ADAM TOOZE

The gap in processed food consumption btw high and low income countries is VAST! Middle income countries rapidly cl… https://t.co/JAxJmwHknq

Agricultural policy globally is heavily biased towards improving staple-grain productivity, especially for the majo… https://t.co/nZ1YziuSc0

The new norm for EM is for sovereigns to borrow as far as possible in their own currency. But a large share of thei… https://t.co/t8pDOGmnMC

How votes for Clinton in 2016 mapped onto the US income distribution. Support strong in the bottom 30% and the top… https://t.co/0m6WxwBxZ9

Strikingly, high-yield corporate debt ETF have seen net inflows year to date v. Equities and other fixed income inc… https://t.co/ftjY1i5hkg

Who ran down their US Treasury holdings during the much-discussed weeks of distress in March 2020? Perhaps also of… https://t.co/CBaAxwLK6h

New “YiCai High Frequency Economic Activity Index” (YHEI) released on June 5 based on range of data with aim of cap… https://t.co/qpizvdY7w3

Yicai ranked Chinese counties in terms of their GDP size. 13 of the top 20 are in Zhejiang province. Kunshan of Jia… https://t.co/IuV2DM3qDH

Coming to terms with the past in South Korea: debates around the Gwangju massacre of May 1980 continue to haunt Kor… https://t.co/OQtd69GdTJ

You can measure segregation in American cities by asking what share of black people would have to move residence to… https://t.co/9BtBL5Ebwz

In the past three months America’s monetary base has grown by $1.7trn as the Federal Reserve. But @TheEconomist is… https://t.co/NrY9myI8oc

THE story of late May is the fact that COVID-19 has now truly arrived in the EM/developing economy world. Just shor… https://t.co/8y8XOyPvKa

Contingent liabilities: state-owned enterprises in several EM have financial obligations, including fx obligations… https://t.co/yx6NrPA0Iv

Contingent liabilities: state-owned enterprises in several EM have financial obligations, including fx obligations… https://t.co/N1jWuKlqOg

Fascinating discussion of onshore/offshore fx liabilities of EM nonfinancial corporations in latest @BIS_org quarte… https://t.co/DqracxYrN3

@JohnRentoul Thank you for posting this. Fascinating!

Brits in 1949 had a remarkably realistic view of the social structure and their place in it! H/t @JohnRentoul https://t.co/bQ664fxouX

Fed chair Jerome Powell’s calendar for April is out and it documents a relentless series of meetings with Mnuchin/T… https://t.co/dsaTHSnam5

Is COVID-19 a turning point for EM macro policy? Faced with severe shock, EM central banks did not behave like subo… https://t.co/NhXVmS7VFh

Is COVID-19 a turning point for EM macro policy: faced with severe shock, EM central banks did not behave like subo… https://t.co/mEwJDgKZHl

In Nigeria, the country with the most absolutely poor people in the world, the prevalence of stunting amongst kids… https://t.co/UbpnNxONIe

Prevalence of malnutrition as evidenced by stunting and wasting amongst children <5 in most at risk countries, at t… https://t.co/TIyBvhdBNt

@BondHack @davidfirn Not a criticism so much as an observation: about our collective attention span and the fact th… https://t.co/MHpypJz9Mx

Pattern of malnutrition worldwide is more complicated than you might think: large parts of sub-Saharan Africa suffe… https://t.co/TdF3fQuJDN

The strategy of self-insurance by means of reserve build-up has been pursued above all in Asia rather than Lat Am.… https://t.co/haksYp38xi

Trump’s relationship with Europe goes from bad to nothingness. The only question left is: Will he win in November?… https://t.co/e5vszjZGDv

130,400 NEW COVID-19 cases confirmed on June 3 is an unprecedented surge. US epidemic not even slowing. Main surge… https://t.co/v8o7aZx2KB

Tale of two recessions: 86% of COVI job losses were in 6 lowest paid supersectors of US labour market. That is also… https://t.co/lx57Wzx4DV

We talk about 1st, 2nd wave of pandemic on basis of national numbers from countries with successful containment e.g… https://t.co/Jfen76fPIV

American equity fund managers BlackRock and Eaton Vance like moves by Berlin and Paris to break the European fiscal… https://t.co/PNySe3BCJd

The global COVID-19 pandemic is NOT OVER. IT IS ACCELERATING: Unprecedented 130.4k new positive tests on June 3. I… https://t.co/Cp1HOToHb6

@HGuilianiCury @FT @cnni @CNN Hi Hector COVID-19 does still appear on front page of https://t.co/2Sb5rHPnVF though… https://t.co/xAQjrGQbuR

@adam_tooze @xtophercook @FT The beginning of the end of the first wave. Perhaps.

FT have confirmed, thanks to @davidfirn that they are no longer live blogging COVID-19 at weekends. Rhythm of this… https://t.co/YmyJIwKdp6