ADAM TOOZE

Draghi’s interest rate tweaks are driving a reallocation of funds btw European banks. As a result the notorious TAR… https://t.co/gVQMrTsDr2

Young Eli Ginzberg convinced Wesley Clair Mitchell to substitute a seminar on secular and structural change in econ… https://t.co/ihpjYElHCP

Secular stagnation: the juxatposition of Japan's nominal GDP plateau and interest rates (inverted) is pretty show-s… https://t.co/VaBnati9u8

Pork entirely dominates China’s meat consumption. -> the epidemic sweeping through Chinese pig population will have… https://t.co/2YHKpzR2PS

The double shock to Chinese manuf employment in 2015-6 & trade recession from 2018 was severe … and then they stopp… https://t.co/86OQjgwukM

"Policy efforts since WWII have focused on lowering trade barriers. As result, economists don’t have much data on… https://t.co/2QJHY7dItL

Chinese exporters to the US are not lowering their prices in response to tariffs -> adjustment is coming in quantit… https://t.co/E29CCFkAtM

Actually existing trade war: amidst Trump’s daily bluster and flurries of announcements, one of best ways to track… https://t.co/Mq4BCZJIed

Amongst Democrats in US climate change has been a steadily rising concern. Republicans are flatlining. But independ… https://t.co/VLvuIoIeA8

The four ages of QE, or, more properly, the four waves of asset purchases by central banks. So easy to underestimat… https://t.co/mBExep7fbd

"We define emergency (E) as product of risk & urgency. Risk is expected loss. Urgency is reaction time/intervention… https://t.co/gRq2Eavr99

“Without a penalty for brown assets to go hand in hand with preferential treatment of green, we have too much carro… https://t.co/X56ddPExfN

Global cascade: This report in @nature on the way in which nine major environmental tipping points may compound eac… https://t.co/yALaLJq7ug

In August The world’s largest container ship MSC Gülsün arrived in Europe from the Samsung shipyard in South Korea.… https://t.co/cd5A0OXhgW

Rack revolution: Conventional shipping containers stack. But that limits capacity and access. What if, instead, the… https://t.co/02T7OsrWVS

Growth in global container traffic over last 30 years was phenomenal. Will it continue if narrowing wage differenti… https://t.co/txKrDxBeow

The economic stagnation of Brazil and Argentina – the latin american big two – should be profoundly worrying! It st… https://t.co/QJiD2QevP6

If newspapers and magazines are doing badly now the disaster for heritage media is still to come. In 2009 c. 60% of… https://t.co/g8tv77TLCE

The latest PISA rankings are out. You can download the @OECDEduSkills database from the @FT Let the usual round of… https://t.co/NItnJyUWQn

Refineries and ball gowns. Esso celebrating the triumphs of synthetic chemistry in the 1950s. Another fabulous illu… https://t.co/s9ef2LtmPT

There is a relationship between education spending and PISA performance but it is not straightforward and high spen… https://t.co/67v8NNoqYk

If you look really, really, really closely, you can see the Italian economy edging away from deflation. YUP there i… https://t.co/6fCsvZ4YQd

“Each day Humbles supplies enough energy to melt 7 million tons of glacier!” 1962 advertisement by Humble/Esso boas… https://t.co/WVsqXoJqSO

@warde_paul @AmiDar @TheEconomist Hi this is fascinating. If beef were factory farmed too, presumably this would ge… https://t.co/lDeXLzpq5U

"In a very real sense, the frightening precision of special operating forces commando type tactics has infected our… https://t.co/95xmvY1ZGz

Since celebrity jeweller Nirav Modi fled India in 2018 accused of having defrauded a state bank of nearly $2bn, ban… https://t.co/vxxZuUNOcv

Japan’s public sector pension fund the largest in the world will no longer engage in securities lending of its $733… https://t.co/OAsxtfQHHz

Like something from another age … https://t.co/mFtgmIVanr

Several different kinds of landmine protection boots. It's really interesting.I think the last one could easily tri… https://t.co/oRcX4kUPJa

Life … One Mile at a Time. Gulf Oil’s ad campaign “Life . . . One Mile at a Time” was developed in the mid-2000s F… https://t.co/iY4rTHQa90

Package holidays make up nearly 3% of German household consumption & Germany accounts for nearly 1/3 entire euro-z… https://t.co/MqYdPbeZdJ

Twelve of the world’s 15 most polluted cities are in India. The whole north Indian plain from Lahore in Pakistan to… https://t.co/TrGCqf6URr

Investment and savings rates in India are falling but they are still at remarkably high levels.… https://t.co/uyErtHQ4G3