ADAM TOOZE

RT @Pr_Logos: Le chant des marais (Moorsoldatenlied ou Börgermoorlied) est le chant de consolation des détenus politiques du camp de concen…

America’s public spending on families flaunts the civilizational norms of the @OECD. The Biden Families Plan is a step in the right direction, but does it go far enough? Sign up for Chartbook Newsletter #19 here: adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-ne… https://t.co/Zk4DOM4sRl

"At present, annual “green” demand for copper is 1m tonnes, or just 3% of supply. Goldman reckons that will reach 5.4m tonnes by 2030." economist.com/finance-and-ec… https://t.co/h7N7zZmoZa

The gap btw digital mobile payments in China and the US is VAST. Look at the different scales. economist.com/finance-and-ec… https://t.co/eukoa7E2bS

PBoC doesnt need digital central bank currency to tailor money supply and interest rates with different sectors in mind. It already does that, creating credit for affordable housing, or small businesses at lower rates. economist.com/finance-and-ec… https://t.co/YEH47F2jRE

Getting the US to net zero involves a choice of more or less land-intensive technologies. But whichever route is chosen, one thing is for sure. Land per se is not the problem! bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-… https://t.co/tjxwJVvdSM

Molecular Psychiatry … is not just a “thing”. It’s a journal! And MindX Sciences is a biotech start up developing biomarker diagnosis tests for depression as well as identifying potential new drug treatments. economist.com/science-and-te… https://t.co/zwpxmsbP3o

China reliance on coal peaked in 2013. Since then the growth has been in gas, oil and nonfossils. @Gavekal via @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2021/05/05/boo… https://t.co/PaWbZDmPEm

Why is the Black Sea region a hot spot for GPS blackouts? Likely on account of the jammers used by the Russian big wigs who holiday there. Fascinating this report in @TheEconomist economist.com/science-and-te… https://t.co/swIXURdHDD

"Since the revelations by Edward Snowden in 2013 that detailed the participation of American tech companies in U.S. government surveillance, Beijing has seen dependence on American technology as a national security threat.” asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/The-… https://t.co/AAYr6H4mXO

Shareownership in Germany never recovered from the shock of 2001. Easily underrated as the German prelude to 2008. wsj.com/articles/cauti… https://t.co/Ad7g5PEQI5

"Every U.S. market leader in the computer chip industry now has a Chinese doppelganger that is being positioned to take its place as a vendor to the Chinese chip industry.” This report by @NikkeiAsia is impressive. asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/The-… https://t.co/TMZEth9bxV

Over the course of 19th-c, as coal-burning became predominant, English cities grew working-class neighborhoods downwind of the chimneys. Remarkable work by Stephan Heblich, Alex Trew and Yanos Zylberberg featured in @TheEconomist h/t @DuncanWeldon economist.com/graphic-detail… https://t.co/uptXq2vypu

While Wuhan endured a brutal quarantine, high-speed trains remained in service to ferry YMTC employees to its $24 billion 3D NAND flash memory plant that began production in 2019. It is now working in 3 shifts to ensures its supply-chain is America-proof. asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/The-… https://t.co/VtNjzkbXxD

Now that the EU’s vaccine rollout has begun in earnest, it is relying heavily on Pfizner/BioNTech @StatistaCharts Via @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2021/05/05/boo… https://t.co/nkEjO8I5TG

"It's like when you want to drink milk — but you need to own a whole farm, and learn how to breed dairy cows, and you have to build barns, fences, as well as grow hay, all by yourselves.” On the depth of China’s drive to make its chips sanction-proof. asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/The-… https://t.co/ZC9DNhgZxx

RT @KimTodzi: Liebe @tagesschau, @Weltspiegel_ARD vielleicht fragt fragt Ihr nächstes Mal Expert*innen oder lest etwas zb zur Geschichte vo…

‘Two minutes and 11 seconds to live, sir.” On the Trump admin killing of Soleimani, complete with the covert DNA-swabbing of his remains. Apparently it was intended to be one of a wave of assassinations. This by @JackMurphyRGR @zachsdorfman is remarkable news.yahoo.com/conspiracy-is-… https://t.co/iTsnNiyfXh

Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. plant in Wuhan is dedicated to making state of the art chips with a supply chain whose vulnerability to American sanctions is as low as possible. inputs.]asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/The-… https://t.co/FOI4Q38IrT

Germany and Korea are three times more dependent on exports to drive their economies than the USA. @bcaresearch via @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2021/05/05/boo… https://t.co/zBaQCTRqe8

@tedfertik @AntonJaegermm Ted … age catching up with you 😉

Assessing Biden’s Plans: The Jobs Plan for @NewStatesman newstatesman.com/world/north-am… The Families Plan for Chartbook Newsletter. Sign up here: adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-ne… Big, but hobbled by the precarious Congressional balance. https://t.co/Fxfd2COcG5

The profile of Mario Draghi by @b_judah is really essential reading for anyone interested both in the Draghi past and future. thecritic.co.uk/issues/may-202… https://t.co/liJMPoX0Oo

The Newark Museum is putting Thomas Cole's The Arch of Nero (1846) on the auction block at Sotheby's, carrying an estimate of $500,000-$700,000 -> provoking protests from art historians over de-accessioning. theartnewspaper.com/news/as-sotheb… https://t.co/68bku7sUQl

There was a lot of value in that dhow … thats some serious collection of small arms! twitter.com/JosephHDempsey…

RT @tsmullaney: Chinese typesetters. Respect. https://t.co/PjPVLCkORq

America’s public spending on families flaunts the civilizational norms of the @OECD. The Biden Families Plan is a step in the right direction, but does it go far enough? Sign up for Chartbook Newsletter #19 here: adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-ne… https://t.co/UYgD755WAn

RT @jonasdovern: Hm, @BILD. Ich sehe nix. Zumindest kein "Inflationsmonster". Ist es vielleicht ein "Produkt-XY-Preis-Monster", das ihr ges…

RT @zeithistoriker: Quite the headline to come across right after giving a presentation on goldbugs and racial tropes… https://t.co/V9FUH…

RT @jesuismaxi: I just subscribed to Chartbook by @adam_tooze adamtooze.substack.com

“there is no answer to the unfairness of American life that does not include a massive preschool child development program. Anything less is an admission that we don’t care” W.Mondale On historical backdrop to Biden’s Family Plan Chartbook Newsletter #19 https://t.co/WDgaUkEJFU https://t.co/19pOxPTqfE

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@TinaFordham1 Thank you.

RT @ShazCoder: @IsabellaMWeber @adam_tooze @poltheoryother Yup. In 90s there was great fear among elite policymakers that China would go th…

RT @CsBowles: I just subscribed to Chartbook by @adam_tooze adamtooze.substack.com

White House’s new $1.8 trillion ‘families plan’ reflects ambitions — and limits — of Biden presidency washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021… Totally agree with @JStein_WaPo on this. New Substack Newsletter #19 adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-ne… https://t.co/317KS6F4Hj