ADAM TOOZE

In early 2000s, the promise of uncorrelated returns though diversification helped establish commodities as an asset class -> $200bn AUM in indices like BCOM/GSCI. But

Australia’s LNG industry has called for more land to be opened up for exploration after the EU issued a proposal that declared some forms of

In some cases, analysts say Ark’s investor inflows were clearly the main driver of the performance of its stocks and, as the tide turned, Ark

"Over the strong dissents of Fed board governor Lael Brainard, the central bank has repeatedly weakened the stress tests.” Sheila Bair checks in! ft.com/content/625377… https://t.co/IKiPXI1KnX

The majority of Nato’s members continue to fall short of their common goal of spending at least 2 per cent of gross domestic product on

Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s liberal competition commissioner, has pushed back against the idea that semiconductor investment will require a loosening of the EU’s state-aid rules,

“What a mess,” said @ErikFossing chief economics adviser at UniCredit, adding that Lagarde was “clearly shaken by the latest inflation number and wanted to buy

RT @b_judah: Cocktails named after oped clichés: — What Putin Really Wants 🍸 — Why I’m Leaving New York 🍹 Anymore?

RT @70sBachchan: 7/ Here is headline you'd see if Media wasn't so hungry for war in Europe: "Republicans adamant that US cannot allow the T…

RT @lieven_anatol: As a European, I am getting very tired of this hypocritical, dangerous bloviating by the NATO secretariat and some Europ…

RT @Shreyas_Shende1: Chartbook #77: More than 7000 deaths per day … and we talk as though it is over: @adam_tooze adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-77……

@BlueInGreen14_ VERY cool. Thank you!

RT @timothymfrye: Good detail here from @JasonBordoff Regardless of Russia’s gas cutbacks, Europe’s own policies have made shortages and p…

RT @PP_Rubens: Snowy landscape near Antwerp, with house burning down on this side of the river. A common winter danger, back in the day! He…

This is the opposite of new news, but the surge in child poverty in Thatcher’s Britain in the 1980s is staggering. From Cooper&Szreter, After the

"vaporware China economic policy” this long read on Biden’s China-policy dilemmas by @bobdavis187 is essential reading! politico.com/news/magazine/… https://t.co/lvMleB1R3n

The vaccines have been the great success story of the COVID disaster. But even the pathbreaking, record-fast mRNA vax relied on decades of prior research

"Orsted’s “brown” gas and power assets helped shield the world’s largest offshore wind developer from a blow to earnings at its “green” business amid unfavourable

Why has COVAX been such a weak offset to the massive imbalance in global vaccine supply? Reports by @MSF & @TBIJ feature in Chartbook #77,

RT @r_bellofiore: To be read. twitter.com/adam_tooze/sta…

In 2022 we will have capacity to deliver 20 billion vax doses = enough to amply cover entire global population but 1. Will funding and

The average global cigarette consumption is over 3 per day! And in the last twenty years the reduction in smoking prevalence has slowed to a

RT @MitchellBernar2: @adam_tooze @e_sarotte @FT @e_sarotte's work on the the historical basis of the current confrontation is a perfect cou…

In 2022 we will have capacity to deliver 20 billion vax doses = enough to amply cover entire global population but 1. Will funding and

"Not One Inch is a riveting account of Nato enlargement and its contribution to the present confrontation.” Delighted to see @e_sarotte latest get a great

@rajan_menon_ Thanks Rajan!

Last week, every day at least 7000 people died of COVID around the world. And yet we talk as though the pandemic is over. Chartbook

RT @DEHEdgerton: Great piece by @leninology ending with mindboggling thoughts about writing a self-help book that tells the truth.

RT @planetdenken: Great new essay by Peter Gordon in @NewStatesman on Adorno's Minima Moralia at 70: "The task of Minima Moralia is to assi…

RT @GYamey: 🦦 OMG, @devisridhar, did you see this? Students get extra points if they send their brilliant professor, @nwnancy, a photo of…

@Luisa_Jent @JuliaSophiaSch @sh_schneider @jorim_gerrard Gerne

@JuliaSophiaSch @sh_schneider @Luisa_Jent @jorim_gerrard Sure. Happy to.

The afghani’s weakening has stoked what international aid agencies consider the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, pushing prices for essential goods beyond the means of desperate

Leading charities working in Afghanistan are demanding that the @WorldBank and its key shareholders release more than $1.2bn in frozen funds to pay teachers and

Note to self we are NOT in a post-pandemic world: COVID is a disease, which as of last week was killing at least 8000 people