ADAM TOOZE

Global bond rally on news of Lagarde’s appointment to the ECB. In retrospect the pick seems so eerily “obvious”. In… https://t.co/Bj17TIJcz9

On 6. 12. and 25. June of this year due to excessive demand Gerrmany’s electricity system was on point of collapse.… https://t.co/ZsqL1SD4Ky

We already know what it means to live in a world forever changed by 2000+ nuclear and thermonuclear blasts. It is o… https://t.co/ga6zI11iwG

@moneymind_ANEP @adam_tooze Yep – main macro challenge for new EU leadership team of @Lagarde @vonderleyen @vestager

Given that it is one of the world’s boom towns, with an existing housing stock of 394,615 units, the tiny number of… https://t.co/qNK0VpIPsh

“He deserves respect for his professionalism … Also, as a German, I would have been pleased if a German (Weidmann)… https://t.co/xc2P5UXwuX

Fascinating portrait of Peruvian Marxist José Carlos Mariátegui (1894-1930), associate of Gramsci, and theorist of… https://t.co/21LUCw7ZRm

Only 57% of what Americans spend on foreign goods actually goes overseas. The rest stays in the US for transport, w… https://t.co/ASRaywFXAH

The anti-Lagarde in Germany, such as it is, seems to consist of FDP boss Lindner who pines for Weidmann’s Ordnungsp… https://t.co/8vPu6EbUEN

@mattseaton @nybooks Not saying that Bush was an authoritarian leader, but during the national victory parade in 19… https://t.co/Bl4q0eaFQ5

If Lagarde can win over Berlin and the Hague for fiscal stimulus "the EU may be moving towards a more Japanese-styl… https://t.co/6PbUSNmOLE

Why no “rocket scientist” for the ECB? Apparently "tightly knit central banking fraternity” are aghast at the Lagar… https://t.co/dFATIn7U6A

@HmsGerlach Your reasoning is interesting … but what is the Bundesbank position if NOT a stepping-stone to the ECB?

@Manish_05Singh I agree, of course. But we all remember how this went down last time …

Hiding behind the Commission: “while many European companies — particularly in France & Ireland — are set to benefi… https://t.co/ifTzcu3R0J

“Eskom is the greatest systemic risk to the South African economy,” and with $30bn in debt outstanding it could eve… https://t.co/pD6itnZiEc

US construction spending is tumbling. Both residential and commercial indices show the worst declines in years. … s… https://t.co/2DBCWf72Uz

A highlight of the exhibition. A Tu-104, the second civilian jetliner ever built on this planet (since 1955). https://t.co/Yqun0o7lPt

In Spain the political questions are no longer about Vox, they are about the conservative mainstream. https://t.co/eG78sCLIJe

Fascinating article on Saudi Aramco’s push into downstream investments in ASia and its push to become a giant LNG p… https://t.co/4poyYaKUNG

Was there a third component to the von der Leyen-Lagarde package? Is Weidmann headed for the IMF? And is that a way… https://t.co/Xoki9WzaKJ

There are six times as many Millenials in Asia as in Europe and the US combined. Their spending will reshape the pa… https://t.co/qJ10H8Xzu3

One of striking features of America’s long and very slow recovery from 2008 is that the saving rate has not decline… https://t.co/oExuxWHG6U

As the gap between the target rate of return for median pension plans and US Treasurys continues to gape wide the h… https://t.co/HfPbfZT8wP

Despite trade-war talk, Mexico’s exports have been humming, but investment is in the doldrums.… https://t.co/zwzOyxjBbg

Competition on the new tech frontier: in mobile payments, orbital rocket launches, STEM grads and Patent applicants… https://t.co/gxJGR6BNws

Reexports with a small share of value added have declined from 55 % to less than 33 % of Chinese exports.… https://t.co/f19keTan4O

Since 2008 crisis in the West, international trade has become a much smaller share of chinese economic activity.… https://t.co/59o9iAr4tk

With the EU and US slowing, China and other EM will account for 85% of global growth in 2019 according to KKR.… https://t.co/IpeGpkZDfM