ADAM TOOZE

“From the first moment people began to wear gloves and masks, we’ve also began to see them at sea.” First there wa… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286662424045600780

90% of COVID clinical trials are in AE. @davidpilling makes a convincing case for broader involvement of low income… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286657385281413121

31.8 m Americans on continued unemployment benefits i.e. recognized as unemp by a FAR from generous system. That i… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286652352154411008

All around us the businesses that made America’s urban revival are dying. Great piece by @andrewvandam… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286647326254088193

If a business is still closed at this point in the crisis, it’s probably permanent @andrewvandam With COVID shock… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286642285640392704

Remember that first unemployment claims number on 26 March when we all lost our minds … 18 weeks later … e I g h t…

@natsecHeather Thanks for yr excellent critique. Totally agree. I was torn btw doing justice to economic arguments… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286635534752907266

"In 2011, Pfizer, a US pharmaceutical company, set aside $35m to settle with families of Nigerian children who had… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286632221105721346

Vaccine deal-making is, perhaps predictably, a shambolic mess. @FT is trying to keep track.… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286627186154311680

‘The mistake in thinking that we are in a ‘new Cold War’ is in thinking of it as new. In putting a full stop after…

Whose century? Very fine piece on the dilemma of the West and China. Hint: it's not really about trade anymore. by… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286620062774890496

Unlike other major challenges like climate change, inequality etc COVID-19 appears to have a simple fix. Vaccine. R… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286616528209809409

Privacy/quasi-sovereignty on the cheap. "You don't need to be a billionaire to buy an island. If you’re able to bu… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286610114959609856

Very perceptive review of The Deficit Myth. *The* debate in macroeconomics should be the cause of price stability.… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286597274727002112

"Stories shared by Xi Jinping” (Yup that’s a category): "The Jiawu War (1894-5 v. Japan) is a story President Xi Ji… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286536589225558016

Though most of the concerns have surrounded the Three Gorges Dam, the biggest immediate danger may be to the 94,000… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286531556115271680

Xi addresses a meeting of top business leaders in China. Stresses need to develop domestic demand and for businesse… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286526525500616704

"Stories shared by Xi Jinping” (Yup that’s a category): "The Jiawu War (1894-5 v. Japan) is a story President Xi Ji… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286463076292800513

Though most of the concerns have surrounded the Three Gorges Dam, the biggest immediate danger may be to the 94,000… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286458678481227777

Xi addresses a meeting of top business leaders in China. Stresses need to develop domestic demand and for businesse… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286457756547977218

In his great review of the quest for hegemony and US-China relations, @adam_tooze highlights the changing role of e… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286338708141154306

JUST IN: The CDC says the U.S. should anticipate between 160,000 and 175,000 total reported COVID-19 deaths by Aug.… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286361235546660864

@KaiserKuo @LRB @michaelxpettis @M_C_Klein @Lingling_Wei @bobdavis187 @Brad_Setser @70sBachchan Done.

“In 1949, ‘Who lost China?’ was the question that tortured the American political establishment. Seventy years late… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286305210751754243

@adam_tooze @StatistaCharts @SoberLook they took off outside japan when apple made it easy to use them from non-jap… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286330953225428993

The history of emojis begins in 1995. But it really seems to have taken off with the age of the smartphone and soci… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286330232966971393

One of really perverse effects of COVID crisis is that it puts people off public transport and pushes them back to… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286325196522164225

New paper addresses one of the biggest COVID-19 stories in the world: What the hell happened to Israel?… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286320775423840256

This is unbelievably bad. The permanent damage being done to the economy by our failure to contain the virus. Accor… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286324427467231233

"…the US may well find that it has become the junior partner or, at best, the leader of a coalition of smaller po… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286295931776905220

World turned upside down? Japan and Switzerland are now the only major 10 yr government bonds on which you can ear… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286318519232208896

@adam_tooze Thanks much as always. ECB (lhs) and BoJ (middle) QE were basically about portfolio shifts, taking gove… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286307808133226500

Of the three great shocks to funding of state and local gov in the US this century, COVID is far worse than 2008 or… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286305064068567041

“Alternative” energy v. Fossil fuel shares. Will 2020 go down as the year in which the economics tipped definitivel… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286300031889190914

Inflation-adjusted prices for oil, gold, silver since 1860! A lot of economic history in this one graph. Stability… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286294997562560512