ADAM TOOZE

Do it with swaps: “Fx interventions are not meant to establish floor for e.r., but to provide liquidity for depreci… https://t.co/LGZn0OKVGt

Once … England was a Republic. In the 1650s … & the Third civil war raged in Ireland and Scotland. Fascinating revi… https://t.co/YULKLUHG6z

The US has a ruinous system of state-level tax incentives for investors -> in unfavored states like West Virginia t… https://t.co/Ezpy4rQ2lh

In Britain’s wars “soldiers died for “king and country” — but that country had no name. No one died for “the United… https://t.co/LtOkmAqKYi

Coal killer: “Natural” gas prices are close to historic lows and this changes the economics of electricity generati… https://t.co/f8nbfWNydu

Hedger of last resort – if there is an emerging consensus that EM central banks should moderate spillover from glob… https://t.co/j32BRRlEAk

'In 2008, VW & Tennessee came to an agreement. VW would locate a new factory in Chattanooga, hire 2,000 employees &… https://t.co/Qwa5aGKuCl

"Scotland suffered a process of deindustrialization similar to northern England’— but it voted to remain. Post-Brex… https://t.co/TPMQ2cCDKr

The contemporaneity of the uncontemporaneous: TRADITIONAL OLD-STYLE WOODEN FISHING AND CARGO SHIPS AND EU WARSHIP F… https://t.co/9U05vL3MrI

In 2015, the UK was the first country in the world to announce an explicit coal phase-out. Since then 14 European c… https://t.co/KAgwS4Jdio

@rofitz77 @IronEconomist Hi you might find this comparison of UK and Germany energy transitions of interest. https://t.co/fHXaXACcCu

@ntsafos Hi Nikos writing from US I appreciate your point of view on rhetoric of Germany-bashing on nuclear shutdow… https://t.co/HyXaiZwhLz

Xi proclaimed a toilet revolution in 2015 -> $260m spent on new toilets in rural areas and tourist sites 2015-7 and… https://t.co/dirx9lPPTI

Crude oil prices inside US and on world markets 1949-1980 by @RLifset This is a CRUCIAL graph for understanding his… https://t.co/FvLygFmX3z

"For decades, membership in the European Union helped glue together a fragmenting United Kingdom; now Brexit is tea… https://t.co/k0gOKyjNxY

Norway is about to start production of oil from the Johan Sverdrup N. Sea field that holds about 2.7bn barrels of o… https://t.co/nRweyLBaxg

China’s urban “slum” redevelopment program has required 100m people to be rehoused. The pace is slowing in 2020 aft… https://t.co/4rWZwxzORT

In US farming GM modified seeds go hand in hand with commercially branded weedkillers -> seed developers insert gen… https://t.co/yUETHdm0V6

Ireland’s budget is back in surplus. The total tax haul was a record €59.3bn, almost double the €31.8bn received in… https://t.co/mdKi1RI35k

America’s drone arsenal really came of age under Obama in a wave of strikes first in Pakistan and then Afghanistan.… https://t.co/ZMjMOjqnr7

"The United Kingdom may be finally coming to an end.” @DEHEdgerton in the @nytimes this morning!… https://t.co/8BuiBXfbu7

Party like it’s 1999: The percentage of listed US comps in the red is close to 40%, highest level since late 1990s… https://t.co/kx1LTYm2FT

Btw 2010 & 2018, the 3 largest publicly listed miners, BHP, Rio Tinto PLC & Vale, reported 117 deaths globally. An… https://t.co/9xVZ7hqAwH

"The old economics was based on a variety of prejudices.” George A. Akerlof (2001) on the “golden age” of economics… https://t.co/BPvu5jxeoh

Btw 2001 & 2015, 36 states, 30 in Africa, had $76bn of debt wiped off as part of Heavily Indebted Poor Countries &… https://t.co/t3FNcYPwx4

"Real public spending per person in the Republic of Congo more than halved between 2015 and 2018, while it fell 35%… https://t.co/fSBsBhS3yr

Xi pledged in 2015 to cut the number of people with a yearly income of less than Rmb2,300 ($335) from more than 50m… https://t.co/UFbXYkEYcy

First built in 1953 & still in production, the 1 millionth Corvette come off the production line today in 1992. Che… https://t.co/4edXIZwFje

I'm just going to repeat this tweet below, but in caps: IN SOUTHERN AFRICA ALMOST 9.5 MILLION PEOPLE ARE FACING SE… https://t.co/eZn3IupVK2

Xi pledged in 2015 to cut the number of people with a yearly income of less than Rmb2,300 ($335) from more than 50m… https://t.co/PDXjMnQfTe

The dollar is woven into the fabric of the world economy as we know it. As recent history causes its role to be que… https://t.co/NtKYGvdam7

The government estimates that each additional dollar spent on tax enforcement could yield more than $4 in revenue.… https://t.co/ZsxM9AIR6i

There will no further sunsets available today. Please come back tomorrow for one of our five scheduled sunsets. Thi… https://t.co/WVwG6RCgIV

The tightening of fiscal policy ordained by Toronto G20 in June 2010 was one of the disasters of economic policy th… https://t.co/y5EeutWLh1

Cross-currency basis swaps let investors holding Japanese gov bond swap the yen-denominated interest and principal… https://t.co/TTAvtoTbmA