ADAM TOOZE

FT reporting in dark tones on latest security threats in Nigeria. The subject of Chartbook Newsletter #10. #Nigeria adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-ne… https://t.co/AHk3rtFDZH

RT @kgb_files: A mobile monument to Lenin. The sculptor Mendelevich, the author of the pedestal Yakovlev, 1925. Now located in the museum p…

"The Dunes Sagebrush Lizard did not vote in November’s presidential election, but it had a lot riding on the outcome.” @derek_brower at @FT on Biden energy policy options. Been reading @BrunoLatourAIME ? ft.com/content/a799d2… https://t.co/sRZZ3Am3G5

RT @SashoTodorov1: France, by the end of October 1915, had lost 630,000 war dead. The entire commonwealth would not hit 630,000 until Septe…

RT @AbdullaGhost: An Iraqi woman, dressed as Santa claus, rides her bicycle, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in the…

RT @jbarro: I am in favor of more Art Deco federal buildings. I like Miami Beach.

RT @drsplace: Global meat production from 1961 to 2018 from UN FAO: fao.org/faostat/en/#da… % growth over that time: Beef +143% Chicken +1…

RT @JonnyGeller: I don’t care how many times we’ve seen this, I think we could all do with it now. https://t.co/23tJ8PbKrd

"Not since the days of the Ottoman Empire has the Turkish military had such an extensive regional footprint.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/Mrqd6QliqR

By Dec. 4, Turkish residents’ foreign-exchange deposits had risen by almost 19% this year to $231 billion, according to central bank data. That follows a 20% jump in 2019, bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/Nubt6Rd4BN

Turkey’s fx reserves hit a 15 year low this year, back to levels last seen in early 2000s when Turkey was in an IMF program. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/GIgi1BCkVi

RT @masaccio60: Affectionately known as The Hippopotamus, this Italian 15cm WW1 howitzer sits at 11,000ft, above the Adamello glacier. It t…

This is a fascinating thread on Galland and postwar Luftwaffe mythology. twitter.com/BloodPhilip/st…

@KeithSm49353997 With the Lynch Bages it was definitely an experiment. After several hours in decanter it settled down beautifully!

Near real time numbers for US poverty show rate rising 2.4 percentage points from 9.3 percent in June to 11.7 percent in November, adding 7.8 million to the ranks of the poor. @JeehoonHan1 Bruce D. Meyer James X. Sullivan @LEOatND harris.uchicago.edu/files/monthly_… https://t.co/h1w5OdKJfN

The surge in exposure of Europe’s top firms to Asia after 2008 is quite striking. Globalization? As the @GoldmanSachs title has it. Or the push factor of the eurozone crisis? From: @SoberLook https://t.co/6NPDZsmdlR

RT @2018Ria: . Sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and turn head…

RT @RrjohnR: @NBarreyre @PikettyLeMonde @adam_tooze for more on Piketty on late 19th century US political economy see the upcoming _AHR _ f…

If Europe hits its climate targets there is a scenario in which emissions from agriculture are larger than those from industry by 2050! weforum.org/agenda/2020/12… https://t.co/o57tfE164b

How it started: EU emissions trickled down 1990-2017 How it needs to be going: precipitous downward path to hit 55% reduction by 2030 and net zero by 2050. weforum.org/agenda/2020/12… https://t.co/SN7hqvwnNr

Germany plans record public debt issuance in 2021. As it should. It currently gets 0.58% in negative interest on 10 year borrowing. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/qBSpds9Nne

Gearing up for the “tech war”” "China was the world’s largest market for semiconductor equipment in the third quarter with sales of $5.62 billion, a rise of 63% from a year earlier, according to industry association SEMI.” @jackycwong wsj.com/articles/the-u… https://t.co/4I9HmdxxTe

@lauraabcarvalho @cacrisalves @DSAntiGlobalism @fabiobterra @mmartinsrocha @ellentristao @andreroncaglia @pedrolrossi @moreira_uallace @nelsonhbarbosa Thank you @lauraabcarvalho looking forward to reading this!

Surge in Chinese industrial production and trade spat with Australia -> power cuts and surging thermal coal prices. @SoberLook https://t.co/rU0rcGLEYH

RT @davies_will: Is it possible that we are now culturally/sociologically past the point of effective test and trace? What if people are si…

Happy Xmas Sunday … with old friends in Paris and California and Maine …. https://t.co/gWxeJFrptM

75ish yeArs ago … a bottle opened December 2019. https://t.co/iztazFuMns

Before times … 12 months ago in Paris. Wine from 194? https://t.co/c5HTYJMAgH

Sidecar racing in 2020. Still as bonkers as ever! This was at Hockenheim this year. @pedrosantos1958 https://t.co/BgMa77yiZ1

Gold and Freedom Delighted to see @PikettyLeMonde recommended @NBarreyre as recommended reading for Joe Biden nytimes.com/2020/12/20/boo… https://t.co/mHYTfbe5TT

Sidecar racing was surely one of the most bonkers, if not THE most bonkers, form of motorsport ever! https://t.co/ZE8Y8P5rmC

Despite plunging oil prices in 2020 and imminent peak in oil demand, without $100 bns in investment, the @IEA is predicting a considerable shortfall in global oil supply. reuters.com/article/global… https://t.co/b7glSaZym9

American per capita consumption of cheese has almost tripled since 1970 with mozzarella driving the growth. @foxjust bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… https://t.co/PVkRuRkvbE

DJI makes somewhere between 70 per cent and 80 per cent of the world’s commercial drones, and over three-quarters of those sold in the US. Now it is being sanctioned for cooperation in Xinjiang repression. ft.com/content/5a610e… https://t.co/wad67ZRz28

One of ironies of 2020 is that, as the UK exits the EU, it has adopted a “European” model of short-time working @MESandbu in @prospect_uk prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/pande… https://t.co/n5v3IIKGlp

3M: "Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing company, est 1902 to excavate a mineral used in sandpaper, now spans industries from pet care to car safety, even if it remains best known for its Post-it notes and Scotch tape.” $100bn market cap 90k staff N95 ft.com/content/37052d… https://t.co/6RkhRJYXmk