ADAM TOOZE

2008-2014 saw a huge expansion in reserves with Fed held by foreign banks. In normalization that shrank. 2020 Fed i… https://t.co/oGQYArsk2Q

The US may be running huge "twin deficits" right now (gov budget & trade account). But that does not mean that it i… https://t.co/4eAhg4URAE

Domestic demand: US Treasury is issuing huge quantity of new debt. Whereas Fed is buying longer-dated bonds and not… https://t.co/7Zql41qTpr

The US has seen a record number of large healthcare bankruptcies this year! Yes. You read that right.… https://t.co/BMITKBzaRH

Why the “doomsday” Thwaite’s glacier is so crucial to the stability of wider West Antartica ice sheet.… https://t.co/nJYHwdbfKS

“One by one, people are seeing something so absurd that it takes them out of commission,” On the stresses of being… https://t.co/TDxBo0lfzu

Right-wing Polish presidential incumbent Duda dominated the countryside and small town world of Eastern Poland to w… https://t.co/pO2PbcQuul

WHO funding is 87% “voluntary” donations rather than regular membership payments. Those are then directed towards e… https://t.co/TdVOnbWjYX

The WHO’s budget was only $5.84bn for the two years 2020-21. Now topped up to $7.2bn. Of that only 54% came from na… https://t.co/YftGTz48Z2

Why is WHO funding such a dogs' dinner of oligarchic foundations, corporations (sic) and national governments? Why… https://t.co/NaQSAPol3F

Brazilian pensioners, wear ‘space suits’ to protect themselves against the coronavirus as they walk on the sidewalk… https://t.co/cFhYS5lItC

So far has China moved up the value chain that there are almost as many garment workers in Bangladesh as in China.… https://t.co/Vx3up6wTXy

"many statements have the effect of relieving unconscious drives, not in spite, but because, of the fact that they… https://t.co/hrJKTh8JEy

Clothes make up 85% of Bangladesh’s exports and 75% of Cambodia’s. Garment sector has taken a huge hit from Covid.… https://t.co/IPD9XPOrNh

During the Cold War, Canada developed a large autonomous unscrewed cable-laying vehicle to connect a top secret lis… https://t.co/UBU6COb0R8

Jihadists seized control of chunks of Mali in 2012. They have since pushed into Niger and Burkina Faso -> 4,800 peo… https://t.co/i7Kkw8Ampf

"Mark Rutte makes an unconvincing villain. In person, the Dutch prime minister resembles an over-caffeinated vicar,… https://t.co/MjSpi2cXGi

Jihadists seized control of chunks of Mali in 2012. They have since pushed into Niger and Burkina Faso -> 4,800 peo… https://t.co/fGYJyGGiMG

"Mark Rutte makes an unconvincing villain. In person, the Dutch prime minister resembles an over-caffeinated vicar,… https://t.co/jCCxWlQ2lF

"Second modernity witnesses the end of the antithesis between nature and society. That means that nature can no lon… https://t.co/8Bskzv5Rhh

How I imagine the lecture: What it actually looks like: https://t.co/RRSnRFOoFt

@adam_tooze So much as the discussion of birth control was illegal in Albania until (I think) 1992. Probably takes… https://t.co/Si5qtSkOiu

Asked in 1988 Presidential debate to name his heroes, George H.W. Bush responds with name of Dr. Fauci: https://t.co/eCiz4Djqgp

ARV meds save the lives of tens of millions of people living with HIV/AIDS. Cost in 1990 $14k per person pa. 2003 d… https://t.co/uVHkEg6bSH

The data from @UNAIDS on gendered violence are horrifying. This is % of young women and men aged 15-24 years who ag… https://t.co/fA8P1v5aPq

Women aged 15 to 49 years who have their demand for family planning satisfied by modern methods, by wealth quintile… https://t.co/LzpOW0MZqB

The risk of developing tuberculosis is 19 times higher (range, 15–22) for a person living with HIV than the rest of… https://t.co/EGUvdlh4Ow

The figures for the percentage of ever-married or partnered women aged 15 to 49 years who experienced physical and/… https://t.co/SL5sAA273B

ARV coverage across sub-Saharan Africa varies significantly from Angola to Namibia and Eswatini.… https://t.co/O6pbH3aiHU

38 m people worldwide live with HIV. 81% know their status thanks to testing. 67% are receiving treatment. 59% are… https://t.co/IwENCCcEhy

China’s dominance today of the global shipping industry is a case study of what I call “import substitution-cum-FDI… https://t.co/sRnvZS6Ndf

YOJIRO IMASAKA: Correspondence – A benefit for Covid 19 medical workers 50 small gelatin silver prints… https://t.co/CGFaPfYZuD

"Approaching a scientist with the question of truth is almost as embarrassing as asking a priest about God. Utterin… https://t.co/OhvVsQ8rqx

Cy Gavin, Untitled (Bald Eagle), 2020, acrylic, oil, and oil stick on canvas, 90 × 90”. Has 21st century America fo… https://t.co/lc3U95WBm5

Zang Hui Just Like in a Mirror (2018) On show at Meditations in an Emergency UCCA Center for Contemporary Art Beiji… https://t.co/HdiJ4lX7Ln

A lot of talk about a dangerous bull market bubble in China. And, of course, it may pop. But. P/E nowhere near the… https://t.co/FfjLCER6hx