ADAM TOOZE

Great question: real estate as share of household wealth China v. US? Anyone? https://t.co/mYAb4TREN5

Housing dominates Chinese household wealth & consumer sentiment. 92 % of urban households own 1 property. 37 % own… https://t.co/6aVAx8QJc2

Germany is a major exporter of capital goods but it important to keep this in perspective. It is a highly competiti… https://t.co/53Mqar4s0o

How Germany’s once mighty electricity utilities fell to earth. From Carney’s speech Resolving the Climate Paradox.… https://t.co/XlY7yczBgk

Excellent piece by @KuperSimon on Dutch move to bilingualism and opportunities opening up for a high quality englis… https://t.co/T93cepBPqg

In huge global survey of firms IMF finds that entire 8% rise in markup is concentrated in top 10% of markup distrib… https://t.co/mwXHo0PWR6

"the catastrophic norms of the future are in the tail risks of today” Mark Carney of the Bank of England on the ins… https://t.co/6zBnZOakry

Apart from structures the relative price of investment goods has fallen sharply since 1990 boosting real rates of i… https://t.co/HM4THjRIsx

It is in the last decade that investment in renewable energy sources has finally surged with solar increasingly dom… https://t.co/eNrJ2rtFh4

Fascinating chapter in the IMF’s April 2019 WEO on the falling price of capital goods since the 1990s and how it ha… https://t.co/wmOw783Fhr

Based on survey of 900k firms across 27 countries IMF WEO finds an 8% increase in markup in AE since 2000 with no s… https://t.co/SERQQhElVs

Based on data from 900k firms across 27 countries IMF WEO finds an 8% increase in markup in AE since 2000 with no s… https://t.co/vBqy6ckZTW

the west must not allow an age-of-sail replica gap! https://t.co/4cOmE3ZCpV

Let's talk about the Isley Brothers' version of Summer Breeze. It's absolutely gut wrenching and transcendent (for… https://t.co/zuMG9zaoPH

If we are to achieve the improbable goal of limiting temperature rise to 2 degrees we will not be able to burn the… https://t.co/iBfdJg4R08

Regional disparities using comparison of 10th and 90th percentile. Strikingly Italy, US, UK do not really stand out… https://t.co/ymeNMq5AD3

The anomalous position of the German and Dutch current account surpluses is starkly evident in global comparison. T… https://t.co/cDX2Xsm6Vc

Argentina is on the brink – @colbyLsmith sounds alarm bell as CDS prices for Argentina debt surge despite giant IMF… https://t.co/YKOsEp3cgl

How and why we misremember the economics of empire – my contribution to the new @tortoise slow news website… https://t.co/peQCftWqRz

Jobs at risk of automation by level of education and compensation. @McKinsey_MGI via @federicacocco at @FT… https://t.co/BBpZlePYOg

Heavily manufacturing based economies in Europe have far more to fear from robots/AI than the US economy.… https://t.co/VnzQmAz2js

There is a lot of talk in the US about the collapse of middle skill jobs. According to @OECD the restructuring in A… https://t.co/pFrzX1qYw2

Hipster antitrust at the IMF WEO April 2019, 1st under Gita Gopinath features major chapter on THE RISE OF CORPORAT… https://t.co/S3PWIN29DD

"EU commission’s proposal to introduce class action suits to EU to protect consumers has run into a buzzsaw of lobb… https://t.co/OdTAc3md9q

"While 500,000 American buyers of VW diesel cars used the class action system to collect more than $10bn, 8m Europe… https://t.co/HYCMZVckFq

If we are to achieve the improbable goal of limiting temperature rise to 2 degrees we will not be able to burn the… https://t.co/ydcLR2dL4g

weather-related economic losses have surged since the early 1980s -> insured losses have increased from an average… https://t.co/5ImWGHaST4

Doubling of Brazilian production since early 2000s dominates dynamics of global coffee market.… https://t.co/0JVlHYFrzU

Currency mismatch: @Birdyword spots a striking shift in balance sheet of major Chinese policy banks – from net doll… https://t.co/3a3TrwgpzA

Rich countries tend to have large middle classes (btw 75 and 200% of median income), the exception is the US.… https://t.co/IjpT2e1JNv

How estimates of NAIRU in Spain were adjusted pro cyclically in the boom and then in the bust period. As estimated… https://t.co/ooVFDt77FO

"JPMorgan Chase, the biggest US lender, made $9.2bn of net profit in the first three months of the year — more than… https://t.co/hKbNsea4QI

@schulte_stef @McCaineNL thanks for the correction to the FT piece.

How pretax inequality and redistribution shape the pattern of inequality varies across Europe between West and East… https://t.co/JWXxbD0zef

US top chipmaker stops all deliveries to key Chinese firm on new “unverified list” of firms suspected by US of invo… https://t.co/rK4YPGCwtw