ADAM TOOZE

Compared to America’s federally mandated minimum wage of $7.25, Australia’s minimum is $12 in PPP terms.… https://t.co/JElLedP8Qq

If the US economy were a bag of potatoes there would be two city economies you could use for baking, a bunch that w… https://t.co/Rh2tX7BncA

Getting data from a single Global Hawk drone requires at least 500 megabits a second of satellite bandwidth—five ti… https://t.co/0ITUUedhPW

Despite surging power demand for AC to fight the heatwave, US gas prices are plunging driven by Appalachian natural… https://t.co/VujyoEceVp

If you cant do it there, you cant do it anywhere: Is the financial crisis in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin coal fiel… https://t.co/ky1kuFHoTz

If lowflation is the Fed’s worry this is a chronic rather than an immediate cyclical/acute problem right now.… https://t.co/be1hiUkoed

One way to track the decline of the Venezuela oil industry is to track the input of diluent which is necessary to t… https://t.co/uS1Un9XfXB

Peak renewable energy innovation as measured by patents and investment (especially in Europe) was around 2012.… https://t.co/C568BZiBUu

Cat and mouse: Every month dozens of large tankers in the Gulf are deliberately switching off their transponders pr… https://t.co/e0hUqTJqdG

Japan’s Financial Services Agency finds that due to ageing and longevity the average elderly Japanese couple will n… https://t.co/Cr6QoJrL4q

Is China’s BRI “subprime globalization”. Useful round up of burgeoning literature by @TimothyTTaylor… https://t.co/U4DD1L8e3t

In 2018 only 40% of Japanese said they were happy with their democracy, down by ten percentage points from a year e… https://t.co/vG6XbpoEWk

"Trend towards lower real interest rates has lasted for decades and is as likely to continue as to reverse. With ce… https://t.co/iQdhIdnCvz

After sudden and unexpected cut by Erdogan’s central bank, Turkey no longer has highest real interest rates in the… https://t.co/9TFLyyCtNU

There are currently 2062 operating satellites. And that number is set to explode soon. There are going to be far mo… https://t.co/7dunjHsh6F

Campaign against Nonsense Output Gaps (CANOO): core Euro zone inflation is back below 1.0% y/y. Large output gaps o… https://t.co/UG4WsdpYE5

@davidrkadler I am more immersed in US than Eurozone world but still it amazes me also how little the crazy unemplo… https://t.co/X8UMhWFxpx

Thanks! There is a completely different narrative on both sides of the Atlantic, which is the starting point for… https://t.co/eC99yyME4A

Campaign against Nonsense Output Gaps (CANOO): the Euro zone has a low inflation problem. Key question is why. Peri… https://t.co/0PDiS7cppC

This is good on how the dominance of the Eastern ultra-right Flügel of the AfD around Höcke of Thuringia may weaken… https://t.co/tiHRAbpx4V

A Commission reporting to JFK in 1963 called for the US to introduced paid maternity leave. Half a century the US a… https://t.co/C2Qc2PtFJv

The UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs says about 8,650 objects have been launched into space since Sputnik went u… https://t.co/0eRPNsi6cv

The American coal industry is in a structural crisis, but on top of that it suffered a major cyclical hit in 2016,… https://t.co/h6WJk1viWH

“protection gap”. On average, over the past ten years, only 30% of catastrophe losses were covered by insurance. Th… https://t.co/NE8Y6AjvhZ

Eskom-S Africa doom loop: SA now injecting c. $10bn into its chaotic power utility already saddled w $30bn in debt… https://t.co/B3RF7ZkasR

Rates of return on the huge capital invested in chinese state owned entreprises would be even more miserable withou… https://t.co/lplrwJzQoE

Stranger things: For a brief moment last week the entire Swiss yield curve, out to 50 years dipped below zero!… https://t.co/Tb0TIkMG1e

In the late 1990s the growth in labour productivity and jobs in US economy, which up to that point had been closely… https://t.co/6clviQu0OF

Market predictions of Germany’s future inflation are off the lows they touched earlier in the month but still a wor… https://t.co/oygnB6mGsF

In the eurozone much of the case for action by the ECB rests on the passivity of fiscal policy. That is NOT the sit… https://t.co/BipZnF7CEr

Not quite in the hydrocarbon age: in 1948 65% of the tonnage the allies airlifted into West Berlin consisted of coa… https://t.co/8QGjwsisw3

It is consumer and govrernment spending that are keeping the US economy from looking pretty sick right now. Data fr… https://t.co/ycbuqmUjul

At end 2018, Fed and ECB both believed that the trade war damage to their domestic economies would be small and tem… https://t.co/Cbsanib5xP

In 1968 Mao Zedong enjoined female labourers to hold up “half the sky”; by the 1980s their labour-force participati… https://t.co/b0e0yUvAMq

According to the IMF, if all goes well and Italy is not hit by an existential financial crisis, by 2024 its real GD… https://t.co/RL6GkTBRSx