ADAM TOOZE

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

The Wuhan shutdown on 23 January coincided with usual New Year dip in Chinese economic activity. The difference is… https://t.co/HlgtXcalc8

Assuming oil prices are $30/barrel not $50/barrel oil-dependent sub-Saharan African producers face a loss of c. 7%… https://t.co/yzJ9ZJTx3w

Ethiopia, Tanzania, Rwanda are the three large Sub-Saharan African countries where tourism accounts for >25% of exp… https://t.co/DfSCTER5rg

Kentucky governor announces state will record license plate info of church attendees, impose mandatory quarantine… https://t.co/dM6hJEsoNa

The commodity price shock of 2020 is going to devastate many of the most vulnerable economies in sub-Saharan Africa… https://t.co/UYq58S6UD2

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/qnIl4EaOko

@PeterFr89977258 Hey … Im recommending the article aren’t I? You Gotta know the arguments of the other side and Stark makes his case.

@ProfPaulWelfens As I say … not for the faint hearted!

Aktionismus – anyone with the stomach for it will find rich material for a diagnosis of the German conservative min… https://t.co/dFNx6JwI3P

Less than 10 percent of the people in Uganda and Sierra Leone have access to safe water -> COVID-19 hand hygiene po… https://t.co/nFaiki1Ydr

Rather than $ strength it may be more precise to talk in terms of weakness of EM currencies, notably energy exporte… https://t.co/gW6KzU1jdt

Sub-Saharan Africa’s medical systems are critically under-resourced. COVID-19 threatens a disaster.… https://t.co/nsyousNOL5

The corona crisis is crushing travel, transport, entertainment spending in US and sent groceries surging but the ov… https://t.co/F29pIGez4v

Pantheon to the Heroes in the Antifascist Struggle, Burgas, Bulgaria (1981) — https://t.co/lvgdD93gj4 [ph: Socialis… https://t.co/Wc5A6lEzHQ

South Africa is an absolutely critical case in the crosshairs both of the COVID-19 public health crisis and financi… https://t.co/nhMBUkkzZP

"remaining silent about what will be done in the future may indeed be the best policy today" This @voxeu piece by… https://t.co/KIYulkdrqA

"Much as Fed prefers to stay out of the political arena, that may prove impossible as its economic footprint grows.… https://t.co/zn0B8lyBrJ

“I think IMF/WB have the resources for 2020. A key question is going to be to what extent this whole public-health… https://t.co/f0D7LkawJU

“the system just can’t handle this many defaults and restructurings at the same time.” @krogoff on the avalanche of… https://t.co/qWmMg5zTIz

"The health of the global economy comes down to a race between money flooding out of EM amid the coronavirus pandem… https://t.co/zj6dBTJYuW

Unlike 2008 COVID-19 has seen massive sectoral suspension of free trade: At least 69 countries have banned or restr… https://t.co/P9BhdizUCc

In 2008 BlackRock managed $1.3trn & Fed had to hire it to manage bond buying, now it runs $7trn -> even harder for… https://t.co/S3iVHVD9Td

UK scientists advising PM Johnson didn’t study, until mid-March, option of stringent lockdown as in China … their r… https://t.co/BBfsc7rwUY

Not a triangulation I ever expected to find myself in! 🙂 https://t.co/U5l1k9X91I

Oil hogged the headlines in the commodity price shock of the spring of 2020, but the slide has hit most raw materia… https://t.co/7YB3Q4CoUk

@torstenriecke Thanks @torstenriecke hope all well!

“We do not accept ESM now and won’t accept it in the future . . . ,” Vito Crimi 5* One of the lesson of 2020 for Eu… https://t.co/Ie8iJztHQS

South Africa, Angola and Nigeria will be hit particularly hard by double whammy of corona and oil price collapse ->… https://t.co/jd9bYaimkI

Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, is tumbling into crisis for 2nd time since 2015 as it is hit by oil price crash… https://t.co/4eFbSUqVci

Fed’s intervention in every corner of financial system raises political stakes! “If you think people were upset ab… https://t.co/zP5dmB3MZR

Fed went over a crucial line this week: "In response to Fed’s move on Thursday, biggest high-yield bond ETF — run… https://t.co/uBfmjBrg6Q

Party like it's 1820: Hegel heads down to the pub with his students and friends, orders most expensive champagne on… https://t.co/xhdcyesTS7

Key question for EM is if huge Fed easing can help EM currencies like Mexican Peso rally back after a scary sell-of… https://t.co/IZSYMEGNlF

This is a privilege the Netherlands has too: Dutch 5-yr bonds yielded 4-5% in the 2000s but this fell significantly… https://t.co/HokhCb2Ytt

Will EM rally back as Fed stimulus buoys risk assets? Or is COVID-19 yet another shock that advances the depreciati… https://t.co/sy2Hu79BpK