ADAM TOOZE

“Trade talks are mainly good for drinking coffee … think of it as our contribution to free trade.” Wilbur Ross quot… https://t.co/rcT5gFauHc

Even tourism isn’t helping: Btw 1997-2012 foreigners’ expenditure in Italy fell in real terms on average 0.9% a yea… https://t.co/BmdpdMtvPH

"EU plans €30bn fund to help crisis-hit eurozone countries” – Falling woefully short of what Macron called for and… https://t.co/TyQIHusD1d

"If Germany should refuse to hand out gifts of money … the likelihood is high that Italy will give up the euro.” Th… https://t.co/ErlreRRjJG

And as if things needed to get any more difficult in the Eurozone as @Schuldensuehner points out, German inflation… https://t.co/1YmixQFLwg

Politics and the American Trucker Song The blue-collar economy as seen through songs of the road…wonderful blogpost… https://t.co/5IpzMZUf3c

Here is something else to worry about! According to BIS data extracted by @Schuldensuehner Spanish banks have $82.8… https://t.co/qRneC5lIEx

"The rekindling of coalition talks triggered a rally in Italian bonds and stocks.” – its a tops turvy world we live… https://t.co/GNvcy4GKc1

“Especially in Germany we place value in abiding by rules” – Good write up and critique of inadequacy of German med… https://t.co/Z3Rufq83IU

My colleagues @mcnienaber & @Gheller1 pressed @OlafScholz repeatedly on whether he could support Macron's EZ budget… https://t.co/G12qZRo3s9

“The recipe for a larger cake is not centralised bailout funds and printing more money, but structural reforms and… https://t.co/QzdPJZ8Emc

Michigan v. Italy: One of the voices really worth listening too in Germany @PeterBofinger proposes an interesting c… https://t.co/gNVmsrtgnj

When they parted for the final time, Ms. Merkel had a single tear in her eye. “She’s all alone,” Mr. Obama noted. https://t.co/YWe8a7g5nN

Chinese bid for Grammar a German autoparts firm = on top of 19 Chinese acquisitions of $9.1bn in Germany in the yea… https://t.co/PInJSIXt0T

Do you think the bond markets maybe had been dozing a bit? Its politics, sure, but sovereign debt markets ARE polit… https://t.co/06Bv8k325f

"China is shifting its growth model to one relying more on consumption and less on investment. It is also urbanisin… https://t.co/TdQY34XeA9

As an adherent of Aldo Moro, Sergio Matterella was once the victim of a strategy of tension, now is it Matteralla w… https://t.co/ovwH6G3Vdg

Since my book Dieselgate came out, many asked me about an English version. Feel free to retweet this, if you want t… https://t.co/ptEhfjOaZF

Same charts of Italy's public debt holders with more granularity, using @bancaditalia data. cc @Brad_Setser… https://t.co/4DSdrxbQQq

Do you think the bond markets maybe had been dozing a bit? Its politics sure, but sovereign debt markets ARE politi… https://t.co/aiYElPnwdO

This is indeed a very powerful read. It shows that Mattarella made a deeply political decision, which seems to be w… https://t.co/dEQrt3wBvb

Do you think there might be somethign wrong with the Univ of MIchigan sample? https://t.co/vgA1a0blMq

Worth a read when you see the scary (and that’s a fair enough word) Italian yield spiking charts today. Look at th… https://t.co/KxYNcKXUEB

After the ballistic rise, #Italy is now yielding more than the US (for the first time since 2014). https://t.co/2qLMXUR10C

Anyone got a decent source for party voting by demographics in this year’s Italian election? (It would be, erm, useful).

@emmalilla and with the fronts reversed.

@turndeaux deliberately so given the president's background.

@vlarcinese @marioricciard18 thank you for the correction! will amend

Making sense of the high risk strategy being pursued in Rome. It isn’t about the markets in the first instance. It… https://t.co/hzFsU9tVwk

Curious about President Sergio Mattarella who has chosen to escalate the Italian crisis – check out his background… https://t.co/JrwBNrMVJC

"Carlo Cottarelli Says There Is No Possibility He Will Become Prime Minister of Italy” Watch the Bloomberg intervie… https://t.co/iGZ2TeO6IM

Making sense of the high risk strategy being pursued in Rome. It isn’t about the markets in the first instance. It… https://t.co/S6ACuucDhl

Per-capita luminous flux for Italy is almost three times that of Germany – a new front for austerity politics?… https://t.co/p8K7DHwqmo