ADAM TOOZE

Australian farmers federation plans to become the A$100bn food bowl for Asia by 2030, profiting from scarcity scare… https://t.co/DIafC1RKnM

A debt standstill for stressed low-income and EM borrowers is the appropriate response to sudden stop in funding.… https://t.co/e95smXdj73

Middle-Income MENA nations have taken strong action to contain corona, the question is whether their fragile financ… https://t.co/U7RXtSktNr

Iraq’s prime minister designate has warned that the oil price collapse means the government could be unable to pay… https://t.co/JUV3RQerNq

As of April 5, just 69 per cent of US households had made their monthly rent payment compared with 81 per cent in t… https://t.co/Uascw38Wga

As the Eurogroup squabbled over a fiscal response to the corona crisis, Mario Draghi’s house was on fire … LITERALL… https://t.co/n0vZRuaHbu

The EU has seen an 88% reduction in CO2 emissions from cars since start of lockdown. @VJMallet… https://t.co/2xm4KCvDG7

Two important elements in @OlafScholz statement: – For ESM w/o conditionality "almost all on board" but needs unani… https://t.co/lXKqljZ55s

French economy and finance Minister Bruno Le Maire speaks on the phone with his German counterpart during a break i… https://t.co/aZyfRL0pIW

In this shark's first year, Shah Jahan was crowned ruler of the Mughal Empire, in Agra; Oliver Cromwell made his fi… https://t.co/BCGJciqdad

This is a 392 years old Greenland Shark that was located in the Arctic Ocean. He's been wandering the ocean since 1… https://t.co/wKl9hQABin

The unprecedented nature of the corona shock -> economists across 18 banks and consultancies come up with huge rang… https://t.co/57oGP0q5em

There have been repeated bouts of turmoil that have hit the EM since 2013 but nothing like what we have seen in rec… https://t.co/NkngxEMH4x

No ordinary recession: there has never been such a comprehensive closure across the service. @martinwolf_… https://t.co/PdJDKZVin0

The unprecedented nature of the corona shock -> economists across 18 banks and consultancies come up with huge rang… https://t.co/KPQrVDYBYM

There have been repeated bouts of turmoil that have hit the EM since 2013 but nothing like what we have seen in rec… https://t.co/S9RFYil5US

No ordinary recession: there has never been such a comprehensive closure across the service. @martinwolf_… https://t.co/3dWGOTH33N

@scottjshapiro All good so far! And the same to your and yours.

The breakdown in Florida’s unemployment insurance application system was anything other than accidental. At c. 11%… https://t.co/ELmntRODbT

@scottjshapiro Hi Scott the politics of “recipiency rates” is mind-blowing.

Because Florida’s online unemployment insurance application system has broken down, hundreds are forced to stand in… https://t.co/evJdcAXmae

People are dying at home in NYC at something like 8-10x the pre-pandemic rate, per OCME. If they haven’t been teste… https://t.co/el05kY6afu

Here's an analysis from The Economist of the increase in all causes mortality for regions of Italy and Spain. (h/t… https://t.co/R0tjZr2Mhm

We knew the daily coronavirus death counts were too low because of reporting delays We had little idea they were 8… https://t.co/dt1Pdfa12l

SNL résponse to the death of Franco …. https://t.co/qg8Ydf5uCl

The fact that Niall Ferguson’s Virtual History is top of stack left is fitting for the moment we are in! https://t.co/r4eTFNZWPQ

Big thank you to ⁦@martinwolf_⁩ for featuring our capital flows work in this piece. Outflows from EM due to the COV… https://t.co/z1yjq2I1H9

Das ist ein wichtiges Thema – Kapitalabflüsse aus den Schwellenländern aufgrund von #Corona @BMF_Bund @IMFNews https://t.co/QaGMeSJLQC

Also a good reminder of the fascinating tradition of "neoliberalism" as a state-led development strategy in 1920s R… https://t.co/T3CmtgeGYA

Hungaro-Serbo-Bulgaria was a once a thing – even if shortly. https://t.co/FxvxRY0pXa

“the complete absence of co-ordination of healthcare policies among member states, recurrent opposition to cohesive… https://t.co/A3hYcpmJZc