Eric Karl Hontz
@eric_hontz
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Lux et veritas - My Tweets are my own (bad) takes
Baltimore, MD
Joined May 2015
RT @HiddenHistoryYT: Lead Ship, Flagship of the Great White Fleet, Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Connecticut pictured in San Francisco Bay….
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Still amazing how fast this flipped. The US went from 23% of global manufacturing in 1990 to about 17% in 2024 while China went from 3% to 30% over the same time period.
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RT @BohuslavskaKate: The Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council openly threatens that Macron and Merz will be "identified by their te….
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RT @yarotrof: As Ukraine continues striking Russian refineries, the Russian-occupied Luhansk region is now officially out of gasoline. http….
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RT @justin_fenton: Saw figures on decline in carjackings in DC and decided to look at Baltimore data; carjackings here between 8/10 to 8/23….
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RT @AlbertoMiguelF5: The right-wing Rassemblement National (RN) in France, like the AfD in Germany and Vox in Spain, can't be blamed for th….
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RT @michaelxpettis: 12/16.Rather than simply assert that net capital inflows must lower US interest rates, and that this must lead to more….
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RT @michaelxpettis: 8/16.This is simply not true. Net capital inflows do change the structure of the recipient economy (any change in a cou….
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RT @nnzp1730: I like the way @michaelxpettis thinks and that is why I follow him. He doesn’t bow to the dogma of the economic profession. 9….
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RT @KamranBokhari: “You let the technology leader, the U.S. in this case, eat the cost of exploration, and then you try to be the fast foll….
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Xi Jinping is pushing the country’s tech industry to build practical, low-cost tools that boost the country’s efficiency and can be marketed easily.
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RT @WSJ: Households earning between $50,000 and $100,000 are trading down, cutting back and feeling increasingly strapped, while high earne….
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Households earning between $50,000 and $100,000 are trading down, cutting back and feeling increasingly strapped, while high earners keep on spending.
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It’s the phones.
When it comes to sexlessness among young adults, the biggest change comes post-2010. Prior to 2010, the share of young adults, ages 18-29, who reported not having sex held steady around 15%. But from 2010 to 2024, the share doubled, from 12% to 24% in the GSS.
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RT @DefenceHQ: Hello Tokyo from the UK Carrier Strike Group 👋. A visit building on the unprecedented military cooperation between Britain a….
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