ADAM TOOZE

"HSBC appears hopelessly politicised -> to be avoided by sensible investors. Rule with blackmailers is that they ne… https://t.co/Cl2QaPp2V1

How the mafia got to our food Value of the so-called agromafia business has almost doubled from €12.5bn in 2011 to… https://t.co/J2mzvyep2L

Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta uses financial engineering to get paid for (sub standard) services its businesses provide to… https://t.co/PO5axHiuo0

CFE constructs Chiron SPV that buys €50m of unpaid healthcare invoices, including bills originating from Calabria a… https://t.co/WyToPK0Lxs

Abbas the Great had a very Hegelian moniker, "sahib-qirān-i-ʿAlā" (Supreme Lord of the Auspicious Conjunction) grou… https://t.co/DMbpde7mxR

How the ’Ndrangheta discovered Italy’s health system as a giant cash machine & money laundering system.… https://t.co/hKMwYO24Zn

Ideas and ideologies competing for China’s future. A map from 2017 of how online pluralism challenges official orth… https://t.co/XjGrvN0qYR

@EdSacredProfane @DonaldClark @adam_tooze If one is poor and the kids are young GenZ (primary/middle school) and th… https://t.co/eFurK9zR9f

In UK, > 50% of foreign multinational companies currently report no taxable profits. In the US, 91 companies on th… https://t.co/ccUaIaqe97

Couldn’t agree more. It is heartbreaking to watch. https://t.co/wMBntzhScA

@bdonnelly @DaveLeeFT Fixed.

Last in. First out. More than a quarter of young Americans under 25 have lost their jobs in COVID crisis so far. BU… https://t.co/3Jde72IUF6

@bdonnelly @DaveLeeFT You are absolutely right. Sorry. Early morning tweeting. @DaveLeeFT The graph illustrates a s… https://t.co/xHSsfMTGdO

Millennials: Last in. First out. More than a quarter of young Americans under 25 have lost their jobs in COVID cris… https://t.co/CWg2xF6bFN

In 2019 there were 4.4 passages by air btw France and Algeria, not counting ferries. Since March contact has been c… https://t.co/FrqmH1ONSV

Covid is disrupting growth model of some of the most fragile economies. Relief for official debt will not answer th… https://t.co/sJEuTFjyR8

Nice piece on the geopolitics of the Horn of Africa by @davidpilling And why Ethiopia is going to fill that damn ev… https://t.co/JrCpxu5Wpu

@adam_tooze In these days does 25bn matter? Germany could sell long terms government bonds tomorrow at nearly zero… https://t.co/wyS6eVsnyA

Qatar reminds Germany that it is an investor to the tune of 25bn euros, including substantial slices of VW, Siemens… https://t.co/gNHDom3EDF

While SIberia is blazing, the nearby Arctic sea ice is melting This is what a #ClimateCrisis looks like https://t.co/ZGoVpCvnGc

"As Amazon has expanded it has gone from being asset-light to having a balance-sheet heavier than a Soviet tractor… https://t.co/7ubXdKlqh1

Oil majors have to chose btw double-down on oil/gas, which has a finite horizon or follow Denmark’s Orsted in shift… https://t.co/0OSsGorrIY

Really interesting data on the energy mix being used by each of America’s major electricity utilities. To end coal,… https://t.co/ABSwngHaVV

Since 2017 new additions to renewable generating fleet by Europe and China have stopped increasing. This accounts f… https://t.co/s1EQT9djQ0

The levelized cost per megawatt hour is now lowest for solar and wind. Beating all other options. The question now… https://t.co/mBDII2RCFt

Chinese purchasing both of US manufactures and energy is running nowhere near the rate that would be necessary to m… https://t.co/uTutmCt05E

Remittance income flows in 2019 sent $554bn to receiving home countries. @WorldBank fears that this will fall 20% i… https://t.co/bF92KzU3Gj

Marcos opened Philippines labour market to foreign recruitment ready in the 1970s. But remittance flow really took… https://t.co/ICEpZD1Y9J

EM are feeling the impact of the crisis not just directly but also indirectly through loss of remittance income, wh… https://t.co/DXAwzSqbpp

@Ersquare Think of it as indicating where “West" is choosing to puts its investment.

Top 10 mutual fund asset managers in China. Do any of these, other than Credit Suisse, have western partners?… https://t.co/IzbxhP8gTH

Despite China’s relatively rapid recovery since February retail sales are still 11% below the pre crisis trend -> l… https://t.co/AFhTLf4Wi5

Life expectancy in the EU. For sake of comparison the US national average was 78.54 in 2018, i.e. in the light ochr… https://t.co/BykTFTgPXV

“Our democracies are not really built to face this kind of challenge” @adam_tooze talks about the financial implica… https://t.co/HYOEvC8pV0

The ECB and other European agencies are absorbing the sovereign debt issue of major Eurozone borrowers.… https://t.co/8ZvuUJ2zMy