ADAM TOOZE

You gotta love a conversation that ends up with someone admitting “I’m hardly some kind of hardcore ranked I’m just… https://t.co/dy4OgF3NJU

OpenTable bookings had declined 70% before US restaurants were closed. Swedish movie theaters are open but revenue… https://t.co/hB1jQU4Fx6

BTP-Bund spread has been widening every day since the Eurogroup “deal”. Markets understand that ESM/OMT and PEPP ar… https://t.co/aO39o2JEKQ

The first new ventilator is a modified existing device. Does anyone know if earlier versions are in use in the NHS… https://t.co/yw4ouD1t8n

BTP spreads have widened quite sharply. It's Wednesday. Better don't go to bed too early. #ECB

If the Fed’s interventions have on the whole been prompt, massive and effective, will its propping up of HY ETF com… https://t.co/9K3WvhGM2H

Arabica coffee and uranium (?) may be the only commodities to benefit from the COVID-19 crisis.… https://t.co/n8Rq6ABjLf

What defines EM? 1. @teasri & @TheStalwart say it's lack of fiscal space 2. Inability to do fiscal stimulus here w/… https://t.co/IrU2Q2Ezsp

“2008 was a banking crisis, but this has been a capital markets crisis.” @RobinWigg on why 2020 is not 2008 really… https://t.co/T4TtBikcPb

Really telling graph about recent history of the global auto industry Stagnation in the oughts 2008 shock Then Chin… https://t.co/HxfbsQcOQB

World merchandise trade is set to plummet by btw 13 and 32% in 2020 – either of these numbers would be shocking &… https://t.co/2hkuwOaXdC

The Smithfield pork processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota closes. Supplies about 5 % of US pork production… https://t.co/wvkorUWKEM

Is Zambia on the edge of default? The economy of Africa’s second biggest copper exporter is “on the verge of collap… https://t.co/Julf4aP1rx

"In the vast slums of São Paulo, Mumbai, or Manila, quarantining can mean living in one small room with ten people,… https://t.co/qFlxd1R5Tp

My colleague Risto Herrala blogged about India’s struggle with the COVID-19. Economic activity has plummeted during… https://t.co/pt0bD3mtHV

MAJOR UPDATE: My analysis showing #coronavirus could trigger the largest ever fall in global CO2 emissions just got… https://t.co/VASKdTN6a0

A recession deeper than 2008 faces EM ex China according to @IIF data. Hit to Latin America and EM Europe is heavy.… https://t.co/un5NpbBLDy

Scales on these graphs are tricky but I believe it is telling us that the sov spread of Turkey and S. Africa have s… https://t.co/iBTnyWylvT

When we infer the prospects for European and US recovery from China’s experience, remember that their outbreak was… https://t.co/e8ldI4EKE2

Every day, every day we should post this! Since 1995, the Italian state has posted a primary surplus in 24 out of 2… https://t.co/fumxWiOWku

In the first round of job cuts by 24-25 March the burden of unemployment due to COVID-19 fell most heavily on those… https://t.co/hfwrdGYXfY

For those interested: the historic communiqué of today’s meeting of #G20 Finance Ministers & Central Bank Governors… https://t.co/lx6s0NXJnT

Comparing stimuli – on discretionary spending basis US is ahead. Note the double asterisk on the Chinese numbers.… https://t.co/3MVtpGbDrq

Only 15 percent of Global fund Managers surveyed by @BankofAmerica still believe in the V-shaped recovery.… https://t.co/mHDi4FL9tA

US consumer is normally the regular pulse of the world economy. Hit to markets on 23 Feb and 9 March shows up clear… https://t.co/xhEOv4Wnfg

There is no precedent for the kind of shock from the consumption side that the US economy is going to suffer in the… https://t.co/uBqyO2FidS

Workers' hours at small firms are down over 60% from a year ago. Data generated by home base time tracking software… https://t.co/DQNuo0d2hN

I’d like to thank @adam_tooze, Jill Lepore, and Thucydides for their crucial technical support during the taping of… https://t.co/ezhX2TeR1X

A while back I did an interview for Bulgarian National Radio I have to say that working on Bulgarian history with… https://t.co/1HgOKINkWo

Forecasting the global economy at this moment is clearly a huge challenge. Here are the range of options outlined i… https://t.co/nnOy6TBbDq