ADAM TOOZE

This is truly a crisis endogenous to the medico-industrial complex … at least it was in Q1. Almost half of shocki… https://t.co/6YQ5F1N0mp

Coronavirus crisis lays bare the risks of financial leverage, again… @martinwolf_ on the perversity of "trying to r… https://t.co/6KgUTJsLMF

"Every energy company on the S&P 500 could be bought out for a grand total of about $700 billion — or roughly one-t… https://t.co/JwMyq2045f

When price trends are as divergent as this the notion of inflation in a comprehensive sense begins to lose its mean… https://t.co/Ryzop0zHAh

For the economy of Texas (= roughtly the size of Spain) the COVID-19 shock plus oil price collapse is a heavy blow.… https://t.co/yJfxfC3DFk

Here’s some #WFH inspiration! Brush rests and sculptures like these appeared on scholars’ desks in 18th-century C… https://t.co/pqgWqIuBEG

Ben is really living the Zeitgeist https://t.co/vvGyqa1shl

The collapse in energy prices is likely to suck the eurozone into deflationary territory as measured by CPI.… https://t.co/C3c1uMrixO

Seriously … one of the key variables to track coming out of COVID-19 will be one of the most mundane: household sav… https://t.co/03fJk7AlFD

What the Eurozone COVID-19 shock may look like in trillions of euro. Both the scale, the cliff edge quality and the… https://t.co/xPDfGYkzLA

Neither Washington nor Beijing Suppose they gave a Cold War and nobody came … the world is non plussed by the lates… https://t.co/TNfnVBsjJ3

On this day in 1975, the last U.S. personnel are evacuated from Saigon. It all happens just hours before the city f… https://t.co/2x5j6Q1bAB

Paul Romer apparently regards Burning Man’s Black Rock City as model for a future pop-up urbanism in which basic pl… https://t.co/7KgOviqDGm

China’s national champion oil producers are caught in a bind. The National Energy Admin demands expansions in outpu… https://t.co/MpilR0Lltn

Disaster for climate: China approved nearly 10 GW of new coal-fired power generation capacity in Q12020, roughly eq… https://t.co/yRHDuO3AuC

Fascinating memoirs of his time as a graduate student in early 1970s Moscow from @mark4harrison… https://t.co/K3CmWfgSEw

China’s national champion oil producers are caught in a bind. The National Energy Admin demands expansions in outpu… https://t.co/f4t9fV3sEd

Disaster for climate: China approved nearly 10 GW of new coal-fired power generation capacity in Q12020, roughly eq… https://t.co/b7DxoBY4Ge

China’s economy may be coming back, but not all of it is. Restaurants and clothing remain deeply depressed in March… https://t.co/Bt8VIUAuUG

The contemporaneity of the uncontemporaneous … or uneven and combined development. https://t.co/mcJDl7k3x7

Mexico, S Africa and Turkey have all seen the cost of insuring their sov debt against default surge. From… https://t.co/UaP9UtYJOY

I was hesitating to post this chart, so depressing is it. The lines here represent excess deaths. No other major Eu… https://t.co/NPPhulWRxs

Unlike its lending facilities, the Fed’s MBS buying program has been rolled out with spectacular speed. FRED via… https://t.co/yuyXvJ6sR3

The MSCI global equity index is now dominated by tech and health care v. Energy and financials which have crashed t… https://t.co/IThk0536iV

The market valuation of largest US tech stocks (FANMAG) now exceeds that of any national stock market except Japan… https://t.co/luY8oM1CV2

A study in understatement from @greg_ip on the question of Shelton’s nomination to the Fed Board. https://t.co/rM7flxA9nA

BREAKING: Saudi Arabia FX reserves plunged ~$27 billion in March, largest monthly decline in data going back two de… https://t.co/OSp6KmuuXd

Cargill, Conagra, JBS, Smithfield, Tyson et al – the slaughter house complex is shutting down across much of middle… https://t.co/4S2IQbes22