ADAM TOOZE

If late civil rights movement was crucial to forcing through dual mandate for Fed in the 1970s, in 1960s civ rights… https://t.co/f6WcrzHMlb

Excellent piece on COVID impact on African-American population & legacies of health discrimination.… https://t.co/KdhqOEaGTO

If Fed’s dual mandate on employment is owed in large part to civil rights activists so is the push for Medicaid and… https://t.co/yfJm8o9WK9

Does China’s “Wolf Warrior” diplomacy in 2020 give a bad name to the 2017 film? Chaguan column in @TheEconomist as… https://t.co/y5bEOVXoqI

Why did US veto IMF's bread & butter Pandemic Bailout? Classic Balance of Payments crisis: Turkey, Lebanon, Pakist… https://t.co/gDAAWhKYYS

Surge of Chinese travellers = 1/4 of rise in global spending on tourism since 2000. 150m foreign trips by mainland… https://t.co/sCXQwp4UGl

Tourism is a giant of the global economy. In 2018 as rich-country habit went global people went on 1.4bn foreign tr… https://t.co/jSpK4itqlW

CP group is one of the most spectacular of the business groups founded by huaren overseas Chinese: Thailand based.… https://t.co/fYpkisnqvl

In 2019 of $369bn in SE Asian billionaire wealth 3/4 was controlled by huaren (“overseas Chinese” who are citizens… https://t.co/yVsVbNgaS4

Although they make up less than 10% of South East Asia’s 650m population, ethnic Chinese have outsized influence in… https://t.co/Cjx5bowITv

By 1945 the capacity of US air power to incinerate Japanese cities had reached terrifying proportions with or witho… https://t.co/eTZQxjfhrT

Wenn ich solch uninformierten Schwachsinn in der @faznet lese, frag ich mich echt, warum ich für das Abo soviel Gel… https://t.co/DSa11GtuRH

Our moral blind spots: far more people die of causes against which there is an effective (and often cheap) protecti… https://t.co/cyWBoQSPwV

"At $68bn, the market value of Iberdrola, a Spanish utility that develops solar and wind farms, has overtaken Itali… https://t.co/VFwfQEjlMI

"The annual shareholder meetings of ExxonMobil, Chevron and bp, all held on May 27th, each resembled a yearly check… https://t.co/u4ROkbfNup

For increasingly prominent reasons I’ve been wondering about hair salons as an economic sector … $20bn in sales ann… https://t.co/v2Qu7uTboh

Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative-asset manager, invested more than $25bn last year in warehouses in Amer… https://t.co/ujhF0NMeLm

Prologis, Amazon’s biggest landlord, founded by Iranian-ex-pat Hamid Moghadam, has assets of $125bn and warehouse f… https://t.co/LldLA3ptKR

Private equity firms are big winners of global finance since 2008. They have $4trn AUM of which $1.6trn is dry powd… https://t.co/ooXtZ112eA

Majority of economists in China fiercely oppose proposal that PBoC should monetize swelling deficit because 1. PBoC… https://t.co/psQDKjXWAX

An ARMY of volunteers in Minneapolis helping neighbors clean up business damage. “Bring a broom” they were told. W… https://t.co/wYaX1FwGGh

Role of National Guard in Minnesota is to “Augment MN State Patrol Civil Disturbance Operations with a show of for… https://t.co/QpnsKXpMrH

USA: 55% of 55-64-year olds have less than $10K put away for retirement @HoweGeneration

"Target said it was temporarily closing 175 of its stores across 13 states, including in Minnesota, where the retai… https://t.co/TJKE4KQbaV

Carmen Reinhart to be new chief economist at World Bank. As @TheEconomist notes, along with Horn & Trebesch she has… https://t.co/YNlnISLiBO

Climate Policy Initiative estimates that in 2017-18 a paltry $30bn was spent on climate adaptation, primarily from… https://t.co/8oDMbQuaCc

Anschluss: Since 2009 mainland Chinese firms have displaced US and British firms as (foreign) backbone of Hong Kon… https://t.co/sUNoYJZxtD

“I follow the Moskva / Down to Gorky Park / Listening to the wind of change…” Did the CIA co-write Scorpions deathl… https://t.co/p4h5Rny4S8

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EU low-volatility net asset value MMF denominated in $ but without access to Fed MMF liquidity facility suffered ca… https://t.co/7L3s18JYnF

As the coronavirus outbreak deepened, euro area MMFs experienced outflows of nearly 8% of assets under management b… https://t.co/uzK6BkgssZ

"The feast of solutionism unleashed by Covid-19 reveals the extreme dependence of the actually existing democracies… https://t.co/iZ4FHPOHeM