ADAM TOOZE

China’s statistics agency admits mistakenly publishing year-old monthly inflation, producer price data for June 2020 https://t.co/MKRxf4yot6

China will build six to eight nuclear reactors a year between 2020-25 raising total capacity to 70 GW up 43.5%. 202… https://t.co/MPOtWGTZKU

Ukrainian aero-engine producer Motor Sich is a key Soviet-era asset in China’s program to break through to high tec… https://t.co/LF5rbpangw

Only 4 times since 1945 has a state attempted to conquer & absorb another: N Korea invasion of south 1950. N Vietna… https://t.co/BlNv8iLyEU

China’s statistics agency admits mistakenly publishing year-old monthly inflation, producer price data for June 2020 https://t.co/MKRxf4PZRG

Vladimir Putin has delayed his flagship $360bn national investment plan by six years as the coronavirus pandemic pi… https://t.co/CnLfrlYh1P

Housing insecurity: a third of US renters continue to worry about their ability to pay rent next month. @Nomura via… https://t.co/Y7OfTnQ7Sf

The lucky ones: Brexit triggered c. 30k Brits into applying for German citizenship (and receiving it).… https://t.co/MTuql76bV8

Low interest rates -> debt service is likely to be a diminishing burden on the UK gov budget going forward.… https://t.co/htUgIhi2Ua

How household saving unwinds in the Eurozone will be a crucial variable in the speed of the recovery. Assuming one… https://t.co/Zi6OQWtXHZ

The historic political turmoil in Hong Kong is not deterring foreign investors from using Stock Connect to buy into… https://t.co/gmE9N7dPye

The Aesir-Vanir War resulted in the creation of a new order among the Norse gods, uniting the ancient Aesir, gods w… https://t.co/sZzrfRHmQD

Prices for lumber are soaring as homebuilders in US make up for lost time, DIY projects create demand for plywood a… https://t.co/veqv1u4fk4

Fed's corporate credit program has grown to just $10.7 bn of which only $1.3 bn is from individual issuers (not ETF… https://t.co/fvXW5nmz7o

2008-2014 saw a huge expansion in reserves with Fed held by foreign banks. In normalization that shrank. 2020 Fed i… https://t.co/oGQYArsk2Q

The US may be running huge "twin deficits" right now (gov budget & trade account). But that does not mean that it i… https://t.co/4eAhg4URAE

Domestic demand: US Treasury is issuing huge quantity of new debt. Whereas Fed is buying longer-dated bonds and not… https://t.co/7Zql41qTpr

The US has seen a record number of large healthcare bankruptcies this year! Yes. You read that right.… https://t.co/BMITKBzaRH

Why the “doomsday” Thwaite’s glacier is so crucial to the stability of wider West Antartica ice sheet.… https://t.co/nJYHwdbfKS

“One by one, people are seeing something so absurd that it takes them out of commission,” On the stresses of being… https://t.co/TDxBo0lfzu

Right-wing Polish presidential incumbent Duda dominated the countryside and small town world of Eastern Poland to w… https://t.co/pO2PbcQuul

WHO funding is 87% “voluntary” donations rather than regular membership payments. Those are then directed towards e… https://t.co/TdVOnbWjYX

The WHO’s budget was only $5.84bn for the two years 2020-21. Now topped up to $7.2bn. Of that only 54% came from na… https://t.co/YftGTz48Z2

Why is WHO funding such a dogs' dinner of oligarchic foundations, corporations (sic) and national governments? Why… https://t.co/NaQSAPol3F

Brazilian pensioners, wear ‘space suits’ to protect themselves against the coronavirus as they walk on the sidewalk… https://t.co/cFhYS5lItC

So far has China moved up the value chain that there are almost as many garment workers in Bangladesh as in China.… https://t.co/Vx3up6wTXy

"many statements have the effect of relieving unconscious drives, not in spite, but because, of the fact that they… https://t.co/hrJKTh8JEy

Clothes make up 85% of Bangladesh’s exports and 75% of Cambodia’s. Garment sector has taken a huge hit from Covid.… https://t.co/IPD9XPOrNh

During the Cold War, Canada developed a large autonomous unscrewed cable-laying vehicle to connect a top secret lis… https://t.co/UBU6COb0R8

Jihadists seized control of chunks of Mali in 2012. They have since pushed into Niger and Burkina Faso -> 4,800 peo… https://t.co/i7Kkw8Ampf

"Mark Rutte makes an unconvincing villain. In person, the Dutch prime minister resembles an over-caffeinated vicar,… https://t.co/MjSpi2cXGi

Jihadists seized control of chunks of Mali in 2012. They have since pushed into Niger and Burkina Faso -> 4,800 peo… https://t.co/fGYJyGGiMG

"Mark Rutte makes an unconvincing villain. In person, the Dutch prime minister resembles an over-caffeinated vicar,… https://t.co/jCCxWlQ2lF

"Second modernity witnesses the end of the antithesis between nature and society. That means that nature can no lon… https://t.co/8Bskzv5Rhh

How I imagine the lecture: What it actually looks like: https://t.co/RRSnRFOoFt