ADAM TOOZE

Fascinated to learn from Knopp that bad blood btw Keitel and Manstein went back to 1929 when the thrusting young st… https://t.co/KChh3sqheD

NATO’s Wales summit in 2014 at height of Ukraine crisis produced a sustained increase in defense spending only in E… https://t.co/scFo9WfONE

Great work from OECD econ team led by @LauBooneEco highlighting continued slack in EZ economies contrary to estimat… https://t.co/r1uAsbBxXl

Inputs to US agriculture since WWII: Labour and land decline monotonically. Capital intensity reaches peak in the l… https://t.co/u8H7GUAChe

"The Treasury’s Office for Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) currently administers 26 country-specific sanctions program… https://t.co/fHPP4mnBnE

How the IfZ in Munich helped TWICE to block translation of Hilberg’s Holocaust classic The Destruction of European… https://t.co/EL29pVQqJM

“one-third of the world’s population now live in a country under some kind of sanctions regime”, US/UN or otherwise… https://t.co/883ZM26PDz

@MaxCRoser @JoeHasell Nice chart, but how does the plot look if you expand data range to 1970-2015? The story is ab… https://t.co/qx3kGR8Tu8

@Brad_Setser @DuncanWeldon REALLY sorry I missed this. A

Evaluation of satellite imagery by @ASPI_org points to huge increase in China’s capacity for detention and “reeduca… https://t.co/6iMwU88ddl

Posen Town Hall: site in 1943 of Speer/Himmler rally with Nazi party leadership and Himmler’s speech on Final solut… https://t.co/wFPPBcZ6Qy

Doom Loop: The difference btw a state capable of mounting financial stability operations on massive scale (US) and… https://t.co/LKCB3ZwlXR

In "1st Gulf War Gen Colin Powell articulated the Powell doctrine, 1 element of which included attacking with decis… https://t.co/mXtsmzbvAR

Nigeria’s economic prospects: Interesting and rare roundup of views on Nigeria with presidential elections due in F… https://t.co/oxqZwxQ2u7

Next generation broadband coverage is spotty and surprising. Average in Germany, excellent in the South of Italy bu… https://t.co/4Zf67Z6sB7

Big difference btw this “cyclical peak” in the EZ and that in 2007 is in the much larger financial surplus in house… https://t.co/KAHTcqM4gF

@ClausVistesen My suggestion is NOT to containerize but to ensure that we have adequate medical, logistical and sea… https://t.co/sEYTnaxNg6

This is precisely right. Security for the EU ought to mean investing in really large maritime rescue/hospital/evacu… https://t.co/uaqsXXZUUM

Learning the lessons of 2008?@Isabel_Schnabel of @SVR_Wirtschaft in @faznet warning against @OlafScholz idea of pro… https://t.co/avoyRZVLdk

"(formerly) manufacturing-intensive regions will not be helped by deglobalising because much of their plight comes… https://t.co/QA45WvYsYF

From “black zero” to “red zero” – apparently there is another side to zero. FDP in opposition attacks @OlafScholz f… https://t.co/LjFRkfHnE2

"Next year, our cheese will make Vienna, Munich and Berlin tremble, I assure you.” Russia, cheese and sanctions. Yo… https://t.co/yIN70aQkdk

Fehr, Fuest, Fratzscher, Sinn … @faznet ranking of most “influential” German economists makes for interesting readi… https://t.co/pITIuDVmUj

"Billionaires made more money in 2017 than in any year in recorded history. The richest people on Earth increased t… https://t.co/JR0kjc6xl6

21stC Germany argues over the Stresemann legacy. AfD claims him as a national liberal. CDU/SPD are resisting. Andre… https://t.co/AKAAnU4iSU

Imagine if US macroeconomic policy-makers declared the country at “full potential” with youth unemployment above 30… https://t.co/UOU9DZVDWX

Size Count: Globalization’s Government Turns 10 – I did a piece for @ForeignPolicy on the G20 anniversary and why i… https://t.co/XxpWRfIXvq

America’s social, economic and political geography is polarizing. Big, techy metros like SF, Boston & NYC with popu… https://t.co/8NEHYx2d0B

Gustav Stresemann’s family are resisting AfD bid to claim his name for their party political foundation. It is grot… https://t.co/U0qIszePYQ

This is a bad year for forest fires in the US but not exceptionally so by recent standards. It is a crisis because… https://t.co/0RdzjdbwFw

One for Thanksgiving! Since 1948 US farm output has increased by 150 percent almost none of which was due to increa… https://t.co/yYi5H9PYQY

There has been much swooning in Berlin over Macron’s impressive WWI speech. But the more pressing fact is that Germ… https://t.co/zO867zs6xI

Zombie stocks were interest payments exceed operating profit but which refused to die are clustered in health care.… https://t.co/Mx8GIk5obK

The trade war hurts US agriculture before manufacturing! @Brad_Setser been digging through the trade data the way o… https://t.co/SOyfMsK5D9

Once you adjust calculations of output gap on Eurozone periphery to something reasonable the EZ’s macroeconomic bal… https://t.co/5npoQoey1K