ADAM TOOZE

The Taliban has a saying: “America has the watches; we have the time.” Great opening line from @EdwardGLuce… https://t.co/5bwGMpHYhk

Countries worldwide that are most dependent on tourism. Data from @WorldBank Slightly fishy thing is that no Africa… https://t.co/KOSkRRvp8r

Executive assistants once ran the office. Increasingly, the office runs without them. The decline of a solid career… https://t.co/3DUTLfGBs7

Wyndham Lewis The Surrender of Barcelona 1934–7 “I set out to paint a 14th c scene as I should do if I could be tra…

13% of China’s banks are rated high-risk by the PBoC. This is an alarming level of weakness in a sector that is goi… https://t.co/pXQnSvqvTd

Retail bankruptcies are taking their toll on one of America’s largest categories of employment – retail salesperson… https://t.co/UCzgM7Hacd

On average it takes 45 months to negotiate a free trade agreement with the US. But some take far longer!… https://t.co/bq2pkrveD4

How Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater fund management firm sees the transition in balance of global economy from USA/Europe t… https://t.co/GgxZzgtrcz

“Actually existing neoliberalism”: The decline in public investment in the UK since the early 1970s has been dramat… https://t.co/qIPuocwy1L

In the aftermath of the 2008 crisis, EM corporates led by China began issuing bonds as never before. From interesti… https://t.co/WbBg4ikTpE

Countries worldwide that are most dependent on tourism. Data from @WorldBank Slightly fishy thing is that no Africa… https://t.co/36BRYSYzOd

13% of China’s banks are rated high-risk by the PBoC. This is an alarming level of weakness in a sector that is goi… https://t.co/E2md5ZcsHT

Retail bankruptcies are taking their toll on one of America’s largest categories of employment – retail salesperson… https://t.co/GlHs0Oh1zp

To sustain oil output, Russia needs to invest in greenfield oil projects, which break even only on assumption of $5… https://t.co/PlwIdh5H2x

Btw 2020 and 2033 African borrowers face a wall of maturing debt. Will this be the trigger for a new debt crisis an… https://t.co/2DOeKDg7nf

Greenfield expansion in the global oil industry depends on prices staying comfortably above $40/barrel to break eve… https://t.co/xjCedvKdSZ

Since the debt crisis and relief efforts of early 2000s, Africa’s eurobond foreign debt issuance has ballooned. Thi… https://t.co/W84O4NSPuf

Buttressing "independence": Compared to Janet Yellen, Jerome Powell has been working hard to cultivate relations wi… https://t.co/nyYE5sLfMq

Compared to AE, China’s healthcare spending is modest. The 2008 crisis triggered a major expansion of China’s healt… https://t.co/XzbEHENBjq

The end of 2020 sees a lot of high yield and not dated cross border Chinese corporate debt coming due. Could corona… https://t.co/YkjK7iN2pb

Since the 1990s the US has seen no inflation in goods prices. Whatever inflation there has been, has been due to th… https://t.co/tkmflMx2q0

Activity at LA and Long Beach ports, which is an indication of trade volumes into US, has declined in recent months… https://t.co/x5ALnI4lPK

Across the AE the labour share has declined since the 1970s. But surprisingly the decline was both smaller and less… https://t.co/YJQuOPtuos

In 2008 delinquency on consumer debt in the US was tightly correlated. Since 2014 no longer. Auto debt delinquencie… https://t.co/XjKCwUNd6r

Israel runs a large and persistent trade deficit and yet, since 2008, the Bank of Israel has accumulated a large fx… https://t.co/GTwOm00PwO

China v. India’s population pyramid 1960-2080 foretells increasing divergence in the 21st century. Visual capitali… https://t.co/DoZZR0xoPr

Globalization and technological change affects all AE. But whether or not this results in huge surge in inequality… https://t.co/AQN6FOQEiZ

Greenfield expansion in the global oil industry depends on prices staying comfortably above $40/barrel to break eve… https://t.co/Lnz8olUx8j

Btw 2020 and 2033 African borrowers face a wall of maturing debt. Will this be the trigger for a new debt crisis an… https://t.co/Ifw98o0roj

To sustain oil output, Russia needs to invest in greenfield oil projects, which break even only on assumption of $5… https://t.co/vlD0I3G5ZX

Since the debt crisis and relief efforts of early 2000s, Africa’s eurobond foreign debt issuance has ballooned. Thi… https://t.co/XAY31WWGFW