ADAM TOOZE

“If Made in China 2025 succeeds, German industry might as well just pack up and go home,” @thorstenbenner quoted in… https://t.co/MLxdQIQljZ

A Groko for the “little people” (sic)? – @HandelsblattGE has an interesting discussion of Germany poverty politics… https://t.co/FJ0pfUbJTo

"Workers are demanding higher wages in many countries, including the copper-mining hub of Chile, where truck driver… https://t.co/zPMTIzP8bo

Sorpasso 2.0: the moment when Slovakia overtook South Yorkshire in per capita GDP. fantastic from @thomasforth… https://t.co/xvbKXLA12E

“Fifteen years ago, they were global players. Now look at them, hardly a shadow of their former selves. Now they ha… https://t.co/lEfVow10Vx

China is diving the entire debt pile for the G20 – public and private. If this goes well it will be yet another his… https://t.co/u2dHAw914F

Pork pies are out of the ONS's inflation basket. Gym leggings are in. Britain, I don't know you anymore.

Van Gogh was a great copyist of artists whom he admired, such as Delacroix, Daumier, Doré and Millet. Here’s Hirosh… https://t.co/jmsD0EuqRU

It's Germany so it's complicated but basically #RWE now makes electricity and E.ON sells it. They both used to do b… https://t.co/WjWgqx3Zj5

Trailer park nation: 6.2 % of American households live in “manufactured” mobile homes. And two Buffett owned lender… https://t.co/o9NpuWjYKV

As Treasury issues a flood of T-bills foreign investor appetite is declning, an effect compounded by impact of tax… https://t.co/j8pL1hJoSj

Dollar funding is getting expensive for European and other non-US banks. US LIBOR-OIS spread rises to levels not se… https://t.co/tcGelqvE9e

Strangely linear: there’ve been some wild gyrations since 2008 but since the mid-1990s the growth in the UK’s trade… https://t.co/Mw7MTwzivJ

At least four times as many US workers are employed in steel and aluminimuml-using as in steel and metal producing… https://t.co/M4fNtu2x0C

Race in hard times. During periods of high unemployment and labor market weakness the gap between black and white w… https://t.co/VuGRP7NsTI

@JWMason1 yup. I quoted them because I thought they were exceptionally well put.

Great explanation of why you should not believe the apparently reassuring data which show manufacturing's share of… https://t.co/8SYiax7R7P

Catching up with the output of the brilliant & multilingual Danilo Scholz on Facebook is always fun. But this piece… https://t.co/XQ0zWuoXPQ

Our colleague @DurhamUCU @durham_uni is being refused the right to remain the UK because his *UK funded research* m… https://t.co/NKnqkoM3qo

From the 1990s in Germany lowest skilled work in logistics, food services, cleaning etc was hived off into outsourc… https://t.co/EPTqq9t3Gl

Outsourcing – How German business shed its workers in food/Cleaning/Security and Logistics in the 1990s and early 2… https://t.co/UBz16c9Mt0

Global car production exhibits divergent trends: US declining, China surging, Korea modestly rising, Japan and Germ… https://t.co/2ic1p4jxAs

The shift in employment in Germany from the 1990s to temp agencies and outsourced service providers, was remarkable… https://t.co/0fy7UtrUSW

"the relative decline in high-skilled employment over the past decade is driven by STEM” jobs which shrank as a sha… https://t.co/1xKcBp7lvW

In wake of ECB purchases, no more than 10 percent of German Bunds remain in private ownership as “free float”.… https://t.co/7apoclRofq

“Traditional multilateral development banks have not been forthcoming in big energy and China has been more than wi… https://t.co/NvnwTr47o0

One for @FlassbeckEcon https://t.co/eyvsygPT4h

The contraction of the repo funding market since 2008 has been dramatic. Broker-dealer funding through repo has hal… https://t.co/yAI0K7JsBr

Not so vanilla: at $ 600,000 per ton, vanilla, one of the world’s most ubiquitous flavorings, is an extremely valua… https://t.co/uubpfkUFS3

inflation-aversion is not distributed as one might imagine within the EU. Howarth and Rommerskirchen 2017… https://t.co/cnxPYGzUgO