ADAM TOOZE

@DrAcula_ST hi I agree it is obvious but I have never seen the point made quite this way before. Perhaps others know different?

Social security claims make up 45% of the (augmented) wealth of black and latino citizens in the US v. 20% for the… https://t.co/ATITXPFTxa

“there is no shortage of talk about the middle class” (Solow) but how to define it? Interesting comparison of metho… https://t.co/0XgwLh7M0C

The black-white wealth gap in relation to social security is far smaller than that for marketable wealth. Social se… https://t.co/u45lz6ZTkq

Important report by @hrw on impact of transnational Bauxite mining on local population of Guinea.… https://t.co/nYc0xto2jB

The trajectory of minority v. white wealth in the US was pretty depressing before the crisis of 2008. Then it got w… https://t.co/rGwzt2sRRi

The main driver of homelessness in the UK is the increased termination of assured shorthold tenancies.… https://t.co/lIAsL6kexe

The US is playing 3 games simultaneously: (1) break the rules of the game on multilateral trade (2) discipline Chin… https://t.co/jPJwNlV2tj

"Nearly 40% of 25-to-34-year-olds now live in private rented accommodation, compared with 12% in the mid-1990s. Dur… https://t.co/JSWofOpuy5

None of 16 largest British, French, German, Italian or Swiss banks trade above book value. On average, they are val… https://t.co/FToEVah2YS

The freeze in UK housing benefit amidst rising rents has left large parts of the UK unaffordable for those on low i… https://t.co/gtjrHUa2zS

ECB has managed rare feat of both systematically over predicting rise in EZ inflation & under predicting fall in un… https://t.co/xAR4uGWeh8

Belated Xmas present for @Undercoverhist a retweet from @HyunSongShin for this brilliant thread on the symbiosis of… https://t.co/Y1LJD3VGKt

Burying Australia’s defunct fleet of F111 bombers was cheaper than scrapping them. https://t.co/j5ofSkhioj

Intra-EZ bank to bank lending has collapsed since the crisis. The chronology is clear. 2008 not 2010 is the break.… https://t.co/Sw37a03MpB

Great thread by @RobinBrooksIIF dissecting the Eurozone’s anomalous current account surplus which is likely to put… https://t.co/xL32VPwlXW

EZ Bank lending to businesses in other eurozone countries reached the dizzying heights of 5.3% of all bank lending… https://t.co/KTkMMmAi6F

Taken together, the military and diplomatic developments over the past six months culminating with Trump’s decision… https://t.co/9mTRTLgNLv

European banks were not just hapless investors in US mortgage bonds but also actively contributed to MBS production… https://t.co/3UgUiyNv5S

20/30. Dec 1618, Java #vor400 Consultation in JACATRA ROAD for the ordering of the intended FIGHT in the morning be… https://t.co/yIdflQpBjn

Great thread by @mattyglesias on the ambiguous political economy of America’s attack on Chinese "IP theft” – rather… https://t.co/sy1Dnl9oyj

Recent protests in Sudan are much more than bread riots Great analysis by Nisrin Elamin and @Ras_Karya in… https://t.co/AQyaj3qQWv

Median lifetime earnings of US men are declining for more recent cohorts of men, and women still haven't caught up.… https://t.co/ofKmKf3bD1

Sources of dollar funding of non-US bank anatomized in @BIS_org quarterly report. US residents remain a major sourc… https://t.co/lDEz9EjgZE

“I imagine the highest hope must be that everyone will forget about these submarines and that they will be allowed… https://t.co/oPwSwnuCfg

Foreign banks underwrote 37% of subprime MBS 1997-2007 v. 40.7% US security houses and 22.4% for US banks. Data fro… https://t.co/9WQE1Q48mS

This IS a really good analysis of the North Syrian situation. Recommended. https://t.co/z4EKjDIRva

The bomb before it went off: Value of US residential real estate and mortgages, June 2007 From paper by Robert McCa… https://t.co/VwK9tRBrrW

@dabrote @RichardvReeves @swinshi @KatieEGuyot very low incomes of black men are very bad news for their families n… https://t.co/s9xWetKtE8

Not only are black male youth very likely to be born in bottom quintile of income distribution but they have a smal… https://t.co/2EDvd75dn3

How European banks loaded upon dangerous ABS prior to 2008 hogging a disproportionate share of the market and under… https://t.co/1V093rYHxj

Almost half of black youth in the US grow up in the bottom 20% of the income distribution. Great data from @swinshi… https://t.co/QihvH4IOrh

Competing hypotheses: capital flows and the US housing boom prior to 2008. Great graphics from a new anniversary pa… https://t.co/0pvhrqJdFj