ADAM TOOZE

Afghanistan is the only country in Asia or the Middle East where people are still poorer than those alive in 1950 w… https://t.co/84528UfX81

The @OECDEduSkills PISA scores in math, reading and science make sobering reading for anyone working in education i… https://t.co/woe7rcIsLE

China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange has lifted regulations on foreign investors. But since foreign inv… https://t.co/UJpTQlWx91

US spending on active labour market policies is very low by international standards. Soo too is measured unemployme… https://t.co/kBSkvoxrUZ

This is a pretty important threat by @ProfPaulPoast on under what conditions interstate wars start. Historical anal… https://t.co/tqmE3LWBXB

Great graphic showing how consistently the ECB’s inflation forecasts have overshot the reality of lowflation.… https://t.co/erMRYg68dS

Much slower trend growth means that a slowdown in advanced economies can easily translate into negative growth, whi… https://t.co/DShTnOZ6jS

"The fact that you have prominent people at Chicago calling for antitrust enforcement is changing the game." -… https://t.co/qBVS10ZT8a

Repo Market Chaos Drives Overnight Rate Up by Most in Months Well this caused me to splutter into my cornflakes… https://t.co/b5IenqLwPD

@adam_tooze @Gallup October 1938: 57% of French agree with the Munich agreement (uncertain data). March 1939: 70% o… https://t.co/m61yFP66td

This is interesting on the 1967 protest movement in Hong Kong against labour conditions and British rule that left… https://t.co/8nBqxti6Kr

@Intetyst Clearly you are right about heterogeneity. But you dont think the decline of the SPD is a nationwide trend?

Not just trade war. With a “compelling structural story”, Vietnam is now the new darling of EM investors.… https://t.co/JXK3m5tsPW

Germany's political realignment continues: In Thuringia Die Linke still leads at 28% but AfD has surged to 25% and… https://t.co/qFdqxBWYPT

One of symptoms spooking Draghi was fear that flattening EZ yield curve would cause bank lending to contract.… https://t.co/TMIf4lQQjN

Around 30% of euro-denominated EM debt (€115bn), now trades with a negative yield including debt from Poland, South… https://t.co/ZSU4KcbLhJ

"Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Emerging Monetary Mood Indicator, based on robotic scanning of keywords used in th… https://t.co/yBpblFiQ8n

In Feb 1940 @Gallup polling showed that 1/3 of Americans were willing to see Czechoslovakia remain in German hands… https://t.co/CgrHb8ghnp

Btw 1980-2018 share of top 400 in total US wealth rose from 1 to 3.5%. Warren’s wealth tax would have capped increa… https://t.co/JpNuFLZY0c

As WWII began, Americans were split 58/42 on whether the US should sell airplanes and war supplies to Britain and F… https://t.co/j1mtFW9U4Q

"the impact of trade uncertainty on Chinese GDP has been about three times larger than the direct trade impact, mak… https://t.co/Or9uM3LEFk

The Bundeswehr’s “elite” Altenstadt barracks named after Franz-Josef Strauss with its museum celebrating the glorio… https://t.co/ydUXg04IPJ

"Rocket fuel”, “nuclear option”: Draghi’s latest round of stimulus at the ECB has initiated a new era in hybrid mon… https://t.co/SiMGEIcOMw

The Fed’s Caldara et al attempt to quantify trade policy uncertainty. On one measure the Trump shock is uniquely se… https://t.co/s6HygZw3yA

Re: Draghi new measures. Wouldn't the euro area be better off today if there was a different fiscal/money mix. I… https://t.co/ST9VVDYmgH

On July 1st I’ll be starting as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy Sc… https://t.co/QgK5iyS1nO

My book now has a cover and publication date: January 2020! Thanks to @OUPHistory and @GermanHistSoc Check it out… https://t.co/6FWlc1lgSs

V cool portrait of @HelenHet20 ! https://t.co/B6KsM84Gfl

1) Thread: This week’s ECB decision is historic. They have done something very similar to proposal here https://t.co/ByfVAU1pOD

The downward revision of the ECB’s inflation forecasts for 2020 between June and September 2019 was dramatic.… https://t.co/zVwwaLN8j4