ADAM TOOZE

Arguably THE most dramatic graphs in all of economic history: surge in global steel production from 400m tons in 20… https://t.co/OXr8SwrSUc

@Noahpinion @martinwolf_ Hi @Noahpinion I think you are being a bit kind. Martin isn’t talking about living standar… https://t.co/gPNSAsU2UV

Steel industry is the largest industrial producer of CO2, responsible for 70-9% of all direct emissions from fossil… https://t.co/pTTmlnUg7j

Our world: "Stung by impact of GFC, the hilly city of Yunfu in Guangdong province decided in 2009 it was time for a… https://t.co/Sd8k4vinGz

Peak China. @martinwolf_ takes seriously a forecast by @CapEconMarkets that has China’s share of global GDP lower i… https://t.co/fG9c0VpDVT

China’s share of GDP will be lower in 2040 than in 2018 … yup you read that correctly. That at least is the forecas… https://t.co/AoLLiQyutz

"Do not extrapolate from the recent past" argues @martinwolf_ throwing cold water on idea of an inevitably Chinese… https://t.co/VMPleA9cAK

China’s PMI is back in territory it has not been in since 2016. In retrospect the shock to the Chinese economy in 2… https://t.co/UEFMpiDHkI

Long or short 20th century? Or should that be a half millennium back to 1492? Entertaining and thought-provoking ri… https://t.co/8A8wGmnZsg

@zeitonline This take down of Angela Merkel’s bland new year's speech by the brilliant polemicist Mely Kiyak is hilarious!

@AHWilkes @Noahpinion @martinwolf_ Or one could say that @Noahpinion is objecting to @martinwolf_ own exercise in e… https://t.co/BIx4tIL7RO

Could china be the big new customer that India’s peasants desperately need? Chinese commentators are skeptical.… https://t.co/64LMtswNAw

Fantastic rant by @Noahpinion this morning in response to some sloppy logic in @martinwolf_ opening piece of the ye… https://t.co/kHKnisAzUk

How cobalt has become so valuable that it is stolen out of warehouses in Rotterdam. Great atmospheric report by… https://t.co/tYDBa98HPo

@D_Blanchflower Point of Maginot was to set up a battlefield in North on which French thought they could win again.… https://t.co/Yh0g0I85I5

@D_Blanchflower Hi @D_Blanchflower please don’t tar Maginot by association with Trump’s ghastly folly. Point of Mag… https://t.co/BuEu4scdpD

Sherman's men destroy a Confederate railroad outside Atlanta, 1864. More images: https://t.co/O9mUbgpuUj https://t.co/fasWik6Oei

Entrepreneur zero: Zhang Huamei, a button and clothing-accessories trader from Wenzhou, was the first person in Chi… https://t.co/23ija6yGnS

"China’s liberals do not admire Mr Trump. It is more that they hope he will prove a bigger bully than Mr Xi. On thi… https://t.co/mmhW0bhIk3

Agatha Christie’s Poirot "is a topical figure, a Belgian refugee, at a time when Belgian refugees were both very mu… https://t.co/k9L7GNLvSy

"A shared cynicism about the world unites the governments of China and Russia—and survives the complicating factor… https://t.co/6FuhStUEgf

@stefan_brocza @A_M_Bro link? bitte …

Take off: By 2018 humanity had launched c. 8000 satellites. If we are to realize low earth orbit systems of communi… https://t.co/sBoHIi4Ovg

Ocean floor mining equipment of Nautilus Minerals stranded on PNG dock due to financial and political obstacles to… https://t.co/rJdGgJGROy

The Eurozone discussion on twitter is fantastic. Add to the list of @mcopelov the handles of @jzettelmeyer @SMerler… https://t.co/9f4ShvCv03

One of the best things about Twitter is how it has helped me connect w/ so many smart people writing about the Euro… https://t.co/nDulfCi8OY

Satellites in low earth orbit speed up communication, but they are not geostationary, so you need a lot of them. Ca… https://t.co/i8FfnNaI1W

Despite talk of divesting, the biggest 20 institutional investors globally account for a rising proportion of oil m… https://t.co/5dcmQ89Lud

For all the anxious talk about the rebalancing of the Chinese economy towards the state, the public/private shares… https://t.co/eN7CQQSooo

guo jin min tui: the state (sector) advances, the private retreats: at least 29 listed firms on the Shanghai and Sh… https://t.co/2XZZOiRru8

The curse of polio: As the “wild virus” is progressively eradicated, in 2017 cases caused by vaccine-derived viruse… https://t.co/3gWUM8bVol

After Fukushima the uranium market collapsed. Production continued under long-term contracts. In 2020 those will ha… https://t.co/V698xJPnXe

@Aidan_Regan With friends like these ….

Intelsat: in its 54 years the now- privatized once-intergovernmental company has launched 94 satellites of which 59… https://t.co/lJOENs5tWX

given a 5% rate of discount, one human life today is worth 132 a century hence – discount rates are not a great way… https://t.co/3YDHBeRCdE