ADAM TOOZE

Grands Travaux: for $43bn Paris is getting a transformative new public transport system that will encircle Paris ra… https://t.co/mCDBEOqHrU

When we say exchange intervention aka “currency manipulation” it looks like this. Switzerland’s giant currency rese… https://t.co/yUgR1NhRV0

After a rebound from 2015 the Chinese property market has really slowed down hard! one for @SoberLook… https://t.co/qinOhlnbAA

Just putting the current space race in perspective. The Soviet Union was in a league of its own.… https://t.co/rvMbXntwmq

Whereas Germany and Japan are piling up the surpluses the @IMFNews points out that China is no longer contributing… https://t.co/EJfdR1nFKK

“First of all the Georgian silver goes, and then all that nice furniture that used to be in the saloon. Then the Ca… https://t.co/Sseg15gZ6z

Despite the impact of swine fever on Chinese consumers, inflation is one thing the PBoC does not have to worry abou… https://t.co/GsgNbaUqh3

US Army hospital flag from the Civil War. Before the Red Cross, a yellow flag was the humanitarian symbol on the ba… https://t.co/wBNr8Stbfu

Searching for yield: Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group reported foreign-currency assets of 1$1.049 trillion in March 2… https://t.co/HNoPhTXULN

It is only since the millenium that additions to the US labour force have been predominantly immigrant as opposed t… https://t.co/NKnzwOkrO8

The worst traffic jam in history? Was it the blockage on China’s Naitonal Highway 110 in Aug/Sep 2010 when coal tru… https://t.co/FedC1oqXfe

The share of manufacturing in China’s GDP reached its maximum at 40% already in the early 1980s = far earlier than… https://t.co/IeWexOvR8M

Looking at the numbers for installed wind turbines in the US you would really think that renwable energy was a “red… https://t.co/rLYpcHTHGD

"I can imagine that OPEC Secretary General Barkindo is on the phone with Khalid Al-Falih and Alexander Novak right… https://t.co/Lddnnolipa

Searching for yield: Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group reported foreign-currency assets of 1$1.049 trillion in March 2… https://t.co/6Q5YiKNirP

Chinese companies had nearly $900 billion of $-denominated debt securities outstanding at end March 2019, nearly th… https://t.co/SkPQAQeFBC

The big city in the US with the highest unemployment rate in the US is New Orleans (5%). Yuma, Arizona (19.6%) and… https://t.co/Vhp99gm61R

Japanese Banks Are Circling the Drain @Birdyword does not mince words! Decades of ultra-low interest have taken the… https://t.co/6NLfY3yy1T

In August 2010, a traffic jam near Beijing lasted for nine days and extended over 100 kilometers. https://t.co/jLVjbXc4VX

Wow Starbucks, what a great gig. Starbucks has ~$1.6 billion in 'stored value card liabilities' i.e. the Starbuck… https://t.co/4gngTGc3kL

Not just a Trump-thing: There is an unmistakeable downward trend in growth of world trade, from great chart book by… https://t.co/NG2wEgr9Ug

"They have their own trucks now, they have their own planes, and the writing’s on the wall.” Parcel industry consul… https://t.co/tNOzN6I6fs

“hear the whistle of a Spartan fife” – or dog-whistle more like? Fascinating piece by @MykeCole in @newrepublic on… https://t.co/gmsu8hmaSK

87% of American economists polled by @wsj are happy to declare that we have moved from “trade tension” or “trade co… https://t.co/u5dZ0DDWs1

Market for European CO2 emissions certificates is back. Prices are surging which creates a precautionary and specul… https://t.co/4j41UzO8F9

In a world of negative yields and record heatwaves, European Emission Trading System carbon credits are amongst the… https://t.co/sQlhhgZlQq

Perhaps dDot.com-great moderation-2008” sequence is not be a good model for thinking about the pronounced but moder… https://t.co/VH8QrRpoAN

ROLL UP ROLL UP! German gov looking for "open-minded" suggestions on future of its @commerzbank stake. Bought in 20… https://t.co/zl19Hpq0py

Bellweathers of globalization: how the Korean KOSPI 100 equity index and the BASF share price track global trade. f… https://t.co/8vmlKAB3Q3

Turkey’s economy produced its first annual current account surplus for 17 years, as imports plunged following a sev… https://t.co/KllIbRo0Eh

Today is the anniversary of the signing of the Weimar constitution in 1919. If in Berlin visit the @DHMBerlin Once… https://t.co/Tqo8R8sgCE

"It is no longer absurd to think that nominal yield on U.S. Treasury securities could go negative.” Joachim Fels MD… https://t.co/GGB2uP2Df0

@bradleyrsimpson Not so much a moonshot as an EasyJet moment. Even if it doesnt generate a viable plane, raising t… https://t.co/kdilp63inX