ADAM TOOZE

Europe’s medieval economy: Branch/correspondence network of “merchant of Prato” Marco Datini c. 1400 great paper!… https://t.co/455lx5ngdd

A dense and smart read on the Fed’s likely approach today from @TimDuy https://t.co/2Jay3rFOcF

A modest proposal for the Fed to steepen the yield curve by selling the long end where market much thinner… https://t.co/qHRYiH4Ge7

GermanOrdoliberalism engages Afrika: Weidmann’s thoughts on infrastructure and “institutions” citing @B_Eichengreen https://t.co/BzYxumbgIR

1976 ratio of US household income to cost of college was 5.2:1 today it is 2.47:1. How can inequality not increase?… https://t.co/vVCCOn0eR3

Student loan problem in the US has a major gender/race dimension. Women and minorities significantly more burdened… https://t.co/Oss4RrkhZN

Santander Consumer USA, top subprime auto lender in US, verified income on only 8% of the loans – Darwin award?… https://t.co/9ZBoaARXIx

Useful checklist @FTAlphaville on how Trump’s Treasury can gut post 2009 bank regulation without needing Congress https://t.co/TOIGDx0p7t

Latest PIketty et al data on unequal income growth point to 636 % pretax income growth since 1980 for top 0.001 %… https://t.co/mhwJbeONZC

The specter of “big government”: Small business complaints about regulation in the US follow a pronounced political… https://t.co/OIaugxpDZd

Black spots of Eurozone labour market – Greece & Spain – are so bad OECD has to devised a new type of graph insert!… https://t.co/KcebJoVZrF

"Political" and "economic" self-determination. Never a fair fight, but note the great divergence with WWII and the… https://t.co/VoRSB12fuA

Free trade all around: China in WTO cut manuf prices by 7.6 % – 2/3rd of that came from China cutting own tariffs https://t.co/8TfsQ9KpWz

Comparing EM balance sheets post 2008 and pre Asian fin crisis of 97, risks not as severe but more widespread.… https://t.co/SezQHj78Un

Bovine airlift: 60 flights by Qatar airlines will fly 4000 cattle from Australia and the US to besieged gulf state… https://t.co/BwwRB9OjCp

Astonishing graph of US bank profits suggests key to rebuilding financial system post 2008 was profit not regulatio… https://t.co/zlJcX8ui8H

Guangdong connection: The links between President Xi’s family and the Ye dynasty are tight and deep https://t.co/oXffhuEgRm

If Americans Can Find North Korea on Map, They’re More Likely to Prefer Diplomacy – education, travel and diversity… https://t.co/bMICKwLxAb

Financial squeeze post-2008 may account for sharp TFP fall. Firms under greater debt pressure saw sharper fall… https://t.co/famOHBsErB

This Mine is Mine! Commodities super-cycle accounts for 14-24 % of average violence in African countries 1997–2010.… https://t.co/joSgT2vdzF

@davidallengreen @StevePeers Mounting evidence of complete shambles in Brexit negotiating team. UK state appears to… https://t.co/1bgd8TFQti

Fascist in the Family review of remarkable biography of Brit fascist father by Francis Beckett… https://t.co/QD9RvxQR8C

As @martinwolf_ points out “no deal” mean that as far as EU is concerned UK will have repudiated its obligations https://t.co/hCaFattyqp

When the trilemma really bites: fascinating account of British family policy in Ireland and financial crisis of 184… https://t.co/4iunDJ1wMS

Silicon Docks in Dublin – ongoing investment lured by gov policy, not austerity is driver of Irish recovery… https://t.co/4Q9SaegXVJ

Books didn’t travel far in the early modern period —> effects of local innovations in printing are significant… https://t.co/bj8uPKr5Ma

The market just refuses to believe the accelerationist narrative. 10yr inflation expectations continue to decline… https://t.co/MVCluDkTxy

Resource cursed: African regions where conflict would be less likely if commodity prices were at their 1990s levels… https://t.co/DRqDlLYgJw