ADAM TOOZE

The @IMFNews has scored corona stimulus responses by their climate credentials. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, Trump’s USA does not come out well. Can a Biden admin wrangling

In a desperate effort to stave off worst affects of corona lockdowns, coverage of social assistance worldwide was extended to an extra 22% of population,

S Africa unemployment rate is a staggering 30%+ @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2020/11/13/why… https://t.co/QBdoDesOhc

RT @vtg2: Quarles says the Fed has requested membership to the Network for Greening the Financial System, and he expects them to accept.

RT @envidynxlab: I've flipped my @geogsouthampton Y1-S1 survey into a DIY podcast – "Geographies of Risk" – and made it freely available: h…

RT @RobinWigg: Old enough to remember when Schwarzmann compared Obama’s plans to raise tax on carried interest to Hitler invading Poland.

RT @thephilippics: Well, it's complicated. https://t.co/jGM5rBlJRb

I gave up two thirds way through. It was not helping! twitter.com/pathtopraxis/s…

“Allowing high uncertainty, based on projected decline in per capita incomes, 100-110 m people globally are expected to enter extreme poverty relative to pre-COVID projection,

QE-style interventions by central banks are now a spectrum running across AE and EM rather than a distinguishing mark of AE. Purchases of central gov

@alex_callinicos Convened at Yale school of management with tim Snyder as its ideological guide?

Following shakeup in Turkey, promise of a change in policy and interest rate hikes -> exchange rate recovered last week and yields on $-denominated debt

The corona fiscal stimulus in @IMFNews Fiscal Monitor Oct 2020 show both scale difference btw AE, EM, ILC AND the near universality of some kind

Potatoes are a key part of diet in Northern India. Their prices are currently surging at an alarming rate. @SoberLook https://t.co/WjUYqjXwxY

"Economic Demands Test Biden Even Before Inauguration With the recovery slowing and coronavirus cases surging, Democrats must decide whether quick action on federal aid is

This set of slides by the great Bob Jessop on a Green New Deal is fascinating, all the more because it dates to 2011! unrisd.org/80256B42004CCC…

Since 2014 online share of Chinese retail has surged from 10% to close to 27% with pace of transition accelerated by corona crisis. @gavekal via

Issuers from Asia ex-Japan have sold over $323 bn of $ bonds compared with $326 billion for all of 2019. Chinese borrowers led the charge

Pfizer and BioNTech’s Vaccine will ship in ulltra-cold boxes. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/zhcoTCxp5D

Foreigners own almost 10% of China’s Treasury Bonds. Natixis via @SoberLook https://t.co/QKrRCx2AUn

RT @AllieHBNews: Oxford Circus, London. 9pm Saturday 14th November 2020 https://t.co/f4vporCeUF

At 7 am on Nov 6 Yale SOM Jeffrey Sonnenfeld convened a call with 30 CEO including Goldman Sachs, Johnson & Johnson and Walmart at

RT @JeffSonnenfeld: "Corporate America had been supportive of Biden in the run-up to the election. A survey of CEOs conducted by the Yale S…

So this actually happened … On 6 November some of America's leading CEO convened to discuss possible Trump coup and how to respond. twitter.com/JeffSonnenfeld…

Woah … Full-blown Fox v. Trump camp standoff. twitter.com/rch371/status/…

RT @Jardine_bradley: After a diplomatic trip to Indonesia in 1960 Khrushchev was repulsed by the pungent durian fruit and ordered thousands…

“When Erdogan actually realised that the economy was going to take him down, he pivoted in a way that nobody was expecting.” Essential reading on

@zeithistoriker Precisely … or perhaps we should recognize that we were always already a pharmaceutical-financial-tech-agroindustrial-supply-chained complex totality!

UPS and DHL are building football field-sized ‘freezer farm’ for cold storage of Covid-19 vaccine deliveries. pharmaceuticalcommerce.com/cold-chain-foc… https://t.co/hjX3q39556

Last week was another week with initial jobless claims running at more than 1 million per week. If this is an improvement it is very

181,000 new covid cases in the US in one day, yesterday! https://t.co/aYacIERjOh

Pfizer/BioNTech’s vaccine is reliant on a cold chain that can keep it at a stable minus 70C = exceptionally cold for a vaccine -> big

I’ll admit to being genuinely surprised to learn that Mitch McConnell attended MLK’s I Have a Dream Speech and has a lifelong commitment to civil

As investors pile into mRNA biotech firms, BioN Tech is now worth more than Deutsche Bank. ft.com/content/c4ca84… https://t.co/igJWQAwzhr

"In 2010 the Commerce Dept prepared data for Obama admin’s Middle Class Task Force, headed by VP Joe Biden. Sidestepping knotty problems of just who