ADAM TOOZE

This was a great conversation with @ianbremmer https://t.co/9XpwN1qfMW

US clothing retailers in the entire month of April eked out a level of sales that a year ago they accomplished in j… https://t.co/ffYkoAThJ0

The COVID-19 shock to American consumption is dramatic. But in furniture (-66.5%), electronics, appliances (-64.8)… https://t.co/X2KGQ0fnwb

The long walk home: the routes marched by Indian migrant workers after the sudden shut down on 25 March. H/t… https://t.co/jli0zPLp8r

Over 12 week period of peak disruption c. 28.4 million planned surgeries could be cancelled or postponed worldwide… https://t.co/SXYl8y8gcm

The shock to the global medical system from COVID-19 Is captured in these data for cancelled operations. They also… https://t.co/JE0fOzBw2L

@adam_tooze @Pat_Lane @TheEconomist Great example, why @TheEconomist is must read: From early January till late Feb… https://t.co/yjbYiw4OgJ

The garment industry is one through which affluent consumers are directly tied to workforce of 40 m factory workers… https://t.co/mYeNm6D3yV

"If austerity was the hammer then anti-inflationary central banking was the anvil."👌Naturally, the topic is hotly d… https://t.co/2eH5Gc7FFs

20 top players aka “Super Winners” account for 138 % of total profit made in the industry in 2018.… https://t.co/zEBWmcPoW7

Swedish Central Bank in Feud With Parliament hires BlackRock to advise it on corporate bond purchases (on the Fed m… https://t.co/dfXjVQKDmx

Who makes your colorful “Japanese”-styled Uniqlo kit? The corporate owner is Fast Retailing Co. Ltd. Both its fabr… https://t.co/0ZzlrXfiOA

Global textiles industry has seen a huge surge in innovative patent filings. Up by a factor of 8 since 2013.… https://t.co/6c3KyS7mXu

Our world: "China’s annual National People’s Congress starting Friday will likely keep volatility suppressed for de… https://t.co/q1WaNhP41q

COVID-19 has exposed fragility of far-flung value chains but NEARSHORING to sources like Mexico/Turkey is more like… https://t.co/OvYVAt21FA

Despite Lagarde’s initial intention to respond to GCC judgement, under pressure from Italy and France sources tell… https://t.co/WGBnu7Zn8m

Burials on Hart Island in New York City on April 9 2020. This @propublica Report throws a deeply unflattering ligh… https://t.co/Y1ceOyRmhu

Tang Jie, one of the very smart students in my Sunday seminar, presented the following graph in today’s meeting. It… https://t.co/1I11SKTQoR

I use @TheEconomist covers so much in lectures Ive had listeners ask what happens when the news magazine is history… https://t.co/6d2h64DlMs

Technocrats of the Imagination Art, Technology, and the Military-Industrial Avant-Garde John Beck Ryan Bishop on co… https://t.co/NjRcVLWMBa

By end of April 2020 worldwide across the textiles industry value chain orders were down 41%. ITMF survey.… https://t.co/6a49XYON08

"State funeral." Director: Sergey Loznitsa How the Soviet Union said goodbye to Stalin. It is, to say the least,… https://t.co/WRWHMkrxhZ

In the Uk, as in the US, the COVID-19 crisis hits the most precarious in the labour market hardest. 1/3 of those in… https://t.co/V4mcDTiYqA

What it means to be an emerging market in the COVID-19 shock: you need to ease monetary & fiscal policy, but market… https://t.co/Hi5BEm6aAa

"Hütter and Schneider used to tell interviewers that their project was to reopen the Constructivist/Functionalist/F… https://t.co/1KBcZhiFyf

France's Grand Est was one of the regions of the country hardest hit by Covid-19. Its economy will take years to re… https://t.co/LrrnklBexC

Q&A on macro in 2020 Q: Will our deficits add lots of debt? A: Debt is going from 80 to 110% GDP, but pls chill.

@zeithistoriker One place to start might be @tedfertik brilliant PhD on economic nationalism and the steel industry.

Garment export earnings, accounted for over 84% of Bangladeshi exports in 2019 -> highly exposed to implosion of de… https://t.co/dumhQrWdgg

Garment 10 Joint Stock Company is Vietnam’s largest apparel company with 12,000 workers in 18 factories across Viet… https://t.co/7MU1CnAVmu

Amazing thread from @Samir_Madani of real-time sources on global mobility. Extraordinary list. https://t.co/kfIeQEzELx

Global shock: since start of COVID-19 crisis 400,000 to 600,000 workers of 2.8m workers in Vietnam’s garment indust… https://t.co/jMVECMp2V0

Bangladesh is 2nd largest exporter of garments in the world. Its manufacturers have, since the crisis began, lost o… https://t.co/9BZqryUIzw

Global clothing industry has a $2.5tn supply chain that connects markets in Europe, N America and affluent Asia to… https://t.co/6on6Q5CdsW

Cancellation of orders in global garment industry -> huge shock to prices of cotton from major producers: US, Austr… https://t.co/tpnBcWg7al

COVID-19 has delivered a crushing blow to the segment of US labour market with least formal education.… https://t.co/VtQBfP3IWi