ADAM TOOZE

In those industries with easily “digitized” output there had been no productivity growth slump… https://t.co/sDbOlpz1MO

IT investment still remarkably concentrated within “digital sector”. Does this imply huge potential for prod growth… https://t.co/zmFPmuIi5N

Remarkable downward adjustment in US petroleum consumption has been consistently underestimated… https://t.co/8rpMwiKjd9

Degrees of delusion about social mobility vary across US as measured by ratio of perceived to actual mob… https://t.co/KFcO6isxJG

Delusions of the American dream: Americans vastly overestimate probability of moving from bottom quintile to top… https://t.co/E3dqyb4xhV

Why does Fed worry? Even if wage growth in US picks up, it is unclear whether it feeds through to inflation… https://t.co/LxnrVofHcp

From the grave Kohl is stirring the pot choosing Strasbourg funeral over Berlin. The Birne … Koestlich to the end!… https://t.co/OmFoWTo81k

In Stress Test Banks’ Pre-Provision Net Revenue plays key role. Financial stability policy = profit targeting… https://t.co/u6LnRoeFRL

China's "leaders know shadow banking is risky but they are addicted to the capital to prop up growth & local gov”… https://t.co/NScjGGioPD

“time to change the tone”? British business exploits PM May’s weakness to push back against ruinous hard Brexit.… https://t.co/QJgJiV7Dc2

Lukacs on WWI: Central powers defeat Russia & West defeats Center —> "who will defend against western democracies?”… https://t.co/VWHQb8DYLJ

@dieterjosef thank you. I look forward to reading/reviewing this biography. Cant tell whether it acknowledges the c… https://t.co/Ek1rbR4ytw

CIA involvement in Aug 1953 Iran coup v Mossadegh over oil finally documented by new cache of docs… https://t.co/YRGj6pd3Tf

Imaginative chart showing how non-standard employment forms come with higher dispersion of pay from Haldane talk… https://t.co/3JHxlhFCXU

Very cool chart showing how UK labour market became responsive to output gaps 1860-1950=LONG-run Philips curve… https://t.co/Bbk7CUT8oD

If there is suitable childcare mothers will take paid employment. The relationship is not 100 % but pretty powerful… https://t.co/mQSJeQbh9W

“the state was already bankrupt” on the fiscal politics of farm loan waivers across drought-stricken Indian states… https://t.co/69kiPJHedQ

US bank profitability less closely correlated with term spread thane might expect. Level of rates matters too… https://t.co/OovEqlSjGG

Astonishingly conditions in Somalia and parts of Ethiopia are becoming so desperate people are fleeing to Yemen!… https://t.co/q0pAJRRHRO