ADAM TOOZE

@JobbingLeftieH @DEHEdgerton @Birdyword @tonycurzonprice It is sectoral fundamentals that make it COMPLETELY implau… https://t.co/xSZZXKGCap

Beijing has spent last several years stamping on shadow banking sector that funded small-scale lending by intermedi… https://t.co/iEZMJ2uAY5

@DEHEdgerton @Birdyword @tonycurzonprice For my money the problem is in the chaining. Up to 1914 the picture is con… https://t.co/gWesvqn7UY

US-China decoupling is piling pressure on TSMC, the world’s biggest contract chipmaker. Pentagon has asked Taiwanes… https://t.co/FiUIVsSrF9

US & China are the main export markets for the German auto industry. Both are stagnating. Data from @Brad_Setser vi… https://t.co/17DaDqhykt

Yesterday Germany’s finance ministry rejected idea of contributing more funding to EU budget for the Green Deal. Cu… https://t.co/HLonABGtq1

Only 38% of Americans with a College degree can find Iran on a map. 39% of those with incomes over $100k and 38% of… https://t.co/GYqtgW0QJ4

@Birdyword @DEHEdgerton Nice idea. But the population age ratios are too similar and dont move fast enough.

@CJFDillow @donnellymin @Birdyword @DEHEdgerton Problem is with the levels as much as growth rates. There is someth… https://t.co/LczLRR0czL

Retail apocalypse: First it was on, then it was off. Now it is back. The vacancy rates in US malls surges to a new… https://t.co/bgxwBGao5H

Reminder: 1/20 College-age Americans cannot find America on a map. Hence the difficulty locating Iran. https://t.co/w5hyocZY4e

@MalvagioMarco @MorningConsult Oh no … fair % of US population cannot find the US on a world map.

Rather horrifying cheese infographic. To see what I mean check the tiny difference in the chemical/physical profile… https://t.co/qTp7FRuT9y

Novokmet-Piketty-Zucman 2017 have German GDP per cap PPP back at 1943 levels by 1955. Makes sense. But not that tha… https://t.co/Nxv9dv85hz

The anomaly in the Novokmet-Piketty-Zucman 2017 data shows up already in WWII. They have German GDP per capita PPP… https://t.co/EiSBKUH8Xa

Where is Iran? Only c. 28% of registered American voters can find Iran on a map. Falling to 23% if they have to fin… https://t.co/3R9Leoln4Y

@Birdyword Just checked. In the standard Maddison dataset Germany & France converge with UK only in late 1960s & th… https://t.co/BCazOgkJi1

@Birdyword Something wrong with these data. I dont think it is plausible that “Germany” overtook the UK in the earl… https://t.co/AoiYehOhlN

The “excess homes” built before the financial crisis in the US have finally been metabolized by the housing market.… https://t.co/TlzSRmu7cD

Really enjoyed this on Europe, neoliberalism, & Jean Claude Juncker-"in seeing Juncker as a mere administrator, the… https://t.co/OXfdVyZTih

"The death of reason” 1980 For some it was postmodernism. For @WSJ it was the windfall profit tax on the US oil ind… https://t.co/XZUxkpoGWm

On the Carter as neoliberal tip … here is the Austrian view. A reappraisal by the Mises Institute: “Carter actually… https://t.co/sfZdiJmqt2

Luxembourg … a sleepy European micro state? Read @njtmulder in @NewLeftReview and think again! From 19th century di… https://t.co/4ccqh8yw5V

Italy is the chief obstacle to forward progress on EZ banking union and ESM reform. @MESandbu asks: "Could a “safe… https://t.co/cXNC6sXY0D

“the world's oceans have absorbed 228 Zetta Joules (228 billion trillion Joules) of energy in recent decades … equa… https://t.co/oBkGG75Rkf

"India has experienced standard business cycles and even macroeconomic crises. But until recently it had never suff… https://t.co/gHSrop4Gxk

On climate change and central banks @gavyndavies is typically smart. BUT his list of concerns not include the role… https://t.co/WjUTTR4bxy

Fed listens: “Economists don’t trust anecdotes,” @Claudia_Sahm says. “But anecdotes can also spawn an, ‘Oh, I shoul… https://t.co/6KgEWG2tBn

In the era of the Euro one group of Europeans who have worked more are older folks. Employment rates for those aged… https://t.co/OS1AXbmhZ1

We talk a lot about Eastern Europe’s sensitivity on immigration. This makes more sense when you realize the scale o… https://t.co/v5Mfb2RS9t

@CJFDillow Excellent piece I liked some of Scruton's work especially on art and musicology but was horrified by man… https://t.co/c5KEu0NWbU

The European Commission forecasts that spending on healthcare for older people and pensions, which already accounts… https://t.co/PRLmZBKimg

“We’ve been remarkably successful, with the help of a Democratic Congress. We have deregulated the air industry, th… https://t.co/OOX3sLNak7

Europe and Japan lead the world’s aging. Talk of “time-bombs” is alarmist but great graphic from @FT… https://t.co/7ua19MKyra

Self-surplus: The EU even has a trade surplus with itself … to the tune of 307bn Euros = 86% of global accounting a… https://t.co/uISCJw3Ki7

@kaijaschilde Thank you so much for sharing. This looks truly fascinating. Great stuff.