ADAM TOOZE

“I’m convinced that the biggest problem we face now is possible economic collapse … fall of the western world.” (Ki… https://t.co/2GPpx0D1UG

“European leaders want to ‘screw’ us and we want to “screw” them in the economic area.” Richard Nixon 1972 Brands,… https://t.co/t1nHiLrdnx

Italy is apparently about to endorse China’s BRI! Italy highly exposed to Chinese competition. Longterm logic not c… https://t.co/3gsbVOE77c

“I need hardly elaborate for those in this room the economic benefits a modernizing China could bring to U.S. busin… https://t.co/1XXW6cRq8E

“In the coming years, the sector will change more extensively than in the 130 years since the automobile was invent… https://t.co/JeBkiwyr4K

@AntheaERoberts i would venture that I may have been responsible for recently recirculating the Bank of England paper from 2016!

China’s economy is about 12 per cent smaller than official figures indicate, and its real growth has been overstate… https://t.co/IM8rFP3CBy

“I think of what happened to Greece and to Rome … what is left—only the pillars.” Richard Nixon 1971 on America’s d… https://t.co/0hxLnv2klT

Time magazine decided to declare 1975 the approximate bicentenary of capitalism (Adam Smith and all …). This was it… https://t.co/fB6t2DZCgq

Despite huge cuts particularly in top tax rates since 1970s in US and UK, tax as share of gdp has moved within the… https://t.co/4ttfdkqYqU

Coal was responsible for 41% of power generation in Germany in 2015 and 80% of CO2 emissions in power generation.… https://t.co/jikqS8Kbz1

In Germany as of spring 2018 renewable power generation is cost competitive with fossil fuel plants especially gas.… https://t.co/taTfFu6eVP

2/3 of 24 GW of new electricity generating capacity in the US in 2019 will come from renewables. 1/3 gas. 8 GW will… https://t.co/rSgYxVKjit

@JohnRentoul de Tocqueville predicting the Cold War in “Democracy in America" back in 1840 has always been a favour… https://t.co/a09E1U0K9X

How the balance of global stock markets has shifted: US 15% in 1899 v. 53.3% global total 2019. @biancoresearch vi… https://t.co/6n05U4ML4k

US consumer spending accounts for 17% of global GDP, larger than the Chinese economy (at current exchange rates) De… https://t.co/WMw46HBhPr

The spike in real interest rates in the early 1980s was unique by historic standards. Liberty Street Economics via… https://t.co/pqw8UCoAF2

The extraordinary polarization of US real weekly earnings by educational level. Fundamental new paper by David Aut… https://t.co/smf604tSpP

Scaling up: "In 1991, farms with a minimum of $1 million in sales were responsible for 31 percent of U.S. farm prod… https://t.co/4pOHCvmVHN

Mergers of Dow&Dupont, Sygenta&ChemChina, Bayer& Monsanto consolidated agriculture input market -> 3 entities with… https://t.co/nBER6IgC7W

Schluss mit dem Kitsch! Enough with the kitsch. The EU is not an idealistic dream of peace but a mechanism of Europ… https://t.co/gRXcdNPHOI

"The world appears to be more like what lefties thought it was than what I thought it was for the last 10 or 15 yea… https://t.co/tA7Dznurdq

How tobacco help to pay for the NHS: Mind-blowing slide by @ben_zdencanovic (Yale) showing the significance of cust… https://t.co/rZx2H547Ae

"Obama rolls into office with Romney’s health care policy, McCain’s climate policy, Clinton’s tax policy, and Georg… https://t.co/yUe8twqcIk

Perhaps of interest: @LawDavF @GresselGustav @anandMenon1 @BSchmeitzner @mathieuvonrohr @ulrichspeck @FHeisbourg… https://t.co/XOGqlC9kjY

Insightful piece by @APHClarkson on what the EU project is really about in the forthcoming issue of @DIEZEIT… https://t.co/Dcao8aP6hW

Listening to @ben_zdencanovic fascinating work on how after 1945 American anti welfare free market activists politi… https://t.co/A1UHeR1RvB

"You can see, from China's pov, that China would like to have its own aeroplane. Chinese leaders would like to fly… https://t.co/os7uCh0QfT

"Agreements between nations, like flowers and children, last while they last.” Robert Lighthizer (USTR) announces t… https://t.co/N6THo7bs8F

Fighting the last battle: The ECB’s monetary policy framework was framed around an inflationary experience in the 1… https://t.co/xvnNrqQqWl

The Trump stimulus to the global economy — at least the world's manufacturing exporters — continued in 2018. The… https://t.co/iqd6GHS6XG

"In an extreme case where inflation does not respond at all to unemployment, inflation becomes indeterminate, spell… https://t.co/sJCrLgUDmu

"It is economically and politically crucial that the Eurozone economy escapes another recession. The authorities ne… https://t.co/gyq5zp5G7z