ADAM TOOZE

“If I buy a tanker of U.S. crude it takes 45 days to get it to China, I don’t want to find out midway that

Fact-checking the Trump admin’s self-serving budget forecasts. @jasonfurman on the attack. https://t.co/DrOXBm0xh2

Strong $ is putting pressure on yuan. "If anything, China has been preventing its currency from falling further.”… https://t.co/o9FMM18yDg

Though convention and institutional power dictates that the story of all German elections is how the CDU/CSU fares… https://t.co/igAQCIfuAl

@RCownie @djtgallagher Do you have that overall data?

Once big tech was capital light, then it went into the cloud! Building “hyper scale networks" involves huge investm… https://t.co/xTsG4EWgTP

The growth of the e-commerce workforce is driven by warehouse workers and storage workers: doubled from 500k to 1 m… https://t.co/3hbPR4Ez8J

The surge of unemployment during the 2008 recession in the US was driven by surge of unemployment of 4 months or mo… https://t.co/bWG4Myjs0j

What is dramatic is the SPD’s situation. Dipping into single digit territory in #Bavaria pushes the party from the… https://t.co/nSjgpLIgPF

Question: when did the German economy overtake the UK in gdp per capita? A: not until the 1960s! and that is West G… https://t.co/onggpqFoZp

Germany’s economic growth in the late 19th century was dramatic. But we should not overly stress the giant firms. J… https://t.co/IV2sHuwGiN

Siemensstadt Berlin 1910: "the world's most intricate and extensive industrial complex under a single management.”… https://t.co/KE2JgvbW1b

The First Oil Tanker, the Zoroaster: Built in 1878 for the Nobel brothers for export of Caucasus oil. Steel-hulled… https://t.co/BrO9A7tEWR

"In 1871 Germany's population of 41.06 million was substantially larger than that of Britain (including Ireland), w… https://t.co/M1iQTecDiI

Looking for the origins of the battery industry that makes headlines today? One place would be the Hagener Akkumula… https://t.co/oxRe2GvBuY

"The critical entrepreneurial act was not the invention-or even the commercialization-of a new or greatly improved… https://t.co/7oNv6Q6lil

Will EU build a battery giga factory? Public subsidies are available and 13 m automotive jobs in Europe may depend… https://t.co/3NUSol3Rj0

If you are trying to understand productivity gap between the Uk and Germany, other than in the 1970s, manufacturing… https://t.co/0zdQnxE5KB

First volume of the new critical edition of Hannah Arendt appears showcasing her unfinished book on Karl Marx.… https://t.co/l1j3QDOcrc

Faced with trade war and heavy tariffs on its US manuf hub, BMW doubles down on China, taking 75% stake in its join… https://t.co/Nw9KuLpFjS

Would also recommend the new Sikdelsky which is dense and idiosyncratic but marks a fascinating move to a theory of… https://t.co/NFRC77HTR2

SPD slides to 5th place in Bavarian elections losing half its voting share! https://t.co/QujnAD1O0z

Today Sears filed for bankruptcy. For why it matters in the history of capitalism, read the classic by Alfred Chand… https://t.co/2uDsgBCGiE

Turkey’s dramatic current adjustment is driven, painfully, by slashing imports, NOT by raising exports. https://t.co/Fh1PuZJt4U

Late capitalism perfectly illustrated. https://t.co/Wr8wAOWcS7

This is the key voter migration data for Bavaria: SPD bleeding in every direction. AfD fed mainly from CSU and nonv… https://t.co/lhDhsURwXz

Since 1946 the balance of Bavarian politics between left and right is essentially unchanged. All that shifts is the… https://t.co/wXCIyq9S4u

Despite the drama in the Bavarian election the share of the “left" parties remains essentially unchanged. https://t.co/tAl4GcvhYo

The CSU appears to have done a little bit better than expected given the catastrophic polls, but the emerging pictu… https://t.co/IVO5jcbOCV

Ill just say that it is great to be read this way. Very grateful to @b_judah and to @Jderbyshire https://t.co/MoanC8B1UX

3% is the level at which Italy’s public debts are widely thought to become unsustainable. The latest 7-year Treasur… https://t.co/NiQV2fv2iU

A rise in interest rates will have a truly dramatic impact on finances of US Federal government. @SoberLook Deutsch… https://t.co/a4BFI9l1re

Is the "divergence between the US and China's business activity … sustainable?” Both an urgent matter and a quest… https://t.co/Y2lUVGnNEU

Btw 2007&2009 employment of US workers with high school education and less fell by 4 m and then flatlined. Employme… https://t.co/FNt63eqi2Z