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I learned one reason Japan industrialized successfully while Turkey did not is that, due to geography, Japan had a much easier time excluding cheap European exports to shield infant industries

Today I learned that the Ottoman state newspaper got into a giant spat with the Egyptian state newspaper, insulting the Egyptian wali

It turns out, issuing treasury bonds only increases your money flow if your economy is engaged in sufficient trade 😭