ADAM TOOZE

The left-right divide over climate change is wider in the US than anywhere else. @jburnmurdoch @ @lesliehook… https://t.co/Cy8c8oDGwF

15 per cent of Americans believe either that the climate is not changing at all, or that it is not changing due to… https://t.co/3TISXa6Ogn

“Vertical farming” promises to allow supermarkets to grow their own food! Saw this in a fancy restaurant in Berlin… https://t.co/rfZZuCvo2u

Historicist pastiche or the cornerstone of Berlin’s reconstruction? Great review of the arguments over the reconstr… https://t.co/uU7IYl2w8C

Remarkable factoid from @MFratzscher Germany has a peculiarly warped combination of high taxes on income from labo… https://t.co/7HhFjEJyiq

If you cant get to 2% why not lower the ECB’s inflation target to 1.5%. This TRULY TERRIBLE IDEA is favored by Robe… https://t.co/NkHc4GXXdO

"They are trying to satisfy the market without spurring them to price in more” Shahid Lahda BNP quoted by… https://t.co/45sSPp9yLT

Stafzinsen: "The question is, for how long can ECB independence withstand the full weight of public scrutiny, and t… https://t.co/UYirUREOoJ

Ms Georgieva who is set to take over at the IMF from Lagarde likes to "listens to Beethoven’s fifth symphony when s… https://t.co/VLOLddzII5

Despite limits on coal finance and tar sands, bank finance for fossil fuels has increased every year since the Pari… https://t.co/jCDwwFy1AI

33 global banks have provided $1.9 trillion to fossil fuel companies since the adoption of the Paris climate accord… https://t.co/STP60sRTfd

"Italy and Spain made the biggest push to have public investment exempted from EU’s deficit calculations… Madrid… https://t.co/QKbRZIUD9V

Oh, that rare thing a 19th century #History job. #British (#IrishHistory). Assistant Professor at Columbia Universi… https://t.co/vw4gfxyvfa

Früher wurde mehr über Rezessionen geredet, obwohl die Finanzmarktkrise von 2008/2009 deutlich härter war als die Ö… https://t.co/YftztT6ZJl

"I still remember exactly where I was when I read that paper. Even for a nerd like me, that’s not normal," says… https://t.co/8HjeRaxxvj

This is a remarkable image. The decline of children’s play range across generations in one family: from 6 miles to… https://t.co/ezzx22Sfl9

"Sov bonds are currently priced for a cycle-busting recession, whereas the tone of data & cb easing this year signa… https://t.co/BGPRqqo8Ja

To sum up, the proposed “green public fund/foundation” is a very costly, clumsy and inefficient public investment t… https://t.co/HWhdGkLCbq

The absurdity of promising bond buyers a guaranteed 2% interest when the German government can borrow at negative r… https://t.co/J6ryHs6dfu

The German ministry of economic affairs (BMWi) has proposed a new “green investment fund”. In this thread, I provid… https://t.co/OxaPByj3vK

Markets are so committed to the inevitablity of ECB action that if stimulus falls short, the euro is likely to appr… https://t.co/Rouz7WtCTa

"German fiscal frugality is the stuff of legends, but they have nothing on the abstemious Swedes.” @rafaelalindeber… https://t.co/DzHm2Joq6z

Stranded assets? Ford credit rating downgraded to junk by Moody’s as car makers struggles to adjust to massive stru… https://t.co/6vBD7SevwT

Hawkish ECB has failed to honor price stability. The eurozone price level is 7 % lower today than 2 % target would… https://t.co/fh5LfxmgW4

"Hannah Arendt rose very slowly in the mornings and required solitary cups of coffee before she approached sociabil… https://t.co/QajEqrNcB0

What a devil’s advocate would tell ECB hawks: Their commitment to price stability requires them to back Draghi’s st… https://t.co/PHO3OIvUeW

A portrait of the 19th French poet Arthur Rimbaud decorates an Ethiopian Peugeot taxi. Rimbaud was famous as one of… https://t.co/xLUr4Jvvl6

Me: Sweeping historical analogies are inappropriate, every era is unique and different Me: *reads the news* Me: O… https://t.co/AqbuPto0M2

Always happy to go back to @Neil_Irwin excellent piece on the Recession of 2016. Fall in investment and manufacturi… https://t.co/4MXyDgzeJd

IF you are willing to take the profit share data seriously (given profit shifting @Brad_Setser) the Trump administr… https://t.co/hAmcrS5xWj

Fascinating blogpost on the early publication history of John Maynard Keynes’s Economic Consequences of the Peace.… https://t.co/TjFwxhqfB4

Since 1960, the common denominator of US recessions has been a fall in investment. It is not looking good right now… https://t.co/eurWHOm3Nz

A long-term overview gives the lie to the idea that low real rates are unprecedented. Nevertheless, today’s negativ… https://t.co/LJ8mQKsq28

Confidence amongst US small businesses that surged with petit bourgeois enthusiasm for Trump’s election has collaps… https://t.co/6HTGPhDsr9