ADAM TOOZE

Just so we are clear the “British colonial state” is aka the “postwar Labour government” (or at least stands in a c… https://t.co/VeYgbagiMp

And then the giant bipeds learned how to make things even smaller than this … and all hell broke loose. https://t.co/dQLSdjH5u8

"a yellowing Xerox of white male authority” .. what a line! https://t.co/PBXTOZG1oh

This week's episode of Interchange is entitled "Captains of Disaster: Vulture Capitalism and the Pandemic Playbook.… https://t.co/XYaFRCJub8

Excellent response from @njtmulder to a piece by @martinwolf_ warning about the 1914 analogy. https://t.co/NgIeuZifFo

@njtmulder Dont encourage Ray Dalio to look at the discount books, he might end up buying the entire outfit!

In light of all the talk about the return of great power competition, this by Paul Schroeder from 1993 is worth bea… https://t.co/lKAVpFP2gH

Paper:"Compound climate risks in the COVID-19 pandemic". Nature isn't staying at home. Pandemic is test of govts’… https://t.co/clnxLGbYWv

The breakdown in Sino-Australian relations There isnt any polity for which the choices the Trump admin is forcing a… https://t.co/Hmhu3bCeaW

“mild scenario” the ECB outlined this month for a 5 per cent contraction in the eurozone economy this year is in La… https://t.co/kvIXGJukb4

Just to put this into context: This means additional EU expenditure in 🇮🇹 worth roughly 5% of GDP, presumably over… https://t.co/LZQEiyyTsJ

Hey Siri, show me a supply shock. https://t.co/nLWgsiTdKn

Unemployment systems run on a programming language so old that engineers joked about its demise *in 1960* https://t.co/MPeEzG8FoM

One of the dividing lines btw “emerging” and “frontier” markets is whether their governments can borrow in own curr… https://t.co/K6JyanfJ6c

“Tesla is the only non-unionized automobile workforce of any major car company in the US, leaving employees with li… https://t.co/UEyQ1HRNDJ

@twittarmatthaus @mck_beth Why is it orientalist to ascribe strategic vision and ambition to Ankara?

A bread line in Vermont, cars lined up as far as the eye can see. https://t.co/7J6knqh20g

Turns out Christian Cooper, the birder who stood his ground at Central Park whilst his namesake sought to add him t… https://t.co/GE00NCWgqO

Libya is the latest battlefield of Erdogan’s Mavi Vatan, or Blue Homeland strategic vision. This by @mck_beth is fa… https://t.co/R3fTaEogBe

Also a recent thesis on "The Bond-Market-Power Fallacy" https://t.co/rHitNAQaBD ping @adam_tooze

“Severe adverse scenario applies credit rating transition matrix for speculative grade credit after GFC to current… https://t.co/cuLEJhyviB

The Sum of All Fears: what to worry about in the ecosystem of risky advanced economy debt. Another great chart fro… https://t.co/3WooreoJuL

$6.6trn = Direct and indirect exposure to ecosystem of risky credit in advanced economies. GREAT chart from new pu… https://t.co/1Er3DMxf8l

The number of Chinese living in urban areas overtook those in rural areas as recently as 2011. Still today over 500… https://t.co/1kM299UNhy

There is a worrying chain that runs from corporate downgrades -> leveraged loans go bad -> pressure on CLOs But mer… https://t.co/LvAVrJoou8

Following China’s WTO accession in 2001, btw 2001 and 2005 the number of undergraduates and postgraduates in higher… https://t.co/3cAxa1S8DC

Global CLO issuers bundled higher risk leveraged loans. Early in 2020 it seemed we were on track for a record year.… https://t.co/KAtEWNsAYf

One of the consequences of one hell of a lot of socially-distanced walking: as of today, I have found postboxes fro… https://t.co/IueqT4UwK5

We think today of China as an education-driven success story but it was as recently as 1986 that education became c… https://t.co/qw9LEllme6

China’s great famine of 1961-2 is clearly visible in the demographic statistics. @SCMPgraphics… https://t.co/YbOxelDNHt

Global issuance of risky credit was strong before the COVID-19 outbreak, but has slowed sharply since late February… https://t.co/ZHClPuxtYU

The top female billionaires who are self-made businesswomen are overwhelmingly Chinese. @StatistaCharts via… https://t.co/osEd6ZHafP

Exorbitant privilege/Fiscal exceptionalism. The US is looking like an outlier in its first round fiscal response to… https://t.co/t7gWddF1GL

As their retail clients shuttered shops US Mall landlords received only a quarter of rent due in April! In total $7… https://t.co/KDrMGFEeIk