ADAM TOOZE

The 30 point shock to the U Michigan consumer sentiment index since March is even more vertiginous and deep than th… https://t.co/scUIvfZv9r

There isn’t much historical experience to guide us but @BlackKnightIntl thinks a 15 % unemployment rate in the US w… https://t.co/6nCqCFW6oA

Excellent piece from @heimbergecon. Ensuring the Eurozone's sustainability requires precisely this sort of honest a… https://t.co/tOzJFdPEMZ

COVID-19 shock is already feeding through hard to the US mortgage market with loans in forbearance surging from mid… https://t.co/tL7slT71ry

Job losses in the US in April may top 24 million according to @OxfordEconomics As crunch in retail, restaurants an… https://t.co/NZR5XfuS8V

The desperate scramble for unemployment insurance in US may have peaked around beginning of April. @PantheonMacro v… https://t.co/6PvjUHkiqe

Between March 21 and April 4th 2.17 m people filed for unemployment insurance in California alone! Thats in a state… https://t.co/UKbBYrANyz

@adam_tooze @heimbergecon Yes. In fact, Italy even has the largest average primary surplus in the WORLD over 1995-2… https://t.co/vUqwQcAbop

Are you a cat or a dog person? https://t.co/inZ4jc7yIc

Since 1995, the Italian state has posted a primary surplus in 24 out of 25 years; the crisis year 2009 was the only… https://t.co/ggBxmchBsU

Wow. "A staggering 52 percent of people under the age of 45 have lost a job, been put on leave, or had their hours… https://t.co/96Q35weBy0

Turns out America's lobster fisheries depend much more on the American market than on trade with China … "Americ… https://t.co/MZHjFl8kn2

"For years, the Italian economy has been in a kind of smouldering permanent crisis, which is dramatically aggravate… https://t.co/aWpXuLc3pw

Whether they permit and/or enable equitable and proportionate fiscal responses to the corona crisis is the new yard… https://t.co/vMvd3Vlk5D

Europe faces a huge macroeconomic crisis. “We have the ESM" Loads of excellent proposals on how to use ESM. Italy… https://t.co/yk4Df0xJDA

Will G20 deliver a debt standstill for lowincome/EM nations? “There’s now a growing recognition among G20 . . . tha… https://t.co/MR9Aqs0jzN

The Eurozone has a problem with history. The memory of the crisis 2010-12 and Greece is toxic from left to right ac… https://t.co/AbFAlJf4Ad

Kristalina Georgieva, IMF managing director, said that 170 of its 189 member countries would suffer falling output… https://t.co/ZeJVAaGmH0

Europe is forged in crisis, is the cliché. But corona-bond dispute reveals that memory of Eurozone crisis is beginn… https://t.co/N4MsGfMfe0

Close relationship btw Scholz & Le Maire, a fluent German-speaker, was forged on an evening in May 2018 at Villa Bo… https://t.co/HfGmwyFjbT

@heimbergecon Could not agree more. The @socialeurope piece is just drawing the lesson from the realization that th… https://t.co/w9bknd4CK8

Status quo powers in EZ kid themselves in thinking ESM is an actual crisis-fighting mech. In fact a source of huge… https://t.co/qRv85GH0ct

@PeterFr89977258 INCREASE EU budget in response to crisis to say 5 % = net 4% -> big share of crisis response would… https://t.co/quoEGZD6wn

@heimbergecon Status quo powers in Eurozone kid themselves in thinking ESM is an actual crisis-fighting mech. Actua… https://t.co/tt0Uwvif7P

As long as member states are able to rely on national budgets only, recovery measures will necessarily be unequal a… https://t.co/CcQH4k1w3d

Coronavirus has stretched the Chinese government’s budget. That means the burden of bailing out smaller business an… https://t.co/7bUuj8XGs7

Those who argued against corona bonds on ground that this was not moment for a gratuitous innovation v. ESM-based s… https://t.co/E5H7Uwn6Y9

"As much as his detractors cast him as a Miliband redux, Starmer is rather more like the men and women Labour has l… https://t.co/m0FWgJUibe

@Shahinvallee @fwred @Lagarde I gather in fact that it came verbatim from Schnabel.

Integralists against “zombie Reaganism” I learned a lot from this fascinating piece by @nickburns about the intell… https://t.co/EUv2Uxl0FU

Morgan Stanley: “While we understand the desire for optimism, we also caution that the US outbreak is far from over… https://t.co/ptZhueDFcM

In maternity ward of Vienna General Hospital in 1847, Hungarian physician Semmelweis discovered frequent hand-washi… https://t.co/RQe1LzT5Hb

In 2012 Univ of Chicago surveyed 32 eminent economists about legislation that banned price gouging during a weather… https://t.co/CVI7XjTV3z

Pilgrimage to the gamma quadrant: Will COVID-19 consummate the increasing convergence between Joe Stiglitz and the… https://t.co/MlvfhZ8iSA

Should the IMF dole out more special drawing rights? Really helpful explainer on SDRs from @TheEconomist… https://t.co/nPk6aGsZTl

Since 1990s the Mexican Finance Ministry has cultivated special relationship with Wall Street Banks based around an… https://t.co/0Wlmjs4Wp3