ADAM TOOZE

Export of tear gas as an element of american postwar hegemony: fascinating paper by Stuart Schrader harvard at @SHAFRhistorians conference.

Origins of the "Washington consensus": listening to fascinating, counterintuitive paper by grant madsen byu at @SHAFRhistorians

Europe’s new “flexible labour market”: 70% of young spaniards who are in work are on short-term contracts.… https://t.co/WQQZqO0EgF

Beyond tariffs: As action against Japanese and South Korean car makers in China indicates, the huge investment of U… https://t.co/jTTzzEtdNp

Inbuilt bullish bias: buy the SP500 and you are effectively buying the hype. “Defensive” telecomms, pharma, consume… https://t.co/IMltV9Nzsj

Not buying Erdogan: "Foreigners bought just $118 million worth of Turkish equities and government bonds in net term… https://t.co/xvhhAKGhsh

Sign of the times: Walgreens to replace GE in the Dow Jones “industrial”. GE was only survivor of the original 1896… https://t.co/tumcISFA8p

@ozansski @M_PaulMcNamara thats really interesting on the identity of the onshore borrowers. do you have any data on that?

Net FDI into Turkey has never recovered from the 2007-8 crash we are now into a second slump.… https://t.co/sMKXn286g4

Capital flight from Turkey literally involves 6000 high net worth people leaving the country.… https://t.co/6Hk7CjJfQX

On the new generation of ultra long haul jets fuel can make up a larger % of weight than passengers and cargo. Bad… https://t.co/jQVwXeNdnz

Though it is China that has the trade surplus, the effects of a trade war on the US are proportionally larger and h… https://t.co/o7p6uZ1Ebi

@Gold_Failed @SHAFRhistorians “good” thing?

@M_PaulMcNamara I tracked him down and did just that. Terrifying data on bank balance sheets.

No pushover: Gemany’s rate of granting full asylum is now trending back to where it was before the crisis of 2015/6… https://t.co/IzLW3HKZW7

Is the United States a Revolutionary Power? I am on a panel tomorrow at the @SHAFRhistorians conference with that q… https://t.co/RkuizNKKAB

"in April 2018, the foreign debt owed by Turkish corporations maturing in less than a year was $125.5 billion”. As… https://t.co/hlOo3mfwSS

"More than half of the Turkish banking system’s total deposits are now in foreign currency.” @M_PaulMcNamara that i… https://t.co/k1aqsZ0S0j

@AndersA13638533 of course that is the background. My point is that the CSU can see Merkel trying to put together a… https://t.co/NnjgQQxpzZ

@FlorentDayet absolutely it is the upward trend that would be really telling

It did not help during Germany’s 2015/6 refugee crisis that its so-called EASY statistical registration system was… https://t.co/fJlUvqgZZY

Lives on hold: almost 50 % of Italians under age of 34 are stuck living at home. You wonder why they are frustrated… https://t.co/uDRVgo55XM

Whereas in 2015 most Asylum applications in Germany were filed in Bavaria they are now being distributed across cou… https://t.co/j5xMSXf4q2

Europe’s new “flexibility”: "In Italy, 62% of contracts for those under age 25 were short-term in 2017, up from a q… https://t.co/DXwBx9TRFH

@HistoryNed i wondered too. Don’t have national breakdown that far back.

Annual asylum applications in Germany over the long-run: showing the significance of the Yugoslavia surge in the ea… https://t.co/2GDcGEYQwy

Good morning from #Germany where the total number of recorded criminal offenses decreased by 9.6% in 2017 compared… https://t.co/ARJ5kbkEg8

I guess Seehofer could read the outlines of the EZ-reform-for-refugee-cooperation-deal that Macron and Merkel did. https://t.co/R5fOOdIcPo

Most logical alliance of economic interests (but may be culturally difficult) in the US now is actually a pact of soybeans and software.

Win win (maybe not for German taxpayers): Macron promises to rescue Merkel in migrant crisis and Merkel agrees on M… https://t.co/EGxoPupe48

Competitive world or global oligarchy? If Gutiérrez & Philippon r right & US is home to a new oligopolistic corpora… https://t.co/iSyy0kE7ZC

Competitive deregulation: In the 1990s the US led on the OECD’s Product Market (De)regulation index. By 2013 no lon… https://t.co/9s54QS3LWe

Lobbying expenditure EU v. US: Even if the european # are underreported this is a huge gap. And this does not count… https://t.co/nv00u1yCN3

EU antitrust authorities are going after cartels rather harder than their US counterparts. At least to judge by the… https://t.co/ML2J2JAbsb