ADAM TOOZE

BNP may be synonymous with French finance and have unrivaled connections in the French establishment but it is othe… https://t.co/zHGSfgR8Vt

Defence spending of NATO's European members is 4.5* that of Russia. Even if they are short of the 2% target the qua… https://t.co/pHJ4rVsmoE

@JuhaTarkka Yup. Not the same as CPI which the Reich struggled to string together after 1919.

Why a carvan? The poverty ratio in Honduras has been around 60 percent for more than twenty years, making Honduras… https://t.co/4kljybO8ZX

@TimBuckleyIEEFA @FinancialReview I have to say that this tweet from @TimBuckleyIEEFA made my week! The more I read… https://t.co/VwDAK2uDQj

@sishaaver @ThiagoKrause2 This corner of twitter is like this is virtually every day. Amazing threads with brillian… https://t.co/sqd1CmBhxz

Do Old Habits Die Hard? Central Banks and the Bretton Woods Gold Puzzle – from the late 1950s onwards, despite the… https://t.co/oWADUyYDXA

We tend to think of Brazil’s economy as a great beneficiary of globalization, but it is in fact the least open larg… https://t.co/Kb70cIFh2f

Mapping the world of prices: 196 economies publish consumer price inflation statistics 181 compile them monthly 168… https://t.co/jNOLrXyUnH

This timeline of Iraqi oil production explains why it is now #4 in the world and how that sector at least has recov… https://t.co/T7QSQw8l9h

The @YaleBritishArt museum is simply oustanding. Even more so after the refurb. Fabulous curation. Great mini-show… https://t.co/LBUolkh7yQ

Iraq has generated $850 billion between 2003–18 from the sale of oil and it accounts for 90 percent of public reven… https://t.co/RLyEmW5GB6

The German Bundeswehr in 1990 was a military force to be reckoned with. Today it has negligible deployable strength… https://t.co/1XPwGoFiCX

China’s external position moved to become more broadly in line with fundamentals in 2018 -= structural factors, exp… https://t.co/6Mi968Zsu8

The New York Fed has created a so-called Applied Critical Thinking unit with the specific mission of trying to spot… https://t.co/wueq2Togys

@BrianSJ3 @thinkdefence in my view it begs the question of how we calculate “real” defense spending. deflating by C… https://t.co/PxGcq8EscU

In book on 18th C Prussian army GDR historian Olaf Groehler develops Marxist interpretation that Fred Great develo… https://t.co/cUo5id3UBk

Whenever I look at European defense establishment figures and compare them with what are supposedly inflation-adjus… https://t.co/S1j1bLeoxC

The world’s most common vertebrate, the broiler chicken, of which there are 23bn alive at any one time, was created… https://t.co/9OUJLYgaVd

@voss_59 @blackrock @MerrynSW Precisely … we could do a central bank led version of rehn-Meidner!

Transport is the sector so far untouched by significant decarbonization efforts. Even in EU CO2 emissions went up b… https://t.co/JUW4okL9Zo

"Our senses have been dulled by increasingly extreme monetary pol since 2008. What @blackrock is suggesting is that… https://t.co/V6eCm6u13q

Defence spending of NATO's European members is 4.5* that of Russia. Even if they are short of the 2% target the qua… https://t.co/aSLrghSQ41

@JWMason1 @jbarro @RichLowry @FeliciaWongRI @JosephMajkut really look forward to reading this!

How did homo sapiens emerge? Fascinating @FT long read on a shattering series of recent discoveries. One for… https://t.co/VOU73vfqqX

In terms of FDI, Europe remains the largest investor in Africa with the Dutch having increased their involvement mo… https://t.co/ylZOUZANhE

Estimating the value of personal data gathered by digital platforms is tricky. This paper is interesting. In 2017,… https://t.co/n73OI31cRZ

@adam_tooze More on the "book gap". NYT, 24 Mar 1961. Edward R. Murrow, Director of the USIA, 'is considering what… https://t.co/pNBg3pkT7y

“Not Made in the US”: If you lump the Soviet Union and satellites with W. Europe then you can actually tell a story… https://t.co/YWNCxUWQON

Women now make up half the College-educated labour force in the US. Not the flow. The stock! @pewresearch via… https://t.co/yGBeGJCPpm

The stories about bonds trading at negative yields are even more impressive when you match them againt total fixed… https://t.co/Co3I16WtjM

Remember when we were all declaring that the era of QE was over. Well net purchases by central banks just swung bac… https://t.co/sbUjbNcpSH