ADAM TOOZE

most popular on @guardian US: “Dark COVID outlook” “Poll trackers” Huge spiders on MoD sites Murder hornets Donald Trump Jr and MAGA porn … I fear I understated my warning of America’s morbid state of mind! theguardian.com/commentisfree/… https://t.co/mgyOpxHocH

"In Nigeria as a whole, manufacturing value-added accounted for nearly 12 per cent of GDP in 2019, up from 7 per cent a decade ago, but well below the 20 per cent it reached in the mid-1980s, according to the World Bank numbers.” ft.com/content/387591… https://t.co/rfLGVD1BQt

Wilson v. Hughes in Nov 7 1916, in the middle of World War I, was the first American election that was followed by the entire world as a matter of urgent concerns. 104 years on, where are we now? An election-eve piece for @guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/… https://t.co/S6LeMqwtE6

Nov 1916, in the middle of World War I, Wilson v. Hughes was the first American election, which was followed by the entire world as a matter of urgent concerns. 104 years on, where are we now? An election-eve piece for @guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/… https://t.co/UbQ7TRBxMt

In 2013 with exquisitely bad timing, with Vladimir Putin watching on, Exxon signed deals with Russia’s state-controlled producer Rosneft and planned a colossal offshore exploration and production programme in the Kara Sea north of Siberia. ft.com/content/30ffa5… https://t.co/HEu8B63CyZ

JPMorgan reassures clients about Biden's corporate tax plans: “rate has been drifting lower since 1960s. Would require significant political will to push rates higher. Headline risk greater than actual policy, similar to many scares that have come before” ft.com/content/4930af… https://t.co/rwR6SQBcuR

This is spot on: “social market economy” is a pet name for capitalism! twitter.com/popp5201/statu…

"Cheap imports from China and India have wiped a thriving textile industry in the north. Kano, with its famous dye pits, was a major textile producer. Kaduna was once billed as the Manchester of Nigeria.” @davidpilling on challenges of industry in Nigeria. ft.com/content/387591… https://t.co/HAQlQj4V3C

RT @LeapingRobot: @adam_tooze The Turner Diaries came out in 1978…all part of the same survivalist stew. (Thanks for your interest in m…

RT @QLilleyman: @adam_tooze @davidpilling An actual "free market" sounds expensive

"In 1975, the former Green Beret Robert K Brown began publishing Soldier of Fortune magazine out of an office in Boulder, Colorado.” @LeapingRobot on survivalism in the 1970s. You could buy this stuff in newsagents in the UK in the 1980s! aeon.co/essays/art-les… https://t.co/U6yDyR7bDy

@PureGuesswork @glacy Precisely … it is horrifying and thus had the ring of truth. Thanks for clarifying. BIG source of relief. 🙂

RT @teasri: @adam_tooze @GoldmanSachs Taxes are second order–the deficit spending is first order. Levy-Kalecki equation.

Taxes would be “most direct consequence of a Dem sweep” @GoldmanSachs estimates Biden’s tax proposals would cut S&P 500 earnings by 9 % “excluding 2nd-order impact from economic growth, business confidence, or other factors”. But 2nd-order is 1st order. ft.com/content/4930af… https://t.co/dePIrschSc

@PureGuesswork @glacy Wow … sorry. That is a crazy error. I will unretweet …. Jeezus …. Why cant folks get this kind of basic stuff right?

Hertie Foundation: Commissioning an Independent Study into the Nazi History of Hertie – Sign the Petition! chng.it/cYCPsw4Z via @Change This is an important initiative which everyone concerned with an open engagement with Germany's history should support.

“In order to go into any form of production in Nigeria, you have to create a mini-state: your own security, water, electricity, roads. That inevitably pushes up production costs and lowers efficiency.” ” Dimieari Von Kemedi quoted by @davidpilling ft.com/content/387591… https://t.co/hXX2w0lhgM

RT @fab_hinz: Not to be outdone by Egypt, Algeria ups the ante in the regional shirtless parade competition. https://t.co/SifXwvySBN

Despite today’s sheen of Day-Glo nostalgia, the 1970s were saturated with dark, doomy and unsettling currents. Survival supplanted revolution as the new decade’s vital watchword. @LeapingRobot on eco-art. aeon.co/essays/art-les… https://t.co/FXSzdqkN7Y

Shanghai container rates have surged to near record levels as China’s exports boom. thedailyshot.com/2020/10/23/us-… https://t.co/vxGI5f6FCY

Françafrique has a rather different geography if you focus on billions of euros in FDI rather than language and historic colonial connections. @nssylla @madeline_woker ft.com/content/c86587… https://t.co/GaqtkyohWq

In Cartagena, on Colombia's Caribbean coast, only 41% of households are eating three meals a day, down from 82% before Covid-19 left its tourist hotels deserted. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/7eynu7Td8O

RT @CFBONFOX: Oklahoma State tried to get Texas to miss the field goal by putting up yellow lines on the video board https://t.co/Ac7wSVg5…

Not enough attention is being paid to deadlock in EU over July recovery package. Come Nov if the US elections go wrong way, we could have neither the EU nor the US with coherent stimulus policies in place. It would be down to EU national Govs and CB. ft.com/content/613cae… https://t.co/JF22n0Dgfp

Yes, the Euro area needs to talk about the budget rules. A squeeze like that after 2010 could mean a lost decade. @WSJecon via @SoberLook https://t.co/pSFlaS4NdU

RT @Capt_Darling: At times like this, I turn to the wisdom of Malcolm Tucker: “Nobody moves, nobody gets truncheoned in the face. This is a…

UK agriculture needs to recruit foreign workers for the 2021 harvest but Brexit puts this in jeopardy: "We are over the other end of the precipice on this,” said Ali Capper, who chairs English Apples and Pears, a trade group.” ft.com/content/78f78f… https://t.co/UfIxE2ehOF

It was Japanese week on Bake Off & the Brexit-addled UK Department for International Trade is confused about where UK’s soy sauce actually comes from. Hint: Not high-cost, faraway Japan. How about China? Or … oh no! … The EU. bbc.com/news/54718306 https://t.co/5ko5GFCdSL

"Most of those looking to follow Mr Trump, such as Mike Pompeo, his secretary of state, or Tom Cotton, the Arkansas senator, are harder-line versions of him without the caprice.” Great line from @EdwardGLuce Note to self: use “caprice” more often. ft.com/content/b43517… https://t.co/35YKyWWBd2

“Some believe in accelerating response to risk of climate change, and suggest that our industry won’t recover,” Darren Woods EXXON CEO told 75,000k staff. “But we conclude that society will drive an ongoing need for” oil @derek_brower on EXXON’s rearguard ft.com/content/30ffa5… https://t.co/rSkR5pQPye

2020 the year when we track German hoarding of toilet paper. A new run is beginning. @SoberLook https://t.co/LQAoIgQZhg

India’s corona lockdown has led to a crippling shortage of containers Prices of shipping containers to destinations such as US and Africa have more than doubled and there is a three-week backlog to secure a booking at some Indian ports, said exporters. ft.com/content/85ae16… https://t.co/vhWtz6ZE4m

@UliVolz @martinwolf_ @FT My misspent youth …. And my historian hangups 🙂

Hi @UliVolz isn’t the embarrassment that whereas @martinwolf_ and FT can see this connection in case of Donald Trump it applies just as well to Margaret Thatcher? twitter.com/StiglerCenter/…

RT @Shahinvallee: The best thing for international monetary nerds on a confinement weekend. twitter.com/HyunSongShin/s…

2019: Record super hurricane Dorian hits the Caribbean 2020: Super Typhoon Goni descending on the Philippines …. This is terrifying stuff! twitter.com/gdimeweather/s…