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People fantasizing about what they would do with a lot of money often say, “When I win the lottery…” #MoneyAtoZ is at its midpoint; today we hit the jackpot.L is

Okay. Let's think about this. [a thread]1. July 14, 1789: 800 or so Parisians marched on the Bastille Fortress looking for weapons, ammo. --YES, they found them at this address

I wrote a whole book that disproves this long-lived myth. My book was just republished by @Harvard_Press. It's not a hard book to find. But now @WilliamSitwell writes a book

More than six weeks old, and I am still getting questions, comments, RTs, people finding this piece for the first time. Response to queries and critics follow 1/https://twitter.com/trekonomics/status/1263228437721780224 Many asked

"The United States may not be having a revolution right now, but we are surely living in revolutionary times." As my pinned tweet indicates, I have been thinking this for