ADAM TOOZE

Plus there is the ritual reading of the shipping weather forecast … on the radio … dogger, forties, fair isles … you have no idea where these stretches of water are but it is like classified football results. twitter.com/pitres/status/…

Point taken. As a school kid in English schools in early 1970s I think I remember saying prayers “for those at sea”, or maybe it was a hymn. Memory a little hazy. twitter.com/pitres/status/…

RT @DanielPFlatley: Nord Stream 2 sanctions made it into the NDAA, along with sanctions on Turkey for purchasing the Russian-made S-400 mis…

In last week of November 2020, the rate of Covid hospitalization in France and Italy was twice that in the US. @martinwolf_ ft.com/content/7fb55f… https://t.co/bAajdK3RQH

RT @APHClarkson: For all the sound and fury of the UK's endless culture wars, throughout the COVID19 crisis the UK stuck to the same policy…

RT @FJ_Murau: Das sind sie wieder, die Ökokommunisten vom »Economist« 😡😤🤬 https://t.co/Ni4s4Lumg6

RT @brianklaas: Deaths in Pearl Harbor: 2,403 Deaths on September 11th: 2,977 Covid-19 deaths yesterday in the US: 2,885

RT @danieltilles1: The headlines tonight on Polish state TV's main evening news (a government mouthpiece): – "German diktat threatens sove…

RT @strewthbruce: This Bloomberg article is very very sobering – in particular the forecasts for unemployment rates in the event of a no de…

RT @DrScottJames: Great conversation between @adam_tooze and @ewaldeng about the epistemological challenges of researching contemporary eco…

Add Brexit (deal/no-deal) to corona and @business has UK's GDP down by at least ten points by 2029 v. pre-Brexit trend. For more on what is at stake in the Brexit talks, check out the Chartbook Newsletter # 6 adamtooze.substack.com bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/3bCMvnWcma

When it comes to America’s trade deficit, macro policy trumps (no pun intended) trade/tariff policy. @SoberLook As America’s recovery from 2009 progressed, rapidly by comparison with other AE i.e. Japan/EU, US trade imbalance widened back to pre-2008 levels. https://t.co/hJiv0R8ibU

RT @bucephalus424: the chad Laski twitter.com/DanielTutt/sta… https://t.co/N46ZwhckJy

British Cry Foul as Brexit Negotiations Hit Last-Minute Bump: Barnier heading back to Brussels for consultation. For the background see the new Chartbook Newsletter #6 on adamtooze.substack.com bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/1Rlf2w2haO

As the stimulus non-talks drag on in Washington, millions of Americans are about to lose Fed financial support, on THE DAY AFTER XMAS! @StatistaCharts via @SoberLook https://t.co/mGAlU0Ecz8

In 2020 we learned how to prevent a collapse in real economic activity impacting household incomes. Personal income fell more steeply than in 2008 but gov spending more than offset. It provided security, not consumption boost. But imagine consumption w/o.. thedailyshot.com/2020/11/30/us-… https://t.co/Hind4D2cii

Brits got the vaccine first because they are the “better country” … UK EDUCATION SECRETARY … education. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… True spirit of Brexit. For more on that check out the new Chartbook Newsletter #6. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-ne… Sign up at adamtooze.substack.com https://t.co/7WueMPz5MP

RT @GermanAmbUSA: Today, @adam_tooze, heavily accoladed author, historian and professor @Columbia will join me for a live chat and Q&A on t…

One thing you can’t say about money, politics and power in the US, is that they are shy about it! This from Bloomberg front page: bloomberg.com/?sref=wOrDP8KX https://t.co/8Yq0cOndTN

“Boxes and boxes” of pizza have been delivered to Brexit negotiators. Sessions going long! What is at stake? New Chartbook Newsletter #6 has some of the background: adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-ne… To get the newsletter to your intray sign up at adamtooze.substack.com https://t.co/qLUA0jkSu2

One thing you can’t say about money, politics and power in the US is that they are shy about it! This on Bloomberg front page: bloomberg.com/?sref=wOrDP8KX https://t.co/G85Fj8dllZ

Economic growth and corporate insolvencies normally track each other closely in the Euro Area. In 2020 no longer. As @MESandbu asks: how long can this last? ft.com/content/f8396e… Another worry from @ecb FSR I discussed for @socialeurope socialeurope.eu/light-in-the-t… https://t.co/Hq1TqLHRh3

The EU budget stand off with Poland and Hungary is now escalating to the point of emergency budgets and possibly off balance sheet SPV’s a la 2010 according to @MehreenKhn ft.com/content/a9aeab… https://t.co/7ZJaBcuZjQ

Dorothy Garrod, pioneering woman archaeologist, first female Oxbridge Professor, also key figure in military intelligence team that helped to find V2 launch sites in WWII. Features in V2, @Robert___Harris latest which we will be discussing on Friday: crowdcast.io/e/robertharris… https://t.co/vynFkIQuzN

A great thread this on the ECB's remarkable Financial Stability Review by @jeuasommenulle Ive featured it in two recent pieces: adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-ne… socialeurope.eu/light-in-the-t… H/t to @michaelsteen and entire @ecb team! twitter.com/jeuasommenulle…

@fabolange Agreed but would add investment funding for energy transition/targeted debt relief for same purpose to your list.

What to make of ESM mini reform agreed a few days ago by EU? This an excellent thread by @lucasguttenberg who is master of all things ESM. Broadly, better than nothing but a HUGE missed opportunity to turn ESM into a viable crisis-fighting instrument. twitter.com/lucasguttenber…

Amidst all the other turmoil, EU's modest moves on ESM reform risk getting ignored completely. Putting ESM as backstop behind Single Resolution Fund for banks by 2022 is step in right direction at least. Great thread this by @SebastianMack_ twitter.com/SebastianMack_…

The way I read this proposal on Poland/Hungary from leading CDU Bundestag member @lucasguttenberg is as a kind of intergovernmentalism for constitutional courts. See also parallel drawn btw basic rule of law issues and differences of opinion on economic policy! Ominous this … twitter.com/lucasguttenber…

Graphs of national CO2 emissions since 1970 always highlight China. But “other countries”/ROW etc are a force to be reckoned with. ft.com/content/651c2e… Something for the Biden admin to wrestle with: foreignpolicy.com/2020/10/17/gre… https://t.co/v5j45YtqEm

Dorothy Garrod was elected to Disney Professorship of Archaeology in 1939, 9 years before women at Cambridge were admitted to degrees or able to become full members of Uni. Portrait Sara Lavelle (2019) Features in @Robert___Harris latest thriller, V2! newn.cam.ac.uk/newnham-news/p… https://t.co/yaiqlLz0gc

In the history of economic negotiations has so much ever been put at risk for the benefit of so few … ? EU-UK Brexit talks reach a critical point over fisheries! Subject of new Chartbook Newsletter # 6 adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-ne… Sign up here: adamtooze.substack.com https://t.co/k1OkEe47Qe

2020 a year of economic surprises: both corona crisis and vaccine break the frame of conventional uncertainty as measured by Citi index. H/t @RobinWigg ft.com/content/d78563… https://t.co/Dpo4WEmWhj

Are Europe’s failing businesses zombified or merely mummified asks @senoj_erialc @natixis is gloomy! ft.com/content/da175a… https://t.co/bLyLrRY7BB

Why the French Said ‘Non’: A New Perspective on the Hoover Moratorium of June 1931 A key piece of 1930s political history, but also analytically crucial in the Kindleberger v. Eichengreen debate. Latest by Banholzer and Straumann. journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117… https://t.co/zhDT5N76Kx

Congress log jammed over US stimulus Poland/Hungary blocking EU budget To complete the trifecta add Brexit which reaches (another) critical point this week, at a HISTORICALLY bad moment for UK economy: See the new Chartbook Newsletter #6. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-ne… https://t.co/2cQ2sD4uIb