ADAM TOOZE

Low costs, cheap land are making remote backwater of Guizhou into a major location for data centers in China includ… https://t.co/4ClFbZrgZO

Must read report by @TheEconomist on the repressive digital surveillance state that China has erected to control Ui… https://t.co/xxyMuYR8PF

Climate change is bad, in a fragile environment like Mesopotamia it has drastic implications. Problems water shorta… https://t.co/dde0BAK4Gf

If Trump launches a full scale trade war, what happens if China goes asymmetric? This is essential weekend reading… https://t.co/IR950mQp5O

The dirty side of the homelessness problem in San Fransisco: reported human excrement across the city 2011-2017… https://t.co/C3A8iBmE5w

The other trade war: America’s stand off with Rwanda over second hand clothes imports from charitable donations.… https://t.co/M0STBdLPdH

@Intetyst @DerSPIEGEL its outrageous isn’t it!

Though unionization rate in Germany is slightly down relative to 2007, membership of the umbrella organization DGB… https://t.co/Zp8fk63A26

Assuming the ATT&Comcast merger goes through they will be the most indebted companies in the world.… https://t.co/wqyes81PaH

Germany invaded the Soviet Union on this day in 1941. https://t.co/roSSkJdkYL

This is the reason why Macron needs a pan-European and transpartisan alliance to press ahead. Franco German agreeme… https://t.co/Nr8cp9Y054

These data give a clear idea of the distribution of power within the German trade union movement. There is IG Metal… https://t.co/Pa4Qhcukvo

With China’s buyers anticipating the impending tariffs on soy imports from US, the pain of US ag is Brazil’s gain.… https://t.co/hErIJQyxk9

This is a great overview of the US housing stock, broken down by owner occupier, mortgaged/equity/negative equity.… https://t.co/0b72Oq5zmT

“If we don’t get it into our heads that it is 5 to midnight for democracy in Germany, things are going to get rough… https://t.co/NOrZaSWy0P

Did the dip in US industrial production in 2015-6 is very striking. Though it did not qualify as a recession it was… https://t.co/O1gbPH5nEc

Since debating German crime statistics and migration is all the rage, this report is useful. Percentage of young Ge… https://t.co/U6Hf7ivqMB

Once you put $200bn in tariffs in play it is hard to avoid hitting the great American consumer.… https://t.co/joRgXQwvjA

@phoenixMAGA870 Austria Sudetenland …

Walter Wriston, Citibank & the transformation of the world economy in 1970s fascinating paper by Paul Adler harvard at @SHAFRhistorians 2018

Export of tear gas as an element of american postwar hegemony: fascinating paper by Stuart Schrader harvard at @SHAFRhistorians conference.

Origins of the "Washington consensus": listening to fascinating, counterintuitive paper by grant madsen byu at @SHAFRhistorians

Europe’s new “flexible labour market”: 70% of young spaniards who are in work are on short-term contracts.… https://t.co/WQQZqO0EgF

Beyond tariffs: As action against Japanese and South Korean car makers in China indicates, the huge investment of U… https://t.co/jTTzzEtdNp

Inbuilt bullish bias: buy the SP500 and you are effectively buying the hype. “Defensive” telecomms, pharma, consume… https://t.co/IMltV9Nzsj

Not buying Erdogan: "Foreigners bought just $118 million worth of Turkish equities and government bonds in net term… https://t.co/xvhhAKGhsh

Sign of the times: Walgreens to replace GE in the Dow Jones “industrial”. GE was only survivor of the original 1896… https://t.co/tumcISFA8p

@ozansski @M_PaulMcNamara thats really interesting on the identity of the onshore borrowers. do you have any data on that?

Net FDI into Turkey has never recovered from the 2007-8 crash we are now into a second slump.… https://t.co/sMKXn286g4

Capital flight from Turkey literally involves 6000 high net worth people leaving the country.… https://t.co/6Hk7CjJfQX

On the new generation of ultra long haul jets fuel can make up a larger % of weight than passengers and cargo. Bad… https://t.co/jQVwXeNdnz

Though it is China that has the trade surplus, the effects of a trade war on the US are proportionally larger and h… https://t.co/o7p6uZ1Ebi

@Gold_Failed @SHAFRhistorians “good” thing?