ADAM TOOZE

RT @yayitsrob: Almost exactly a year ago, I talked to @adam_tooze about whether climate change could prompt a sudden, shocking collapse in…

"If historians do have a public responsibility, if hating is part of their method and warning part of their task, it is necessary that they

How unemployment surged in NYC btw Feb and June 2020. STAGGERING graphics and data from @qdbui @emilymbadger nytimes.com/interactive/20… https://t.co/EudBtmTWbG

August 1870: first week of Franco-Prussian war dominated by border clashes at Spichern and Wörth. Maps from excellent new book by @dr_arand that tells story

Faced with COVID crisis, US concentrated on boosting incomes v. Europeans/Japanese focus on maintaining employment relationship. Priority is to continue/resume. But there are risks. Detaching

Anthropological shock: Of hetero US couples that met in 1940 (and still together in 2020?): 80% did so through family, friends or pimary/secondary school. Of

Standard UI benefits in the US are not so much an “incentive” to return to work as a cosh. Millions of people will find themselves

RT @njtmulder: The Borgias inviting an FT correspondent for lunch https://t.co/kNYxji3tEu

RT @FrankBottema: #OSINT #BMØ #Navy #Russia Northern fleet Arctic group underway in the Barents Sea 05-08-2020 @MatchlessMan410 @BarentsNew…

Remember the iconic movie-theatre ads of your youth? Well that era is OVER! @chartrdaily via @SoberLook https://t.co/QjQH0NxQP7

Brazil is heading towards a bumper crop particularly of Arabica coffee which is in oversupply due to shutdown of cafes/restaurants. Its highly mechanized harvesting little

@yayitsrob @EricLevitz Well the feeling is mutual @yayitsrob

Newly consolidated shipping industry oligopoly was remarkably successful at containing impact of COVID shock on shipping rates. Cut supply -> prices stay high. @JeffWeniger via

Add to the Q2 2020 US anomalies a record $76bn contraction in credit card balances — the sharpest decline on record. Households battened down hatches.

RT @BuzzJohnG: @EricLevitz @adam_tooze "I do think that the American project, the American experiment, is on the rack right now." Yes. htt…

The pace of South Africa’s business contraction is slowing but it is still in contractionary territory. @IHSMarkitPMI @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2020/08/06/inf… https://t.co/QjQ52JQ8HX

Bank of England confirms the emerging consensus on rank order of hits to GDP in 2020: China may not contract, EM, US, EU, UK ft.com/content/23f14c…

August 1870 – Dog tags handed out to Prussian troops in Franco-Prussian war: "it was a strange moment. The coins of death. With these pieces

Range of predictions for unemployment by Bank of England are pretty eloquent testimony to the degree of uncertainty out there right now. Not sure what

RT @stefanauer_hku: Excellent with ⁦@adam_tooze⁩ “CCP is de facto more transformative of the circumstances of the global political economy…

@MacaesBruno Clearly no more than an intellectual wager. But 1st line of defense – zoonotic disease/emerging infectious diseases paradigm 2nd line – risk society/2nd modernity.

RT @sam_a_bell: need someone to do the Marriner Eccles biography– banker during depression, class traitor, activist for fiscal policy, co…

RT @nypost: Medieval 'wine windows' are reopening, reviving Italian plague tradition trib.al/TQViROd https://t.co/gL2vJCHaDh

RT @laurenlbauer: If you're worried about additional weeks, please find your way to @WendyEdelberg @JanaMKParsons and my new piece: Unemp…

@dlondonnyu @EricLevitz @davidshor HI … for my own reasons … the sooner the better 😉

Despite the dramatic pressure their currencies were under earlier in 2020, major EM central banks have continued to ease rates. Assisted by Fed largesse. Data

@dlondonnyu @EricLevitz @davidshor VERY cool project. That stuff is so fascinating and far too little known. With all the excitement right now about political/social theory

@realKunalAShah @Birdyword Yeah I was a bit surprised too. But @Birdyword is on the ball …

@dlondonnyu @EricLevitz @davidshor Truly @EricLevitz is VERY interesting to talk to. Do follow and read his work.

Talking about history and what Ulrich Beck called "2nd modernity" or (with Giddens and Scott Lash) "reflexive modernity" with the very interesting @EricLevitz twitter.com/EricLevitz/sta…

Foreign ownership of US corporate bond market has risen from 17% to 27% since 2000 despite the dollar first falling and then rising. @SoberLook juxtapose

Everything about current financial market situation makes more sense when you realize that tech surge -> FAANMG stocks are now worth $7 trillion – more

On field of Wörth/Fröschweiler, after first really costly battle of the Franco-Prussian war, German troops & conscripted locals buried the dead. Heat and stench are

RT @jasonfurman: Really helpful updated estimates on the impact of different UI policies on consumption and replacement rates from the team…

RT @jasonfurman: Always worth watching the labor market flows (these are not in the main release). Last month 3.5m people went from employe…