ADAM TOOZE

And right on cue one of the leaders of the Far Right nationalist AfD in Germany has declared that opposition to cli… https://t.co/akF1Io3C7I

After three years of stability, global CO2 emissions from fuel combustion started rising again in 2017, reaching 32… https://t.co/z5icsmDadf

Great thread on French strategist andré Beaufre who forms a key link between the 1930s and the age of revolutionary… https://t.co/PbIh17tQcn

A thread on French military strategist André Beaufre. (w/ bonus rant about Afghanistan). 1/n

“Given the inherent weakness of national states in a globalised world, what matters is to make the union stronger.… https://t.co/ao9rjN9dMQ

Draghi has kept the best till last. Now he is fully backing Macron’s fiscal proposals! @lionelbarber… https://t.co/Cl80LJSmwz

Cyclically adjusted, the non-employment rate for prime age men in the US has increased steadily since 1945.… https://t.co/lgOYNjqxjZ

Despite the long recovery and the low measured unemployment rate , the non-employment rate for primate age men rema… https://t.co/F5soWb0LKq

The shale revolution may bring “energy independence” in terms of net imports. But this will not insulate American c… https://t.co/5AYlCGi3jp

“American Factory” – Intrigued to watch this Obama-backed film about the Chinese takeover of an Ohio auto glass fac… https://t.co/IzdCPjTqQ2

New election ad from @bodoramelow – currently the Linke Minister-President in Thüringen – invoking the horrors of t… https://t.co/BrqJY8jgi5

If China runs a current account surplus despite a government deficit of 12% of GDP the explanation lies in private… https://t.co/LoGgFZ6Gp0

Until 2007 there was a high degree of agreement between fiscal policy on both sides of the Atlantic. Since then the… https://t.co/xpI9jckD5W

The shortfall in Eurozone domestic demand that opened up in 2008 and 2011-13 has not been made good. @Brad_Setser a… https://t.co/ukeM8rivnl

Most OECD countries have higher pre-tax poverty rates than the US. The damning thing is that post-tax the US has on… https://t.co/x61gdW16O5

It is 55 years since Lyndon Johnson declared “war on poverty” from a front porch in Inez, Martin County, Kentucky,… https://t.co/oJPjpKcm6j

Öffentliche Investitionen+mangelnde Baukapazitäten. Dazu #Keynes 1942 auf BBC! Zur Frage der Finanzen, John Maynard… https://t.co/WLcwCl9jmq

More support for ending the debt brake in the Bundestag https://t.co/yJAtPB4zWp

After the inadequate German climate package @MESandbu asks: "what happens to European unity if France ends up meeti… https://t.co/Gp2ctCrtGm

In its 2019 climate change performance index, the New Climate Institute ranks Germany in 27th position, five places… https://t.co/um49nJfg4a

In principle, Europe’s central bankers and politicians can strike a bargain that balances tighter monetary policy a… https://t.co/wXx1x73wNL

This dissection of the operation of the repo market since 2008 by @izakaminska is worth going back to!… https://t.co/NiVDEFPO8t

The distribution of Germany’s 746 golf clubs closely correlates with the distribution of wealth.… https://t.co/Pl5DX25B2l

@mattyglesias Thanks matt!

"The five largest banks hold more than 90% of the supply of total reserves” meaning that management of repo crisis… https://t.co/yO99Bt4V24

Over the last 50 years spikes in oil prices have tended to coincide with recessions in the US. cohttps://www.ft.co… https://t.co/rNDw9p6vT0

Very trick double suspension on the coach of the infantas. Leather belts AND leaf springs! From the coach museum in… https://t.co/GtBPLyRBro

The “great compression” of New Deal era and high point of US labour union power coincided with an era in which shar… https://t.co/IweAwgKgZB

Immigration and Nationality Act signed into law by Pres Johnson in Oct 1965 changed the face of US immigration and… https://t.co/kZaJJ1WOxu

Strikingly Americans are no more negative about the UN than French or Spanish people, or Japanese. Roughly 1/3 in e… https://t.co/lzhdkofSHa

27 percent of American adults have not read all or part of a book in the last 12 months. Here is how that demograph… https://t.co/trdoqHmZi6

Africa is projected to overtake Asia in births by 2060. Half of babies born worldwide are expected to be born in Af… https://t.co/jmFgHJcaix

Nigeria is expected to have 864 million births between 2020 and 2100, the most of any African country. The number o… https://t.co/TQhjpmYPgs

IMF recommends easing the requirements on Greek primary surplus to support economic recovery v. Commission that ins… https://t.co/jmcEgCbjfs

Even with a 10% wealth tax applied from 1982 all the leading billionaires of the US would still have emerged as bil… https://t.co/Fqh8U9rF5y

After shrinking its balance sheet, the Fed has now had to introduce support for the repo market that has turned the… https://t.co/AOy83ohqDJ