ADAM TOOZE

Between 2013 and 2017 balance sheets in Chinese shadow banking rose from 14 trn yuan to 56 trn. Then Beijing stampe… https://t.co/WuCzVGMxIa

Lucian Freud, Reflection with Two Children (Self-portrait), 1965. One of the stunning images in the @royalacademy s… https://t.co/nt60S4BcIL

The surge in Polish wages between 2005 and 2008 peaked at 13%. In 2018 wage growth was back to 8%. Under influence… https://t.co/9V0L6uvuc3

If in London the Lucien Freud self-portraits at the @royalacademy are stunning. Self-portrait, Reflection, 2002… https://t.co/CSEPMO47xx

Oil and gas production in US surged from 2010-2015, then plateaued and surged again from 2017. Now producers are sc… https://t.co/Td4Pa3j9O2

Edward Hopper arrived in Paris for the first time in October 1906, coincidentally a day after Cezanne died in the s… https://t.co/rfrWLD3bfb

@adam_tooze You might be interested in this article about Sudanese mercenaries in the Yemen War. All kinds of fasci… https://t.co/nqQ0GC9AYT

On the left the Mini of the 1980s when were oblivious to the danger of the climate crisis. On the right the sophist… https://t.co/Kvck1KXynu

During the Christmas season in 1974, the radical Danish Solvognen theatre group held several days of events dressed… https://t.co/MLBfma1oVT

13.4 % of Americans claim to have known a friend/family member who died due to inability to afford medical treatmen… https://t.co/97LIJoIUrW

Between 2013 and 2017 balance sheets in Chinese shadow banking rose from 14 trn yuan to 56 trn. Then Beijing stampe… https://t.co/b4DVB1Q3GI

The central bank discussion about how to strengthen wage bargaining pressure and thus make 2% inflation goal more a… https://t.co/DAKb6Vphxf

Weitang town, Suzhou gathers more than 50 manufacturers of violin bows, more than 1,000 skilled craftsmen, the annu… https://t.co/13eZt52XGC

Germany is Europe’s dairy champion both in terms of total diary herd and in terms of yield per cow.… https://t.co/ZmXr3PtdXG

Large majorities of Americans, both veterans and civilians, agree that the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq were not worth… https://t.co/IyRzJz4X6U

The surge in American public hostility to Chian since 2017 is remarkable. @pewresearch show 60% of Americans have a… https://t.co/ekxsRdK76r

Today around two-thirds of U.S. adults (65%) describe themselves as Christian, according to @pewresearch polls cond… https://t.co/VbknvYSLAz

In the US, if you drive an American brand of car you are significantly more likely to be Republican than if you dri… https://t.co/j5p1KE6h27

In America’s hyper-partisan society, it is not just news sources but brands of jeans & fast food that are political… https://t.co/OtEbgM0lW8

When aggregated the shale sector is not cash flow positive & right now the % of individual firms that is cash-flow… https://t.co/SM7AsS4m8j

There may be scare quotes on this story about Algeria buying fancy Russian jets. But the scale of Algeria’s arms bu… https://t.co/Pjw16b0yNU

“Baumscham” is Germany’s word of the season—a sense of shame for having a real Christmas tree despite the ecologica… https://t.co/FiQadF29Hb

A ‘Rounde Compassed thinge representinge the worlde’ Anthony Grafton on Renovating #Rome https://t.co/59lmkO76l2 https://t.co/Esz5EsvHJ1

it seems Macron has been reading @nssylla work on CFA franc regime of monetary colonialism. cc @adam_tooze https://t.co/QC7xcTPgyy

Increasing dependence on nitrogen fertilizers in land-scarce populous nations, 1960–1996 @VaclavSmil Enriching the… https://t.co/YHVccw0arH

How the 7 billion were fed. Global production of ammonia-based nitrogen fertilizers, 1945–1998 from @VaclavSmil Enr… https://t.co/yv2KeXtkYY

45% of non-EU migrants are at risk of poverty or social exclusion. Their unemployment rate is 15% v. only 6% for na… https://t.co/fjsookOaxX

Whereas the eurozone runs a large and persistent trade surplus, the EU28 do not. Their economic policies are less c… https://t.co/LjWZz4ROWI

The EU Member States imported 423 000 tonnes of spices from non-EU countries in 2018. Compared with 2012, the weigh… https://t.co/jyHQjeKBj9