ADAM TOOZE

The @TheEconomist round up on the prospects of the City of London post Brexit again poses but does not answer the q… https://t.co/HMGvP5cDc5

"About half of all the €2.6trn ($3trn) of euro-area bonds bought by the ecb’s asset-purchase programme came from in… https://t.co/kKt4mhVUSW

GE is closing the Inland Empire Energy Center 20 years early because its gas turbine technology is not competitive… https://t.co/B6iGk21uph

Between them, the City of London and Wall Street account for 70% of activity in almost all key financial services g… https://t.co/Bs5bb5a8Eb

How the experience of survival in a POW camp and ‘the unreasoning vigour of the urge to live’, shaped a mid-century… https://t.co/Jvr3N44jGj

@adam_tooze It's more stark than that. When you examine term length, 44 of the last 56 years have been under a French Managing Director.

8 of 10 biggest power projects under China’s BRI as of 2019 are in Pakistan, within the China Pakistan Economic Cor… https://t.co/GcrZqbBzJc

‘all our circumstances were hostile to individual fantasies; surviving meant accepting the intractable realities wh… https://t.co/NoR3dc6iQf

Fascinating essay by Collini on bio of 1950s Brit lit theorist Ian Watt author of "The Rise of the Novel" emphasizi… https://t.co/f0qOnJwj6l

Clueless, our most difficult problem … amongst Trump haunting Fed Chair Powell images, I like this one!… https://t.co/xxSi6Fjgh0

‘The catastrophe is neither waiting down the road, nor has it already happened. Rather, it is being lived through.… https://t.co/VEaNZ62OAS

“an extraordinarily stupid thing to do.” @M_PaulMcNamara on Erdogan’s sacking of Turkey’s central bank boss “I thin… https://t.co/Fl7tK6oj8u

"You can be haunted backwards, by things that no longer exist but still have impact: revenants, repetition compulsi… https://t.co/KfATIxLObY

I reviewed Tobias Straumann’s elegant but heavy-hitting book about the unravelling of the world economy in 1931. Hi… https://t.co/WGj72NBupW

Follow the excellent Moritz Schularick on twitter at @MSchularick He is really one of the most important voices in… https://t.co/m5TTKdBagf

The ‘persistences, repetitions, prefigurations’ of violence, cruelty, corruption, the way the narrative moves not t… https://t.co/ySJtN8qtVx

REALLY enjoyed this Stefan Collini review of Marina MacKay’s biography of mid-century Brit lit critic and theorist… https://t.co/rCrWUhU5Cm

@DuncanWeldon Hi Duncan have you tried cooking pasta in valpolicella. Add pepper and parm and it gets really really good!

Foreign investors have reason to like Russian bonds: Putin & Co run a tight fiscal ship. Budget is based on low $40… https://t.co/n3xcJg13iF

Since 1990 the divergence in prices of housing (by far the largest asset class globally) btw NZ, Ireland, Australia… https://t.co/k8ViHoElnP

South Africa’s unemployment crisis is of epic dimensions. It has 0.8% of the world’s population but 3.2% of the wor… https://t.co/ca7UAcG1zB

“almost a caricature” of an IMF program in Egypt has attracted investors, returned current account (below) to manag… https://t.co/B8r2dPhqvk

First the accession of Eastern European states and now Brexit is shifting the “geographic center of Europe” eastwar… https://t.co/usN3DtPpAT

Monarchy, which by 19th century was the dominant mode of political organization, has subsequently become marginal,… https://t.co/sk4wobxWnf

"If political economy makes cutting emissions near-impossible, it seems to make geoengineering something like inevi… https://t.co/jyo22pvZHB

Where there’s a jet, there’s a data trail, and several “alternative data” firms are keeping tabs on private aircraf… https://t.co/F1GoChBLTw

Some $40 million an hour in goods crosses into the U.S. from Mexico in 10,000s of trucks per day. @RWhelanWSJ… https://t.co/5EDTgKQkAG

US is unlikely to block a European replacement for Lagarde at the IMF because any credible EM candidate would need… https://t.co/dM5HDHoTku

The downshift in manufacturing PMI has been a truly global phenomenon of the last 12 months. Great graphic from… https://t.co/QOZXg3khBk

Libya 2018/9. How the finances of a divided country “function” and how they threaten to come apart. The commercial… https://t.co/dWDkU7ITI1

The amount of money in fixed-income exchange-traded funds passed $1 trillion last month, an ascendance that has res… https://t.co/lovIM9t0lA

This report on the banking politics behind the ongoing crisis in Libya is truly remarkable. Amd we are talking real… https://t.co/ZnqRSXLIWa

Campaign against Nonsense Output Gaps (CANOO): the US has fully embraced how uncertain output gap estimates are, wh… https://t.co/k3nV8JL5sc

Brazilian consumer demand is off the trough of 2016-7 but still far from the good times of 2014 and before. Data fr… https://t.co/WG8S6tTVL6

‘Contemporary culture has eliminated both the concept of the public & the figure of the intellectual but another ki… https://t.co/BKDUWPfPf0