ADAM TOOZE

Online commerce accounts for less than 9 % of retail sales —> the structural shift has a VERY long way to go… https://t.co/k9iTEvZRoR

To sustain growth and popularity Erdogan’s Turkey now increasing gov spending by close to 20 % pa @SoberLook… https://t.co/2mUnGnNRgQ

“If nuke industry wants to have future it cannot afford more projects like this,” Surreal history of Fin nuke plant https://t.co/xlqtJHfBBt

Ireland’s house price boom was extraordinary! The work out has been painful. But prices are beginning to recover.… https://t.co/cjEDMoQptc

Orban’s populism in Hungary was hoisted to power by econ crisis and is propped up by sustained growth. These are Qo… https://t.co/Yc6gjRi13d

Why are US GDP forecasts becoming more optimistic at same time as data soften and Trump inflation trade unwinds? Pu… https://t.co/rkjyslnhqS

Economic impact of loss of international students just in England. Wow. #GE2017 #Brexit @SarahLudford https://t.co/QfTJCAJiX2

#OTD 1952: Stilllegung des Anhalter Bahnhof. Fernzüge fuhren hier 111 Jahre lang ein. https://t.co/8UaFQpAMBp… https://t.co/5Gy0EAESWC

Powerful Russian Orthodox cleric summoned to spritz computers with holy water 💦 to fight ransomware… https://t.co/DtSdp0bm9a

Before the war many poor Dutch families lived in sod houses. Drenthe, the Netherlands, 1936 https://t.co/FKlMOewljh https://t.co/1rZ3Yd6KYd

How, given these trends for working pop and productivity in US econ does it make sense to predict 3 % or 4 % growt… https://t.co/4nNpnCDbn2

Generation ago mortgage on grand cru champagne vineyard could be paid off 45 yrs. Now 90 yrs at per prices commanded by small producers.

Going rate for prime grand cru vineyards in Champagne is 2 m Euros per hectare —> why artisanal champagne production is doomed.

Harsh realities of champagne economics: kg grand cru grapes =7euro. 1.2 kg of grapes -> 1 750ml bottle which sells at 30 euro farm gate.

Factor in underemployment and you see how dire the situation in EZ peripheral labour markets truly is @SoberLook… https://t.co/e0zBhd7PNg

Declining participation of prime age men —> slack in EZ labour market —> limits upward wage pressure in recovery… https://t.co/E87oPSh2Fa

There simply isn’t any upward pressure on prices in the Eurozone: ECB overestimates wage and price pressure in EZ… https://t.co/ZgwAO1la5i

Illuminating graphic from @FT on the way Brexit splits the UK electorate 3 ways handing landslide to tories… https://t.co/0FDwFMp3Sq

US apartment sales collapse just as supply is about to surge. The making of a new real estate crisis? @SoberLook… https://t.co/FaFJ5Nqz5u

Did Lt Col Hentsch lose WWI for Germany by ordering retreat from Marne? Holger Herwig excellent on the controversy… https://t.co/WjCky338NA

For anyone interested in WWI, I recommend Holger Herwig’s The Marne 1914. High quality operational military history… https://t.co/hz5vS3CcaO

U don’t have to go far in Manhattan to see surge in luxury apartments about to hit market. Can REITs absorb the sho… https://t.co/nXUJpRiafZ

Who will shed a tear for the passing of the department store? Politics of economic change are intensely gendered.… https://t.co/nABcT9IGpo