ADAM TOOZE

The surge in right-wing nationalist voting across the EU after 2008 is very striking. From Funcke, Schularick and… https://t.co/uY07jMT4y0

Banking in Germany is ‘fractured market dominated by small local lenders who enjoy political & regulatory privilege… https://t.co/A5RUoViIuh

Peace sausage: During WWI Konrad Adenauer patented recipes for Ersatz Rye Bread supplemented with corn and a soy sa… https://t.co/iL1dX9sV1u

"the requisite qualifications to run world’s pre-eminent reserve currency are relative. US econ = most vibrant larg… https://t.co/H3YeyBOeF1

US Marines in Tianjin China 1945 as part of Operation Beleaguer to fill vacuum left by collapse of Japanese, prop u… https://t.co/FtLqTLuFOD

For all the talk of wavering public support for NATO in US, % wanting to leave NATO is twice as large in Germany an… https://t.co/MqI6moOB4U

In Sino-Japanese war 1937-45 there were 23 battles involving at least a regiment each. CCP was not a main force in… https://t.co/S41leUAtEt

“Germany is committed to a particular political order — built around the EU, Nato & multilateral organisations like… https://t.co/ab8WrZzLhy

The World Bank is a very much larger organization than the IMF. I didn’t appreciate the scale of the difference unt… https://t.co/JXswXP027R

If you compare 50/1% income shares pre- and post-tax you arrive at conclusion that “taxes and transfers are much mo… https://t.co/4JBDqH1rHB

The privatization of financial flows to LDC: Official and private flows from donor to developing countries.… https://t.co/a4cyqVAOQj

In the early 1980s the share of bottom 50% and top 1% in national income was quite similar on both sides of the Atl… https://t.co/XbiEXpDMQO

Germany’s Sparkassen not required to hold equity against claims on other Sparkassen/Landesbanken, treating them lik… https://t.co/qeooF3qc8g

The poorest half of the population earns an average annual income of €17,100 in Western Europe, compared to €13,000… https://t.co/jG2Sp7vKzd

Talk to Canadian economic commentators and what they worry about is household debt. This is why: Canada is far out… https://t.co/oe0SZfuxOT

Essential thread by @Brad_Setser in response to @Birdyword in @WSJ on net dollar position of major Chines banks.… https://t.co/boCUCpjOo1

The real puzzle about German banking is the fact that numerous fiascos of the Landesbanken has not broken their pos… https://t.co/1j7S0zaai5

The @fwred chart showing public debt net of the ECB's holdings perhaps offers a way out. Look at public debt net o… https://t.co/talcCbQBj4

@brucewilson @dimmerwahr @PaulHRosenberg But it’s not just postcolonialism … as Chamberlin explains

@zeithistoriker The view from the Downing Street policy unit!

The Cold War was no “Long Peace”: an average of more than 1,200 people died in wars of one type or another, every d… https://t.co/9sRMLR1qAx

When it comes to euro area public debt, this is the killer chart. The ECB and Eurosystem of national central banks… https://t.co/z93JteGL6m

America’s ideology of the business success born in a humble garage is all-pervasive. This is a nice thread of muck-… https://t.co/xNSf88XO5R

Which financial markets are on electronic platforms? which are driven by automated algorithms and how much of that… https://t.co/5Iem2trI9j

The flow into serious delinquency for low credit rated auto borrowers in the US has been elevated for last couple o… https://t.co/Uq2NUYeIKl

"Securing Europe after Napoleon: 1815 and the New European Security Culture" – book launch and discussion with edit… https://t.co/kJA0nEIR6s

The 2015-6 mini-recession in US manufacturing comes through loud and clear in the capital investment figures.… https://t.co/rs8QXPIut8

Ten years on, the US economy is now approximately where you might have thought it would have been allowing for brea… https://t.co/xDYEiZXZ9h

Excluding Venezuela, Argentina in wake of crisis under IMF program has claim to be one of most miserable countries… https://t.co/ABI8AodkD3

“We are not talking about a couple of percentage points off earnings here, we are talking about business models und… https://t.co/UEWuvtsqgu

"As long as the bulk of America’s super-wealthy continue to equate progressive taxation with fascism, or communism,… https://t.co/X2PyI7hLiF

“It’s like when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939.” Stephen Schwarzman in 2010 on plans to raise the carried interest t… https://t.co/qPtUchNbgC

Corporate America has led the way in the explosion of CEO compensation. From interesting long read by @Edgecliffe a… https://t.co/jjvBDWOGMj