ADAM TOOZE

Our world: "In 2017 one in eight deceased organ donors in America died from an overdose, compared to one in 100 in… https://t.co/xBQfird4MJ

"Why choose Jeb Bush trying to be a pantomime bad-ass when you could have the real thing?” On Trump and the make-be… https://t.co/Cnv7P7n537

Enrollment in private schools worldwide: VERY surprised to see that Germany now appears to have higher enrollment t… https://t.co/ohbxrQXBpi

Spending in China on private education will soon exceed that in the US where the market is surprisingly static. Han… https://t.co/26GhI3HZ4j

"The difference btw doing a sovereign debt workout well and doing it badly will have profound implications, not onl… https://t.co/Bp3ZUxNdPX

Its official, sort of, the US is now in the longest expansion since records began, assuming we dont discover a year… https://t.co/eTPAvql9AZ

The global debt forgiveness campaign of the early 2000s slashed the debt burden of sub-Saharan Africa to 26% of GDP… https://t.co/xLGfzaPkDM

As gulf states have begun to plug fiscal gaps with public borrowing, foreign money has flowed into a region long re… https://t.co/av6BhLdzbx

"Emerging markets were the biggest beneficiaries of globalisation over the past 40 or so years. They will be the bi… https://t.co/trptvCUpAl

“With this announcement and the broader backdrop that the ECB is standing ready to do whatever it takes, yet again,… https://t.co/dtez7v2iW4

Whilst all eyes are on the Sino-American struggle over trade, a bitter and disruptive row has blown up over South K… https://t.co/YQwrrNqKjt

Bunker fuel burned by world’s 15 largest ships produces more sulphur than all the world’s motor vehicles put togeth… https://t.co/RPofBaqcSA

The speed with which Chinese students came to dominate foreign intake in British universities is remarkable and pos… https://t.co/9FV9zKlkCA

Widen the focus beyond electricity generation and the modest impact of renewables on the overall energy mix in the… https://t.co/wo074RHFCW

If you adjust the balance of reserve holdings for exchange rate movements the long-run decline in the dollar share… https://t.co/jxHwvxeil2

"I have no doubt in my mind that US shale will peak, plateau and then decline like every other basin in history," A… https://t.co/Ov3dgltqzu

“It was a humiliation, the likes of which Merkel had never experienced in her 13-and-a-half years as chancellor of… https://t.co/03R6LH3QnP

This is a beautiful animated online presentation of the history of the UK’s remarkably rapid decarbonization push.… https://t.co/N0TfNBdF08

The number of “entities” sanctioned by the US government has hit an all-time high. From interesting long read by… https://t.co/i2iDT14Mr3

Trump "has thus far engaged in minimal military conflict, but he has proved an unusually pugnacious currency warrio… https://t.co/TjJGLLGCjt

Whereas male prime age labour market participation has declined in US across board for women it has increased, thou… https://t.co/6DZ7VEjFxD

Fifty years ago labour market participation for prime age men was in the low 90% range regardless of education. Tod… https://t.co/bQdAQs72FI

The bridge fuel trap: There are exciting things happening in renewable power generation in the US, but they are dwa… https://t.co/4hSuUGStDc

Markets for flash memory chips are so glutted and prices so depressed that power outages and fires in fabs are good… https://t.co/gJGBADdWny

The EU-Mercosur trade deal clinched on Friday would create a trade bloc of 780 million people, representing a quar… https://t.co/meCLM3KmOZ

The trade news may be good but China’s manufacturing PMI still points to contraction. Will this mean more stimulus?… https://t.co/pDcxzPDcDg

“hard” data like electricity production and freight activity suggest that the Chinese economy is slowing down again… https://t.co/tigwS0Hz1G

Margrethe Vestager is the most qualified candidate to be EU Commission president. She is a social liberal with good… https://t.co/EBZwpmOBeC

Inflation in Spain is now where it was in 2013 as it entered the post-crisis slump. What is the ECB’s response this… https://t.co/VP7GGNQvfQ

Between October 2016 and May 2019 Saudi raised its holding of US Treasuries from $97 billion to $177 billion. Munda… https://t.co/bBmhxInsKY

High level of post-tax inequality in US is due 1. to high pre-tax inequality and 2. the small overall size of publi… https://t.co/38YguufVLD

The CEO of Munich Re – the world's largest reinsurer – is calling for a CO2 of €115 per tonne. That's nearly three… https://t.co/qDDzjSUv12

There’s been a sudden surge in Chinese computer exports to Vietnam … and guess where they end up? @YapCW reveals th… https://t.co/5xK2M1ux4d

Eyeballing the consumer confidence data for the US over the last decade would seem to suggest that Republican-votin… https://t.co/22WxRR7pT7

US corporate confidence levels are plunging at rates last seen in 2008. @MorganStanley via @jsblokland and… https://t.co/t9wcATTkIt

. @adam_tooze on one of my favorite themes — the impact of the dollar's 14/15 rise on US manufacturing, the US rec… https://t.co/nmPE25tX5k