ADAM TOOZE

Progress on Recovery Fund reforms will pave the way for a loosening of EU fiscal rules over the medium term. The latest note by @EurasiaGroup team led by @Mij_Europe is excellent. https://t.co/C7GqtnEwIh

@MGSchmelzer You are very kind. … “fear of disappointing”-devil rears his nasty head …. :$

Does India Have An Inequality Problem? Mmmm … YUP! bloombergquint.com/economy-financ… https://t.co/WUCo6OmwHR

@hugobrady You really should do a short book about it.

RT @calebwatney: "China’s technology giants have seen a combined $823 billion wiped from their market value since a February peak, with Bei…

RT @ErikFossing: It was never a “big scare” among people looking carefully at the numbers – but a big pumped-up story by hawks looking for…

“What has come to light, during this process, is that not all regulators have a copy of the list of the professions which they regulate.” UK accused of ‘baffling’ handling of bill to recognise foreign qualifications. Brexit shambles # ???? ft.com/content/63d359… https://t.co/GigLVnLnQf

in 2019, UK Home Office estimated total pool of people eligible to apply for right to stay was btw 3.5-4.1 m. By March over 5 million had applied and many more came in by deadline! UK migration statistics were clearly wholly inadequate @sarahoconnor_ ft.com/content/1c489f… https://t.co/vE91SLutRx

America’s Empire 2008! "Minnesota Viking cheerleaders visit Bagram, and even play a game of "cheerleader says" with the troops." twitter.com/JackMurphyRGR/…

"Most EU officials concede that the fight over whether to tighten fiscal policy in 2023 has been decided — the real political question now is by how much.” @Mij_Europe politico.eu/article/the-re… https://t.co/1OpucqfqGS

No Green Minister of Finance. FDP names its conditions for coalition negotiations after German elections in September! faz.net/aktuell/politi… https://t.co/za4596hpGp

Divergent rates of recovery in Europe and the US may pose challenges for ECB if Fed begins to tighten before it will be appropriate for EZ. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/sVd3hUVccE

Real test of German politics after Sep election will not be whether debt brake will be formally modified (it is very unlikely to be), but whether it can be worked around creatively to enable investment. @SDullien @KatjaRietzler @IMKFlash map options. boeckler.de/pdf/p_imk_pb_1… https://t.co/uPK3tRYGqv

Immigration to the UK back to pre-brexit referendum highs but now mainly non-EU migrants. ft.com/content/af15b3… https://t.co/td83Ehpp6v

Were the US to make the EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism into an issue it would be the height of absurdity. Serbia, Mozambique and Egypt have more trade at stake! Great analysis by @SamuelMarcLowe @ElisabettaCo for @CER_EU cer.eu/insights/avoid… https://t.co/TE7GTCbbvv

"between the second quarter of 2016 and the first quarter of 2021, the UK economy shrank by 4.3 per cent. Italy’s performance was similar. But the eurozone’s economy grew by 1.3 per cent over this period.” ft.com/content/af15b3… https://t.co/0Wu32KimbL

Polycrisis from within: This is a fascinating inside account of refugee crisis and fierce debates it unleashed in EU by @hugobrady advisor to Tusk. twitter.com/hugobrady/stat…

RT @AdamsonPaul: Wonderful phrase: 'Performative Divergence' (regulatory divergence for political reasons) coined by @samuelmarc at today's…

This excellent proposal for a new German fiscal policy from @DezernatZ deserves lots of attention and translation into English. twitter.com/DezernatZ/stat…

RT @ErikFossing: The most elegant – and powerful – response possible to Weidmann’s call yesterday for (premature) withdrawal of monetary st…

Sovereign but not equal: Uk v. EU & Canada v. US. ft.com/content/af15b3… https://t.co/VEvOTFdVYQ

COVID Provides a natural experiment to demonstrate absurdity of conventional output gap estimation. @IMFNews estimate of Italy's potential output simply tracks the effect of lockdown! Crazy. twitter.com/RobinBrooksIIF…

It took 6 months of negotiations to form Merkel’s last grand coalition government. It leaves office on a low. With no more than 34% approval. spiegel.de/politik/deutsc… https://t.co/m2jxrVM9zs

While foreign secretary, Johnson once asked his officials whether Angela Merkel had been involved with East Germany’s Stasi secret police. ft.com/content/243a06… https://t.co/lpEB7wohA2

President Moïse of Haiti has been assassinated by a hit team! spiegel.de/ausland/haiti-… https://t.co/SRxEAXjjuV

The evolution of the ECB’s inflation target, helpfully mapped. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/NnHrTHBxZv

"Fracturing before our eyes." Would be ironic if English success in European soccer championship became symbolic of the summer in which United Kingdom became nonviable as effective Union. Late to this one, but important read. theguardian.com/commentisfree/… https://t.co/rP8RsurrsL

It is ironic that we are only learning just how big a deal European migration was for UK at the moment we are confronted by life without it. As @sarahoconnor_ shows in excellent piece, entire structure of UK food industry was shaped by cheap migrant work. ft.com/content/1c489f… https://t.co/36jQdJadwn

Remember the Trump WWI anniversary trip? The one where he said that stuff about “losers”. Well, it seems like he was on a bit of a bender …. theguardian.com/us-news/2021/j… https://t.co/6RkHArvHLA

“Too often, the debate on China lacks nuance” Despairing of possible financial services deal with the EU, where did the UK turn last week? China! Back to Osborne/Cameron script for the City of London? New strategy? Or just flailing of “global Britain"? ft.com/content/a571fc… https://t.co/CwIgoE9pAi

RT @paola_tamma: Recent draft of EU proposed carbon border levy still mum about free allowances, says these will have to be 'reduced' and @…

RT @MiddleEastEye: Egypt raised objections after receiving official notice from Ethiopia that it had begun filling the reservoir behind its…

RT @Frank_vanlerven: 🔥Stat Attack🔥 Calculations based on @OBR_UK suggest if government was to pay for 41% of the costs of the transition (…

RT @AnnPettifor: Black women helped elect Biden… twitter.com/juliaioffe/sta…

For the first time @EurobarometerEU shows "climate change ranks first as the single most serious problem facing the world as a whole" europa.eu/eurobarometer/… https://t.co/UuIA8TnZbQ

Relative priority of global concerns revealed by @EurobarometerEU is strikingly polarized on class lines. 30% of self id upper middle class v. 12% of working class consider climate the main problem facing world as a whole. europa.eu/eurobarometer/… https://t.co/D95n8vYcB5