ADAM TOOZE

Merkel’s vision for Europe? An answer to Macron? Long interview in @faznet Some interesting stuff on security polic… https://t.co/5pqN9IhQPZ

That was it? @SPIEGEL_Politik reacts with dismay to inadequacy of Merkel’s response to Macron in @faznet over weeke… https://t.co/44c3MrxIiE

Deciphering Merkel’s “answer" to Macron: This commentary by T. Gutschker of @faznet is useful. Stick it through goo… https://t.co/DZEvCAIWgH

Hard to exaggerate the depressing emptiness and lack of connection in Merkel’s answer to Macron this weekend. She i… https://t.co/FF6AD6yeFH

@simongerman600 @galka_max Assuming that value of empire is captured in UK GDP will hugely understate significance of empire.

@simongerman600 @galka_max Best approximation is surely to add Maddison national data. If the point is throw weight… https://t.co/8tVTdXo2mD

@kongoecho @JeremyCliffe Geography of leftism in Berlin in late 1960s is NOT that of the late 1970s and 1980s. Komm… https://t.co/3Ar4PumTMt

@JeremyCliffe Kreuzberg is more of the 1980s e.g. being the regular 1 May demonstrations and the protests against Reagan's visits.

@JeremyCliffe Prenzlauer Berg could only be an ironic gesture to what 68 became in late, late middle age. I think i… https://t.co/37mFuRP9By

Big. Very big. Would be the first truly European bank. Germans might want to look at the current market valuation… https://t.co/3bsuj1a2MA

@galka_max @simongerman600 Problem with this graph is that it does not count GDP of empires but only of master nati… https://t.co/vd8a2bcL3b

The peaks of the euro zone crisis for the periphery states all have a parallel peaks for banks in core economies. https://t.co/5E39B5Npw6

40.5m acres of the US are covered with turf lawns = 2 % country v. 1.3 % paved over. Turf and lawn management is a…

Despite its huge political salience, total US spending on real welfare programs as opposed to medicaid/medicare hov… https://t.co/eRm6LdSVie

The share of US population on food stamps hovers between 13-15 %: a program that Republicans want to curtail.… https://t.co/kizJl9King

Wage share fell in UK in 1970s-early 80s but any gain in profit share was temporary. Indirect tax, self-employment,… https://t.co/cXwwNvCsmO

"If Apple makes a $100bn in profits globally, and 20% of its sales are in the US, then the US could say, “We’re wi… https://t.co/PkDrtP41Wg

"as a society, we are at a stage where who owns what is extremely opaque. Historically, we’ve done better. When lan… https://t.co/e4uq4bWPKi

The barbarian establishment: This is a really good report on private equity by the @TheEconomist… https://t.co/wNhRoK8elj

Btw 2005 and 2015 nonstandard employment accounted for entire increase in employment in US of 9 m jobs! Katz&Kruege… https://t.co/hIeGtoP4xX

“I don’t care about it” – Nixon on the pound TRANSCRIPT OF A RECORDING OF A MEETING BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT AND H.R.… https://t.co/feVhQpzsXI

In July 1944 the Western powers orchestrated the breakout from Normandy, Guam, the retaking of the Mariana Islands… https://t.co/3w06USOOfh

Top Ten Net Contributors to Systemic Risks among GSIBs according to IMF 2015-2016: Deutsche, HSBC and Credit Suisse… https://t.co/eJXr51Hhgc

Deutsche Bank is a “key source of outward spillover to all other G-SIBs” according to @IMFNews or at least it was i… https://t.co/u5rEH83dmr

Top of the List – Deutsche Bank’s contribution to global systemic risk: at lest in 2016 this was the IMF’s analysis… https://t.co/ah7GQJpIym

Interconnectedness with Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank within the German financial system. IMF estimates.… https://t.co/4mQupa9xDu

"The Chinese spent $261 billion vacationing abroad in 2016, more than travelers from any other country, and China h… https://t.co/PcABofr8rK

The ossuary at St Martino della Battalglia for the Solferino battle is an astonishing monument both to 19th century… https://t.co/ASRsz7IVtD

Gaza violence: Thousands attend funeral for Palestinian medic https://t.co/OjoOAmAAfQ

Overtourism? Global international travel involved 1.3 bn trips last year, more than double the number in 1995, brin… https://t.co/SbJ8oJQeaC

Why despite all the talk of “carnage”, US manufacturing is still in the race: in labour productivity per hour still… https://t.co/twK6LB5e0F

In terms of unit labour costs (adjusting for productivity), after years of wage repression, the US is in fact compe… https://t.co/aXDQoC1CP3

Signing away your rights: Arbitration clauses and pro-business jurisprudence have increasingly stripped American wo… https://t.co/3BNSMmqbK8