ADAM TOOZE

Hard to exaggerate the degree of partisanship in Americans’ assessments of their economic prospects! Only 20% of Republicans expect to be better of a year

RT @LaetitiaLenel: Für @hsozkult habe ich darüber nachgedacht, wie sich unser Blick auf die Vergangenheit angesichts der Corona-Pandemie un…

Remarkable thread on great listening to catch up on! twitter.com/ks1729/status/…

RT @KS1729: 11. Excellently fun & insightful conversation w/ Pratap Bhanu Mehta who talks to two Pakistanis who probe what does it mean to…

RT @KS1729: thread on audio for 2020 1. To the question of what is the Rightist intellectual history in modern India — a thoughtful conve…

This …. twitter.com/judystout1/sta…

RT @ScottDuncanWX: Parts of the Arctic averaged up to +14 °C above normal for the entire month of November. Preliminary data suggesting w…

On the brink of Brexit, the UK’s budget deficit has blown out to an unprecedented degree. On what is at stake in the final negotiations

The UK’s budget deficit is surging. In 2008 that happened because income collapsed. In 2020 that is compounded by HUGE surge in spending. @TS_Lombard via

The US fiscal deficit in 2020 may come in twice the size of that of Euro Area according to @natixis forecasts. That is a HUGE

The labour market shock of corona in the US in 2020 was intensely hierarchical by income and educational background. thedailyshot.com/2020/12/01/hig… https://t.co/7IPqFXJTyu

Growth in the net worth of billionaires has been largely unaffected by COVID-19. Its an exponential growth curve. @VisualCap visualcapitalist.com/5-big-picture-… https://t.co/hbvhtM79Gs

RT @MenschOhneMusil: Yuri Mikhailovich Raksha- My Mother, 1969. https://t.co/wZBUkT3fDG

Striking how feelings towards the EU have warmed amongst Hungarians over the course of Orban’s period of rule. ft.com/content/bfa582… https://t.co/ritCiQKgBu

Mexico’s refusal to mount any substantial fiscal response to corona crisis is staggering. H/t to @PerezEnMexico for highlighting. AMLO shaped by 80s/90s crises. Worried by

Number of Mexicans living below $5.5 a day poverty line will rise by 11 m + to 44 m, due to pandemic = double what’s

Eta and Iota have tracked devastation across Guatemala and Honduras, creating huge vulnerability to Covid 2nd wave in a region already reeling. @Nataliekitro highlights plight

With Biden’s inauguration looking increasingly secure, it is tempting to tune out the GOP crazy. But that is a recipe for getting blindsided yet again

Secret State: Total US intelligence funding grew by 125 % in real terms from 1980-89, as noted by the Aspin-Brown Commission on intelligence. Declined thereafter,

Indonesia is borrowing at rates not seen since the taper tantrum of 2013. @SoberLook For some middle income countries, the credit squeeze of earlier this

America’s budget for spying in 2020 is $85.8bn! Up from $73bn in 2017. Previous peak was 80bn in 2010. Fascinating! fas.org/irp/budget/ https://t.co/EOcpR5TJpX

Familiar treatments – breast enhancement at 5k pounds per job – dominate UK cosmetic surgery business. But “tweakments” are more and more popular … tweakments!

If Q3 turned out better for the Euro Area than expected, Q4 is looking a lot worse. Sharp deterioration in high-frequency data in France and

‘Lockdown Face’ fears drive ‘Zoom boom’ in UK cosmetic surgery requests Some providers say demand is up fivefold on last year since the start of

If there is any place to which “lockdown” really applies, it is India. Extraordinary crash in mobility in April. thedailyshot.com/2020/11/30/us-… https://t.co/QQDDoSYZqr

"Goldman Sachs opened a Luxembourg-based entity to service rich individuals based in EU”. Is it me, or is Bloomberg reporting less euphemistic? bloomberg.com/news/articles/… For some

WWII, Korean War, Vietnam shaped a generation of American men through war and experience of life in the military. @graykimbrough via @SoberLook https://t.co/FEcT8TtqA8

RT @JustinWolfers: The recovery was always going to be a play in two acts. The first act was firms re-opening and recalling furloughed wor…

The elephant in the room: Italy’s public debt. One country. But too big to ignore. Surely a basic obstacle to any resumption of pre-crisis Euro

"Oil & cars are most common top imports around world. Even for countries with well-established domestic oil production & car manufacturing industries, transportation is by

"The euro was the most used currency for global payments last month, the first time it has outpaced the dollar since Feb 2013.” Data from

Eswar Prasad, an economist at Cornell University, called the contraction “a body blow to India’s economy” that “sets back much of the progress, especially on

As takeaway food is fed to the Brexit negotiators, France makes clear its veto threat. ft.com/content/52b431… Download Chartbook Newsletter #6 here: adamtooze.substack.com And sign up

I liked @nicolas_veron line that Dutch insistence on strong rule of law provisions was an indirect attack on Recovery deal, since it was bound to