ADAM TOOZE

As I noted yesterday, the big US tech cos have become the new China's of the global balance of payments. Their imp… https://t.co/O6RTPu4SFy

A shrinking share of the population has benefited directly from the rise in the S&P500 since 2009, DB's Slok shows… https://t.co/6o4kJhMIfT

Kuwait plans to nationalise ‘entire’ energy sector by 2021 https://t.co/XV2ogTwtED

The current position of GulfCC states is unsustainable not just from climate point of view IMF warns. Given current… https://t.co/KGCfIYnoEi

Under current fiscal stance and given likely trend in hydrocarbon economy the financial wealth accumulated by GulfC… https://t.co/0KmhpaacYS

There is a limited outlook for the hydrocarbon GDP of the GulfCC states under any scenario even though their market… https://t.co/XEvS4eMdZm

The fiscal history of the Gulf GCC countries is one of three phases: rising saving, accelerated spending & fiscal a… https://t.co/eiFVWHdq8K

Though they differ on the projected growth path there is no major energy agencies that projects oil demand in 2040… https://t.co/PaSlgqMQ7b

Late 1960s neo-Malthusianism bore some strange fruit: John Brunner’s extraordinary 1968 sci-fi novel Stand on Zanzi… https://t.co/ULsujiXtz7

As IMF sees it by 2100 we will be consuming oil at rate of 1971 and three times as much gas as in 1992.… https://t.co/7qN1vwC5AJ

How population growth, GDP growth and efficiency gains are likely to bend the curve of demand for oil. As the IMF s… https://t.co/jlZKab77yo

The shale oil revolution: A huge addition to oil supply which breaks even at prices around $20/barrel through to mi… https://t.co/5TNxNi8tap

Gotta say I find the Hungarian figure less surprising than the 30% number for Germany. Ostpolitik never was consens… https://t.co/kbWvAzClXB

In the early 1960s the US was nudging its way into the Cold War in East Africa. In 1960 NASA’s project Mercury esta… https://t.co/3r7qimRqWz

On the politics of nature reserves and national parks, this edited volume by @BGissibl Höhler Kupper Is truly fasci… https://t.co/PqlhT4pRDW

Political zoology … I did not know it until this morning, but I am glad that this field exist.… https://t.co/vD9SSWLr0t

POLITICAL ecology. The book that accompanied the famous film by the Grzimek, the German father-son team of wildlif… https://t.co/6YNZ1ATZ4x

Zanzibar revolution 1964? Ashamed to say as Brit and historian I didn’t know about the drama of these events. N… https://t.co/H4qJ6qot4K

On the politics of nature reserves and national parks, this edited volume by @BGissibl Höhler Kupper Is truly fasci… https://t.co/nBTVbTCF4c

POLITICAL ecology. The book that accompanied the famous film by the Grzimek, the German father-son team of wildlif… https://t.co/PScmZoxrDg

Coal, oil, gas … all previous major energy transitions have taken half a century. At global level we have barely st… https://t.co/ll3dr06nLj

Great Depression? Not for all. The deflation of the 1930s was a huge gift to the bond-holding class. A fact that sc… https://t.co/wP8yxSXjCe

Side point: the interesting thing that 1980s/90s cyberpunk really missed: wi-fi. All about “jacking in” and wires.

To celebrate the imminent arrival of Britain’s War II, 1942-1947 (pre-order https://t.co/iNVGNaUH0J ) I have 4 copi… https://t.co/AliuD5cq5C

Was lucky enough to read an advance copy of volume 2 over Xmas. Like volume 1, it’s just superb. All encompassing… https://t.co/Mg01sIHLVo

“Until now we haven’t dared to say it – it’s obvious NKr10,000bn is politics,” – Norwegians are struggling over the… https://t.co/xmDcy2IZmX

Cisco not interested in following nudge from Trump administration to buy Nokia and Ericsson. Their low margin netwo… https://t.co/hE81VP3HGw

Africa’s largest economies: Nigeria, S. Africa, Egypt have all had a bad five years. And for the future it is the s… https://t.co/mGOboGLqPN

Almost 20% of S. Korea’s value added is embodied in Chinese final demand, for Australia it is 13% -> they are front… https://t.co/64wUE8T5ap

African consumer spending will be about 40% of U.S. expenditure in five years’, compared with 20% two decades ago,… https://t.co/kBDQngEYbA

Ramaphosa’s urgency in addressing the Eskom crisis in S. Africa stems from a disastrous decade of economic underper… https://t.co/3GzozLJGJZ

To fully electrify transport, heat and industry UK would need 3x more electricity. Renewables can cover 60% of that… https://t.co/QmQikal1mG

Coal, oil, gas … all previous major energy transitions have taken half a century. At global level we have barely st… https://t.co/57pDpJSy78