ADAM TOOZE

China’s regulators suffocated the $44bn deal btw Qualcomm and Dutch chipmaker NXP and in so doing changes the game… https://t.co/l4DjdqHxLb

"tough decisions have to be taken to protect the economic prosperity in Pakistan” – can Pakistan square Chinese dri… https://t.co/WDs0JYGz56

Leverage – United Airlines, American and Delta change their websites to comply with Chinese demands on naming Taiwa… https://t.co/uGbbMFDW1a

Interesting debate going on about Marcchione’s reign at Fiat Chrysler. He moved legal HQ to NL and tax HQ to London… https://t.co/BWXflmjY0Z

Fascinating IMF evaluation of “policy gaps” and current accounts imbalances with Germany and NL at one end and US/… https://t.co/ZomKpx9Oud

US corporations have huge incentive to adopt positions favoring individual rights and civil liberties, but to stay… https://t.co/fLhB2nFM86

Tied to the euro the IMF finds German prices and wages to be too low -> RER undervalued -> current account surplus… https://t.co/Q71BnwQl6j

As China pushes to shutdown low quality domestic iron ore mining, seaborne Brazilian and Australian supplies stand… https://t.co/U2ZZViriVd

On the subject of Germany’s competitiveness addiction look at its anomalous position in world economy as identified… https://t.co/aMnVbtWuFb

Taking back the benefit: How vehicle tariffs stack up against the 2017 tax cut. @melovely_max @cohensetton… https://t.co/QTgtbYzaqd

@hanskundnani owes an enormous amount to chats with @hanskundnani

“This decision confirms the markets’ worst fears about the Turkish central bank’s independence,” Demir (Nomura) “Un… https://t.co/j85OlTeahX

Vehicular Assault: How tariffs will impact three popular segments of US car market. Fascinating @PIIE paper by… https://t.co/qEemdBPBgj

Personally I drew the line at large plump larvae … put it down to squeamishness! https://t.co/7ltzwIacjW

Edible insects are a market that is set to expand. They are light on the environment and easy to farm. I’ll vouch f… https://t.co/7q0GgumWYO

Not satiated yet: "By being so big and still growing so fast, the world’s largest technology companies are in uncha… https://t.co/KdjmCwjag7

German foreign minister Maas wants to build an "alliance of the multilateralists"; he visits Japan and Korea on a s… https://t.co/yvk68viwni

Believing they have shadow banking under control and that the risks to growth are real, the PBoC makes announces th… https://t.co/bkILATjSCH

@z_boson yes. thats what struck me too. ahead of mexico.

Steel tariffs v. tax cuts? For heavy steel-users like the auto industry costs of Trump’s tariffs significantly outw… https://t.co/zMdXWRfgog

"Wages are not yet weighing on corporate profit margins” @jpmorgan charts labour share and profits margins back to… https://t.co/xd3Q3PRcEm

Gaps btw current and future optimism are highly correlated with the shape of the yield curve and highly predictive… https://t.co/jpWckWNNh0

With the BoJ nowhere near its goal of 2% inflation its reaction to Monday’s panic about yield rise indicates that i… https://t.co/00Wx2TkDxq

"The Bank of Japan announced its first unlimited fixed-rate bond purchase operation since February after yields jum… https://t.co/JTZhTuryN8

All it took on Monday was a rumor about an upward tweak in BoJ monetary policy to send waves of anxiety through glo… https://t.co/IOD0W5bGAa

Respectable mobility courtesy of Mexico and South Korea: The new auto purchases of “subprime” customers tells you a… https://t.co/ycvANba5cq

Tonight on @tmbsfm w/ @_michaelbrooks! @MehrsaBaradaran of @UGASchoolofLaw, Mandela at 100 & modern apartheid, Chin… https://t.co/616JopeiIW

Trump may want to Americanize the limos on Park Avenue, but a 25 % tariff on imported cars will hit working-class A… https://t.co/dP9sDw0EdZ

"Using crops grown near Chicago to set prices for those grown near the Black Sea … can expose traders to discrepa… https://t.co/6GtThSpeUS

America’s "politics of low taxes, low social spending & high inequality is sustainable in democracy only with propa… https://t.co/xkT9XrEdze

Dalian Commodity Exchange in Liaoning Province is now the world’s biggest grain market by contract numbers.… https://t.co/AF68pJKpJA

Even close to peak of cycle US labour force participation rate is closer to that of Italy than to France let alone… https://t.co/SdeHDbdnGc