ADAM TOOZE

Comparing the COVID-19 stimuli is difficult due to different types of spending. This is a sophisticated & well-docu… https://t.co/1WQ7k8CFyz

Fed has stopped panic for now. It has backstopped IG -> corporate big names are issuing debt like crazy. But Damocl… https://t.co/hJD145fWhL

The explosion of the Fed’s balance sheet in the last two weeks dwarfs anything we saw in 2008 or after. Fed moved s… https://t.co/eYs65X5ZYs

With China rolling back lockdown, quarantine efforts still cover countries & “regions that produce almost 50 per ce… https://t.co/aX44GFSGff

White House Economists Warned in 2019 a Pandemic Could Devastate America but leading officials like acting chair of… https://t.co/rwhMQF6h6i

Like a game level or a Christopher Nolan film. A few random pics of diamond factories in China stocked with huge “p… https://t.co/Fq6fRKuoXE

No kidding! This is happening in my lifetime!! https://t.co/6qOFCYHwqZ

Nextstrain is a remarkable resource mapping mutations of the novel coronavirus. H/t @edieconntooze… https://t.co/pIsgY1pqF3

NY-Presbyterian and Yale-New Haven hospitals are both facing financial squeeze as pandemic hits. Deficits running i… https://t.co/1LZGiIUJsJ

“To the Federal Reserve’s credit, it is playing the role of central banker to the world rather than denying it and… https://t.co/YaQSuth5PA

If you know the relationship between these two objects, then you are in a Covid-19 high risk category and you shoul… https://t.co/vCv5rlNJXy

The global lockdown is a giant social-economic-political experiment of which China and India are by far the most dr… https://t.co/kxOt1vCDM3

3. Mohammad Younas, a tailor in Kandahar, turned his shop into a small mask factory so he could hand them out to th… https://t.co/AQfh23QSWx

Oil prices have now plunged far below those necessary to sustain profitability in US oil industry -> cap ex is coll… https://t.co/rCXP4jAVDE

cc: scholars writing about the militarized language for all collective tasks & struggles https://t.co/gIj6b3so8M

When we say that business has been bad in commodities since the China slowdown of 2015, we mean bad like the 1930s!… https://t.co/hHXCJWhbcm

Latin American public transport ridership is way down. Wherever you look the same. Never, ever before has there bee… https://t.co/zf2Yp4w7lp

No, I am not morbid again, but I decided to watch this excellent series about the #GermanAutumn 1977. https://t.co/cwmhbNtjIs

LET THERE BE NO TALK OF INFLATION! https://t.co/vzdTQmkHNC

My babies are too young to read this now. And they’d barely recognize me in my gear. But if they lose me to COVID I… https://t.co/0oymjEPmiT

When Hegel talked about the "world historical individual" he had the central banks in mind, right? "It is thus crit… https://t.co/xVDyxHNnb5

Turkish lira is falling back to lowest levels reached in 2018. New Fed facility isn’t going to help EM like Turkey… https://t.co/uktAhdi8Ww

CLOs…finally coming home to roost. https://t.co/5m7ZAhukft

Fed will repo other CB’s Treasury holdings: '“This facility should help support the smooth functioning of the US Tr… https://t.co/Q0A7Lt81sF

PE firms like Blackstone package high-risk leveraged loans into CLO synthetic securities. To do so, they need to wa… https://t.co/SJKp82mF0m

Brussels is trying to bridge the gulf over corona bonds with the proposal for a common unemployment reinsurance fun… https://t.co/5Jb4jq6wCb

Confirmed cases are a really bad number (too dependent on testing intensity), but, nevertheless, symbolic that toda… https://t.co/kPZyuM0P0f

Fascinating thread on the argument – apparently being made in earnest – that the way forward is for a comprehensive… https://t.co/LgZqYDQEV5

@profiverson Hi Benjamin thanks for this great thread. Can you point me to some folks making the argument for compr… https://t.co/jBfsyqGYx4

Squaring the need for stimulus in China with the desire to bring down corporate leverage, whilst avoiding Western s… https://t.co/jA1P2ucAaZ

Meanwhile in other news: Trump to roll back Obama-era clean car rules in huge blow to climate fight… https://t.co/6FNNRwMr4i

Solidarity is not charity. It is the recognition that the struggle of one is the struggle of all. Facing Covid-19,… https://t.co/SQ0lhNDunU

Interesting review of @zevin_a’s history of @TheEconomist by @adam_tooze https://t.co/6YLbV6960N https://t.co/oq74DLpcp5