ADAM TOOZE

Only Switzerland, Netherlands, Norway and Denmark tax non-road CO2 emissions at rates anywhere a minimum necessary… https://t.co/gq55yPpzDs

Carbon taxation across the advanced economies are a hopeless hogpodge of rates with most too low to have any real e… https://t.co/65VF1duN0E

John Dizard @ftopinion asks an important question. And I have no idea what the answer is https://t.co/UqeVZMgCdq https://t.co/uMSxSp4Y5y

@GarabedianAlex Le même!

“The suspicion that behind this measure lies an intent to protect heavily indebted governments from a rise in inter… https://t.co/3nrhY6t38r

In America median income for family of 4 in 2017 was $94,876—yet the poverty threshold was just $24,600, or 26% v.… https://t.co/wfOp7YVAOj

Open war in the European central banking fraternity as Stark and Issing head a letter of conservative protest again… https://t.co/fAKNCr7LQm

The flux of migrant workers to Europe and within Europe since 2000 has been dramatic. SPAIN now has virtually the s… https://t.co/2nKJVFYxBH

Mindbogglingly America’s official measure of poverty takes no account of taxes & transfers -> removes poverty-reduc… https://t.co/QzbTkNXpuE

Poland and Spain’s rate of University enrollment are ten points ahead of that of Germany. @OECDeconomy… https://t.co/aOmXYzLm5s

Mrs Poverty: Molly Orshanky who btw 1963 and 1965 defined America’s measure of poverty herself grew up in need: "If… https://t.co/IZcEj94HMR

Interesting proposal: a CO2 central bank as an institutional compromise between setting a predictable quantitative… https://t.co/pQeiN9LcrQ

Unlike most of the other AE Canada has not just positive but accelerating population growth. @DesjardinsGroup via… https://t.co/xuv3zlr1Zk

China's import data broadly maps to the credit impulse numbers here. One reason for the current global slump is t… https://t.co/El0xtWLw5x

Woah, @ojblanchard1 just called for a wage inflation target which, as we all know, is a special case of a nominal i… https://t.co/rL2EM0F9Dr

In 2017 the arguments over the likely impact of the Republican tax cut were bitter. Now the evidence is in. Even ac… https://t.co/Tq5CC9pJnE

Household demand for consumer durables in the US seems to have peaked. Another sign of the cycle turning. This one… https://t.co/zuvooNdYYA

Yet another US bsuiness indicator tipping into contractionary territory: @MorganStanley capex plans index falling b… https://t.co/2I9u2lMqSx

This is one you dont want to miss! @Brad_Setser and @stwill1 on Taiwan, which is a key node in the current account… https://t.co/w5tEKvxPce

Excellent rant on the factors beyond Trump that might be tipping world economy into a downturn right now. https://t.co/wEftavscxV

Ta’fish – an economy devouring itself: this is an utterly extraordinary description of the eocnomy of organized loo… https://t.co/MSYNfpSTxY

With links to Turkey and UAE, Samer Foz has emerged as a key trading intermediary enabling and profiting from the s… https://t.co/VfuncRbUAp

Hotel Four Seasons in Damascus is top luxury address in town. Rooms start at €487. Syrian government employees earn… https://t.co/uMcf69MVwP

As Assad concentrates power in the Syrian regime, will this overturn his long-standing relationship with the corrup… https://t.co/6k54ZUF8CA

The combined gross domestic product for states in the Great Lakes and Plains regions, as defined by the U.S. Bureau… https://t.co/sunjTmVnP9

As Syria’s Gross domestic product has crumpled from $60bn annually before the conflict to an estimated $15bn in 201… https://t.co/zT4Nqie0tU

One of the hopes for the US manufacturing sector is the stabilization of Chinese industry. @PantheonMacro via… https://t.co/a49nZOzOOO

Basically your view of the global economy (or the US, or the Eurozone, etc) boils down to "will a bunch of little s… https://t.co/TXXxukrVuc

These KOF/DICE rankings of the German-speaking economics scene make for fascinating reading. Amongst top 30 ranked… https://t.co/MNCixrqCCx

The gamblers haven’t returned to Macau yet, and investors should probably stay away, too, argues @jackycwong… https://t.co/gzYREYfJdt

This passage by Balanche about Shia/Sunni demography in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq would seem to be the basisi for Gar… https://t.co/rxaP9HlrCa

@RoPoppZurich @FT Thanks @RoPoppZurich Do you take the same highly critical view of the Balanche “Shia crescent” in… https://t.co/9AP03lo7BC

Outside the German government and the CDU parliamentary group, it's increasingly hard to find anyone who still like… https://t.co/W5AaDGKMDd