ADAM TOOZE

“The Chinese don’t yet understand that when US feels its leadership is threatened, they will react brutally.” Senio… https://t.co/tg6fqkdC9z

UniCredit’s sale of an entire €3 bn 5-year senior non-preferred bond at 7.83% to Pimco is demonstration of its fund… https://t.co/Sb2TRLB4sJ

…in which @adam_tooze and I explore what an international role for the euro would imply. And explainer-cum-policy… https://t.co/h3KLnujooN

"The Democratic Republic of Congo has declared its huge resources of electric car battery metal cobalt “strategic”… https://t.co/lOV1YiEaaM

"At heart of US’s problem in defining an econ strategy towards China is the awkward fact that if Chn had been fully… https://t.co/8Q3c0qfaSD

"Rather than attempting to put ceiling on China’s legitimate econ growth, westrn efforts might be better focused on… https://t.co/DpJCnzPmYF

"Chn appears willing to accommodate US on specific trade issue as long as US accepts its right to flourish & grow,… https://t.co/eM0UwZFHhf

Total foreign holdings of Chinese domestic stocks and bonds — denominated in renminbi — rose to $462.2bn at the end… https://t.co/y7d9mi6DiY

"Can US imagine a global system in 2050 in which its economy is half the size of the world’s largest? Even if we ca… https://t.co/xlyjPqVfRs

@davidgraeber @city_affairs But are you with Clemenceau? “The Revolution en bloc”?

Yesterday was the 120th anniversary of the birthday of Mikhail Ilyich Koshkin designer of the legendary T34 tank, w… https://t.co/ezrBQa29s1

"Agriculture’s earliest shoots sprung up in four river valleys: the Nile delta, Mesopotamia, the Indus River valley… https://t.co/SfGPFPaXkU

In a strange inversion of history, China has agreed to clamp down on sales of opium to the West

Face to face with this magnificent image by #CharlesWhite at the @MuseumModernArt I couldn’t help thinking of Käthe… https://t.co/661otPOkqu

The #CharlesWhite show at the @MuseumModernArt is a bit of a revelation. Go if you are in NYC! Also… https://t.co/1CllNqdqju

Bigger in China. The global cinema audience is shifting: "Several big-budget Hollywood productions, including Steve… https://t.co/00n22uVfzp

Great slew of charts on the US labour market in this series triggered by @Noahpinion @DeanBaker13 and… https://t.co/YmzQ4zR2N6

Erich Auerbach’s notes on reading Ernst Bloch’s Geist der Utopie. @faznet feuilleton and education pages are a week… https://t.co/ScRSR28Oqs

"Democrats in tenements, six floors worth! 2 for every square meter.” The aristocratic hostility of literary theori… https://t.co/0eLnPdnWkm

Philosopher and polymath Hans Blumbenberg is unlikely to be appearing on a German stamp any time soon. @PBahners di… https://t.co/YXTrv1UFek

A monetarist take on the slowdown in China. Growth in M1 is way down in line with growth in nominal GDP.… https://t.co/FTKpaYksMG

Data for gender balance at top 1% and bottom 1% of wage distribution are pretty striking for AE. Several “progressi… https://t.co/LgewkD4wCq

Interesting report on the relevance of ILO push to expand coverage of wage statistics for Africa when only 10% of w… https://t.co/V0ZcCkT2iP

Real wage growth in the G20 was disappointingly low in 2017 and no more than 0.4% in AE but China boosts the averag… https://t.co/yGGkkxblU5

Amongst weird historical coincidences …. original McDonalds opened in California in May 1940 in week of Fall of Fra… https://t.co/G1daz1bFs5

This is an important thread by @TarikCyrilAmar on the politics of remembering who actually ended the Cold War i.e.… https://t.co/r03EwkiL3S

"Global real wage growth in 2017 at 1.8% was not only lower than in 2016 2.4%, but fell to its lowest growth rate s… https://t.co/Ai6Uku5ACG

Whatever it takes may have stopped the crisis in 2012 but Draghi did not actually put his foot on the gas until spr… https://t.co/QjSIbnHT1b

Delighted. I honestly always wished to see the book in airport bookstores. But until you sent the photo I saw it on… https://t.co/Jne8vF0Iuv

@jayphoward @TheEconomist because solar goes offline and people are still awake.

“the (IMF’s) current policy can give individual official bilateral creditors a veto over Fund lending decisions.” o… https://t.co/0Af2LNj605

Just published my latest post to say three things about the world today: The world is much better The world is aw… https://t.co/nfsqHrJUR1

Confused about what exactly Xi and Trump promised each other yesterday? Here's a side-by-side comparison of the r… https://t.co/ifsbFHGqpm

“Draghi understands that the euro is a deeply political project, and he’s made a big contribution to saving it” Wol… https://t.co/50ItzFqGY7