ADAM TOOZE

IBGYBG – acronym of the day – “i’ll be gone. You’ll be gone”. Hedge fund motto of the pre-crisis era.

China's high-speed rail system is now one of the biggest infrastructure projects in history https://t.co/xAjRLsv3UH https://t.co/uo3TvxYnXB

The devaluation of the yuan that defined the 2015-2016 near miss crisis @SoberLook https://t.co/bjwxHabfMQ

Great on technical default scenarios and the impact on repo/MMF/shadowbanking frm @CardiffGarcia @CreditSuisse… https://t.co/za6uS1dtRj

China’s significance for global auto industry is decisive https://t.co/MJPbgjBHzZ

@stjohnbaptiste @Antonstotle Kershaw’s biog is epic, but astonishingly it does not even have an index entry for “st… https://t.co/tnto3QyP6K

From @wsj That moment in world history when the CCP's Party Congress is vital news for the future of global capital… https://t.co/gQVNYCV22Y

@suvyboy @DIorioNathaniel @DanielHendrick8 certainly more complicated!

@grubernitsch precisely. totally unlike anywhere in europe.

Astonishingly rapid transition of US sugar beat industry to GMO between 2007 and 2009 https://t.co/XmxEjQq35a

Food waste in the US is a problem of staggering scale: $ 218bn and 1250 cal per person per day… https://t.co/DsUGNXOQIx

@adam_tooze I think you might mean "the end of the Cold War." You can see his increase in DoD R&D '81-87 and then the decline

@Brad_Setser of course you right bout 40. Put it the other way around. The postwar surge is spectacular. Growth plus demography. Not in uk.

Not easy for a European to wrap head around: US employ in manufacturing > today than in 1940 = pop growth > deind… https://t.co/Fvqpj31RrW

Leaving the sinking ship: The decline in US manuf employment is driven by quitting as well as firing… https://t.co/LWF6Z4StG5

On the shameful open markets debacle at New America by @matthewstoller https://t.co/JtoeVVe3Ts… https://t.co/tRcbzD7tg4

At least to the naked eye that’s quite an association between net public investment and TFP 1950-2016… https://t.co/MQkWzsdiIr

Powerball lottery makes $70bn for states, at 33 % profit with 50 % of tickets bought by 33 % of poorest Americans… https://t.co/nlNS13FzGy

Holy crap: Google successfully pressured @SlaughterAM to fire critics who called it a monopoly from New America https://t.co/z9jarRwWZQ