ADAM TOOZE

China’s steel industry underwent a dramatic shock in Feb-Mar 2020. Almost all of the adjustment was sustained by sm… https://t.co/G4Nq2uBlpg

Cool graphics on the timeline of the COVID crisis from the latest @BIS_org annual economic report.… https://t.co/M62k5FIFAJ

🌍🌊#BCE #ESSEC HGG : "Le bassin méditerranéen : un espace de crises et de rivalités internationales depuis la fin de… https://t.co/S3cyeJ6NMv

@adam_tooze @DSORennie That's why explaining Chinese politics is hard Overpowering tendency to see "China" as an… https://t.co/D9WpyIwf9B

@adam_tooze @DSORennie There is an under-appreciated feature of Chinese political economy It is highly competitiv… https://t.co/OT3yhxn41G

BREAKING: The Federal Reserve is sharply limiting how $$ banks can give shareholders. For Q3: -No share repurchas… https://t.co/49HhILfali

"The west treated a crisis in Wuhan as a remote and exotic problem, made all the more so by China’s “totalitarian”… https://t.co/qXuHObk4UR

@adam_tooze Thank you for sharing @DSORennie's review

Tens of millions of people around the world suffer agonizing disease & death without adequate morphine painkiller o… https://t.co/p8Vs4jyRoW

Fauci says he's concerned about Americans disregarding scientific data and the recommendations for slowing the spre… https://t.co/N8SuQzvJXW

"This is still the first wave spreading out across the world’s 7.8 billion inhabitants." It's been almost 16 weeks… https://t.co/c0RCXkaHW8

We talk a lot about deaths of despair & opioid curse in the US. The flip side of that is the immense suffering of t… https://t.co/HYhobCP0tG

The poor suffer! Of 298·5 tonnes of morphine-equivalent opioids dist in the world pa 2010–13, only 0·1 metric tonn… https://t.co/0GojZwfkVG

China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption. Interesting discussion of new book by… https://t.co/6uMtaKcayC

Fear is the key: strong association btw rising infection rates and slumping retail/restaurant activity in early-to-… https://t.co/FZCimb3VPL

African passports have unfavorable visa status -> the rich can overcome the problem by buying second passports or f… https://t.co/HtfXhz0PsO

"About 170 million out of Africa’s 1.3 billion people are now classified as middle class. But about eight million o… https://t.co/qJ4qq5NEkx

Due to drought, locusts and COVID, in Somalia 3.5m people, more than a fifth of the population, face hunger between… https://t.co/pyYUaP5F8i

One in seven of the world’s superyachts over 50 metres long—equivalent to the height of the Arc de Triomphe—passes… https://t.co/DhJbSeTIVR

TARGET2 IMBALANCES ALERT ALERT ALERT … default, redenomination risk, spreads, death, destruction … oh! …. they are… https://t.co/2t8C1zoi20

"The calls "are so unusual," confirmed a German official, that special measures were taken in Berlin to ensure that… https://t.co/RisHDPrtaW

Inflation fear? I don’t get it. But there is surging multi-billion dollar demand for inflation protection which has… https://t.co/HzxtFEqvW5

In Gobi desert Rio Tinto is digging one of world’s largest copper mines in Mongolia to deliver 500k t pa mainly to… https://t.co/dtJrqDSgBY

In California, one of tech hubs of global economy, 20-24% of school kids do not have a reliable internet connection… https://t.co/aHGzczGT5v

"By far the greatest number of Trump's telephone discussions with an individual head of state were with Erdogan, wh… https://t.co/UL5YZQppoM

Though there was a lot of good data new on US economy up to mid-June, low income employment numbers were massively… https://t.co/q5NsmaD9PY

US Landstuhl military hospital in Germany has treated 95k US soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. T… https://t.co/2KMwNfKCVU

Loss of Appetite: As COVID surges in Houston the recovery in restaurant trade stalls. Beginning to look like a W th… https://t.co/EoTOXpt3ti

"Die Amis" – Over 10m American troops were cycled through West Germany from 1950 to 2000, with 250,000 deployed for… https://t.co/3ADplUfUYl

Great British Peso? @senoj_erialc & @jemimajoanna REALLY don’t like the sterling as EM currency story set in motion… https://t.co/c50eIXZQlC

There was a historic irony in Asia concern about COVID infections frm Europe. But what now threatens is a new and s… https://t.co/Sz51Ar2wf2

The Fed expects American Express, Bank of NY Mellon, State Street to make money even in COVID worst case scenario.… https://t.co/WwlA5OWByW

"crucial cog in America’s global military machine” – Americas bases in Germany are more significant than the 34.5k… https://t.co/7mrvEmIwfP