ADAM TOOZE

The surge in US government borrowing at a time when the economy is heading towards full employment is unusual and u… https://t.co/Rd0Oi6zDHD

The German state despite being hailed as a champion of liberalism is remarkably activist: As a percentage of GDP, G… https://t.co/sjkjBDjzTp

For those who weren’t monitoring Twitter at 6.36am… https://t.co/a15IV1aBM6

Mindblowing scale of Mayan urban civilization uncovered in Guatemalan jungle. h/t @karl_jacoby… https://t.co/A1fOgD4zuL

As a young politician Helmut Kohl made a regular donation to HIAG the support organization for ex Waffen SS members… https://t.co/KQWPCpM0fT

importing obesity: opening up Mexico to imports of food from the US is associated with a spectacular surge in obesi… https://t.co/ZoNJynimPz

With almost 82.8 m citizens in extreme poverty, Nigeria just overtook India as the country where most of the world'… https://t.co/dxf7IWcWzD

“The economy is continuing to create more of our core customer,” – bargain basement Dollar General now has 14k bran… https://t.co/8JumCfOXzr

Cycle and structure – the US labour market experience is synchronized but inequality between racial groups is remar… https://t.co/vGoE6pSIzb

The booming US stock market benefits only some segments of US society directly @equitablegrowth… https://t.co/mQTcqxlESu

The wealth of the US university sector is mind-boggling. There are 97 institutions with endowments over $ 1 bn for… https://t.co/538JmRYAQC

In the aftermath of the crisis Eurozone investors were key buyers of US portfolio securities.… https://t.co/68qIy3gcSV

When Coeuré goes to that meta space: the spread btw German 10-2y spread and US 10-2y spread. What the yield curves… https://t.co/lpRRK4WA8O

"Yemen is a ‘green bridge’ for these diseases to [spread to] major wheat-cultivation countries,” – wheat rust is sp… https://t.co/fHiw8DTyuy

The persistent slump in business investment in Italy and the depression in construction ought surely to be top of s… https://t.co/xPwKRtUips

The surge in Eurozone CPI in 2009-2011 tends to be an underrated as factor in explaining policy disasters of that y… https://t.co/DfJhsbRRRV

Aristides, Themistocles, Cimon and Perciles. Nope none of the above! The ancient Greeks were spoilt for choice. Gre… https://t.co/bgSjnQK0m5

A relic of the jet age. In the Dow Jones index, Boeing has as large a weighting as Amazon, Microsoft and Apple comb… https://t.co/ydGSBQmgIN

@adam_tooze @SoberLook @IEA Roughly half of US gross oil imports are re-exported as refinery products (ie not consu… https://t.co/uZJNiogxnP

Neck and Neck: China contending with the US as the world’s largest oil importer. Not for much longer, one imagines!… https://t.co/v5frcSUXjh

Parental sadism of the Hohenzollern variety – Questions put to Frederick (the Great) by his father Frederick Wilhel… https://t.co/2NpnfBhiiQ

‘I have experienced neutrality before; even under the most favourable conditions, you are treated badly. I have vow… https://t.co/XEL8S5AH7m

"For one thing is quite certain, if You simply sit still, in the belief that the fire is still far from Your border… https://t.co/KZ9JjJu1cb

Prussia’s abortive effort in the 1680s to establish itself in the colonial slave trade with the Gold Coast – ruins… https://t.co/XcHc11Jxy0

@RichterHedwig Ab Morgen zehn Tage Demokratiegeschichten … Rosskur!

@RichterHedwig Unterrichten muss man halt auch! A job is a job … 😉

Superman: The Life of Frederick the Great (1931) by the American Jewish folklorist Nathan Ausubel – somebody is loo… https://t.co/9W4OujQIW2

Apparently Germany doesn't talk about its history https://t.co/4eWTnq8Vr9