ADAM TOOZE

Campaign against Nonsense Output Gaps (CANOO): the Euro zone has a low inflation problem. Key question is why. Peri… https://t.co/0PDiS7cppC

This is good on how the dominance of the Eastern ultra-right Flügel of the AfD around Höcke of Thuringia may weaken… https://t.co/tiHRAbpx4V

A Commission reporting to JFK in 1963 called for the US to introduced paid maternity leave. Half a century the US a… https://t.co/C2Qc2PtFJv

The UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs says about 8,650 objects have been launched into space since Sputnik went u… https://t.co/0eRPNsi6cv

The American coal industry is in a structural crisis, but on top of that it suffered a major cyclical hit in 2016,… https://t.co/h6WJk1viWH

“protection gap”. On average, over the past ten years, only 30% of catastrophe losses were covered by insurance. Th… https://t.co/NE8Y6AjvhZ

Eskom-S Africa doom loop: SA now injecting c. $10bn into its chaotic power utility already saddled w $30bn in debt… https://t.co/B3RF7ZkasR

Rates of return on the huge capital invested in chinese state owned entreprises would be even more miserable withou… https://t.co/lplrwJzQoE

Stranger things: For a brief moment last week the entire Swiss yield curve, out to 50 years dipped below zero!… https://t.co/Tb0TIkMG1e

In the late 1990s the growth in labour productivity and jobs in US economy, which up to that point had been closely… https://t.co/6clviQu0OF

Market predictions of Germany’s future inflation are off the lows they touched earlier in the month but still a wor… https://t.co/oygnB6mGsF

In the eurozone much of the case for action by the ECB rests on the passivity of fiscal policy. That is NOT the sit… https://t.co/BipZnF7CEr

Not quite in the hydrocarbon age: in 1948 65% of the tonnage the allies airlifted into West Berlin consisted of coa… https://t.co/8QGjwsisw3

It is consumer and govrernment spending that are keeping the US economy from looking pretty sick right now. Data fr… https://t.co/ycbuqmUjul

At end 2018, Fed and ECB both believed that the trade war damage to their domestic economies would be small and tem… https://t.co/Cbsanib5xP

In 1968 Mao Zedong enjoined female labourers to hold up “half the sky”; by the 1980s their labour-force participati… https://t.co/b0e0yUvAMq

According to the IMF, if all goes well and Italy is not hit by an existential financial crisis, by 2024 its real GD… https://t.co/RL6GkTBRSx

Sinohydro is the world’s largest constructor of hydroelectric dams. It built 65% of China's large and medium-sized… https://t.co/FBxQjQb2N0

This is a fantastic thread from @DanielaGabor on the new global regime of the “Wall Street consensus” and the pivot… https://t.co/kplwRw94uJ

"The fundamental inadequacy of the globalist–nationalist dichotomy to explain the full complexity of European polit… https://t.co/9pByQfgZQo

@adam_tooze The 3 enablers of the growth in the US South: 1. technical cooling, 2. chemical pest control, 3. strong… https://t.co/weV30xZiYE

Downside risk Global contagion Trade wars "Death of Phillips curve” The four factors driving the Fed towards making… https://t.co/fQijs2zdZf

On 10 December, thanks to US obstruction, the WTO appellate board will become unable to take on new cases. EU is re… https://t.co/f2jNRYUn5n

Another way of putting the "renewables revolution" in perspective: traditional biofuels are still 5.5* more import… https://t.co/IwiOSydxbS

European investors with a 3-month dollar hedge now earn a roughly minus 0.8 per cent yield on a 10-year US Treasury… https://t.co/J4deqRIRpj

Pentagon plans for 2019 called for $9 billion in development and procurement for more than 30 different types of un… https://t.co/0z4XlfNPEA

A graph of global electricity production puts the "renewables revolution" in perspective: the litttle slices at th… https://t.co/Wtn7Xg8nB6

The age of the housing stock gives a fascinating insight into the development of settlement across the US. The pred… https://t.co/RpHtAkAhG5

On the strategic options for the EU faced with the possibility of a disintegration of the UK. This is one of those… https://t.co/k7ZYeyI5CN

@kmac thanks. much appreciated.

@kmac Hi kate would love to hear the quibbles. Seriously. I have a LOT to learn.

Since the panic of 2015/6 China’s forex reserves have been stable. But are its currency controls leaking? Errors an… https://t.co/TcbF8LHgME

The challenge for the EU with Brexit is now to developing structures through which to contain the fallout from the… https://t.co/gmUOsLoQjn

The hydroelectric age: amazing tipelapse video of dam construction across the United States. One for @SoberLook… https://t.co/9o3rhnB5i2