ADAM TOOZE

The improvement in material standard of living of global population over long-run IS simply jaw-dropping. @greg_ip… https://t.co/zl8mLfyOCA

@ShephardNews Remarkable image had me wondering which war, when … ?

"It is the irony of our moment that prudence requires the rejection of austerity.” puzzled by @LHSummers op-ed. Of… https://t.co/2uaWp3wcTB

“Does your book collection spark joy, Walter?” “Marie, liberating objects from their status of commodity by collec… https://t.co/bxmykv7Fxp

Institutional investors are planning major shift out of equities in 2019. Likely to further increase pressure on ma… https://t.co/YQScYYei4n

"The storms that surrounded Jim Yong Kim’s successful bids for the top job at the World Bank in 2012 and 2016 may p… https://t.co/z48X4FmZ0s

As Rome bails out Banca Carige in Genoan hometown of Beppe Grillo and Northern League territory will this break app… https://t.co/urH0zEbhoe

Some of China’s poorest regions have seriously depleted land suitable only for potatoes -> an agrarian solution for… https://t.co/DjHOGwICbB

@rcwhalen @POTUS @USTreasury Of course you are right. But the historian of statistics/econ data in me is fascinated… https://t.co/nWfbzPFUKl

Our world: While China is censoring statistics that highlight slowdown, US official data are not being produced bec… https://t.co/05TZnP53rL

Is it better for China to deal directly with trade hawks like Lighthizer abandoning the strategic economic dialogue… https://t.co/orPUk7OAVh

"Real estate website Zillow estimates that unpaid federal workers owe $438 million in mortgage and rent payments al… https://t.co/l4tKpWfiK8

"Italy must sell €226bn of medium- and long-dated debt this year to a market that remains fragile” Kate Allen of… https://t.co/AWDj0nFuJx

Our world: Trump State Department downgraded the EU delegation's diplomatic status in Washington from member state… https://t.co/wpvHgPzumD

Scotland had significant role in 1859 2nd Italian War of Independence. Volunteers fought, Glasgow workers made muni… https://t.co/N8n2pWq5ju

@FartFromAmerika @AlunEphraim you can translate the legend for us here … is it interest payments, public spending… https://t.co/jLofKNSBc3

Btw 2000-7 a 1% increase in Chinese import penetration in a given US industry led to 3% fall in industry CPI. = ben… https://t.co/o1WC5C2eo2

Productivity growth in advanced economies continues to fall short of forecasts by IMF which assume return to pre-20… https://t.co/8eQa2ZcFIB

A huge surge in power generation is key to the breakthrough in growth in Ethiopia in the last decade. Stephie Fried… https://t.co/hIxbx0MTho

The physical footprint of US Fed gov across the nation is revealed by impact of shutdown and GSA leasing data. Kans… https://t.co/jFN419hvZk

How Estimates of the Gig Economy Went Wrong @Alan_Krueger & @lkatz42 revise their estimates sharply downwards! Brin… https://t.co/8oivKLJjQN

“The next recession is somewhere over the horizon, and we are less prepared to deal with that than we should be . .… https://t.co/jGRcPu6rIM

General Services Administration (GSA) is the largest public real estate organization in the U.S., providing work sp… https://t.co/zdpD2Ij0A7

In a fiscal stimulus push China will add 6,800km of rail lines this year, 40% more than last yea. Plans include 3,2… https://t.co/4hcqS8YBGW

India is currently the world’s 6th largest economy = based on world bank GDP data presumably in current dollars.… https://t.co/CiTq9Z3zXu

Given that Trump scorns internationalism & polite corporate culture of Davos, given that inner circle are recruited… https://t.co/KssvIQapNA

"It used to be said that what was good for GM was good for America. Trump’s administration believes that what is ba… https://t.co/t96yVNuyRa

Services, largest part of French economy, are seeing worst business conditions since Nov 2014 when Draghi launched… https://t.co/puqe90pbpW

German military has suffered a collapse in public confidence – as a result of disclosures about right-wing subversi… https://t.co/jJMf1nEhlC

Class-8 trucks are the backbone of US road logistics. In the last quarter of 2018 orders for these vehicles collaps… https://t.co/hhFvhdBDmg

All that suffering for nothing https://t.co/pnSLAHCWe5

Wage growth in the US is now on a sustained multi-year upgrade, but still at strikingly low levels given where we a… https://t.co/EXedV1mrrw