ADAM TOOZE

It was not long ago that many of us worried that Trump’s admin and Congressional GOP would obstruct global stabiliz… https://t.co/NfbjHU9sDy

Comparing the COVID-19 stimuli is difficult due to different types of spending. This is a sophisticated & well-docu… https://t.co/1WQ7k8CFyz

Fed has stopped panic for now. It has backstopped IG -> corporate big names are issuing debt like crazy. But Damocl… https://t.co/hJD145fWhL

The explosion of the Fed’s balance sheet in the last two weeks dwarfs anything we saw in 2008 or after. Fed moved s… https://t.co/eYs65X5ZYs

With China rolling back lockdown, quarantine efforts still cover countries & “regions that produce almost 50 per ce… https://t.co/aX44GFSGff

White House Economists Warned in 2019 a Pandemic Could Devastate America but leading officials like acting chair of… https://t.co/rwhMQF6h6i

Like a game level or a Christopher Nolan film. A few random pics of diamond factories in China stocked with huge “p… https://t.co/Fq6fRKuoXE

No kidding! This is happening in my lifetime!! https://t.co/6qOFCYHwqZ

Nextstrain is a remarkable resource mapping mutations of the novel coronavirus. H/t @edieconntooze… https://t.co/pIsgY1pqF3

NY-Presbyterian and Yale-New Haven hospitals are both facing financial squeeze as pandemic hits. Deficits running i… https://t.co/1LZGiIUJsJ

“To the Federal Reserve’s credit, it is playing the role of central banker to the world rather than denying it and… https://t.co/YaQSuth5PA

If you know the relationship between these two objects, then you are in a Covid-19 high risk category and you shoul… https://t.co/vCv5rlNJXy

The global lockdown is a giant social-economic-political experiment of which China and India are by far the most dr… https://t.co/kxOt1vCDM3

3. Mohammad Younas, a tailor in Kandahar, turned his shop into a small mask factory so he could hand them out to th… https://t.co/AQfh23QSWx

Oil prices have now plunged far below those necessary to sustain profitability in US oil industry -> cap ex is coll… https://t.co/rCXP4jAVDE

cc: scholars writing about the militarized language for all collective tasks & struggles https://t.co/gIj6b3so8M

When we say that business has been bad in commodities since the China slowdown of 2015, we mean bad like the 1930s!… https://t.co/hHXCJWhbcm

Latin American public transport ridership is way down. Wherever you look the same. Never, ever before has there bee… https://t.co/zf2Yp4w7lp

No, I am not morbid again, but I decided to watch this excellent series about the #GermanAutumn 1977. https://t.co/cwmhbNtjIs

LET THERE BE NO TALK OF INFLATION! https://t.co/vzdTQmkHNC

My babies are too young to read this now. And they’d barely recognize me in my gear. But if they lose me to COVID I…

When Hegel talked about the "world historical individual" he had the central banks in mind, right? "It is thus crit… https://t.co/xVDyxHNnb5

Turkish lira is falling back to lowest levels reached in 2018. New Fed facility isn’t going to help EM like Turkey… https://t.co/uktAhdi8Ww

CLOs…finally coming home to roost. https://t.co/5m7ZAhukft

Fed will repo other CB’s Treasury holdings: '“This facility should help support the smooth functioning of the US Tr… https://t.co/Q0A7Lt81sF

PE firms like Blackstone package high-risk leveraged loans into CLO synthetic securities. To do so, they need to wa… https://t.co/SJKp82mF0m

Brussels is trying to bridge the gulf over corona bonds with the proposal for a common unemployment reinsurance fun… https://t.co/5Jb4jq6wCb

Confirmed cases are a really bad number (too dependent on testing intensity), but, nevertheless, symbolic that toda… https://t.co/kPZyuM0P0f

Fascinating thread on the argument – apparently being made in earnest – that the way forward is for a comprehensive… https://t.co/LgZqYDQEV5

@profiverson Hi Benjamin thanks for this great thread. Can you point me to some folks making the argument for compr… https://t.co/jBfsyqGYx4

Squaring the need for stimulus in China with the desire to bring down corporate leverage, whilst avoiding Western s… https://t.co/jA1P2ucAaZ

Meanwhile in other news: Trump to roll back Obama-era clean car rules in huge blow to climate fight… https://t.co/6FNNRwMr4i

Solidarity is not charity. It is the recognition that the struggle of one is the struggle of all. Facing Covid-19,… https://t.co/SQ0lhNDunU