September 8, 2021
RT @tracyalloway: El Salvador's bonds are getting dumped. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
RT @tracyalloway: El Salvador's bonds are getting dumped. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
As @bhbradlow notes I start Shutdown by acknowledging my twitter feed for the enormous flow of input y’all provide. I want to end today, the day of pub, by thanking everyone for so many lovely tweets and retweets. Its truly a privilege to have such a community of readers 🙂
If you are kicking back for the evening why not join David and me for what is sure to be a fascinating conversation. Up at Strand NOW. twitter.com/strandbookstor…
Absolutely delighted to be chatting about Shutdown with the brilliant @dwallacewells this evening. Thank you @strandbookstore for hosting. Join us at 7 pm NYC time. twitter.com/strandbookstor…
RT @DanielaGabor: and for the record, south of Rio Grande is now more progressive on women rights than the State of New Gilead up north.
RT @rulajebreal: Breathtaking bravery, 2021’s Afghan women are protesting the Taliban regime on the day an all-male Gov’t is appointed…Wome…
RT @DavidAstinWalsh: It’s mid-September and according to the Jobs Wiki precisely ZERO jobs have been posted for full-time, tenure-track 20t…
RT @PulpLibrarian: The Grundig Studio 2220 (1976). Because nobody doesn't like four faders! https://t.co/UmlrFLB0lv
@DanielaGabor Thank you Daniela. You know how much it owes to our exchanges. A
RT @DavidBeckworth: Look what arrived today! Hot off the press and still smoking! @adam_tooze https://t.co/QFSgN6KrVX
RT @AnnPettifor: Matthew Klein: "our big problem for the past few decades has been a glut of capacity that we’ve refused to put to work. We…
RT @CPIM_Lamarck: @adam_tooze @Doug_Bandow @RStatecraft @QuincyInst The data is pretty clear about the chasm between left and greens https:…
RT @PhilippaSigl: If you are under the impression that current potential output calculations are a technical rather than political matter,…
This blurb on @Doug_Bandow piece in @RStatecraft is completely misleading. You should take it down asap. @QuincyInst twitter.com/RStatecraft/st…
RT @AaronvanW: Just walked into a McDonald's in San Salvador to see if I could pay for my breakfast with bitcoin, tbh fully expecting to be…
Chartbook Top Links #17 just dropped: Jackson Hole, disasters and mortgages and a blimp in Kandahar. Sign up here: adamtooze.substack.com https://t.co/8IZu40gGNv
RT @adam_tooze: Greek debt is a rather striking demonstration of how politics defines “sustainability"! Most of it held by various European…
RT @VeraNijveld: Poster with beetles from the Käferbuch by C. G. Calwer (1858). https://t.co/PJAPsmLChb
Privilege to talk to the @BungaCast team. It was really fun navigating the mental map with them. twitter.com/Alex__1789/sta…
RT @Alex__1789: Was fascinating to chat to @adam_tooze, not just about his book Shutdown, and how the pandemic responses have been conditio…
RT @eric_weinberger: Summer's over for Nick Cave, wheeling his suitcase home https://t.co/tOEfaz5oV1
@70sBachchan Hi @70sBachchan I’ve been thinking about this a lot … is that neat sequential image of waves not part of our cognitive problem? Dont we have to imagine them all crashing into each other? More like this? https://t.co/3eUC3yBElS
RT @VikingBooks: "[SHUTDOWN] challenges us to consider the ways in which our institutions and systems, and the assumptions, positions and d…
@FADCLDN @alanbeattie @WorldBank Fair distinction but both are vanishingly unlikely.
RT @n_j_dames: Struck by these condensed thoughts on middleness by @adam_tooze: being in the middle is where we (inevitably) are and yet it…
Germany’s FDP in 1971 defined issue of distributional justice as an issue of freedom. twitter.com/OliverBWeber/s…
@alanbeattie @karolkarpinski @WorldBank But the way the argument runs is not “We worry about @WorldBank because we worry about US politics”. The argument is: "World Bank cannot make concession on this LIC debt because then creditors would worry."
Thanks @Morris_ScottA for chiming in. So why is the debt even subject to the same regime of bond rating and subject to threat of a “downgrade”? Thats like choosing to play by rules that simply dont have any relevance to an agency like @WorldBank twitter.com/Morris_ScottA/…
@alanbeattie @WorldBank Its such a strange series of negotiations in which public agencies are forced into private banking frameworks.
Nothing has shaped my thinking since Crashed more than exchanges with @DanielaGabor Shutdown can be read as a continuing dialogue with her work. twitter.com/KeirMilburn/st…
Post-Brexit a margin has opened up between shipping costs from China to major North European ports and to the UK. ft.com/content/c6c452… https://t.co/gZ9QozZu63
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