ADAM TOOZE

Global cross border capital flows have not recovered from 2008, but what should be our benchmark or normality?… https://t.co/0LIFuY1eV4

The true killer of 2008 crisis: big baggy banks with bad assets funded wholesale = simple recipe for disaster… https://t.co/7PuwXltONW

illuminating from @FT on Goldman’s trading troubles and its multi pronged campaign for Volcker rule repeal… https://t.co/WPQv86O9OG

vulnerability of an export-led growth model. German economic expectations plunged during 2015-6 EM near miss crisis… https://t.co/fMvCWOPMtZ

Key Fed officials Fischer &Dudley are a little overanxious to narrow Fed chair choice to Yellen/Cohn h/t @pdacosta… https://t.co/V1Wg8OyAqk

7.4 m US jobs, 6.2 % of total are with US affiliates of foreign MNCs including 45 % of employment in auto industry… https://t.co/9bGr3Sk2Eb

Currently 75% of US Dept of Defense financed "boots on ground" in Afghanistan are contractors… https://t.co/8yRBtH6arX

The fragmentation of the social sciences. How often disciplines cite each other & which ones… https://t.co/vtjH9K3JeX

Merkel had quite the day! What with the farming simulator and all … https://t.co/PHJyofmVD8

@natasha_wheatl many congrats!

Italian and Venezuelan economic pessimism at similar levels, suggests the need for some further scaling… https://t.co/ec081OAYW4

Merkel enjoys confidence of far greater share of world opinion than any other leader, but less than majority!… https://t.co/cVYtr1ii19

Quite a remarkable uptick in EU economic confidence not just relative to crisis period but relative to 2006… https://t.co/vQmxwxP3Y2

I liked the Turkey currency crash scenario last fall. Dollar easing off has reduced pressure. Can anyone recommend… https://t.co/tvtraGYmK4

Oops … oh no. We’re ok. The sun is coming back on! Impact of the eclipse on California’s solar power production… https://t.co/iLV7zGhfp9

Whereas no one believes in Trump infrastructure plan China is seen as addicted to investment —> raw material price… https://t.co/ESu0kknkT3

Markets are giving up on Trump presidency. Stock bought on prospect of tax cuts and infrastructure are selling off.… https://t.co/ViwPtNguvY

@Brad_Setser @SoberLook thank you!

Georgia contributes 872 out of 13500 NATO troops still in Afghanistan … Georgia! Romania contributes more than the… https://t.co/URLmq1ibq9

Declining/stagnant share of imports in China GDP is intriguing especially given currency adjustment @Brad_Setser an… https://t.co/v0cEqsWbIZ

How VERY French and kinda wonderful! https://t.co/HvdiS7hFJr

Global industrial prod 2008-> benchmarked v. 1929 remarkable update to classic @B_Eichengreen @kevinhorourke post… https://t.co/x5hE46Xz5A

Hayek teaching at LSE 1948 – imagine politics of enrolling in that class after Road to Serfdom came out v. Beveridg… https://t.co/49JuuEcVZr

AfD voters have a stronger sense of social injustice in Germany (as they define it!) even than Linke @DIW_Berlin… https://t.co/3Nr8VYCaNz

Across German political parties war/peace is key issue migration/crime is AfD niche #2 for CDU @DIW_Berlin… https://t.co/8Xfr8nLWrP

Hourly pay rates of German voters. Amazing data from @DIW_Berlin AfD clearly most blue-collar and doing worst… https://t.co/CSHeU9A96n

Where globalization really shows! In your clothes. No inflation in clothing prices in US since early 1990s… https://t.co/XeMgsJqk6N

Price of Hartz IV: blue collar voters went from 44 % to 17 % of SPD support 2000-2016 v. 37->19% in total electorat… https://t.co/Q0noXkYXpO