ADAM TOOZE

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested" -Francis Bacon, Of S… https://t.co/iUb1WbtuNb

The main dormitory in the Hospice de Beaune is an amazing room. https://t.co/V5QTkzp1XK

Crude Oil closed at $20.83, its lowest level since February 2002. It was at the same level in 1990, 30 years ago.… https://t.co/kOHqsbpD6s

Prepare for this: convoys of Italian military trucks arriving in Bergamo to remove the dead. https://t.co/jQl3xEUCjM

This seems like significant social distancing. https://t.co/HrgVHTY3CY

@atalaveraEcon In fairness to the @FT this is my assemblage from two different pieces. Not intended quite as seriou… https://t.co/uujgttjF40

"When there are big price declines for both equities and government bonds, the term “fire sale” starts to be used.”… https://t.co/6qHsGookxO

Clearly they woke up in Frankfurt and smelt the coffee very very strongly in their nostrils! https://t.co/xuQlsgWC6P

ECB, scrambling to make up for lost time, launches €750bn bond purchase programme in response to coronavirus. Sides… https://t.co/xS3JDZrB4j

“To extent that some self-imposed limits might hamper action that ECB is required to taken to fulfill its mandate,… https://t.co/YZGNTsPR17

ECB, scrambling to make up for lost time, launches €750bn bond purchase programme in response to coronavirus. Avoid… https://t.co/4QyusCbHme

@mcopelov Your point well taken of course. My juxtaposition is intended more impressionistically. It is literally t… https://t.co/kAyvNHjKZR

The EM where pressure of financial markets really tells are those where reserves are smallest relative to financing… https://t.co/jIg1wblgqc

Typically lucid summary of a key trade-off facing Germany and Europe by @JeremyCliffe https://t.co/Qk9kagfe99

Health care already accounts for 18% of US GDP, this is what @GoldmanSachs sees coming in Q2 2020, an economy in wh… https://t.co/saXnkva1rO

Almost unimaginable to say that Italian deaths from coronavirus likely to exceed those in China tomorrow. Total P… https://t.co/PWN0bdedgK

@jpscasteras @MikeSacksEsq Is there pdf we can read?

What the world needs now is helicopter money at the global level. IMF should inject liquidity into the global econo… https://t.co/ez2sfWymSy

Combination of corona and price war has halved oil prices in two weeks and neither Russia or Saudi Arabia are backi… https://t.co/NHOjG2i9Lv

Well here is an unprecedented scenario: foreign investors are “running” into Chinese sovereign debt whilst Western… https://t.co/rUNmfscUTy

On cardiology consults now, troubled by rationing of PPE & COVID testing. Understand need to ration w/limited suppl… https://t.co/MexoiNUXjC

Heed message from this doctor! Social distancing measures are steps you can take to reduce the social interaction b… https://t.co/WnDpaf0KQk

@70sBachchan @policytensor And unlike in China both in the US and Europe the virus is dispersed. China’s numbers we… https://t.co/JgZlo0JyZ4

@policytensor @70sBachchan But we need to distinguish between the necessary evil of an orderly shutdown in producti… https://t.co/gNhzoFW4jp

2020: Global system Capitulates to our RNA overlords. Nature Bats Last. ht @vtchakarova… https://t.co/7MgMEiRdMM

Add to that @70sBachchan @policytensor the loop internal to US/UK financial markets in which scramble by fund manag… https://t.co/DhbujSiZ55

In the struggle over the corona financial safety net battles like the one outlined here over America’s ailing shale… https://t.co/LQ5Hn1Hb8z

The shutdown is a spectacular experiment in behavioral change. Does it point way forward for decarbonization. What… https://t.co/4k2mEeTgEb

This is an essential point that turns intertwining of structure and agency into a methodological principle: You sho… https://t.co/mIHyNoVtmp

Viruses will always seem scarier than mass extinction & warming because we're social animals whose politics of prox… https://t.co/X31Pkns1bA

At the interface between the climate crisis and corona we are going to want to listen to @70sBachchan https://t.co/5jiehctjK7

A rare macro tweet to highlight some excellent work by @Brad_Setser . Unlike 2008 (financial crisis that morphed in… https://t.co/427Yiec8h6

Wow … sterling is beginning to look like an EM currency! https://t.co/wOQBUx334f