ADAM TOOZE

The Pearl River Delta: navel of the world economy … or one of the “navels”. Helpfully anatomized in @TheEconomist… https://t.co/g3ntYFKyoD

The boom market created by the US opioid epidemic. Oxycontin sales. What accounts for the dip?… https://t.co/HwHrGu0wM8

Fast fashion is an environmental disaster: "1kg of fabric generates 23kg of greenhouse gases reckons McKinsey" https://t.co/0jol9khXtu

Global equity indices gave excessive weight first to Japan now the US. = big bet on US profits and markets… https://t.co/5vB2jFOXbP

Oberländer was the West German Minister for Displaced Persons, Refugees and Victims of War under Adenauer (2) https://t.co/T9hmuazeoT

Universities with highest % foreign students 1 American U of Sharjah 3 LSE 7 EPFL Lausanne 10 UCL 22 Geneva 35 ETH… https://t.co/9a0wT4bnjf

Remarkable report on the bioinformatics/gene sequencing race between rival Chinese biotech giants… https://t.co/qXl1tYjdqQ

Nightmare of liberalism (2): $1 a shot fundraiser for laid off steelworkers Gary Indiana 1982. Smash a Toyota!… https://t.co/9YQjtqOIrY

Nightmares of liberalism: UAW Ford workers sledgehammer a Toyota 1981- "If you sell in America build in America!"… https://t.co/3FoDynhvfo

How Execs at America’s biggest banks benefited from Trump-bump in financials https://t.co/o0lLNZ0KJC

Who benefited from the Trump-bump? Winners include inside investors at America’s smaller banks who sold stock… https://t.co/q0CascF99l

Two paths within the “Anglosphere”: Household deleveraging in the US v. surging debt in Australia and Canada… https://t.co/YhbwbGJV9U

Russia is rebuilding its Forex reserves. Fluctuations in Forex reserves around a high level are now a repeating cyc… https://t.co/w9ySSjKze0

US Steel needs to do basic maintenance to profit from Trump opportunities. Investors hate the plan. @SoberLook… https://t.co/OF4vt3h9DB

Americans are special. Only society to systematically underestimate share at bottom of income distribution. https://t.co/JwFCo5rgYI

tech/knowledge based capitalism: US corporate investment in IP is remarkably steady across business-cycles… https://t.co/xlQZ84Sz3g

Since 1992 US corporate investment in IP has exceeded investment in structures. Today it is 4 % gdp v. 1 % in 1947… https://t.co/VpXWDhgQcX

Intel investing ever more heavily in R&D to keep Moores Law on track. Look at how low R&D was in the 1990s!… https://t.co/PFJ4bts5Fo

Soft v. hard data. Confidence is up. The labour market is tightening. Consumptions has got to increase. hasn’t it?… https://t.co/KECzM3zKYY

@COdendahl @WSJ take your point about levels. I was mainly trying to highlight the shift in 2007/8 which I didn’t a… https://t.co/MT02Fjdi1J

Germany’s corporate tax cut in 2007 stands out as particularly large and sudden v. UK and ireland. With SPD running… https://t.co/KWs2IbOXqs

Is this one of the keys to the Polish puzzle? Persistently high levels of unemployment, even if trend is in right d… https://t.co/rpfRPnb436

1975-2015 US banned crude oil exports. Then fracking happened and the ban was lifted and now look …… https://t.co/XjT60h7uCf

Painful on the revolving door, Stanley Fischer and the Fed. Guess where Fischer spent his time on Wall Street … https://t.co/hn98zssFG2