ADAM TOOZE

In 2018 remittances were a $600bn+ flow from rich countries to poorer. In a recession that flow is interrupted = gi… https://t.co/DPAugsdzp1

Who owns eurozone public debt? What is distributional impact of servicing it? A question that takes on additional u… https://t.co/0xwtWDD2uR

"We owe the debt to ourselves” – do we? Figuring out who actually owns public debt is crucial to analyzing fiscal p… https://t.co/MzbIsseO0I

President Von der Leyen confirms that the Commission is analysing the recent BVerfG Urteil and any possible steps i… https://t.co/4ZgxQ6YuFI

Points 1: Acknowledging that the virus is here to stay: Policymaking should assume that global eradication of the v… https://t.co/onRidH9vrV

C. 75 % of the audience for religious TV broadcasts in US earns below median household income of $50k pa v. 75% of… https://t.co/JclqZn86ph

Bioterrorism hogged attention and funds within US government at expense of more mundane pandemic influenza preparat… https://t.co/ElGkdfVVbb

The US unemployment numbers are terrible but ever more telling is the employment to population ratio which has fall… https://t.co/eW1QZULlF8

The interest rates charged to small businesses in the US, according to these data, are twice those to large firms a… https://t.co/UyjoMXuQMh

Belarus has held military parade for 75th anniversary of VE Day. “In this crazy world that has lost its reference p… https://t.co/OFiBB1C2Qd

Folks just aren’t paying the bills: "The flow of cash through the private sector has been clogged as past-due accou… https://t.co/BGboEBMh0x

The 2018 sell-off was about idiosyncratic crises in Turkey & Argentina (vertical xis) spreading to the rest of EM.… https://t.co/wHIlAttKpb

Some Armageddon narratives: 1. Deleveraging overwhelms the Fed 2. Convertibility risk returns to Euro zone 3. US -… https://t.co/sD7qjOr4gI

@adam_tooze turns out not every economy is a mirror image of the US, which is driven mostly by internal demand (tog… https://t.co/BgyrXuyvlZ

I think there is really a list to make… in 2020 all charts are the same https://t.co/qA4czM2e6B

Euro-area savings ratio has taken a huge step up. The hit to aggregate demand is going to be painful. @nghrbi via… https://t.co/zw9Df8rGs2

I didn’t know that Jennifer Lopez made a film about 2008 until the missus insisted we should finish a boozy night b… https://t.co/5dhkuvwHnQ

"The euro-area service sector has undergone devastation not seen in the post-WW-II era. These have been the lowest… https://t.co/jxAYM8kuWW

In the commodities boom of 2004-2013 Peru built a big cushion based on its copper exports. This has enabled a large… https://t.co/MUx5RNkC5i

60% of GDP and 97% of employment in Indonesia is in Small and medium sized enterprises v. 42% & 65 in China. South… https://t.co/aQZctDkaeH

"If there is a historical grand narrative that does justice to the significance of the 1945 moment…it is what 21s… https://t.co/3hgt4qwYjF

Can you think of anything Norwegian you might like to buy? Now might be a good moment! Krone hugely undervalued rel… https://t.co/vZbic0wb8B

Another set of data, these from UK, bring home how resilient energy demand is even to massive economic shock and hu… https://t.co/JvkZzX29Di

The huge surge in US unemployment has hit those at bottom end of labour market with less education with devastating… https://t.co/VgtoYJOEuG

We were living through the “greater moderation” – the taming of the business cycle that racked the US economy 1850s… https://t.co/DG0ylWRcIv

A total of 3.8 American million homeowners are now in mortgage forbearance plans, accounting for 7.54% of all mortg… https://t.co/tJMQqzi87y

We tend to associate recessions with trade wars. But there is a countervailing effect through pocket books and folk… https://t.co/vXQZAG6iIe

You are absolutely spot on. Doesn’t it have to do with the politics? https://t.co/Pv7J0LiS4x

If I read this chart right, 88% of all stock ownership is concentrated in hands of 10 % of those Americans who hold… https://t.co/2PRvmyT8bN

US imports from China have plunged since late 2018 when trade war began in earnest. @TCosterg via @SoberLook I ha… https://t.co/2txZStdiGk