ADAM TOOZE

They're literally calling it a surge. The boomerang announces itself. https://twitter.com/AP/status/1285995599314264069

The COVID crisis in South Africa is no longer notional. 17k excess deaths. https://twitter.com/SABreakingNews/status/1286004718926348288

About 35,000 Lebanese graduate from university each year; the Lebanese economy even before the crisis offered jobs… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286030756385624070

CNBC reports that GOP considering cutting the $600/week benefit to less than $100/week https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/22/coronavirus-stimulus-republicans-consider-unemployment-insurance-extension.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.PostToTwitter

Egypt is now struggling with covid-19 in part because it lacks enough doctors: more than 10,000 have emigrated sinc… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286025723119931392

In Algeria, income per person has fallen from $5,600 in 2012 to under $4,000 today. Huge public spending cuts ahead… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286020690513027072

Oil revenues in MENA fell from over $1trn in 2012 to $575bn in 2019, says @IMFNews 2020 Arab countries are expecte… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286015656668696576

Amongst petrostates only Qatar can balance its budget at the current oil price of c. $40/barrel. Algeria needs $ 15… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286010623747268608

What is the climate sensitivity to a doubling of atmospheric CO2? Here's the thing: despite writing a giant 166-p… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285949112467312643

Flattened-out fish-hook is a new one on me. Apparently it describes the stagnation of the US airline in July 2020 7… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286000162637320193

This is a very thoughtful essay on the U.S.-China relationship from @adam_tooze https://lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n15/adam-tooze/whose-century

Five years ago, I found this one-of-a-kind misprint at @BMVBooksAnnex in Toronto. I kick myself to this day for not… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285979439772434433

Class War – Trade War – Cold War A new piece for the @LRB on escalating Sino-US tension. Follow up to the earlier p… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285982943786172417

Listening to The Drones, Then They Came for Me (2016) makes me nostalgic for my old traveling lifestyle. An engross… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285977908452814849

NYC took in $60.7bn in tax in 2019. Much of it is very vulnerable to the COV ID shock. A 10% shortfall is anticipat… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285972874952466433

@adam_tooze …Golden Fetters is that adjustments under the gold standard are borne disproportionately by the worki… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285957349820125184

Yesterday's view of the Isle of Dogs was intended to be my last visit there – but it prompted requests not to leave… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1278965447501676544

Faces of History: This is Emmanuel Louis Cartigny (1791-1892), who was the last surviving combatant in the Battle o… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285125151865155584

I've restored this original colour autochrome from 1926, taken at the proposed site of the Little Bighorn Battlefie… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285481182025732097

Beautiful, evocative and moving: This is the earliest known original colour film of London, taken in 1924 – only 5… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1030236577891594241

Here is another old autochome I've restored for you, taken 111 years ago at the first Paris Air Show in September 1… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285894034498695170

@michaelxpettis @adam_tooze I love reading your commentary Mr. Pettis, you’re one of the most knowledgeable and inf… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285966428789760002

Whose century? https://lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n15/adam-tooze/whose-century. A serious look at “Superpower Showdown” and two other new books on China-US… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285967314421243905

CUNY, where most city public school graduates from NYC attend college, has dramatically improved 3-year graduation… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285967844249702402

Simply the most astonishing Farm->Factory->Services transition in history. Carbon fuelled mechanization & urbanizat… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285962883277426688

I did a piece for @LRB on China-US tension and the latest crop of books, including @michaelxpettis @M_C_Klein… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285964302441156610

Our new issue is now online, featuring part one of ‘The Suitcase’, by Frances Stonor Saunders, another new Talking… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285909334728351749

COVID has hit many sectors of the New York economy hard. But the worst affected have not been the main drivers of g… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285962808673349632

@JanGold_ @michaelxpettis I agree. I find it a bizarre suggestion. All the more puzzling in that it seems to come f… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285962120211959809

NYC, NY, NJ, Ct are looking at a collective budget shortfall in 2021 of at least $28bn -> huge cuts to come. One fo… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285957775638421507

Not recovering: World Economics SMI shows US business still in contraction territory going into July 2020.… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285952749948014592

In < 3 months in 2020 income of average working household in UK has dropped 4.5%. During the financial crisis incom… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285947709019414528

Britain's budget deficit could exceed 370 billion pounds this year. In the ballpark of wartime borrowing. More than… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285942676051775493