am back on Twitter, sad for my city Beirut for the horrific blast and for my country Lebanon for the existential crisis it is going
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1/ In March, the CEO @SmithfieldFoods, a food company, described social distancing as “a nicety that makes sense only for people with laptops.”He was talking about workers @ meatpacking plants
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I chuckle sometimes at how truly, truly difficult nuanced discourse is online.A'ight, I'll start! I don't think this story from my 2020 faves got enough love, because it's not free-to-read:Dare
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USD1.2 billion in fraud at a single bank branch in western China. Everything is fine.https://twitter.com/BaldingsWorld/status/957554786454331393 What if we make the probably not unrealistic assumption that financial fraud in China is
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1) Two interesting maps of Ohio from the NY Times' fascinating Extremely Detailed Map of the 2020 Election.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/2020-election-map.html 2) Here are the final 2020 results in Ohio. The overall pa
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Job postings in the 4 largest Western European capitals are well below their pre-pandemic levels.Lukas Kleine-Rueschkamp (@OECD_local) and I looked at what these trends might mean for city labour markets
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We want to take time to answer questions about events from recent days. How do you decide which areas will have the emergency outages? Why can’t you notify people
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In case you haven't figured it out yet the same media that tells all conservatives that they are white nationalists or nazis made up all of your talking points in
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Many people know the capital city of Botswana but they don’t know whom it is named after. Ladies & gents, if you are one of those who have no idea
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A Kentucky voting history (from a pandemic stalled project): The first western state, KY has been a crucible for national change (fight me).The 1792 Constitution enfranchised all men regardless
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Thread. Purpose of our study is to draw out some sensible (if still early) trends from publicly-available and comparable data. And to challenge the ‘infodemic’ of narratives and counter-narratives about
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One of the best @RealVision interviews in recent times with @RaoulGMI & Felix Zulauf. The opening half hour where he describes the current structural shift in global markets (and society
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Excess Deaths has become a popular way, globally, to assess the overall changes in reported deaths this year relative to what was expected this year. We are also watching the
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