ADAM TOOZE

NEWSFLASH: Chartbook #1 I’m experimenting with a new format. Every few days I am pulling all the best charts, links, books from my twitter feed together to make a series of chartbooks. #1 available to download here: adamtooze.com/2020/11/15/cha… H/t to @SoberLook For inspiration! https://t.co/HFRjnNvJRr

"you get stable politics once you remove the threat of the end of days from daily political life, primarily by denaturalizing it." Kelly , Duncan. Politics and the Anthropocene (p. 102) https://t.co/WuJCd5eo9p

“Suddenly, hope” The cover of @TheEconomist says it all. https://t.co/IlTR46YaQL

"£20m in compensation paid by Brit gov to slavers for loss of their human property equated to 40% of state’s annual expenditure at time. Until banking bail-out of 2008 = largest specific payout in UK history; loan it required was paid off in 2015.”! economist.com/books-and-arts… https://t.co/ZEQkcQ3d9l

When it comes to the cold chain, mRNA vaccines are extremely demanding. @business via @SoberLook https://t.co/iDuya5uUvo

Biden was touted as unity candidate who would bring white non-college voters back to Dems. It likely didn’t happen. Instead 2020 saw increased polarization amongst white voters and a surprising shift in mainly Latino areas TO the GOP! economist.com/graphic-detail… https://t.co/MVs0iA7Tw3

Oct Fiscal Monitor by @IMFNews offers a remarkable sectoral anatomy of global corona stimulus. In AE 9% GDP direct budget, 11 % guarantees. In AE c. 36% total goes to households/employment v. 30% in support for large firms. imf.org/en/Publication… https://t.co/rAaRl46tF5

Between 1950 and 2020, North America saw the smallest increase in its urban population of any continent in the world, including Europe. @StatistaCharts via @SoberLook https://t.co/Olm0mbe8YR

The @IMFNews has scored corona stimulus responses by their climate credentials. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, Trump’s USA does not come out well. Can a Biden admin wrangling with McConnell’s Senate, change that balance? imf.org/en/Publication… https://t.co/nnlJDdrjsE

In a desperate effort to stave off worst affects of corona lockdowns, coverage of social assistance worldwide was extended to an extra 22% of population, in S Asia to 39% and LatAm to 35% of population. imf.org/en/Publication… https://t.co/LIrrixIrTV

S Africa unemployment rate is a staggering 30%+ @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2020/11/13/why… https://t.co/QBdoDesOhc

RT @vtg2: Quarles says the Fed has requested membership to the Network for Greening the Financial System, and he expects them to accept.

RT @envidynxlab: I've flipped my @geogsouthampton Y1-S1 survey into a DIY podcast – "Geographies of Risk" – and made it freely available: h…

RT @RobinWigg: Old enough to remember when Schwarzmann compared Obama’s plans to raise tax on carried interest to Hitler invading Poland.

RT @thephilippics: Well, it's complicated. https://t.co/jGM5rBlJRb

I gave up two thirds way through. It was not helping! twitter.com/pathtopraxis/s…

“Allowing high uncertainty, based on projected decline in per capita incomes, 100-110 m people globally are expected to enter extreme poverty relative to pre-COVID projection, reversing decades-long declining trend.” Impact of social policy is marginal. imf.org/en/Publication… https://t.co/NXIbjrakfB

QE-style interventions by central banks are now a spectrum running across AE and EM rather than a distinguishing mark of AE. Purchases of central gov debt by Polish CB matches that by BofE! imf.org/en/Publication… https://t.co/9KEhrW3ywe

@alex_callinicos Convened at Yale school of management with tim Snyder as its ideological guide?

Following shakeup in Turkey, promise of a change in policy and interest rate hikes -> exchange rate recovered last week and yields on $-denominated debt plunged as investor appetite revived. Data from @SoberLook https://t.co/oo0CTW7UzS

The corona fiscal stimulus in @IMFNews Fiscal Monitor Oct 2020 show both scale difference btw AE, EM, ILC AND the near universality of some kind of response. imf.org/en/Publication… https://t.co/UbcFqfhmQp

Potatoes are a key part of diet in Northern India. Their prices are currently surging at an alarming rate. @SoberLook https://t.co/WjUYqjXwxY

"Economic Demands Test Biden Even Before Inauguration With the recovery slowing and coronavirus cases surging, Democrats must decide whether quick action on federal aid is more important than its scale.” @bencasselman @jimtankersley nytimes.com/2020/11/14/bus… https://t.co/jZr7JMXoXY

This set of slides by the great Bob Jessop on a Green New Deal is fascinating, all the more because it dates to 2011! unrisd.org/80256B42004CCC… https://t.co/C9XolJxvqP

Since 2014 online share of Chinese retail has surged from 10% to close to 27% with pace of transition accelerated by corona crisis. @gavekal via @SoberLook https://t.co/27HLwjLjMr

Issuers from Asia ex-Japan have sold over $323 bn of $ bonds compared with $326 billion for all of 2019. Chinese borrowers led the charge last week following an initial lull after the U.S. election. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/YMLlmKgMOw

Pfizer and BioNTech’s Vaccine will ship in ulltra-cold boxes. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/zhcoTCxp5D

Foreigners own almost 10% of China’s Treasury Bonds. Natixis via @SoberLook https://t.co/QKrRCx2AUn

RT @AllieHBNews: Oxford Circus, London. 9pm Saturday 14th November 2020 https://t.co/f4vporCeUF

At 7 am on Nov 6 Yale SOM Jeffrey Sonnenfeld convened a call with 30 CEO including Goldman Sachs, Johnson & Johnson and Walmart at which Tim Snyder warned them about the threat of a coup d’etat! @Edgecliffe @markvdvd ft.com/content/558f2a… https://t.co/NdvsOh1QEp

RT @JeffSonnenfeld: "Corporate America had been supportive of Biden in the run-up to the election. A survey of CEOs conducted by the Yale S…

So this actually happened … On 6 November some of America's leading CEO convened to discuss possible Trump coup and how to respond. twitter.com/JeffSonnenfeld…

Woah … Full-blown Fox v. Trump camp standoff. twitter.com/rch371/status/…

RT @Jardine_bradley: After a diplomatic trip to Indonesia in 1960 Khrushchev was repulsed by the pungent durian fruit and ordered thousands…

“When Erdogan actually realised that the economy was going to take him down, he pivoted in a way that nobody was expecting.” Essential reading on last week’s dramas in Turkey by @laurapitel ft.com/content/53271c… https://t.co/kCTO2xpePM

@zeithistoriker Precisely … or perhaps we should recognize that we were always already a pharmaceutical-financial-tech-agroindustrial-supply-chained complex totality!