April 5, 2022
RT @ForeignPolicy: What demands urgent attention is the shock wave that the war has triggered across the world economy, starting with the c…
RT @ForeignPolicy: What demands urgent attention is the shock wave that the war has triggered across the world economy, starting with the c…
Did a piece for @ForeignPolicy on the impact of the Ukraine crisis on the world economy. We should spend less time debating whether will see end of dollar system and more time worrying about how the dollar system actually works, especially for EM and LIC. foreignpolicy.com/2022/04/05/ukr… https://t.co/V7G4YgMOvG
RT @BiasedStats: Guess when Macron revealed his plans for his second term https://t.co/OCAQcIAXy4
Is “surprise" of French presidential campaign that from mid-March Macron complacently gambled on a program of aggressive neoliberalism & Le Pen has exploited this by tacking to “the left” on social policy? She offers La France qui protegege. @bruno_amable ft.com/content/b29edc… https://t.co/ssUTwMi64l
RT @ana_ramic: Thx to the @adam_tooze substack for this! Japanese florist Azuma Makoto creates botanical sculptures for Dior Parfums 🌸 🌺…
RT @logicanumerous: @apcbapcb @adam_tooze It's a masterpiece. Tsing's style is half phenomenological and half Sartre. Fit for academia and/…
Would a reasonable interpretation of the French polling data be that after the war bump, as soon as Macron actually revealed his program of welfare restructuring and “work”, around March 17th, his stock plummeted and that of Le Pen and Melenchon surged? ft.com/content/6855ef… https://t.co/uF6J2Rj47C
RT @MacroAlf: In normal times, there are 100 ships waiting to load or discharge at the Shanghai port. It's now 300+. Oh boy. https://t.co…
RT @apcbapcb: finally getting to this stunner thanks to a nudge from an old @adam_tooze newsletter. though it's centrally about political e…
"The anxiety caused by China’s planned security deal with the Solomon Islands shows that Australia, New Zealand, the US and Japan fear losing their influence in the Pacific — but are struggling to do anything about it.” @KathrinHille ft.com/content/14fc77… https://t.co/yY2TzHj8wC
"A major criticism of the Chinese government is the high level of state subsidies — estimated at $7.2bn annually in recent years — keeping afloat" its rampaging fishing industry "that would otherwise be unprofitable." ft.com/content/066f2d… https://t.co/QX9QuD6WTC
"Charisma, imagination, selection etc are all far more important on the night.” A LONG but amusing read! ft.com/content/446f16… https://t.co/fcisDvyU60
“MESSAGE TO THE GANGS: We have 16,000 Homeboys [gang members] . . . we took everything from them, even their mattresses for sleeping, we rationed their food, and now they won’t see the sun,” Bukele imposes state of emergency in El Salvador. ft.com/content/e71cdf… https://t.co/d4rhxVGYwP
“Today, many entrepreneurs are raising money from the public by selling crypto tokens, with the expectation that the managers will build an ecosystem where the token is useful,” Gensler said. “These aren’t laundromat tokens,” ft.com/content/efb9e8… https://t.co/jBa31TWVgJ
Engagement groups and “crypto sprints”, UK gov seeks to create impression that it wants to make City of London a “crypto hub”. ft.com/content/24c9b6… https://t.co/XNbdcCfx8d
"Zemmour has inadvertently aided Le Pen’s longstanding mission to detoxify her movement because his relentless focus on the supposed horrors of Islam and “out of control” immigration made her appear relatively moderate and socially focused" ft.com/content/b29edc… https://t.co/v3G5uVxjg5
RT @RauschenbergBot: Sri Lanka VI, 1983 #neodada #robertrauschenberg https://t.co/aCZahZgKFu
RT @policytensor: @srinathraghava3 @adam_tooze Pozsar's point is that both commodity production and exchange — and their financing — is nec…
RT @felixsalmon: @SalehaMohsin @DanielPFlatley I don’t entirely understand this, how can it drain its dollar reserves if it’s not allowed t…
@SciGuySpace @Robotbeat This looks beautiful! Congrats. Shutdown has just come out in Korean and it too has a FABULOUS jacket design. What is it with Korean book designers? THE BEST!
RT @GernotWagner: Bad news first (PDF p. 16 from the technical summary): despite all those net-zero goals, emissions of CO₂, CH₄, N₂O et al…
RT @70sBachchan: @adam_tooze @PMehrling @policytensor Our piece is here policytensor.substack.com/p/the-geometry… Baseline scenario -India tilted to West. T…
@JulesWinnCap Obviously. One is the Eichengreen et al point the other is Pozsar’s. I discuss both in the newsletter.
@Mobwashdc @shashj @SVR_Wirtschaft Or we simply accept that there will be a scatter of “micro" problems we cannot predict and for that reason we need to put some generous COVID-style compensation package in place to deal with the unpredictable fallout. A 2-4% GDP hit implies some hard cases.
The tension btw the Western-centric currency system & the multipolar system of trade and power hangs over the current moment. It inspires visions of a radically different future. Chartbook #107 adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-10… https://t.co/vdnp9Eil3D
Will Russia-China-India form a new axis of trade and finance challenging the dominance of the euro-dollar system? Chartbook #107 picking up on work by @PMehrling Pozsar @policytensor @70sBachchan adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-10… https://t.co/dt9LY2zYfc
Does Putin’s war presage the coming apart of the euro-dollar system? Chartbook #107 just dropped. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-10… https://t.co/xDoJeudBCw
RT @MonaAli_NY_US: Agreed @policytensor this was fun to read. Key point here is that there is an asymmetry between which currencies/countri…
@crossbordercap @simple_genuine @rbrtrmstrng Hmmm puzzled. I agree with you on BW3 and have no real stake in BW2 either, but BW1 seems a stretch.
RT @matjaz_nahtigal: Chartbook #107: The future of the dollar, by @adam_tooze adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-10… Adam Tooze:"There is a huge asymmetr…
RT @alex_callinicos: Thanks to @adam_tooze for recommending this stimulating note on the coming commodity-based Bretton Woods III https://t…
RT @HyunSongShin: Another measured and thought-provoking Sunday read from @adam_tooze Highly recommend twitter.com/adam_tooze/sta…
RT @twittwoods: @adam_tooze Good reference to Shin! I recalled being impressed with his insight back then
RT @AfrikaAnalyst: Sounds plausible until you start thinking about the alternatives. @adam_tooze recently shared a fantastic piece on thi…
To categorize futuristic predictions about future of global currency I am proposing moniker Fin-Fi. As folks have pointed out, Fin-Fic scans better. But for me that puts the stress on fiction, whereas I want to associate Fin-Fi with Sci-Fi & Cli-Fi. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-10… https://t.co/D5GlrkiIDl
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