ADAM TOOZE

“People were trying to get stuff out before the imposition of the tariffs,” – how the threat of tariffs has cause c… https://t.co/vSi4xfmrZm

Edgertonians alert! @DEHEdgerton has started a new website/blog. Follow it to follow the unfolding debate around hi… https://t.co/Q05mXhiuIh

Measure American Growth Accurately: Why “average of GDP and GDI” is the best real time estimate of US GDP growth, w… https://t.co/cySZMAd0O8

I don’t understand all this unhappiness about the UK being reduced to the status of a colony. Doesn’t that mean we… https://t.co/n0iVrZFGE0

@marcmakingsense @jonasgoltermann My head, of course, says you are both right. But my wonkish heart beats for Coeuré.

Dirty work: "The disclosure that McKinsey was working with ICE “caused a lot of discussions and alumni reactions,”… https://t.co/jrjk2lPU1J

Russia’s Anschluss project: 19 km bridge at cost of 3bn Euro connects Crimea to Russia, open for traffic since May.… https://t.co/1nRPSCrcRM

"The ECB recently received legal advice that Benoît Coeuré, could be elevated to president …”. Very good news for t… https://t.co/cXH4qtnCgp

“f**ck business”? How relations between Merkel, the CDU and German big business have soured. Fascinating piece by… https://t.co/5cCepcB4Pw

“The Americans and the Luftwaffe want Germany to buy an American aircraft (to replace Tornado), & political leaders… https://t.co/RyAEdnabFe

"Why were there no fireworks at Trump’s July 4 tariff launch?” Typically subtle piece by @sdonnan on rhetorical shi… https://t.co/PEYEXHwzan

Setting aside chlorine chickens, is European food really safer than American? @MESandbu thinks so: “each year rough… https://t.co/iHIsSAHo8a

One Belt One Road in Trouble? 14% of 1,674, Chinese infrastructure projects have hit snags. Western think tanks bla… https://t.co/REg4S54UNN

Executive presidentialism comes to Turkey’s central bank. Remember how the markets’ 1st response to AKP victory was… https://t.co/Mchzflppfe

The gap between U.S. military spending and that of its European allies has widened and narrowed before. #NATOSummit… https://t.co/GEvEjWyTRW

The key difference in US and European experience since financial crisis is that US banks raised capital v. European… https://t.co/sECjz21ePD

An important reason why smallpox could be eradicated was that the vaccine was freeze dried and therefore independen… https://t.co/zYT412ramD

The boom & bust of Europe’s banking system created a spike in cross border banking claims, but, either way, as for… https://t.co/muBi18v6BL

Lira plunges: "Simsek was deputy prime minister, & the last man standing from a group of politicians who’ve been tr… https://t.co/FBKElh4gNy

Deglobalization of finance is confined basically to European megabanks shrinking their foreign operations. Great pa… https://t.co/AKVUFOSrVU

Whilst the balance of the world economy has dramatically shifted, the share of global GDP anchored to $ is as high… https://t.co/z31Bk47kK5

The surge in US car and parts imports from Mexico since the financial crisis is remarkable. Tripling of value to dw… https://t.co/i1WUZs6Xx8

“You are actually discrediting them and undermining their sovereignty, we expect you to be more polite” – OPEC’s re… https://t.co/ar5sdcFZBF

Three largest memory-chip makers Samsung, Micron Technology Inc. and SK Hynix Inc. face allegations that they rigge… https://t.co/rOQwJfJcty

Great data on the career destinations of 8500 PhD historians. https://t.co/fUGVOqZAed

New scholarship rightly celebrates the pre-1980s “Keynesianism” as a golden age, but this lit has a tendency to ass… https://t.co/VNjVh3UOIR

"Berlin is littered with shelved reports on macroeconomic imbalances.” @EuroBriefing takes up questions of Europe’s… https://t.co/GI7gcwqlxF

BlackRock and Citi announce plans to build hedge funds and alternative investment services out fo Paris. They love… https://t.co/zwcGv9jdfp

Chinese monetary policy is multi-instrument: interest rates, reserve requirements, lending goals, capital controls.… https://t.co/Ge196FJEVC

Recent easing of PBoC policy after period of contraction indicates that Chinese monetary policy still operates unde… https://t.co/1jdGDsTzJ2

When China was threatened with crisis in 2015-6 gov paid “slum dwellers” $1 trn in subsidies to buy vacant new prop… https://t.co/EiW8YlwlUH

Target2 imbalances again: we are all clear aren’t we that these are not unpaid import bills. German “claims" corres… https://t.co/ksnzPw9cL6

This isn’t 2015/2016! @gavyndavies gives reassuring take on the current balance of the Chinese economy. Growth look… https://t.co/Vhm41t0Wk2

Leveling off of remittance flows to the Philippines puts pressure on fragile balance of payments. When peso devalue… https://t.co/WQsuxjODmq

Collapsing cost of computers and the decline of routine jobs in the US. Frm paper by Frey, Berger, Chen (2018)… https://t.co/ZcDe0dPiSm