ADAM TOOZE

“You are aware that Germany has looked with pride and joy on the thousands of her sons, who in this struggle have placed themselves so resolutely on the side of law and right,” memorial by the Prussian House of Deputies 1865 in honor of Abraham Lincoln. history.state.gov/historicaldocu… https://t.co/KgLMXhzych

RT @CCCuration: Wonderfully remastered footage in 60fps of the 1957 Pescara Grand Prix, won by Stirling Moss driving Vanwall VW5. The legen…

RT @RealTimeWWII: Pavlichenko now in USA, on a Soviet publicity tour to persuade Western allies to open a second front against Nazis: "Gent…

RT @Jmhaas: Future historians will look back at the Chinese policy of discouraging bike use in favour of cars as one of the key turning poi…

Kuznets Curve of Bicycle Ownership in Rural China (1978-2012) From a fantastic article on rise, fall and rise again of the bicycle in modern China. @MacroPoloChina @neilthomas123 macropolo.org/analysis/the-r… https://t.co/PrjfQJDh2S

More exclusive: under Xi, the number of new admissions to the CCP dropped and is only slowly recovering. For great charts on China follow @MacroPoloCharts & @MacroPoloChina https://t.co/R6TH1HTCj1

Europeans trust the Euro. They are less confident in the ECB. ecb.europa.eu/pub/economic-b… https://t.co/kD0rbOOvI1

How Airbus broke Boeing’s monopoly on the Chinese market for airliners. @MacroPoloCharts https://t.co/RhxPUrDlK5

Before the pandemic, the number of people in extreme (< $1.90 per day) poverty was estimated at 615 million for 2020. Thanks to corona crisis it is likely to rise to > 700m = biggest setback to poverty alleviation ever. @JoshZumbrun wsj.com/articles/coron… https://t.co/QUgcmv3Kgd

Counting the dead: coverage of death registration is a pretty fundamental index of state functioning. pubdocs.worldbank.org/en/79806159248… https://t.co/n2nbb7rv9A

RT @Austan_Goolsbee: @adam_tooze The formula says inflation comes from M * V. That graph shows M is up. But here is V: https://t.co/XjH9lv…

Inflation may be "always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon” (Friedman). BUT not all monetary phenomena are always and everywhere inflationary! https://t.co/qI6Y6ufwR7

@manuel__lara @SoberLook Not so far. But check out the financial stability reports of the US fed for their take on this risk. And look back to March 2020 and the huge tensions at that moment … thanks for reading.

Why bets on the Chinese market for coffee attract so much attention. Its imports are tiny compared even to Japan. @MacroPoloCharts macropolo.org/analysis/slow-… https://t.co/eDkKUmdz4K

American electorate will age considerably by 2036. Hitherto that would mean that it becomes more conservative. But will that hold, given generational preferences and trends towards greater education and diversity? Key issues for future of Dem-Rep balance. americanprogress.org/issues/politic… https://t.co/L7RmoJYdrA

Despite massive Fed intervention, Fallen angel volumes (investment-grade corporate debt downgraded to junk) are now higher than in 2009. Data from @SoberLook https://t.co/gtzEyBtSDv

RT @AntoineVanner: 1780: the carronade, a murderous close-range weapon that would change the odds in many subsequent naval battles, made it…

Late October 1870: German troops besieging Paris begin constructing battery emplacements from which to begin bombardment. twitter.com/Krieg7071/stat…

Striking that an index of “tax competitiveness” should place Germany alongside Hungary and ahead of the Dutch and way ahead of the French … @TaxFoundation via @SoberLook tax-competition.org https://t.co/Bf2NvqMo85

@HGWDavie @SpitfireFilly Lutz Budrass surely key here … and Wages was heavily indebted to him.

RT @alvaroconde_: Excellent piece by @adam_tooze on the international political economy of the COVID vaccine. foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/19/the…

RT @LynAldenContact: There are a lot of ways to measure employment levels. This is the raw U.S. employment/population ratio. Even after t…

RT @QuirkyRides: The #quirky #1950s #German #Zündapp #Janus is a #car made by a #motorcycle manufacturer & designed by the #aircraft design…

RT @amazingmap: Each section contains 10% of the world's population #Map #World #Geography #Cartography #Maps #Mapping #Travel #Population…

Will Brazil’s recovery be V-shaped or more square root sign? Data via @SoberLook https://t.co/mhxrNJGFFZ

RT @jasonintrator: Kuhn was by far the most cited philosopher from the early 80s on in leading analytic departments. Yet because he wasn’t…

@NHGfin Fair enough. Ill take it down.

@spencemo_c I imagine it is an undercount in which the informal structure of Peruvian labour market is key.

Singapore data for export of electronics remind us that from point of view of East Asian manufacturing hub, 2019 was already a year of economic trouble. @SoberLook https://t.co/TDQweTwZ06

Striking that an index of “tax competitiveness” should place Germany alongside Hungary and ahead of the Dutch and way ahead of the French … @TaxFoundation via @SoberLook tax-competition.org https://t.co/LLVAYWvYur

Scandinavian countries with high carbon prices are also leading push to displace internal combustion engines with E-mobility. @JoeMillerJr ft.com/content/7f6a40… https://t.co/t4AFDjNL54

Apparently when the 8th US Air Force lines up all its ancient B 52 bombers in a row it is called an “Elephant Walk”. They do this so as to … help Beijing visualize? To make sure they still have all eight? To test pilot taxiing skills? nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/what… https://t.co/PIIsGppWon

At their peak this year, China’s oil imports were three times their level in 2010. China currently imports more oil than Saudi Arabia produces. In light of Xi’s announcement on decarbonization, when does China reach “peak oil”? @Gavekal via @SoberLook https://t.co/0ScPrcsKyf

EU car makers are required to ensure that their cars emit 95g of carbon dioxide per km driven on average -> they juggle portfolios of models to hit the target and late surge in EV and hybrid sales may enable them to hit the target. @JoeMillerJr ft.com/content/7f6a40… https://t.co/JXrQppUfrB

Nearly Half of the U.S. Is in Drought. It May Get Worse. The most widespread drought in the continental United States since 2013 covers more than 45 percent of the Lower 48 states, federal scientists said. nytimes.com/2020/10/15/cli… https://t.co/byF1LM9PXD

Lima, Peru’s mega-city, has worst corona mortality of any major city in the world and is also suffering an economic catastrophe. Unemployment, in a city where informal labour predominates, has shot to unprecedented levels. @SoberLook https://t.co/k5WtoKftmc