ADAM TOOZE

Edward Quince was the pseudonym used by Ben Bernanke for confidential email communication in 2008-2009.… https://t.co/7wCF6sZYDx

It isn’t just in Hong Kong that Beijing is taking a hard line. Under enforcer Chen Yixin, the Central Political and… https://t.co/JUkLBJh9Js

Over last 12 months Chinese pulic opinion towards the US has taken a turn for the worse. @ChinaDataLab1… https://t.co/PsgGzjoFlN

Third Front: New book on Mao’s massive military-industrial campaign of late 1960s by @cfmeyskens looks fascinating.… https://t.co/gUYm7UZHkN

Btw 1964 to 1973 Mao’s China launched massive military-industrial campaign known as “Third Front” -> huge reallocat… https://t.co/vzoqkXUHKE

The essay topics for China’s notoriously ferocious Gaokao examine this year are really quite interesting. Discuss “… https://t.co/OLsibc1pkV

Deutsche Telekom is tightly connected to Huawei. As recently in 2019 they were In strategic talks to deepen their p… https://t.co/drjVMLyWnh

Doomsday predictions had rising Chn-US tension -> capital flight from HK & dollar peg breaking downwards. In fact,… https://t.co/14sHBgz0xP

Meet the Tianyue, China's first entirely self-developed computer, which just started rolling off production line YU… https://t.co/alQE65bD7R

This is a remarkable history of TSMC the pivotal Taiwanese chip foundry. In Chinese but quite readable if you stick… https://t.co/jBK1uMvdth

Tam Yiu-chung, only Hongkonger actually involved in drafting the security law, has 2 sons safely in Australia. Car… https://t.co/9b8LTAnzVT

Edward Quince was the pseudonym used by Ben Bernanke for confidential email communication in 2008-2009.… https://t.co/FeKuFgexqp

The monstrosity that is the American Dream mall in New Jersey (en route to Newark airport) is circling the drain.… https://t.co/oAa90psAba

Dharavi, a slum in Mumbai where 850,000 people are packed into 2.5 sq km and as many as 80 people share each toilet… https://t.co/xvZeqZNyH7

The contraction of UK GDP in 2020 is likely to be the worst macroeconomic shock in 310 years. @bankofengland via… https://t.co/lJZusOTk9t

The COVID disaster in the UK has been associated with no significant excess mortality for those below the age of 45… https://t.co/zOb4n05c89

What if … Arctic shipping lanes open up? @TheEconomist has an entertaining and illuminating section of climate chan… https://t.co/PPySWknIvV

From the 1870 Statistical Atlas: A fiscal chart showing US revenues, expenditures, and public debt, 1789-1870… https://t.co/lfYCKs2ndS

Esimate, made in 2019 by Howard J. Herzog of MITy, was that removing 1m tonnes of carbon dioxide a year from the ai… https://t.co/twso9o4y8w

After the IRS started examining a lot of rich people's tax returns, Republicans successfully slashed IRS funding an… https://t.co/8b7nxCf1Rm

As ever, essential commentary on the ongoing labour market disaster in the US by @hshierholz Another 2.4 m folks a… https://t.co/WPDAGXxf9g

The benign view of the "retail apocalypse" is that job losses in brick & mortar retail (blue) will be made up elsew… https://t.co/yeG0KkThGc

And one might add it would have been even worse for capital had not so much of the cost been covered by states in m…

2015-19 was 1st period since Orville & Wright in 1903 in which airline industry covered cost of capital. Buffett, o… https://t.co/yyCY0gqELD

With heavy hearts, the Bank Street Bookstore has made the very difficult decision to permanently close at the end o… https://t.co/xgWKOQj0dA

Tesla: com­pa­ny’s equity mar­ket cap is more than $250 bil­lion, and now roughly equal “the com­bined val­ues of T… https://t.co/9zGKautQab

In celebration of Chesapeake Energy’s hubris. Ultimately doomed, but it in the mean time it “changed the world”. Th… https://t.co/wNM3WUe1vb

Last week, 2.4 million workers applied for unemployment benefits. This is the 16th week in a row that unemployment… https://t.co/wSmReL11xh

At times in the 2000s Chesapeake was considered the Google of energy. It had negotiated land leases for gas frackin… https://t.co/VrJnvrasL1

Offshore wind is beginning to gather momentum in the US but it looks to lag far behind EU, China and Korea (in pro… https://t.co/8KWPKA1mkU

US investment in offshore wind power is predicted to rise from nothing 10 years ago to a level that nearly matches… https://t.co/hVaDf26BJU

The pain of unemployment falls unequally in all economic crises. But COVID has been devastating for low-waged worke… https://t.co/IEVlIKw9aI

We don’t talk enough about the COVID disaster in Belgium, host of the EU: 853 deaths per million. The US will surpa… https://t.co/pMimd7n9l4