January 1, 2023
RT @SaveRedlandLibr: John Carlton Atherton (1900-52) American painter🎨 & magazine illustrator, writer🖌 and designer #JohnAtherton #JohnCar…
RT @SaveRedlandLibr: John Carlton Atherton (1900-52) American painter🎨 & magazine illustrator, writer🖌 and designer #JohnAtherton #JohnCar…
RT @ojblanchard1: 6/8. Arguing that central banks should only allow first round effects, say the increase in the relative price of oil, i…
RT @matoupouco: "The British economy in 2022, is not back where it was at the end of a cycle of modernization efforts in the 1960s, or in t…
RT @ThabitSenior: Enjoyed this @adam_tooze's piece on political economy of snow & skiing ⛷️ ❄️ adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-18…
RT @samueloakford: Helpful summary and historic/social context for some of the staggering economic trends in the UK post 2008 financial cri…
Chartbook: Molotov man & the Nicaraguan uprising of 1979, polycrisis in Central America & rehabilitating the Qing dynasty adamtooze.substack.com/p/molotov-man-…
RT @jacremes: I’d missed this @BluRoofPolitics post in July about how South Korea has avoid Japanese-style stagnation: through keeping dome…
RT @tedfertik: Fabulously suggestive choice by @adam_tooze (17:00) to label the US a “revisionist power” in the case of the Biden escalatio…
RT @olgatuleninova: "Las ruinas romanas de Schönbrunn", 1892 Carl Moll (1861-1945) https://t.co/6Nv6LtdHAd
"The scale of Japan’s impact on global markets, note traders, is often remembered late in any cycle." @Urbandirt ft.com/content/28907c…
Polyexcuses: How polycrisis provides asset managers with an all-purpose excuse for underperformance! ft.com/content/a6cbe8… https://t.co/VgGT6xS9iK
RT @lines_down: “to indulge in the familiar back and forth between declinism and anti-declinism is to indulge in escapist nostalgia” @adam_…
@shaunabe I find the range of estimates produced by constant dollars, PPP etc in part implausible and disillusioning tbh, which is why this argument really hinges on the break in the UK's own trajectory in 2009 rather than comparisons to rest of OECD.
Not decline but deconvergence. Chartbook Newsletter #184 on the economic plight of the UK. Sign up for free here: adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-18… https://t.co/41KMveu5Hh
@nbunkerauthor @alex_callinicos So much of the piece is taken up with making the general point of deconvergence v. decline that I have too little space left for the fingrained analysis you call for.
RT @nbunkerauthor: @alex_callinicos @adam_tooze Yes, v. interesting as ever from @adam_tooze. Hard to disagree with. Personally I think fin…
RT @AlexKokcharov: In #Germany, @DerSpiegel magazine says that the Russian asset in the BND security service was head of the unit responsib…
RT @SR_Afghanistan: #Afganistan @UN_SPExperts statement: #Taliban’s ban on #Afghan women working in #NGOs unconscionable and illegal. Catas…
RT @hyoyoonkang: @KeirGiles @adam_tooze Have experienced amazing speed also a couple of days ago, families with small children were activel…
@JasonGr84873444 @DEHEdgerton Quite literally. It might as well be dedicated to him. Happy New Year @DEHEdgerton
Despite a resurgence of the decline/declinism/anti-decline/revivalism debate in UK, the break that defines political and economic choices since 2009 is measured against a scale of centuries not the period since 1956. Chartbook Newsletter #184 adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-18… https://t.co/KfCdBN0pzt
RT @KeirGiles: Hugely grateful to Border Force staff for making Heathrow so much less slow and miserable today by being on strike. Heathr…
How will a free trade inclined Swedish Presidency of the EU council mesh with trans-Atlantic trade relations dominated by protectionism and industrial policy politico.eu/article/libera… Pairs well with Chartbook #182 on Washington's new consensus & the EU. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-18… https://t.co/OvMXeClj64
Global Britain. Every time I tell myself it opens my eyes to new solidarities with “all other passports”. Sometimes that helps …. 😉 twitter.com/jonsopel/statu…
RT @jonsopel: The endless line at Geneva Airport to get through passport control for British passport holders. No queue at all for EU or Sw…
Wall Street analysts & lobbyists are calling for Fed to ease SLR regs to improve liquidity in the $24tn Treasury market. Again! Impact on Treasuries uncertain. Part of bigger package of Basel endgame. @colbyLsmith @kateduguid @FTJFranklin wrap '22 ft.com/content/e40412…
RT @curatorian: I've always found this painting incredibly disconcerting. Following an air raid on 29-30 December 1940, fireman-artist Leo…
This graph for UK labour productivity makes it nothing short of perverse to talk about the current situation in terms of familiar narratives of decline. Chartbook Newsletter #184 on nostalgia for decline in the UK. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-18… https://t.co/nhV5I4Youe
Not giving up: The Bank of Japan continued a run of unscheduled purchases of government bonds in an attempt to control a surge in yields caused by speculators betting it will pivot away from its ultra-loose monetary policy. ft.com/content/e6013a… https://t.co/gmS0ujZdOT
RT @1Br0wn: “the current productivity slowdown in the UK is the worst not only in the last 120 years, but in the last 250 years i.e. since…
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