ADAM TOOZE

The German auto archipelago: OEM and key suppliers clustered in Bavaria, Baden-Wurttemberg and NRW… https://t.co/sr3lUOyeV5

OPL 245 – the remarkable $1.1bn Nigerian oil bribery case involving Shell and ENI ought to be getting more attentio… https://t.co/Un9Y5I41zx

By 2022 @knightfrank expects the global population with net worth >$5m to exceed 3.6 m of which 1.2m NAmerica, 1.1m… https://t.co/CS7TYkExXP

How the wealth of white families transmits in the United States and the far smaller wealth of African Americans doe… https://t.co/t1jQaJnTM9

Polarization in the US labour market is reflected also in fact that whereas hours have declined for lower income wo… https://t.co/xqOfbcTgE9

On current trends Bain expects class disparity in life expectancy in US to rise from 5 years in 1990 to 16 years by… https://t.co/H4lKZjEGqc

Samsung’s giant smartphone investment in Vietnam totals $17bn. it has made Vietnam #2 phone exporter after China. S… https://t.co/8fNVtqzUSV

We’ve been discussing the true balance of payments implications of Chinese tourist spending with @Brad_Setser but t… https://t.co/ralfuLGCpl

China as a Polar Great Power exposes another dramatic dimension of China’s infrastructural ambition.… https://t.co/CKrOhwCjEX

A remarkable 23 percent of people living in Germany today have a “migration background”. Read the excellent report… https://t.co/ozJiv695lk

It is hard to think of any moment in history in which the German lands weighed so little in the military balance as… https://t.co/OeQzb2me2m

Shale and hearty: Back from the dead the US Chemical industry has embarked on over $185bn in new chemical investmen… https://t.co/918jofS2bR

Demand for US Treasury bills, as measured (in relation supply) by the bid-to-cover ratio rose strongly in the after… https://t.co/BZLKDfdh7Z

Germany has everything at stake in the future of the auto industry: "A workforce of around 800,000 is employed dir… https://t.co/JAg38qZRhT

Profoundly counterintuitive: “According to Brit gov analysis a cotton tote bag must be used 131 times before greenh… https://t.co/nIcXHDlVTX

Big Anglophone law firms that dominate the arena of global commercial law find it difficult to get together! As the… https://t.co/nGmMmWt27s

When discussing the bond market and the deficit, it is crucial to bear in mind that even a large deficit is small i… https://t.co/Dx8ehXAiO9

The AIDS crisis continues in Africa: In S and East Africa annual infections are running at 790,000 in West and Cent… https://t.co/k4LK1FT9ku

Plastic pollution is ugly and alarming in its scope but is it dangerous? Fascinating report on a known unknown by… https://t.co/dyyKCBF5BG

Addicted to combustion: European manufacturers and German firms in particular lag far behind in the competition to… https://t.co/ir2NPG99WJ

The surge in private jet ownership in the US is a remarkable testament to the global geography of the new gilded ag… https://t.co/7RM07JSb6r

By 2022 @knightfrank is expecting global population of people with net worth >$5m to reach 3.8m… https://t.co/q6JKbRt3SR

Really fascinating cultural/political history of the 1857 financial crisis – the first truly global crisis of capit… https://t.co/Fy6XUlyJcN

"Piketty is history, not the ineluctable future. If global labour force demographics drove inequality up, then thei… https://t.co/yuHHdI9UTF

Not just a China shock: the end of the Cold War saw both Asia and Eastern Europe added to the global labour force.… https://t.co/udjXDBIRxg

Automation may pose a serious threat to the market position of EM manufacturing hubs like Mexico.… https://t.co/UsRio3nkHw

In 1997 Mexican unit labour costs were half those of the US. By 2013 the gap had fallen to less than 20 %.… https://t.co/0cWi9bKpXC

As labour costs rise and robot prices fall, look to China for an absolutely massive surge in automation. Robot ship… https://t.co/jqrGGIWQYD

As focus of employment growth shifts to sectors with low productivity growth the overall labour productivity growth… https://t.co/1zhcJuK66c

Medicare/Medicaid expenditures on America’s massively overpriced health care system have the effect of flattening m… https://t.co/EH4s7Jypr6

The Asian post WWII baby boom is on a far vaster scale, but it follows the same basic chronology as that of the dva… https://t.co/lKcqLyPbm7