ADAM TOOZE

"State funeral." Director: Sergey Loznitsa How the Soviet Union said goodbye to Stalin. It is, to say the least,… https://t.co/WRWHMkrxhZ

In the Uk, as in the US, the COVID-19 crisis hits the most precarious in the labour market hardest. 1/3 of those in… https://t.co/V4mcDTiYqA

What it means to be an emerging market in the COVID-19 shock: you need to ease monetary & fiscal policy, but market… https://t.co/Hi5BEm6aAa

"Hütter and Schneider used to tell interviewers that their project was to reopen the Constructivist/Functionalist/F… https://t.co/1KBcZhiFyf

France's Grand Est was one of the regions of the country hardest hit by Covid-19. Its economy will take years to re… https://t.co/LrrnklBexC

Q&A on macro in 2020 Q: Will our deficits add lots of debt? A: Debt is going from 80 to 110% GDP, but pls chill.

@zeithistoriker One place to start might be @tedfertik brilliant PhD on economic nationalism and the steel industry.

Garment export earnings, accounted for over 84% of Bangladeshi exports in 2019 -> highly exposed to implosion of de… https://t.co/dumhQrWdgg

Garment 10 Joint Stock Company is Vietnam’s largest apparel company with 12,000 workers in 18 factories across Viet… https://t.co/7MU1CnAVmu

Amazing thread from @Samir_Madani of real-time sources on global mobility. Extraordinary list. https://t.co/kfIeQEzELx

Global shock: since start of COVID-19 crisis 400,000 to 600,000 workers of 2.8m workers in Vietnam’s garment indust… https://t.co/jMVECMp2V0

Bangladesh is 2nd largest exporter of garments in the world. Its manufacturers have, since the crisis began, lost o… https://t.co/9BZqryUIzw

Global clothing industry has a $2.5tn supply chain that connects markets in Europe, N America and affluent Asia to… https://t.co/6on6Q5CdsW

Cancellation of orders in global garment industry -> huge shock to prices of cotton from major producers: US, Austr… https://t.co/tpnBcWg7al

COVID-19 has delivered a crushing blow to the segment of US labour market with least formal education.… https://t.co/VtQBfP3IWi

India has by far the largest urban slum population in the world posing huge challenges for COVID-19 control.… https://t.co/LQMp55w24q

A global online survey in late March early April found broad support for tough government measures v. COVID-19. Sig… https://t.co/OeUeVZ5Mxd

"we estimate that 42% of recent pandemic-induced layoffs will result in permanent job loss.” Surely one of the most… https://t.co/Iyu0VC0NCJ

America’s unemployment benefit system is struggling to keep up with the scale of the COVID-19 jobs crisis. At least… https://t.co/lRDWlyGjcR

Bloomberg Disenfranchised Youth Index is a thing … and it shows that it sucks to be 18-34 mainly in the Southern st… https://t.co/IZiICFsXti

March mutual funds run: In March HY corporate bond funds saw decrease of 16% in funding, and bank loan (leveraged l… https://t.co/F0edHl9E1Y

"open-end mutual funds engage in liquidity transformation by offering daily redemptions to investors, notwithstandi… https://t.co/htz1oqaHBI

I began reading Kluge before there was the internet. His miniatures fascinated me. Last night, on a whim, I dipped… https://t.co/W1mDOK9zmU

How America’s budget deficit opened ever wider in March/April 2020 as revenue plunged and expenditure surged.… https://t.co/F57Cyrkeec

Why has the surge in unemployment in US been so much worse than in Europe? Dark side of labour market flexibility?… https://t.co/LbA7C8WP3z

Whereas swap lines are working for Brazil South Korea and Mexico, they are not for everyone. Turkey, South Africa… https://t.co/UDQOoli70o

America’s inflated health care spending, 60 % of which goes on labour costs, normally ensures that the sector is a… https://t.co/LKCllkf62h

That time in 1968/9 when Adorno took romantic advice from, of all people, Niklas Luhmann! Who, as his temporary rep… https://t.co/Q2fFKxWkOS

Hard to believe that this is not a joke … this is how France practices for nuclear war? Really. https://t.co/kttB83Tgc9

"As of Q4 2019, the total amount of liabilities most vulnerable to runs, including those of nonbanks stood at $15.5… https://t.co/BptjnqcxF2

Sometimes lessons are learned: as COVID-19 struck, big US banks relied on short-term wholesale market funding to co… https://t.co/x40BiuazCt

2020 is not a housing/mortgage-finance crisis but Fed purchases of MBS in recent weeks have outpaced those in 2008.… https://t.co/8ifXOAxLjj

"How much lies and gibberish are we expected to tolerate?” @GeneralTheorist is always brilliant. MUST follow. But… https://t.co/kVZZHLPvD9

"But the great dark birds of history screamed and plunged into our personal weather… I was going to tweet Adrien… https://t.co/MZqFdOeAm9

Turning points We all like to hear about those. Points on a graph. Sudden conversions. Historical swings. Some k… https://t.co/QtInIiGLXf