ADAM TOOZE

RT @simongerman600: Wow. "A Cartographer named Kim Jeong-ho walked the entirety of the Korean peninsula through every mountain and valley f…

(Affluent) US households experienced a $15trn swing in net worth in first 2 quarters of 2020. 10% who own shares saw wealth crash and then

Chinese subway ridership is now back to 93% of 2019 levels. @GoldmanSachs via @SoberLook https://t.co/GnzyehcgJx

Impact of the Korean War on the recovery from WWII both in Europe & Asia is easily underestimated. Crucial for Japan. Data via @SoberLook https://t.co/m7iTyIkmUb

SNB Interventions Soared to $98 Billion as Virus Roiled Markets and drove Swiss franc higher. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/PCellDWrT8

If you remember WWII, WWI and the Napoleonic wars, the 2008-COVID fiscal shocks are really not such a big deal ….;) @Danske_Research via @SoberLook https://t.co/Ejpxt5wP1s

Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find? Data in Bloom et al 2020 suggest that innovation may be an increasingly uphill battle. @NiskanenCenter niskanencenter.org/faster_fairer/… https://t.co/eMxXQ76zpg

Impact of the Korean War on the recovery from WWII both in Europe & Asia is easily underestimated. Crucial for Japan. Data via @SoberLook https://t.co/2Q1lVxhhHa

SNB Interventions Soared to $98 Billion as Virus Roiled Markets and drove Swiss franc higher. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/H67LmSueFd

If you remember WWII, WWI and the Napoleonic wars, the 2008-COVID fiscal shocks are really not such a big deal ….;) @Danske_Research via @SoberLook https://t.co/rkOs8K7rk2

RT @MsJulieZiegler: @adam_tooze @NiskanenCenter @TamBayoumi Just adding correct handle for Tam: @Tam_Bayoumi

RT @EdConwaySky: How ON EARTH did the government manage to temporarily mislay 16,000 test results, putting thousands of people at risk of c…

Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find? Data in Bloom et al 2020 suggest that innovation may be an increasingly uphill battle. @NiskanenCenter niskanencenter.org/faster_fairer/… https://t.co/ebZMjTsYxZ

RT @KetanJ0: Absolutely huge story from @climate – leaked documents from @exxonmobil show that they plan to massively increase their emissi…

@MsJulieZiegler @NiskanenCenter @TamBayoumi Thanks. Looks really interesting.

Healthiest half of US population account for only 3% of health spending. 5% of population account for half of spending. Top 1% account for 23%.

US need to increase cash transfers to families by approximately $200 bn pa simply to match the cash portion of the OECD average. Increasing cash

The United States would need to increase spending on Active Labor Market Policies by nearly $100 billion per year just to match the OECD average

Apartment buildings are illegal to build in 76% of San Francisco. It is very expensive to live in SF. Hmmm ….. niskanencenter.org/faster_fairer/… https://t.co/96MFKnzYlG

In response to fear of a looming "physician surplus," the US imposed a moratorium on expanding the number of medical school slots from 1980 to

U.S. federal R&D spending on basic research has fallen nearly 35 percent over the last 40 years as a fraction of GDP. Low hanging fruit

US interstate migration rate is today less than half what it was half a century ago in 1970. @NiskanenCenter niskanencenter.org/faster_fairer/… https://t.co/luZh4uFpwy

Central library of the University of the African Future Project of Abdoulaye Wade President of Senegal in early 2000s Valente-Quinn, Brian; de Jong, Ferdinand :

Central library of the University of the African Future Project of Abdoulaye Wade President of Senegal in early 2000s Valente-Quinn, Brian; de Jong, Ferdinand :

Map of most common second languages show the remarkable global diversity across London’s electoral wards. twitter.com/maxfras/status…

RT @Reuters: Just centimeters below the Earth’s surface is a ticking time bomb that could detonate as global temperatures rise. It's called…

More on the question of UK PhDs or lack of them … I seem to remember I was discussing this with @dbessner and other friends

Whereas the first wave of corona pandemic in the US was centered on big cities, since the summer the 2nd surge has been more pronounced

The most meaningful measure of underemployment and labour market slack in the US right now is U6 and it is as 13 %. @SoberLook https://t.co/RQHxjK3LWm

Half of the jobs lost in the US at height of the corona shock have been recovered, but that leaves the economy 10 million down.

RT @tveitdal: Scary! Amazon near tipping point of switching from rainforest to savannah theguardian.com/environment/20… As much as 40% of the exis…

More than thirty thousand private investigators now work in the United States, Maroney reports in his new book, “The Modern Detective: How Corporate Intelligence Is

Low wage employment in the US continues to bounce back. But it has a LONG way to go. @MorganStanley via @SoberLook https://t.co/QoSroe3UNO

Fabio Panetta: EA faces “a sizeable downward skew” Yves Mensch: "nothing is pointing to a further deterioration … Of course the markets like [it] if

RT @FedeItaliano76: Marilyn Mugot is one of my favourite nocturnal explorers of urban space in contemporary photography—a few more here htt…

Arne Westad points out that, unlike Soviet people in 1946, the Chinese have enjoyed 40 years of peace & prosperity -> “in a crisis, Chinese