ADAM TOOZE

Lagarde's disastrous comment on spreads unleashed the largest ever move in Italian 10yr yields. Larger even than du… https://t.co/npQSYfUcmB

'In Air and Fire: War Artists, the Battle of Britain and the Blitz' will be our new art exhibition. Opening on Frid… https://t.co/xQ13cBqmI5

How a credit squeeze from credit card companies might bring own the weakest airlines. Both Flybee and Thomas Cook w… https://t.co/mewDlQCyki

If this is meant to force the hand of fiscal authorities, it's a very bad strategy. If there was a moment for coord… https://t.co/o6KETxB4fn

“This crisis has until now been an exogenous one. Markets processing 2 huge external shocks (corona/oil). Now it is… https://t.co/xeGkEx1LMr

Meanwhile the plague of Locusts continues in Mid East and East Africa https://t.co/OcVALyLQ88

"What matters critically, and what was roiling markets Wednesday, is credit.” @johnauthers One can imagine a V-shap… https://t.co/E5hwQfmzFI

Someone somewhere had no choice but to sell Treasury bonds on Wednesday -> driving up yields unexpectedly even as s… https://t.co/qpbGWRZ5ay

When stress in EM builds, as during the current market sell-off, foreign investors often hedge their underlying exp… https://t.co/qmuOBXFbqJ

All day I've been getting messages about something bad unfolding in credit markets. If you look at current LEVELS,… https://t.co/1FNjnE7Suw

In wake of corona/oil shock, top-down strategists and economists make sweeping downgrades for entire corporate sec… https://t.co/mQtLpiaaLD

Defining moment for EU: shd trigger escape clause to cope with “an unusual event outside the control of the Member… https://t.co/yyM8ysye0m

.@RobinBrooksIIF is calling this the COVID-19 Sudden Stop for Emerging Markets. I hate to bring this up now, but h… https://t.co/5eBvlrucHp

Thanks! Here are our outflows updated for overnight data. The volume of EM outflows for the subset of markets that… https://t.co/vCrVlmvorX

@NishanthV_ET Yes, you're exactly right. Our daily tracker of flows to EM is recording unprecedented outflows that… https://t.co/Iu7cXWLKCQ

A scary sudden stop in foreign capital inflows is unfolding in EM. Take the spike in $/MXN, with Mexican Peso weake… https://t.co/GmeqX1gXCp

"Within 24 hours I received documents from Credit Suisse Group AG, Citigroup Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. maki… https://t.co/M3fT0H6Y3a

BREAKING: Iran asks for loan from the IMF, the first such request since the 1960s.

Battles are breaking out between monkeys in Thailand used to being fed by tourists who are now staying away. https://t.co/YYYlA76pV9

A lot of fear about credit markets right now, with a number of notes saying we haven't yet seen the big shakeout ye… https://t.co/eVmICYJUme

As the implications of corona, oil, recession sink in, investors began to offload high yield US municipal debt. The… https://t.co/AoOHFFB1Ed

Since days of Obama US military have been gaming how to fight a limited nuclear war with Russia triggered by NATO-R… https://t.co/Hp7LOJaYvT

Boeing is now facing a really nasty double squeeze on its credit: corona PLUS 737 Max … has finally sent spreads so… https://t.co/ELQFSAYBXJ

After holding the line for a few days, investors are dumping high yield (high risk) energy bonds -> sending yields… https://t.co/VFV2jsAPzr

Sanjay Gupta just had Don Lemon read the CDC’s coronavirus testing stats off of his phone. ZERO tests conducted to… https://t.co/x32M5xQbOO

In the US there are currently c. 30k unoccupied ICU beds. 98.5k total. Numbers that may soon come to dominate the… https://t.co/DXMeL2RRyk

"underground”, “hidden”, “shadow” or “grey”, or simply “missing” – estimates of the informal economy. In Nigeria it… https://t.co/RQFrveudAo

In 1665, the University of Cambridge temporarily closed due to the bubonic plague. Isaac Newton had to work from ho… https://t.co/lR5PKsV6Do

Cormac O Grada’s piece on Ebola and Plague is a highlight of the @BaldwinRE @bweder volume on economics & COVID-19.… https://t.co/tBFWBj47TD

More than 1.9 million residents from Schengen countries crossed the border to go to work in 2018 -> a large-scale b… https://t.co/0vwBo6C7YX

Economics in the time of COVID-19 @BaldwinRE & @bweder have done a phenomenal job pulling this urgent book together… https://t.co/uDT6scJyWq

Over time each generation of Americans becomes less religiously affiliated and each generation is less attached to… https://t.co/Gw5SOvM4Bg

NBC NEWS: The attending physician of the U.S. Congress & Supreme Court, Dr. Brian Monahan, briefed Senate Staff yes… https://t.co/Buxrxj87ID