ADAM TOOZE

Hard to avoid the conclusion, isnt it, that we live in the age of Behemoth … https://t.co/lnHwGlXObf

Amazon v. US Treasury? Spread on $10bn 3-year note issued by Bezos’s Internet giant was 2/10th of 1% over US Treasu… https://t.co/MTExjhTD6C

The Currency Soros Couldn’t Break (aka Hong Kong $) Is Tempting Hedge Funds Again – headline from 2019 as the prote… https://t.co/PhgUxi6c7B

@adam_tooze Do Konstantin Rokossovsky & Wladimir Woytinski share the prize for the most _interesting_ 20th century life?

Yeah .. 280 characters just not enough for Rokossovsky career! Lived through 2 staged “executions”. Always carried… https://t.co/vuuFatz1Kh

Konstantin Rokossovsky: survivor of Stalin’s purges, commanded defense of approaches to Moscow in 1941, at Stalingr… https://t.co/mMeV6pwiNS

Dallas-based, anti-CCP, hedge fund manager Kyle Bass is launching a fund to make all-or-nothing wagers on a collaps… https://t.co/gcdIPHSbq6

What if the recovery is not a V, or an L or a swoosh, but K-shaped? @Peter_Atwater insists we have to talk about in… https://t.co/KRqDkMiWew

As a share of GDP, the EU spends 33% more than the US on police and 60% less on prisons -> ratio of police/prison s…

In the US it is prison rather than police spending that has surged since the 1980s. With the result that the EU on… https://t.co/P5ByeFObo4

@RicharRobert Thank you

@scottlincicome @TheEconomist Thank you.

@henryfarrell @TheEconomist @benwansell Thank you

@buddha21 Thank you

GREAT thread here from @michaelxpettis on the problematic data published in @yicaichina appearing to show greater m… https://t.co/iNYLk3I705

A comparative political economy of housing regulation would be REALLY interesting and its impact on wealth distribu… https://t.co/v8YTQezzmz

…economies are usually quite sloppy. Second, that no matter how you cut it, the US has a truly vile distribution of income and wealth.

As a share of GDP In the US police and prison spending tripled btw the early 1960s and 2010. Does anyone have inte… https://t.co/7YEcqhlZGC

Back to normal? "Drawing a straight line through the rebound in air travel suggests that activity will fully recove… https://t.co/CpHV8JbddR

@adam_tooze @Jderbyshire he was pretty good- https://t.co/m814FEenk0

@adam_tooze @Jderbyshire Not just a jazz pianist, but apparently (according to QI) someone who toured with Chet Baker and Dizzy Gillespie.

Employment data has increasingly uncertain foundations: The CPS household Survey Response Rate has been declining s… https://t.co/JgwxzQnbOg

Soviet soldiers in battle in a destroyed village in the Kiev region. Photo by S. Fridlyand Colorized by “Olga”… https://t.co/2TpcWlHKF3

“Minus our Hong Kong operations, StanChart is non-existent. Our usual approach is to aggressively sit on the fence… https://t.co/dM9MWkdTMT

One of Mussolini’s sons was a Jazz pianist. One for @Jderbyshire https://t.co/Wn4IJi6miF

“From time you join HSBC, it is repeated over and over again, ‘We are a multipolar business, we do not take sides,… https://t.co/tZOXjcMno9

Benito Mussolini playing a violin. The color is so disorientating I double-checked and this really is Mussolini.… https://t.co/bNvCZctWDu

On 3 June water level on Rhine river at Kaub near Frankfurt dropped to as low as 1 meter threatening navigation on… https://t.co/QvpQb3KAy9

The collapse of HSBC’s profits in Europe since 2011 has left it painfully dependent on its business in Hong Kong an… https://t.co/BStQ142FRe

@ByrneHobart Yeah. It had a typo

Hotter in the Arctic Circle than in Spain today 📈 Today saw immense heat at very high latitudes while cold continu… https://t.co/J3thUJ3FaD

Are urban Chinese wealthier than Americans? Data for urban China suggest median wealth is c. $200k in 2019 v. $104k… https://t.co/SYeF9Jengq