ADAM TOOZE

Many pol econ narratives of public debt are built around just one moment in complex history. Most commonly either A… https://t.co/TgVQp4KCMf

Naval ships are like floating factories, as Hobsbawm observed somewhere, (revolutionary) pressure cookers (literall… https://t.co/9LHa2Tq59P

Norilsk Nickel, metals group controlled by Russia’s richest man Vladimir Potanin, generated highest shareholder ret… https://t.co/ALPxWIGmsZ

lmao Fox News is photoshopping an armed guard into pictures about the Capital Hill Autonomous Zone to make it look… https://t.co/7FjIKRgsjq

Praise for @M_C_Klein @michaelxpettis new book Trade Wars are Class Wars from the great @profsufi Recommendation… https://t.co/eAmoseG1zI

US troop draw down in Germany not without context. To force Seoul to pay more, Washington put thousands of Koreans… https://t.co/OplFDtTao5

If US forces premier chip foundry TSMC with world lead in 5nm tech to uncouple from China -> SMIC becomes China’s d… https://t.co/cpKOErNh2a

“Technology wise, SMIC is at least five years away from TSMC” If US policy forces China into self-sufficiency in ch… https://t.co/6iN9K4NMyp

How COVID-19 has impacted Maersk’s business and may reshape global container traffic. Nice video from @alanbeattie… https://t.co/gjuVAFp4Mt

This isn’t a German or a Soviet city in 1945, it is Manila after the extraordinarily firepower intensive reconques… https://t.co/2yRoUatd5C

"Mexico is often regarded by the rest of Latin America as a proxy for the US. This did for the attempt of Mexican A… https://t.co/LFE9ZiHDkE

"boss-eyed, foam-flecked Euro-hysterics" – in the truth stranger than fiction department might be a moment to revis… https://t.co/re23pBR8ic

US army in action during the devastatingly destructive reconquest of Manila Feb 1945, as highlighted recently by… https://t.co/Izqu01y5RE

How COVID-19 crash-landed global tourism. No one has a bigger stake in this than the Europeans whose summer season… https://t.co/FVJqOo0rMq

The carcasses of male and female #elephants were found — with the tusks of the male #elephant removed — in the Bait… https://t.co/ihmlOKJUcK

Negotiations about 750bn euro Next Generation Europe vision start in earnest on Friday. Not expected to conclude un… https://t.co/uMzKvDrRZW

“It is fear of the virus, not the virus itself, that does economic damage. If we have localised lockdowns but fear… https://t.co/IqvMLj6LtW

“The war against the virus isn’t over yet,” wrote a social media user on Chinese microblogging site Weibo. “Everyon… https://t.co/KaLA8QKUSx

and here is the link to Hearing, if you want to spend a few enjoyable hours this afternoon talking European recover… https://t.co/9J3o5iMqdy

Shale oil firm Extraction was founded in 2012. Its listing in 2016 was the energy’s sector’s biggest IPO following… https://t.co/GlsfdJOgVu

'Book' is a descendant of the 'beech'; 'paper' came from 'papyrus'; 'library' is from the Latin 'liber', 'bark', an… https://t.co/LABKzmZw4Y

@HistoryKss Hi. Thank you so much for including me in this. Look forward to reading and discussing at some point.

Stranded assets cut loose: BP to slash $17.5bn off value of assets due to COVID-19 shock accelerating energy transi… https://t.co/GGVicFRf1n

In global economy "a lot happens by rote. China’s response to a weak economy is to build; investors’ response to Fe… https://t.co/XpGj3y3Npr

Day to day attention tends to focus on yuan/$ e.r. But, since mini-crisis of 2015 China has been targeting basket o… https://t.co/MYxETVoWvm

Moody’s downgrade of India’s sovereign rating to one above junk has knock-on effects. Sov rating puts a cap on the… https://t.co/XwIZKVkUNB

Soviet soldiers on the throne of the last Chinese emperor Pu Yi "Emperor of Manchukuo” courtesy of the Japanese ove… https://t.co/KiVWpMP8Kd

@georgemagnus1 They are all from the same Flickr account. You have to wade through page after page. But it becomes… https://t.co/ZJOQeH1IPy

OPEC members control 70% of global oil reserves, but have only 40% of market share. Price wars & collapse in new in… https://t.co/fXYiAh5Hgv

Aleksei Brusilov (1853-1926) his offensive of 1916 came close to knocking Austro-Hungary out of WWI. Unable to repe… https://t.co/3xVD1pxuNZ

CabSauv is a highly political wine and most commonly purchased in counties that Trump did not win in 2016. Among th… https://t.co/F5EjRUeB9T

The history of AI is of periodic bouts of overexcitement interspersed with “ai winters”, in which limits become app… https://t.co/b5IlUErlAR