ADAM TOOZE

China’s share of global exports has surged in 2020 to record levels. @ISABELNET_SA via @SoberLook https://t.co/YZjUz6WZpI

The Euro Area now imports as much from China as from the UK and the USA combined. @Brad_Setser via @SoberLook https://t.co/3l6W8NCylN

2017 was the year in which all elements of America’s net international investment position – debt & equity – went negative. @bcaresearch via @SoberLook https://t.co/Ngcp9M2wfZ

Sales of earthmoving equipment by Caterpillar point to a divided recovery worldwide. @TS_Lombard via @SoberLook https://t.co/TkQAVGNqY1

Set myself this morning to reading Catherine Schenk’s fascinating genealogical take on Bretton Woods system in her Per Jacobsson Lecture at @BIS_org by way of

If you translate hours lost due to COVID into GDP shares by way of output per hour worked -> there is now a $982 billion

Its right to say that the BoJ was a pioneer of monetary policy in face of new lowflation regime in the 1990s. BUT in quantitative

RT @HyunSongShin: @adam_tooze Still running https://t.co/bDoKiY7qEL

RT @Jayati1609: Fascinating Per Jacobsson lecture @BIS_org from Catherine Schenk, with insightful inputs from @adam_tooze @Brad_Setser and…

RT @DavidBeckworth: @R2Rsquared @adam_tooze @Brad_Setser @BIS_org Fascinating comments, @R2Rsquared. Will your comments be available as a d…

The first Fed swap line network: created in 1960s to manage tensions within Bretton Woods system. Remarkable data from Catherine Schenck Per Jacobsson Lecture. Streamed

@in_evenflow @Jayati1609 @DanielaGabor @Lagarde Point well taken. But no additional stimulus response in 2020, as far as I understand.

@ykazakv Hi Yuri can you point me to the source for the Dostoevsky quotes from the World Bank?

Even as temporary layoffs have fallen, permanent layoffs in the US have now hit recession levels. @TS_Lombard via @SoberLook https://t.co/TikqYIuFcP

@Jayati1609 @DanielaGabor @Lagarde IMF/World Bank seem to be playing an almost schizophrenic role: both urgently advocating “quality spending” & warning about long-term “sustainability" and building

RT @Jayati1609: @adam_tooze @DanielaGabor @Lagarde Absolutely @adam_tooze. India is among the most severe cases of continued self-imposed e…

US Fed government spending on unemployment has plunged since the summer. thedailyshot.com/2020/10/21/mar… https://t.co/moXnOcV0My

Fed bilateral swap lines developed in 1960s to manage Bretton Woods exchange rate pressure and $ funding pressures rose in scale to match those in

Fed reserves swap lines, 1962-1998. Catherine Schenk breaking new ground in her Per Jacobsson Lecture. Streaming here: bis.org/events/per_jac… https://t.co/WqnnIQ8CR7

Both copper and aluminum prices are surging on demand from China. thedailyshot.com/2020/10/21/mar… https://t.co/lPVyZuLSH2

As natural gas prices in Europe have quadrupled since May -> demand has spilled into the market for coal which has seen rising prices despite

Imagine if there were to be a Dem clean sweep, gigantic stimulus for the US economy, years of giant bond issuance … what would you

For the swap line crowd, Catherine Schenk’s presentation and the discussion is not to be missed! Bombshells about the 1960s. twitter.com/R2Rsquared/sta…

@Jayati1609 @DanielaGabor @Lagarde Hi @Jayati1609 Looking forward to our discussion. Is it India that you have in mind on the hawkish side? Mexico (somewhat surprisingly)?

As a hedge against financial uncertainty, real estate prices in Turkey are surging. @SoberLook https://t.co/UuCNdAJAQp

How UK spending in pubs rebounded from early July. Full recovery yoy by late September. And now …. @LongviewEcon via @SoberLook https://t.co/x9L4uQDUdq

Funding for strategic emerging sectors in the Chinese economy is booming. @Gavekal via @SoberLook https://t.co/M4py23whMv

Funding for strategic emerging sectors in the Chinese economy is booming. @Gavekal via @SoberLook https://t.co/FY1JygQGgH

RT @M_C_Klein: GDP Growth Was Massive. There’s Still a Long Way to Go. barrons.com/articles/gdp-g… <– would take until end of 2022 for GDP t…

RT @jasonfurman: One way to understand what is going on in the economy is by looking at monthly GDP. Unfortunately the government does not…

RT @TheEconomist: Our Marjorie Deane intern will spend three months with The Economist writing about finance and economics https://t.co/1By…

RT @business: Walmart has temporarily pulled ammunition and guns off its shelves ahead of any possible civil unrest that could take place f…

Peak Trump Tweeting was on evening of June 3 2020 when he fired off 122 tweets/retweets in a single 60 minute period. His average is

From 2012, tight oil capital investment dwarfed shale gas and outpaced conventional fields equinor.com/en/news/202010… https://t.co/AJDL4d8aLU

Investment in agriculture as a share of GDP extremely low fao.org/3/i2490e/i2490… https://t.co/s3lfNiTGq9

RT @AestheticaMag: .@LeedsArtsUni highlights "the Leeds table" – a group of artists, including Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, who enroll…