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South Africa is an absolutely critical case in the crosshairs both of the COVID-19 public health crisis and financi… https://t.co/nhMBUkkzZP

"remaining silent about what will be done in the future may indeed be the best policy today" This @voxeu piece by… https://t.co/KIYulkdrqA

"Much as Fed prefers to stay out of the political arena, that may prove impossible as its economic footprint grows.… https://t.co/zn0B8lyBrJ

“I think IMF/WB have the resources for 2020. A key question is going to be to what extent this whole public-health… https://t.co/f0D7LkawJU

“the system just can’t handle this many defaults and restructurings at the same time.” @krogoff on the avalanche of… https://t.co/qWmMg5zTIz

"The health of the global economy comes down to a race between money flooding out of EM amid the coronavirus pandem… https://t.co/zj6dBTJYuW

Unlike 2008 COVID-19 has seen massive sectoral suspension of free trade: At least 69 countries have banned or restr… https://t.co/P9BhdizUCc

In 2008 BlackRock managed $1.3trn & Fed had to hire it to manage bond buying, now it runs $7trn -> even harder for… https://t.co/S3iVHVD9Td

UK scientists advising PM Johnson didn’t study, until mid-March, option of stringent lockdown as in China … their r… https://t.co/BBfsc7rwUY

Not a triangulation I ever expected to find myself in! 🙂 https://t.co/U5l1k9X91I

Oil hogged the headlines in the commodity price shock of the spring of 2020, but the slide has hit most raw materia… https://t.co/7YB3Q4CoUk

@torstenriecke Thanks @torstenriecke hope all well!

“We do not accept ESM now and won’t accept it in the future . . . ,” Vito Crimi 5* One of the lesson of 2020 for Eu… https://t.co/Ie8iJztHQS

South Africa, Angola and Nigeria will be hit particularly hard by double whammy of corona and oil price collapse ->… https://t.co/jd9bYaimkI

Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, is tumbling into crisis for 2nd time since 2015 as it is hit by oil price crash… https://t.co/4eFbSUqVci

Fed’s intervention in every corner of financial system raises political stakes! “If you think people were upset ab… https://t.co/zP5dmB3MZR

Fed went over a crucial line this week: "In response to Fed’s move on Thursday, biggest high-yield bond ETF — run… https://t.co/uBfmjBrg6Q

Party like it's 1820: Hegel heads down to the pub with his students and friends, orders most expensive champagne on… https://t.co/xhdcyesTS7

Key question for EM is if huge Fed easing can help EM currencies like Mexican Peso rally back after a scary sell-of… https://t.co/IZSYMEGNlF

This is a privilege the Netherlands has too: Dutch 5-yr bonds yielded 4-5% in the 2000s but this fell significantly… https://t.co/HokhCb2Ytt

Will EM rally back as Fed stimulus buoys risk assets? Or is COVID-19 yet another shock that advances the depreciati… https://t.co/sy2Hu79BpK

Net asset purchases for G7 central banks were close to $1.4tn in March. That’s an extraordinary total, close to fiv… https://t.co/hNBTXwSoOi

Sourcing on this story, not surprisingly, is Ankara heavy … Turkey is obviously exploring all available options,… https://t.co/xfGRWhlw5v

Fed Chair Powell said that to see a solid rebound in consumer & business activity – the economy needs to be opened… https://t.co/Agm16GFs7p

Record capital outflows from EM, a collapse in global trade and plummeting oil prices mean we’re going to be hit by… https://t.co/GuPwfJt3el

There is a lot of confusion in the discussion on public debt monetization. @ojblanchard1 and I have tried to clarif… https://t.co/3biQQOxfRz

Could not agree more on this call for debt relief for developping economies #SupportDebtRelief @jzettelmeyer… https://t.co/28JDdSE48K

@kestontnt @Jayati1609 @KatharinaPistor @Brad_Setser Sorry … can you explain. The LRB piece is focused on China, EU… https://t.co/6lhFXZIZTi

@kestontnt @Jayati1609 @KatharinaPistor @Brad_Setser Can I recommend this earlier piece .. https://t.co/QnBmDvrW9R… https://t.co/NmDozA5SU4

@zeithistoriker @astradisastra Hi Quinn. On the to do list … 🙂

The VERY best thing about offering a first draft of world economic history is that, if you do, @Brad_Setser offers… https://t.co/mOvtDPm8OM

@DanielaGabor @BJMbraun @HelenHet20 Hi Daniela ….sorry for being slow about this. Crazy day. More soon.

For most of us Jerome Powell has emerged as a profoundly unlikely superhero of (modern) monetary policy. For others… https://t.co/IDO8GW2OOu

Remember Ben Bernanke as superhero? I have been worrying how long it will be before Jerome Powell gets the same tre… https://t.co/4GjMhaADhJ

How to situate the question of leadership is also part of the stakes in the @lrb piece. Trump “malfunctions”, but h… https://t.co/k89RgT8n6P