All articles from Adam Tooze
Top Links 818 Sun Block: Red State advantage eroding? Why does Israel protect the Druze and Sanssouci in Beijing.
Thank you for your support of Chartbook. Your generosity keeps this show on the road.Kate Diehn-Bitt (German, 1900-1978). Source: Rostock Art GalleryWhat if America's red states are about to lose their cheap-housing advantage?A study by Edward Glaeser of Harvard University and Joseph Gyourko of the
Chartbook 401: The dollar system in an age of market-based finance - financial globalization beyond banks (The World Economy Now, July 2025)
This is the third in my on-going series that seeks to track broad developments in the World Economy Now. Previous installments were #1 May 2025: Putting Trump's trade tantrum in its place #2 June 2025: Whither China In this installment I read the Annual Economic Report of the Bank of International S
Top Links 822 The US economy: no longer growing nicely. Reinterpreting the GFC and where Haiti's gangs get their guns.
Thank you for your support of Chartbook. Your generosity keeps this show on the road.Alastair Kinroy, Roy, the PharaohBefore COVID the US and the rest of the AE world were not on the same growth trajectory, since COVID this has been even more true. Read more
Chartbook 400: Murder not crisis - Why Israel's starvation of Gaza is exceptional in a global context.
For many months, it has been beyond reasonable doubt that the Israeli government, the Israeli military, sections of Israeli politics and society as well as their aiders and abetters abroad, have been deliberately starving the population of Gaza with a view to forcing the population either to flee or
Top Links 812 Arresting toddlers. How China is changing the global drugs pipeline. Epic narratives of the green revolution & how the destruction of Gaza is even worse than previously estimated.
Thank you for your support of Chartbook. Your generosity keeps this show on the road.Bernard Buffet (French, 1928-1999). "La barricade" (1949). Source: WikiArtICE's child catching. Toby Nangle is pulling no punches on the grotesque dimensions of US state power. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Top Links 813 How AI is eating the internet. Where to buy an affordable American-badged car. The G7 horror show & subjectivity in language.
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Top Links 819 Overcapacity in ... diamonds! The Bureau of Lost Statistics. Slim Samsungs & relationship advice from Nietzsche.
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Top Links 811 Dali and the dollar. Making the most of the “longevity dividend”. The fall of the Roman Republic and how a Baywatch star became a Berlin hero.
Thank you for your support of Chartbook. Your generosity keeps this show on the road."Avida Dollars" an anagram for "Salvador Dali" invented by a jealous Andre' Breton in 1939. It was intended to be derogatory. Dali was not insulted.Photograph by Philippe HalsmanGerman vehicle exports to China have
Chartbook 402 Dual-circulation: travels through China in the summer of 2025.
Looking back, the first few months of this summer feel to me like a slow escape from the terrible vortex of US politics. This happened in July in China, not in Germany. Berlin is obsessed with Germany's new government and with Trump, triggering endless painful questions about Columbia etc etc. Preci
Top Links 816 How the "Big Beautiful Bill" will cost lives. Dysprosium from the warlords of Myanmar. Factories in space. Popular archaeology and China's Great Wall.
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Top Links 815 Is the US housing market on the brink? How the Houthis import oil. Beating cancer & Chris Clark on the end of modernity.
Thank you for your support of Chartbook. Your generosity keeps this show on the road.Lucy Jones (British, born 1955). "Nelson Street from Drummond Place" (2015). Source: Broughton's SpurtleSince the 2010s, the rise in US liabilities to foreign investors has driven a dramatic plunge into net indebted
Top Links 817 GM eats Trump's tariffs. Traders rule. Who will buy, Indonesia's "Kangaroo" bond? And, “goods beyond earth”.
Thank you for your support of Chartbook. Your generosity keeps this show on the road.Vladimir Orlovsky Storm Clouds 1884To a worrying extent, the US stock market is driven by a group of huge global tech players, whose revenues are 40 percent global. Economic indicators that are closer to home tel
Top Links 820 YKK the global zipper company. Hit over the head by scale. The global history of the Tortilla.
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Top Links 821 Flooding the zone. Can a country be too rich? The legacy of oil rigs & Croatia's festival of ultra-nationalist rock.
Thank you for your support of Chartbook. Your generosity keeps this show on the road.Sydney William Carline (British, 1888–1929). "The Trail of War." Source: York Art GalleryAs in Trump's first term, the US stock market is increasingly uncoupled from the uncertainty his administration generates. The
Top Links 814 How strong is the US labour market? From GENIUS to CLARITY. Palantir's bonkers valuation & who is mounting drone strikes on Indian separatists in Myanmar?
Thank you for your support of Chartbook. Your generosity keeps this show on the road.Victor Burgin, 1991More US sectors are experiencing job losses than job gains, this normally betokens a recession. Read more