ADAM TOOZE

Hungary’s housing market is running really hot. European EM are seeing much more rapid real estate inflation than E… https://t.co/J4MMYlLnrX

The concentration of UK trade volumes on Rotterdam is remarkable. More than all the other European ports put togeth… https://t.co/RtPuGzZU9p

Since the surge in parttime work in the US in 2008-9 there has been no further growth in that segment. All net job… https://t.co/HJlGQqSa57

The world’s 2nd largest rainforest is the Congo baisn. Between 2001 and 2018 Congo lost 13m hectares of tree cover… https://t.co/SmDCj8dCtz

The weight of average cell phone in 2011 was 1/6 what it had been in 1990. But number of phones ballooned from 11m… https://t.co/gj3UItzmLe

Supply-chains shift CO2 emissions from the West to China and they increase them. Cars and car parts exported by Chi… https://t.co/aUQrOfWb5O

Britain consumes about 40% more carbon emissions than it produces; the European Union as a whole, 19%. In America t… https://t.co/QKaBRR7E5J

Alcohol firms may advertise for responsible drinking but they depend heavily on problem drinkers who, in the UK, ac… https://t.co/jPXw7TiMRR

Beacause alcohol is omnipresnet it causes far more harm than illegal drugs. Striking data from the UK via… https://t.co/5azi50GWvj

Folks in the UK are as dissastisfied with the way democracy is functioning as Italians and more dissastified by Ukr… https://t.co/xwvpOGG1Vt

30 years from 1989, generally Eastern and Central Europeans approve of shift to multiparty system and market econom… https://t.co/beX5sZa0fP

The ECB has consistently overestimated the inflationary pressures in the EZ, compared to forecast by @natixis they… https://t.co/8eMb8btBqw

South Korea, which is a key node the E Asian manufacturing network, is stil seeing a nasty downturn in its exports.… https://t.co/VLTnNHQsLF

A different kind of bailout. As the rural Yichuan Bank in China suffers a bank run (on left) public officials are s… https://t.co/j2CmAIIy83

Deaths from air pollution are preeminently a developing country problem = key driver also for making climate change… https://t.co/BTlfRHS83K

Germany’s net migration btw 2010 and 2015 puts it in the same league as Canada and Australia. More than twice the r… https://t.co/pw0cKoBKea

The impact of the Measles vaccine across the states of the US has been spectacular. Great graphics from… https://t.co/Xlq29MIwVG

The surge in the drug wars in Mexico since 2007 surely ought to be a far greater preoccupation for North American p… https://t.co/n5UHT6wCAM

Worldwide the cost of 1GB of mobile data varied from $0.26 in India to $75 in Zimbabwe with US at $12.37 in the mid… https://t.co/bP8ei5LscE

Vietnam has one of the highest female labour-force participation rates in the world. Some 79% of women aged 15 to 6… https://t.co/fjcCvoxXcw

"In western and central China, deficits have expanded rapidly, from an average of 5.5% to 15.5% (see chart). Land s… https://t.co/0HMokWVdLG

As China’s economic growth has slowed the impact has been uneven by region, with the North East doing worst = major… https://t.co/6e8Fc3ncTt

Forbes counts 114 German $ billionaires = 2* # in UK. One for every 727,000 Germans, close to America’s 1 for ever… https://t.co/bJgaznFPff

By a horrible twist of fate the war-torn East of the Congo with one of highest death rates from malaria in the worl… https://t.co/1aKKUC1P74

The Raytheon-UTC merger reflects two trends sweeping America: the reshaping of high tech defence because of fears a… https://t.co/clhnDZ9qPD

Jurisdictions across America are wrestling with what to do with their unclaimed dead. A state fund in West Virginia… https://t.co/0sTXE9GUGH

The population of sub-Saharan Africa will reach 2bn in the mid-2040s, up from 1.1bn today. That would lead to a hug… https://t.co/v1Hjz88lIM

The world’s sovereign-wealth funds control $8trn in assets. More than a quarter of that is held by four Gulf countr… https://t.co/ISkQ74gXOQ

The FAO estimates that the global number of ruminant livestock will rise from 4.1bn to 5.8bn between 2015 and 2050.… https://t.co/dtRAMhUjGr

The primitive ways we manage air traffic control cost hours in the air and huge amounts of fuel consumed.… https://t.co/Fo1LYem3jf

At the same time as they have initiated a massive wave of extinction, humans have bred so many animals for food tha… https://t.co/thQgACIDD8

The Progressive Green Finance Strategy offers 11 recommendations to green banks & shadow banks in line with 2030 ne… https://t.co/nuzKCEiQLx

Old school: The ten wealthiest German families make cars (bmw and Volkswagen), brakes (Knorr-Bremse) and car parts… https://t.co/ypLQA918NG

Between 1961 and 2013 the average Chinese person went from eating 4kg of meat a year to 62kg. Half of the world’s p… https://t.co/pKtlDj6Pkg

1974: Alfred Hitchcock’s wife Alma Reville with Alfred’s wax head in their fridge _ Alma was one day younger than A… https://t.co/kTYdJnFFB4