ADAM TOOZE

@kmac Crazy isnt it … It is as though the entire discussion since 2011 had not existed. He singles out just my summer @ForeignPolicy piece.

Asia’s insurance behemoths, particularly in Taiwan, pose a growing risk to the U.S. corporate-bond market after a m… https://t.co/DIN1hNWVPg

Trump’s America may have unleashed trade war talk, but in 2018 its loose fiscal policy also delivered a significan… https://t.co/I2SILZfWE8

Cement, iron & steel alone account for half of industrial CO2 emissions (1/6th of total). And their production is s… https://t.co/sjbbucPSuu

One year out from the American presidential election Michigan, Winconsin and Pennsylvania are all seeing a contract… https://t.co/6uYnhWFZQt

BHP’s giant mining operations are a major source of pollution. But that is as nothing compared to the CO2 emissions… https://t.co/7sWE0iDJ08

My new working paper provides the first meta-analysis concerning the effect of globalisation on income inequality.… https://t.co/6eE3Gvb7wJ

Italy is to the Euro zone what Louisiana is to the United States: both have real GDP per capita that is 10% below 2… https://t.co/Oi6o6FOY5a

Prime age workers in US are finally seeing tight labour markets feed through to wage increases. Fastest wage growt… https://t.co/cQ34AaHefs

The comovement of Asian EM currencies with the yuan constitute what increasingly looks like a de facto Chinese curr… https://t.co/4CXcjZFQZf

The prices for offshore wind projects in Europe have tumbled. With projects for operation from mid 2020s coming in… https://t.co/ijTEBsbu1w

In an interesting development. NSW’s Independent Planning Commission agreed to Glencore-Peabody’s $381 million Unit… https://t.co/jaoEbMTbKf

Hungary’s housing market is running really hot. European EM are seeing much more rapid real estate inflation than E… https://t.co/J4MMYlLnrX

The concentration of UK trade volumes on Rotterdam is remarkable. More than all the other European ports put togeth… https://t.co/RtPuGzZU9p

Since the surge in parttime work in the US in 2008-9 there has been no further growth in that segment. All net job… https://t.co/HJlGQqSa57

The world’s 2nd largest rainforest is the Congo baisn. Between 2001 and 2018 Congo lost 13m hectares of tree cover… https://t.co/SmDCj8dCtz

The weight of average cell phone in 2011 was 1/6 what it had been in 1990. But number of phones ballooned from 11m… https://t.co/gj3UItzmLe

Supply-chains shift CO2 emissions from the West to China and they increase them. Cars and car parts exported by Chi… https://t.co/aUQrOfWb5O

Britain consumes about 40% more carbon emissions than it produces; the European Union as a whole, 19%. In America t… https://t.co/QKaBRR7E5J

Alcohol firms may advertise for responsible drinking but they depend heavily on problem drinkers who, in the UK, ac… https://t.co/jPXw7TiMRR

Beacause alcohol is omnipresnet it causes far more harm than illegal drugs. Striking data from the UK via… https://t.co/5azi50GWvj

Folks in the UK are as dissastisfied with the way democracy is functioning as Italians and more dissastified by Ukr… https://t.co/xwvpOGG1Vt

30 years from 1989, generally Eastern and Central Europeans approve of shift to multiparty system and market econom… https://t.co/beX5sZa0fP

The ECB has consistently overestimated the inflationary pressures in the EZ, compared to forecast by @natixis they… https://t.co/8eMb8btBqw

South Korea, which is a key node the E Asian manufacturing network, is stil seeing a nasty downturn in its exports.… https://t.co/VLTnNHQsLF

A different kind of bailout. As the rural Yichuan Bank in China suffers a bank run (on left) public officials are s… https://t.co/j2CmAIIy83

Deaths from air pollution are preeminently a developing country problem = key driver also for making climate change… https://t.co/BTlfRHS83K

Germany’s net migration btw 2010 and 2015 puts it in the same league as Canada and Australia. More than twice the r… https://t.co/pw0cKoBKea

The impact of the Measles vaccine across the states of the US has been spectacular. Great graphics from… https://t.co/Xlq29MIwVG

The surge in the drug wars in Mexico since 2007 surely ought to be a far greater preoccupation for North American p… https://t.co/n5UHT6wCAM

Worldwide the cost of 1GB of mobile data varied from $0.26 in India to $75 in Zimbabwe with US at $12.37 in the mid… https://t.co/bP8ei5LscE

Vietnam has one of the highest female labour-force participation rates in the world. Some 79% of women aged 15 to 6… https://t.co/fjcCvoxXcw