ADAM TOOZE

levels of absolute poverty across poorest African states are staggering and likely to remain so over coming decades… https://t.co/5lgdyQRdlh

The work by @nssylla on the exploitative and disastrous CFA-franc system in francophone Africa is staggering!… https://t.co/upq2ccGpGt

In 1970 there was a belt of high fertility running around the equator. By 2014 only Africa and Afghanistan remained… https://t.co/HapxFH4diT

Interest rates in the late 1970s and early 1980s were spectacularly unusual by comparison with long-run rates.… https://t.co/io7GE2oQSj

Giovanni Tria – Italy’s embattled Finance Minister – financial markets are “pricing him in”. They rely on his media… https://t.co/t9wwWMTY3Z

The Optimist: The @FT illustrated history of the pre-crisis decade. Brought back by @frederick65… https://t.co/K5YM1Akc7H

French non financial corporates appear to have staggering levels of debt. If I’m reading the color coding right. V.… https://t.co/mkkWDXni7s

Neither India nor Europe are exempt from impact of US trade sanctions against Iran. EU is looking for symbolic mea… https://t.co/VJ7gkN3RJk

Key to Turkey’s problems are banks. "They are why falling lira is dangerous & why stabilizing it could be dangerous… https://t.co/MhxhnElT9A

Remarkably unbuttoned response of the German UN delegation to Trump’s historic speech … https://t.co/BharIrQCBr

If Brazil is the great competitor to the US in soy, in wheat it is Russia, which is now the world record wheat expo… https://t.co/UYbjw4NYAH

The % of Uk firms expecting to go bankrupt after a hard Brexit depends on degree of delay at customs: 10-30 minutes… https://t.co/K6eLQnCkoZ

Measured unemployment levels in Poland are down to record low levels. Will the spread of prosperity shift the polit… https://t.co/b1ohtEC2gx

From a high of 15% in 2012 Irish unemployment is down to below 6%. Even if you remove multinational profits Irish e… https://t.co/GzNOp5CJ1S

84% of German public opinion opposed big concessions to UK over Brexit. https://t.co/ylNQmoT2qt

No bankers went to jail? Not quite true the FT finds! 47 did but 25 of them were in Iceland. 11 in Spain. 7 in Irel… https://t.co/Sd68koTFuq

@ChinmayTumbe Same for Chinese labor. Most is within region!

Great chart but worth noting that indentured migration formed less than 10% of overseas migration in this period, t… https://t.co/KdbVxeDLQM

“There is urgency to put in place backstop. There is urgency to reform ESM. It is urgent to put in place a budget f… https://t.co/CxsiErTLIe

Ash Carter on the new tech Cold War with China: "Though it is not a matter for a Sec of Defense, I felt that intern… https://t.co/lPp4jbeOzz

“a fundamental change in the perception of Poland among global investors” NO they are not worrying about the rule o… https://t.co/SU0AncLA1q

The much-reduced flow of migrants across Med to Europe runs mainly to Spain rather than Italy or Greece.… https://t.co/EQr0sT1yF7

@CoreyRobin It was a great session!

China’s currency management is being done not by the central bank the PBoC but by the big “state banks” which act o… https://t.co/jihJxelq7P

The Turkey-panic has subsided, but the pain is only just beginning. Bank credit flow is collapsing pointing to a re… https://t.co/3K1hdLuJUb

Is corporate debt going to be the flywheel of the next recession in the US? Debt to value added ratio at record lev… https://t.co/gVfb7MLLq9

Canada’s Canopy Growth cannabis farming company has a market cap twice that of US Steel: the 21st century has some… https://t.co/LoFSl1DQzv

DSA rising: From 6000 in the fall of 2016 the members of the Democratic Socialists of America has surged to 50,000.… https://t.co/lWaTGwd1R2