ADAM TOOZE

RT @ahistoryinart: John Piper's work shows us The Congreve Monument designed by William Kent in around 1737; commissioned by Lord Cobham a…

According to one estimate $5.8trn-worth of financial crime was perpetrated in 2018—equivalent to 6.7% of global gdp. A decade-old estimate by the United Nations Office

RT @LucaMorandini4: @adam_tooze A group of “Avanguardisti” (the Italian “Hitlerjugend”), with winter uniform but without tunic. Since the s…

RT @miguelitoj89: Reading @adam_tooze essay (must read) threw me back to my undergrad where Krugman's NYT column definitely politicized me…

The Fed’s balance sheet is approaching $8 trillion. The central bank now owns over $7 trillion of Treasury and Agency MBS debt. H/t @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2021/04/16/low…

@istvan_szilard Thank you! Much appreciated.

RT @VictorianWeb: For anyone reading #Trollope tonight, here's Julia Margaret Cameron's wonderful portrait photo of him, of 1864. Wish he…

One of the factors helping to drive the Treasury rally is foreign buying. US debt hedged into yen is relatively attractive! thedailyshot.com/2021/04/16/low… https://t.co/1i6rSGfVVb

Fascinating story of how Coca Cola strong-armed Atlanta's white elites into honoring MLK after his 1964 Nobel prize. Based on Rick Allen’s Atlanta Rising. npr.org/sections/codes…

Nonfungible tokens are down 60% from their $4000 high a few months ago. thedailyshot.com/2021/04/09/us-… https://t.co/cruPIcr6PB

What’s causing the swoon in the Indian rupee? thedailyshot.com/2021/04/09/us-… https://t.co/v8rZqrY0hj

Cosmic Bazaar: How a gamified platform is helping UK government to identify superforecasters in rank of civil service. Truly fascinating stuff this …. One for

It is a working assumption of climate politics in US in 2021 that carbon pricing is no-go. But at same time the carbon offset business

RT @olivier_fontan: Passionnant papier de @adam_tooze sur #Krugman, son dernier bouquin, sa trajectoire et celle de l'économie aux États-Un…

Are the dudes on the left hand side of this admittedly gorgeous photo wearing black shirts and little caps, members of the fascist party? twitter.com/Rinoire/status…

“We agreed to oppose any attempts to change the status quo by force or coercion in the East and South China Seas and intimidation of

For @IPQuarterly I did a piece on logic of EU policy towards China and mult-track detente v. US grand strategy of fusion (under Trump) ip-quarterly.com/en/fragility-e…

"China vies with US for lead in global climate diplomacy." This by @lesliehook and @cdcshepherd is really interesting. ft.com/content/b243ed… https://t.co/sot9IIF9y8

US pretensions to “climate leadership” are likely to face pushback in coming weeks: "Zhao Lijian, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman, on Friday described the US as

Crypto has been popular in Turkey as a hedge against inflation and devaluation. Largest in MENA. #29 worldwide. Now central bank issues ban on use

As of Jan. 29 2021, the U.K. had submitted 44%, or around 190,000, of the COVID19 genomes held in a global library. Now the Biden

One thing the UK did really well in 2020: genomic sequencing By early Dec UK had tracked virus mutations in about 9 per cent of

RT @RoshwaldAviel: Suez Canal blockage results in British garden-gnome shortage amidst pandemic-related demand spike. https://t.co/e9froe8v…

WH announced that it was allocating $1.7bn from the $1.9trn American Rescue Plan, to fight dangerous COVID variants, the bulk of which will support increasing

RT @Mark3Ds: #PrincePhilipfuneral: 'project, which spanned 16 years, resulted in the custom-built #LandRover Defender TD5 130, which he req…

RT @ACGeoEcon: What we're reading: @adam_tooze in @ForeignPolicy on why Draghi and Yellen, the leading economists of their generation, have…

"Republicans Will Regret Their Breakup With Big Business The party has moved from apologizing for corporate America to threatening it.” Why @tylercowen is always worth

@maxberger Thank you.

Carbon free aviation is a crucial technological step. The UK is home to Rolls Royce a key player in the aeroengine business. UK government freezes

Feb 2021 was the best month ever for America’s RV industry shipments ended the month with 48,286 units, an increase of 30.1% compared to the

"it does not hurt Biden that the global guardians of economic orthodoxy i.e. IMF have endorsed the most radical US programme in generations, especially when

RT @GagnonMacro: Treasury releases first foreign exchange report under Janet Yellen. Does not call any country a currency manipulator but s…

RT @NaomiOhReally: The number of weekly new Covid-19 infections around the world has doubled over the past two months, and is now approachi…

RT @TheStalwart: This is really big. Goldman seems peak oil demand for transportation occurring in just 5 years bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

"getting global pandemic under control would yield >$1trn in additional tax revenues in AE by 2025 & save more in fiscal support .” @MESandbu So