ADAM TOOZE

@armin_steinbach @WorldBank @MartinBraml Hi @armin_steinbach if we take your figures for implicit prices at face va… https://t.co/gPuZtcb1F2

@armin_steinbach @WorldBank @MartinBraml Hi @armin_steinbach v interesting. In fairness to the @WorldBank they in f… https://t.co/veSyldUz8f

A tweet yesterday unleashed a torrent of extraordinary expertise on Chinese corporate finance from @michaelxpettis… https://t.co/fxKHguIs7M

The percentage of negative and positive words in the Fed’s beige books back to 1996! As a more conventional reader… https://t.co/KA038ayBPr

With the AKK, von der Leyen double-move Merkel just pulled off her last great coup says @GuyChazan So was the play… https://t.co/NyHNgMWPj3

France’s total public debt just overtook that of Italy to become largest in EZ, though at 100% of GDP it is far les… https://t.co/l6OxAk4x4C

In 1960, South Korea had a total fertility rate of more than 6 children per woman, high enough to cause a populatio… https://t.co/uCrpIyXOOJ

"The speed with which US political leaders of all stripes have united behind the idea of a “new cold war” is someth… https://t.co/v33Scm6UP2

The only places with carbon pricing regimes in the >$50/tCO2 zone that will make conformity with Paris targets like… https://t.co/ViPCPUI400

“A lasting containment of the factors that are causing uncertainty in the export-oriented sectors of the German eco… https://t.co/MRDHYtULF1

Why a price level rule rather than a Taylor rule would require the Fed to drop rates to zero. Very helpful from… https://t.co/9j6SlmAj25

“When you only have so much stimulus at your disposal, it pays to act quickly to lower rates at the first signs of… https://t.co/FGsLs89Wek

Raise your hand if, based on all the talk about #China arming Africa, you knew China lagged behind Germany and Fran… https://t.co/JYSRRBH9U1

From one dream to another. Outside Cleveland Ohio, Amazon is repurposing the failed mall sits as “fulfillment cente… https://t.co/CjMoalflA0

Faced with shock of trade war “The EU governments which have fiscal space & a crying need for public investment are… https://t.co/YKPi5MSFAX

The boom in e-commerce is driving a massive surge in US warehouse construction led by California’s Inland Empire wh… https://t.co/MRT6eGJEYX

France and Germany’s panels of economic advisors agree on need for a carbon tax that is redistributed in form of a… https://t.co/BH9jFauJa9

The giant tracts of warehousing in California’s Inland Empire, which Amazon has spawned since 2012. Fascinating art… https://t.co/Pbrr8U5Lqh

The wind down of non-performing loans on balance sheets of EU banks is good news. But are they really escaping from… https://t.co/XmZsgowoXC

In 1902, Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations was first translated into Chinese by Yan Fu (1854-1921) at the Translat… https://t.co/jETSKnyhLf

@ElliottZaagman you beat me to it!

REITS fund & profit from the physical infrastructure of the digital hinterland: Prologis – warehouses. Equinix an… https://t.co/ul0U4tpE3J

Once you appreciate Nigeria’s significance to global demography in 21st century … chew on this: Nigeria is the coun… https://t.co/3Ca1mPqZrW

The number of births in Nigeria is projected to exceed those in China by 2070. In 2015, Nigeria’s estimated materna… https://t.co/m1jPxOGBm3

By 2100 half of the babies born worldwide will likely be born in Africa. Imagine the crowded and environmentally st… https://t.co/BMZegFy7ZJ

Too often when we wonder at Europe’s centrality to global politics 1800-1950 we forget that in that period global p… https://t.co/o2hYQY9mKf

Single biggest datum for European thinking about its medium-term & longer-term future should surely be that btw 202… https://t.co/rR094kcyek

After months of worry, perhaps the trade data from the East Asian manufacturing hub is stabilizing. @CapEconUK via… https://t.co/hDREaJcPGg

One thing I did not understand about Chinese corporate debt was how short-term it was! Short-term as % of total lia… https://t.co/ZwiRdgtl4D

@adam_tooze Great series of videos on the restoration here: https://t.co/KqaTprPDI7

FASCINATING long read on effort to restore an Apollo moonshot program computer. "the world’s first general-purpose,… https://t.co/L66rcnQQ8O

Between 1950s and today the number of live births per woman on the planet has plunged from 5 to 2.5 and median age… https://t.co/1q0kxg35nD

Some 60% of all the integrated circuits produced in the U.S. between 1962 and 1967, were purchased by the Apollo mo… https://t.co/koSVzFBfX2

Its a pretty unusual moment when net exports match the contribution of investment to Chinese GDP growth! @Chao_Deng… https://t.co/NWJ6vkVznt

"It will be a long time, if ever, before the Chinese central bank acts like its global peers, announcing an indepen… https://t.co/oeFkvOXmQO

"to avoid a dangerous level of global warming, the world would need to commission an asset the size of New Jersey’s… https://t.co/5ZVSkXDhek