ADAM TOOZE

If a recession is indeed in the cards, someone forgot to tell US consumers who are the largest single source of dem… https://t.co/Z8BWh8E8zN

Shrinking from hard news: Of 2,637 clients of 1 US digital marketing firm in June 2019 1,085 brands blocked ads app… https://t.co/hB9ILxZGB6

“We’ve got to jump,” – interesting from @adamsamson on how Powell’s advocacy of rate rises that triggered the taper… https://t.co/BeraUHvfMO

Beyond “governing at a distance” & macroprudentialism apparently lies a new era of maximum expert discretion, at le… https://t.co/415hVjGeKS

In 2014, 382,000 pianos were made in the country, equal to 80 per cent of total global production, according to Dax… https://t.co/c1tfaQWVlV

Though straight out land sales are now rare, land "renting" is not. After all, how do you think the US government… https://t.co/3Cyj82Nnvj

"when you got married, you bought a bed and you bought a piano.” Fantastic socio-economic history of the piano in E… https://t.co/RJeCqesTgX

@adam_tooze Zamość was, by the way, also the birthplace of Rosa Luxemburg. A centre of Jewish enlightenment and rab… https://t.co/FR1aKAkTov

Zamość the true epicenter of the Nazi occupation of Poland. The one place where they came close to carrying out the… https://t.co/aImWGVCpSw

Last year 770,000 people died of HIV/AIDS down from a peak mortality of 1.7m, but still … @statista_com via… https://t.co/cwHG50go3U

Excluding the US 45% of corporate investment grade bonds globally trade at negative rates! @DeutscheBank via… https://t.co/9aktu7MRYF

The gap between rate of return on invested capital and the cost of borrowing in the US is sill looking pretty healt… https://t.co/w8z7Ta7Inm

@GunshipGirl @ShephardNews How at least one branch of Polish military-ind complex is celebrating the anniversary of… https://t.co/VlOwwX0gnb

Extreme heat and light winds are causing extreme spikes in electricity demand and low wind energy production -> fie… https://t.co/OYDoiGFSHN

The social and political unrest in Hong Kong puts in jeopardy one of THE key hubs for global capitalism.… https://t.co/18ZzidpAhU

Robots are bad for jobs in firms that don’t install robots! Those that do automate actually add workers.… https://t.co/G6KZpBCOKj

Dollar exposure of Chinese private sector is large in absolute terms and concentrated on some weak balance sheets,… https://t.co/aghIfTfYic

A far larger share of clothes and shoes for women and girls are imported from China than for men/boys -> The Sino-A… https://t.co/g3NsFPBoTN

The ECB is not expected to match the Fed’s monetary policy loosening putting upward pressure on the euro in the med… https://t.co/xrel16DHeg

Are they Commies too? After Peter Navarro, Trump’s favorite economic advisor, took to Fox to accuse the @WSJ editor… https://t.co/3iKuo9uKg8

With exception of Jan 2017 China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange has managed to keep currency reserves a… https://t.co/MDCI0H0auH

Of the 1.8 bn people facing acute water shortage in coming years, 1.4 bn live in India, 200 m in Pakistan and 83 m… https://t.co/8PwR18ZsUo

Mark 5 August 2019 as the day that the entire German yield curve slid into negative territory. And yet Merkel & her… https://t.co/UavJnqs2pe

Nearly 1.8 billion people in seventeen countries, or a quarter of the world’s population, appear to be veering towa… https://t.co/TmqBj5nCx4

Foreign investors are dumping S Africa gov debt over fear that bailout costs for power utility Eskom will dump it o… https://t.co/zxvHTOsCmX

After 26 Republican states sued the Obama admin over its Clean Power Plan, now 20 Democratic states (led by Cali an… https://t.co/kfrvFsh625

How Sweden’s Riksbank pionneered negative rates and why its governor now needs bodyguards. @RobinWigg… https://t.co/AaO5OQSLMB

Fascinating analysis of the changing composition of the Catholic vote in France https://t.co/f8h8wpQIRa

(thread) [CW: GRAPHIC] Philadelphia just came perilously close to experiencing what could have been one of the mo… https://t.co/C38hVsQpZo

Foreign M&A activity in India since 2007 has seen entry moves by Voafone, BP, Rosneft, Walmart and now Aramco.… https://t.co/tPK2VZ4gld

Saudi Aramco is branching out with M&A activities including a big stake in Indian refineries of Reliance Industries… https://t.co/WvhnZoESrL

During its big push in Afghanistan the Obama admin raised aid to Pakistan to as much as $3bn p.a., but that did not… https://t.co/CuTrCuFkJh

This thread by @APHClarkson on Brexit is dramatic in its tone and in its implications. But this is surely where we… https://t.co/ixRCkGG9Vo

For all the talk of "black swans", it's more often than not the known knowns that no one really wants to admit know… https://t.co/ApBNqlasd7