ADAM TOOZE

@adam_tooze @SoberLook @IEA Roughly half of US gross oil imports are re-exported as refinery products (ie not consu… https://t.co/uZJNiogxnP

Neck and Neck: China contending with the US as the world’s largest oil importer. Not for much longer, one imagines!… https://t.co/v5frcSUXjh

Parental sadism of the Hohenzollern variety – Questions put to Frederick (the Great) by his father Frederick Wilhel… https://t.co/2NpnfBhiiQ

‘I have experienced neutrality before; even under the most favourable conditions, you are treated badly. I have vow… https://t.co/XEL8S5AH7m

"For one thing is quite certain, if You simply sit still, in the belief that the fire is still far from Your border… https://t.co/KZ9JjJu1cb

Prussia’s abortive effort in the 1680s to establish itself in the colonial slave trade with the Gold Coast – ruins… https://t.co/XcHc11Jxy0

@RichterHedwig Ab Morgen zehn Tage Demokratiegeschichten … Rosskur!

@RichterHedwig Unterrichten muss man halt auch! A job is a job … 😉

Superman: The Life of Frederick the Great (1931) by the American Jewish folklorist Nathan Ausubel – somebody is loo… https://t.co/9W4OujQIW2

Apparently Germany doesn't talk about its history https://t.co/4eWTnq8Vr9

Picture 1: The German parliament and federal government applauding a Holocaust survivor who has just addressed them… https://t.co/x9p4b7qdYx

Watching factory activity. You don’t need to rely on statistical returns. If you are @spaceknow you can use satelli… https://t.co/A9MbwXYte5

The Billion Prices Project gets a better read on actual inflation in Argentina by compiling online price data. Fasc… https://t.co/0pqLkGQvqO

Economic statistics in an age of big data. Online prices and satellite imagery promise to reveal what is really goi… https://t.co/lQA99aSiqs

It's kind of remarkable how people who treat the idea that the state has the capacity to manage railways or electri… https://t.co/Dlo8VpmacI

Falling to the bottom: Btw 2006 and 2012 % of US households with less than $15k net worth surged from 30 to 45 %. A…

The AfD as leading party of opposition is entitled to nominate three cttee chairs. For finance they picked a gold b… https://t.co/QfI0xhcleF

Remnants of infrastructural ambition – the steam locomotive graveyard at Uyuni Bolivia where salt eats away at earl… https://t.co/673O3C3zxM

How credit rationing hit! % of borrowers below credit score threshold for prime mortgages surged from 54 to 70 % 20… https://t.co/HuhJyTgANh

Revised Maddison data puts “Western offshoots” dominated by the US clearly ahead of Europe throughout their develop… https://t.co/WNbg24z7qv

The first Ostfront? Why is more not made of fact that in battles of 7 Years War that pitted Prussia v. Russia order… https://t.co/vG2q2Ulw2H

The post-2008 historiographical moment, (the return of the "history of capitalism,") has been important for showing… https://t.co/yklHDUwqaE

Revising Maddison and widening the gap between the US and the rest! This may be big news for long-run and wide-rang… https://t.co/tQS9TuowQG

Falling to the bottom: Btw 2006 and 2012 % of US households with less than $15k net worth surged from 30 to 45 %. A…

Fascinating paper by Amromin, De Nardi & Schulze from @ChicagoFed on wealth effects and consumption during the 2008… https://t.co/dr7t8EMvsh

US personal savings rate is subject to some rather surprising fluctuations, but it is now back down to pre crisis l… https://t.co/FLSaW3DH59

And: Why Has US Regional Convergence Declined? – https://t.co/tOjt6KvBkh

The big story in France (and the euro area), is investment. Up 9% in two years, and back above pre-crisis levels fo… https://t.co/kaOFa36UBf

Yield spread – borrowing for Bourbon France was a lot more expensive than it was for Hanoverian Britain Welde and W… https://t.co/VXGCAXJmHL

Great cri de coeur from @fsaraceno on why growth not debt is Italy’s BIG problem, why debt is unlikely to be the ca… https://t.co/a0UAvk7HeH

Btw 1880 and 1980 lower income states in US converged with higher income regions. Then convergence stopped. Why?… https://t.co/KMHQSLnSAA