ADAM TOOZE

China’s car market, the largest in the world, is now contracting at a rate not seen since 2008 when it was FAR smal… https://t.co/ryab2hFIq8

If the ECB has to follow through on ending QE but doesn’t want to throttle the EZ, one wheeze would be launch new r… https://t.co/4TqHgR361t

After a few quarters of slightly less than lifeless activity the Eurozone is relapsing again, so the appropriate po… https://t.co/8KXs3KtUBD

US export base is now so diminished that not obvious that it can offset a domestic slowdown @Brad_Setser "10 % fall… https://t.co/7AhlN6LvEM

Some bad news from Apple and look what happens to market expectations of a rate cut. Jumps from 10 to 50% Data from… https://t.co/hSWPoHM2ud

@warde_paul @njamescouk Hi Paul … But the scales are totally different. Of course you can get rapid growth starting from close to zero.

What seems striking about the UK’s current account apart from the persistent large deficit is its composition: defi… https://t.co/lPXJskta8s

Backdrop to compromise btw Rome and Commission includes very bad news from Italian economy: Italy's manufacturing o… https://t.co/xOJs2assAN

Whoever is going to take a hit in the US high yield corporate bond market it is not going to be retail investors wh… https://t.co/BN8blPNHAF

@njamescouk Not on that time scale. Ind rev doesn’t come close

2 basis points from inversion: The US 10yr-1yr spread is about to invert. The essential graphs of @SoberLook of the… https://t.co/wC48v4rPYB

This is an extraordinarily sad story. Such fond memories of visiting the Peoples Palace and the gardens with family… https://t.co/W51zB3CxRV

@OliverCooper thanks for the addendum. I was wondering about that.

Our World: "Serbia: China’s Open Door to the Balkans” Yup. Serbia-China. Tito&Mao weren’t tight. But Belgrade, f… https://t.co/naAFIBzRXW

Arguably THE most dramatic graphs in all of economic history: surge in global steel production from 400m tons in 20… https://t.co/OXr8SwrSUc

@Noahpinion @martinwolf_ Hi @Noahpinion I think you are being a bit kind. Martin isn’t talking about living standar… https://t.co/gPNSAsU2UV

Steel industry is the largest industrial producer of CO2, responsible for 70-9% of all direct emissions from fossil… https://t.co/pTTmlnUg7j

Our world: "Stung by impact of GFC, the hilly city of Yunfu in Guangdong province decided in 2009 it was time for a… https://t.co/Sd8k4vinGz

Peak China. @martinwolf_ takes seriously a forecast by @CapEconMarkets that has China’s share of global GDP lower i… https://t.co/fG9c0VpDVT

China’s share of GDP will be lower in 2040 than in 2018 … yup you read that correctly. That at least is the forecas… https://t.co/AoLLiQyutz

"Do not extrapolate from the recent past" argues @martinwolf_ throwing cold water on idea of an inevitably Chinese… https://t.co/VMPleA9cAK

China’s PMI is back in territory it has not been in since 2016. In retrospect the shock to the Chinese economy in 2… https://t.co/UEFMpiDHkI

Long or short 20th century? Or should that be a half millennium back to 1492? Entertaining and thought-provoking ri… https://t.co/8A8wGmnZsg

@zeitonline This take down of Angela Merkel’s bland new year's speech by the brilliant polemicist Mely Kiyak is hilarious!

@AHWilkes @Noahpinion @martinwolf_ Or one could say that @Noahpinion is objecting to @martinwolf_ own exercise in e… https://t.co/BIx4tIL7RO

Could china be the big new customer that India’s peasants desperately need? Chinese commentators are skeptical.… https://t.co/64LMtswNAw

Fantastic rant by @Noahpinion this morning in response to some sloppy logic in @martinwolf_ opening piece of the ye… https://t.co/kHKnisAzUk

How cobalt has become so valuable that it is stolen out of warehouses in Rotterdam. Great atmospheric report by… https://t.co/tYDBa98HPo

@D_Blanchflower Point of Maginot was to set up a battlefield in North on which French thought they could win again.… https://t.co/Yh0g0I85I5

@D_Blanchflower Hi @D_Blanchflower please don’t tar Maginot by association with Trump’s ghastly folly. Point of Mag… https://t.co/BuEu4scdpD

Sherman's men destroy a Confederate railroad outside Atlanta, 1864. More images: https://t.co/O9mUbgpuUj https://t.co/fasWik6Oei

Entrepreneur zero: Zhang Huamei, a button and clothing-accessories trader from Wenzhou, was the first person in Chi… https://t.co/23ija6yGnS

"China’s liberals do not admire Mr Trump. It is more that they hope he will prove a bigger bully than Mr Xi. On thi… https://t.co/mmhW0bhIk3