ADAM TOOZE

To have any hope of meeting sustainability goals, global energy investment needs to be substantially higher and dra… https://t.co/XfJ9bzYkpZ

Apart from the dip in early 2000s German business investment abroad has been running at a steady 3% for more than a… https://t.co/0zorV0E6iA

Compulsory instruction time for primary education is 2,822 hours in Germany, compared to 4,626 hours for the OECD a… https://t.co/BeQSvxNFgO

Disposable income of German households has fallen by 4% since 2010 – surprising result driven by tight fiscal polic… https://t.co/ljJwbxpV57

@Oxenstierna_IRL ? the @IEA data are for worldwide publicly funded energy research which are less than US spending on pets alone.

Corporate hypocrisy on climate "may seem entirely plausible when government action on climate is feeble but the de… https://t.co/uSVckWNkXN

“A little china solution” – Germany’s powerful BDI criticizes economy minister Altmaier for his interventionist ten… https://t.co/sPH5HzxC4g

Germany’s abnormal external surplus is largely driven – given high household saving rate and Schwarze Null – by cor… https://t.co/LVrYUVyprI

Überschussverleugnung, Saldenblindheit, Exportverliebtheit, Marko-analphabetismus – We need new German word for cu… https://t.co/WnNBk1B7eS

"while changes in TARGET2 balances have a gross (OI) flow correspondence in the financial account, the net impact i… https://t.co/KenDZqc5NA

Report by Intl Energy Authority makes dramatic reading on energy transition. Nagging question: do @IEA estimates of… https://t.co/oXKrOZoFTJ

Report by International Energy Authority makes dramatic reading on energy transition. Nagging question: do @IEA est… https://t.co/6CGrDkvej8

When people talk about the “Japanization" of Germany, they dont generally mean jumping five places in the productiv… https://t.co/4CkpTn6nBk

Understanding the recession in German in 2001-2, which included a substantial risk of bank crises, is key to its su… https://t.co/Pi8sTs1V4Z

In face of the climate emergency, global government R&D spending on energy is c. $27bn that is LESS THAN AMERICANS… https://t.co/kmff7oywAW

Some thoughts of mine on 'actually existing Zionism', the US-Israel relationship in the Trump/Netanyahu era, and an… https://t.co/dpiak6cFNR

If trade war pushes CNY/USD below -> risks capital flight like in 2015 & “Puts a number of other markets at risk, w… https://t.co/BYSo2TJ243

"Memories of the Gulf of Tonkin incident were revived this week, after the attacks on ships and oil installations i… https://t.co/07clkqmOKM

“Increase in tariffs to 25% on $200bn of goods is consistent with USD/CNY close to 7.10. If Trump proceeds with tar… https://t.co/IT7CWKmAWM

"nationalistic strongmen would be unable to co-operate if things went seriously wrong, as they might, perhaps even… https://t.co/AWDr1PKooZ

Bolsonaro&Trump may be soul mates. Brazil-US relations could do to be warmed up. Bilateral trade is just $100bn pa… https://t.co/Y3TkegI12L

Boeing, Starbucks, Apple, GM constituted the core of the business lobby for trade with China and their willingness… https://t.co/BezVAPwZfq

America’s giant investment in fossil fuels in 2018 means that it is close to matching China in total energy investm… https://t.co/heG3OEsRDX

“China has been so effective at squeezing manufactured imports that it has really limited its options to retaliate”… https://t.co/pGd40H9UO3

Of all the EU’s lamentable failures to invest, the renewable energy story is surely the most depressing. Whereas up… https://t.co/cGmgLmLo9t

"It is almost asking the change of China’s political system.” How the Sino-American trade collapsed. Excellent long… https://t.co/JmWnDYNn6C

To hit sustainable energy goals we need to be building 300 GW of renewable energy capacity per annum. China is appr… https://t.co/klLbztcl83

“At the moment, the markets are focused on … an uneventful transition from Draghi … This benign view could prove co… https://t.co/HkfNbuod2a

"Renewable capacity additions need to grow by over 300 GW on average each year between 2018 and 2030 to reach the g… https://t.co/d9njWVor9D

@BandanaChris @Ed_Crooks crucial issue is GW installed … that has plateaued.

Deeply worrying trend: The pace of wind and hydro energy investment in 2018 was lower than in 2015. @Ed_Crooks… https://t.co/LkTtBKRiq0

Horror frozen in stone: Memorial at Aranthalawa Eastern, Sri Lanka to monks massacred in Tamil Tiger attack during… https://t.co/AfLlcINhvo

There has been a deeply worrying slowdown in pace of new renewable energy investment. 2018 is first year when new i… https://t.co/o0R1bwuiTj

Tamil Stolpersteine – names of victims of the terrible final battle of Sri Lankan civil war at Mullivaikkal carved… https://t.co/5y1xtyngYl