ADAM TOOZE

RT @hshierholz: The 1.2 million who applied for UI last week was an increase of 304,000 from the prior week. The increase was due in

RT @hshierholz: Another 1.2 million people applied for UI last week, including 965,000 who applied for regular state UI and 284,000 who app…

RT @jeannasmialek: This is quite the stat, from Brainard: "Federal Reserve staff analysis indicates that unemployment is likely above 20 pe…

@JoMicheII Precisely what I meant. Just ran out of characters. Quite the rearguard action they are mounting here.

RT @RealTimeWWII: The first cracks have appeared in the siege of Leningrad: Red Army troops from within the city embrace fellow Soviet sold…

RT @RajaKorman: I’ve been trying to do my bit but the European historical term both most necessary and most lacking in US political discour…

Cant wait for @EdwardGLuce in full Tarantino mode … twitter.com/EdwardGLuce/st…

“Consensus was wrong after 2008 financial crisis, when many organisations — including this newspaper — advocated fiscal retrenchment. Facts have changed and economists have changed

RT @Aidan_Regan: “That consensus can be wrong was on display after the 2008 financial crisis, when many organisations — including this news…

"procédure de destitution” = impeachment. Hard not to love French! twitter.com/lemondefr/stat…

How much more stimulus to expect in 2021? @GoldmanSachs thinks it could be $750bn. Low side surely! thedailyshot.com/2021/01/07/pol… https://t.co/MsDsr468cH

Ireland was borrowing at negative rates already in 2019. It is now deep in negative yield. @SoberLook https://t.co/W2neFnwcUy

RT @ReedReports: Just walked into the Capitol to find literally hundreds of troops napping and lining up in the Congressional Visitor Cente…

RT @munson_jo: Pelosi said her young staffers knew to barricade the door, turn out the lights, and be silent, because they learned it in sc…

RT @DanielaGabor: this pandemic offered a powerful reminder that Eastern European migrant workers are ruthlessly exploited on Western Europ…

RT @erinschaff: Inside the Capitol this morning where Speaker Pelosi usually walks to her office. https://t.co/BQIEf5b2s4

RT @jnordvig: We have a new substack out, on the bond market mayhem of March 2020. While it is a while ago now, it is

@CalibreObscura These prices are so fascinating. For context what is a laborer’s daily wage in this region? Or, perhaps more relevantly, what does a Toyota

A no doubt unfriendly Indian source alleging Pakistan’s ISI is running meth out of Gwadar port, a key node in BRI … twitter.com/JasonEligh/sta…

Mexcio’s growth has been disappointing for much of the last decade. But it ground to a halt already in 2019. @jude_webber deciphers riddles of Lopez

“We think they could have done more — Mexico has access to credit, cost of financing is at historically low levels.” Mexico faces “an enormous growth challenge

RT @ham_drawing: drawing, Joseph Mallord William Turner, 19th century harvardartmuseums.org/collections/ob… #harvardartmuseums #josephmallordwilliamturne…

RT @drlouiseivers: On the US strategy: we should end each day with no covid19 vaccines in the freezer. Every day with a shot in the

RT @jude_webber: This graph from Moody's illustrates the point – Mexico's fiscal stimulus is only marginally higher than that offered by Ug…

“By not spending much on pandemic relief measures, Mexico will be very close to running primary surpluses in 2020 and 2021.” @jude_webber on one of

Faced with 2020 shock key questions for Biden admin: 1. How do you ensure rapid and complete return to trend? 2. How do you ensure

"In 1980 total debt was 142 % of US GDP. In 2019 it was 254%. At same time investment as share of GDP FELL from

“Inflation trade” There's an index for stocks that do better in a more inflationary environment. Look what happened on the news from the Georgia Senate

“There is a risk that the automotive industry’s business model could collapse,” Toyoda of Toyota wants more than phrases from Tokyo on its energy transition

"In the last 40 years, a college degree has become the “big dividing line” in US society, as wages for college graduates have increased at

"All money that is anywhere must, of course, be somewhere. But it is important to remember too that the economic system consists of not one,

How many billions in Chinese stock will BlackRock and Vanguard have to offload from passively-managed ETFs as result of last-minute Trump sanctions v. China. Very

Contrary to @OECDeconomy data which suggest that huge post-tax inequality in US is down to tax/welfare system, data by @WIL_inequality @PikettyLeMonde et al suggest welfare/tax

For Europe the question of who succeeds Merkel is more important than who sits in the White House. Currently, CDU voters HUGELY favor Söder of

Climate litigation keeps piling up and firms like Shell are beginning to feel the heat! ft.com/content/fd42e2… https://t.co/aytVNwbMB3

Can Europe avoid a double-dip recession? Not looking good for Q1 2021. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/JfHiZ7zAqC