ADAM TOOZE

The present dominates the past: In the last thirty years we have emitted as much CO2 as all previous human civiliz… https://t.co/FQbuAbO7z7

The offshore renminbi is the “focal point” for trade tensions. “Were it to hit 7.00, alarm bells would ring even lo… https://t.co/GPt0ZYmMNK

Et tu, Fed Chair Jay Powell? Central Bank of Ireland has the jump on u? "We plan to incorporate considerations rela… https://t.co/QOhwTWlYXd

A “concert of nations”: Nice review by @KuperSimon of important new book by @LuukvMiddelaar on realities of Europe’… https://t.co/zHWoDHJkWd

The UK’s FX reserves in the fourth quarter 2018 were raised to $146bn. Apparently result of strategic build up to c… https://t.co/dfzin8z3de

The gap between Turkey’s reported FOREX reserves and reserves net of swaps continues to expand leaving… https://t.co/B8zrYOeWS9

‘globalisation is a tendency that has, in the majority of cases, been swamped in recent decades by a regionalising… https://t.co/hHDFvvJvpM

The recent "crisis of democracy" literature has been a remarkable thing. My @nybooks piece is very late to the part… https://t.co/gIzseJTVtq

When the problem are the immediate neighbors, the myths of globalism and the “death of distance” actually enable na… https://t.co/wasO0gdPh0

@Brad_Setser @MESandbu In fairness to Martin he does suggest the he would like to separate the investment issue fro… https://t.co/hxrRJjhaBc

The question is justified! At 7.25% of GDP even Jens Weidmann agrees that German current account surplus is excessi… https://t.co/xo6HOnvEBs

Distance is not dead, indeed in a world of widespread manuf capacity and diminishing significance of commodity trad… https://t.co/7LWASwEMLd

How 1m shoes and 373,000 toothbrushes washed up on tiny and remote Pacific islands along with 238 tons of other pla… https://t.co/A2OP2rHCEL

Tech composition of Chinese exports to Germany contrasts with the mech engineering/motor vehicles that dominate Ger… https://t.co/BY0w0eCc09

“In five years we will find ourselves in an Islamic state, based on precariousness, hunger and fear” Salvini. Is ra… https://t.co/6MliGjvUvM

In debate about future of Dollar US experts split: West Coast @B_Eichengreen argue that multipolarity is future v.… https://t.co/0if4FGwyrx

The Eurogroup of Finance Ministers will this week welcome an unapologetic white supremacist, Helme of the Estonian… https://t.co/vygZDvQX7A

As hurricane Sandy blacked out lower Manhattan in October 2012, the generators in Goldman Sachs’s building kicked i… https://t.co/RoscbTS3w6

@adam_tooze @topdowncharts @SoberLook there is a deep reason for the correlation — the reserve requirement was the… https://t.co/tJa7ahce01

"If dialling down criticism of surplus in times of plenty could buy acceptance of proper countercyclical fiscal pol… https://t.co/bB4UBIZdB6

The insider accounts of the operation of global institutions like WTO and IMF that @PaulBlustein has produced are e… https://t.co/ZBolQ8V6oQ

The shift in the balance of cumulative historical CO2 emissions is spectacular. By 2015 the non US/EU share was alr… https://t.co/6wo2t83FSA

C19th incorporation of 'unstrategic and uneconomic' visual elements. as befitted any public building. These were no… https://t.co/B1pKyCx2ec

"wanting global relevance while avoiding tough discussions.” You cant spend any time in Berlin without sympathizing… https://t.co/LDCZgwDU3R

Schroders, an asset manager, looked at 11,000 listed global companies and found that physical climate risk would cu… https://t.co/CK8LGyD5Y6

Since 1995 Germany has seen some of the slowest capital stock growth of all Advanced Economies.… https://t.co/srIuParYFA

This projection has pro-EU liberals and Greens gaining as many seats this month as anti-EU radical right nationalis… https://t.co/RJfv30cvaY

China is responsible for 34% of electricity consumed worldwide for air conditioning v. 20% for the US.… https://t.co/qhwmevTPLh

Since 1998 labour productivity has grown more in France than in Germany. UK and US outpace both. @OECD via… https://t.co/xzJOMJR1n2

The 1960s plan to glue together the pages of the works of Talcott Parsons as an act of “creative vandalism” (John L… https://t.co/sNMp3ILB3f