ADAM TOOZE

It is just about possible to blink your eye faster than for a signal to travel through the internet’s cables from Johannesburg to London and back again — about 160-170 milliseconds of latency. ft.com/content/adb113… https://t.co/yk6PTMXWxr

Workers dig a trench in Western Cape to lay an ultra-high capacity cable linking southern Africa and Europe. Facebook is among backers of the 37,000km 2Africa cable intended to circumnavigate Africa by 2023 or 2024. Google is laying cable to Lisbon. ft.com/content/adb113… https://t.co/VtnpDWawQX

The US, Japan, S Korea and China dominate patenting in key areas of digital technology. oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/6b74… https://t.co/fEkBBwGbHk

South African Teraco, Africa’s biggest independent data centre builder is being bought by US Digital Realty in a deal valuing the company at $3.5bn, as global investors race to take advantage of the explosive growth of internet use on the continent. ft.com/content/c42a12… https://t.co/lZiQHOr19R

"Weapon of mass destruction" or commodity? Last year, US DEA seized approximately 1,500 pounds of fentanyl shipped by Mexican drug cartels — an amount which, the agency says, is enough to kill every American. dea.gov/press-releases… https://t.co/x35IxggGYQ

“It’s like drowning, Fentanyl depresses the respiratory effort and people stop breathing. They go a few minutes without oxygen, the heart rate slows and they have a cardiac arrest.” Fentanyl is 50 times more potent than heroine. ft.com/content/18ed42… https://t.co/8xEJNoF9hJ

Japan lags far behind rest of @OECD in share of renewable sin energy mix. oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/6b74… https://t.co/W0ksGypaH2

Fentanyl is so potent and deadly because it crosses blood-brain boundary so easily, binds more effectively to receptors than other opioids, binds to so many receptors that it may stop breathing. Read this @FT piece and weep. ft.com/content/18ed42… https://t.co/Hno3ri3TPz

Over 56% of Japan’s exports now go to Asia. oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/6b74… https://t.co/k9Tavtx5YE

@SineadJCarolan @LDHerrine @IsabellaMWeber Weighs the enabling power and decides that it is very slight by comparison with the scale and potency of the likely blowback. foxnews.com/media/economis…

Once a leader in tech, Japan’s public sector lags far behind rest of @OECD in digitization. oecdecoscope.blog/2021/12/21/how… https://t.co/pCnMzUIhuR

There are more computers in schools in Chile than in Germany. oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/6b74… https://t.co/ld4RgF725R

Over the last decade, female labour force participation in Japan has surged above that of the US. But Japan also has a huge gender wage gap. @OECD oecdecoscope.blog/2021/12/21/how… https://t.co/hs8bdU4LhC

Is there a name for the kind of logic that derives a strong implication for the present from a counterfactual about the past? “If only if we had … so this time, …" Chartbook #65 on the price control debate sparked by @IsabellaMWeber history of 1940s. adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-65… https://t.co/YxpT1czYsJ

As huge shipments of LNG are directed towards Europe, the spike in gas prices collapses. thedailyshot.com/2022/01/03/us-… https://t.co/VrveeHHBW8

The share of university graduates in Italy’s working-age population is marginally ahead of that of Mexico and behind that of Turkey and Colombia. oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/6b74… https://t.co/K9dxKTjIb2

Japan has had a relatively mild COVID pandemic, but its economy is recovering more sluggishly than the rest of the @OECD oecdecoscope.blog/2021/12/21/how… https://t.co/jrZaoHYcGq

The 1970s hang like a long shadow over the inflation debate and nowhere is the shade deeper than when it comes to price controls. Chartbook Newsletter #65 on a debate most folks never imagined they would be having. adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-65… https://t.co/JTUZJPk2Hf

How Europe’s gas market was thrown out of balance, resulting in higher LNG imports and surging prices. bruegel.org/2021/12/how-se… https://t.co/nznTNQi3OG

Brazil’s program to auction off infrastructure projects and raw material rights has driven $189bn in investment and $34bn in fees for government since it started in 2016. ft.com/content/9f4aa3… https://t.co/TAVo71aZ4R

"On average more than 270 people — the equivalent of 10 or 12 high school classes — overdosed and died in the US every day in the year to April 2021.” @FT ft.com/content/18ed42… https://t.co/q0JlDbVAq9

What is behind the supply chain crisis is an astonishing surge in imports to the US resulting in a record trade deficit. thedailyshot.com/2022/01/03/us-… https://t.co/WZLnem4G09

RT @hugocerqueira: Link pro comentário do @adam_tooze sobre a gritaria em torno do controle de preços. Pode-se concordar ou discordar dos s…

Dead cat bounce? About that lira rebound that Erdogan and his outriders were crowing about …. thedailyshot.com/2022/01/03/us-… https://t.co/iqa9mKexxf

America’s post-COVID surge has born strange fruit in the form of a kerfuffle about price controls inspired by the debates of the 1940s! And I thought Biden was retro …. Check out Chartbook Newsletter #65 here: adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-65… https://t.co/fxSk9Wo1fy

"As the new year unfolds, both the Fed and markets have a huge stake in inflation coming down in an orderly way.” Send @elerianm a HAPPY NEW YEAR. … in his outlook he envisions some grim options for the Fed and for markets. ft.com/content/20e085… https://t.co/xsT1vqa14P

Transitory: by end of 2022 @CapEconGlobal expects US inflation to be below global average and on par with EZ. thedailyshot.com/2021/12/24/veh… As Chartbook #65 argues this makes price controls seem very exaggerated adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-65… https://t.co/f6yjfONQXy

RT @TheOrwellPrize: Happy New Year! Start off 2022 by submitting an entry to this year's Orwell Prizes. Entry is free and each Prize is wor…

In terms of output per hour worked, France is slightly ahead of Germany and remarkably close to the United States. oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/6b74… https://t.co/hqaBtmICPu

RT @DAGophile: Looks like @adam_tooze is now available in Italian. Sighted at @LaFeltrinelli in Pistoia, Tuscany. https://t.co/cS5Nw9xvYt

RT @lucas_chancel: @adam_tooze @amorygethin @thomas_blncht The full paper entitled “Why is Europe More Equal than the US?” is available her…

RT @JimCantore: This is roughly 90 miles of slow or no movement on i95! Some people in their cars now for over 8 hours. https://t.co/yHm9J…

US tax-and-transfer is more redistributive than Europe’s system. It needs to be! @amorygethin, @thomas_blncht, @lucas_chancel thedailyshot.com/2021/12/24/veh… https://t.co/dAZr946Um3

Over the 2010-2020 period, labour productivity growth in Italian manufacturing was significantly faster than that in Germany and more than four times faster than in the US. @OECD https://t.co/1JFWRtzWvG

Japan has twice as many broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants as Germany, whose subscription rate is barely greater than that of Mexico. oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/6b74… https://t.co/YJpMwErYgz

@SGamarad @JosephPolitano Oh I see … its generic praise just sent out into the world. Kinda hilarious. More prizes for more people I say … Happy New Year!