ADAM TOOZE

To efficiently expand mobility through US higher ed, place to put money is NOT Ivy League where costs are *14… https://t.co/ypPRuFuFVa

Columbia v. Suny Stony Brook: Once you get in both dramatically raise prospects, but who gets in?… https://t.co/e0NsDewubS

America has colleges that promote mobility and equality and it has colleges that perpetuate inequality on huge scal… https://t.co/HaqqpvM6en

There were more kids from top 1 % households in Ivy+ schools in early 2000s than from bottom 50 %… https://t.co/GEYavJxCgB

Say: "No Mr President China really doesn’t qualify as a currency manipulator" … then: duck and cover! @SoberLook… https://t.co/fJOR1zZc8R

In 1950 34 m people worldwide had some university/college education. In 2010 it was 536 million.

Factoid to cheer you up: In 1950 the adult population of world embodied 5 billion years of schooling in 2010 it was 32.9 billion years!

@APHClarkson hi Alex … you don’t think the preferences indicated by the vote in 1936 were part of the crisis?

Solidarity with everyone affected, of course, but this ban hits Iranians above all! https://t.co/1NQo5DYzPY

Interesting notes of tension from within the Koch-circle about Trump Presidency: immigration, rule of law etc. https://t.co/Fw8xTWADVv

Staggering disparity of health spending in US: 50 % concentrated on top 5 %, whereas bottom half spend 3 % of total… https://t.co/gSptvuDHet

Motor vehicle industry in crosshairs of any US-Mexican trade dispute https://t.co/HQyQ56Gt4p

Indian troops aboard horse-drawn tram cars which ran between Baghdad and Kadhimiya, July 1917 #FWW #GreatWar… https://t.co/2eyZMF3eAX

Lafontaine mobilizing against Red-Red-Green & praising Trump’s intimidation of big businessnhttps://t.co/aCNAOMHMR9… https://t.co/qCWyptd0r6

@Pugo2010 @SoberLook as explained in later tweet its gallup

The survey is by Gallup and question is: If your country involved in a war, would you be willing to fight”. Glob re… https://t.co/qk2ABsntn4

@Centurion_1973 @pfc_joker @SoberLook collectively the EU also outspends the Russians quite considerably. Terrible inefficient though!

@JonathanBoff @_paullay In Germany … in 1912? …. surely not! Or even in 1932

@GerardAraud Agreed one should not jump to conclusions. But it points to key constraint on defense policy at times of low immediate threat.

@JonathanBoff @_paullay No doubt … Ukraine being case in point. But there is something fundamental here.

@_paullay frustratingly vague about sources. Perhaps @SoberLook can give us more details?

Migrants = 3.4% of global pop but contribute 9.4% of global GDP. @McKinsey_MGI research: https://t.co/YIVNIeeCe8 https://t.co/C6zxFHj4qm

Pointing to one of the weak links in the global dollar banking system, the excellent @DanielaGabor https://t.co/hqktGtXUfT

@AdamPosen @SoberLook @josephncohen @jbjakobsen sorry that was a historian’s turn of phrase … as the data show Aug 2015 is turning point.