ADAM TOOZE

Are Italy’s econ problems basically structural? Clearly some of them are. But this comparative chart of industrial… https://t.co/VLm626KIgn

German Finance Ministry involved in talks with Deutsche Bank to facilitate merger with Commerz. @OlafScholz has rep… https://t.co/qMf4gu7Vt5

Household new worth in US relative to GDP has surged since 1970s. Hard not to see this as reflection of post BW fia… https://t.co/vv7cImvBan

Want a measure of the inadequate state of US infrastructure: freight shipping costs are a pretty good index of an e… https://t.co/HskvvXwopP

France donates 3 amphibious vehicles + 1 400 AK-47 to Central African Republic: equipment was confiscated on a dhow… https://t.co/XtOudpxumj

Koselleck’s sketch of the British Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm, who taught Koselleck at a reeducation center at… https://t.co/1rogUxG3rD

Disaster Fiscalism https://t.co/NpXwo6Fxpq

“an unusual event outside of the member state’s control” – Gilet Jaunes as natural disaster? Is that the clause und… https://t.co/RrElClYtuN

Despite slow growth "Rural India is changing, in part because of availability of affordable smartphones, which fuel… https://t.co/Du2bVQ0ZYu

"does it make sense to upset a level European playing field in order to balance a global one?” Siemens-Alstom merge… https://t.co/DIg8ZWEkCd

How yield chasing by Japanese investors playing difference btw BoJ & Fed rates created a “synthetic” US Treasury an… https://t.co/CoM65FDYBM

Highly recommend this thread by the excellent @thomasforth on UK and French regional economies triggered by… https://t.co/Z9VGDImKfC

On my reading list as 2018 comes to a close- To Shape a New World — Tommie Shelby, Brandon M. Terry | Harvard Unive… https://t.co/1GRp8AErFZ

Roubaix: interesting long read by @HarrietAgnew on efforts to regenerate a struggling French textile mill town … al… https://t.co/pu1wc9FFq1

How US and Chinese cloud providers are competing on the European internet infrastructure battleground. What the art… https://t.co/Iu3v9J22r6

Xanti Schawinsky 1904-1979 "The chess sculpture represents an endgame between Emmanuel Lasker and José Capablanca"… https://t.co/jHSj9LVXAF

My favorite books (that I read in) 2018: Private Government by Elizabeth Anderson Crashed by @adam_tooze Democracy… https://t.co/VS6MYeGT6q

Hard to exaggerate the scale of intensification of US effort in Afghanistan during Obama’s Presidency @MPhillipsWSJ… https://t.co/oPKpUaohVr

“metering the violence” “The purpose is not just to kill … It’s to shape the political environment.” Fascinating re… https://t.co/clUlJ9PwvS

Offering new insights on postwar French political economy and the actual operation of Bretton Woods @MonnetEric wor… https://t.co/0BKiXc26bl

In the discussion of China’s growing influence the Caribbean once fulcrum of US geopolitics and Cold War has been o… https://t.co/MFq8XwsmBR

On the RBI rethink underway in Beijing this piece from back in August by @tombschrader is worth returning to.… https://t.co/ZRadmLIMI8

Don’t shrink from scale! "If we’re to meet the expectations of the planet’s 7.6 billion inhabitants while curtailin… https://t.co/VNvdz2mM9W

“I will vote for the party that will write off our loans” farm protestors demand India’s beleaguered BJP gov to fun… https://t.co/F1AzSdE6Ei

As soybean exports have been hit by the trade war with China America’s farmers have been storing them. But the bins… https://t.co/G90T6Bfok2

The conversation to follow in international macro right now is btw @RobinBrooksIIF and @Brad_Setser No one reads ba… https://t.co/302sLjD0Jg

Privatized dream: “There’s no safety net, so the Chinese are probably saving more than any other country in the wor… https://t.co/fE5nkEpOSj

"China’s bank deposits, investments or insurance products have doubled in value over 5 years to $19tn at end of 201… https://t.co/OORzkEzVeB

One thing Trump’s tariffs have accomplished is to double customs revenue. @JoshZumbrun in @WSJ… https://t.co/6m2su0wi6m

India’s 246 coal-fired power plants (inefficient and highly polluting) account for 60% of India’s total electricity… https://t.co/ANT0wsK0EX

10 cities with worst air pollution in the world are all in North India: flanked by Himalayas they sit in "region wh… https://t.co/LRjliF35SV

Dr Vardhan, India’s environment minister and a doctor, has claimed India needed its own research to determine wheth… https://t.co/WiYV2RdFzA

Because of population density in worst affected areas, India’s air pollution problem is now far worse than that in… https://t.co/I5H1v8HUxx

Alarming @FT report by @sdbernard and @AmyKazmin on global air pollution highlights severity of the crisis in Asia.… https://t.co/Vj99ZHwlkU