ADAM TOOZE

"Chimerica, the intertwined manufacturing colossus that boomed across the Pacific from the early 1990s, looked far… https://t.co/pKCxZE42zf

Dialogue not sanctions. German FM Maas has a tricky moment on the Maischberger chat show when he is asked about tha… https://t.co/fNwzWoj4lN

"It’s a fiction that monetary and fiscal policy are separate. The European Central Bank’s mandate should be enlarge… https://t.co/z4wZk20YDi

Big In, Big out: in 1988 Wang Jian published an article in the official Economic Daily arguing the country should t… https://t.co/2lCRJIFYjw

Worried that elements of the GOP might want to politicize not just facemarks but a vaccine? This interesting analys… https://t.co/a8mvZk7Rep

China’s unemployment statistics are just not informative enough to allow us to form a clear idea of state of labour… https://t.co/XrwOjqkOUh

Since 2008 growth in New York metro employment has been driven, not by finance, but by sectors particularly hard hi… https://t.co/VnHBp6SeIQ

Financial industry is 28% of New York metro area economy -> makes it into the 10th largest economy in the world, bi… https://t.co/SMUMqzfptL

New York metro pre-crisis generated 9.6% of US GDP -> New York’s recovery is America’s recovery.… https://t.co/SFqOGyns8b

@thdyoung Just like the Ballardian image of a bunch of infected folks powering around the oceans on top of a nuclear reactor!

@thdyoung @adam_tooze For sure. I would have gone with: “60% of cohort of 6000 mainly young individuals living and… https://t.co/4ElLTkSdDb

Most of these are not so much hedge funds but family offices of Chinese families. They’ll likely mostly stay, I gue… https://t.co/xGcJdZ9wN5

Since 2018 as foreign investors have exited, Turkish government has come to rely on local banks to hold its debt. I… https://t.co/Jf9bs0wTLZ

The UK government now has the joint-lowest approval rating worldwide for how they have managed coronavirus 🇻🇳 +95… https://t.co/woyza3dcO4

Beyond Merkel! @GuyChazan on the shapeshift at the German Finance Ministry that has been key both to the new initia… https://t.co/Gg4jnTWanU

@t0nyyates Points taken, but I’ll leave it up because your responses have been so instructive @MusilTweets

Allowing for discouraged workers and those forced to take part-time work, in April 2020 “underemployed” US populati… https://t.co/6hOy4FWJDN

With 60% antibodies, Is an American, Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier the first place on earth to achi… https://t.co/e4eisdf5e5

Confirming that for 49% of Americans pandemic unemp benefit does not match wages v. 30% for whom it boosts income.… https://t.co/GSSe1iwTfp

More than 420 hedge funds are based in Hong Kong, managing assets worth almost $91bn, more than in Singapore, Japan… https://t.co/BmmXYGF03b

An electric/fuel-cell truck manuf that hasn’t sold a vehicle and has virtually no cash on hand is currently valued… https://t.co/irdDe0SyXv

This is fascinating. China citizens as tourists in foreign countries account for a sizeable proportion of luxury go… https://t.co/ouwUKADcgs

Of 144 emerging and development economies, 29 are oil exporters and 20 are metal exporters. Poverty rates are far w… https://t.co/7mH9gk4WuV

Of 144 emerging and development economies, 29 are oil exporters and 20 are metal exporters. Poverty rates are far w… https://t.co/WvkgJUh9HI

"Americans have not fully grasped that we are not doing what countries that have returned to normal have done. Amer… https://t.co/0bjZwltGER

The big locust outbreak in the Sahel in 2004 did terrible things to the farming economy of Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bis… https://t.co/BJN9Hf3a0K

For Haiti, Nepal and Tajikistan remittances from migrant workers abroad make up >30% GNP -> COVID-19 is a disastro… https://t.co/ZKG25YYZKo

For low-income sovereign borrowers like Ethiopia and Rwanda, borrowing costs surged in late March 2020. @WorldBank… https://t.co/ay2JWTF4gi

In the most vulnerable low-income countries the COVID-19 epidemic is just gathering steam: 2k new cases per day by… https://t.co/CZNjqBDNL0

Since 1870, the global econ has experienced 14 global recessions. COVID-19 will be 4th deepest. Most severe since t… https://t.co/dlKp5K6rbQ

"hundreds of billions of pounds worth of operations delivered from peoples’ bedrooms, attics and kitchens, whilst i… https://t.co/XytCEFCUqr

4 months after the Wuhan shutdown, commercial real estate sales across China are back to pre-crisis norms.… https://t.co/YL2M2I9imI

On 9 April @bankofengland announced that Ways and Means acct would be available to UK Treasury to smooth short-fund… https://t.co/4200Q9z9Zt

A greater share of the world’s economies is in recession today than during the 1930s and there are FAR more nationa… https://t.co/Hs3iEMI8rC