ADAM TOOZE

@FreisinnigeZtg @jameshawes2 which is why I referred to former GDR/Prussia. Thinking about it, how much of the form… https://t.co/KrB1XWS6xY

The expansion of solar is putting huge surge loads on power networks. @TheEconomist maps the “duck chart” for Calif… https://t.co/19vwvlhpbA

The spirit of the East: "Germany’s CDU should abandon the culturally alien former GDR/Prussia to AfD and concentrat… https://t.co/yIwudyFGAk

China has 942 GW of cool fired capacity installed but that has to be weighed against 600 GW in renewable capacity a… https://t.co/Srag56G5zy

Mass incarceration puts families under huge stress: 1/28 American kids 2.7 m in total have a parent in jail. More t… https://t.co/CfrT1Ts8B0

Growth in total social financing in China has plunged. @colbyLsmith incisively outlines the challenges ahead beyond… https://t.co/2VbhMhF1Lu

@whyvert actually. you are right. @TheEconomist discusses immigration but points out that the economic research is… https://t.co/p2khAO770L

The once highly mobile population is increasingly immobile. Annual rate of movement has halved since the 1980s. Har… https://t.co/XrAVgcn4Rg

If fed shifts to using the “overnight bank funding rate” as its policy interest rate, it will be targeting an offsh… https://t.co/LNV0XH8OfB

How unequally and how fast have incomes grown in the US since the 1970s. Really useful write up by @AustinClemens2… https://t.co/dYGyn2p94U

End of an era in tech in Germany/Europe. From its launch in 1986 CeBIT tech trade fair in Hannover established itse… https://t.co/TCqNLTKlFG

On Blackstone’s giant Spanish real estate portfolio and the leverage it is exercising over Madrid. Don Quijones… https://t.co/hCBwByZG9r

In an age of digital communication and mobility place still matters: the probability of someone in the US having a… https://t.co/aLf0yWoXiW

"we all have self-aggrandising pathologies. For investors, it's that they are the economy, and that the Fed must ne… https://t.co/53krnlyBBX

From convergence to divergence: until 1980 both high and low skill wages were converging across the US, since 1980… https://t.co/R6xe1tKH7w

“People don’t want the whole world to know they r selling something for £40m  people spending a lot of money in cur… https://t.co/B2x6aVvRdc

“It has been a long time since the populations of western countries were “all in it together”. But they once were.… https://t.co/7ylUYD07fH

Anyone who teaches history PhD hopes that their students will go on to do intellectually rigorous and important res… https://t.co/mdF4UnyToE

@Bakhunin This is such important work. Fascinating and horrifying and, as you say, depressingly familiar.

The cotton harvest in Uzbekistan is the world’s largest recruitment operation, with some 2.6 million people tempora… https://t.co/6GvxQXTB3q

Are we in a “good economy” @Noahpinion on why the macroeconomic focus on level of employment that since 1930s has c… https://t.co/lrgXdYNlqE

Since 1997 a $5k gap has opened up btw price that GM/Ford can charge for their bestselling trucks v. their standard… https://t.co/GLVyePOFsZ

How California the hub of America’s tech boom become the state with the largest percentage (19%) of impoverished p… https://t.co/1ZsSYwINBC

Why Japan is a laggard on coal fired power stations and is offering billions in credits for coal-fired plants in re… https://t.co/196o2EYyg9

In 2016 Afghan security forces suffered 22 fatal casualties per day, today the figures are secret but the figure is… https://t.co/5MwGNznKga

Congo cover up: remarkable report by @columlynch on UN failure to investigate killing of two of its monitors in the… https://t.co/5zWGZ4M2y6

Egypt owes foreigners $93bn, 37% of gdp, up from 16% of gdp in 2016. 25% of that is due in the next two years. It…

383k dead, 6.1m South Sudanese—over half of pop—require food aid & 2.2 m displaced and weapons for this brutal conf… https://t.co/OCG7cTks32

In drought-ridden Sahel 6m people facing starvation are dependent on the World Food Program – no more than a “plast… https://t.co/osDnB0yqXK

Latest Ebola outbreak is now the worst, after West African epidemic: WHO says 426 people have been infected, with… https://t.co/8Vjl1TP924

@adam_tooze Tourism is also responsible for nearly one tenth of the world's carbon emissions https://t.co/JomXklNisN

Tourism is directly responsible for 3% of global GDP, 5 % of total employment and 20% new jobs created worldwide an… https://t.co/diETCc8jD4

U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has paid $424,000 to insure against a drop in Chinese students. Coverage provide… https://t.co/bBIlzRgS49

@robinalexander_ @welt Because ROW hopes that freed from constraints of German politics she might actually act.

Does this criticism of the new maritime fuel standards by @TheEconomist stand up? Claims that it will hugely raise… https://t.co/9cMtffGeqC