/u/Thoughtthroughthough's posts
Inspired by the turn the Western world seems to have taken in the past two years: how important was The Battle of Cable Street in suppressing the rise of British fascism? Why didn't it take hold in Britain as it did in other European countries?
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After the fall of the USSR, why did European countries choose to create a new public bank in the form of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), instead of entrusting this role to the existing and established European Investment Bank?
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I visited an old jail in The Hague, the Gevangenpoort, and I was amazed at the range of torture tools to extract confessions. When did we realize that confessions under torture are not very trustworthy, and when/how/why did we move from torture to detention as the standard form of punishment?
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The governments of almost all EU member states are currently issuing government bonds at negative interest rates. In some countries, the whole yield curve is negative (30, 20, 10, 5, 1 year). This seems a bit worrying. Are there any historical precedents for this situation? How did they end?
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Why was Achilles considered 'aristos achaion', or 'best of the greeks', already before the Trojan War started? After all, he wasn't yet 'battle-tested'.
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The governments of almost all EU member states are currently issuing government bonds at negative interest rates. In some countries, the whole yield curve is negative (30, 20, 10, 5, 1 year). This seems a bit worrying. Are there any historical precedents in the 19th/20th century? How did they end?
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