ADAM TOOZE

If you believe these numbers the average age of “information processing" equipment in US economy is now greater tha… https://t.co/SwM37ViRfp

The energy transition is not accelerating it is stalling! A powerful column by @nickb2211 takes us back to the gri… https://t.co/PhW6jIgZb0

The two plateaus in wage growth for low skilled workers in the US in 2011-4 and 2016-8 are striking features of Ame… https://t.co/3kwjhDMtnC

Since taking over EZ bank supervision, ECB staff has soared but it still remains tiny by standards of its member ba… https://t.co/dY6A8ypC1p

correction: I put out a tweet yesterday which suggested that German disposable income had fallen by 6% 2005-17. Wha… https://t.co/mnga1fbDvD

OTD July 15, 1943 secure telephone line between Washington and London called SIGSALY open for business. London term… https://t.co/4XZo5TyG3Q

This group portrait of key figures on ECB staff by the @HandelsblattGE is really informative. Recommended for ECB g… https://t.co/kThsQ248IB

@seicuspir @MichaelNitzan @hmacbe @IMFNews You are both correct. Ca surplus is also indexed to gdp so it makes sens… https://t.co/BgwdjQiK2P

“My CEO will call the regulators asking if we can drop our capital levels too.” @patrickjenkins_ on why regulators… https://t.co/Dqg0sKr8h9

Key backroom figures during Draghi’s era a the ECB were Massimo Rostagno, who heads DG monetary policy, ECB vet sin… https://t.co/STHOWT9kPb

Whilst IMF waits on Lagarde’s replacement the crucial is refinancing. “I’m quite confident that we will achieve the… https://t.co/7Zcsud9qpb

Interest rate divergences and resulting e.r. movements are stirring up talk of “currency wars” and threatening to a… https://t.co/ls5BzR1YoG

Gracias vocho – VW gives a send off to the Beetle in Mexico where after 81 years the very last one was built last w…

Insects are dying at an alarming rate – and this is terrible news for life on Earth https://t.co/yGbEzAvvJR… https://t.co/4al3uM8vYB

"In May US Treasury added Ireland, Italy & Germany to its currency manipulator watchlist, placing them alongside Ch… https://t.co/RHlj1rF793

The right to credit: Started by Fair Isaac 1956, by 1970 credit info so imp that it was regulated by law. 1974 Equa… https://t.co/uAYbEhsFHl

Working with Equifax, Experian & TransUnion in 1989 Fair Isaac unveiled 1st consumer-credit score: a number btw 300… https://t.co/ZrmO3ik0OD

Not sure Le Corbusier would have approved of this adaptation of The Modulor, but this is a FASCINATING piece from… https://t.co/Ud52Qu2Qf3

How disposable income of German households shrank by 6 % between 2005 and 2017 despite long period of growth and ri… https://t.co/eZrYnIaR4s

The IMF’s dissection of the sources of Germany’s striking levels of wealth inequality is worth a look!… https://t.co/WCQugU5R3N

Mineurs du Monde. Mémoires de Mines. this is an extraordinary site about the labour history of global mining!… https://t.co/1zvyYj9fiT

This wiki entry on the postwar history of the French coal industry is fascinating. Pits nationalized as Charbonnage… https://t.co/vGlE0chryv

@michaelxpettis @LRB @socialeurope hi @michaelxpettis am aware. Read one of your drafts. Can you point me to a link I can quote? Thanks.

@adam_tooze @LRB @socialeurope Matt Klein and I have written about this before: the Hartz reforms in 2003-05, by tr… https://t.co/3LzdEmGLiQ

The @IMFNews in its recent Article IV consultation with Germany actually produced a handy flowchart on how inequali… https://t.co/RTgXBubol8

Mulling over my pieces on German politics in the @LRB on @socialeurope and the EXTRAORDINARY IMF report on the link… https://t.co/NYtedVVohn

@bceagle71 Thank you looks great!

As an oil company Saudi Aramco is in a league entirely of its own. The world’s oil industry does not revolve around… https://t.co/NiSskORJdG

@KamiarMohaddes @Cambridge_Uni would be delighted to read! links?

Twin Peaks: The price of oil in real terms from 1861-2013. Disregarding the early years it is a story of two surge… https://t.co/CM1EAfNr9s

Banks started making loans secured on art in the 1970s. Today the oustanding amount is c. $17-20bn.… https://t.co/kC2e0uEZH8

"Even if all the Western oil majors decided to stop pumping oil and gas to reduce carbon emissions, global producti… https://t.co/3UjBA593Vq