ADAM TOOZE

"One of the reasons for the persistent gap between mortgage rates and Treasury yields is the elevated spread on mor… https://t.co/7Q0T4bCOMg

🔥-POLICY WIN-💪 Anyone who has worked on reforming central banks – knows how hard it is to create change in this fi… https://t.co/oeTwUj5ECT

Most of the rise in bottom-half inequality has occurred around recessions. If the pandemic hadn't happened, a lot o… https://t.co/gL6sAVszRs

Comparing the Airbus single aisle and the Boeing 737 families on the last Wednesday of June 2019 vs 2020 at 19:45 U… https://t.co/LLlvjrysE9

In terms of inequality but also in terms of social mobility, the US is beginning to look like an EM rather than an… https://t.co/numeiNmzMz

At least amongst Dems will the Trump era bring the end of American exceptionalism? “Pride in Being American” drops… https://t.co/PFK0ATeb9G

In 2020, for the first time, folks who identify as “White Christian” will make up less than half of registered vote… https://t.co/8BUmRuulR7

World Bank data suggest that 2020 will be the severest contraction in GDP per capita since 1945 and the 4th most se… https://t.co/A5v2UO3GPd

With Anheuser-Busch and Tencent leading the way, foreign corporates are taking advantage of Fed market-stabilizatio… https://t.co/X2OZN3vm20

I was working my way through Federic Lordon’s latest piece in @mdiplo https://t.co/5Iu5n6in3S He used the word “ta… https://t.co/NFjUpci1kG

This is really concerning – Tanzanian opposition leader ⁦@zittokabwe⁩ has been arrested https://t.co/gJrlt67nFl

“Your kakistocracy is collapsing after its lamentable journey.” John O. Brennan April 2018. Kakistocracy governmen… https://t.co/ubzlTKQtbY

@adam_tooze Was just reading about this documentary about a much less known episode: North Korean students sent to… https://t.co/ZqAH84vzcY

When the "Danube of Thought" visited Pyongyang. YES that actually was one of the titles chosen by Romania’s Nicolae… https://t.co/jgLy3MOFxl

@kjj704 Well … its VEGAS … what do you expect 😉

Las Vegas Sands, Sheldon Adelson Republican mega-donor’s casino groups, makes c. 2/3 of its income from Chinese gam… https://t.co/bKO0ILgfPq

How will US consumers respond to bad news about resurgence of COVID-19? Latest data out of restaurant trade in Hous… https://t.co/W65vSddeKW

Great map here also depicting the cooling trend. https://t.co/Ej4lGr9YPU

The WSJ says TRADE WARS ARE CLASS WARS is "a complex tapestry of monetary, fiscal and social policies through histo… https://t.co/YjMy5KkfOP

'At the beginning of June, the market narrative was all about a sooner-than-expected and a more-robust-than-expecte… https://t.co/NDvc4mBpqo

@nglinsman @SoberLook Yup. But NOT in proportion to the scale of their epidemic. The % of positives per test is far… https://t.co/DGQ9ynep9A

America’s patchwork pandemic is now substantially worse than that in Europe and heading, disastrously, in the wrong… https://t.co/mR2RttUJ41

"“It’s like a cheap option” to become Treasury secretary” Mnuchin in 2016 explaining his decision to back the long-… https://t.co/6K0UrZUQIR

"In 2013, then–VP Biden made a pitch for beef sales during a visit to China. “You can make me a hero” if you reopen… https://t.co/mEypQTUmkk

“I didn’t want to be on that cover,” Xi told his underlings. “But thanks to you, I made the cover.” A BAD day in th…

“I’m sure the mature Lee Iacocca spent a lot of time indoctrinating the impressionable, much-younger Donald Trump.”… https://t.co/wBRXGZwVRZ

"In 1900, Britain’s industrial proletariat was one of the three largest in the world, comparable to those of the US… https://t.co/u61XChxbEx

"Blaming empire is a deep-seated reflex that feels reassuringly progressive. But it has also been a way to avoid co… https://t.co/UqeAMNVAE6

Brazil and the US are not bending the curve. And as the line color shows they don’t test widely either – the positi… https://t.co/oOBGj5wu1X

Demand-determined potential output: New paper based on an update of Arthur Okun’s original method, which – differen… https://t.co/yToGqbs9Ld

“The Chinese refused, and we quickly found a creative way to nationalize the mortgage giants” Paulson confirms once… https://t.co/KE8JYYr7jn

“You were my teacher. But now I am in my teacher’s domain, and look at your system, Hank. We aren’t sure we should… https://t.co/4kEb4iiJ2v

In 2000 Apple Computer didn’t have enough sales in China or Asia to note them in financial filings. In 2015, China… https://t.co/TUp3P4rNya