ADAM TOOZE

To feed Chinese demand acres planted to soybeans, a rarity in U.S. fields a century ago, increased 43% between 1995… https://t.co/1SyXmHMoYo

Over roughly 40 years c. 10 % of americans manage to have at least one year earning in the top 1%. But very few sta… https://t.co/sFNLfOGC0N

“We must have this market. You can’t produce another China, at least not overnight.” @jessenewman13 on the travails… https://t.co/XPtXwLnYxO

Cold War energy regime: since 1980 cumulative world CO2 emissions have doubled. China is the big story. But we easi… https://t.co/ZVSD2pONsL

"To cut costs, Wall Street banks are “near-shoring” jobs to cities far outside NYC: such as Salt Lake City, Nashvil… https://t.co/TrC3qQeWUr

China Iron & Steel Assoc “is reporting relevant problems in the industry to government ministries and regulators, u… https://t.co/qXvGkvMygk

"In the Global North we often act as if our future will be a warmer version of today: liberal capitalism, plus floo… https://t.co/xV20SIHXQV

"In effect, Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson assert that in a crisis, all private financial debt must be treated as t… https://t.co/dAm13cy6TQ

“The size & scale of our tea business around world means that we regularly flex production up & down” Erdogan doesn… https://t.co/Zxn4OfTucX

This is insane! A travel map of the Roman empire that allows you to plot journey times btw locations depending on w… https://t.co/kRKKg4AflF

"Calls in South Korea for a boycott of Japanese goods in response to Tokyo’s curbs on the export of high-tech mater… https://t.co/wEKErIcaTG

It bears repeating that since 2014 the volume of AAA rated European sovereign debt available for purchase by invest… https://t.co/MOocg6zet4

"In 2008 Chinese authorities received 204,268 patent filings, v. 428,881 in US. By 2017 there were 1.3m application… https://t.co/ti6tUROhRe

With regard to eurozone sovereign debt, EU Commission cannot retreat to role of ratings agency as @ojblanchard1 has… https://t.co/CCWwvLeA0Q

Financial markets appear to believe that in the long run, the real interest rate in the eurozone is negative (expec… https://t.co/6XnupmPKRL

@GavJacobson @adam_tooze Something along those lines coming soon from Adam's colleague, Malgosia Mazurek. Fascinat… https://t.co/JJOwkxyUpc

We spend so much time talking about One Belt One Road investment and debt it is easy to underestimate the trade dim… https://t.co/5AujJnLSRI

In europe the debate has begun whether the "cows-for-cars” EU-Mercosur trade deal is a double whammy for environmen… https://t.co/BSS9HU5smm

Crossborder banking continues to be dominated by links within AE, particularly within the big 5: US, UK, Fr, De, Jp… https://t.co/LLArWdl6Rp

At end-2018, the outstanding stock of cross-border bank claims stood at $28.5 trillion. In total @BIS_org maps 4822… https://t.co/hwfN1prpjJ

A staggering contrast: “While Russia poured $22 billion into Crimea since its annexation, western assistance in the… https://t.co/EKtk0jTudE

New Saudi-Russian relationship is eye-catching but not new. With eye to 30 m Soviet muslims and challenging London,… https://t.co/PbD6uhelRV

How the new relationship btw OPEC and Russia signifies both OPEC’s recognition of the shale threat and Russia’s rec… https://t.co/xGTdlTfw4t

“the much vaunted sustainable development provisions in the EU-Mercosur trade agreement are excluded from the enfor… https://t.co/ZiO8nAZ1GW

"Oil and gas groups” are increasingly seen as "active, knowing agents of the extinction … The fact these are larg… https://t.co/IctVkhpp28

Thank you to @KatharinaPistor for suggesting that the political quality of the Lagarde ECB nomination I discussed i… https://t.co/sUq0TA4q3w

Our world is not Friedman’s flat world. It is an “unflattened world” of which the swap line network is an emblem. I… https://t.co/Y1wVSJLv6k

very important contribution against the myth of expansionary #austerity ! Very much related to campaign against non… https://t.co/QOFNzWSKpp

China surpassed the US as the world’s largest producer of trash already in 2004. Today it producers 280m tonnes of… https://t.co/RWFTqK2tRZ

15-40 % of total greenhouse gases generated by petrol, diesel, heavy fuel oil are generated before they even reach… https://t.co/3lMqzmjULF

Wie Herr Blake und Herr Linnell mal über Hampstead Heath wanderten & Herr Blake nicht ganz überzeugt von Herrn Linn… https://t.co/t1VsDIVIkW

Shell will spend $2-3bn pa on new energies 2021-5 v. $30bn pa capex on sustaining oil and growing gas & chemicals.… https://t.co/fLQKsJImwD

A von der Leyen Commission could have two very different political complexions depending on her need to rely on the… https://t.co/lcml8gXpWY

Phillips Curve, Keynes GT Chapter 19, tatonnment and the Sonnenschein-Mantel-Debreu theorem … whats not to like. Pl… https://t.co/YHjPI9aAd5

Hog cycle: Trump’s tariffs had paradoxical effect in expanding supply of steel and prompting modernization at expen… https://t.co/OQIyWxqZQC