ADAM TOOZE

Chinese currency hasn’t barked Chinese balance of payments hasn’t barked And, not entirely unrelatedly perhaps, the… https://t.co/TKEPOE8epI

The current index of economic policy uncertainty is like nothing we have ever seen before and we have to say that i… https://t.co/NQYp8ANEzM

In the US airline data as well as the markets, the week starting Monday 9th March was when you began to see that 20… https://t.co/10g7QTZksH

The unemployment numbers Thursday were horrifying but we have not hit bottom. The percentage of hourly workers goin… https://t.co/A7pFgspkH0

Empty table: Caught between real fiscal pressures of corona crisis, jumpy markets and deadlock amongst Europe’s pol… https://t.co/wuBeA9v6Mr

Last week, foreign central banks were borrowing $45 million from the Fed. Then the Fed boosted the list of eligible… https://t.co/iNM0UVAc9F

Private-label CMBS – commercial mortgage backed securities without backing from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are the… https://t.co/jwN1sjQd40

Talking Politics @TPpodcast_ features the excellent @hanskundnani this week. https://t.co/on7hYAHPTs

Merkel very clear: ESM is our preferred instrument to fight this crisis. We do not agree with member states who cal… https://t.co/ubqY5bDQZR

The run on pasta for corona pantries has been enough to send the price of Canadian durum wheat higher.… https://t.co/KCa5olI3JW

“There will be no recovery. There will be social unrest. There will be violence. There will be socio-economic conse… https://t.co/CU88z2eXjF

"While some defaults could be avoided by emergency financing from IMF/World Bank, their resources would be swamped… https://t.co/oVmETQ6pOd

Fed's balance sheet shows surge in its currency swaps with other central banks: On Wednesday, these hit $206.1 bill… https://t.co/Y4ZqBVKPxV

Fed swap line usage topped $200b on Wed — see the last column (168b is the weekly average) https://t.co/B6tMse31qb https://t.co/IkHK9No6M9

One of the reasons it is misleading to think of the package passing Congress as a “stimulus” is what folks under lo… https://t.co/QRxXklkkpE

@StachowskiGreg @elham_saeidi @FoxNews I know I am being too kind … 🙁

Great piece by @MESandbu on #coronabonds, echoing a few points @adam_tooze and I made in the @guardian yesterday.… https://t.co/RqZlLWg3bj

Count me in. Apart from everything else it would be a pleasure simply to say hi to so many people Ive never met in… https://t.co/OI0ImBCaVn

Precarious pile: Between 2007 and 2019 the EM corporate bond stock almost quintupled from $500bn to $2.3trn.… https://t.co/tjZ2SRYBux

“People are dying and I realize that, but they can't get their nails done.” Its tempting to mock. It IS surreal. B… https://t.co/a6g8HmAKSr

@wendelin_b @Brad_Setser Great questions … let me ponder that. Apologies @Brad_Setser that you are being “thought about” here.

Once again, the EU fails to be good at propaganda, loses out in propaganda war to countries that are better at prop… https://t.co/Xymtm4k5Im

Oder wollen unsere unrealistischen Ordo-Freunde nicht nur Europa für ein Virus bestrafen, sondern auch noch die Bes… https://t.co/fRDszw1SlR

should COVID-19 mobility restrictions be removed to help economy? new research by @EmilVerner on 1918 suggests answ… https://t.co/2eJWZk3gRz

On current trends NYC appears to be only days away from reaching its citywide ICU ceiling. https://t.co/mKdCs4C0Tg

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the surge in Americans filing for unemployment benefits is “not relevant.” N… https://t.co/x0cPH6uQe2

Eavesdrop as Wayne Koestenbaum & I explore a sentence by R. Barthes: ‘Language is a skin: I rub my language against… https://t.co/85UsJNat9u

🖤 ROLAND BARTHES 🖤 Died on this day, in 1980 I recall the thrill of speaking with Wayne Koestenbaum about Roland B… https://t.co/YjXkvu5XAV

My husband, an academic administrator at QUB, has been working from home since last week. He is working his ass off… https://t.co/MJymqZB6ad

@COdendahl @MFratzscher @MSchularick @jsuedekum @FuestClemens @michael_huether @SDullien @GFelbermayr @AdamPosen… https://t.co/o4AfzgMSRf

Folks sometimes wonder what I mean when I talk about “technocratic imagination” as a historic force and something w… https://t.co/IweaFrdHk6

I am doing a Webinar open to the public about the economic policies to face the coronavirus crisis. Trying to reach… https://t.co/aiHLE8Ua7c

@kevin_ovenden Fair point … just somewhat distractedly snipping beautiful illustration from @njtmulder excellent es… https://t.co/rN2uRq8gtK

@primalpoly @adam_tooze @jaylyall_red5 @washingtonpost Trying logging in with donald@wh.gov, password:PASSWORD

@primalpoly @jaylyall_red5 @washingtonpost It certainly isnt the writers who paywall!

"U.S. health care providers make excess profits of $65 bn pa according to @TheEconomist Enough for 1.3 million ICU… https://t.co/NeQfLCXdli