ADAM TOOZE

In a strangely timed move Russia slashed its holding of US Treasuries from $96bn to $14bn. Selling into a market wi… https://t.co/28jQy0531F

The gap btw international and domestic ratings of Chinese banks are stretching credulity to breaking point. h/t… https://t.co/KkKMlkK7sk

It is like the struggle of the Ostrogoths at Vesuvius … surprisingly good documentary about Alfred Jodl, chief of o… https://t.co/QtfqLY7lmT

Alarming but fascinating piece on China’s entangled money market mutual funds and banks. Beijing is obviously tryin… https://t.co/VYWtPfLT0a

Fighting the pounds: btw the ages of 20 and 60% of American women and 40% of men are trying to lose weight! Its a a…

Official unemployment is at historically low levels and yet real wages are falling. Even allowing for hidden slack… https://t.co/dc98PIgKsh

The only rich country economy whose yield curve is not flattening and pointing towards a recession is Germany in th… https://t.co/v09p5T6gaI

Majority of US fund managers expect the next recession to start by end of 2019 or early 2020. @SoberLook… https://t.co/QUwKEbS3F8

Two great reports by @TheEconomist on Chinese urban development strategy and repression in Xinjiang made up my mind… https://t.co/FlB6yjMR3i

This is one of the most remarkable graphs in economic history to date: China’s iron ore imports climb linearly from… https://t.co/QLgCfia3Vz

"Trump thinks that Europe is “too big to be controllable by DC, so it’s bad for America.” Trumpery crude as ever. B… https://t.co/TW2LittKRc

@70sBachchan @DeutscheBank One of the things that makes Dalio different is that he has a vivid historical imagination!

A Man Called Ernest Mandel (1972) – interview with leading theorist of late capitalism of 4th International.… https://t.co/YMRPnKEtjF

GM sells more cars in China than in the US: that factoid from @DeutscheBank tipped me over the edge. A blog post of… https://t.co/zB2zn5dt0o

How Ernest Mandel, Belgian Marxist Economists of 4th International, theorist of late capitalism was banned from Nix… https://t.co/VkeRBdLtfB

“What the United States want, that’s to divide France and Germany.” – Le Maire commenting on tensions within the EU… https://t.co/jbrlBt29x3

This is what sovereignty looks like in the 21st century: https://t.co/hNdp2sO7wa

Fascinating read on EEC membership and Thatcherism: Brings to mind the Nick Crafts take on British productivity tre… https://t.co/AQpuXK2uU8

US swing states have large auto workforces: if trade war escalates they will constitute a natural experiment in int… https://t.co/UvjS9pM34W

Wow … this looks really interesting. @zeithistoriker and Dieter Plewhe on neoliberal Euroscepticism .. who could re… https://t.co/oCN2aywCYg

In untangling global value chains installment #7543 … many of those German cars on Park Avenue that irk POTUS so mu… https://t.co/ClQoBtOTm7

@wsj_douglasj @jonsindreu @georgikantchev In fact it might be interesting to speculate about what impact we do expe… https://t.co/YxJEHdu6Ug

Q: Where does GM sell most cars? A: USA? Nope! USA is the wrong answer! In 2017 China dominated GM’s sales. Hmmm …… https://t.co/QoJy2yjooQ

Automating aging Asians: No one does captions quite like the @TheEconomist … but seriously these are striking numbe… https://t.co/wMCp2saGFx

@wsj_douglasj @jonsindreu @georgikantchev Hi Jason nice piece. Your chart showing disparities btw countries is what… https://t.co/JpymrbcjEp

Across the OECD, productivity gains have become concentrated in the top cluster of firms. Nice write up by… https://t.co/hD0tPwWadZ

Targeting made in China 2025: are Trump’s tariffs intended to disrupt Beijing’s next gen industrial policy?… https://t.co/eO8Oe8Xjor

"The American century ends not as it began, with a modernist bang, but in embarrassing atavism”… https://t.co/TCgiKB2Ip4

Need a brief overview of #protectionism in US history and the implications for Trump's #AmericaFirst protectionist… https://t.co/XoLTZyMNzi

@tyillc @martinwolf_ oh no need to apologize .. you brought me up sharp. because, of course, you are right in a lar… https://t.co/z1WP9fNGxU

As domestic consumption becomes the main driver of the Chinese economy, distortions in the consumption data begin t… https://t.co/AGrkb8yxfK

@tyillc @martinwolf_ “era” in a more personal sense …