ADAM TOOZE

Our world: @FT @HornbyLucy reporting on fact that Chinese "Communist party is now hammering out its 14th five-year… https://t.co/N4qe3HHRk8

Read this. @ischinger is spot on. This reply by Cordesman to NATO’s annual report is devastating. Beyond squabbles… https://t.co/KI7dlqpBLi

Hard to credit but Jeff Bezos’s vision of future space colonization is an amalgam of 1970s sci-fi with a dose of Li… https://t.co/MpwXzY7gt8

3.8 % of German manufacturers have cut their workers’ hours. IFO expects 8.5% to move to short time in nxt 3 months… https://t.co/7ma5O3Qavn

Worth reminding oneself periodically how politicized even “economic sentiment” has become in the US. The Univ Mich… https://t.co/kDkKJoM4g1

"The Chinese leadership’s decision not to adopt a widely anticipated target of doubling GDP again by 2035, compared… https://t.co/cmK1IGUW8V

@andrewbatson @greg_ip Love it!

@greg_ip Hi Greg. Sorry for sloppy paraphrase. Clearly your main point was about future prospects.

@andrewbatson @greg_ip thanks for the clarification @andrewbatson that is what I was trying to get at. It is not ev… https://t.co/gLCbv0IaW3

And there's a town in Louisiana that is (probably) named after Egyptian revolutionary Ahmed 'Urabi… https://t.co/N3VchZz4pD

@ofriel @greg_ip Early 1990s would put China on the same trajectory as S Korea!

@cusackandrew @herandrews But the town was named for him in 1846 when he was a famous anti-French resistance leader!

There is Bismarck, there is Versailles and there is the town of Elkader Iowa named in 1846 in honor of the Emir Abd… https://t.co/lAHZEIRacP

"I took a class on Hegel with Heller. It was like sitting in on world history itself. Hard to describe how incredib… https://t.co/FfSIj6miwN

Between now and 2050 35% of all urban population growth worldwide will be driven by India, China and Nigeria. We si… https://t.co/pJdMiNgfg3

The worlds’ rural population has now probably plateaued at c. 3.2 billion. All population growth from here on out i… https://t.co/ogfxns72Gt

Our China activity tracker diverges substantially from official GDP, which is oddly smooth. Activity slowed a lot i… https://t.co/l4BLwnDdoa

As oil production ramps up every day the Texas fracking industry either releases or flares over 700 m cubic feet of… https://t.co/yslIpjl4KI

As China’s infrastructure investment surged in 2008 to offset the GFC rates of return on investment plunged. Soberi… https://t.co/ze1kPj07KI

Has the China miracle been exaggerated. @greg_ip takes a decidedly jaundiced view. Interesting comparison but can’t… https://t.co/TSjl7i9e9I

Very cool 20-year graph of S. Korean producer price inflation from @SoberLook Very useful gauge of global industria… https://t.co/MccWFVmI8b

Apparently protests in Hong Kong have an immediate impact on Swiss watch exports … go figure!? @SoberLook tell us m… https://t.co/qoxZRWqS3o

Yield-chasing foreign investors, notably Japanese, are snapping up Italian sov bonds. Apparently regardless of poli… https://t.co/B3FzQn0asX

The input/output relations of US manufacturing as mapped by @CreditSuisse via @SoberLook The US may have a trade d… https://t.co/MplCoewiJw

For thirty years following the collapse of Bretton Woods the US regularly intervened in currency markets to move th… https://t.co/pMxmXGX4FE

"I think of China as being very much like the US in the post-second world war period — a huge, single-language mark… https://t.co/BahDOHn1Hr

For years, Fed steered monetary policy by wage growth/Phillips curve -> Wall Street fixated on BLS hourly earnings… https://t.co/aIBsnG4x8A

@AlecMacGillis thank you! very kind.

"Warren Buffett once told me that his favourite investments were not so much bets on the US as bets on the ability… https://t.co/XAULSgSjPS

I want to join the ranks of the “succumbers” – the percentage of central banks folding to political pressure is on… https://t.co/kDTp29r7ni

Paris is considering lifting the age limit for the IMF MD position to give Kristalinia Georgieva of Bulgaria, curre… https://t.co/UNyk5PdRIK

When is a service firm a service firm? How a dodgy database is helping to undermine the already shaky authority of… https://t.co/uLisoehoz7

From the Raj to 21stc “defence living” – how S Asian militaries have clung to the privileged spaces inherited from… https://t.co/qAcuhJWV6F

US state and local pension funds are almost 50% unfunded. I Illinois this is already rendering state politics dysfu… https://t.co/YcMyEC1FHV

@dsquareddigest @EuroBriefing Agree or disagree, this thread by @dsquareddigest is the most cogent defense of Dijss… https://t.co/of3vVDD8Rx

@dsquareddigest @EuroBriefing Take your point about pensions. But isnt the sustainability issue the clincher?