ADAM TOOZE

More than a third of China’s population, almost 600 m people, are now invested in one single money market mutual fu… https://t.co/8MK4kz2Lln

Recession fears are driving global bond markets in a different direction to equities. Germany’s benchmark10 yr Bund… https://t.co/AnhFiyWsf2

Despite talk of a crisis at the World Bank, its staff has increased since 2008 and is vastly larger than that of th… https://t.co/HOWw9kNMsF

Comparison of official development aid and private credit flows to developing countries since the 1980s shows the c… https://t.co/DDvVVXms9A

The Latino workforce in the US shows clear signs of becoming a stable stock rather than a flow variable. Only 8% ha… https://t.co/cBNqjFA7eD

Since the 1990s there has been a race to the bottom in corporate income tax rates. This narrows revenue base and pu… https://t.co/cPU8k7IzMk

As in Turkey the Argentine sudden stop and drastic depreciation of the peso has corrected the current account defic… https://t.co/gjhxCIEHqo

The fall in global government bond yields since October 2018 has been dramatic. This is a multi-trillion-dollar gia… https://t.co/5Kwtaq69n4

Though China’s demand for energy is growing at a formidable pace, the surge in US gas consumption was the biggest s… https://t.co/bdt12MUXup

There’s the domestic stimulus news out of China but then there a continuing flow of bad news on the export side.… https://t.co/HzpDUaXErh

The end of the American Century? Following on from the LRB essay I have tried to pull together and organize a bunch… https://t.co/g3TvBGZkx3

French, Italian and German economies have all suffered shocks in last 12 months from Gilet Jaunes, car industry tro… https://t.co/0ZH5loSHHs

French and Italian exports to China have moved in lock step in recent years. Not so since 2018 … interesting backgr… https://t.co/iqYOeM2La6

"No religion" is for the first time ever the most common religious orientation in America. I remember when America'… https://t.co/CeqGksmkKK

@adam_tooze @SoberLook C. @lenkiefer Every housing cycle post 1981 has had 2% + lower rates to help with demand, f… https://t.co/8YuJ2agWCa

@adam_tooze @SoberLook @lenkiefer Purchase only index from the FHFA adjusting to inflation is almost at all time hi… https://t.co/PGfSwFLCaH

US home price inflation has significantly outpaced wages in the recovery from 2009 begging questions about sustaina… https://t.co/2Ia1xJk8l0

For their final exam, I asked students in my U.S. Foreign Relations class to propose an alternative to this image o… https://t.co/0KZeCXLZb6

Convoy leaving Gibraltar 1944: Fascinating online gallery of WWII art by Roland Vivian Pitchforth… https://t.co/cTsWs25pne

Cost of mobile data in the US is amongst the highest in the world. South Korea is even higher which does not stop i… https://t.co/ypoXL2hVMW

Split-screen and multitasking before the smart phone: this so-called dos-à-dos [back to back] binding allowed the 1… https://t.co/uSLbSQiuq7

Rather remarkable collage depicting the Trump Presidency apropos of my LRB piece about about American power in our… https://t.co/JnaA4xiOrj

Does Trump spell the end of American world order? If you strip down what “American order” has actually amounted to… https://t.co/yQyvfMSnLB

Iowa’s $36.7bn pork industry consumes 31% of hogs killed in the US each year. Its population of 23m hogs massively… https://t.co/M2JOZfBaJ9

Absolutely fascinating tour d’horizon on “populism” in Africa by @_SeanJacobs at Vanderbilt conference on the Globa… https://t.co/o9zb7CP4I1

For more than 30 years, plastic phones shaped like the cartoon cat Garfield have been washing up on French beaches.… https://t.co/O5DOlhjJ0L

Since he has already shown such a deft hand at seemingly insoluble diplomatic issues the EU should appoint Alexis T… https://t.co/FSwUCqOrX2

Extraordinary posters for Day of the Jackal (1973) – Fredrick Forsyth’s brilliant thriller about an OAS assassinati… https://t.co/IISDgH7A12

Abattoir economics: fascinating @FT long read on US pork economy, Iowa and migrant labour by @meyer_g6… https://t.co/llxRTIM7gA

The Global Right Turn … interesting day of discussion at @VanderbiltU Dept of History hosted by Paul Kramer.… https://t.co/WnQ2VEwO25

The sharp slowdown in growth in emerging (eastern) europe is a development that is not getting enough attention.… https://t.co/glozUZyVsP