ADAM TOOZE

In the weeks after Stalin’s death it seemed that Vyacheslav Molotov might rise to the top. Yup of Molotov-Ribbentrop 1939. On the cover of Time, 20 April 1953 as the red cowboy. https://t.co/V9Amz50fKn

Kojève the intellectual inspiration for @FukuyamaFrancis end of history thesis, lost most of his money in the stock market crash of 1931, where he had imprudently bought shares of the cheesemaker La vache qui rit! https://t.co/UUoIyrep5u

In which Arnold Gehlen in 1970 debate with Joseph Beuys (yup … wrap you head around that!) recalls attending his first Dada show in 1920. The lost treasures of public TV. youtube.com/watch?v=2VLsaY… https://t.co/FtRRJC0i23

Saint Cassion of Imola was a teacher martyred by his pupils who stabbed him to death with their pens! Or the styli used to write on slate … the stuff of professorial nightmares! https://t.co/7cVP5mwxTn

RT @tom_nuttall: 25 mins in, and not a single question about vaccination. Germany is stuck on the lockdown carousel.

RT @andydhorowitz: US Senator believes the social order is a thin veneer—that the police force and the law it upholds will disintegrate, an…

RT @MichaelJPryce: @DEHEdgerton @adam_tooze @davidpilling The bulbous bow also plays a part – it goes through things. Larrie Ferreiro is…

RT @JUSTUSnatuhwera: @adam_tooze This image explains the economics well https://t.co/axSKFhOpVZ

RT @PHonohan: @adam_tooze @StatistaCharts @SoberLook Relatively small volume of crude petroleum through Suez is because shipping this non t…

RT @mbk_center: In Omsk🇷🇺, the head of the department of the local emergency hospital Rustam Agishev, where @navalny was treated last summe…

91 million people live in the state of West Bengal in India. Can the BJP win in a state that it has not captured in 40 years of trying and was once a bastion of the CPI (M)? twitter.com/orfonline/stat…

Indeed cool “Self-perpetuating diffusion of responsibility” twitter.com/transatlantic/…

I thought this was a predictably excellent suggestion by @RebeccaSpang @policytensor twitter.com/RebeccaSpang/s…

China builds a truck launched maneuvering ballistics missile DFF-26 that can kill US carriers up to 1600 km out -> US is designing an airborne carrier (sic) for fleets of 680kg $800k reconnaissance drones that may never need to touch the ground. economist.com/science-and-te… https://t.co/DhK63uCtP4

RT @KeineWunder: Grün Rot Gelb 50 Grün Rot Rot 49 Grün Schwarz 48 Absolute Mehrtheit 47 #BamSSonntagstrend https://t.co/uHGq8lwlD9

@bhgreeley @RebeccaSpang GREAT points. Add housing in desirable cities.

RT @JUSTUSnatuhwera: @adam_tooze This image explains the economics well https://t.co/axSKFhOpVZ

If Suez blockage persists, diverting shipments around Africa for an extended period would cut about 6% of global container capacity from the market – bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/UdZsFCC3Z9

Disunited Kingdom? Brexit, trade and Scottish independence Huang, Sampson, Schneider hard-hitting assessment of economic impact. @cepr_org cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/… https://t.co/gJUWBgFWnu

Dada, automatic writing, and a military administrator amidst the Munich Soviet Republic … the truly surprising conclusion of this conversation between Alexander Kluge and Reinhard Mehring about Carl Schmitt. youtube.com/watch?v=zo-m17… https://t.co/NMixYBoWrU

“China has an overall goal to become the leading country in the world. That’s not going to happen on my watch because the US is going to continue to GROW.” Does geopolitics have anything to do with Biden’s dash-for-growth Econ policy? Just a thought … reuters.com/article/us-usa… https://t.co/DHi3ivICx3

Yes, I do find it very weird that more than half of College-aged Americans are “very” concerned about inflation. thedailyshot.com/2021/03/26/4-o… https://t.co/ABtTJLaN4v

"A dose of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine, for example, requires 280 components from multiple countries, according to the company” From 25 suppliers in 19 different countries. @davidpilling Anyone have a diagram or list of these components. Amazing! ft.com/content/87cb46… https://t.co/EQf1lqqqbJ

On Friday Germany’s BVerfG put stay on signing NextGenEU into law despite solid majorities in Bundestag and Bundesrat. I gave a instant reaction as @tazgezwitscher went to press taz.de/Experte-ueber-… This from @ErikFossing lays out stakes brilliantly. research.unicredit.eu/DocsKey/econom… https://t.co/yoEnzcDLL5

RT @michaelsderby: New York county grapples with a police department where many officers make over $200K a year, corruption episodes abound…

RT @digitaldjeli: #Suez "Container shipping rates have more than tripled as companies that control shipping lines took out capacity in exp…

Bid to cover-ratios in US Treasury Security auctions over the last ten years put the recent events in perspective. @DeutscheBank via @SoberLook https://t.co/dTP9StCjKU

Containers and bulk carriers of oil and gas dominate the traffic through the Suez Canal. From excellent long read by @davidpilling On the Suez blockage. ft.com/content/87cb46… https://t.co/Pr4NbVU32P

The latest 7-year Treasury note auction was far from busy, but it was better than the previous one. @BChappatta via @SoberLook https://t.co/EJJgViSLj6

RT @GitaGopinath: Thanks for the award. Was the outcome of a terrific collaboration between @IMFNews and @ecb. This is the most comprehensi…

@Airfinity Do you have a date for this data? And where is Russia? Trivial in total terms?

RT @DEHEdgerton: @adam_tooze @davidpilling By the way, worth googling Suez Canal cross section to immediately understand why the Ever Given…

@JUSTUSnatuhwera ahh. … yahoo/bloomberg both focus on robusta. Could it be that trade is particularly tight in robusta precisely in the months running up to harvest? Stocks low? Truly, I know zip. Deferring to you. Asking to be schooled here!

RT @TihoBrkan: This map of #India is just breathtaking. An incredible diversity of landscapes, cultures, traditions, regions, languages, a…

RT @elerianm: What a great book by @gilliantett. Thought-provoking, engaging, important  and well-timed. https://t.co/cLDAqodkXc

Blockage of Suez Canal may Interrupts supplies of robusta coffee used in products like Nestle's Nescafe -> has particular impact on East Africa. Robusta prices immediately surged. H/t @JUSTUSnatuhwera finance.yahoo.com/news/suez-cana… bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/ivgtVeBZWf