ADAM TOOZE

“This your first reelection campaign, kid?” https://t.co/IB3augFBMG

Rare bird. Northrop XB-35 42-13603 and ex-8th AF Boeing B-17G-70-DL 44-6935 Flying Fortress over Muroc, CA. May 19… https://t.co/SLShnkioA2

The Philadelphia Fed forecasts that nine US states are at risk of slipping into contraction at the highest since Ju… https://t.co/hPM3rVyuOd

"there are “about 30 countries” where CIA officers are no longer followed on the way to meetings by local agents be… https://t.co/vWaOgctS7O

The number of Hispanic women with college degrees has doubled in the past 10 years to 4.8 million, increasing their… https://t.co/ajY9J535og

Made in China 2025 appears to be having an effect in shrinking China’s reliance on imported manufactured goods.… https://t.co/z5xgi95JWJ

Latina labour market participation is a major factor driving overall female labour market participation in the US.… https://t.co/MDQCV7l7pw

Adjusted for quality the cost of illegal narcotics in the US plunged after 1980s. And then fell again in last decad… https://t.co/NaAq5KjXoO

@gv95_ @Alexei__Kirilov @BEA_News check out the paper it spells out the calculation of drug prices etc in very sophisticated terms.

Life is too short … since the 2008 crisis far more Americans have started to plan vacations. What happened? The sha… https://t.co/FmmQaMab5x

My copy of Richard Cobb’s The Streets of Paris bears this inscription. I’m assuming “Asa” is Asa Briggs. “This is u… https://t.co/DnPKmMn8QW

At their peak in 1980 illegal drugs accounted for 5 % of total personal consumption expenditure in US. An astonishi… https://t.co/IPyAnN3Gzi

The number of cameras used for surveillance is set to climb above 1 billion by the end of 2021. That would represen… https://t.co/NsDBSfwMDY

In the post-prohibition era, the criminal economy in the US peaked in 1980 when drugs and theft from businesses spi… https://t.co/t1BefCahoe

In last six years banks in the US and Europe have shed 425,000 jobs, 78k in 2019, 82 % in Europe.… https://t.co/LlG79FJI8O

Strikingly, Democrats And Republicans do not differ much on the need to expand renewable energy. What they differ o… https://t.co/Z3K8FOUnkI

In terms of its tax base the US is looking more and more like a sophisticated EM rather than an advanced economy.… https://t.co/e413Bivnlc

@CameronJJJ India’s War by @srinathraghava3 is excellent on the global ramifications.

@THAToneil @adam_tooze @LRB @TheTLS Yes. The New York Times book review was off the newsstands for a comparable str… https://t.co/vdgiBSUskg

Republican women make adjustments in their everyday life to protect the environment in ways that are very similar t… https://t.co/z2pvzvaFKG

A day to recall lasting impact of the Iran-Iraq war. It was that war that made a generation of Iranian leaders like… https://t.co/kCg1vdLL1o

Power and Time: Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History (ed. @danedels, Stefanos Geroulanos, and… https://t.co/scn2oRBAgH

Ursula von der Leyen has proposed a guaranteed minimum wage for all EU workers. Should there be an EU minimum wage?

The collapse of British power in Asia in early 1942 that continued down through fall of Singapore in February is on… https://t.co/erbfT39dQI

US official at the Baghdad Embassy tells me “we are sitting on the fence of either fleeing or hunkering down and ri… https://t.co/VYT8keWMyz

Amongst conservative Americans gender makes a huge difference to attitudes on climate change and the economy. Women… https://t.co/8j8VDQXHCM

“glanc[ing] lightly from topic to topic, suggesting deep things in jest” Bagehot on the Edinburgh Review as the mod… https://t.co/lUK0DHIATm

Share of exports going to the US v. share going to China. Would be nice to see this GDP weighted. @BofAML via… https://t.co/cb0GchjU22

Until the 1980s US health care spending was high relative to peer economies but not truly anomalous. Since the 1990… https://t.co/ym6q6wEP9S

According to luxury food emporium Fortnum & Mason, the Scotch egg was invented at its Piccaddily headquarters in th… https://t.co/qbNNxWzrIc

A plot of the employment cost index (ECI) vs. the employment-to-population ratio in the US shows a pretty solid rel… https://t.co/j0NuQyCE7s

@ted_morris F&M invented the scotch egg.

Cant help thinking that the unusual distance of about a mile between the Royal Academy of Art & Greggs, Britain’s l… https://t.co/Ig0qGhmzin

On US & Iran – as with North Korea, China v HK, India v Pakistan, Russia etc – we focus too much on high-impact, mi…