ADAM TOOZE

Our moral blind spots: far more people die of causes against which there is an effective (and often cheap) protecti… https://t.co/cyWBoQSPwV

"At $68bn, the market value of Iberdrola, a Spanish utility that develops solar and wind farms, has overtaken Itali… https://t.co/VFwfQEjlMI

"The annual shareholder meetings of ExxonMobil, Chevron and bp, all held on May 27th, each resembled a yearly check… https://t.co/u4ROkbfNup

For increasingly prominent reasons I’ve been wondering about hair salons as an economic sector … $20bn in sales ann… https://t.co/v2Qu7uTboh

Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative-asset manager, invested more than $25bn last year in warehouses in Amer… https://t.co/ujhF0NMeLm

Prologis, Amazon’s biggest landlord, founded by Iranian-ex-pat Hamid Moghadam, has assets of $125bn and warehouse f… https://t.co/LldLA3ptKR

Private equity firms are big winners of global finance since 2008. They have $4trn AUM of which $1.6trn is dry powd… https://t.co/ooXtZ112eA

Majority of economists in China fiercely oppose proposal that PBoC should monetize swelling deficit because 1. PBoC… https://t.co/psQDKjXWAX

An ARMY of volunteers in Minneapolis helping neighbors clean up business damage. “Bring a broom” they were told. W… https://t.co/wYaX1FwGGh

Role of National Guard in Minnesota is to “Augment MN State Patrol Civil Disturbance Operations with a show of for… https://t.co/QpnsKXpMrH

USA: 55% of 55-64-year olds have less than $10K put away for retirement @HoweGeneration

"Target said it was temporarily closing 175 of its stores across 13 states, including in Minnesota, where the retai… https://t.co/TJKE4KQbaV

Carmen Reinhart to be new chief economist at World Bank. As @TheEconomist notes, along with Horn & Trebesch she has… https://t.co/YNlnISLiBO

Climate Policy Initiative estimates that in 2017-18 a paltry $30bn was spent on climate adaptation, primarily from… https://t.co/8oDMbQuaCc

Anschluss: Since 2009 mainland Chinese firms have displaced US and British firms as (foreign) backbone of Hong Kon… https://t.co/sUNoYJZxtD

“I follow the Moskva / Down to Gorky Park / Listening to the wind of change…” Did the CIA co-write Scorpions deathl… https://t.co/p4h5Rny4S8

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EU low-volatility net asset value MMF denominated in $ but without access to Fed MMF liquidity facility suffered ca… https://t.co/7L3s18JYnF

As the coronavirus outbreak deepened, euro area MMFs experienced outflows of nearly 8% of assets under management b… https://t.co/uzK6BkgssZ

"The feast of solutionism unleashed by Covid-19 reveals the extreme dependence of the actually existing democracies… https://t.co/iZ4FHPOHeM

"That the future belongs to start-ups is not a fact of nature but a policy outcome.” @evgenymorozov on the need for… https://t.co/Za3nuIHcoz

In case you have been wondering how serious it would be if BVerfG judgement halted ECB’s Public Sector Purchase Pro… https://t.co/I0C7xE6Tx0

All histories should be “also a history of … " https://t.co/IdBRS5zSfQ

“Superyachts were unable to make their normal spring migration from Carib to Med interrupting their normally rigid… https://t.co/fv09p7oy5c

"Accepting that the future is uncertain, open & undetermined could strengthen our confidence & willingness to engag… https://t.co/XkFcwiHmY0

"Innoculated against the enduring undertow of his prose …” Habermas on why he refuses to engage with Nietzsche, eve… https://t.co/1lRIwYgveK

"Also a history of philosophy" is Habermas’s latest. “Also" stresses that this is not THE definitive history But i… https://t.co/W7PbhzLTu3

A wow stat and chart from the great @andrewvandam: "The average millennial has experienced slower economic growth s… https://t.co/TsgH3aCKkq

Interesting interview with Habermas, he sounds — unwittingly, I am sure — quite a bit like late Gadamer: “Es gibt k… https://t.co/k0xOqwhyML

Habermas’s latest: „Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie“ (Also a history of philosophy) -on faith and knowledge in… https://t.co/rLIxnKm69t

“There has never been so much knowledge of our ignorance and of the compulsion to act and live under uncertainty.”… https://t.co/71jSgL1y2Z

First the Fed blurred line to fiscal policy Then it got into corporate debt Then Junk … now it is isn’t work-creat… https://t.co/pGrJzvolRC