ADAM TOOZE

"It is hard to imagine a more dystopian backdrop for the world’s most powerful democracy to settle on its future.”… https://t.co/zRnag6xcp4

Militarization of the US police was massively intensified by wind-down of US troop presence overseas after 2010 and… https://t.co/2rkPq9KvXM

Our world: "At behest of regulator CBIRC former CEO of Bank of China’s HK unit has been appointed as new CCP secre… https://t.co/pW3W3UWlga

I don't think I'd ever seen Charles Rennie Mackintosh's beautiful watercolours from his alcoholic retirement from a… https://t.co/q0DV56q1wE

These are truly magnificent! A 1950s campaign celebrating electricity in manifestations from traffic lights, boxing… https://t.co/4pMrEbWrCS

I’m hit in the leg by a rubber bullet but am fine. State Police supported by National guard fired unprovoked into an entirely peaceful rally

If late civil rights movement was crucial to forcing through dual mandate for Fed in the 1970s, in 1960s civ rights… https://t.co/f6WcrzHMlb

Excellent piece on COVID impact on African-American population & legacies of health discrimination.… https://t.co/KdhqOEaGTO

If Fed’s dual mandate on employment is owed in large part to civil rights activists so is the push for Medicaid and… https://t.co/yfJm8o9WK9

Does China’s “Wolf Warrior” diplomacy in 2020 give a bad name to the 2017 film? Chaguan column in @TheEconomist as… https://t.co/y5bEOVXoqI

Why did US veto IMF's bread & butter Pandemic Bailout? Classic Balance of Payments crisis: Turkey, Lebanon, Pakist… https://t.co/gDAAWhKYYS

Surge of Chinese travellers = 1/4 of rise in global spending on tourism since 2000. 150m foreign trips by mainland… https://t.co/sCXQwp4UGl

Tourism is a giant of the global economy. In 2018 as rich-country habit went global people went on 1.4bn foreign tr… https://t.co/jSpK4itqlW

CP group is one of the most spectacular of the business groups founded by huaren overseas Chinese: Thailand based.… https://t.co/fYpkisnqvl

In 2019 of $369bn in SE Asian billionaire wealth 3/4 was controlled by huaren (“overseas Chinese” who are citizens… https://t.co/yVsVbNgaS4

Although they make up less than 10% of South East Asia’s 650m population, ethnic Chinese have outsized influence in… https://t.co/Cjx5bowITv

By 1945 the capacity of US air power to incinerate Japanese cities had reached terrifying proportions with or witho… https://t.co/eTZQxjfhrT

Wenn ich solch uninformierten Schwachsinn in der @faznet lese, frag ich mich echt, warum ich für das Abo soviel Gel… https://t.co/DSa11GtuRH

Our moral blind spots: far more people die of causes against which there is an effective (and often cheap) protecti… https://t.co/cyWBoQSPwV

"At $68bn, the market value of Iberdrola, a Spanish utility that develops solar and wind farms, has overtaken Itali… https://t.co/VFwfQEjlMI

"The annual shareholder meetings of ExxonMobil, Chevron and bp, all held on May 27th, each resembled a yearly check… https://t.co/u4ROkbfNup

For increasingly prominent reasons I’ve been wondering about hair salons as an economic sector … $20bn in sales ann… https://t.co/v2Qu7uTboh

Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative-asset manager, invested more than $25bn last year in warehouses in Amer… https://t.co/ujhF0NMeLm

Prologis, Amazon’s biggest landlord, founded by Iranian-ex-pat Hamid Moghadam, has assets of $125bn and warehouse f… https://t.co/LldLA3ptKR

Private equity firms are big winners of global finance since 2008. They have $4trn AUM of which $1.6trn is dry powd… https://t.co/ooXtZ112eA

Majority of economists in China fiercely oppose proposal that PBoC should monetize swelling deficit because 1. PBoC… https://t.co/psQDKjXWAX

An ARMY of volunteers in Minneapolis helping neighbors clean up business damage. “Bring a broom” they were told. W… https://t.co/wYaX1FwGGh

Role of National Guard in Minnesota is to “Augment MN State Patrol Civil Disturbance Operations with a show of for… https://t.co/QpnsKXpMrH

USA: 55% of 55-64-year olds have less than $10K put away for retirement @HoweGeneration

"Target said it was temporarily closing 175 of its stores across 13 states, including in Minnesota, where the retai… https://t.co/TJKE4KQbaV

Carmen Reinhart to be new chief economist at World Bank. As @TheEconomist notes, along with Horn & Trebesch she has… https://t.co/YNlnISLiBO