ADAM TOOZE

Clinging to good news: up to 2012 the IMF consistently underestimated EM growth. Since 2012 it has ignored evidence… https://t.co/S5dy6gaIuM

It is not widely enough appreciated that the famous vampiric caricature of Mario Draghi as Dracula appeared in Bild… https://t.co/SyGb9E3CIy

Memoranda by grand old men of the Bundesbank are one end of a wedge that ends with Mario Draghi being caricatured a… https://t.co/zgpK38lzUb

This is a great FT editorial. Hits all the right points. https://t.co/jMFD6kmc1Z

The memo of the Bundesbank old guard against Draghi’s monetary policy "expresses a generation’s frustration that it… https://t.co/a5JNkOzfgQ

Poland’s sustained growth since the shock of the early 1990s is remarkable. So too is the failure of this prosperit… https://t.co/1E3TruDS9Z

Opponents of Draghis low interest rate policy invoke the “reversal rate” at which ir cuts squeeze banks' revenue an… https://t.co/6j2DesFD9I

1970s globalization talk is very interesting. Kissinger by no means alone. https://t.co/Xylg0WfFb8

Is EZ close to the “reversal rate”? As yet hypothetical rate at which further interest rate cuts diminish PV of fut… https://t.co/lEG7eAEr0b

@DuncanWeldon Have you been to the military history museum in Vienna? The display on the “national uprising” of 180… https://t.co/Dj4kDKTFvB

@DuncanWeldon And what if Prussia had joined Austria in 1809 not the other way around in 1813? How does history bra… https://t.co/tutyu8e3Sm

Campaign against Nonsense Output Gaps (CANOO): great piece by @norberthaering in Germany's Handelsblatt on output g… https://t.co/j1Q5dIgOqn

⁦@LauBooneEco⁩, limpide, comme toujours : « Il est criminel de ne pas investir dans les écoles et les hôpitaux alor… https://t.co/wwGy8CmtKR

Btw 1992 and 2017 only in 11 years did the former GDR outgrow West Germany and thus achieve any degree of convergen… https://t.co/CN8kawnN6d

Non-OECD energy consumption is already 1/3 larger than that of OECD. By 2050 the @EIAgov expects that ratio to be 2… https://t.co/zhxBaUKvjy

Only in 2015 did the population flow to the former GDR turn positive. In the years immediately after 1989 the outfl… https://t.co/njGDVTo4Jd

Since 2010 convergence btw former GDR and W Germany in terms of per capita output has slowed to a snails pace. Has… https://t.co/r8UfWyDS26

Honda and Toyota can finance their auto loan operations on terms far better than GM and Ford. @ArborResearch via… https://t.co/gk0j1E4CBB

“United in diversity” – Jens Weidmann’s remarks on the occasion of Ewald Nowotny’s retirement as Governor of the Ce… https://t.co/37s2JENWK7

Essential thread from @ChrisGiles_ on forecasting the consequences of Brexit and who got it right/wrong. https://t.co/qwDRsuPAGl

The brutal rollercoaster of Argentina’s economy is clearly visible in the figures for motor vehicle sales.… https://t.co/tzc1sRidfY

$55 bn to halve child poverty in the US. The tradeoff btw reduction in child poverty and financial costs spelled ou… https://t.co/WrqRCSYKMe

@thegymnosophist Sorry … quoting a german source. should have checked! No speed limit though!

What would it take to cut child poverty in the US in half? A child allowance of $3000 per head would do the trick.… https://t.co/juj3FKo3t2

Four of top five most rapidly growing economies in 2019 are in Africa. https://t.co/WKKLmaxqxk

Germany has in common with the Indian states Vanuatu, Pradesh & Uttar as well as Nepal, Myanmar, Burundi, Bhutan, A… https://t.co/Sb5IkmPO35

A grotesque image if there ever was one …. https://t.co/eo1JASbrJg

"among American children whose mothers had lower levels of education, the share of those living with a married pare… https://t.co/3G6MM00Hls

Whether you use relative or absolute poverty measures, the US has some of the highest rate in the anglophone world.… https://t.co/tFCCPO9AX4

In the last twenty years the size of new American single-family homes has risen dramatically. More than 80 % are no… https://t.co/M5noteLrHZ

70 % of kids born to parents in US who did not finish highschool live in poverty or near poverty. Data from… https://t.co/2t1hhhNZ9c