ADAM TOOZE

Wissing, whose pro-market FDP is staunchly in favour of the country’s car industry, unexpectedly won the backing of the Green-run economics ministry. Has Habeck's team surrendered on e-fuels??? ft.com/content/23e1fb…

RT @LevyAntoine: The cost per mile of the Bakersfield-Merced segment is at least six times higher than the most expensive high-speed rail s…

@jamforyou_ Unlike another Kazakh hero of the war, Baurzhan Momyshuly, Qoshqarbaev was never awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union, Many suspected the reason was the fact his father had been declared an enemy of the people, which was later confirmed by release of archives. h/t Wikipedia

"Low-income households are facing financial pressures from inflation & relying on credit cards for necessities, leading to higher delinquencies. Meanwhile, higher-income households are driving much of the spending in the US & maintaining healthy savings." thedailyshot.com/2023/03/03/hot… https://t.co/36NZdXeO99

87% of solar panels imported to China came from China last year. twitter.com/China_Table/st…

Disappointing labour productivity numbers are helping to drive up US unit labour costs early in 2023. thedailyshot.com/2023/03/03/hot… https://t.co/0E9kUxkD5d

RT @Brad_Setser: So the funding crunch that many feared in the pandemic is more or less happening now — Chinese policy lenders have pulle…

RT @70sBachchan: Theres not one but three distinct globalizations. ht @adam_tooze @HyunSongShin Cotton – Labor intensive indsutrializatio…

@nickfarruggia Sorry it irritated you Nick but Im puzzled, this is precisely the question I asked in the latest op-ed in the @FT did you find that irritating too?

RT @DanDePetris: Tbh, I’m not totally clear on what the U.S. objective is in Ukraine. Aid Kyiv’s pursuit of total victory? Help Ukraine tak…

Pakistan's inflation rate has soared above 31% thedailyshot.com/2023/03/02/bon… https://t.co/6Gz1Dpb93X

Infrastructure rather than real estate is currently driving Chinese investment. thedailyshot.com/2023/03/02/bon… https://t.co/Iz956Wk07n

Germany is another housing market coming under pressure with mortgage applications crashing. thedailyshot.com/2023/03/02/bon… https://t.co/zmHw5HzUXo

North Korea's GDP numbers dont make for very comfortable reading for Kim Jong Un's regime. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/epxk0rY07l

What Wall Street Gets Wrong About Xi Jinping's New Money Men This by @TomOrlik & @hancocktom is excellent! bloomberg.com/news/features/…

The US construction industry is experiencing contrasting fortunes with residential coming off its post-covid peaks and non-residential finally picking up steam. thedailyshot.com/2023/03/02/bon… https://t.co/Q6XR7USdRE

India and China buy cheap crude oil from Russia, refine it, and sell diesel to Europe. thedailyshot.com/2023/03/02/bon… https://t.co/MdfcZwulSn

"India's economic growth rate slowed to 4.4% in the third quarter of the current fiscal year, official figures showed on Tuesday, although the country is zipping ahead of regional rival China." asia.nikkei.com/Economy/India-… https://t.co/Mw0PsaLmvx

It isnt just the UK and US housing markets, New Zealands house prices are plunging too. thedailyshot.com/2023/03/01/apa… https://t.co/Zt9J2STDU3

Would it help if rather than central bank losses and profits on bond portfolios – a hangover from the time when cb were privately owned banks – we instead referred to deficits and surpluses aligning them with fiscal authorities i.w. where cb belong? ft.com/content/8b3000… https://t.co/AfmiPjtaM4

RT @SCMPNews: Jazz pioneer Wayne Shorter dies aged 89 scmp.com/news/world/uni…

RT @Ch_Trebesch: 📢Fantastic news: @MSchularick will be the new president of the @kielinstitute. We could not be happier. Welcome, Moritz, w…

RT @francis_scarr: I haven’t seen anything like this on Russian state TV since Ukraine’s counter-offensives last year Karen Shakhnazarov s…

RT @matjaz_nahtigal: Chartbook #198 Globalization: The shifting patchwork , by @adam_tooze open.substack.com/pub/adamtooze/… "The significance of th…

Chartbook: Chinese growth, maternal mortality, the real estate crunch & the history of Japanese feminism. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chinese-grow…

How Bank of America sees inflation drivers, broken down by demand and supply components thedailyshot.com/2023/03/01/apa… https://t.co/EsKc49Nsvq

Rather than industrializing, since 2009 the share of manufacturing in Indian GDP has actually declined. @alanbeattie ft.com/content/6b5cee… https://t.co/YatonGy0Yn

New research from @CentreforCities shows that collapse in London’s productivity growth accounts for 42% of UK’s overall productivity puzzle since 2007, even though it houses only 15% of population and accounts for 25% of economic output. h/t @ChrisGiles_ ft.com/content/a93e7c…

Whatever attempts Joe Biden makes to cut China out of global value networks altogether, world trade is likely to see a reconfiguring rather than a drastic schism. (US-China goods trade itself hit a record high last year of $690.6bn.) @alanbeattie ft.com/content/6b5cee…

RT @benbawan: Between 1950 and 2020, the US population more than doubled (+108%) – from 158 million to 330 million. In the next 70 years,…

RT @michaelxpettis: 1/7 Good article on expected leadership changes in economic policymaking. As the article notes, it seems that in China…

RT @CoalFreeDave: My subjective take is a bit different on 2022… The IEA say gas-to-coal switching drove the rise in power sector CO2.…

@dbessner I dont think we need to set the bar as low as current American politics suggests.

US spy agencies have concluded that "Havana Syndrome" was “very unlikely” to have been attacks by a foreign adversary. BUT fact that US entertained the silly suspicion requires no further comment. Paranoid politics is normalized on "spy balloon" model. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/LHclV30vjE

RT @Ch_Trebesch: Martin Wolf wrote a strong opinion piece asking for more help for Ukraine. I fully agree. He uses 5 of our graphs, that's…

RT @khanamirullah: @CPR_India @khanthefatima All of us who have been to CPR several times can vouch for this. It is India's premier researc…