ADAM TOOZE

Soviet electrification defeats counterrevolution (1921) the forces of darkness literally try to put out the light w… https://t.co/A0CoZ1WRVp

Kazuma Oda (1881-1956) was fascinated by Japan’s radically changing landscape – much of his body of work documents… https://t.co/HXtwRpPfyw

Are we really witnessing a crisis of globalizatio or its evolution? Whilst global FDI is stagnant foreign revenue e… https://t.co/OkGput4AuB

As FX trading has become more and more concentrated in London, NY, Singapore & HK, a larger share of trades are “of… https://t.co/FTkkPbCXgA

Daily Renminbi (RMB) turnover surpassed $280 billion per day in April 2019 but it remains lower than one would expe… https://t.co/z79cfJKAmo

If you measure US trade with China in value-added rather than gross trade terms, the deficit narrows considerably.… https://t.co/uIQ42B1Ilq

Is globalization dying or is it evolving, ask @sdonnan @LaurenLeatherby Trade volumes may no longer be growing as t… https://t.co/TMfxA2cBAX

On the backstory to Arkady Shaikhet’s photograph “Lenin’s Lamp” (1925) see this wonderful blogpost by Soviet cultur… https://t.co/XFKbV1AvuP

The English word "electricity" was first used in 1646 by Sir Thomas Browne, derived from Willam Gilbert's 1600 New… https://t.co/U6BFqDvlx8

Heckler & Koch postwar Germany’s premier small arms manufacturer was founded on 28 December 1949 with approval of F… https://t.co/Wlyf1GWDW1

Its the 70th birthday of Heckler & Koch postwar Germany’s premier small arms manufacturer. https://t.co/KyNpmnBrBH

Debt of 45m US students is reaching $1.6tn And reimbursement become an issue https://t.co/rv9U3yFQIk https://t.co/is1QcZIde3

William Gilbert MD (1544-1603) who coined the term electricity in English performing magnetic experiments for Queen… https://t.co/QEbw12acoq

Believing this to be the skull of Mary Magdalene when it was found in the 1200's, French Catholics encased it in go… https://t.co/lMarkB4MEo

As a tunnelling geek I found it pretty amazing so see so many open #WW1 system entrances dotted up and down the Fre… https://t.co/m59ODd9lz4

#FACT: An estimated 53 million people—44% of all US workers ages 18–64—are low-wage workers. @MarcelaEscobari, Ian… https://t.co/d8S3llTWlG

Le régime Erdogan dévoile le prototype de la première voiture électrique turque, #TOGG. Aussitôt, les nationalistes… https://t.co/SnIIELp3xu

@41Strange I think you posted Nuno Assis's (earlier) photo. Tsui's version (which won a Nat Geo award) has clouds i… https://t.co/Jfj4yR45NV

Thermal coal prices have fallen >30% to US$66/t in over 2019, from over US$100/t. This is a clear reflection of the… https://t.co/6m4vPwMoFL

Turnover in global foreign exchange (FX) markets reached $6.6 trillion per day in April 2019. @BIS_org… https://t.co/h7FvBDcR0x

“Going theory in WH, articulated by trade advisor Lighthizer as well as China advisor Pillsbury & former NEC deput… https://t.co/65TmnVgXJX

A WWII technical! https://t.co/ZtTuDBhsGW

“The next step in the frictions between China & the US is a financial war.” Lou Jiwei, @JulianGewirtz on the harden… https://t.co/ayFgFTiPUB

Campaign against Nonsense Output Gaps (CANOO): Germany isn't some hawkish monolith that only says "Ja" when it come… https://t.co/SfsklJVZ4S

The Osprey “men-at-arms” book series has been going since 1971. The levels of obscurity it is now reaching are awe… https://t.co/XegNYp07pE

"The rice of industry” – in Yongnian district of Handan city, in central Hebei province, 340k workers are employed… https://t.co/v0v8Cqwk5u

More genius graphics from the @SCMPNews This one on an intertesting pieces about AI, Chinese & Indian expat engine… https://t.co/3Vg2QWHdcJ

"The rice of industry” – Yongnian district of Handan city, in central Hebei province, some 450km south of Beijing,… https://t.co/0q6UGr0qXt

China’s fastener firms, makers of nuts and bolts, aka in Chinese as ‘the rice of industry’, grapple with slowing ec… https://t.co/mAZjue4nFN

Now you see it. Now you don’t. China’s imports of US LNG surged in 2017-8 and then collapsed.… https://t.co/Kmtseb46Ca

China embarks on mission to create ‘aircraft carrier-sized’ investment banks to take on Wall Street giants – a… https://t.co/wuvWgJ5GP4

UK manufacturing sector has moved concertedly since 2016 to diversify its supply chain away from EU. This produces… https://t.co/StNJKrfQd0