ADAM TOOZE

$50bn due by end of 2018: With the lira collapsing Turkey’s forex debt repayment schedule looks daunting.… https://t.co/nTBLjSU4dT

World Bank calcs that fecal contamination costs India 6.4% of GDP -> “clean India” toilet-building campaign. Yes, I… https://t.co/45QxGTOaO8

"Moving global finance away from its reliance on Libor is a Herculean task that could be “bigger than Brexit”” “ten… https://t.co/Sg11etzqTj

Surge in Indian toilet-care sales follows Modi’s clean India campaign. One of the things I really enjoy about Bloom… https://t.co/KjVjyEmbkd

Decline of the peasantry: Over the last 25 years the shrinkage of agriculture across Asia has been dramatic.… https://t.co/VtsiXwSmDe

"Romania has experienced the biggest increase in emigration among EU members since 1990” Elegiac but unsentimental… https://t.co/KvsLpvcnSm

"Germany now finds itself in the worst security dilemma since it rejoined the west in the 1950s by becoming a membe… https://t.co/ajKjVbaRAD

Enjoying the climate change sunshine? "for all its cheeriness, it is a counsel of nihilistic despair. If you think… https://t.co/SApoHShtWT

Like majeur…"The Like Machine" Nicolas Monterrat crée des animations surréalistes et hypnotiques en puisant dans… https://t.co/pa9UJJaDGz

India is highly unusual in providing a negative price subsidy to its farmers by paying below market prices for farm… https://t.co/IpqOVpNcgl

Feeding kids or battleships? 1928 KPD protest against support by SPD ministers for German rearmament. Some serious… https://t.co/r36rfGze6E

Cars and car parts dominate US trade with everyone of its major trading partners with the exception of China. Data… https://t.co/gjIw3RV70m

Defending the regulators: "Hundreds of police locked down Beijing’s financial district on Monday to prevent protest… https://t.co/wWUs6Q3j9p

@EmmanuelleChaze @Intetyst woah chill folks … just a bit of nostalgia inspired by the Wenders still.

Nicht mehr lange hin: #Crashed – die deutsche Übersetzung des neuen Buches von @adam_tooze – erscheint bei uns am 1… https://t.co/rIgyQACyn8

On top of the surging Federal deficit the issuance of corporate bonds will generate a doubling of fixed income supp… https://t.co/DqLkAJtolZ

Worrying about Turkey? This is a fantastic report by @colbyLsmith at @FTAlphaville with great sources:… https://t.co/sGLgMSgTWh

US corporate tax revenue has plunged by more than 25 % since the tax cut. The rate of fall is comparable to 2008. D… https://t.co/CckoTEC87Y

@axelpopaxel so it is the Abiturienten now? … we used to look down on the law students 😉

The Stabi of the 80s was some kind of paradise. https://t.co/otN8dQxiDj

With a plunging exchange rate Turkey has $217bn in unhedged Forex debt exposure according to @IIF Read this report… https://t.co/vYav0j0Vts

Derrida at bat … yup! Jacques Derrida! https://t.co/U42cjU9HP7

@Brad_Setser @pearkes @ColeVFrank I figured that these data were exports+imports.

The surge since 2009 of $-denominated EM bond issuance by non-banks is remarkable. It is dominated by China, Brazil… https://t.co/vBMkLQhXcU

US is currently budgeting $1.7trn to modernize its nuclear forces = Obama era plan assuming START. "If that treaty… https://t.co/SSPG87SRhg

European banks replaced Japanese banks in the early 2000s as source of foreign lending build up in Asia. Fascinatin… https://t.co/8B9uoYQGkz

Whenever I tweet about India’s rapid growth rate it elicits fierce criticism. This report on state of Indian agric… https://t.co/rpbsM68xHo

@William_Bain thank you!

Btw Asian crisis of 1990s and 2008 South Korean banks and corporates ran up huge short-term dollar liabilities.… https://t.co/6k3iMWeist

Commentary from US side can make Sino-American trade appear as though it were the axis around which world economy r… https://t.co/Jiudv4mDjk

Both in the 1990s and in 2008 the build up of short-term foreign claims in emerging Asia was a prelude to crisis:… https://t.co/vcVe498x9Q

Scale of violence across Sahel belt is down from highs of 2015, but still very significant and seriously underrepor… https://t.co/U31vbLrOFs

Welfare patriotism in the UK: the belief that creation of “welfare state” was one of Britain’s proudest achievement… https://t.co/vHf7uwmJX7

The 1861 Census enumerator counting heads in a Gray’s Inn Road tenement lodging (from The Illustrated Times) https://t.co/pGdZwtoJVA