ADAM TOOZE

Turns out that threatening a trade war creates a nice macroeconomic bow wave in the form of surging US exports. In… https://t.co/3OruDaRsLH

Construction has alarmingly high weight in Turkish investment. Reminiscent of pre-crisis Spain?… https://t.co/hwA5jOVrZf

That feeling when your op-ed on the contradictions of neoliberal competitiveness discourse is the warm up act for L… https://t.co/Uhze459HqT

"Corporate taxes were the last hope for the tax-cutting strategy. If even that doesn’t provide more than a small mo… https://t.co/0LvHNtnx2q

Turkey has low pre-tax gini, but a welfare/tax regime that performs only minimal redistribution -> net result is o… https://t.co/vWbCEsaAJl

Hard to repeat this too often: at top of cycle, with labour market participation relatively high, but inflation mod… https://t.co/Ds82Ogs3Am

How seriously should one take the convergence in income that appears to have happened in Erdogan’s Turkey? Serious… https://t.co/v39goIgJ5l

Male Merkel or Schäuble 2.0? how Olaf Scholz has become the most popular politician in Germany.… https://t.co/GxdTLsmH5I

How crack-cocaine spread across the cities of the US starting with LA/NYC in 1982 and reaching Ohio in early 1990s.… https://t.co/fDdqlZlzs4

It isn’t the flattening of yield curve per se that kills you, it is the search for yield in high-risk alternatives… https://t.co/7Zu06GtGJJ

How the crack-cocaine business destroyed a generation: The association btw gun possession, gun-murder and gun-suici… https://t.co/nLKNSyGbQp

If Pakistan is forced to apply for IMF assistance later this fall it could become a battle royale over the rational… https://t.co/p7ek1TWIhH

One of the real dangers of having a gun in the home is that people shoot themselves! How suicide by gun and gun-own… https://t.co/HIO1RGdYPE

Bashing One Belt One Road One Project at a time is a bit of an industry right now. So here is a reminder of the

Crack-cocaine epidemic of the 1980s and early 1990s coincided with huge surge in demand for pistols in the US. Fasc… https://t.co/GcXa9DWN9a

How the crack cocaine epidemic caused a surge in violence particularly amongst young black men in the 1980s and 199… https://t.co/K4RhboAdhq

In the freezer! 2.5 bn Ib meat are piled up in cold storage across US. Trade war is going to make it even harder to…

“I’m very Republican, but I feel the current strategy is opinion-based, not data-based,” – how Columbus, Ind. Pence… https://t.co/zBAZ9jU0rq

With a huge sustained trade surplus, either Russians are the worst investors in history or there is something rathe… https://t.co/x4uOdTst06

C. 34.2 m caregivers in US today look afte 45m or so over age of 65. 95% of care is in families. Value of services…

Astonishing according to an RTL/n -tv poll 56 % of Germans think Europe could defend itself without the US and only… https://t.co/Uc8a4gNtxV

Local governments across China have plowed money into advanced screen manufacturing facilities that have catapulted… https://t.co/I1GWClzBvB

@Alan_Allport @WSJecon makes sense. but the losses are in hard hat blue collar masculine jobs that happen to use st… https://t.co/fdB9D6RDG2

Jones Act of 1920 requires US coastal shipping to be in US built ships. As an industrial policy it has not had much… https://t.co/8C6Yf5faEx

Jobs lost due to Steel/aluminium tariffs outnumber jobs gained by 6:1. And yet this is supposed to be popular becau… https://t.co/k1TKGoFZQm

"In 1974 AT&T’s annual report dismissed the risks of antitrust and advised Americans that “competition breeds a was… https://t.co/IBo43q5QGf

“Army” not = army https://t.co/SVoDyNstgI

"by 2027 Amazon’s profits are projected to be twice as big relative to world GDP as the East India Company’s in 181… https://t.co/2DYlP9Fyof

Why is driving a car unaffordable in Motor city? In Detroit, average cost of insuring a car is an exorbitant $5414… https://t.co/pBy1qZg0ca

Racialized exclusion: The combined impact of unemployment, incarceration and exclusion/withdrawal from the labour m… https://t.co/l0B3UYJHBw

Hegemony-Gesamtkapitalist-Weltinnenpolitik? How to characterize the politics of crisis-fighting in 2008. Framing Cr… https://t.co/Ahz9hCGgI6

As the Indian economy grows, it is recapitulating the classic U-shape relationship btw education and labour force p… https://t.co/nS0YAmZ8py