ADAM TOOZE

America’s recovery from the 2008 recession was bifurcated: households deleveraged, corporate America did not!… https://t.co/Aj2xGdCxqg

Are Germany’s current account surplus/foreign claims accumulation excessive? @bundesbank uses IMF’s External Balanc… https://t.co/A00FGLGjsI

Argentina’s trade account is beginning to look a bit like Turkey’s: huge surge in surplus driven (Im guessing) by f… https://t.co/LRDQO0Kskr

In 2010-11 huge surge in exports to China, fueled by Beijing’s stimulus, delivered significant boost to eurozone ec… https://t.co/tsg44qxANx

Is Germany a bad foreign investor? @bundesbank claims the rate of return of 3.7% 2008-2017 ex post is better than r… https://t.co/WZG4lcCe6P

Okay, this is epic. A Soviet BMP-1 and freshly-painted T-55 for sale in #Idlib today. The owner asks for $60,000… https://t.co/1lnldH7QPf

Armaments programs have a life cycle: R&D, investment, ramp up, delivery .. China’s recent wave of military investm… https://t.co/DiA69R6XOw

As @bundesbank data surge huge surge in net foreign asset position since 2007 is unique to Germany. Neither Japan n… https://t.co/MVxMpgC0P3

More Bulgarian weapons for the Middle East https://t.co/Ra8XWG64ER

Apparently, Lee Miller and Man Ray re-discovered “solarization” (brief exposure to light in the process of film dev… https://t.co/i4kq0Oqyhn

Concrete structure with stairs. By Edward James, 1960’s. Xilitla gardens, San Luis Potosí, México. photo by Roberto… https://t.co/m3Ne4WBUdk

With 300 m sufferers (more women than men) depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and is a major… https://t.co/Ee1BaGpMED

Tariffs and the Minimum Wage Are More Alike Than You Think @M_C_Klein invokes Stolper, Samuelson and List to argue… https://t.co/DY6vUAi3te

Something is broken in the American labour market. Truck freight rates fluctuate cyclically but trucker's hourly ea… https://t.co/WzmOc4fBn3

“There was this mythology, as if Merkel could save us from ourselves. She would save the European project. She woul… https://t.co/QNDPYGjHm3

Capitalism with American characteristics: mortgage finance in the US continues to be dominated by Fed-gov backed GS… https://t.co/64xpS78MXq

China’s current account is far closer to balance than it has been in decades with goods surplus covering “tourism”… https://t.co/i1tkxmfwhN

The international issuance of bonds denominated in RMB has plunged since 2015. Great write up by @colbyLsmith on fa… https://t.co/eiUB122joi

"What are China’s two biggest imports? Integrated circuits/semiconductors ($300 billion in 2017) and crude oil and… https://t.co/pVDoyT2x8D

"Defensible spaces need to become the norm for the millions of residents who live in the 40% of California classifi… https://t.co/ul1iwQRilz

"Since 2014, US non-oil goods deficit has basically doubled in dollar terms—initially because of a fall in exports… https://t.co/qrj0yDfLqN

The exponential rate of human economic growth that occurred over the last century aka “the hockey stick” from a wor… https://t.co/ypXNz3K2r7

"The starting point … is recognizing that the Fed more likely than not made an error by boosting rates this month.”… https://t.co/HAD8wI8G9W

Decline in manuf jobs in US is associated with 12% increase in the racial wage gap for men, a 4.5% increase in the… https://t.co/YZXOtYCDaV

"dollar stores are now feeding more Americans than Whole Foods is” & "the presence of dollar stores appears to corr… https://t.co/hgbdP2Zhhy

How bad are trade wars? GE long run trade models yield very modest predictions even for huge tariff hikes.… https://t.co/v7bV8fiLTb

Can the UK’s office of national statistics replace the census that goes back to 1801 by cross-linking other individ… https://t.co/iV0yQTy5z8

As QE tapers and markets wobble, with China and US leading the way, 2019 is likely to be a year of fiscal stimulus.… https://t.co/DkNVrLAtpF

"Since the middle of the 20th century, nationalism has gone global. In China, for example, we see the creation, for… https://t.co/pL6gKsPPe9

Under pressure of debts accumulated in 1970s and 1980s Italy has run since the mid 1990s perhaps the most austere f… https://t.co/g11zttjW1h

2017-8 has seen a pushback against Chinese M&A deals. The US leads the way but it is a global trend.… https://t.co/aJd22CKcSv