ADAM TOOZE

M&A activity is near all time peaks and viewed as a phase the burst of acquisitions since 2014 is massive. h/t… https://t.co/24AY53rxPh

Goya’s 3rd May 1808: commemorating the Spanish uprising against Napoleonic occupation. What I did not realize until… https://t.co/nI5mex7pRA

"Three Industrial Revolutions I Have Experienced” – great title for controversial paper by Zhang Weiying arguing th… https://t.co/BvBarHvVd8

The growth of coal-fired power in Asia will “lock in the emissions trajectory of the world, full stop” @FaithBirol… https://t.co/TZ4kOn5CW5

Why is housing such a hot button issue in Germany today? OECD statistics indicate it is affordable to both own and… https://t.co/Pi4AUj2hH6

If you are in Paris, the cubism exhibition at the @CentrePompidou is fantastic: A triumph of disciplined chronologi… https://t.co/wNXauD2gay

Compared to the situation in France or Canada it isnt altogether obvious how you make corporate debt in the US into… https://t.co/tD9X8GYCKB

@jncthehistorian bits of the break water

@SarahRoseCrook I just got myself a wicked looking Owl of Minerva for the office!

The Trans-Pacific Partnership will enter into force from December 30 – with Australia’s ratification a majority of… https://t.co/MUwsTpQct9

Still an absolutely incredible sight. Worth the visit to Normandy! https://t.co/1CZvWaV0sh

[LiVRe] L'arme invisible de la Françafrique, Une histoire du franc CFA – Fanny Pigeaud & Ndongo Samba Sylla… https://t.co/YuZmXCRS2d

@fiat_money @DeutscheBank Yes. It is one big redistributional process. But that it is …

@GaneshHegde7 @DeutscheBank Since we owe it to ourselves (plus some foreign investors) Its an interesting measure of redistribution.

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War of the Worlds wasn’t fake news! It was a highly prescient radio drama. But great image nonetheless! https://t.co/Mppkl8rzEi

In 1982 the nationalization of the French banking system required legislation only for domestic companies – So nati… https://t.co/UjuRhoJ7DK

Estimated output losses in Euro area crisis countries. Percent of GDP. Source: Haver Analytics. From @Tam_Bayoumi o… https://t.co/FuJzmNHJgf

Capitalization in US banking system in 2007 suggest the vulnerability of the broker dealers PLUS CITIGROUP in a sys… https://t.co/McZuCEMj3e

Use child mortality as your index and there is only one possible conclusion: historic progress is real. The real qu… https://t.co/l2FDwvoGlX

Basel capital ratios never correlated with simple leverage ratios, but by 2008 something like a negative relationsh… https://t.co/yeqxDWCIH8

On rereading @Tam_Bayoumi Unfinished Business I’m genuinely surprised to find that we both invoke 1914 and Chris Cl… https://t.co/71w9mHuKUu

The expansion of 12 european megabanks btw 2004 and 2008 was extraordinary. Frm @Tam_Bayoumi Unfinished Business.… https://t.co/bgpSBAPJrp

Tallying the cost of the financial crisis: $4½ trillion in 2009 prices or around 8 percent of world output in that… https://t.co/wRldQleZKy

The North Atlantic Financial Boom of the early 2000s: enviable graphic from @Tam_Bayoumi excellent Unfinished Busin… https://t.co/V4XGLvetXI

Top muckraking analysis of the fiasco of the $4.1bn Wisconsin subsidy for the Foxconn plant supposedly to employ 10… https://t.co/H2QPboJSK0

Savior or Trümmerfrau of the CDU. Provocative thread on Merkel’s legacy. https://t.co/eolRydF4ca

“The company regards it as its duty to realise the domestic manufacturing of integrated circuit chips,” Fujian Jinh… https://t.co/iMrKxW0Dbh

The formation of Europe’s mega bank complexes in the 1990s and early 2000s is charted by @Tam_Bayoumi If you liked… https://t.co/bDnwZ4XavV

Underwater household balance sheets v. banking panic. Mian and Sufi v. Bernanke. Ex Fed chairs Brookings paper look… https://t.co/qgOYEaeKPO

Essential data charts and references on globalization from @PIIE What great work! Thank you! https://t.co/0kcM1hceCZ

Oil state Texas seeks billions in federal funding to protect its coastline and oil refineries against storm surges… https://t.co/Jx1DEiEtuX

China to build its first Antarctic landing strip as competition for polar resources heats up.… https://t.co/vj96o4QyXH