ADAM TOOZE

"As Qatar races to complete construction projects ahead of the 2022 World Cup, 2 million migrant workers from South… https://t.co/5IgRkUcmCE

Small size and low Labour productivity of West European farms leaves them heavily dependent on migrant labour from… https://t.co/l0iiv6dRE2

@JanLemnitzer Sorry … just came off @syllabus_tweets list …

"COVID-19 has the potential to tear through the Central African Republic at lightning spread if the country doesn't… https://t.co/9sKJo1C4gt

@danmucida @zeithistoriker Thank you @danmucida

The first two volumes of Etienne Balibar’s collected works are out. « Histoire interminable. D’un siècle l’autre.… https://t.co/umLSAVAMsI

@econgeoff @zeithistoriker @VersoBooks @MGSchmelzer Which means that BW really operates for the period … 1958 … thr… https://t.co/NE9Qr7CDiy

COVID-19: US vs Euro zone 1. Far bigger US fiscal stimulus & deficit (lhs, dots) 2. Full monetary financing of US d… https://t.co/xW3QU2L9SP

@bentleyballan @zeithistoriker And I still dont know how to read Lagarde’s moves between March 12th and 18th and I… https://t.co/Da4oYm4ydc

Great thread from @zeithistoriker on the politics of neoliberalism and floating exchange rates. https://t.co/a7JmvciVUF

The numbers here are pretty clear — the free float of German (and Dutch) government bonds falls well short of glob… https://t.co/7vKVOM7wIR

“Rona Rigs” is the name traders have given to improvised home office trading workstations. There are distractions b… https://t.co/20iMEEDoCK

Middle age has become pretty toxic for white people without college education in the US. Familiar point but data vi… https://t.co/lKiGzqW5lF

The corona campaign posters featured in @donweinland fascinating report on Wuhan are remarkable.… https://t.co/iIJE3mrFP7

Schockwave – Schockwelle Thanks to @Jmhaas my @LRB piece on COVID-19 and global political economy is now available… https://t.co/d3b8LY2cK8

“We have a monster mash-up of the Great Depression in size, the crash of 1987 in speed, and 9-11 attack in terms of… https://t.co/0Rhr0XeGmb

I suspect the Fed will do yield curve control before it goes negative with its overnight interest rate target. https://t.co/MfKsLHBF6y

How Keting Field Hospital in Wuhan has become a shrine to the official CCP line on the corona virus. Great piece by… https://t.co/mcy6uvMNDy

Great thread by @dashching on why we should stop worrying and learn to love massive fiscal stimulus. https://t.co/KEAT4us5AL

"When they closed the city, we were terrified. I never heard the words ‘feng cheng’ before. I didn’t know that was… https://t.co/7cv02zzbWJ

A security guard in his office at Leishenshan Hospital this month. The sprawling emergency field hospital was built… https://t.co/dgSu9KBpZ8

@gbrew24 Not holding back 😉

Excellent piece from @njtmulder @adam_tooze on the oil price crash and its rippling effects throughout the oil-prod… https://t.co/FLk29v5mal

Workers in Michigan and Pennsylvania — two key 2020 election battleground states — among the hardest hit in the U… https://t.co/18LrIaFe0h

Von der Leyen's promise of "not billions but trillion" in EU coronavirus aid has already got some leaders concerned… https://t.co/fj5O13u1AT

On the leaked Comm document: lets all say NO, MEPs, journalists, analysts to Commission/Council efforts and tricks… https://t.co/qm7HNfQ0em

#Italy bonds rally w/10y risk spread over Germany plunges to 235bps as Moody’s hints that it could hold off downgra… https://t.co/3a3YLTdTG2

This is remarkable: Wayne County revenue hole for rest of THIS fiscal year is almost 10% of budget, so on full-year… https://t.co/xGw5La93vr

"The (oil) futures market worked to perfection" Terry Duffy, CME chief executive Or, was the market rigged, as alle… https://t.co/jpTfcaTWTS

Will a withdrawal of US banks from European syndicated loans during the COVID-19 crisis revive calls for a European… https://t.co/LViJuW8PMC

Inside Wuhan: fascinating report by @donweinland Left a dissident image of Dr Li Wenliang the corona whistleblower… https://t.co/TJvBbjWy8X

Cushing, Oklahoma, population 7,800, has a steakhouse, a burrito restaurant, a KFC …. And 76 m barrels of oil stora… https://t.co/amvdJilAb6

Are US banks pulling back from lending to EU companies? “Every bank is under cosh of its national regulators, who… https://t.co/FsConrzR2P