ADAM TOOZE

The 6.1% growth rate in investment in China year to date is deceptive. Construction actually fell by 3% but there h… https://t.co/dVZ3lXKchr

The collapse in cross-channel traffic in the chunnel in 2008 crisis is remarkable, as is the push to even high leve… https://t.co/LUhlaB5KSN

Where China could really hurt the US is not just through tariffs but through US subsidiaries in country.… https://t.co/vCyXjlgazK

Since 2009 wages of College-educated American workers have risen 30% above those of High school drop outs.… https://t.co/FisMZpaE6h

Gear shift: after millennium productivity growth in the US economy was driven by sectors with declining employment.… https://t.co/WouGNnSwgL

Good news: R&D spending by US business at record levels. But it this overshadowed by fears of diminishing returns t… https://t.co/W9Lu0K2msO

Capital to labour ratio has stagnated in the US since 2008. Makes depressed productivity growth rather less surpris… https://t.co/VXw4YJpffm

How the lethal Fentanyl enters North America from China. Too ghastly even for black humor, but the shades of the Op… https://t.co/n0or8pNRc5

"Plunge, tumble and rout are overused by the financial media to describe a market in decline, but such superlatives… https://t.co/Lif7vODG8z

Shale Boom Town: Midland Texas at the heart of the Permian basis has seen a 35% increase in rents in last 12 months… https://t.co/gTDnEIjUop

"Based on historical trends, this projected divergence between the actual deficit and its cyclical component is hig… https://t.co/HSuVjNRkAr

Pity Mexico: it is not only in the frontline of Trump’s assault on NAFTA IT IS ALSO likely to be prime victim of th… https://t.co/8fvO1nS2Ug

One of perplexities of Trump’s tariffs are that they are not on final goods but on inputs to production —> effects… https://t.co/FMeMw2h43U

1/3 Americans has been arrested by the age of 25 for non-traffic violations. American criminal justice system is gi… https://t.co/AypvXh426E

Why isn’t the supply of educated workers in the US responding to the considerable premium to college education? Edu… https://t.co/QtiRSyPF6L

The POTUS who stole Xmas: US imports 80% of its toy imports from China. Laundry equipment prices surged following t… https://t.co/vAoAFrmguH

"Never in economic history, or at least never since the existence of trade statistics (that is, since the beginning… https://t.co/eZ21RfrTvt

If China is the hub of global growth in coming decades, European economies, with the exception of Germany, are poor… https://t.co/WMxBo9Rx7d

Migratory flows to rich countries are c. 0.2% of rich country population per annum! A tiny flow which causes the dr… https://t.co/VvGJeNXczB

The expansion in low productivity labor in the US economy since the 1980s slows down aggregate productivity growth… https://t.co/wtkG67fRh9

As both Europe and the US are preoccupied with debates about migration, it is useful to have these data from… https://t.co/sNqH5dFHqy

"If one thinks of raw materials as an early warning system — copper is frequently called the metal with an economi… https://t.co/2PhuzQxcxS

The Trump tax cut seems to have slashed Federal revenue from corporate taxes by c. $120bn data from Torsten Slok of… https://t.co/OFEaauOPL4

The reorganization of the European steel industry around two Indian conglomerates and two offspring of the Nazi sel… https://t.co/mAxoUuf1SG

Just in case there was an question about the openness of the US elite, check out the college backgrounds of America… https://t.co/nZ3dRw8FnE

@BaldingsWorld That’s really interesting. Thanks for clarification.

Oil prices and production are back, but oil employment is not. Productivity enhancing innovation finally comes to t… https://t.co/vOUAWnC4tj

INDISPENSABLE survey of issues around China’s insertion into global trade regime by @Brad_Setser ends with a macroe… https://t.co/7ueCyFUdyN

@DuncanWeldon @Birdyword @RajaKorman Clsa?

The economic mood has turned down worldwide according to indicators of new slow which closely track business cycle… https://t.co/h63p9ruAYu

INDISPENSABLE survey of issues around China’s insertion into global trade regime by @Brad_Setser ends with a macroe… https://t.co/rPpt1Coy5y

Good to know that our financial system and its stability are securely founded on solid profits and that the Fed is… https://t.co/JqNbzUzFvh

Global imbalances have since 2011 been driven primarily by surge in eurozone current account surplus (plus Japan to… https://t.co/ikr1p7QKIr

How the surge in “other liabilities” drove the expansion of US bank balance sheets until 2008 … and then stopped.… https://t.co/rqdoJhZnH8