#Capital

US GDP per capita growth averaged 2.25%/yr in the back half of the 20th century, but only 1% so far in the the 21st century. Is this evidence of recent
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Thread"Financial literacy is the education & understanding of knowing how money is made, spent, & saved, as well as the skills & ability to use financial resources to make decisions.
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1/ Someone shared this article few hours ago and my heart goes out to the family - am not gonna judge him and i truly wish he stayed back for
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Into my second day on a hospital trolley up the country (I'm grand, but staycation over). Man next to me crying because he has to urinate into a bottle in
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The market is probably correctly pricing virus re closures as forcing expanded UI, more fiscal support etc. SPX will correct to 2600-2900 if it has to force Congress. Base valuations
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Parker’s Military Revolution is a great read. Short and punchy (and with excellent pictures!) on European military innovation circa 1500-1800.Reading it for the first time in almost 20 years has
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A thread for mobility and liveability advocates: this is the winning argument for the months ahead... “Reallocate road space to support small business and support the economy” is, whether we
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someone within DSA the other day told me that they don't view entertainment/sports unions as the same as other unions because entertainers aren't on the "shop floor" and i think
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The Unforgotten Tale Of Bravery (Raja Dahir)We all know that Arab Invader Muhammad Bin Qasim conquered Sindh in 712 AD. However, the facts surrounding this conquest, and the ill fate
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Thread There is little doubt that the attack on Shringeri Matha is one of the darkest spots in the Maratha history...But was it really a state sponsored act of brutality
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Gaining a new insight, perhaps, from Celia Fiennes's 1690s travel accounts into the economics of the Cornish tin and copper mines in the years just before Newcomen invented his engine.
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The Vikings trade Stefon Diggs for a player who is unlikely to ever become as good as Stefon Diggs. I get that the Diggs trade wasn't all Minnesota's doing, and
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The 20 most important lessons from the book "The Joys of Compounding."A thread 1/ Learn from others. Figure out where you are going and find out who has been
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Before @realDonaldTrump announcement, senior Administration officials said they had two immediate goals re @WHO: Secure an acknowledgement of failure and a commitment to keep politics out of pandemics; and get
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This is a useful thread that does a good job of explicating the big picture conceptual stakes in some of these policing debates.https://twitter.com/equalityAlec/status/1293538832638529536 And it is definitely true that when
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133 years old photo of office of American Singer's Sewing Machine Co. in #Mumbai was taken in 1887 AD. As Gujarati was number one city language of Mumbai at that
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