ADAM TOOZE

In rearrangement of Russian power structure, central bank is selling its controlling stake in Sberbank to the finan… https://t.co/5f3MlUHIDh

Since the 1960s we have been in an era of Locust recession, is climate change taking us into a new age of mega swar… https://t.co/28m3OV3hZ9

Indonesia’s central bank has a cool new National Strategic Food Price Information website where you can look up pri… https://t.co/3PrHMqGPIV

Like an invading army: maps from the @FAO give an impression of the scale of the horrifying Locust infestation in E… https://t.co/MB8agHSuU4

Amidst a wasteland of car showrooms and tire shops, with the skyline in the background you might not expect to enjo… https://t.co/MeRWGa0O0u

The Locust mega swarms pose a threat not just to East Africa but also to a fragile agricultural economy in Pakistan… https://t.co/chi8aKXRIs

China accounts for about 80% of the world’s garlic supply -> coronavirus is sending shockwaves through the biggest… https://t.co/poBmLWiaOx

How did globalisation happen beyond the West? How did socialism connect the world? Our new collection, Alternative… https://t.co/ujlSQfvyu0

Pakistan is struggling to manage a food price crisis with supply shortages compounding impact of devaluation.… https://t.co/40hJzol4nx

UAE’s new strategic clout in the Gulf region is backed up by imported military expertise: Special forces are headed… https://t.co/1bipYqS04d

Since the 1960s we have been in an era of Locust recession, is climate change taking us into a new age of mega swar… https://t.co/YWgltxb5he

Maps from the @FAO give a horrifying impression of the scale of the Locust infestation in Ethiopia, Somalia and Ken… https://t.co/Wl9JTPmDX7

The Locust mega swarms pose a threat not just to East Africa but also to a fragile agricultural economy in Pakistan… https://t.co/j7hQgI32Yj

Merging ideas: Gutenberg’s Printing Press was a modified WINE PRESS. Johannes Gutenberg (c 1398-1468), inventor of… https://t.co/ElYADmvX9z

China’s share of Australian exports was 33% in 2018-19 vs 7% in 2002-03. Tourists from China jumped to 15% of total… https://t.co/fX1DiBNmBL

In the seventeenth century, Hamburg's printer and newsdealer Georg Greflinger published an influential newspaper: t… https://t.co/y1tGgGMTOg

Stunning R&D funding numbers coming out of @WhiteHouse today. How will this have America compete? NIH: -7% DOE: -1… https://t.co/SIOEosIw8M

“Brain machines”: In the 1960s the IRS’s IBM mainframe IT system was so sophisticated and sexy, they had to create… https://t.co/pl9qUYpSK0

"Starving the beast” By end of 2017, nearly 60% of IRS hardware was past its useable life, and 26% of software was… https://t.co/9EtNmbuMKc

Enforce the tax law: Average IRS employee earns around $55 per hour. Focusing their attention on auditing underrepo… https://t.co/O37BVMnico

The US invests less and less in its tax collection agency: ratio of IRS budget to gross revenue has fallen 45% sinc… https://t.co/A532bMiGcr

The IRS budget has decreased (in real terms) by nearly 15 percent since 2011. Its enforcement budget has dropped by… https://t.co/bD1y2LBUu5

Underreporting of taxes in the US is four times greater for those earning $10m+ than it is for folks under $200k be… https://t.co/7EqP9SUZxN

Global CO2 emissions from energy remained unchanged at 33 Gt in 2019 on the year before, data from the IEA data sho… https://t.co/ito370RWw4

Middle age is miserable, and 47.2 years old is the moment of peak unhappiness in the developed world, writes 45-yea… https://t.co/kh3tCYAWBP

As recently as the Seoul Olympics, Koreans were no richer than Mexicans. Yet now South Korea enjoys triple the GDP… https://t.co/04ge6oBzIx

The gap between Republican and Democrat support for NATO since 2009 has been pretty consistent. Interesting data f… https://t.co/f0Po0sXXyX

Why are the Dutch the most pro-NATO W Europeans and the most consistent advocates of collective action?… https://t.co/LKcLt33O9w

If a neighbors gets in a conflict with Russia, should US use military forct? Should our country? Most W Europeans f… https://t.co/TgsJIOADNg

Tanzania is spending $14.2 billion to build a 2,561 km standard gauge railway network connecting its main Indian Oc… https://t.co/IfEOtHTIlP

Forgotten Map Types 1-30, with links to sources and a doff of cap to @tophtucker for the nudge.… https://t.co/gUMtQnRSX4

Putin has made NATO very popular across Eastern Europe. @pewresearch data in time for the @MunSecConf… https://t.co/3xc8gYmxFe

Barely more than half of Americans have a favorable view of NATO and only 21% of Turks! Striking results from lates… https://t.co/mlmkcv4sLg