ADAM TOOZE

"We will lose our colleagues, we will be burying our colleagues." Dr Jenny Vaughan from The Doctors' Association s… https://t.co/Pv9vdqj8f5

The market reaction to Lagarde's unfortunate comment reveals an uncomfortable truth. The euroarea has wasted a deca… https://t.co/Awb2wd2F6N

"capitalist globalization now appears to be biologically unsustainable in the absence of a truly international publ… https://t.co/H37Q8Rdt6r

The easy, widespread availability of Covid-19 tests for celebrities and other rich and well-connected people in the… https://t.co/vIcXuUqIZk

My brilliant Syrian student was reading The Waste Land from her Damascus University poetry course pack in class tod… https://t.co/H5UNuet9nX

The monster is finally at the door. Mike Davis – yes City of Quartz, Late Victorian Holocausts Davis – is as unspar… https://t.co/PeuyZVDEwm

Lagarde screwed up today, no doubt anxious about the Bundesbank reaction. But this thread is essential to understan… https://t.co/imxEdIxe53

"one of its first victims has been the consoling faith, long preached in the pews of the WH), that pandemics can be… https://t.co/euxjbRlluF

@doug_boh Yup ….

I DID NOT KNOW that the great Mike Davis had written a book about Avian Flu. Essential reading for quarantine and f… https://t.co/IHbj8SiQUc

“We live in a world where 40% of Americans cannot even afford a $400 unexpected expense. We live in a world where 3… https://t.co/5rbYgqtVUN

Hahaha love #WhateverTheF ! But on substance: 1) this is an outrageous mistake from Lagarde and a stain on her alre… https://t.co/7tD15Cw9Vq

Absolutely right. The financial markets of the AE have been rocked by shocks. But as @RobinBrooksIIF has highlighte… https://t.co/Izu32pT0hf

The monster is finally at the door. Mike Davis is as unsparing as you would imagine on COVID-19. One of the great m… https://t.co/6S7Mu7vu13

Absolutely right. The AE are been rocked by shocks to financial markets. But as @RobinBrooksIIF has highlighted the… https://t.co/yDfkyVJINq

Lagarde's disastrous comment on spreads unleashed the largest ever move in Italian 10yr yields. Larger even than du… https://t.co/npQSYfUcmB

'In Air and Fire: War Artists, the Battle of Britain and the Blitz' will be our new art exhibition. Opening on Frid… https://t.co/xQ13cBqmI5

How a credit squeeze from credit card companies might bring own the weakest airlines. Both Flybee and Thomas Cook w… https://t.co/mewDlQCyki

If this is meant to force the hand of fiscal authorities, it's a very bad strategy. If there was a moment for coord… https://t.co/o6KETxB4fn

“This crisis has until now been an exogenous one. Markets processing 2 huge external shocks (corona/oil). Now it is… https://t.co/xeGkEx1LMr

Meanwhile the plague of Locusts continues in Mid East and East Africa https://t.co/OcVALyLQ88

"What matters critically, and what was roiling markets Wednesday, is credit.” @johnauthers One can imagine a V-shap… https://t.co/E5hwQfmzFI

Someone somewhere had no choice but to sell Treasury bonds on Wednesday -> driving up yields unexpectedly even as s… https://t.co/qpbGWRZ5ay

When stress in EM builds, as during the current market sell-off, foreign investors often hedge their underlying exp… https://t.co/qmuOBXFbqJ

All day I've been getting messages about something bad unfolding in credit markets. If you look at current LEVELS,… https://t.co/1FNjnE7Suw

In wake of corona/oil shock, top-down strategists and economists make sweeping downgrades for entire corporate sec… https://t.co/mQtLpiaaLD

Defining moment for EU: shd trigger escape clause to cope with “an unusual event outside the control of the Member… https://t.co/yyM8ysye0m

.@RobinBrooksIIF is calling this the COVID-19 Sudden Stop for Emerging Markets. I hate to bring this up now, but h… https://t.co/5eBvlrucHp

Thanks! Here are our outflows updated for overnight data. The volume of EM outflows for the subset of markets that… https://t.co/vCrVlmvorX

@NishanthV_ET Yes, you're exactly right. Our daily tracker of flows to EM is recording unprecedented outflows that… https://t.co/Iu7cXWLKCQ

A scary sudden stop in foreign capital inflows is unfolding in EM. Take the spike in $/MXN, with Mexican Peso weake… https://t.co/GmeqX1gXCp

"Within 24 hours I received documents from Credit Suisse Group AG, Citigroup Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. maki… https://t.co/M3fT0H6Y3a

BREAKING: Iran asks for loan from the IMF, the first such request since the 1960s.

Battles are breaking out between monkeys in Thailand used to being fed by tourists who are now staying away. https://t.co/YYYlA76pV9

A lot of fear about credit markets right now, with a number of notes saying we haven't yet seen the big shakeout ye… https://t.co/eVmICYJUme