ADAM TOOZE

Credit Suisse, HSBC, Julius Baer, UBS are examining whether their clients in Hong Kong have ties to the city’s pro-… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286052276159873025

An Austro-Hungarian artillery position on the Korscharte, 19 July 1917. This photo demonstrates the challenges face… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285840883477368832

Stephen Bach – one of the security guards at my work – made this for the Staff Art Show and its the most insanely m…

Israeli Occupation Forces invaded the home of and arrested Rania Elias director of the Yabous Cultural Centre,one o… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285951020766564353

I’d like to think that I’m a reasonably even-keeled guy. As a political scientist I don’t go around yelling “fascis… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285970149896605696

Check out the article. This isn’t just a slip or an exaggerated headline. Its like a demented caricature of an anti… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286045198938779653

ESSENTIAL thread from @ernietedeschi on what is at stake in the debate about next round of stimulus. One for… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286042140108357639

$400 a month or $400 a week? https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/1286019352018538500

What does it say that I've read a thousand tweets about the tragedy of some people making a little more on unemploy… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286027022721069057

They're literally calling it a surge. The boomerang announces itself. https://twitter.com/AP/status/1285995599314264069

The COVID crisis in South Africa is no longer notional. 17k excess deaths. https://twitter.com/SABreakingNews/status/1286004718926348288

About 35,000 Lebanese graduate from university each year; the Lebanese economy even before the crisis offered jobs… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286030756385624070

CNBC reports that GOP considering cutting the $600/week benefit to less than $100/week https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/22/coronavirus-stimulus-republicans-consider-unemployment-insurance-extension.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.PostToTwitter

Egypt is now struggling with covid-19 in part because it lacks enough doctors: more than 10,000 have emigrated sinc… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286025723119931392

In Algeria, income per person has fallen from $5,600 in 2012 to under $4,000 today. Huge public spending cuts ahead… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286020690513027072

Oil revenues in MENA fell from over $1trn in 2012 to $575bn in 2019, says @IMFNews 2020 Arab countries are expecte… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286015656668696576

Amongst petrostates only Qatar can balance its budget at the current oil price of c. $40/barrel. Algeria needs $ 15… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286010623747268608

What is the climate sensitivity to a doubling of atmospheric CO2? Here's the thing: despite writing a giant 166-p… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285949112467312643

Flattened-out fish-hook is a new one on me. Apparently it describes the stagnation of the US airline in July 2020 7… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286000162637320193

This is a very thoughtful essay on the U.S.-China relationship from @adam_tooze https://lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n15/adam-tooze/whose-century

Five years ago, I found this one-of-a-kind misprint at @BMVBooksAnnex in Toronto. I kick myself to this day for not… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285979439772434433

Class War – Trade War – Cold War A new piece for the @LRB on escalating Sino-US tension. Follow up to the earlier p… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285982943786172417

Listening to The Drones, Then They Came for Me (2016) makes me nostalgic for my old traveling lifestyle. An engross… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285977908452814849

NYC took in $60.7bn in tax in 2019. Much of it is very vulnerable to the COV ID shock. A 10% shortfall is anticipat… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285972874952466433

@adam_tooze …Golden Fetters is that adjustments under the gold standard are borne disproportionately by the worki… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285957349820125184

Yesterday's view of the Isle of Dogs was intended to be my last visit there – but it prompted requests not to leave… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1278965447501676544

Faces of History: This is Emmanuel Louis Cartigny (1791-1892), who was the last surviving combatant in the Battle o… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285125151865155584

I've restored this original colour autochrome from 1926, taken at the proposed site of the Little Bighorn Battlefie… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285481182025732097

Beautiful, evocative and moving: This is the earliest known original colour film of London, taken in 1924 – only 5… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1030236577891594241

Here is another old autochome I've restored for you, taken 111 years ago at the first Paris Air Show in September 1… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285894034498695170

@michaelxpettis @adam_tooze I love reading your commentary Mr. Pettis, you’re one of the most knowledgeable and inf… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285966428789760002

Whose century? https://lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n15/adam-tooze/whose-century. A serious look at “Superpower Showdown” and two other new books on China-US… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285967314421243905

CUNY, where most city public school graduates from NYC attend college, has dramatically improved 3-year graduation… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285967844249702402