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@FADCLDN @alanbeattie @WorldBank Fair distinction but both are vanishingly unlikely.

@alanbeattie @karolkarpinski @WorldBank Fascinating.

RT @n_j_dames: Struck by these condensed thoughts on middleness by @adam_tooze: being in the middle is where we (inevitably) are and yet it…

Germany’s FDP in 1971 defined issue of distributional justice as an issue of freedom. twitter.com/OliverBWeber/s…

@alanbeattie @karolkarpinski @WorldBank But the way the argument runs is not “We worry about @WorldBank because we worry about US politics”. The argument is: "World

Thanks @Morris_ScottA for chiming in. So why is the debt even subject to the same regime of bond rating and subject to threat of a

@alanbeattie @WorldBank Or money invested?

@alanbeattie @WorldBank Its such a strange series of negotiations in which public agencies are forced into private banking frameworks.

Nothing has shaped my thinking since Crashed more than exchanges with @DanielaGabor Shutdown can be read as a continuing dialogue with her work. twitter.com/KeirMilburn/st…

Post-Brexit a margin has opened up between shipping costs from China to major North European ports and to the UK. ft.com/content/c6c452… https://t.co/gZ9QozZu63

@StephenPaduano @WorldBank The shareholders in the bank are all the major governments in the world, all of them issuers of fiat currency. What is the

@alanbeattie @WorldBank But why is there such a thing as a bond rating for an agency that cannot conceivably default? Isnt it even more nonsensical

"Merkel made her strongest intervention yet in German election campaign, using what may be her last speech in Bundestag to warn of the dangers of

One of the mind-blowing things I discovered whilst writing Shutdown was that @WorldBank really, really cares about its AAA bond rating. I mean, how is

No two friends more important for seeing us through the crisis: THANK YOU @MishPooh and “Peezie" 🙂 twitter.com/MishPooh/statu…

Really looking forward to this conversation with @dwallacewells this evening. Thank you @strandbookstore twitter.com/strandbookstor…

Poland in May requested €23.9bn in grants under the EU’s landmark recovery funds programme, along with €12.1bn in loans, but the package has yet to

To see the CDU in a national poll fall to 19% is simply staggering. Clearly the counter attack strategy of last week and the promise

RT @peter_tl: Had a great chat with @adam_tooze last week. Here it is… twitter.com/Breakingviews/…

RT @incunabula: European civilization is built on ham and cheese, which allowed protein to be stored throughout the icy winters. Without…

RT @TheEconomist: The world’s official covid-19 death count is 4.6m, but we estimate that between 9.4m and 18.2m people have died. Our new…

RT @BungaCast: 🚨New Episode🚨 In 2020, everything changed. Adam Tooze joins us to discuss his new book Shutdown. Is the effect of all the…

All the while Jameson was apparently recommending Phililp K. Dick to his students. twitter.com/ummodern/statu…

RT @colm_m: Nominally, I'm a professional historian, but I still get childishly excited – with the emphasis on 'childishly' – when I uncove…

RT @TOLOnews: Video: Women held a protest in Balkh province on Monday calling to preserve the achievements of the past 20 years and to incl…

RT @picharbonnier: Incroyable quand même la trace que laisse cette série dans la mémoire des années après encore. C'était vraiment un chef…

RT @smilingnodding: RIP Michael K. Williams https://t.co/DiG6eMf2dK

RT @pmpoc: Sad to hear Michael K. Williams has passed away – one of the best character actors of his generation – rest in peace:

@TrademarkBF @BungaCast Yup. Thats kinda the schtick of Shutdown actually. Our reality is more Frankenstinian.

@Dictynna8 @pareene This could get a little Groucho Marx couldn’t it? Imagine the gesture … "you’re astonished that I’m astonished, you say … well ….”.

Franz Josef Strauß was a huge backer of atomic power and in the 1980s that made him a conservative climate hawk attacking German coal-addiction …

RT @Watch_Greens: Dutzende Kulturschaffende rufen zur Wahl der #Grünen auf (#diesmalgruen). In der Begründung lesen wir, dass die Grünen di…

RT @SDowntheground: @DuncanWeldon @Patrick_Wyman @adam_tooze “It is quite a bloody book. It is also the rarest of surprises: a read that yo…

RT @CraigAWhiteside: good read on the Fed and its policy of limitless cash in the 2020 crisis: “Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Econo…

@AlbertReymann I HOPE you are right. I fear not.