ADAM TOOZE

Breaking down US manufacturing by sector reveals stark contrast btw growth areas like tech and primary metals v. fu… https://t.co/fXUGMSzjR8

How Em manage their balance of payments in 21stC: Current account surpluses are small fraction of total flows. Capi… https://t.co/mBNr0JxAbH

Once you remove the problematic data for the computing sector there is no recovery in the rest of US manufacturing… https://t.co/TqUJ4trUzr

A bit of gorgeous #library archaeology from Staatsbibliothek: a pneumatic tube system and a microfilm reader behind… https://t.co/cjSbTeWtP4

@Noahpinion hi Noah on reflection my title was unhelpful. The graph really doesn’t show returns to education. it si… https://t.co/vt2ZNXmseb

How the Fed left the pre-crisis world behind forever: the thinking behind QE3 and normalization revealed by an insi… https://t.co/xsbfwudYAU

The fall in manufacturing employment in US since 2000 is worse than an exponential trend would predict. From… https://t.co/fo3ZUcpWxT

@HFlassbeckEcon @ecb @MFratzscher @MESandbu completely agreed!

Three phases of US manufacturing’s contraction: 90s productivity growth, 2000s contraction, 2010 stagnation… https://t.co/x3qV0OPUH4

Returns to education: viewed occupation by occupation, the correlation between increases in college education and w… https://t.co/LhN8taPcLB

The way US statisticians count output under NAICS code 334 – Computer and electronics products – translates Moore’s… https://t.co/mzwFTzV6w7

@adam_tooze This will delay my re-read through the English translation of the 1824 Kriegsspiel rules I have acquire… https://t.co/7HbUCQWVnC

Across the US workforce there has been an increase in % of degree qualifications. 26.5 m college educated Americans… https://t.co/OREwRr1SiY

Domestic demand imbalance between France and Germany 1999-2008 created huge tensions in eurozone in first decade. D… https://t.co/UQI05rQU7N

Retail reflux: post-retail sales, including both returns and overstocked items, totaled $554 billion in 2016, and h… https://t.co/YjLY3kB19f

Clausewitz and the Napoleonic wars in Germany – in time for @DuncanWeldon weekend reading ;)… https://t.co/FFQoLemC0M

China and Pakistani business groups are cooperating to open up gigantic 175n ton Thar lignite coal field. Pakistan… https://t.co/yIYSoFb2vv

Kōjō-moe ( 工場萌え, lit. 'factory passion'): the "appreciation of industrial scenery, particularly the awe-inspiring s… https://t.co/VNkaoxN6iW

Latest set of German polls confirm the further collapse of SPD support. Down to 16 % v. 15 % for the AfD. @faz.net… https://t.co/vlJyqaLdP5

The balance of auto manufacturing within NAFTA has shifted in favor of Mexico. But given volume growth pressure on… https://t.co/2UwnYYqqkh

Great on why the moralistic idea of interest rates as the reward for deferring gratification gets the economics of… https://t.co/QzzA4HhFT7

Once there were strikes: US strike rates at all time lows h/t @SoberLook https://t.co/bCDHGNMy8W https://t.co/84TPJUYHon

Le Retour des Cendres – Loading the remains of Napoleon onto Belle Poule, 15 October 1840. Painting by Eugène Isabe… https://t.co/JOYKUkfyVR

To dodge tariffs US solar panel imports now come increasingly from places other than China. Who makes them is presu… https://t.co/OKtT5AtXww

What happens when global liquidity conditions tighten and you are a Forex exposed EM? A balance sheet approach.… https://t.co/e0DfBCJOeu

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841) should the questions be about the "tulip mania” of… https://t.co/bimDOmm6Ur

Merkel as Godmother – System M: “value-abstinence”, “theme-shyness” and an elevation of Machtpolitik (the politics… https://t.co/EIs6S2zdpB

The origins of the “Merkel method” are not to be found in 2015 but in 2005 when Schroeder’s counterattack against h… https://t.co/PWGBwWh3h8

@adam_tooze Reminds me of the voice recording of Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, apparently the only person born in t… https://t.co/hzOjRLwo2L

Private pension fund schemes control $ 41 trillion globally with 60 % held in the US. h/t @DuncanWeldon Fascinating… https://t.co/ELNLNRj6Co

Did you know there was a photograph of Metternich? Born 1773 when Frederick the great still had ten years to rule!… https://t.co/Vtl1xTYP0l

Mortgage balances in hardest-hit crisis states of 2008 – Florida, Arizona, Nevada, and California – have still not… https://t.co/dx2VJOijZn