ADAM TOOZE

@Brad_Setser @GeneralTheorist @MESandbu @SoberLook And Berlin was doing its damndest to prevent either fiscal or mo… https://t.co/7MxZnNVFsw

@Brad_Setser @GeneralTheorist @MESandbu @SoberLook Im getting sense that the irony in my original tweet on this was not heavy enough …

@GeneralTheorist @adam_tooze @MESandbu @SoberLook a graph to illustrate — cumulative contribution of German goods… https://t.co/K5fhWkws5U

Brexit the first time around! https://t.co/kt7OIHtMRe

4.5 m more jobs but 500m few hours worked: the German labour market since early 1990s w/t @COdendahl… https://t.co/yIpUAiLp59

@delong Waldsterben … but I’m with @Holger_Nehring this particular phrasing is reminiscent of earlier Agrar v. Industriestaat debates.

Another graph for Germany defense team @MESandbu Imp and Exp grow lockstep since 2006. Of course surplus already la… https://t.co/kv1HNJi9Js

Again on Goldman note on econ impact of opioid epidemic. Not even applying standard value of life figs!… https://t.co/cDrP0GgSzE

The really striking thing about EZ current account is not growth in exports but stagnation in imports 2010-16… https://t.co/iMPOpxFbrT

US recovery has lifted families out of negative equity but not everyone. Low value homes are still 8 % underwater.… https://t.co/xfuCcFhNH6

"farmstead death” – Höfesterben – can that really be a word? Straight out of interwar discourse of agrarian crisis. https://t.co/87rHMX17YW

@DuncanWeldon @daniel_todman @MarkUrban01 of course. it would be a pleasure.

"Foxconn isn’t coming here for welders,” on a major tech in in Milwaukee & lab supply and infrastructure probe… https://t.co/ntetsSIhAF

@DuncanWeldon yikes … sorry! i owe follow up on your fascinating thread on mil history/tech/things from while back … more soon.

@MESandbu So UK/US “dragged Germany along” which is source of frustration and criticism. It is the old “locomotive” question. @mhallerberg

@RajaKorman @pp0196 @Brad_Setser @naufalsanaullah @MESandbu Agreed: Italy is the acid test for future of Euro/EU at… https://t.co/m5lLgV9V2t

Can world absorb a German NIIP of 1.75trnEuro? Of course! As @MESandbu says FDI/equity best. Also spread globally!… https://t.co/o9yYNqgdp9

Q of why German dom investment is so low is more telling than why current account so large. On this agreement with… https://t.co/zUD1mG0Khu

nor am I the only one who likes your charts … @GeneralTheorist https://t.co/KuG4q4tyna

@Brad_Setser @RajaKorman @naufalsanaullah @MESandbu = perversity of Schaeuble’s fiscal policy from the capital acco… https://t.co/MO5FVCtClP

@GeneralTheorist @MESandbu hey @GeneralTheorist thank you for your excellent post! beautiful graphs …

@Brad_Setser @RajaKorman @naufalsanaullah @MESandbu Germans are Fr “good housekeeping seal of approval” in a world,… https://t.co/atZtxPU3Pe

@Brad_Setser @RajaKorman @naufalsanaullah @MESandbu Isn’t it rather that you need the Germans inside pissing out an… https://t.co/KWxiUuYnl3

@Brad_Setser @RajaKorman @naufalsanaullah @MESandbu I agree with Brad. French have a pretty sane view of the “benef… https://t.co/yBE9kV4Kva

@MESandbu Aren’t “gross” financing flows from France more stimulative of periph boom since not matched by export surp?

@MESandbu Didn’t flow of German net savings pretty much match the German trade surplus with periph? So not much net… https://t.co/hvCRcLt9vE

@Brad_Setser @MESandbu @Wolf_InTheWilds which is why it clearly needs to be centralized at Brussels level … and we know who vetoes that …

@MESandbu Not mine either and Im truly grateful for it!

If criterion is not “do no harm” but “leadership” for Keynesians question is: what “locomotive" AD impulse does Ger… https://t.co/wHKJDB7mXD

@MESandbu ? German domestic growth spilled over into periph EZ growth prior to 2007? you are losing me …

@RajaKorman @naufalsanaullah @Brad_Setser @MESandbu Yup … so Germany harping on about them basically sounds like a… https://t.co/YWup5HQjXP

@MESandbu Do we have any estimates of the size of spillover effects from Germany to rest of EU of the type that Ger… https://t.co/fC4phmQOgC