ADAM TOOZE

Since 2017 the fortunes of the french and German auto industries have diverged quite starkly! @MAmdorsky… https://t.co/AalFbuDUNC

Though there are areas of deep integration btw China and the economies of the West e.g. iphone supply chain, autos… https://t.co/Mgbi5C6wqp

“Zero has just become another number — at least for markets if not in the real economy,” “You can’t get a risk free… https://t.co/iVrHMS0NIP

China’s effort to contain the spread of the Gobi desert by means of a green Great Wall was begun in 1978, with limi… https://t.co/nTu6BJVKR7

"In China at least, buying stocks because you think they’ll subsequently be needed by index-huggers is proving a fo… https://t.co/OgmuQYijql

From lows in summer of 2008 the $ has risen in value for most of a decade. This crimps US exports, but main effect… https://t.co/yznudaYBq5

Danish lender Jyske Bank last week issued a 10-year mortgage bond at an interest rate of minus 0.5 per cent, meanin… https://t.co/L2WkAnM8qT

Treasury Inflation Protected Securities – give a good read on the real rate the market demands on 10yr securities.… https://t.co/lPFZ3UwicE

China has the high tech industrial share of a France, Italy or Spain but at a fraction of their income levels.… https://t.co/38ryAIZV9e

Rwanda is more densely populated than the Netherlands. 490 people to each square kilometre and in Rwanda almost eve… https://t.co/0yjibflgIw

Argentina’s stock market fell 48% in a single day = second biggest one-day fall of any stock market since 1950. #1… https://t.co/m5WvUaKvkW

The overall reduction in China’s growth rate hides very large regional differences. One for @SoberLook… https://t.co/RzgoLAoloM

Grands Travaux: for $43bn Paris is getting a transformative new public transport system that will encircle Paris ra… https://t.co/mCDBEOqHrU

When we say exchange intervention aka “currency manipulation” it looks like this. Switzerland’s giant currency rese… https://t.co/yUgR1NhRV0

After a rebound from 2015 the Chinese property market has really slowed down hard! one for @SoberLook… https://t.co/qinOhlnbAA

Just putting the current space race in perspective. The Soviet Union was in a league of its own.… https://t.co/rvMbXntwmq

Whereas Germany and Japan are piling up the surpluses the @IMFNews points out that China is no longer contributing… https://t.co/EJfdR1nFKK

“First of all the Georgian silver goes, and then all that nice furniture that used to be in the saloon. Then the Ca… https://t.co/Sseg15gZ6z

Despite the impact of swine fever on Chinese consumers, inflation is one thing the PBoC does not have to worry abou… https://t.co/GsgNbaUqh3

US Army hospital flag from the Civil War. Before the Red Cross, a yellow flag was the humanitarian symbol on the ba… https://t.co/wBNr8Stbfu

Searching for yield: Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group reported foreign-currency assets of 1$1.049 trillion in March 2… https://t.co/HNoPhTXULN

It is only since the millenium that additions to the US labour force have been predominantly immigrant as opposed t… https://t.co/NKnzwOkrO8

The worst traffic jam in history? Was it the blockage on China’s Naitonal Highway 110 in Aug/Sep 2010 when coal tru… https://t.co/FedC1oqXfe

The share of manufacturing in China’s GDP reached its maximum at 40% already in the early 1980s = far earlier than… https://t.co/IeWexOvR8M

Looking at the numbers for installed wind turbines in the US you would really think that renwable energy was a “red… https://t.co/rLYpcHTHGD

"I can imagine that OPEC Secretary General Barkindo is on the phone with Khalid Al-Falih and Alexander Novak right… https://t.co/Lddnnolipa

Searching for yield: Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group reported foreign-currency assets of 1$1.049 trillion in March 2… https://t.co/6Q5YiKNirP

Chinese companies had nearly $900 billion of $-denominated debt securities outstanding at end March 2019, nearly th… https://t.co/SkPQAQeFBC

The big city in the US with the highest unemployment rate in the US is New Orleans (5%). Yuma, Arizona (19.6%) and… https://t.co/Vhp99gm61R

Japanese Banks Are Circling the Drain @Birdyword does not mince words! Decades of ultra-low interest have taken the… https://t.co/6NLfY3yy1T

In August 2010, a traffic jam near Beijing lasted for nine days and extended over 100 kilometers. https://t.co/jLVjbXc4VX