ADAM TOOZE

The lopsided nature of the cocoa industry is glaring. On one side poor peasant producers on the other side giant pr… https://t.co/78lMcvYvIJ

@dsquareddigest @EuroBriefing Bail in has always been the strong suit of the north europeans. Same could be said of… https://t.co/0zW39ML68T

I heartily agree with @EuroBriefing https://t.co/KEaM4TR4OL that the EU must stop treating the IMF as a consolatio… https://t.co/EX6b2CbDga

Copec is the new OPEC for chocolate. Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana which export 2/3 of all cocoa are trying to raise and… https://t.co/Jm1Nlkz6aP

In the event of a recession a lot of B- rated corporate debt is going to be downgraded to CCC at which point most C… https://t.co/X90rIueOuz

As Japan shutdown its nuclear power plants after Fukushima the gap was closed by renewables but above all by coal a… https://t.co/ztpuSkUx7O

A huge surge in LNG export capacity is in the pipeline for 2019-2020. It will be entering a market in which fossil… https://t.co/Cs49TNM6cK

Mining giant BHP wants to exit coal but who will buy its stranded assets in an energy market in which coal is domin… https://t.co/KC5kdn2mSs

Part of reason why current downturn in commodity prices & EM/LIC funding has not resulted in a rash of debt default… https://t.co/YzdCYOXqKD

@THAToneil @BJMbraun @FuestClemens @AlexanderDonges the exchange was provoked by my piece in @ForeignPolicy which a… https://t.co/95wr26Kha5

The shale basins of Eagle Ford and Permian add dramatically to Texas’s already stressed water situation. Unlike man… https://t.co/uCosVjeTHy

Could there be a debt crisis brewing amongst China’s low-income borrowers on a par with the debt crisis of the earl… https://t.co/JCbSlMtvt9

Permian water use grew nearly ninefold 2011-2016 as drillers added more than 10,000 wells. An average Permian well… https://t.co/qaZBeCNDW0

As World Bank lending plunged, btw 2010 & 2015 Chinese lending became the main source of external finance for low-i… https://t.co/3caWiQoIWX

“If we sell alfalfa to Saudi Arabia or China, it’s basically us exporting water there, so what’s the difference?” W… https://t.co/zVAKPExxuk

Much of the discussion of Chinese lending implies that it is a radically new development. In fact China’s communist… https://t.co/EoO9vy8nJl

This blockbuster @nberpubs paper by Horn, Reinhart and Trebesch on China’s overseas lending deserves a wide readers… https://t.co/8Mna0V9zop

As ever @BJMbraun spot on in his reading of the politics of monetary policy! GREAT thread. https://t.co/KRGBayz4gN

Another excellent thread from @UliVolz and @Frank_vanlerven responding to resistance by @FuestClemens &… https://t.co/WvrAbeI3bu

This is a fantastic thread from @BJMbraun responding to objections from @FuestClemens and @AlexanderDonges to those… https://t.co/YpdNCFjOyO

A wave of multibillion-dollar petrochemical plants are being built along the U.S. Gulf Coast to take advantage of c… https://t.co/0r1FI5aHgF

@FuestClemens 1/3 Sorry gents (@AlexanderDonges) – but am not sure you know you territory here…Many central banks… https://t.co/Kwlm3pwphi

"US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has proposed a reduction in the frequency and scope of inspections at the c… https://t.co/kdZ5uroOPl

Unit labour costs in France diverged from productivity from 2008 onwards. But the trends in tradeable and non-trade… https://t.co/zYktMieK84

Cost of renewables is plunging. Growth RATES in renewables are rapid. But we need a HUGE inv push to achieve rapid… https://t.co/qa3yWUETrD

If the formula agreed during the 2008 IMF reform was applied, China’s quota and voting share would be doubled to 12… https://t.co/bZYoN3ZtZS

Productivity in French and German economies moved in parallel btw 2000 and 2018. What did not was real compensation… https://t.co/kC0mjQBBPm

In case you have ever wondered, this is the formula used to determined IMF quotas. 50% is dependent on GDP calc as… https://t.co/aw9oWbfXo3

Breakdown in R&D expenditure between public and private sources shows the 2:1 dominance of private spending across… https://t.co/RQezecVf0z

ICT capital in relation to GDP shows that Europe was, in fact, ahead of the US through the late 1970s. By the early… https://t.co/GtFegEHYh3

@pnicolaides fascinating. The graph came from a paper by the european parliament’s research service. rather useful!

The distribution of the Indian donkey population by state. Oh how I love twitter in the morning! Cant wait for… https://t.co/SX2XvqdyMX

Since 2015 central bankers have been talking about climate change risks and “greening finance”. But what they are n… https://t.co/Ljab4iiNff

Helpful map of the relationship between the EU and the IMF, which has come a long way since Bretton Woods, but whic… https://t.co/GJWFU4tF0m

Labour productivity per hour worked in PPP$ 2010 showing the gap that the US has opened up, the parallel developmen… https://t.co/wD413LMIYA