ADAM TOOZE

Pulling no punches on currency manipulation @PIIE out with new estimates of imbalances caused!… https://t.co/JkqQswELZA

The Fed’s revealed preference for 1.5 % (Beckworth) Great roundup on inflation and the Fed @SMerler… https://t.co/NTbPiCNucK

Indonesia now rated investment grade by all agencies may be in line for major inflow of FDI. UNCTAS ranks it 4th!… https://t.co/6c8mZBhyb0

8 % interest rates in Turkey are driving a lively carry trade and pushing the lira off its lows. No crisis, for now… https://t.co/dh9emJnlWn

April 25 2017 Xi convened Politburo “collective study session” entirely devoted to financial security @bnaughton https://t.co/uG9Obr2SND

Shrinking cities: “resource-depleted”, deindustrialising urban areas are a global phenomenon.… https://t.co/zOS4QJM9bn

Who pays the dividends? In 2016 oil/gas were up there with banks, health care, well ahead of tech… https://t.co/0Z7WhKw72k

$1trn or $2trn that is the question … either way Saudi Aramco’s IPO will make it most valuable company in the world… https://t.co/9iJKUcJrSz

the reduction of words to mere signs is, of course, a technical necessity in certain fields, like military codes. Lukacs on DH

A young female welder adjusts her goggles, Groton, Connecticut, 1943. Photograph by Bernard Hoffman. https://t.co/SfFSx8XM4l

Battle of Waterloo 18 June 1815 “In war, the game is always with him who commits the fewest faults.”… https://t.co/hNHTpLlglP

US & Japan wealth accumulation is driven by asset price increases v. original accumulation in Asia &Latin America… https://t.co/frYdjw76UE

Patriotic tourism in the South China Sea, China’s Nat Geo divers install sovereignty markers underwater… https://t.co/ZQCxzet5ky

For a “strong state’ Chinese regime is remarkably cautious when it comes to personal income taxes = 2.5 % of revenu… https://t.co/XzCv0G5ROY

Extraordinary story behind the film Alone in Berlin a remake of Jeder stirbt fuer sich allein by Hans Fallada… https://t.co/48oRVBrXs6

Xi on Gorbachev and the Soviet collapse: ‘Nobody was man enough to stand up and resist’ (没有一人是男儿)… https://t.co/UPZXfqPoqM

Who is not in China's One Belt One Road Initiative? … India and Japan. The Abe/Modi convergence has a solid geopoli… https://t.co/VN95gagXhX

Stressed childhoods: % of ethnic minorities facing financial, emotional personal insecurity is *2 for white kids… https://t.co/v81BtBVjPD

Global wealth & how you make money managing it: $54trn to play of which $22trn privately banked —> $163bn revenue… https://t.co/VpmYSeOGnG

Where the rich are richest: Financial wealth more concentrated in US than anywhere else in world… https://t.co/7Ht9bXyQ3e

Global wealth & how you make money managing it: $54trn to play of which $22trn privately banked —> $163bn revenue… https://t.co/JNc8EIQYXc

This is basically Kam and Kinder's now classic ethnocentrism result. https://t.co/Ki6bvpj4ef

Uneven and combined global growth 1348-1800: NL rises and falls, England starts 1600, W Euro very slow, Italy decl… https://t.co/yabaixL8PT

FT claims that 70-75% Macron parliament majority will “anchor legitimacy”. Will it? It is absurdly unrepresentative… https://t.co/jhEULmNdwD

Prison tech: One of last typewriter makers: Swintec NJ makes transparent machines for use in US jails… https://t.co/EudqKuFkh1

#TodayInHistory: German sociologist and philosopher Jürgen Habermas is born. https://t.co/K8yI8CpQvN https://t.co/TZK9ohIzkX

The explosion of copying https://t.co/x7c7g4ZXmJ One quarter of news stories reproduced online in less than 4 minutes @cepr_org

Europe’s Econ growth in antiquity and medieval period: Early data from the Maddison project… https://t.co/WHOHIaEICx

Barnier mountain walking in French alps to draw strength and energy ahead of Brexit talks starting tomorrow (sort o… https://t.co/e57OLG88bB