ADAM TOOZE

Visa and Mastercard btw them currently handle 5500 transactions per second globally. No other means of payment are… https://t.co/hI7W0i0Xe9

Annual remittance flow in global economy is in excess of $540bn meaning that there is a real need for a low cost &… https://t.co/MpdqGRZ4Ez

How “macroprudential” policy became a “thing”: Originating in the 1970s the use of the term exploded after 2008.… https://t.co/zc89rGUgjf

Since the GFC the CDS market was first compressed, then standardized and throughout it has continued to shrink. In… https://t.co/F5UkLocq96

Back to boring banking? The shift in the G-SIBs business model since has affected both sides of the balance sheet s… https://t.co/garVOEK1LA

Double Whammy: In 2017 Germany exported c. 4.4 m cars. Of those 770k went to the UK and 490k to the US in 2017. Wit…

Supply chains in trade wars: GE imports parts from China to make MRI machines in the US. Cummins makes turbos for i… https://t.co/q21LpM9swQ

Closing the gap: btw 2011&2015 major global banks closed a 875bn euro capital shortfall, through capital raising, r… https://t.co/ZIgpnVCop9

Blindly 👏 imitating 👏 populists 👏 only 👏 strengthens 👏 populists 👏 https://t.co/5TiLw6x3DU

Btw 2007-2011 US and European banks ran up $2trn in losses: 1/3 European, 2/3 American and yet it is the American b… https://t.co/Tq5kRVc6xX

“a vicious circle of declining revenues, sticky expenses, lowered rating, and rising funding costs.” – why Deutsche… https://t.co/4hNQp9Lxmg

The leverage in the European banking sector pre 2008 crisis still needs to be seen to be believed.… https://t.co/UQ2DtxTAlN

The EM market sell off may have room to run. Portfolio allocations by global debt funds have not been significantly… https://t.co/wOuVhn8ClU

@TomHale_ the effect is there. one could easily quantify it through the share of imports in consumption. it turns o… https://t.co/4XjoKWWEn5

"The trade conflict between the U.S. and China is therefore a consequence of China’s internal class conflict.” Grea… https://t.co/K6RZByp69x

66% of CSU voters in Bavaria DO NOT think refugees are the key issue v. 73% of AFD voters who DO —> Soeder and Seeh…

US commercial property identified by @BIS_org as a possible point of vulnerability in current cycle.… https://t.co/VVkNcUDDR0

Read my lips: #Söder fährt mit seinem Anti-Merkel-Wahlkampf gegen die Wand, macht dann ohne mit der Wimper zu zucke… https://t.co/c6V08mBr2D

Bin gerade über ein Zitat von Albert Camus von 1957 (!) gestolpert: “Chaque génération, sans doute, se croit vouée… https://t.co/j4NqbNDATY

@adam_tooze Says it all!

If "China’s economic policies are a product of Communist Party’s intolerance of alternative centers of power” & it… https://t.co/4ZSbBMWNQe

@AdamPosen Absolutely. I just thought it was worth highlighting a very striking graph buried in the appendices of a… https://t.co/BWS5QGvW8O

Whilst the political class is in turmoil, on Tuesday Germany begins debate about crucial plan for phasing out coal… https://t.co/eobZ79RUzV

If class strategy and inequality drive the Chinese side of the Sino-American imbalance, what about the American sid… https://t.co/23hNLrMgiS

Notes on the Global Condition: Class, Inequality and the Sino-American Balance of Payments – Prompted by Matt Klein… https://t.co/NfencLCLZR

Convergence, as measured by comovement of key macroeconomic variables, seems to be powerful reality in eurozone cou… https://t.co/K7lH2Qu18z

So it turns out that Robert Habeck chair of the German Greens is fascinated by the 1918 revolution, wrote a play ab… https://t.co/FSPkRMgwDY

The comovement in credit, house prices, & equity prices in global economy has reached historical highs in the past… https://t.co/MXyYRldNPF

The widening of the Libor-OIS spread that occurred in early 2018 was likely driven by increased issuance of Treasur… https://t.co/7A0jPR3mTU

ZTE is leaving a broken American Standard urinal unfixed to avoid breaching US export ban – Silliest trade war head… https://t.co/5vM8njVLcM

According to Anadolu Turks in Germany voted 65% for Erdogan a far higher percentage than in Turkey.… https://t.co/5PbzuzYiDY

“Whoever arrives in Italy, arrives in Europe. We must reaffirm responsibility and solidarity. Schengen is at stake”… https://t.co/wa08Nd7dVX