ADAM TOOZE

Global labour markets: Porsche runs a training center in Manila to train Filipinos as highly skilled mechanics who… https://t.co/Q28MROEpVK

An unskilled Mexican who moves to US raises his wages by 150%; a Nigerian, by 1,000%. @m_clem of Centre for Global… https://t.co/hVtxrH1o8z

According to Gallup, 700m people—14% of the world’s adults—would like to move permanently to another country, usual… https://t.co/xnyGbLKxZd

“A diverse, reliable energy portfolio is essential to the president’s goal of energy dominance. Energy dominance is… https://t.co/IrAw6abAo3

There are currently 1.6bn air conditioning units installed worldwide (35% in China, 23% in US) The figure could ris… https://t.co/N82P0xHh3L

“The Bank”: The Ford F150 pickup may be a lumbering monster but it is the most popular vehicle in the US and earns… https://t.co/WAxVUhkXcv

American women are exerting an increasingly clear influence on US Congressional politics. @SoberLook… https://t.co/GAwucOVyNn

In August this year Samsung announced a $161bn investment program. Yup $161bn of which 90% will go to electronics a… https://t.co/qCsQ4Dm0Vv

Despite all the fuss about migrants and housing prices Germany since 1991 has experience virtually no growth in eit… https://t.co/D6putkEmLG

The death rate for white American women aged 50-54 who are high school drop outs doubled btw 1992 and 2015. And thi… https://t.co/3RoOKUm0Rc

The Czech republic has returned to full employment after the surge in jobless during the global and eurozone recess… https://t.co/iBbAGCU6EU

Foreigns students pumped $42 billion into U.S. college and university coffers in the 2017-18 school year alone. But… https://t.co/aZvFml3Inm

@KeatsTabby Yes 35t and 38t were one of main stays of Panzer divisions through 1941 and had a second life as Hetzer and Marder.

Sieg Im Westen: This poster for the Nazi propaganda film celebrating the Wehrmacht victory over France in May 1940… https://t.co/3R2Sw5sIrc

Preferring Cannes to the South China sea one Russian oligarchs comments: “A new world order is obviously better tha… https://t.co/EA0hJt5U6s

The division of US voters between rural and urban is now almost as deep as that along racial lines.… https://t.co/YwgNNtb0PB

“It is very difficult to remain in business for a long time by taking sides . . . we try to build bridges,” BP’s Bo… https://t.co/2HTl3Pi9VQ

The definitive triumph of the motorcar in Europe came in the 1960s. These data from @STATISTIK_AT capture the patte… https://t.co/6qOOLIdyRy

Russia’s advanced S400 AA missile batteries have busted the sanctions regime with which the West sought to punish P… https://t.co/SUzPvPsAeQ

Globalization? Astonishing how little the pattern of Austria’s foreign trade has changed over the last 100 years! F… https://t.co/UDNUBMiKRb

"China has mobilised at least Rmb387bn ($55.6bn) to fund private sector companies that develop technology with pote… https://t.co/Q16IuSioKG

In the last 20 years in Russia negative associations with Stalin have halved. Data from the Lavada center.… https://t.co/0eb2Ueozzs

China extends crackdown on labour protests as activism spreads: arrests include students from elite universities.… https://t.co/uA0WL9DF2i

Something I never expected to see: @leninology writing in the @nytimes in dramatic terms on the bitter rearguard ac… https://t.co/7kZ0dj12wk

@teasri @BuddyYakov @BJMbraun @zeithistoriker @adam_tooze @jamiemartin2 Did you all see this from Rajan at Jacques… https://t.co/UnFJD4jc71

Robert Kuczcynski (father of Juergen) in 1921 on the dangers of “German economic thought” and the demonization of t… https://t.co/eH3rFRXCI4

Did you know that inspired German industrial rock band Einstürzenden Neubauten had been commissioned by the Flander… https://t.co/BZAkhEmXqC

There are 1635 Austrians alive today who were born in 1918 or earlier, the year in which the Republic was declared.… https://t.co/5aczu5tByo

"Today on the Western Front, stands a dross of African and Asiatic savages and all the world’s rabble of thieves an… https://t.co/kVXGvrsxQz

@adam_tooze @SVR_Wirtschaft @Brad_Setser You can find our paper (in English) here: https://t.co/yffeJLzc38 – „Inter… https://t.co/cgAd6escfo

Cutting US taxes by 1% of GDP has powerful spillover effects on Germany by way of current account: in short-run tri… https://t.co/ndrEstKXmb

We aren’t in Taylor world! Rates across AE are far below Taylor rule with NO appreciable inflationary pressure. Why… https://t.co/58OBTmwgkS

The popular idea in Germany that QE and low interest rates has squeezed bank interest rate margins and weakened the… https://t.co/quISv1uO1Z