ADAM TOOZE

Retail reflux: post-retail sales, including both returns and overstocked items, totaled $554 billion in 2016, and h… https://t.co/YjLY3kB19f

Clausewitz and the Napoleonic wars in Germany – in time for @DuncanWeldon weekend reading ;)… https://t.co/FFQoLemC0M

China and Pakistani business groups are cooperating to open up gigantic 175n ton Thar lignite coal field. Pakistan… https://t.co/yIYSoFb2vv

Kōjō-moe ( 工場萌え, lit. 'factory passion'): the "appreciation of industrial scenery, particularly the awe-inspiring s… https://t.co/VNkaoxN6iW

Latest set of German polls confirm the further collapse of SPD support. Down to 16 % v. 15 % for the AfD. @faz.net… https://t.co/vlJyqaLdP5

The balance of auto manufacturing within NAFTA has shifted in favor of Mexico. But given volume growth pressure on… https://t.co/2UwnYYqqkh

Great on why the moralistic idea of interest rates as the reward for deferring gratification gets the economics of… https://t.co/QzzA4HhFT7

Once there were strikes: US strike rates at all time lows h/t @SoberLook https://t.co/bCDHGNMy8W https://t.co/84TPJUYHon

Le Retour des Cendres – Loading the remains of Napoleon onto Belle Poule, 15 October 1840. Painting by Eugène Isabe… https://t.co/JOYKUkfyVR

To dodge tariffs US solar panel imports now come increasingly from places other than China. Who makes them is presu… https://t.co/OKtT5AtXww

What happens when global liquidity conditions tighten and you are a Forex exposed EM? A balance sheet approach.… https://t.co/e0DfBCJOeu

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841) should the questions be about the "tulip mania” of… https://t.co/bimDOmm6Ur

Merkel as Godmother – System M: “value-abstinence”, “theme-shyness” and an elevation of Machtpolitik (the politics… https://t.co/EIs6S2zdpB

The origins of the “Merkel method” are not to be found in 2015 but in 2005 when Schroeder’s counterattack against h… https://t.co/PWGBwWh3h8

@adam_tooze Reminds me of the voice recording of Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, apparently the only person born in t… https://t.co/hzOjRLwo2L

Private pension fund schemes control $ 41 trillion globally with 60 % held in the US. h/t @DuncanWeldon Fascinating… https://t.co/ELNLNRj6Co

Did you know there was a photograph of Metternich? Born 1773 when Frederick the great still had ten years to rule!… https://t.co/Vtl1xTYP0l

Mortgage balances in hardest-hit crisis states of 2008 – Florida, Arizona, Nevada, and California – have still not… https://t.co/dx2VJOijZn

A gorgeous shot! USS Lake Champlain (CVS-39) at NAS Quonset Point, Rhode Island (USA), on 22 December 1963. In the… https://t.co/50jdTRbTiK

Cities and population in low-elevation coastal zones in Asia are most exposed to sea level rise and climate change.… https://t.co/jcob85BpOV

Scrambling to survive in fierce consolidation of global shipping S. Korea announces 'Five-Year Plan for the Reconst… https://t.co/lwyISFsDPA

Observationally-informed climate change models produce the grimmest predictions! This involves using satellite data… https://t.co/vTxT0wZuZN

Running it hot – Dems may fume over hypocrisy of Republicans, but as @DeanBaker13 points out we are going to find o… https://t.co/CpMp5YLJkS

@WillWargo Hi Will – I’m a conventional Scharnhorstian I fear.

@HFlassbeckEcon @newscientist do you have an alternative map you prefer? would be very interesting to compare!

Tracking immigration to Palestine/Israel since 1920s, puts the Soviet immigration shock of the 1990s in perspective… https://t.co/R1dbY2c9Pc

4 degrees is all it takes to bring about total reorganization of human life on the planet. At least according to th… https://t.co/PJ9Qm7JhmZ

Self-destruction: Latest opinion poll has SPD at 16.5 % = 1.5 % ahead of AfD = party that will have Finance Ministr… https://t.co/X0vrvoKJuh

AfD-affiliated trade union Zentrum Automobil headed by ex neonazi is making headway amongst German auto industry wo… https://t.co/TEEbHXxsVm

Shades of the NSBO? Daimler boss is worried that right-wing group Zentrum Automobil will do well in works council e… https://t.co/2XoY6FrHSK