ADAM TOOZE

Chocolate ind has invested in sustainability programs. But, cocoa farmers continued to live in poverty. Cote d’Ivoi… https://t.co/0sTla3rsQR

Gold prices are at historic highs in real terms not seen since 1850. Great economic history section in the latest I… https://t.co/wjWsuoYq3m

This from IMF WEO by Damiano Sandri is interesting on the implications of plucking model of the business cycle for… https://t.co/NxQd9XkdNW

By the end of the year, GM will have cut about 14,000 salaried & hourly workers at 5 factories in N America. Contin… https://t.co/T4LkkMDdBe

High Speed Rail worldwide sets some impressive speed records. After an afternoon on Amtrak one can only wonder at t… https://t.co/aLNtLJTrcR

UK’s progress in decarbonizing electricity and heating has been remarkable, but industry, transport and homes have… https://t.co/YCPALZlTK6

The UK has made some dramatic progress in decarbonizing energy sector, but it is not on track to meet its carbon ta… https://t.co/Lo8wKjbZzW

The shift in the pattern of global consumption by 2030 will be dramatic: EM/developing world 51 % Europe down to 18… https://t.co/rscnJO63wb

Today is #AntiSlaveryDay2019 #Uzbekistan is one of the world’s main #cotton producers & runs the world's largest s… https://t.co/4vQ0nCab7q

@cornelban73 It is making it quite difficult to write a reply.

_ Laurence Boone, Marco Buti on Vox @voxeu • “Right here. Right now. • Chief economists of OECD & European Commis… https://t.co/NUitsb0Gow

China’s economy grew at 6 per cent in the third quarter of 2019 compared with a year earlier, its slowest pace in a… https://t.co/nB5Pm5IWbj

Behind the veneer of socialist unity Gorbachev’s viewed leaders of Easterb bloc with contempt: Erich Honecker of G… https://t.co/FUDZyWd5L7

Thirty years on, 1989 appears in less rosy colours. @TonyBarber8 on four historical reassessments of that pivotal y… https://t.co/YLfitJLNJJ

For those of us who were raised on the myth of the WWII Rheinmetall 8.8 cm there is something ghastly but also horr… https://t.co/m1rsy2kSRU

“It’s grey. Half-angels fighting half-devils. No one knows where the lines are.” Le Carré’s Cold War and Cold War a… https://t.co/A9wZTjJwrg

If you take bofp stats at face value there was a huge decline in FDI in 2018. In fact this reflects purely financia… https://t.co/2Zn6qg9WrU

"We’ll get a populist senator on that Board one way or another. I want a man on that Board that I can control." The… https://t.co/1BhG1srlFK

Is Georgieva signaling the priorities of the new regime at IMF by joining bandwagon for central banks to act on cli… https://t.co/AH1CX9BWut

"not just a testament to the miracles of modern medicine, but a new form of feminism as well” @gilliantett on Bushn… https://t.co/OKIdIncl80

How long before the US Fed joins the global bandwagon on central banks and greening finance? With her finger on the… https://t.co/Z7Are7zzY3

Not so much appropriate technology as rat rod, Indonesia’s Vespa culture is quite something.… https://t.co/tr25uUooim

@BuddyYakov @gabrielwinant @njtmulder @nils_gilman So then … Bretton Woods lasts from 1957/8 to 1961? I love ultra short chronologies!

Great to meet up with @RobinBrooksIIF in DC and to plot the next moves of the CANOO … https://t.co/lfq8XZ33rk

The auto ind is a globally interconnected industry with large footprint. Sector’s gross output (sum of its value ad… https://t.co/i2i1SYCIl8

Pre-Brexit stock-builiding imports appear to have been substantial enough to show up in global import figures … am… https://t.co/IFxrI2CvtY

Within machinery & equipment spending slumping, consumer durable spending is one of few forces holding up the world… https://t.co/Trhlci06Uf

In this graph of global imports the sudden deceleration of world economy over winter of 2018-9 is clearly visible.… https://t.co/WESlifkwqL

The gap between the construction of office space and demand is gaping wide. BAD news for huge real estate sector.… https://t.co/IHtxNt8P2E

Is this an April 2009 moment? @MESandbu suggests that on Brexit, trade, global taxation, fintech, this might be a m… https://t.co/7ISfjT5owq

Regional disparities in AE narrowed after WWII, then stabilized in 80s and surged in 90s and 2000s. The driver? Tec… https://t.co/ltihkdLLp0

The 2015-6 crisis caused Beijing to tighten capital flows which dried up liquidity for offshore RMB bond markets. T… https://t.co/fHYb5GNkfC