ADAM TOOZE

Signs of extreme stress in global FX markets. The Yen is strengthening sharply as investors seek out safe havens. $… https://t.co/gmTorT0dRr

Just to put things into perspective: The sudden crash in oil prices to near $30 a barrel takes the market back to e… https://t.co/bUNDd4psdW

“Daddy, in the olden days, did government bonds have a positive yield?”

Great article by @adam_tooze on Marco Buti’s parting shot as the European Commission's most senior economics offici… https://t.co/HVKkCf9iyc

Conditions such as HIV, diarrhea & malaria have seen precipitous declines south of the Sahara but diseases of the n… https://t.co/EhQKKFjlAA

The consumer-drone market is dominated by China because drones are basically phones with rotors & China’s Shenzhen… https://t.co/aR2Hw5yVvi

Nearly three-quarters of all deaths from infectious disease in 2016 happened in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and… https://t.co/2Bk4mmzxEZ

"Geoepistemology”: China makes components for almost everything, understands how to assemble them, and is set up to… https://t.co/pnGCZefXZw

Heartprint: To identify targets for its snipers the Pentagon has developed a laser vibrometers that can detect the… https://t.co/WI6nouOT7k

What is wrong with us??? “Officials in NYC said they would close public schools only as last resort, in part becaus… https://t.co/vW8MUw41g7

The outflow episode for #COVID2019 (in red) at the moment is worse than anything that we have seen before, with an… https://t.co/uq0dwXMLrc

"Geoepistemology”: China makes components for almost everything, understands how to assemble them, and is set up to… https://t.co/EFwNnUKRxe

The consumer-drone market is dominated by China because drones are basically phones with rotors & China’s Shenzhen… https://t.co/noIJNrccad

Heartprint: To identify targets for its snipers the Pentagon has developed a laser vibrometers that can detect the… https://t.co/xIf4abobwT

In 1950s Mao sent 175,000 demob Han soldiers to settle in overwhelmingly Uighur Xinjiang as agrarian colonists & sh… https://t.co/cfOfj9Wv29

African tax gap: @IMFNews models “tax capacity” using variables such as GDP/capita, trade openness & governance ->… https://t.co/dbtMUQBfDY

Croatian Dubravka Šuica is Europe’s first Commissioner for Democracy and Demography a sign of the East-West consens… https://t.co/y4WJYH4u1x

Remember the Iran crisis back in January? These are the firms, other than oil/gas and oil/gas equipment who have bi… https://t.co/wa25OPgedu

“Russia has had enough of US shale living off Opec+” & Moscow is furious at US sanctions v. Nord Stream 2 -> refuse… https://t.co/UhAiVfn9RX

Despite high-tech character, the market for microchips is as cyclical as that for pork. In good times chipmakers ad… https://t.co/dd0wsRrZH0

Trump's golf course in Ireland is seeking permission for coastal defenses like a sea barrier to keep the beach from… https://t.co/l6xCRpAngb

Though the heyday of Connecticut’s Gold Coast may be over, along with the favorable tax environment, of the $3.6trn… https://t.co/EmPNKm1dzt

Energy transition needs to factor in geoeconomics & the phantom of “energy dominance": Interaction between US shale… https://t.co/lwxYRafVQg

Gold “gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and… https://t.co/Zo169PqNgf

Just got an email from UCONN saying that if you get the coronavirus and exaust your 3 sick days per semester you ha… https://t.co/yOAV0qZyZk

“You’re real patriots,” Farmers “guard the borders, open territories, and offer food security,” Netanyahu and Gant… https://t.co/nnGWUa0UDh

Despite years of calls for “reform” by @WorldBank @IMFNews etc price controls remain prevalent in EM and LIC. Gover… https://t.co/zvUJGaLJb2

The decline of the Jaffa orange: 200 years ago in Ottoman Palestine farmers began cultivating a new citrus variety… https://t.co/kk1GECm5vN

From the 1990s, the surge in output per worker in EM and developing economies brought about a historic shift in the… https://t.co/0YnsYfyTGj

The regular Sunday poll in Germany suggests a slight recovery by the SPD and options for a Green-Red-Red coalition. https://t.co/IkY3ECZK8q

The Shell Papers: Dutch investigative journalism group @FTM_nl is conducting a sustained campaign to force the Dutc… https://t.co/JiBDD1Cs3l

The rise in internal displacement in low income countries is an alarming trend. @WorldBank GEP… https://t.co/qKIWpDWeXj

Personal archives of prominent Dutch climate denier Frits Böttcher (founder of Club of Rome) who died in 2008) reve… https://t.co/Ss5Qj17Rps

Europe’s uneven economic development is compounded by divergent demographic trends, childcare provision and pattern… https://t.co/GJGjB00ynM

Track 2: a phrase coined in 1981 by American diplomat, Joseph Montville, covers exercises in private and backchanne… https://t.co/pcFiXo5Fwr

MS-13 & Barrio 18 gangs were born in LA in 1980s recruiting refugees from El Salvador’s civil war. 1997 US toughene… https://t.co/lWJbkTk00a