ADAM TOOZE

Always liked these archive pics of bush hammering walls during construction at the Barbican. All done laboriously b… https://t.co/gpzsmvn3IS

3 years ago US lawmakers permitted crude oil exports, shipments are currently 2.4m b/d and a race is on to dramatic… https://t.co/zu41O8dBrI

Vale’s Brazilian disaster has sent stock of Australian iron ore miners soaring. Data from @oxfordeconomics via… https://t.co/71WzokQsX3

"If Siemens makes trains the way it does lobbying, I won’t sit in [one of its] trains again” Johannes Hahn, Austria… https://t.co/ahwLSOw8G3

The American healthcare system is both overprice and inefficient in failing to cover the entire population AND a re… https://t.co/BEDoK4suNG

Foreign ownership of U.S. gov debt has fallen from peak of c 55% during GFC in 2008 to 40% in November 2018 for the… https://t.co/PxqwXIlViD

More than half of U.S. farm households lost money farming in recent years, according to the USDA, which estimated t… https://t.co/4txNDgFqU2

One problem with picking a trade war with China is that they may be better at squeezing imports from the US than th… https://t.co/gzjOwTdyvV

‘This One Here Is Gonna Kick My Butt’—Farm Belt Bankruptcies Are Soaring especially in grain and dairy states… https://t.co/wrked1O32Q

America’s net international investment position is lopsided above all in portfolio debt and bank borrowing.… https://t.co/YWQj3P4eVT

Pickup Nation: American consumers now purchase twice as many “trucks” as they do regular “cars”. @wolfofwolfst via… https://t.co/FjMEeFupHS

I love “ai”: I set my pro-chess opponent at amateur then gang up with the machine’s own engine. We dominate every g… https://t.co/IfaTKQAkBK

There is a huge disparity in poverty rates across the regions of the vast Russian Federation.… https://t.co/Mxx2DqgPNZ

One for chiffrephiles: You have to love the fact that someone in the US collects data on the hours worked by used c… https://t.co/2YGWNOwACj

Make or Buy? A modern automobile consists of about 500 components, made of around 30,000 individual pieces – the la… https://t.co/ovovQOuiIP

Outright climate change denial is very much a minority view in the US. The % of hard core denialist is no more than… https://t.co/GQ8bN1mUcG

SEVEN small corporate tax havens now channel half of US offshore profits! Follow @Brad_Setser https://t.co/KxkwAKcuqQ

Every so often it's worth sitting back and taking the longish view… There are those who say globalization has b… https://t.co/xa5Fo1wml7

“German Finance ministry officials have revealed that the government will face a budget shortfall of around €24.7bn… https://t.co/chY0laqLSs

What one comes across researching Europe‘s nuclear deterrence. Not sure similar provisions exist for a No-Deal Brex… https://t.co/RDg2S6Q4Zp

@notonwallstreet Yup. I couldn’t help wondering whether this was a like for like comparison. Anyone out there have better numbers?

JP Morgan Chase employs 50,000 IT technologists, 2/3 of which are software engineers. That’s more engineers than ma… https://t.co/Y0y1X4m9Gc

The EU as regulatory superpower? With Vestager blocking Alstom-Siemens now France backs tough rules for Gazprom’s N… https://t.co/p4koeDfk2v

And, one last chart, this illustration of how lending to pre Revolution Russia worked out is, erm, stark. https://t.co/nzdE3jmH5j

I wrote in December that the Franco-German engine was stalling and heard from some quarters that this was too pessi… https://t.co/4qJxrZO08g

And as @henrikenderlein points out in this excellent thread, the Franco-German discord may be further exposed over… https://t.co/uJyXH2xBOW

Debt Derangement Syndrome – @delong excellent on the dysfunctional austerity turn in 2010. But striking that he do… https://t.co/f1sh0D2Qh1

As BoE holds: “Through past 10 years, no developed economy central bank has been able to hike interest rates sequen… https://t.co/PiiTV58km1

Quite the statement by @n_roettgen on France’s position on Nordstream2. To say that Germany does NOT speak with one… https://t.co/gImVEfMRYs

Absolutely fascinating animated graphics showing distribution of UK and US bombing mission across Nazi occupied Eur… https://t.co/bKkrAi7Az3

The first enslaved Africans arrived the United States of America in late August, 1619. So 2019 marks 400 years of… https://t.co/8SjXVKNF6B

BUNCH of broken links on the @FT website this morning Plus CAN THE @FT PLEASE make the twitter handles of its exce… https://t.co/O6GEual6Gg

How did agricultural prices in India shift from a regime of downward stickiness to upward stickiness, exerting huge… https://t.co/pf9w00Ozyg