Once you start to dig into how multilateral development banks actually work, you enter a weird public-private world in which ratings agencies constrain the lending of the @WorldBank One of the real surprises of researching Shutdown explored in Chartbook. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-on… https://t.co/Kpeob1UkJh
Quite as similar vibe connects this jaundiced piece by Janesh Ganesh ft.com/content/d3ddf9… And my latest in @NewStatesman In Janesh's terms, my focus is on the military wing of the blob. newstatesman.com/world/north-am… https://t.co/03hWuuSxqe
@matthewstoller I dont think markets are the key organizing mechanism of the bit of globalization they are most interested in. I am sure most of the US strategists involved are all for markets.
Quite as similar vibe btw this piece by Janesh Ganesh ft.com/content/d3ddf9… And my latest in @NewStatesman in his terms my focus is on the military wing of the blob. newstatesman.com/world/north-am… https://t.co/AX6vvPxBNT
@matthewstoller We are talking about Chinese access to high tech. I am not sure that markets in general are the issue.
@matthewstoller When you do Matt, I will be very happy to hear. I hope I’m wrong.
Post-American world? For the @NewStatesman I disciplined my dismay at the events in Afghanistan to take a look at the sinews of power: financial and military. Let's just say that the Pentagon’s budget tells a very different story. More on this in Chartbook at the weekend. twitter.com/DEHEdgerton/st…
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RT @_miller_mark: @adam_tooze @WorldBank Don't know if you saw this, but made a similar point odi.org/en/publication…
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If you ask the question why @WorldBank and other multilateral development banks could not do more to offset impact of COVID crisis you are given a truly dizzying answer. They worry about their credit rating! What? The WB? Chartbook on Shutdown digs deeper. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-on… https://t.co/NLyMtIua7M
@martin_oneill @alexdoherty7 @poltheoryother Thank you. Thats very kind of you.
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RT @KoriSchake: Love this line: "At times, the US army can seem like a management consultancy in jackboots." @adam_tooze
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If you ask the question why @WorldBank and other multilateral development banks could not do more to offset impact of COVID crisis you are given a truly dizzying answer. They worry about their credit rating! What? The WB? Chartbook on Shutdown digs deeper. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-on… https://t.co/RxF8JMRC3z
RT @JasonCowleyNS: The Pentagon aims to secure US military dominance through ultra-advanced technology, not GDP. As Washington torques the…
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Latest Chartbook just dropped. Another in the Chartbook on Shutdown series. This one on why the World Bank cares about its bond rating and why that matters to the poitical economy of COVID. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-on… https://t.co/gN4xyRSZd1
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RT @GavJacobson: Beyond thrilled to announce that @adam_tooze is joining the NS as a contributing writer newstatesman.com/politics/media…
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@KaiserKuo @bhbradlow Hi Kaiser thank you very much for posting that. It is, quite frankly, a relief!
@rosharma08 @Adita_Ferrer YIKES so sorry. Will fix Congratulations on the new book in any case.
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