ADAM TOOZE

In 1968, 13% of children – 9 m – were living in this type of arrangement, and by 2017, that share had increased to… https://t.co/Hc50FSTJlU

"The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell to the lowest level since 1969 …"… https://t.co/2mGierazhr

By 2030 the social structure of China and Russia are projected by @sanjaygreddy to be remarkably similar: 30-35% lo… https://t.co/rUwBOIqgxt

By 2030 it is quite possible that the global GDP share of the BRICS will be larger than that of the US and Europe c…

CAM (the Cambridge-Alphametrics Model), projects a medium-term future in which the BRICS are far more important in… https://t.co/gLTUiSNJAx

"The heterogeneity of wealth inequality cannot be reflected by a one-dimensional focus on net wealth. We should loo… https://t.co/5jFMQo7ddd

"Turkish businesses sat on a record $336 billion in foreign debt as of the end of January. When netted against thei… https://t.co/mRipVSspJ8

“Turkey is ticking all the boxes: large FX debt on corporates, current-account deficit, reserves shrinking, … We th… https://t.co/YIRqOBrq64

"The distortion of Ireland’s national accounts data by multinational activity is a prime example of what the BIS ca… https://t.co/VG8pKbJP48

"Since the national accounting framework was developed in the 1930s and 1940s, the activities of global firms and t… https://t.co/HFWlgGVDzO

The party of workers and peasants? In 2016, amid a sharp rise in entrepreneurs’ membership, businessmen and women m… https://t.co/5TseO0io0p

Remarkably, a decade after the mortgage crisis, delinquency rates for mortgages in the US are still higher than for… https://t.co/ZlL5MFrARk

Remittances i.e. income flows associated with labour migration bulk large in the total flow funds to the developing… https://t.co/luGoTO0St4

South-South migration is larger than South-North migration, total migration in North is larger only because of larg… https://t.co/O4YVRuIM5U

As a share of global population the refugee population peaked in the early 1990s. I find this surprising. But I gue… https://t.co/1tRW1DsaWE

According to @WorldBank more than 247 million people, or 3.4 percent of the world population, live outside their co… https://t.co/3nSQDIEhta

Proportion of People 25 Years and Over Who Have Completed a Bachelor's Degree varies across the US from 39 % in Mas… https://t.co/sv1NH1g7z3

Beautiful FRED data showing rise, rise and then stabilization of foreign holdings of US public debt.… https://t.co/uUsdM0MDVu

Amongst large items of food import, Chinese reliance on foreign sources is most extreme and most concentrated for p… https://t.co/5IaxzifSnx

In the Plains States the penalties to low education are far less than elsewhere in the US at least for white worker… https://t.co/AGnN46UR3v

There is no general crisis of rural America, there is stark disparity between those regions which are booming and t… https://t.co/8slUZL7Wry

When did the China shock end? asks @Brad_Setser "for consumer goods it was mostly over by 2006; the China shock for… https://t.co/uVnFb5we30

Sharpening his weapons @Brad_Setser is now tracking Asia’s balance of payments, central bank interventions and rese… https://t.co/QVIHS5r72v

Asia’s huge current account surplus never went away. They have now been joined by Europe. @Brad_Setser points to co… https://t.co/snFhQpm0U8

Come to the launch of Economic Science Fictions, which will see a discussion w/ @unamccormack & @owenhatherley on ’… https://t.co/DKLcYO2mXf

"Ohne Mich” – Without Me: The huge surge in conscientious objection to the Bundeswehr draft is a remarkable phenome… https://t.co/o0XSgMtq4B

@mjturner1975 yup. @Brad_Setser pointed this out.

"Today," Yeltsin added, "is the last day of the past.” – Sep 1994 Red Army withdraws from Germany… https://t.co/UBuuG7N5wi

In light of recent history, this report about controversies surrounding German funding for Iraq war I in 1991 is a… https://t.co/KDwtDLZAIL

Domaine Georges Lignier & Fils Clos des Ormes, Morey-Saint-Denis Premier Cru if you ever get the chance to drink th… https://t.co/LuSpoS3Oju