ADAM TOOZE

Groundwater arsenic contamination is by far the biggest mass poisoning threat in the world, driven by reliance on d… https://t.co/s5OUvETlOE

“If they go [on] the side of Wall Street, a couple of billionaires will benefit, but the American people won’t. It… https://t.co/j025agCAoH

Desalination technique designed in early 1960s by Sidney Loeb, an American scientist who moved to Israel accounts f… https://t.co/DALeqI8gbY

South Africa was once a legit member of the high-growth BRICS club. Along with Brazil and Russia it crashed out.… https://t.co/dwolbl2xBE

Coal is one of Australia’s leading exports. But what is future particularly for thermal coal? Asian demand on one h… https://t.co/83vDDbT8p3

“League of Legends” World Championship finals — held in South Korea and also hosted by the game’s publisher, Riot G… https://t.co/1PukQW0LYF

"In the second quarter of 2018 damage to equipment spending and exports from Boeing 737Max —not wholly offset by in… https://t.co/oXYD7lAxeA

"Both the manufacturing mini-recession of 2015-6 and the slowdown of 2018-9 show that the rich world has chosen to… https://t.co/NRBXT5GFxt

Which are the US cities likely to be worst affected by climate change. No prizes for guessing Miami and Houston. Bu… https://t.co/T65cIWv3xe

Argentina’s economy contracting at only 5% YoY may signal a turning point. The severity of the Argentinian business… https://t.co/G3CDMwLrpy

This data on Eurozone net saving should be retweeted daily! Large foreign lending is the flip side of the current a… https://t.co/JeGQQeTdbA

The Italian unemployment rate – once again, what about the shape and timing of this graph would lead one to believe… https://t.co/xMcJSNrtM5

Beijing is delivering fiscal stimulus but it is nowhere near as significant as 09, 13, 15-6. @MorganStanley via… https://t.co/NNL3d31bvm

What if productivity growth responds positively to aggregate demand? -> standard decomposition of cyclical & struct… https://t.co/LSoYt5Ws03

"The 737 MAX airplane isn’t just important for Boeing , it also matters for airlines and even the U.S. economy. Thi… https://t.co/z72nTDH8fT

One for @policytensor on the racial foundations of Kennan’s international relations thought. https://t.co/ScqTB6yIUi

The EU should not be complacent about “winning” a trade war with the US. Trade matters too much. It should limit it… https://t.co/1BDSuPqJOy

With larger share of workers in agriculture & industry, developing economies may be more at risk from automation th… https://t.co/gAryu1pyNA

@Brad_Setser @OECD @SteveJohnson000 the argument in the @FT piece seemed to revolve around trends in FDI.

According to @OECD jobs in EM may be more at risk than DM from automation. New tech not only cuts demands for worke… https://t.co/7bjbFAn17w

Bruno Labour reading Trump-reality as only Bruno Labour can! “Trumpism” as the political invention of a fourth attr… https://t.co/imscGtuXP2

Mississippi teachers make an average of $42,925 annually. For the first time in 30 years, they’re thinking about a… https://t.co/V51dilGYQg

2016 Wallonia threatens to scupper EU trade deal with Canada -> Belgian gov asks for investment courts in CETA to b… https://t.co/SV2leEoOWd

The risk of poverty has risen across all types of employment contract in Germany since the mid 2000s. For "non-stan… https://t.co/RlqgpwWWBp

Part-time work has very different meanings across the EU. In markets with high unemp like Spain and Italy up to 60%… https://t.co/QQ9V2aThv5

The relationship between rate of poverty and precocity of employment varies across EU and it is particularly bad in… https://t.co/qMxcXrY21U

The poverty rate amongst EU workers on non-standard contracts is four time as high as for those in permanent employ… https://t.co/qB4iJixAxR

On the question of the Turkish central bank and those swap lines check out this thread by @Brad_Setser https://t.co/OiElk85IQ4

5m tonnes of contaminated Russian oil have found their way into the 5000 km pipeline network across Poland, Ukraine… https://t.co/tt8SfrlNBJ

Since 2008 EZ foreign investment exceeds domestic corporate investment and public investment is net zero. A devasta… https://t.co/zyzfWfpj34