ADAM TOOZE

“We have never been modern” collection of 19th century European military headgear from Lisbon’s military history mu… https://t.co/cG91RMsOLb

Education spending per student varies markedly across the school districts of the US around the national average of… https://t.co/E7c4AVFkIl

For an Egyptian on the official poverty line, a short daily trip on Cairo’s metro would now consume 25% of their mo… https://t.co/eUYw8dqKJF

This year’s fires within the Arctic Circle have produced more than 100m tonnes of carbon dioxide, or roughly what B… https://t.co/zsCvRxeXJI

The oldest pair of existing Levi jeans, dating to 1879. Jeans were commonly made in France from Nîmes. Because so m… https://t.co/rG3XJV2Mka

The downward shift in the Fed’s outlook on interest rates since September 2018 has been dramatic. Baloisse asset ma… https://t.co/ZeTQdxQZjG

Following the terms of trade shock of 2017-8, 33% of Egypt’s 99m people were classified as poor last year, up from… https://t.co/34oPkJEQgj

China’s currency may not be freely traded but it has an impact on the entire network of EM currencies with which Ch… https://t.co/uTZmncsWtQ

As far as the German manufacturing sector is concerned, the PMI indicators are now looking worse than 2012.… https://t.co/xrAs5fi0pM

The share of the top 5 tech firms in the US stock market is now greater than it was before the… https://t.co/CEKnArI2ra

Since 2013 there has been a fivefold increase in the farmland being used for solar power generation = source of rel… https://t.co/YJyd1NH3XC

The bankruptcy of the giant Blackjewel mine in July this year heralded a deep crisis in Wyoming coal-mining.… https://t.co/oYePwx5UEY

It is very much to be welcomed that the Commission has responded to the CANOO campaign on output gaps.… https://t.co/Brubl1D2ns

Campaign against Nonsense Output Gaps (CANOO): our main goal has always been to encourage debate on output gaps, so… https://t.co/zB4DWYhIgx

High corporate profitability retained in family businesses is the link between Germany’s giant current account surp… https://t.co/BkUTMP8E3D

Metals-trading in London can be traced back as far as 1571. A metals-only exchange that traded mostly copper and ti… https://t.co/IP8FrACWPO

Layers of Berlin: the ruined foundations of Gestapo headquarters, the remains of the Berlin Wall, the Nazi Air Mini… https://t.co/cV7okUcJKT

The painfully uncomfortable armchairs used for China’s diplomatic meetings are made by a single company, Tiantan (o… https://t.co/S61VLSB3Aw

In sub-Saharan Africa, 8m are in tertiary education (Univ, & vocational colleges). That is about 9% of young people… https://t.co/IZG0pSK7fV

Chinese universities produced a record 8.3m grads this summer. Up from 5.7m a decade ago -> 2/3 of job market entra… https://t.co/y00T1DR3XR

The labor force of the 21 countries between the Baltic Sea and the Balkans will shrink by more than a quarter by 20… https://t.co/ahdyaFna3H

over 90% of assets avoiding the Common Reporting Standards designed to limit tax evasion have been herded into the… https://t.co/ACHxhNSOfW

When an international conference on Black Power took place in British Protectorate Bermuda on July 10-13 July 1969,… https://t.co/GXeHYhWm7R

Last October Lena Reimann of Kiel University published a warning that 37 of the 49 unesco world-heritage sites loca… https://t.co/xzKC0bcC0A

Draghi associate and Bank of Italy boas Fabio Panetta will replace Coeure on the ECB executive board, taking the It… https://t.co/WulIiPo4g8