ADAM TOOZE

Remarkably the latest @BIS_org annual report makes a strong case for EM which suffer inflation pass through and are… https://t.co/FDKnfxXiFC

After immigration Europe’s liberals are entering a new culture war over climate change. They should avoid the mista… https://t.co/sU1IhUjQNC

Read the new @BIS_org annual report on how capital flows, exchange rate swings and domestic financial cycles reinfo… https://t.co/JaLDIjeQF5

This was a 1TB hard drive in 1937. It was the largest vertical letter file in the world. 4000 SqFt. with over 3000… https://t.co/02Aky3Jrmt

@MarcBruetsch @FT SEHR sogar.

„Die neuen, realistischen Prognosen gehen von 62 bis 238 Zentimetern aus – also bis zu mehr als zwei Metern. Vor se… https://t.co/SwkBhTwcS1

The Gulf of Guinea off Nigeria has displaced the Horn of Africa as the most dangerous waters for piracy. But intern… https://t.co/4RdNI5OFCQ

Deeply researched piece on Blackstone, the $512bn private equity group that controls companies employing 400,000 pe… https://t.co/42JwrbOgcp

Will 47% of US jobs be automated in the near future? That certainly isnt what the famous 2013 paper by @carlbfrey a… https://t.co/zKz0EjJXkb

The Great Depression of the 1930s truly became the world shaking event that we remember, not in 1929 but in 1931. I… https://t.co/oO9otSDaUK

"The worst thing about that tunnel was not that the people around me believed that so many Poles were gassed there.… https://t.co/TbGncRxBfr

The painter who coined the phrase “trompe l’oil” was Louis-Léopold Boilly and he was a master of the genre. His pho… https://t.co/MojCj7Ejs8

The @TheEconomist round up on the prospects of the City of London post Brexit again poses but does not answer the q… https://t.co/HMGvP5cDc5

"About half of all the €2.6trn ($3trn) of euro-area bonds bought by the ecb’s asset-purchase programme came from in… https://t.co/kKt4mhVUSW

GE is closing the Inland Empire Energy Center 20 years early because its gas turbine technology is not competitive… https://t.co/B6iGk21uph

Between them, the City of London and Wall Street account for 70% of activity in almost all key financial services g… https://t.co/Bs5bb5a8Eb

How the experience of survival in a POW camp and ‘the unreasoning vigour of the urge to live’, shaped a mid-century… https://t.co/Jvr3N44jGj

@adam_tooze It's more stark than that. When you examine term length, 44 of the last 56 years have been under a French Managing Director.

8 of 10 biggest power projects under China’s BRI as of 2019 are in Pakistan, within the China Pakistan Economic Cor… https://t.co/GcrZqbBzJc

‘all our circumstances were hostile to individual fantasies; surviving meant accepting the intractable realities wh… https://t.co/NoR3dc6iQf

Fascinating essay by Collini on bio of 1950s Brit lit theorist Ian Watt author of "The Rise of the Novel" emphasizi… https://t.co/f0qOnJwj6l

Clueless, our most difficult problem … amongst Trump haunting Fed Chair Powell images, I like this one!… https://t.co/xxSi6Fjgh0

‘The catastrophe is neither waiting down the road, nor has it already happened. Rather, it is being lived through.… https://t.co/VEaNZ62OAS

“an extraordinarily stupid thing to do.” @M_PaulMcNamara on Erdogan’s sacking of Turkey’s central bank boss “I thin… https://t.co/Fl7tK6oj8u

"You can be haunted backwards, by things that no longer exist but still have impact: revenants, repetition compulsi… https://t.co/KfATIxLObY

I reviewed Tobias Straumann’s elegant but heavy-hitting book about the unravelling of the world economy in 1931. Hi… https://t.co/WGj72NBupW

Follow the excellent Moritz Schularick on twitter at @MSchularick He is really one of the most important voices in… https://t.co/m5TTKdBagf

The ‘persistences, repetitions, prefigurations’ of violence, cruelty, corruption, the way the narrative moves not t… https://t.co/ySJtN8qtVx

REALLY enjoyed this Stefan Collini review of Marina MacKay’s biography of mid-century Brit lit critic and theorist… https://t.co/rCrWUhU5Cm

@DuncanWeldon Hi Duncan have you tried cooking pasta in valpolicella. Add pepper and parm and it gets really really good!

Foreign investors have reason to like Russian bonds: Putin & Co run a tight fiscal ship. Budget is based on low $40… https://t.co/n3xcJg13iF

Since 1990 the divergence in prices of housing (by far the largest asset class globally) btw NZ, Ireland, Australia… https://t.co/k8ViHoElnP

South Africa’s unemployment crisis is of epic dimensions. It has 0.8% of the world’s population but 3.2% of the wor… https://t.co/ca7UAcG1zB

“almost a caricature” of an IMF program in Egypt has attracted investors, returned current account (below) to manag… https://t.co/B8r2dPhqvk

First the accession of Eastern European states and now Brexit is shifting the “geographic center of Europe” eastwar… https://t.co/usN3DtPpAT