ADAM TOOZE

The OFI’s – inv funds, mmf, hedge funds, broker-dearlers, SFV, REITs, trust companies – are the pivot of SFB’s anat… https://t.co/oLP2nJ0Nu8

Growth in UK since 2008 is virtually entirely down to increasing hours of labour input. Great piece by… https://t.co/g8McquwvJa

If you add up bank assets with those of pension funds, insurers etc it is striking how similar the degree of financ… https://t.co/rqGloRrNrB

One-child policy and rising inequality account for 75 % of the spectacular increase in China’s saving rate.… https://t.co/y8vuy1ucJ3

Macro-mapping of the global financial system. Courtesy of the FSB. Who manages the $333.9trn in global financial as… https://t.co/YiW1uzGWkC

Anatomy of global shadow banking: $45trn on narrow definition i.e. runnable collective inv vehicles plus broker dea… https://t.co/RRX6QRuFVJ

When will South Korea shed its label as an “EM” economy? GDP per capita is currently level pegging with Spain and s… https://t.co/PrOJqXoFIa

Fin markets play key role in US "social response to retirement” v. gov pensions based on state's balance sheet (Eur… https://t.co/zn4x9InBsD

China’s flat rate social contribution creates a regressive tax system at the bottom end of the income distribution.… https://t.co/HqMx6LfCxE

Institutionally managed wealth – insurance and pension funds – is entirely dominated by US, Europe and Japan at glo… https://t.co/yoDjlvwgQG

@nicestnisus @FTAlphaville @FlassbeckEcon @benmarrow yeah sorry I missed this!

No guilt but yes to "moral responsibility" – complex attitudes of Germans to Nazi past revealed by fascinating surv… https://t.co/ylHEthXWPq

@FTAlphaville Hi @FlassbeckEcon unfortunately there may be something wrong with the interpretation of the survey in… https://t.co/az5l107kyM

@LDBurnett I always assign "The Content of the Form" in my historiography/philosophy of history class for grad students. And always will.

@FTAlphaville Hi @paulmasonnews please check out this rebuttal from Uber’s chief economist which suggests that thes… https://t.co/Qry64CioKe

@jerryzmuller Well in fairness the CEEPR paper is trying to explain why Uber drives give up so frequently. But here… https://t.co/6QGbpJRDqv

@AndrewWattEU hi andrew turns out I had queued it up for today rather than actually putting it out yesterday! but it will go out later.

Shockingly low figures for Uber earnings may be based on skewed interpretation of earnings and hours returns. This… https://t.co/NkUzt1wdXb

@benmarrow @FTAlphaville had not seen this. thanks!

Devastating on the economics of Uber: "Results show that per hour worked, median profit from driving is $3.37/hour… https://t.co/5N89kccHdH

Building up of Forex debt by EM is dwarfed by their local currency borrowing! Facinating @FT long read by jonathan… https://t.co/RDMAHykWKQ

Counting the cost of austerity – @sjwrenlewis puts figures on the anti-austerity case and they are big! 10,000 quid… https://t.co/FuRTlHPsnU

@DanielaGabor goes back to 1990s fiscal reforms and before I think

As Duchamp once said: “While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.” https://t.co/5DBjbjdZfh

The dominance of local government in Chinese public spending is remarkable. NB: its local units are the size of Eur… https://t.co/zYxSoEeETI

At 46 % China’s savings rate is down from its peak of 52 % in 2008. But it is still in a league of its

@odtorson The idea of a zweite schuld or the sense of a nationale Schuld transmitted btw generations that Bernard G… https://t.co/OOl0Ci7CW4

@nicolas_veron @odtorson Ok I am going to suppress desire to make flippant comment about German resistance to eurob… https://t.co/2jaxXEZTNP

@odtorson On that I completely agree with you. Wish I had tweeted collective guilt not resp. But the exchange has b… https://t.co/q7zuVjMunU

@odtorson it would have been fantastic if they had asked about Scham! I will dig for some data on the 1970s and 198… https://t.co/4rOmhAxyHb

@odtorson The right wing continue to argue Germany somehow needs to escape the shadow of the past. the point of the… https://t.co/S52OKRMgnu

@odtorson @EuquinimodM That kollektivschuld was always controversial we agree. That it was rejected after Nurnberg… https://t.co/VzAxDqMA4A