ADAM TOOZE

"Starving the beast” By end of 2017, nearly 60% of IRS hardware was past its useable life, and 26% of software was… https://t.co/9EtNmbuMKc

Enforce the tax law: Average IRS employee earns around $55 per hour. Focusing their attention on auditing underrepo… https://t.co/O37BVMnico

The US invests less and less in its tax collection agency: ratio of IRS budget to gross revenue has fallen 45% sinc… https://t.co/A532bMiGcr

The IRS budget has decreased (in real terms) by nearly 15 percent since 2011. Its enforcement budget has dropped by… https://t.co/bD1y2LBUu5

Underreporting of taxes in the US is four times greater for those earning $10m+ than it is for folks under $200k be… https://t.co/7EqP9SUZxN

Global CO2 emissions from energy remained unchanged at 33 Gt in 2019 on the year before, data from the IEA data sho… https://t.co/ito370RWw4

Middle age is miserable, and 47.2 years old is the moment of peak unhappiness in the developed world, writes 45-yea… https://t.co/kh3tCYAWBP

As recently as the Seoul Olympics, Koreans were no richer than Mexicans. Yet now South Korea enjoys triple the GDP… https://t.co/04ge6oBzIx

The gap between Republican and Democrat support for NATO since 2009 has been pretty consistent. Interesting data f… https://t.co/f0Po0sXXyX

Why are the Dutch the most pro-NATO W Europeans and the most consistent advocates of collective action?… https://t.co/LKcLt33O9w

If a neighbors gets in a conflict with Russia, should US use military forct? Should our country? Most W Europeans f… https://t.co/TgsJIOADNg

Tanzania is spending $14.2 billion to build a 2,561 km standard gauge railway network connecting its main Indian Oc… https://t.co/IfEOtHTIlP

Forgotten Map Types 1-30, with links to sources and a doff of cap to @tophtucker for the nudge.… https://t.co/gUMtQnRSX4

Putin has made NATO very popular across Eastern Europe. @pewresearch data in time for the @MunSecConf… https://t.co/3xc8gYmxFe

Barely more than half of Americans have a favorable view of NATO and only 21% of Turks! Striking results from lates… https://t.co/mlmkcv4sLg

The decline in Franco-German support for NATO that seems to have happened around 2013 really stands out in this… https://t.co/imEcvrd2uO

Why are the Dutch the most pro-NATO W Europeans and the most consistent advocates of collective action?… https://t.co/8wtY6H73Ej

If a neighbors gets in a conflict with Russia, should US use military forct? Should our country? Most W Europeans f… https://t.co/DZAhN86CqX

Barely more than half of Americans have a favorable view of NATO and only 21% of Turks! Striking results from lates… https://t.co/2e7cJqzLqg

A Genealogy of Climate Change: Deterritorializing Space, Respatializing International Community By Nayef H. Samhat… https://t.co/KHDNIqbzQv

Once you standardize for global population, peak famine mortality globally in the last 160 years was in the 1870s.… https://t.co/SpYT1akjgT

We should talk more about the spectacular decline in famine mortality globally since the 1970s. This does not end… https://t.co/g58DxZJpxF

Compared to 1973 oil crisis, the 1972 food price shock, which ravaged Sahel & tipped Soviet Union into foreign debt… https://t.co/43gH8Qj83n

If you are into climate politics and haven’t read Paul N. Edwards, A Vast Machine. Computer Models, Climate Data an… https://t.co/qOULvS0i2k

“EM central banks have much greater traditional policy ammunition, and they have used it.” @Callum_Thomas Expects E… https://t.co/GxvQgutNxy

Tax Gap: in 2020 the IRS will fail to collect more than $630 billion, or nearly 15 percent of total tax liabilities… https://t.co/TYBaQ4fAPo

“Globally monetary policy settings have gone from headwind to tailwind. That’s a good thing for the growth outlook.… https://t.co/RIE3IS0mCL

Nature pleads not guilty. In 1980s "Drought & Man studies", a lot of intellectual effort was invested in demonstrat… https://t.co/nChfkVXSKX

East African Locust mega-swarm: Thanks to cyclones in Indian Ocean and we winter Kenya is facing worst swarm in 70… https://t.co/x6WlQH4KV6

Where people starved: global famines since the 1860s. @OurWorldInData is an extraordinary resource. Thank you to… https://t.co/ZJjdRcQZx2

Locusts consume at least half their body mass every 24h -> 200bn-strong E African mega swarms needs > 250k tonnes o… https://t.co/tjATgZnxlc

Compared to 1973 oil crisis, the 1972 food price shock, which ravaged Sahel & tipped Soviet Union into foreign debt… https://t.co/EHTvrIpnan

The dialectic of asset management: the passive boom has spawned its antithesis = niche, human-run, secretive, thinl… https://t.co/uBAgc0Cw45

"Vampire squib" … sorry, you just have to love that headline about Goldman’s current identity crisis! H/t… https://t.co/Jj5PMWvsjO

Since 1999 US rents have been consistently rising faster than overall prices -> crisis of affordable housing that m… https://t.co/iMddNvCp5X

In 1985 this was the US Department of Energy’s map of CO2 & climate research focused on prediction of 1.5-4.5oC deg… https://t.co/1gKKx5gy55