ADAM TOOZE

Raise investment to reduce Germany’s trade surplus – The import-intensity of exports, inv, household consumption, c… https://t.co/oEEe79bTfo

Historically, tighter labour markets in US drive wages and capital substitution —> higher investment. Since 2014 th… https://t.co/6jAkzPsjNc

If you owe your infrastructure to Xi’s One Belt One Road, guess who ends up owning your debt! Djibouti, Tajikistan,… https://t.co/ASe4tyUghS

From 6 % to 17.5 % and back down to 2 % – Ukraine, oil bust and massive devaluation have put the Russian economy on… https://t.co/oPKH4AYkXw

Predicting recessions from yield curve inversions – Excellent non-jargony summary. Highly recommended.… https://t.co/XPoVxW1ngw

Very much looking forward to discussion on March 14 at @DIW_Berlin with Laura von Daniels @SWPBerlin @MFratzscher a… https://t.co/Ebe7D3Cpw3

Hans-Werner Sinn is a “media brand” – a brand which @faznet and Holger Steltzner seem keen to promote on occasion o… https://t.co/ETqv2tPgvp

Where the money is: there is a difference between modernist social infrastructure deal talk and the actual allocati… https://t.co/gWpFEw7OXF

“The price can’t be too high,” said one German official. “The question is what political and economic benefit it br… https://t.co/N9dc1nTi0C

As WINTER STORM WARNINGs reverberate around the East coast of the US, today is a day to revisit Ulrich Beck’s class… https://t.co/tG5FMPTMy5

Adjusting for productivity per hour gives a clearer indication of labour market slack in the EU. Nice chart from… https://t.co/Qqawchi35q

Of all the plastic ever produced the majority, 4.9bn tonnes, has ended up as waste. It could all have been dumped i… https://t.co/Fz8ygsVE4y

Cacophony of central bank communication: Total number of central bank speeches per year has surged from 1998—2014… https://t.co/EiwXcO0znp

China’s efforts to curb its heavy industrial overcapacity are frustrated by new steelworks coming on line.… https://t.co/c8NDwuRkkU

The OFI’s – inv funds, mmf, hedge funds, broker-dearlers, SFV, REITs, trust companies – are the pivot of SFB’s anat… https://t.co/oLP2nJ0Nu8

Growth in UK since 2008 is virtually entirely down to increasing hours of labour input. Great piece by… https://t.co/g8McquwvJa

If you add up bank assets with those of pension funds, insurers etc it is striking how similar the degree of financ… https://t.co/rqGloRrNrB

One-child policy and rising inequality account for 75 % of the spectacular increase in China’s saving rate.… https://t.co/y8vuy1ucJ3

Macro-mapping of the global financial system. Courtesy of the FSB. Who manages the $333.9trn in global financial as… https://t.co/YiW1uzGWkC

Anatomy of global shadow banking: $45trn on narrow definition i.e. runnable collective inv vehicles plus broker dea… https://t.co/RRX6QRuFVJ

When will South Korea shed its label as an “EM” economy? GDP per capita is currently level pegging with Spain and s… https://t.co/PrOJqXoFIa

Fin markets play key role in US "social response to retirement” v. gov pensions based on state's balance sheet (Eur… https://t.co/zn4x9InBsD

China’s flat rate social contribution creates a regressive tax system at the bottom end of the income distribution.… https://t.co/HqMx6LfCxE

Institutionally managed wealth – insurance and pension funds – is entirely dominated by US, Europe and Japan at glo… https://t.co/yoDjlvwgQG

@nicestnisus @FTAlphaville @FlassbeckEcon @benmarrow yeah sorry I missed this!

No guilt but yes to "moral responsibility" – complex attitudes of Germans to Nazi past revealed by fascinating surv… https://t.co/ylHEthXWPq

@FTAlphaville Hi @FlassbeckEcon unfortunately there may be something wrong with the interpretation of the survey in… https://t.co/az5l107kyM

@LDBurnett I always assign "The Content of the Form" in my historiography/philosophy of history class for grad students. And always will.

@FTAlphaville Hi @paulmasonnews please check out this rebuttal from Uber’s chief economist which suggests that thes… https://t.co/Qry64CioKe

@jerryzmuller Well in fairness the CEEPR paper is trying to explain why Uber drives give up so frequently. But here… https://t.co/6QGbpJRDqv

@AndrewWattEU hi andrew turns out I had queued it up for today rather than actually putting it out yesterday! but it will go out later.

Shockingly low figures for Uber earnings may be based on skewed interpretation of earnings and hours returns. This… https://t.co/NkUzt1wdXb