ADAM TOOZE

Private debt is as “excessive” now as it was in 2007 but those debts are concentrated not in US and Eurozone but in… https://t.co/Wz3x2dYp6F

The LNG investment cycle may be due for an upswing. If not, it looks like there will be supply shortages from early… https://t.co/uXNHRlXSDM

With stocks soaring 124% yoy Illinois is awash with unsold soy blocked by the trade with the China. 45% increase fo… https://t.co/ffHWLW5waQ

Indonesia’s currency now at levels not seen since the 1990s. This is going to put pressure on forex debtors.… https://t.co/Z3cHwVtkRv

The price of Brent crude, the international oil price gauge, has risen by 22% this year. But for EM that is compoun… https://t.co/KA9ln085LC

"Battle of Harbin riverside "against Soviet by Tsuguharu Foujita 1930s – from rather great site of Japanese war art… https://t.co/ab8ECWoVfh

Real estate boom in Australia is associated with lurch of household balance sheet into negative net savings, as wea… https://t.co/MdA9L9VWw6

Data show a surge in severe material deprivation in Italy since the Eurozone crisis. Oddly there is a far smaller i… https://t.co/dJoSIM3faN

Core CPI growth in the eurozone is currently hovering around 0.8% = half what it was in 2012! Is this really a time… https://t.co/hrCv8HqTWF

America’s surviving manufacturing firms face a huge increase in monopsony power on the buyer side. @SoberLook… https://t.co/Deo8NyJoB4

c. 20% global trade in raw materials is handled by Swiss trading firms: oil and grain 35%, sugar 50%, coffee and me… https://t.co/TueSKbHN8I

Children near a shrine to the dead, Londonderry in the 1970s by Akihiko Okamura. He took a remarkable and unsettlin… https://t.co/gExUTiX0Rj

@OliverBullough thank you @OliverBullough !

In these mean, dumb times, the growth of a form characterized by discussion & depth is worth celebrating. Happy #InternationalPodcastDay

This is a terrific article by @Neil_Irwin about a topic that often gets overlooked: just how much a weakening glob… https://t.co/CP2saPG5ov

This is a terrific article by @Neil_Irwin about a topic that often gets overlooked: just how much a weakening glob… https://t.co/OFCI09p9tI

In January I suggested (see below) that Germany's Greens could overtake the SPD. I got quite some stick for the pre… https://t.co/dsGmVstoSt

For some reason the media prefer "the SPD is so weak" and "the AfD is so strong" frames over "support for the polit… https://t.co/YTR31Ztaiu

@graceblakeley @RENEWALjournal You are right, I’m not. But perhaps I should be more explicit about my anti-foundati… https://t.co/felFo2pN3Z

@graceblakeley I think I agree. Or it may simply be that I am not as good as I would like to be at handling the

@graceblakeley Thank you, that is very of you to say.

levels of absolute poverty across poorest African states are staggering and likely to remain so over coming decades… https://t.co/5lgdyQRdlh

The work by @nssylla on the exploitative and disastrous CFA-franc system in francophone Africa is staggering!… https://t.co/upq2ccGpGt

In 1970 there was a belt of high fertility running around the equator. By 2014 only Africa and Afghanistan remained… https://t.co/HapxFH4diT

Interest rates in the late 1970s and early 1980s were spectacularly unusual by comparison with long-run rates.… https://t.co/io7GE2oQSj

Giovanni Tria – Italy’s embattled Finance Minister – financial markets are “pricing him in”. They rely on his media… https://t.co/t9wwWMTY3Z

The Optimist: The @FT illustrated history of the pre-crisis decade. Brought back by @frederick65… https://t.co/K5YM1Akc7H

French non financial corporates appear to have staggering levels of debt. If I’m reading the color coding right. V.… https://t.co/mkkWDXni7s

Neither India nor Europe are exempt from impact of US trade sanctions against Iran. EU is looking for symbolic mea… https://t.co/VJ7gkN3RJk

Key to Turkey’s problems are banks. "They are why falling lira is dangerous & why stabilizing it could be dangerous… https://t.co/MhxhnElT9A

Remarkably unbuttoned response of the German UN delegation to Trump’s historic speech … https://t.co/BharIrQCBr