ADAM TOOZE

If the automation of services over the next few decades lives up to expectations of @BainAlerts it will exceed in s… https://t.co/sihMghxfjl

China’s State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission manages a portfolio of 106 SOE behemoths whose… https://t.co/orgryT1iB8

Of China’s SOE trading in Hong Kong, since 2016 30 have changed their statutes to give the Chinese Communist Party… https://t.co/N9L14bMXKZ

The $ 900 bn that 30 largest US firms hold offshore are largely invested in $ bonds. Data from Zoltan Pozsar via… https://t.co/WuMCLayyCO

Advantage or liability? Though they are manufactured all over the world, 70 % of premium cars sold have German badg… https://t.co/8Ox88rWDAS

Putin’s fiscal fortress: the contrast between Brazil and Russia’s credit rating highlights the significance to Puti… https://t.co/bfXJqMoEE0

The funds that giant US firms hold “offshore” and are now in the process of repatriating, are in fact already inves… https://t.co/Bb0UG84U3b

With 40 % of global trade is invoiced in dollars, a dollar appreciation tends to throttle trade and global economic… https://t.co/YdUtKZP3z7

Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World – I am really looking forward to reading this… https://t.co/URUebOdjCe

Judged by European “supercore” inflation which remained stubbornly stuck at 1 %, talk of a boom was always somewhat… https://t.co/fUotaiwm8e

Reserve Army of Labour: Labour market slack in the US is disappearing …. Arghh first article by @M_C_Klein behind… https://t.co/WF57dmlQ6V

Factor content of trade estimates of the impact on labour demand in the North of globalization suggest that it cut… https://t.co/q1Y0PwETgE

"Among solo parents, however, the vast majority (81%) are mothers; only 19% are fathers. This gender difference is… https://t.co/3qtaUpAenI

“By the time they turn 9, more than 20% of U.S. children born to a married couple and over 50% of those born to a c… https://t.co/sKI4VtGGJc

In 1968, 13% of children – 9 m – were living in this type of arrangement, and by 2017, that share had increased to… https://t.co/Hc50FSTJlU

"The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell to the lowest level since 1969 …"… https://t.co/2mGierazhr

By 2030 the social structure of China and Russia are projected by @sanjaygreddy to be remarkably similar: 30-35% lo… https://t.co/rUwBOIqgxt

By 2030 it is quite possible that the global GDP share of the BRICS will be larger than that of the US and Europe c… https://t.co/lyaTO6E4TD

CAM (the Cambridge-Alphametrics Model), projects a medium-term future in which the BRICS are far more important in… https://t.co/gLTUiSNJAx

"The heterogeneity of wealth inequality cannot be reflected by a one-dimensional focus on net wealth. We should loo… https://t.co/5jFMQo7ddd

"Turkish businesses sat on a record $336 billion in foreign debt as of the end of January. When netted against thei… https://t.co/mRipVSspJ8

“Turkey is ticking all the boxes: large FX debt on corporates, current-account deficit, reserves shrinking, … We th… https://t.co/YIRqOBrq64

"The distortion of Ireland’s national accounts data by multinational activity is a prime example of what the BIS ca… https://t.co/VG8pKbJP48

"Since the national accounting framework was developed in the 1930s and 1940s, the activities of global firms and t… https://t.co/HFWlgGVDzO

The party of workers and peasants? In 2016, amid a sharp rise in entrepreneurs’ membership, businessmen and women m… https://t.co/5TseO0io0p

Remarkably, a decade after the mortgage crisis, delinquency rates for mortgages in the US are still higher than for… https://t.co/ZlL5MFrARk

Remittances i.e. income flows associated with labour migration bulk large in the total flow funds to the developing… https://t.co/luGoTO0St4

South-South migration is larger than South-North migration, total migration in North is larger only because of larg… https://t.co/O4YVRuIM5U

As a share of global population the refugee population peaked in the early 1990s. I find this surprising. But I gue… https://t.co/1tRW1DsaWE

According to @WorldBank more than 247 million people, or 3.4 percent of the world population, live outside their co… https://t.co/3nSQDIEhta

Proportion of People 25 Years and Over Who Have Completed a Bachelor's Degree varies across the US from 39 % in Mas… https://t.co/sv1NH1g7z3

Beautiful FRED data showing rise, rise and then stabilization of foreign holdings of US public debt.… https://t.co/uUsdM0MDVu

Amongst large items of food import, Chinese reliance on foreign sources is most extreme and most concentrated for p… https://t.co/5IaxzifSnx