ADAM TOOZE

reinhold 1784: the vatican’s index of prohibited books is an honorable monument to the people’s capacity for truth.

Review of Greece/refugee crisis turns weird whn Paul Mason hails Brit policy in Greece in 1945 as inspiring example https://t.co/CGY8x8B9sY

Renzi slams 'perverse' EU rule on refugee spending: stability pact limits essential spending https://t.co/JwAooARlab via @POLITICOEurope

Great analysis of China's options on exchange rate and capital flows https://t.co/mAfGDakmQu via @TheEconomist

Kant: how accurately & how much would we think if we did not think in community with others

Money will not bring peace to Syria or resolve cultural difference. But it will pay for a civilized containment of refugee problem. Spend!

Virtually all refugee 'costs' are incurred inside eurozone = region of demand failure in liquidity trap –> where is the 'cost'?

To provide civilized interim solution including necessary safeguards we don't need peace in Syria we need 20bn euro tops at zero interest!

Facing historic refugee crisis with interest rates at zero, austerity dogma prevents eu from throwing money at problem … Words fail!

Horrifying animation of the movement of slave ships to Brazil, Carib and N. America. Mind-blowing! https://t.co/F4tvMki2mg via @slate

Deflation is at the Eurozone door and we are arguing a couple 100m here v. couple of 100m there on refugee issue! https://t.co/h6dA6lTyPn

Greece says it needs 350m euros for refugee relief and reception. C. 400 per head. Peanuts! https://t.co/YfjhELqZXu via @Euractiv

Great round up on struggles over Greece and Schengen. https://t.co/YfjhELqZXu

Renzi forcing austerity-refugee link: if Merkel wants to give 3 bn to turkey can Italy have flexibility on 2 bn? https://t.co/5tCllc3hZl

Bizarre article in which Nye crudely weighs up EU-US soft power resources and concludes that stronger EU is better https://t.co/3TJiCsTBaz

Great line: A Germany of club bouncers suspiciously eyeing up refugees is a toxic hangover of 90s rave culture!

Hack: how about a ban-on-attractive-tourist-ads .. untranslatable compound noun .. they might attract refugees https://t.co/8eZ3dpwMJf

Another excellent Hack line: About 12 % of Germans want to make FRG it into GDR 2.0 with cooler cars! https://t.co/RPwy0D0p3T

Great line: A Germany of club bouncers suspiciously eying up refugees is a toxic hangover of 90s rave culture! https://t.co/V4M5RoYly5

Reimagining a new iron curtain around Germany with orders to shoot. BZ satire of AfD positions https://t.co/nGBKt13vwz

‘push immigrants back .. go against law! we are afraid' – Belgians blurt out what others are clearly thinking. https://t.co/SiW6OBGtZS

Greek foreign Min Xydakis invokes Schmitt in discussion of refugee/sovereignty issue https://t.co/w0wx9kVx8T

Rather than giving 3bn Euros to nasty Turkish govern why not spend 3bn assisting Athens to cope with refugees? https://t.co/WMVkzElcm4

If refugee business is creating a sordid mini boom in Turkey why can a civilized EU policy not assist Greek econmy? https://t.co/WMVkzElcm4

Closing Macedonia, country with pop of 2 m and econ the size of Mali against Greece a NATO/EU member is absurd nhttps://t.co/ZPSbFOyhrF

2015 was chaos, but it was chaos that moved: 850,000 refugees move through Greece in 2015. What if they stop moving? https://t.co/eBGG4bygz4

Devastating summary of the dilemmas on the Greek-Macedonian border: Greece Resists Role as EU’s Gatekeeper https://t.co/nEr6Tp3jXT

Great critique of refugee allocation formula for overweighting population: If only we we working by a formula!nhttps://t.co/xtpWpF74RS

Weights in EU refugee reallocatn formula: 40%pop 40%gdp 10%asylumpercap 201014 10%unemp. To reflect austerity impact —> raise unemp weight!

With youth unemp 25% France needs grwth of 1.5 % just to hold labour market stead=backdrop to refugee impasse https://t.co/gAfTVDiJce

FT makes centerist Macron into bellweather for shifts in French politics. Will France line up with Portugal/Greece? https://t.co/zYLKCmrChA

Fed dilemma: is the US unemp rate sufficient indicator for managing economy – us economy let alone global economy? https://t.co/R69v5nSaKV

First contraction in Chinese steel since 1981! 400,000 jobs to go in "Zombie" plants https://t.co/NBhJngHjAe via @FT