ADAM TOOZE

Learning curve disappointment: It took s 49 m hours of labor to build the USS Ford $13bn aircraft carrier. The Navy… https://t.co/Gq9Ajam4HK

Focus on the dollar and the financial flows not the “trade war”: "While trade wars aren’t good for growth, rarely d… https://t.co/KdQ8M13lO7

The surge in the concentration in turnover in UK business before 2008 is striking! From an interesting essay by… https://t.co/R35uoktV00

Despite political leadership on green energy and investment of $580 bn by 2025, Germany is likely to fall short of… https://t.co/ED1aL0D8d8

Low-skill levels inherited from one generation to the next: The US and UK stand out both for high share of low skil… https://t.co/XlDSPcDtiz

It was 60 years ago, in the mid-1960s, that French and German GDP per hour worked overtook that of Britain.… https://t.co/bDiGH5k53i

Due to transport bottlenecks you can pick up a barrel of crude in Midland Texas for a $21 barrel discount over Hous… https://t.co/6srp5G84vI

GDP per hour worked in Germany is now ahead of that in France, which is level-pegging with the US. The UK lags far… https://t.co/aMPr17VqmN

Since the taper tantrum back in 2013 the dollar has appreciated 20-25% v DM and EM currencies unsettling but not st… https://t.co/6XZg8nvenv

Berat Albayrak who is Turkey’s finance minister? 3000 journalists around the world got on the conference call to fi… https://t.co/rZEyqeFtBL

Lira, peso, rupee, rand, ruble … but where amidst the “EM-crisis” is Egypt? After the 2016 devaluation you might ex… https://t.co/gMioU0bjYt

The story of how Germany doubled down on copper wire as its basic telecommunications backbone really needs to be to… https://t.co/5mv10pAknD

Just to put things into perspective: #Turkey Lira plunge on par w/ Mexico & Asian crises of the 1990s. (Chart via S… https://t.co/7RKpPWag9l

We had to replace the threshold in our apartment this week and discovered a Kreuzberg time capsule full of dusty ob… https://t.co/yQVc625Yhf

nationalist exuberance: “soft” and “hard” data do not always align in monitoring the state of US economy. But signi… https://t.co/CgtMaTBXyg

Disunited States: The cultural and political zones of the US mapped by type of settlement and colonization. Why mak… https://t.co/ut9yXbg7Vr

@MkBlyth Thanks Mark!

How the shape of the world economy will shift over the next decade. One way to make this look a bit different is to… https://t.co/6juRKaGNhT

For all its manufacturing prowess, Germany has a substantial trade deficit in services! https://t.co/N8uRs7l0ai

Hit by hurricanes and citrus greening Florida’s citrus production collapsed last year to lowest since WWII.… https://t.co/ILIwmByAUd

J-curve effect: devaluation is causing Turkey’s current account to deteriorate before it gets better as substitutio… https://t.co/GLGPi8DwmH

good points from Nordvig. https://t.co/DTfSGHZlzM

Turkey’s support for Qatar in the clash with Saudi pays off with $15bn loan. Map by @Stratfor… https://t.co/QwnnOCrLjO

Why you should all follow Karthik. https://t.co/Qh8hJ8z4Gt

China’s weakest banks are probably in the postindustrial North, but its most overburdened local governments are in… https://t.co/Xtw7b5WTE6

“Turkey’s gotten hit by a double whammy this year: It’s among the most dollarized economies among emerging markets,… https://t.co/WUopwf1h7M

Though, like everything else, central government spending in China has been growing, it is really at the local leve… https://t.co/2jxrYozZqU

In 2015-2016 the fall in Shanghai stock exchange triggered frantic response by Beijing, this time the market adjust… https://t.co/lnqPG3OtYh

Energy makes up 2/3 of turkey’s current account deficit! While global oil is up only 6 % on the year for the Turks… https://t.co/2lAVDmzosg

"All told, the signals hint that this year's Beidaihe is going on for longer than usual. If rumors are correct, Xi… https://t.co/6ogqBx2ew0

@anilvohra69 @SoberLook Poops sorry

Disunited States: The cultural and political zones of the US mapped by type of settlement and colonization. Why mak… https://t.co/CmiOtkfRtf

@davidfickling @RajaKorman One of those exchanges that makes you feel really good about twitter!