ADAM TOOZE

Interesting on Bank of America’s failure to thrive as a top tier competitor in investment banking. Boston-based CEO… https://t.co/vkSD9Xf6ZT

America isn’t the only economy with pipeline bottleneck issues. In Canada the gap between global prices and prices… https://t.co/67h5JfLKSP

2.63 is key: On the basis of IMF estimates of Italy’s likely growth, the yield at which sovereign debt is sustainab… https://t.co/cXeyu0VP9F

Announcing @americanpano new @mappingcongress map. Analyzes nearly two centuries of House of Representatives electi… https://t.co/FXIE1LsrdG

Pakistan is going to need an IMF bailout of at least $15bn to put its reserves back in positive territory (on net).… https://t.co/5PXTBa5ReR

@adam_tooze @SoberLook @Schuldensuehner @jsblokland Sounds reasonable, but more likely, as seems repeatedly the cas… https://t.co/f3Gl0HDU64

In 2014 contributions to China’s pension fund no longer covered payments leaving a growing gap filled by contributi… https://t.co/IwWz07Bnwn

italy’s bond ratings hover just above junk. If and when Italy goes critical a downgrade could be the trigger for an… https://t.co/OyskIfOLM4

By 2030 Germany will have missed its carbon targets by 616 m tons and its resistance to tighter emissions standards… https://t.co/pavZPyMzMv

So far, one bright spot in the Eurozone situation is that though there are the signs of a national doom-loop in Ita… https://t.co/RqYYRdGzxm

No competitive devaluation: China is simply refusing to match the Trump admin in post-truth currency war rhetoric.… https://t.co/zhPFAxqyap

The gap that opens up between these two employment indices (with manuf v. non-manuf only) is an indication of the m… https://t.co/V4wbqfvlzl

China’s vanishing current account surplus. In the broader setting of its balance of payments the bilateral trade su… https://t.co/WcfSO2UrEk

The cumulative effect of the Bush tax cuts of the early 2000s has been dramatic. Less so the stimulus of the 2009 w… https://t.co/4NDUNCgWbv

“If I buy a tanker of U.S. crude it takes 45 days to get it to China, I don’t want to find out midway that

Fact-checking the Trump admin’s self-serving budget forecasts. @jasonfurman on the attack. https://t.co/DrOXBm0xh2

Strong $ is putting pressure on yuan. "If anything, China has been preventing its currency from falling further.”… https://t.co/o9FMM18yDg

Though convention and institutional power dictates that the story of all German elections is how the CDU/CSU fares… https://t.co/igAQCIfuAl

@RCownie @djtgallagher Do you have that overall data?

Once big tech was capital light, then it went into the cloud! Building “hyper scale networks" involves huge investm… https://t.co/xTsG4EWgTP

The growth of the e-commerce workforce is driven by warehouse workers and storage workers: doubled from 500k to 1 m… https://t.co/3hbPR4Ez8J

The surge of unemployment during the 2008 recession in the US was driven by surge of unemployment of 4 months or mo… https://t.co/bWG4Myjs0j

What is dramatic is the SPD’s situation. Dipping into single digit territory in #Bavaria pushes the party from the… https://t.co/nSjgpLIgPF

Question: when did the German economy overtake the UK in gdp per capita? A: not until the 1960s! and that is West G… https://t.co/onggpqFoZp

Germany’s economic growth in the late 19th century was dramatic. But we should not overly stress the giant firms. J… https://t.co/IV2sHuwGiN

Siemensstadt Berlin 1910: "the world's most intricate and extensive industrial complex under a single management.”… https://t.co/KE2JgvbW1b

The First Oil Tanker, the Zoroaster: Built in 1878 for the Nobel brothers for export of Caucasus oil. Steel-hulled… https://t.co/BrO9A7tEWR

"In 1871 Germany's population of 41.06 million was substantially larger than that of Britain (including Ireland), w… https://t.co/M1iQTecDiI

Looking for the origins of the battery industry that makes headlines today? One place would be the Hagener Akkumula… https://t.co/oxRe2GvBuY

"The critical entrepreneurial act was not the invention-or even the commercialization-of a new or greatly improved… https://t.co/7oNv6Q6lil

Will EU build a battery giga factory? Public subsidies are available and 13 m automotive jobs in Europe may depend… https://t.co/3NUSol3Rj0

If you are trying to understand productivity gap between the Uk and Germany, other than in the 1970s, manufacturing… https://t.co/0zdQnxE5KB

First volume of the new critical edition of Hannah Arendt appears showcasing her unfinished book on Karl Marx.… https://t.co/l1j3QDOcrc

Faced with trade war and heavy tariffs on its US manuf hub, BMW doubles down on China, taking 75% stake in its join… https://t.co/Nw9KuLpFjS

Would also recommend the new Sikdelsky which is dense and idiosyncratic but marks a fascinating move to a theory of… https://t.co/NFRC77HTR2