ADAM TOOZE

Ag continues to account for a substantial % of GDP in many African countries in current growth phase. But its share… https://t.co/TLejmf1M3f

A general crisis of confidence like coronavirus causes a selective sell off of EM assets/currencies -> asymmetric p… https://t.co/eLT6Yw81ls

Africa accounts for < 1% of total available global data centre capacity, despite being home to about 17 % of the wo… https://t.co/nssh7Gu3YD

In 2019, companies flared 810m cubic feet of gas a day in the Permian Basin alone — enough to meet all the residen… https://t.co/X4gApB2jQW

POLITICAL economy: How US healthcare stocks fluctuate with the probability of a Warren/Sanders nomination as Presid… https://t.co/ivaBhwL23n

Supply-chain disruption from corona, wave of fear and high corporate debt levels -> the extraordinary prospect of… https://t.co/6Aypl8wacV

In early 1990s AE accounted for 80% of EM exports. Today their share has fallen to 60%. Most rapid growth is in EM-… https://t.co/bOG0oDsEXi

We spent a lot of time worrying about the soy beans, tariffs & the trade war with China. But Brazil is the main com… https://t.co/cYDIsFb7w4

To add to its woes, China’s food price inflation accelerated to 20 % at the end of 2019 driven by the pork crisis.… https://t.co/iSyjOfUCjB

In EZ far too much discussion is focused on public sector financial balance. In Spain and Portugal private sector d… https://t.co/OJnl5BJ9t0

Germany’s industrial production numbers in December were looking terrible. How are they going to look in January af… https://t.co/f773qK2wiL

Whatever the occasion it is worth reminding oneself of the degree to which Asia has come to dominate the flow of oi… https://t.co/k0nVc6SnL3

VW has launched ambitious plan to produce 26m emission-free vehicles in next 9 years, leapfrogging Tesla to become… https://t.co/jYY1vUBfzZ

Ahead of 2008 the YoY numbers for growth in copper demand were crazy. Settled in the 0-10 % range since then. Beyon… https://t.co/5SlRr92ROn

Regional inequality comparisons are HIGHLY sensitive to the units of comparison. The UK either looks very extreme o… https://t.co/8BdBiFFQPd

“I’m not sure any large British bank and maybe no European bank has ever made money over a couple of credit cycles… https://t.co/WNl7auWLMY

VW has launched ambitious plan to produce 26m emission-free vehicles in next 9 years, leapfrogging Tesla to become… https://t.co/0I7cG18qjU

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe …. I did a piece for @socialeurope on the last ten years of the Euroz… https://t.co/GwMwHvHjkX

By 1998, Credit Suisse looked to have cracked US investment banking club. Ranking 3rd ahead of both Goldman Sachs a… https://t.co/Z4CdDOu0cs

To add to its woes, China’s food price inflation accelerated to 20 % at the end of 2019 driven by the pork crisis.… https://t.co/4xBlpPXbgp

In Italy, Spain and Portugal, 1/4-1/3 of the workforce have less than upper secondary education i.e. education ende… https://t.co/4jNf9tzUeW

In EZ far too much discussion is focused on public sector financial balance. In Spain and Portugal private sector d… https://t.co/9futZyjvDd

Germany’s industrial production numbers in December were looking terrible. How are they going to look in January af… https://t.co/dAhGFgCUER

Regional inequality comparisons are HIGHLY sensitive to the units of comparison. The UK either looks very extreme o… https://t.co/euDkp1Geq1

VW has launched ambitious plan to produce 26m emission-free vehicles in next 9 years, leapfrogging Tesla to become… https://t.co/SobmOrqCR2

“I’m not sure any large British bank and maybe no European bank has ever made money over a couple of credit cycles… https://t.co/AIgsYCxmwC

By 1998, Credit Suisse looked to have cracked US investment banking club. Ranking 3rd ahead of both Goldman Sachs a… https://t.co/zQjdNccNYJ

Honored that Deluge is appearing in Serbian translation. Many thanks to Professor Boris Begovic the expert translat… https://t.co/B4PqOcuZC6

Here is the updated list of those killed in Delhi's communal riots that broke out last week. Police have identified… https://t.co/U5u21rxITS

shocked Miami didn't make it on to the list https://t.co/Mz8p9aDz9H

More than a third of South Africa’s state spending is devoted to wages, representing about a tenth of its GDP, almo… https://t.co/rNOwcXVAv3

Shadow banks such as Quicken Loans (offering Rocket mortgages) now originate 60% of US mortgage lending.… https://t.co/AntAbEviF5

California’s expansion in 20th century was astonishing. In 1900 18 US states had larger population than California,… https://t.co/c22SMFg5Jm

“Inertial navigation was perhaps the pinnacle of mechanical engineering and among the most complicated objects ever… https://t.co/oOvB9IkVVW

The surge in mainland Chinese students in American colleges began quite suddenly around 2008. Numbers quadrupled. T… https://t.co/1z19Rf6M8d