ADAM TOOZE

Scandinavian countries with high carbon prices are also leading push to displace internal combustion engines with E-mobility. @JoeMillerJr ft.com/content/7f6a40… https://t.co/t4AFDjNL54

Apparently when the 8th US Air Force lines up all its ancient B 52 bombers in a row it is called an “Elephant Walk”. They

At their peak this year, China’s oil imports were three times their level in 2010. China currently imports more oil than Saudi Arabia produces. In

EU car makers are required to ensure that their cars emit 95g of carbon dioxide per km driven on average -> they juggle portfolios of

Nearly Half of the U.S. Is in Drought. It May Get Worse. The most widespread drought in the continental United States since 2013 covers more

Lima, Peru’s mega-city, has worst corona mortality of any major city in the world and is also suffering an economic catastrophe. Unemployment, in a city

Despite huge uncertainty facing global economy, yields on riskier corporate debt are back down to 5% level seen at the beginning of 2020. ft.com/content/498313… https://t.co/BPaTncv9fw

Shifts in the voting-age population of the Trump coalition (white voters with no college degrees) and the Biden coalition (minority voters and white voters with

RT @MaxCRoser: @adam_tooze Definitions of what an urban place is are widely different between countries in the UN data. There is a table in…

The New South: White voters without college degrees (working class at a first approximation) make up 34-39% of electorate in Georgia, Florida, Arizona, N Carolina

"The number of voting-age white Trump core support: (white) Americans without college degrees has dropped by more than 5 m in the past 4 years,

What are you going to need if you have a huge surge in online purchases and deliveries? …. an AWFUL LOT OF CARDBOARD! Data @DailyFeather

Actual books, actual bookstore in Dujiangyan, China! @ArchDigest architecturaldigest.com/story/surreal-… https://t.co/ccVJfmzEtL

ECB repo facilities: In 2008-9 lack of repo facilities from Frankfurt for Eastern Europe was a sore point. In 2020 @ecb seems to have been

RT @RobinBrooksIIF: @adam_tooze @IMFNews IMF estimates highlight the basic issue: "consensus" gap estimates put a big weight on what GDP do…

Which countries are most urbanized? Gotta say that I find it surprising that larger % of LatAm and North American population is urbanized than in

Employing more than 40mn people, and with roughly US$30trn in assets, China’s state sector now produces more economic output than the UK, France, India, South

In 2022-23 @IMFNews is predicting that India, South Africa and Mexico will have larger output gaps than Spain and Italy … In fact, France will

“We always live in reaction mode. We don’t live in pre-emptive mode.” Excellent @FT piece on zoonotic mutation risks and global health. ft.com/content/c0badd… https://t.co/CPmSPEhI96

How worries about funding and liquidity conditions blew up equity markets in March 2020 and how, following central bank intervention, those fears, rapidly subsided. Nice

Brexit is doing a number of UK right now. But dangerous to jump to conclusions about stock market reaction as in lh graph from @business

Air traffic in the US continues to be c. 2/3 down. I NEVER thought I would say this, but I kinda look back with nostalgia

Cool 2008 and 2020 comparison chart from @IMFNews GFSR. Not just the number of economies contracting the pace of their contraction is staggering in 2020.

The threat of long economic Covid looms Governments need to focus on the cost of inaction, not the cost of supporting economies. GREAT James Ferguson

In 2020 tough-talking advocates of herd immunity did not turn out to have a realistic view of politics. Also in 2020 tough-talk in favor of

If the corona second wave hits the Euro area hard, how robust is the safety net for Italy? Last week spreads btw Italian and German

“F*** business”: Since 2016, it has been clear on both sides of Atlantic that alignment btw Tories/GOP & “capital” is reconfiguring & splintering. @CJFDillow @DEHEdgerton

OMG … how do you access the books? … you know what, I DONT CARE … how fabulous is this! twitter.com/chowleen/statu…

RT @drfarls: UK campus re-envisioned as 1945 Berlin. twitter.com/ryanhermens/st…

Given state of the Italian economy, shouldn’t these relatively low figures for COVID spending be a matter of concern in Brussels? If aim of July

RT @NHBranson: #Angola's economy contracted by 12.7% in Q2, more than the 4.6% reported by gov't, according to Instituto Nacional de Estatí…

Demographic divergence of early 21st century is remarkable. Median age of African populations is 19.4 = 1/2 Europe! Any historical demographers out there, or @OurWorldInData

2020: the year when an 11bn pound give-away to support millions of jobs is barely a ripple on a giant fiscal wave. @ChrisGiles_ ft.com/content/64cd79… https://t.co/exA97NV0a2

RT @laurimyllyvirta: @Silmarillion88 @adam_tooze That's how stimulus is deployed in China. Steel consumption isn't up 10% this year because…

RT @tomwxj: For the first time, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment publicly points finger at the National Energy Administration and sa…

RT @tomwxj: Testimonies about the gigantic #BeltandRoad from villagers in five countries: the Philippines, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan…