ADAM TOOZE

Behind the veneer of socialist unity Gorbachev’s viewed leaders of Easterb bloc with contempt: Erich Honecker of G… https://t.co/FUDZyWd5L7

Thirty years on, 1989 appears in less rosy colours. @TonyBarber8 on four historical reassessments of that pivotal y… https://t.co/YLfitJLNJJ

For those of us who were raised on the myth of the WWII Rheinmetall 8.8 cm there is something ghastly but also horr… https://t.co/m1rsy2kSRU

“It’s grey. Half-angels fighting half-devils. No one knows where the lines are.” Le Carré’s Cold War and Cold War a… https://t.co/A9wZTjJwrg

If you take bofp stats at face value there was a huge decline in FDI in 2018. In fact this reflects purely financia… https://t.co/2Zn6qg9WrU

"We’ll get a populist senator on that Board one way or another. I want a man on that Board that I can control." The… https://t.co/1BhG1srlFK

Is Georgieva signaling the priorities of the new regime at IMF by joining bandwagon for central banks to act on cli… https://t.co/AH1CX9BWut

"not just a testament to the miracles of modern medicine, but a new form of feminism as well” @gilliantett on Bushn… https://t.co/OKIdIncl80

How long before the US Fed joins the global bandwagon on central banks and greening finance? With her finger on the… https://t.co/Z7Are7zzY3

Not so much appropriate technology as rat rod, Indonesia’s Vespa culture is quite something.… https://t.co/tr25uUooim

@BuddyYakov @gabrielwinant @njtmulder @nils_gilman So then … Bretton Woods lasts from 1957/8 to 1961? I love ultra short chronologies!

Great to meet up with @RobinBrooksIIF in DC and to plot the next moves of the CANOO … https://t.co/lfq8XZ33rk

The auto ind is a globally interconnected industry with large footprint. Sector’s gross output (sum of its value ad… https://t.co/i2i1SYCIl8

Pre-Brexit stock-builiding imports appear to have been substantial enough to show up in global import figures … am… https://t.co/IFxrI2CvtY

Within machinery & equipment spending slumping, consumer durable spending is one of few forces holding up the world… https://t.co/Trhlci06Uf

In this graph of global imports the sudden deceleration of world economy over winter of 2018-9 is clearly visible.… https://t.co/WESlifkwqL

The gap between the construction of office space and demand is gaping wide. BAD news for huge real estate sector.… https://t.co/IHtxNt8P2E

Is this an April 2009 moment? @MESandbu suggests that on Brexit, trade, global taxation, fintech, this might be a m… https://t.co/7ISfjT5owq

Regional disparities in AE narrowed after WWII, then stabilized in 80s and surged in 90s and 2000s. The driver? Tec… https://t.co/ltihkdLLp0

The 2015-6 crisis caused Beijing to tighten capital flows which dried up liquidity for offshore RMB bond markets. T… https://t.co/fHYb5GNkfC

A decade ago, China launched a high-profile challenge to the dominance of the US dollar, but that challenge has fad… https://t.co/sCAOyjTKAc

Will 2018-2019 be remembered as the winter when the Trump bump wore off and @LHSummers secular stagnation finally s… https://t.co/EJZTpGHhB1

Why uncoupling from China is a big deal! And why Sino-American tension is not a Cold War 2.0 but something much mor… https://t.co/OnjTw5oo8E

To avoid monetary policy black hole policymakers need to "acknowledge that problem is not smoothing cyclical fluctu… https://t.co/QNPC6H8R1m

The modal view in US markets is now that US-China trade war is the “new normal” and is unlikely to be resolved anyt… https://t.co/goV5i57UV2

America’s small employers, an enthusiastic part of the Trump base, are increasingly frustrated with rising labour c… https://t.co/NbQuEXZGIZ

What markets would like to see? An end to the trade war, a German fiscal stimulus package, a 50bp cut by the Fed or… https://t.co/eAOJ3EGXcB

The cost of new warehouse constructon in US is rising at 5% per annum in an otherwise low inflation economy.… https://t.co/M4SEIprHoh

To calm turmoil in repo the Fed wants to buy $60bn per month in short dated Treasuries. But in a $2.3trn market who… https://t.co/SAv6N9VW8p

The coal question at the global level is above all a China/India question. But dont understimate Indonesia, Japan,… https://t.co/oh3456pBfJ

Tensions boiled over so much that Europe ministers banged their fists on the table in protest against the Finnish E… https://t.co/sSVQIJ4zx9

Carbon Border Adjustment – how to get serious on EU carbon pricing without suffering competitive disadvantage or pr… https://t.co/FbBbPPINbU

The Trump admin is one of the most spendthrift in history, allowing for the state of the business-cycle, and yet th… https://t.co/f62si28pLv