ADAM TOOZE

The weak link in the Japanese financial system are smaller regional banks. Falling rates have squeezed their intere… https://t.co/6bNIL8zYhT

All of the world’s 73 residential towers over 250 metres high were built after the year 2000. Another 64 are under… https://t.co/e2XaSFNBYJ

Cities around the world are growing in 3 separte and distinct dimensions: Building height: floor area/footprint Cro… https://t.co/FblfEiAzvk

Cities all around the world are growing. Some are filling in and becoming more dense. Some like Mexico city are spr… https://t.co/8ecdpVt9JX

Between 1886 & 1903 Charles Booth compiled a remarkable quasi ethnographic study of London poverty and social life.… https://t.co/pUOtJi5BRN

"PMC (professional-managerial class)? De te fabula narratur". Typically fantastic piece by @gabrielwinant on the rh… https://t.co/OWjTvcH1Hw

Trouble in the rust belt: The overall US economy may be predicting a win for Trump in 2020, but in the crucial swin… https://t.co/FpAsTuHpgT

When interest rates are below GDP growth rates the debt to gdp ratio will stabilize even with deficits. And for mos… https://t.co/A1dYtyhYjv

US equipment manuf Caterpillar tracks global demand for investment equipment. There has been a sharp fall since 201… https://t.co/gm72H0kThM

CBO has been consistently overestimated the course of US interet rates. More from @JWMason1 great slides on the obs… https://t.co/idbJKU0WJ9

Germany’s tax and benefit system generate truly perverse incentives at low levels of income. 80-100% marginal tax r… https://t.co/sWIsOS7Tso

The idea that the stock of public debt drives interest rates just does not seem plausible in the US case. Great… https://t.co/W6djPN2RGh

The decline in public investment in Germany is driven by a collapse in local government expenditure since the early… https://t.co/qGDA3D2Ftt

I LOVE twitter … @stefeich pointing out that orthithological-philological research has recently found that Hegels o… https://t.co/S4Qj8nppBp

Goldman’s journey: from high finance to the Mittelstand In the US, sub-$2bn clients now contribute about $2bn of Go… https://t.co/yneX32Fwq6

With all parties making large public spending and investment promises, PIMCO declares UK gilts its “least favorite”… https://t.co/YCjbX1OAwq

@adam_tooze @SamuliGloersen @DIEZEIT Turns out that the owl of minerva does after all also fly during the day: https://t.co/WqiJPBr3d7

We are living through a historic reevaluation of significance of public debt. Great slides from @JWMason1… https://t.co/uFbaFIb5dM

@SamuliGloersen @DIEZEIT on the other hand they fly at dusk …. which is hardly what the eurozone needs!

"Factoring out tail risk is one thing, factoring in a good relationship for the long-run is quite another thing.” A… https://t.co/pD9nEqUXpS

Copper is a huge part of Chile’s economy. Now it wants to add Lithium as a key new material and to move up the valu…

According to Deutsche Bank, 90% of equity-futures trades and 80% of cash-equity trades are executed by algorithms w… https://t.co/kiVmGc4SvW

The Black Lake resort of America's United Auto Workers is a symbol of the heyday of organized labour in the US. Now… https://t.co/gJBeDMfMdK

March of the Machines: On September 13th 2019 Morningstar reported that for the first time, the pot of passive equi… https://t.co/ZevqDNKqan

In Guinea, which supplies Rusal, a Russian aluminium firm, with 27% of its bauxite, Russia is supporting efforts by… https://t.co/MoAXZtLoZl

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has predicted that a rise in global temperatures of 1.5ºC relative to… https://t.co/qNEmKdNilB

Russia is the largest arms exporter to Africa, accounting for 39% of deliveries in 2013-17. And this great graphic… https://t.co/daeR6Zku2v

Corporate America has done very well out of the recovery since 2008. But are profits now beginning to wobble?… https://t.co/lakHrMPCqM

“the Professional Managerial Class's original dream—of a society ruled by reason and led by public-spirited profess… https://t.co/YIZbTvMlrN

The idea that American Universities are uniquely good at incubating entrepreneurship is not supported by a statisti… https://t.co/CjmNtJbRNy

Since 2015 the share of nonperforming farm loans in the US has doubled. Tough times in the “heartland". @Reuters vi… https://t.co/VBrYPDuVLD

The backdrop to today’s initiative from @BMF_Bund Scholz on moving towards banking union is the joint initiative by… https://t.co/mhphvZJHeh

How a surge in oil prices might affect global inflation and growth in 2020. Estimates by @OxfordEconomics via… https://t.co/8WoEAXXrav