ADAM TOOZE

It doesn’t take much for a leader in a crisis to enjoy a positive bump in popularity. Some do. Some don’t!.… https://t.co/09IzgRFRSm

The F-35 procurement program of the Pentagon is an aircraft program like no other in the last generation.… https://t.co/ROPuvuFxqB

The Trump admin has unleashed a huge volume of military spending on procurement and development.… https://t.co/VwuRQPB9yW

"COVID-19 And Military Aerospace Markets The Closest The Industry Has To A Safe Haven” Well that’s a title to make… https://t.co/fFtlqWR8pP

Great Council on Foreign Relations call last week on COVID-19 shock, moderated by @gilliantett. @adam_tooze flagged… https://t.co/5w7aalSqJa

Truck-buying red states, like Texas and Florida, with less-restrictive lockdowns during the Covid-19 crisis are kee… https://t.co/VIXWEzCfkf

What if we took Disney Parks revenue as our indicator of “economic normality”? It tracked https://t.co/wtQyGSHxOC &… https://t.co/3VLVLSrvaq

"Some future autopsy of the pandemic might be called Strange Defeat, after the historian and Resistance fighter Mar… https://t.co/Ei8QKQKzs1

Big global banks really were a lot better capitalized going into this crisis than before 2008. Latest from @BIS_org… https://t.co/tRN8qEy0Wi

"the Ford Mustang — the iconic American muscle car raced by Steve McQueen around the streets of San Francisco in Bu… https://t.co/Avc4nWwBNP

I did not know that 43% (!) of California's state firefighting force is made up of prison inmates. https://t.co/DXEMsOVcX4

Some of you lot might enjoy this great article by @jmichael424 "Visions of the next war or reliving the last one?… https://t.co/sWq3hKK9QG

The correlation btw wage levels and degree to which work can be done remotely is not perfect but it is strong enoug… https://t.co/ZVLXwgQo29

Beijing has not launched a headlining grabbing giant stimulus as in 2008, but in dribs and drabs it HAS delivered s… https://t.co/HzGnvAWiIj

China is currently in final year of its 13th five-year plan, the stage during which the Soviet Union collapsed. The… https://t.co/XBT9KvlIzc

COVID-19 is most lethal for senior citizens. But then that is true of all diseases. @foxjust… https://t.co/MO972Lxrkc

“General merchandise stores including warehouse clubs and supercenters” is the North American Industry Classificati… https://t.co/QxSyXlZMtJ

One of lasting effects of 2008 was to sour Americans on real estate market -> home tenure doubled from 4 to 8 years… https://t.co/bAUHZXkUTz

150K flamingos have taken over Mumbai while city is in lockdown. (Yes, those little dots are all flamingos). https://t.co/0iFwU6twYp

Yup those are Wehrmacht uniforms wading through the surf … and note the difficulties you face getting a horse-drawn… https://t.co/ppjFCisFV6

Wehrmacht rehearsing invasion of Britain with dinky landing craft conveying captured French tanks … https://t.co/sXOhwrNLx3

Fed to hold increased share of marketable treasury debt. The deficit is thus being “monetized”. But the share that… https://t.co/7OXkTTQPg4

Difficult to exaggerate the shock that Brazil’s huge devaluation will deliver to some of the biggest ag markets, no… https://t.co/cN7OZweUSP

Victor Orban was swept to power in Hungary in 2010 amidst humiliation of his rivals by scandal and 2008 crisis, IMF… https://t.co/rX9Y4QOwo9

The Hungarian economy is deeply integrated in German auto industry supply chains. The sector is getting crushed. It… https://t.co/iLdet10r6V

@mattyglesias The MAGA crowd is bummed that this isn’t the type of apocalypse they think they’d enjoy. It’s all sci… https://t.co/ZTK3JOmFdk

Or imagine articulating the sentiment, “liberals are hyping up the al-Qaeda problem to make George W Bush look bad,… https://t.co/lEY4Dh9HUT

Unlike in 2008, credit has continued to flow from European banks to non financial business. It makes a difference… https://t.co/uSLhCQfkVw

@adam_tooze @SoberLook In the meantime, markets expect short term rates to be negative in the euro area until 2030 https://t.co/3VtWhQEA3p

Motor vehicles and machinery account for 2/3 of decline in German industrial production through March 2020. More to… https://t.co/mq2GjpFqQ6

The COVID-19 crisis in US is having a devastating impact on low wage, precarious, less well educated, women and min… https://t.co/iusEm4PxPn

An incredible @TheBrooklynRail piece by @PRoufos on crises of the EU border regime, focusing on migration between T… https://t.co/CxmfJl4e30

Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must stay alert https://t.co/IakiMJxGHF