ADAM TOOZE

By 2021 global packaging market is expected to reach $1trn. By value fiber based solutions dominate. By bulk plasti… https://t.co/XmrXg9gsYF

Cardboard exceptionalism: US is the only economy in the world that makes its cardboard predominantly from “virgin”… https://t.co/6sIMZzwkFb

Containerboard is the paper variety produced in largest bulk for use in cardboard boxes. It is also a handy busines… https://t.co/yZImuwx7hy

By the early 1970s China had printed more than a billion copies of Mao’s Little Red Book and was spending c. 5% of… https://t.co/9t9oTXOEdX

America’s “latest round of tariffs will cost the average American household $831 this year, or collectively $106bn… https://t.co/cRLDQ13nPl

Outside Google’s HQ in Mountain view, Ca a driverless car cruises past the mobile homes of those who cannot afford… https://t.co/xQLPmoZYoa

“It looks very much as if the warming is feeding the warming” – rising temperature levels driven by CO2 are driving… https://t.co/vukhvAddGb

So depressing are econ conditions in American’s farm country that Iowa and Wisconsin Senators pushed for $50 m in m… https://t.co/JUHWgBqlFf

And here's what I've got on turnout (ranked by biggest change since 2014). This may be the most important outcome o… https://t.co/K6WiFsAq2F

Beijing’s goal is to cut # of people living in absolute poverty from 30m in 2017, to zero in 2020. To do so it is g… https://t.co/EEMiN2R9qq

IMF calcs sov debt risk premium increases 4 bp for every 1% debt/GDP ratio > 60%, EU Commission calcs 3 bp. Both ca… https://t.co/mwqpTE2y0h

"Last year, the U.S. Geological Survey designated 35 minerals as critical to the economy and national defense. The… https://t.co/o5TdvtQAh1

With social and economic divisions becoming more and more granular, electoral maps need to follow suit. In Italy PD… https://t.co/Vn72yeVe5P

@rmathis995 @ANZResearch @SoberLook apart from the currency risk.

@rmathis995 @ANZResearch @SoberLook except for the currency risk?

The struggle stabilize Pakistan’s financial situation is exacting a heavy toll in terms of interest rates.… https://t.co/NnJdceQfoC

The entire stenographic protocol of the German Reichstag and its predecessors from 1867-1942 are now online courtes… https://t.co/NA3aUJDDJX

When China is struggling to contain a fall in the yuan it generally seems to sell Treasuries. Make sense to you… https://t.co/F1ib8Anodt

Not-Huawei: China’s other tech champions joke that being included on US blacklists “feels a bit like getting an off… https://t.co/kCGmxoRXSG

Essential thread on the multi-dimensional logic of the choices for the EU Commission president by @JeremyCliffe https://t.co/oXucFJtbMD

@jdportes @SimonTilford @ANZResearch @SoberLook Thanks. This all makes sense. It is a truly fascinating example of… https://t.co/92w8jrV6ND

@SimonTilford @jdportes @ANZResearch @SoberLook Seriously … wow. OK. Makes sense. Thanks … I guess it begs the ques… https://t.co/wOX6FhoTvO

@MattHammington @ANZResearch @SoberLook Im asking about the preferences of global bond investors. Dont you find it puzzling?

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These beautiful electoral maps show the complex shading of political support across Germany. h/t @mdemanto from… https://t.co/rVkeA52KL7

@mdemanto @spinfocl kläre mich auf. was irritiert hier? das nicht granular gearbeitet wird? Die karten sind super!

With Italy’s deficit surging towards 4% of GDP it is hard to see, looking ahead, how we can avoid a clash btw Rome… https://t.co/hN8E5WKYfO

More evidence on the need for granularity in European election analysis. Whilst AfD dominates Saxony overall, the G… https://t.co/IxdMMfD5hU

Where are the bond vigilantes when you need them? Since the Brexit referendum, the share of foreign holding of UK g… https://t.co/r6M8Nx9Joo

Why would anyone hold UK government debt? Serious questions. Why are foreign investors willing to hold 28% of gilt… https://t.co/yyKn6mJMMI

Germany’s right-wing AfD had a very mixed night with overall vote static at 11% but consolidating its role as leadi… https://t.co/j9S5te6ral

The one big right-wing success story of the 2019 election is in Italy where 40% voted for Lega and other far-right… https://t.co/pCCcOzoZQz

Instex – Europe’s supposed financial answer to America’s aggressive sanctions policy – is no real alternative to th… https://t.co/XSOdg0lspG

The Eurozone is facing plunging inflation expectations. If the ECB wants to react, as it surely must, these are its… https://t.co/jVJti7iae9

Italy’s debt level and doom loop to sov spread poses critical risk at the 130% of GDP level. Interesting response… https://t.co/8GpAXcOc00