ADAM TOOZE

Capitalism with American characteristics: mortgage finance in the US continues to be dominated by Fed-gov backed GS… https://t.co/64xpS78MXq

China’s current account is far closer to balance than it has been in decades with goods surplus covering “tourism”… https://t.co/i1tkxmfwhN

The international issuance of bonds denominated in RMB has plunged since 2015. Great write up by @colbyLsmith on fa… https://t.co/eiUB122joi

"What are China’s two biggest imports? Integrated circuits/semiconductors ($300 billion in 2017) and crude oil and… https://t.co/pVDoyT2x8D

"Defensible spaces need to become the norm for the millions of residents who live in the 40% of California classifi… https://t.co/ul1iwQRilz

"Since 2014, US non-oil goods deficit has basically doubled in dollar terms—initially because of a fall in exports… https://t.co/qrj0yDfLqN

The exponential rate of human economic growth that occurred over the last century aka “the hockey stick” from a wor… https://t.co/ypXNz3K2r7

"The starting point … is recognizing that the Fed more likely than not made an error by boosting rates this month.”… https://t.co/HAD8wI8G9W

Decline in manuf jobs in US is associated with 12% increase in the racial wage gap for men, a 4.5% increase in the… https://t.co/YZXOtYCDaV

"dollar stores are now feeding more Americans than Whole Foods is” & "the presence of dollar stores appears to corr… https://t.co/hgbdP2Zhhy

How bad are trade wars? GE long run trade models yield very modest predictions even for huge tariff hikes.… https://t.co/v7bV8fiLTb

Can the UK’s office of national statistics replace the census that goes back to 1801 by cross-linking other individ… https://t.co/iV0yQTy5z8

As QE tapers and markets wobble, with China and US leading the way, 2019 is likely to be a year of fiscal stimulus.… https://t.co/DkNVrLAtpF

"Since the middle of the 20th century, nationalism has gone global. In China, for example, we see the creation, for… https://t.co/pL6gKsPPe9

Under pressure of debts accumulated in 1970s and 1980s Italy has run since the mid 1990s perhaps the most austere f… https://t.co/g11zttjW1h

2017-8 has seen a pushback against Chinese M&A deals. The US leads the way but it is a global trend.… https://t.co/aJd22CKcSv

Forging Ahead, Falling Behind and Fighting Back: British Economic Growth from the Industrial Revolution to the Fina… https://t.co/1OxwXq0paX

Mood swings in equity markets are dampening M&A activity and making it much harder to agree deals.… https://t.co/slAT0UcIvO

"Fund managers are now more bearish on global growth than at any time since the financial crisis.” @BankofAmerica v… https://t.co/o5TC1XHe0X

FYI: "It's important to reiterate that while economists expect a slowdown, they are not forecasting a recession.” J… https://t.co/JFeldmNayw

“What strikes the reader again and again in Chamberlin’s bleak account is how blithe the superpowers were about the… https://t.co/6xGG6FCHnb

Seven out of 10 people who died in violent conflicts between 1945 and 1990 died in a region stretching from Lebanon… https://t.co/o3M6gyI93A

No, the Target payment system is not a “systemic failure”, but a well-functioning and essential part of the #euro.… https://t.co/zcqtlO6nYK

Whether from Africa, Asia or Europe, France does better than Germany at attracting high skilled migrants!… https://t.co/JxAfo2g0jy

"During the Napoleonic wars black pepper became unobtainable and was the price of gold, so Turkish peppers became p… https://t.co/tsmCJCNDEW

The end of QE and advent of Fed tightening has coincided with 93% of assets yielding a negative total return in dol… https://t.co/8cpTLAi30w

Of all Europe’s manufacturing sectors at risk from a trade war with Trump Germany’s auto industry is the largest bo… https://t.co/R3qLWXsGtj

“three critical battles” – the annual Economic Work Conference concludes that policy agenda for China has to shift… https://t.co/hfMyGLWRQt

Climate change and island sovereignty. How do we navigate a world in which states have limited life spans? A lot of… https://t.co/mNFBmJIwZ8

Since the early 1970s Norway and the UK pumped very similar quantities of oil and gas out of the North Sea, the ret… https://t.co/UwpOXV8FL4

If you are asking “will there be another 2008?” this is the crucial chart: showing less than 5% of leveraged loans… https://t.co/JY3B6cGUU9

Bundesbank apprehends SantaClaus … this may be tongue in cheek. But I am just not sure …;) https://t.co/r5qzdPDASL

This is a completely amazing thread by @Undercoverhist on the Japanese economist Hiro Uzawa … https://t.co/kwqz84Bbu4