Adam Tooze

There aint no business like trade war business: "companies are increasingly posting jobs related to trade, such as trade analysts and compliance specialists. It looks like companies are starting to staff up for long-term management of trade tensions.” @marthagimbel via @SoberLookpic.twitter.com/MuOe8lcEYH

Gotta hand it to America’s farmers, they are loyal to the President they voted for: 2/3 still think that the trade war with China will end well for US ag. @CMEGroup via @SoberLookpic.twitter.com/tvFkC2nNZb

How extreme (wet) weather is affecting crosp in the US: soy in Nebraska June 2018 v. 2019. @kannbwx via @SoberLookpic.twitter.com/pL3EmZs98A

State and local construction spending in the US seem to vary in lock step with tax revenue at local level, undercutting their potential countercyclical role. @DailyFeather via @SoberLookpic.twitter.com/FKYAya5vra

How the public share of construction in the US varied over the crisis and subsquent recovery. Data from @SoberLookpic.twitter.com/dwQvPe111C

Scavening from coal trains in modern Poland. From a remarakble visual reportage by @viomoura for @guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2018/dec/14/poland-deadly-coal-addiction-in-pictures …pic.twitter.com/rFyToE8xBK

Extraordinary interactive map of the parcellization of Palestine through successive waves of Israeli settlement and governmental regulation. @btselem @ForensicArchi https://conquer-and-divide.btselem.org/map-en.html pic.twitter.com/MLdT8eaZ5w

America’s military footprint in the Pacific. https://www.wsj.com/articles/leaders-of-three-strategic-pacific-islands-plan-joint-visit-to-u-s-11557931878?mod=djemDailyShot&mod=djemDailyShot …pic.twitter.com/Dx0pDs8gMZ

The great acceleration: Extraction of global resources in bn tons 1900-2009: biomass green, fossil energy sources grey, ore and industrial matreials blue, construction materials brown. @Umweltbundesamt https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/376/publikationen/190215_uba_fachbrosch_rtd_bf.pdf …pic.twitter.com/t8X5YBN8uI

The local results of the European elections in Germany are very revealing: Here is relationship between eductional level (Low v. high) and party choice in Baden-Württemberg. https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/wahl/wahl-bw/europawahl-bw/wahlergebnis-europawahl-2019-baden-wuerttemberg-analysen,wahlergebnis-analysen-100.html …pic.twitter.com/HN1s6RxQnr

Germany CO2 output peaked in 1979 and has declined since. But the far-reaching goals for reducations by 2020, 2030 and 2050 are a long way out of reach. @cleanenergywire https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-climate-targets …pic.twitter.com/JpJN6AoJPQ

This is the market-based indicator of inflation expectations most closely followed by ECB. It is headed into truly worrying territory. @SoberLookpic.twitter.com/faLkUlspTt

How climate change is polarizing European politics and how the AfD became an anti-Green party. https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/green-wave-vs-right-wing-populism-europe-faces-climate-policy-polarisation …pic.twitter.com/gtOVer3wzA

Notably in germany there are a lots of complaints about the suffering of savers under a regime of low interest rates. Too often ignored is the huge subsidy to European corporations. @SoberLookpic.twitter.com/eNxgwIgZhS

The lignite/brown coal power station at Jänschwalde in the Lausitz is one of the largest CO2 emitters in Europe. https://www.klimareporter.de/deutschland/kohleausstieg-wirkt-nur-mit-co-preis …pic.twitter.com/nHP6f7Y4uf

What is the best history of the bursting of the .com bubble? the relationship implied here btw antitrust action v. Microsoft and the collapse of the Nasdaq seems a little “convenient”. Via @SoberLookpic.twitter.com/Dtt9Citbm7

Turkish sovereign debt sliding deep into junk territory. @CreditBenchmark via @SoberLookpic.twitter.com/c6LEvX8gJs

We’ve had the divergence btw “hard” and “soft” economic data for the US. Now there is a divergence btw consensus GDP forecasts and market expectations of Fed rate cuts. @TS_Lombard via @SoberLookpic.twitter.com/0yVrx9fH5z