I woke up this morning remembering that for a 5 or 10 year period work involved con calls. Do you remember that era? If you were going to take a call on the road you had to write down these long codes on paper. Everything followed by #. When someone joined it would beep. Quaint.

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Militärkeynesianismus ist natürlich ein schäbiger, politischer Kampfbegriff (und das wissen die Autoren und Tooze auch). Es geht hier ja gar nicht um Stabilisierungspolitik, sondern in erster Linie um nationale Sicherheit, um die Existenz des freiheitlichen Europas.

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My children are half Chinese. Are they to bear the moral burden of Mao's Cultural Revolution? Are they exonerated as victims by the Nanjing Massacre? Yes these are part of how they came to be here, but I'd hate for these past actions, by other people, to define their idea of who they are and can be.

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Re-upping my petition to name krapao as Thailand’s national dish.

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PBOC governor Pan Gongsheng made a surprise appearance at Hong Kong's Asian Financial Forum, announcing China would shift its economic focus more to consumption from investment, citing "insufficient domestic demand" and "low price levels" as its top challenges www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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