ADAM TOOZE

John Lanchester on the 10th anniversary of the crash. This is, of course, a must read: https://t.co/AKJkoO5Dxs

Saturation: global smart phone shipments showed no growth in 2017. From Mary Meeker’s slides:… https://t.co/eGBgJ8F2Hb

Sticky floors and sticky ceilings: how low and high incomes persist across generations. Cool but depressing data fr… https://t.co/tJ28nyUeDw

The extent to which tech R&D and capex dominates the US economy is quite remarkable: only oil, auto, Merck, Johnson… https://t.co/kRDrp9CdQC

Germany and the US are similar in the degree to which having a low income father shapes your income outlook (for th… https://t.co/d7IcovwspP

"Wars are generally good news for arms dealers. In the burgeoning trade war with China, the semiconductor-equipment… https://t.co/GFb6VcmzsX

At the current level of intergenerational mobility, it takes on average four to five generations for the offspring… https://t.co/hiNphHJWZT

“The kind of dollar selling from that bank was so aggressive that we knew instantly that it must be from the Big Ma… https://t.co/fg3pWE4kLX

Germany’s minimum wage experiment in 2015 had a significant positive impact in raising East German rates with o neg… https://t.co/N6PPV2X6u8

China’s surging demand for LNG was going to be the basis for lucrative Sino-American deals. Not so much in the near… https://t.co/VUwNfhnDTS

German minimum wage introduced in 2015 had a significant impact in cutting East-West inequality without negative im… https://t.co/lgXvO9OmOz

Big Gas is the Big Play for Big Oil: BP and Shell race to close gap to EXXON with new LNG projects gambling on what… https://t.co/U34DbUyMxO

“He’s making changes, trying to get the country back where it needs to be,” – depressing vox pop report from the Ha… https://t.co/J3deyPph0d

Regardless of Erdogan’s consolidation of power, Turkish bond yields continue to climb to painful levels: 17% for 5y… https://t.co/s8SJRdwmyR

End of a production model: If Brexit delays required Honda’s just in time plant at Swindon to hold 9 days of parts… https://t.co/1WHKxvRztI

Currency v. tariffs: with the yuan sliding sharply is Beijing sending a signal to the White House? Real question …I… https://t.co/ayHK2yF2q4

The probability that your job will be automated out of existence is expected to vary dramatically with the wage lev… https://t.co/IpWmx729ty

One of the perverse things about the heating up of the immigration debate in the US is that thanks to slack labour… https://t.co/9c8euOcZzD

@adam_tooze really re

"I received the book of poems which you wrote. I think they are extraordinarily sensitive and surprisingly masculin… https://t.co/oTNV2w2rmV

"Es gibt 4 H.Arendt:"die Wissenschaftlerin,"die Heilige, die Verdammte+die Unbekannte. Weil wir von ihrem Werk imm… https://t.co/mnbPjsHXdc

„She was inherently in trouble.“ Did you know that in the mid 1950s poet Ingeborg Bachmann and Henry Kissinger were… https://t.co/hhhRTfXK3w

New! Brian Schmidt and Nicolas Guilhot's edited volume on the history and historiography of IR. (I have a chapter i… https://t.co/fNALm88XUn

Renminbi declines in response to trade war fears, which has the effect that … how long before White House demands t… https://t.co/8xCcaqXtsh

“Freedom of opinion is a farce unless factual information is guaranteed and the facts themselves are not in dispute… https://t.co/ix1s5A6m8W

Tax shock! More than half of America’s enormous student debt mountain is in income-driven repayment programs. When… https://t.co/1ZLnHhEfAQ

Debt brake in action: ENTIRE German public sector is running a surplus: Bund, Länder and Communes. BW cut its debt… https://t.co/zcgSUMw4YR

On average it takes Europe 16 years to complete a high speed rail project … 16 years. The Munich-Verona line will t… https://t.co/WQhWyT8NNF

"German businesses have got a modest case of the jitters, unnerved by the darkening prospects for global trade.”… https://t.co/qCt2I9cXpM

So far the US protectionist program in favor of heavy industry has hit US ag with a 10% price cut. These really are… https://t.co/BIQaHSCaUO

Nominal wage rigidity increases in response to economic shocks and tends in the aftermath also to limit wage increa… https://t.co/67sZZCeY5y

Chinese investor confidence suffered two big blows: to housing in 2014, stocks in 2015. Confidence takes time to re… https://t.co/wzwPmo1Y8C

Narcissism of small differences: World Bank comparison of G7 tariff rates, weighted mean. US rates are ever, ever s… https://t.co/TBZACxFoyq