ADAM TOOZE

The word bankrupt comes from the practice of smashing the banquettes that defaulted money lenders in Venice used to… https://t.co/o3r1k01214

Classically CB backstopped commercial banks. 2008 was still bank-centered crisis. As credit moved to bond markets -… https://t.co/nO496vQGnY

"Much has been written on disconnect between markets and US real economy. But there’s a much bigger one in EM. Many… https://t.co/EAXPYq0cZ5

Between 2014 and 2015, Captagon made international headlines as a super drug fueling the Syrian Civil War. Talk of… https://t.co/YA6P7sR72u

Zombie fires: "Arctic region is heating 2* ROW, leading to sea ice melting faster than scientists forecast. Warm ai… https://t.co/lgwbQTM9ZY

"Boeing hasn’t told employees, but it is pulling the plug on 747 jumbo jet, ending a half-century, 1571 aircraft ru… https://t.co/DMRT02dQVP

The trajectory from Wehrmacht anti-partisan warfare to Cold War doctrine and Vietnam in one tweet from @BloodPhilip… https://t.co/xD4j2q0xU8

Faced with the COVID shock, Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund, the world’s biggest fund, lost a record 11%… https://t.co/prfND2UAwd

"Many of Silicon Valley’s leaders got their start with grants from the federal government — including me.” Eric Sch… https://t.co/X1C8q0dU1L

"autonomous nuclear-powered lighthouse” … what a phrase! https://t.co/lRWfypBLAL

I love the phrase “Enlightenment kitsch”! Another great one from @davies_will https://t.co/SVplBSA1Fp

"the greatest failure of American foreign policy since the 1930s.” Nat Sec Advisor Robert C. O’Brien on US policy t… https://t.co/lWqakyMAra

"the greatest failure of American foreign policy since the 1930s.” Nat Sec Advisor Robert C. O’Brien on US policy t… https://t.co/Quzfshtyk5

Noooooooooooooo On the other hand that does mean that Torsten can now have his own twitter account. Where is he he… https://t.co/0l9kNjfCLE

@adam_tooze @AlexYablon I think it was rigged. Grouchy could not possibly cut of Blücher from returning to fight af… https://t.co/gjaxrF9DWX

@SamuliGloersen @AlexYablon 🙂 Its been too long. I got it when I was about 9. It was how I learned about probabi… https://t.co/vlJ1Pcl4Xf

Hands down one of my favorite tweets of the year so far! From @DEHEdgerton https://t.co/EZFfdy8ywV

@fousjemen Maybe some learning embodied there about L’Attaque à outrance.

Cataan (1995) @AlexYablon … I’m far too old! Stratego/L'Attaque (1946) Tri-Tactics (1950) and, above all, Avalon H… https://t.co/yR6mXj0NYc

To me Airfix will always bring to mind my granddad – who used to make the models for me. Looking at the art work I…

One of my biggest financial regrets, ever, was not signing up to the Games Workshop employee share scheme when it l… https://t.co/sqsl1Tb6Q8

@adam_tooze @DEHEdgerton Oh, that’s a top tip for next time. I did get to speak to Alan Perry, which is a career hi… https://t.co/uVw9Xn1YAA

Someone should write Diether Dehmn’s biography. INSANE. Managed Biermann and spied on him for Stasi. Composed a new… https://t.co/AFgU6kBw8g

Airfix cover art: The artist responsible for many of Airfix’s memorable designs was Roy Cross (b.1924), who worked… https://t.co/JZJBB9qc1s

@DuncanWeldon A VERY knowledgeable piece this. Inside sources? 😉 Have you talked to @DEHEdgerton about the Airfix archive?

@BJMbraun @jonsindreu Yeah, I have the Switzerland comment on pretty good authority. Mind-blowing.

"Games Workshop, which boomed in 1990s, is enjoying surge of demand frm “returners”, 30-40 yr old men who last held… https://t.co/QVBi2kUdCX

Why Games Workshop (of fantasy war-games like Warhammer) is worth more than Marks & Spencer and Centrica. Not my cu… https://t.co/aBPXPDq2Jj

Ok, house price debate. View 1: A big drop is coming – Deep recession, high forecast unemployment, housing market… https://t.co/3S8e1UAc8i

@BJMbraun @jonsindreu Hi @BJMbraun fantastic twist. I have heard tell that Eric Schmidt once proclaimed that he wi… https://t.co/LHkxwb2z8a

YRC’s Big Bailout; Resetting Free Trade; Delivery on Ice: Today’s Top Supply Chain & Logistics News from WSJ… https://t.co/MwgTbCYUqT

@jonsindreu So then a fuller account of “1989" would include alongside Tiananmen-CCP-mercantilism & reunified Neo-h… https://t.co/7h71GGp5HZ

@jonsindreu You then have parallel German/Japanese moves in 1930s & 1940s to build Grossraeume that both come to gr… https://t.co/lshziiwXoF

@jonsindreu Hobson in On Imperialism 1902 sketches three options for China which he says will determine fate of wor… https://t.co/HVXRr1V3UB