ADAM TOOZE

India has by far the largest urban slum population in the world posing huge challenges for COVID-19 control.… https://t.co/LQMp55w24q

A global online survey in late March early April found broad support for tough government measures v. COVID-19. Sig… https://t.co/OeUeVZ5Mxd

"we estimate that 42% of recent pandemic-induced layoffs will result in permanent job loss.” Surely one of the most… https://t.co/Iyu0VC0NCJ

America’s unemployment benefit system is struggling to keep up with the scale of the COVID-19 jobs crisis. At least… https://t.co/lRDWlyGjcR

Bloomberg Disenfranchised Youth Index is a thing … and it shows that it sucks to be 18-34 mainly in the Southern st… https://t.co/IZiICFsXti

March mutual funds run: In March HY corporate bond funds saw decrease of 16% in funding, and bank loan (leveraged l… https://t.co/F0edHl9E1Y

"open-end mutual funds engage in liquidity transformation by offering daily redemptions to investors, notwithstandi… https://t.co/htz1oqaHBI

I began reading Kluge before there was the internet. His miniatures fascinated me. Last night, on a whim, I dipped… https://t.co/W1mDOK9zmU

How America’s budget deficit opened ever wider in March/April 2020 as revenue plunged and expenditure surged.… https://t.co/F57Cyrkeec

Why has the surge in unemployment in US been so much worse than in Europe? Dark side of labour market flexibility?… https://t.co/LbA7C8WP3z

Whereas swap lines are working for Brazil South Korea and Mexico, they are not for everyone. Turkey, South Africa… https://t.co/UDQOoli70o

America’s inflated health care spending, 60 % of which goes on labour costs, normally ensures that the sector is a… https://t.co/LKCllkf62h

That time in 1968/9 when Adorno took romantic advice from, of all people, Niklas Luhmann! Who, as his temporary rep… https://t.co/Q2fFKxWkOS

Hard to believe that this is not a joke … this is how France practices for nuclear war? Really. https://t.co/kttB83Tgc9

"As of Q4 2019, the total amount of liabilities most vulnerable to runs, including those of nonbanks stood at $15.5… https://t.co/BptjnqcxF2

Sometimes lessons are learned: as COVID-19 struck, big US banks relied on short-term wholesale market funding to co… https://t.co/x40BiuazCt

2020 is not a housing/mortgage-finance crisis but Fed purchases of MBS in recent weeks have outpaced those in 2008.… https://t.co/8ifXOAxLjj

"How much lies and gibberish are we expected to tolerate?” @GeneralTheorist is always brilliant. MUST follow. But… https://t.co/kVZZHLPvD9

"But the great dark birds of history screamed and plunged into our personal weather… I was going to tweet Adrien… https://t.co/MZqFdOeAm9

Turning points We all like to hear about those. Points on a graph. Sudden conversions. Historical swings. Some k… https://t.co/QtInIiGLXf

Tracing my line of thinking about central banks from the recent @ForeignPolicy piece I cant deny that grappling wit… https://t.co/XnSfUa8jYK

America’s large banks may be safe than in 2008 but their lending to nonbank financial firms e.g. REITs, mortgage le… https://t.co/LKdjvzLCaO

"As of Q4 2019, the total amount of liabilities most vulnerable to runs, including those of nonbanks stood at $15.5… https://t.co/BgoSHkBSvS

Sometimes lessons are learned: as COVID-19 struck, big US banks relied on short-term wholesale market funding to co… https://t.co/WgeRBnTVZ7

2020 is not a housing/mortgage-finance crisis but Fed purchases of MBS in recent weeks have outpaced those in 2008.… https://t.co/ecVvZOXSan

@bhbradlow Adrienne Rich was such a profound thinker of history and modernity. If I knew how, I would teach her al… https://t.co/XukPhS3OnQ

"How much lies and gibberish are we expected to tolerate?” @GeneralTheorist is always brilliant. MUST follow. But… https://t.co/kS66v68aF3

@bhbradlow Adrienne Rich was such a profound thinker of history and modernity. If I knew how, I would teach her al… https://t.co/XukPhS3OnQ

"But the great dark birds of history screamed and plunged into our personal weather… I was going to tweet Adrien… https://t.co/JoWEOViIfx

Turning points We all like to hear about those. Points on a graph. Sudden conversions. Historical swings. Some k… https://t.co/SCosa3AyzV

In my sixty-fifth year I know something about language: It can eat or be eaten by experience … poety means refusing… https://t.co/RO58gXymnu

Tracing my line of thinking about central banks from the recent @ForeignPolicy piece I cant deny that grappling wit… https://t.co/sXpPXnH8Vp