ADAM TOOZE

@Casmilus @davies_will And consign a generation to “orthodoxy”?

@davies_will Thank you will!

The latest Chartbook just dropped. Writing history in medias res – "in the thick of it.” And yup, it is part 1 of the long

Two major measures of US consumer confidence have uncoupled but both are currently pointing in the wrong direction. thedailyshot.com/2021/09/01/no-… https://t.co/rHYDv11M0o

“Pay them more” – for 1st time average supermarket and restaurant wages in America break $15 per hour. thedailyshot.com/2021/09/02/man… https://t.co/9FIH7RIvKU

Remittances to Mexico hit record levels. thedailyshot.com/2021/09/02/man… https://t.co/e5LCZ85W6p

Obviously a one-off surge in government checks is no solution to the problem of poverty in America, but it certainly helps to put money in

Mexican bank lending continues to contact, even relative to levels of 12 months ago! thedailyshot.com/2021/09/02/man… https://t.co/r0svasZSgU

The rise in global food prices is beginning to decelerate. thedailyshot.com/2021/09/02/man… https://t.co/CHA5CBCPhM

Pace of contraction in Mexican manufacturing was slowing, no longer. thedailyshot.com/2021/09/02/man… https://t.co/FvXQ8KykRD

In 2020 clean energy shares dominated dirty energy stocks. In 2021 not so much. thedailyshot.com/2021/09/02/man… https://t.co/yx1DDnHDeC

Australia’s trade surplus is at record levels. thedailyshot.com/2021/09/02/man… https://t.co/1dCjdLFVat

USA 2021: OPEC turns down Biden “climate" administration request to up oil output, in pages of WSJ adorned with advertising for wind powered cell phones.

How long will it take for Eastern Europe to recover from the COVID shock. Czech Republic is 10% down on pre-covid trend. thedailyshot.com/2021/09/02/man… https://t.co/YaLMsOhdBG

RT @MoneyGram: Online transfer services to Afghanistan are now available from $0 fees* to help you send money for essentials. https://t.co/…

@yeselson @rafkhach @dbessner Ohm its my own psycho-intellectual well-being I’m worried about!

@yeselson @rafkhach @dbessner At some future point, in the "Chartbook on Shutdown” sequence.

@yeselson @rafkhach @dbessner Actually I regret saying even that much tbh.

@yeselson @rafkhach @dbessner Couldn’t agree more.

@yeselson @rafkhach @dbessner I dont know that we are arguing. You tweeted: "Wondering how @adam_tooze would respond to my remark here?” I’m responding.

@yeselson @rafkhach @dbessner Sure …but you in no way “do justice" to historic fascism if you apply that label to this 21st-century US formation.

@yeselson @rafkhach @dbessner And counter-majoritarian is definitely =/= fascist. It would seem to be stance of a large part of the GOP.

@yeselson @rafkhach @dbessner Dont disagree. In fact, say exactly that in the conclusion to Shutdown. And in another tweet a second ago.

@yeselson @dbessner I think the important thing is to disaggregate "business elites" into at least three groups: corporate managerial elite -> Biden (e.g. "you need

@rafkhach @yeselson @dbessner My point precisely. And I think we know what the circumstances would have been under which that might not have been the

@yeselson @dbessner Of course one can find reactionary plutocrats to back all sorts of causes. Thats very different from the situation of facing a seriously

RT @HetanShah: ‘Shutdown concludes with a plea for “constant interplay of expertise and counter-expertise”. It is a wake-up call for us to…

If you look at month on month inflation, not yoy & index of Personal Consumption Expenditures rather than CPI, what we are seeing in the

RT @pisaniferry: Thanks Adam. But a take-away from our panel is that in the US, the takeover of intl econ relations by foreign policy types…

@mindwarm @Gavekal @SoberLook In fact Chinese.

@RajaKorman @M_C_Klein @jordanschnyc WOW … that is so “obvious” and yet, when you see those numbers. WOW …. WOW …. WOW.

@Metatone2 @auralflaneur @meadwaj I like both these points. In some ways (5) subject formation is the most resilient of all and we are all in

By 2025, based on current enrolment, China will be graduating twice as many STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) PhDs as the US. @Gavekal via @SoberLook

RT @AnankeGroup: More than 30,000 pupils did not return to school across #Namibia during the gradual return to classes after the 2020 Covid…

RT @BBCYaldaHakim: Fighting rages on in #Panjshir & the situation is fluid. The Taliban have made some progress. I've just spoken to one of…

Many people have been warning about Evergrande’s insane business model for many years. Now it seems to be imploding. How might it become a systemic