ADAM TOOZE

The great divergence: productivity and incomes of the bottom 90 % – only Canada avoids divergence… https://t.co/2iiQwxENw0

"Exchange rates affect the economy not only through a trade channel but also through a financial channel. The finan… https://t.co/U3Pswt0x9l

If you want to understand the challenges facing UK industrial strategy, spend a moment considering these maps, from… https://t.co/wwIE6ZEUBR

"The global economy is not just a group of islands, but a set of nodes connected by a dense network of financial cl… https://t.co/P4vMXpJwOq

Global production of coconuts is stagnating at around 16 m tons. Plantations in India, Philippines and Indonesia ar… https://t.co/bzGYrNNHza

Assembly in Mexico of core Asian components including the large glass LCD panel, is key to the flat screen TV trans… https://t.co/d3lxoMTtV1

This is the world’s last commercial sailing ship, The Pamir, rounding Cape Horn for the last time in 1949. https://t.co/3aNASosWIL

@ronanfitz22 August 2018

As a lifelong follower, one of the things I find puzzling about Eichengreen’s interpretation of recent financial hi… https://t.co/4NCQJLt1lw

Hanging with the $: 2008 shift out of GSEs into Treasuries: nice graph from @B_Eichengreen Exorbitant Privilege On… https://t.co/J9MIKHjt8U

The euro has replaced not $ but pound sterling as core partner currency of $. Are there implications for renminbi a… https://t.co/ITY7V012qA

@deepwatrcreatur @csissoko this is a paraphrase of Mehrling 2015

$ that dominates is Euro$ = private liability of global banks not the public liability of a central bank. And fact… https://t.co/AGSKEyxRdP

Giovanni Botero’s The Reason of State (CUP). 1589 set out after Machiavelli to reconcile power and morality in a ne… https://t.co/YdjU4yS8my

Burgling @BrookingsInst Nixon: "I want it implemented on a thievery basis. Goddamn it, get in there and get those f… https://t.co/KiWUJHf6J3

Günther-Klöckner-Spahn will these be the CDU figures to replace Merkel? @JeremyCliffe lays out the succession optio… https://t.co/eW0koidT6U

1930s world travel involved a lot of hops! https://t.co/T3SWwRexCP

Where Germany is most pluralistic – Poll results for Berlin put all 6 main parties between 21 and 8 % https://t.co/NdcytyCjGK

In study commission by @BFP_Deutschland @kielinstitute concludes that none of measures usually discussed could sign… https://t.co/q5sF3TAJ5I

To cut Germany’s current account surplus to 6 % of GDP @kielinstitute estimates that Germany would need to increase… https://t.co/8KT0AYisDN

Germany powerless against its current account surplus? @kielinstitute plays sweet music for @Bundesfinanzmin Let th… https://t.co/fpocWPpVtk

Global borrowing in dollars was briefly stopped by the 2008 crisis but then resumed, unlike all other global fundin… https://t.co/P2i7g4MJL7

Dusting off the emergency powers: when the Fed took 13(3) off the shelf in 2008 it had been last used in the 1930s… https://t.co/oP5QBel0Dj

A new Monkey in the mirror problem for central banks: "one day (we may) be tempted to draft our monetary policy sta… https://t.co/J03498VGN1

"the power of governments has been shaped by statistics – and vice versa” Coeuré of ECB citing Alain Desrosieres!… https://t.co/h950DnIerG

Dagenham’s disadvantage: why productivity in multinationals in 1970s Britain lagged behind their counterparts in Ge… https://t.co/u60N821GAU

Everyone loves Doge memes https://t.co/FJZM9GiIuJ

By 1973 UK lab productivity lagged both that of Germany and US but of very different reasons. Latest from Nick Craf… https://t.co/c2JHBi6Fwo

The making of more or less polarized societies: UK/US invest in higher ed v. Germany and France investing in interm… https://t.co/M8VtQF5uZq

@tradercoach the answer may lie in difference between per hour worked and per capita

After the massive devaluation shock of 2008 South Korea has kept the won low —> chronic current account surplus… https://t.co/rQmRs87rJ0