ADAM TOOZE

The Her.Tietz Initiative calls on the @thehertieschool and the Hertie Foundation to begin an active and open engagement with the Nazi Aryanization that defined their

“I have a hard time thinking a communist will win in Chile” – after the left win in Ecuador and Argentina, there is talk of

Macroeconomics trumps geopolitics: China’s share of Australia’s exports surged above 41 % in 6 months to August. Australia is 5th-largest exporter to China and one

“What you’ll get with a Biden presidency is matrixed, integrated, shades-of-grey foreign policy” which may cause “whiplash” in Latin America – notably Colombia and Brazil.

Fed’s ghost programs: $600bn Main Street Lending Program has made $3.7 bn in loans $500bn Municipal bond facility has bought $1.7bn Fed set aside $750bn

In 1990s Daniel Yergin was the great master narrator of the unipolar moment: The Prize, The Commanding Heights. Where is the epic narrator of global

"Imports into China hit their highest dollar amount in Sep – $203bn – as world’s 2nd-largest economy increased purchases of iron ore, agricultural commodities and

How high can yields go? @colbyLsmith puts one of the big questions of election week. A Blue Wave would suggest big deficits and more growth

"Most of those looking to follow Mr Trump, such as Mike Pompeo, his secretary of state, or Tom Cotton, the Arkansas senator, are harder-line versions

Last week International Finance Facility for Immunisation attracted $1.5bn in bids for a $500m bond at 0.44 % to raise funds for Gavi corona vaccination

"2020: A Global Crisis Like No Other?" – Video from an excellent discussion with Mary O'Sullivan (@UNIGEnews) youtu.be/o27NrQbZQh8 via @CentreMarcBloch I took the introduction of

“Simple fact is that since 1900, $10,000 invested in DJIA only when Republicans were president would have grown to about $100,000 (4.0 % annualized) v.

“In a world where oil was the only game in town, there was a sense that things will always come back. But it isn’t the

"Moderna has received more than $1bn in deposits from Govs for its potential Covid-19 vaccine, highlighting how the pandemic has transformed the fortunes of the

"The US gerontocracy resembles the later, decrepit phase of the Soviet Union.” I did an election-eve piece for @guardian on where American democracy is now.

"Big European oil and gas companies have shed more than €360bn in market value this year while renewable energy stocks and technology companies focused on

July recovery package deal flipped narrative in the EU from euro gloom to optimism. Thing is … the deal was never actually done. Come Nov

“Instead of a Covid vaccine, a “Instead of a Covid vaccine, a lethal dose of bearish infusion is being administered to the financial and oil

RT @heimbergecon: Due to the second round of lockdowns, public debt ratios will increase even more than recent forecasts suggest. Problem i…

“We like the landscape … The problems are disguised due to various government schemes. But going into 2021 there will be a lot of pain

RT @LiorSteinberg: Rotterdam metro train went tonight through a stop block and ended up over an artwork, creating an even more interesting…

RT @nssylla: @adam_tooze @madeline_woker Indeed, that's true. It makes me laugh whenever French officials say the CFA franc (peg to the eur…

@Kieran_1_ @HelenHet20 Wow … @HelenHet20 did a podcast with Daniel Yergin about his Maps book.

@Boubs4444 @RiouxRemy @nssylla @madeline_woker Great point. If Cote d’Ivoire FDI from France is same as that of Senegal in per capita terms, I would guestimate

RT @bucephalus424: Probably posted this before but something I think about a lot is how over half of all the people killed in WWII were

“Controversial legacies are not unusual in Germany. What is unusual is how long @thehertieschool has taken to deal with its past.” ft.com/content/95b8f5… @her_tietz is calling

QME – qualitative military edge is a promise to Israel that the US enshrined in law in 2008. In this paper a bunch of US

"US state department has notified Congress that it intends to sell 50 F35 fighter jets to UEA, after Israel dropped its objections. By law, the

If the world learned in 1916 that American presidential elections were pivotal to global politics, in November 1918 it learned that control of the Senate

"Fitch Ratings forecasts that the junk bond default rate will stay at about 5 per cent until 2022, for a cumulative, three-year default rate of

Exxon sees a major LNG project in Mozambique as a “highway to India”. ft.com/content/30ffa5… businesstimesafrica.net/index.php/engi… https://t.co/oFBIBiKEOL

"Bank of America estimates that central bank asset purchases have globally averaged about $1.5bn an hour this year, containing what analysts say would otherwise probably

In absence of reliable grid electricity, developing economies around the world rely on diesel generators. In Nigeria 70% of firms own or share a unit.

In 2011 Exxon made a shale gas play in … GERMANY! You gotta hand it to them. ft.com/content/30ffa5… https://t.co/A5OXxNW6CB

“It’s a moment in time where the opportunity set is so rich”. Distressed debt investors have raised c. $100bn to exploit covid crisis. But so