ADAM TOOZE

The ECB, BofE, BoJ and the Swiss National Bank said last week that they would offer short-term dollar funding via the Fed’s swap lines only once a week, instead of three times at height of crisis. Confirmation of stabilization. ft.com/content/210ef7… https://t.co/wOS90xgK0S

RT @bletchleypark: We're deeply sad to announce that as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, Bletchley Park Trust is about to enter a peri…

RT @fritzsternjr: @adam_tooze @BuddNicholas Ritter and Michael Howard are great. I would also add Blood and Iron. No book does a better job…

Once an annex of a complacence energy giant, RWE’s carbon trading unit now has 1600 staff. RWE has in recent times bought up enough carbon credits to fully hedge its exposure to the carbon price for the next three years. Peter Krembel heads operations. ft.com/content/a5ff89… https://t.co/Qt0VGYOoGg

This thread matching British post-war prime ministers to British Rail locomotives from the post-steam era is … 🙂 Great work by @GarethDennis twitter.com/GarethDennis/s…

RT @michaelxpettis: The PBoC is still urgently encouraging banks to lend to small businesses to support employment. I don't know if the big…

RT @Brad_Setser: A little too much is being made of the data on fx issuance, which has been fairly strong for inv. grade issuers — a) lot…

RT @mattyglesias: Food service jobs as a share of all jobs. https://t.co/l3WKEXfjnD

@MattHammington @socialeurope So it is imperative for the eu to validate these bets and thereby force the tempo of transition!

RT @StrunzG: @adam_tooze orig. "Es ist ungewöhnlich, wenn man in einer Diplomarbeit die Aussage 'Alles Kacke' findet". engl. "It is unusual…

RT @adam_tooze: Four good reads on the Franco-Prussian war/19th Prussian military history, in English: G. Ritter, The Sword and the Scepte…

RT @JLDraycott: Archaeologists Find 1,200-Year-Old Soap Factory in Israel smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/120…

A 63% fall in health care spending accounted for 30% of fall in US GDP in Q2 2020. Its really a recession like no other! blogs.wsj.com/economics/2020… https://t.co/SPrBvhjNdk

In summer of 2020: 12.1% of adults in US lived in households that didn’t have enough to eat at some point in previous week. Almost 20% of Americans with kids at home couldn’t afford to give their children enough food, up from 17% in early June. @d_harrison wsj.com/articles/more-… https://t.co/u4rFrBf8jZ

EU’s carbon pricing long looked like a neoliberal white elephant. Now some of world’s biggest oil traders & hedge fund managers are taking it seriously. ft.com/content/a5ff89… In @socialeurope I argued that this offers a real opportunity. adamtooze.com/2020/07/06/car… https://t.co/z0b2iwOkH2

RT @adam_tooze: One of Luhmann's underrated qualities is his dark sense of humor. In this too he is the anti-Habermas. https://t.co/FyOyOWR…

Aquaculture has seen huge increase in production since 1980. China is responsible for 60% and Asia for 90%. 591 species, 106 m t in live-weight, worth $ 163bn. Better than overfishing wild stocks but raises huge environmental concerns in its own right. unctad.org/en/Publication… https://t.co/Y5czaDaQsq

RT @oldlondonnow: St Martin in the Fields Trafalgar Square #London by William Logsdail 1888 @Tate https://t.co/IDpY9emJKs

Unsustainable global fisheries are backed by subsidies estimated of c. $35 billion, of which over $20 billion come in the form of capacity-enhancing subsidies. China is a big spender. But so too are OECD members which provided $9.3 bn 2010-2015. unctad.org/en/Publication… https://t.co/I7mn2SR5F4

In low income neighborhoods, 1/3 of families with kids have applied for or received unemp insurance in course of COVID crisis. Great work by @NewYorkFed team libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2020/08/the-di… https://t.co/weBB2tXqvc

Single parents – overwhelmingly women, disproportionately women of color – have been hardest hit by COVID shock in the US: 27% skipped rent/debt payments, 11.5% struggled to pay for food, 34.1% on food stamps. libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2020/08/the-di… https://t.co/7gjSwOq7bm

RT @snarkusmax: @adam_tooze one of my strongest teen memories is not understanding why NYC intellegentsia all liked Speer's biography I wa…

In last 6 elections no more than 10 % of Americans report voting for a different party for President than in the previous election. Will 2020 be different? @WSJ via @SoberLook https://t.co/Wv4sNgQhuM

Democracy and democratization are themes that run through Deluge, my history of 1916-1931. I spelled out the connections more directly in a short essay previously only available in German: "World War I: War Under Conditions of Democracy” adamtooze.com/normalitat-und… https://t.co/RSvhS35UFG

So far the collapse in world trade has not been as bad as some feared. But the signs are that there may be worse to come. WTO via @SoberLook https://t.co/Q4imKCqvlR

What are the contours of constraint in the global financial system? AE & EM are navigating new and choppy water. Some are proving remarkably robust. Others e.g Turkey are under huge pressure. Data from @RobinBrooksIIF @IIF are an indispensable guide. H/t @SoberLook https://t.co/Zjy0A0AwKF

Albert Speer: man without qualities, or “American psycho”? A 2015 review of Kitchen’s biography that I was glad to rediscover in the course of the redesign of my website. adamtooze.com/2015/12/23/the… Check out the fabulous work by katemarsh.com https://t.co/aoKENR4GNq

RT @Holger_Nehring: Extremely thought-provoking and wide-ranging essay in a great book. Highly recommended! twitter.com/adam_tooze/sta…

@Holger_Nehring Thank you Holger!

RT @schooldaves: @adam_tooze @rfelliott When teaching Ed policy I always use petro engineering as an example of the relationship between ed…

Enrollment in college petroleum-engineering programs fluctuates dramatically and broadly in line with the oil price! Fascinating report by @rfelliott wsj.com/articles/oil-i… https://t.co/wa0ZZj8ztk

"World War I: War Under Conditions of Democracy” – English version of an essay previously only in German, is amongst the new material on my redesigned personal website. adamtooze.com/normalitat-und… Great work by katemarsh.com/contact/ https://t.co/kjyuGDJpd8

RT @areasvellas: Plug-in-City…1964 Peter Cook… #architecture #arquitectura #drawing #PeterCook #City https://t.co/N487LH9PYw

RT @70sBachchan: That Texas – yes Permian basin, oilmen Texas – produced the most wind electricity of all states in the US is a fact that f…

Just discovered that Helmut Smith the great Vanderbilt historian is on twitter. If you have have any interest in history, Germany, beautiful historical images and maps, you should follow Helmut! twitter.com/SmithHelmut/st…

RT @SmithHelmut: Map Series. World Cities in the Early Modern Era helmutwalsersmith.com/2020/08/21/map…