ADAM TOOZE

As Wassily Kandinsky was breaking down barriers in painting, he was also writing experimental poetry. Read it her… https://t.co/eCAdTDecR5

@adam_tooze @SoberLook While we are on a "sober" look, same collapse after FY14 anti-corruption crackdown visible i… https://t.co/X7aSfi0HmH

@michaelxpettis @Brad_Setser @M_C_Klein Thank you Michael. Fantastically interesting. Key to your new book of cours… https://t.co/xYybuZ0JYa

The construction industry’s use of sand, gravel and crushed rock outstrips total global consumption of all fossil f… https://t.co/w6TpOUvljt

There is a good book to be written on the integration of the gambling industry into the global financial system as… https://t.co/FY7bwE0LOJ

@adam_tooze @BEA_News Add legal amphetamine aka attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder treatments (~10bn) + OTC a… https://t.co/uk2QQAVtI8

Shall we call it a tell? China’s President Xi announces an anti-corruption crackdown and revenue growth of Macau ca… https://t.co/SVrHVrFdA1

In early 2000s narrative of China’s savings glut is everywhere. I always imagined this to be household saving. But… https://t.co/LhuCP42BHe

The total amount of resins and fibers manufactured from 1950 through 2015 is 7800 Mt. Half of this plastic producti… https://t.co/Ml4FTeL6Fr

Gymnastics for Goering … https://t.co/rIyJuPf3fx

On top of the deaths of despair, more than 10 million !!! Americans over the age of 12 were found to have misused o… https://t.co/tuxNW0QZzM

“This your first reelection campaign, kid?” https://t.co/IB3augFBMG

Rare bird. Northrop XB-35 42-13603 and ex-8th AF Boeing B-17G-70-DL 44-6935 Flying Fortress over Muroc, CA. May 19… https://t.co/SLShnkioA2

The Philadelphia Fed forecasts that nine US states are at risk of slipping into contraction at the highest since Ju… https://t.co/hPM3rVyuOd

"there are “about 30 countries” where CIA officers are no longer followed on the way to meetings by local agents be… https://t.co/vWaOgctS7O

The number of Hispanic women with college degrees has doubled in the past 10 years to 4.8 million, increasing their… https://t.co/ajY9J535og

Made in China 2025 appears to be having an effect in shrinking China’s reliance on imported manufactured goods.… https://t.co/z5xgi95JWJ

Latina labour market participation is a major factor driving overall female labour market participation in the US.… https://t.co/MDQCV7l7pw

Adjusted for quality the cost of illegal narcotics in the US plunged after 1980s. And then fell again in last decad… https://t.co/NaAq5KjXoO

@gv95_ @Alexei__Kirilov @BEA_News check out the paper it spells out the calculation of drug prices etc in very sophisticated terms.

Life is too short … since the 2008 crisis far more Americans have started to plan vacations. What happened? The sha… https://t.co/FmmQaMab5x

My copy of Richard Cobb’s The Streets of Paris bears this inscription. I’m assuming “Asa” is Asa Briggs. “This is u… https://t.co/DnPKmMn8QW

At their peak in 1980 illegal drugs accounted for 5 % of total personal consumption expenditure in US. An astonishi… https://t.co/IPyAnN3Gzi

The number of cameras used for surveillance is set to climb above 1 billion by the end of 2021. That would represen… https://t.co/NsDBSfwMDY

In the post-prohibition era, the criminal economy in the US peaked in 1980 when drugs and theft from businesses spi… https://t.co/t1BefCahoe

In last six years banks in the US and Europe have shed 425,000 jobs, 78k in 2019, 82 % in Europe.… https://t.co/LlG79FJI8O

Strikingly, Democrats And Republicans do not differ much on the need to expand renewable energy. What they differ o… https://t.co/Z3K8FOUnkI

In terms of its tax base the US is looking more and more like a sophisticated EM rather than an advanced economy.… https://t.co/e413Bivnlc

@CameronJJJ India’s War by @srinathraghava3 is excellent on the global ramifications.

@THAToneil @adam_tooze @LRB @TheTLS Yes. The New York Times book review was off the newsstands for a comparable str… https://t.co/vdgiBSUskg

Republican women make adjustments in their everyday life to protect the environment in ways that are very similar t… https://t.co/z2pvzvaFKG