ADAM TOOZE

If there was any question that the trade war currently drives the yuan/$ exchange rate & not the other way around,… https://t.co/wBHIk90JVe

The CO2 intensity of the US economy has declined monotonously since 1973 but only since 2008 has this been enough t… https://t.co/w2psRUdNjE

Rather fantastic thread on Qatar’s recent economic development and hisetory. https://t.co/CNoslFRfqA

US is the most punitive society in the world and manages its carceral system on a state by state and local basis. T… https://t.co/kbhQv4DUhi

Sectors like tech may be thriving in Bulgaria, but overall bofp FDI which includes mergers and acquisitions, intra-… https://t.co/QQNqCSULQb

Since 2008, the world economy has gone through a sequence of three pronounced slowdowns. Will current weakness be j… https://t.co/cC14mrqY8i

Bulgarian tech is back: A Soviet-era tech leader, Sofia is now home to FT, Facebook and World Bank ICT centers. Sec… https://t.co/Y80DsZzbZO

Agroindustrial revolution: Since the late 1990s the energy sector in the former Soviet Union has been rebuilt, but… https://t.co/p4jsBJSUp2

Currently Nigeria produces huge quantities of crude oil but has no adequate refinery capacity -> has to import petr… https://t.co/Yz6nRQZ82K

First we have QE-skewed bond markets, now we have the new Aramco-style IPO in which barely any of the stock actuall… https://t.co/ZfXzNDCI5D

Shippers MSC, operators of the largest container ship in the world, are in the list of Europe’s top 10 CO2 emitter… https://t.co/Now305PXO0

Since 1990 the OECD has seen no shift out of fossil fuels just a rundown of nuclear and a replacement of oil and co… https://t.co/9uQsHa0pFS

Average prices of cement in big cities in China have picked up 15 per cent since September, ending eight months of… https://t.co/l37DNhQc9b

Shale is no longer about the small, entrepreneurial producers. Out to 2021, EXXON and Chevron & 4 other large produ… https://t.co/vmCL6zzSu3

Questions are beginning to be asked about @VWGroup plan to build its latest SUV in Urumqi Xinjiang. @BASF JV in Kor… https://t.co/5uguJOvXOI

For the first time, thanks to trade war with China (the main market) and terrible weather, the US soy crop for 2019… https://t.co/eO1SAHDdK6

@hughclaffey for slaughtering

Tyson Foods, the giant US meat processor, is diversifying internationally and opening a huge slaughterhouse in Kaza… https://t.co/sMmDVrErR1

@johnweeks41 not mine … just quoting the tweet I quote.

"From Weber to Kafka: Political Instability and the Rise of an Inefficient Bureaucracy,” – is a truly fantastic tit… https://t.co/ZduFGR5Nra

This is what the UK parliament would look like with PR & a 1 % threshold. It would look like normal European politi… https://t.co/RE8xVOrvam

Why & how societies politicize particular distributional struggles is a crucial question. It certainly isnt GDP gro… https://t.co/zj3Ag2YDZj

@JoshBurdick72 @Samfr Red – socialism – labour Blue – tory Yellow – Scottish nationalist Green – Welsh nationalists… https://t.co/rjiUXzJg06

EU commission’s approval for bailout of ailing Lower Saxony lender NordLB is “incomprehensible” says… https://t.co/K6thBLyyDI

The ECB’s latest TLTRO-III program is not shaping up to be the kind of monster that some of its predecessors were.… https://t.co/ikc7koKN9U

@Solinvictus99 @Samfr thank you!

24. Thousands of people emigrated, in desperation. By 1940, Qatar’s entire population had fallen to just 16,000 peo… https://t.co/7fvYmKXypA

This thread by @prospect_clark is excellent. https://t.co/TO5UokASOK

Rather fantastic thread on Qatar. https://t.co/CNoslG8QPa

Since 2008 Russia has found new markets for its oil in China and new markets for gas in Europe. Fascinating paper b… https://t.co/vkeGRRCXaQ

💰 $1.5T to wage war 💰 $87B to train Afghan military & police 💰 $30B on reconstruction 💰 $24B on economic devel… https://t.co/a2ctF2H0Ax

Polarization along age lines in UK right now is remarkable. It is has some similarity with youth shock of the 1950s… https://t.co/ifXTQJyM00

Since 2008 Russia has found new markets for its oil in China and new markets for gas in Europe. Fascinating paper b… https://t.co/rJ2DttGoZl

South Africa is becoming a harrowing natural experiment in what happens to an economy when you pull the plug. Baske… https://t.co/7iM0tjIf1J

Indonesia is bidding for Musterkind status in the Asian economic policy stakes. Here the shift in government spendi… https://t.co/DndYS4p5xS