ADAM TOOZE

The summer of 2019 sent talk of recession ricocheting around the eurozone. It now looks like a picnic by comparison… https://t.co/TxOv6kH7TX

“We could have these waves of flareups, controls, flareups and controls until we actually get a therapy or a vaccin… https://t.co/j5FmNzpYpp

Yup … you read correctly! Joseph Beuys … 1952. https://t.co/Ktq55KxtVU

"so long as interest rates are close to zero, whether liabilities of consolidated government are debt or money does… https://t.co/KYdAuEAxUa

They are indeed gorgeous and long may they rattle through the streets of two very stylish cities. https://t.co/3zRxZLnAkC

@MariusGhincea @hayrettinkofog1 Absolutely. If Trump were to take it into his head to actually pursue Erdogan’s ide… https://t.co/qjSb89j0me

Strange choices: "the governments of the euro area would rather accept a higher shared risk in the ECB than they wo… https://t.co/X90St50gnE

"The last time the IMF bailed out Turkey in 2001, the financial crisis at the time wiped out a whole generation of… https://t.co/AJccHdRrXk

"the only practical solution, normatively speaking, is an IMF program — no matter how unrealistic the politics of… https://t.co/LDkGuWyzmZ

Modern history is like a deaf man, answering questions no one has asked him. -Tolstoy, “War and Peace,” epilogue

Where’s Turkey's swap line? Erdogan’s people have been making calls looking for swap line with G20 members. To have… https://t.co/TMqMDY5asy

Terminal operators at Fujairah in the UAE are turning down requests for oil storage from traders and refiners as th… https://t.co/bgU9fEpw0l

When I was a kid reading my nerd-ass history books, I could never understand how a boring loser like Warren G. Hard… https://t.co/98Jz7XYn8R

A portable TV prototype created in 1967 by Walter Pichler. Check out for more pics: https://t.co/FL4y1SaViq https://t.co/8ihozFECh0

During a call with Trump on March 31, Turkey’s Erdogan floated idea that the Fed should expand its swap agreements… https://t.co/oB1yXnJDUF

The coronavirus pandemic is set to rob the global economy of more than $5 trillion of growth over the next two year… https://t.co/jesNRt5rWY

“It’s a make-or-break moment” "may be greatest global crisis we’ve faced in postwar period.” “reservoirs of disease… https://t.co/jAX2PdPR2x

Farewell to mathematician John Conway. For us, complexity scientists, he will be remembered by the invention of the… https://t.co/bbEoIJEL5N

Which of those two lines is the Dutch, which the Italian primary budget position? @alexandreafonso delivers a devas… https://t.co/BaIAcb4OEz

Wrote about the uses and limits of the war economy in fighting the coronavirus for @ForeignPolicy. We're in a state… https://t.co/4MPXZXga9u

Bid for autonomy via insurance – btw 2007-2017 Mexico bought hedges on global oil prices with notional value of $16… https://t.co/UD5XBCi0vN

@fwred @Shahinvallee @Lagarde Even on the spreads “gaffe” I have begun to wonder whether she was doing a reverse Tr… https://t.co/W5LSa5reij

@fwred @Shahinvallee @Lagarde Is it possible that Lagarde spent an evening on @voxeu reading @SonyKapoor Buiter,… https://t.co/N9smLXJH5A

“Hacienda hedge” how Mexico made $5bn at the expense of Barclays, Goldman et al in the oil price collapse of 2008.… https://t.co/R3t2BiQX8P

Why is Mexico able to be so tough in OPEC talks? 1 reason is that for 20 years it has taken out a gigantic $1bn

Great Global Bake Off The COVID-19 baking craze is not limited to your kitchen … There really has been a huge run… https://t.co/jTAQ2E1HCU

Assuming oil prices are $30/barrel not $50/barrel oil-dependent sub-Saharan African producers face a loss of c. 7%… https://t.co/WA11uQ5CEq

The International Labour Organisation estimates that industries in which the risk of lay-offs or furloughs due to C… https://t.co/2KFHDjfNn8

Ethiopia, Tanzania, Rwanda are the three large Sub-Saharan African countries where tourism accounts for >25% of exp… https://t.co/TGCCOs2tVo

The recovery of the Chinese economy from the February lockdown is visible from space in the increased levels of NO2… https://t.co/QI6smjayT0

The commodity price shock of 2020 is going to devastate many of the most vulnerable economies in sub-Saharan Africa… https://t.co/3KPy7eahPb

The Wuhan shutdown on 23 January coincided with usual New Year dip in Chinese economic activity. The difference is… https://t.co/XjI33xj4Qi

In sub-Saharan Africa only a minority, in many places a small minority, of people have access to soap and clean wat… https://t.co/UxHkEHVfeC

Great Global Bake Off The COVID-19 baking craze is not limited to your kitchen … There really has been a huge run… https://t.co/LRjsHwJWJl

The International Labour Organisation estimates that industries in which the risk of lay-offs or furloughs due to C… https://t.co/kNDsHVlDsd