ADAM TOOZE

Some interesting ideas from Concentrated Ambiguity (@stwill1). Concrete proposals for how to modify the swap lines… https://t.co/y0g1wNXw6w

Posadist Twitter: take a break from your dolphin Zoom meetings to check out this piece by @sophiepinkhmmm on physio… https://t.co/JZKU5CjDSS

European governments who think that a massive shock in the range of 12 to 20% of GDP can be absorbed with a few new… https://t.co/K7K9TqpfMN

It was a real pleasure to read and ponder the wonderful history of @TheEconomist by @zevin_a HIGHLY recommended. https://t.co/mytqiHQwJb

During a pandemic, how many homeless people can safely sleep in the space normally reserved for a giant SUV? … the… https://t.co/5MQH1OJiR3

A history of liberalism and the magazine we all love to hate and hate to love, by @adam_tooze https://t.co/BQI5sU24SE

There was huge partisan divide in US over corona until early March. 40% Republicans professed to be unconcerned. Th… https://t.co/6TmNoga3Hu

Even before COVID-19, Italy's fiscal stance was too tight. @adam_tooze, @heimbergecon & I put Italy's output gap a… https://t.co/0BJ7CB8Vwm

In early March Republican areas of the US were much less interested in hand sanitizer than Dem areas. By mid March… https://t.co/m8NaZMzDXr

To cope with the sheer force of the COVID-19 crash the @NYFedResearch is introducing a new rapid weekly index to al… https://t.co/Wh9AAcV1Hl

America’s unemployment insurance system is struggling to cope with the massive volume of applications.… https://t.co/LzYfeirvb0

Guessing Thursday’s unemp number is a grim business: The most dire prediction puts the figure at 6.5 million (Picte… https://t.co/Dwo6sKPJfj

3rd/4th order crisis effects: collapse of confidence -> mortgage lenders face losses -> hedge by shorting MBS but… https://t.co/7dj3RrAo18

NEW: General Electric workers who normally make jet engines have walked off the job to demand that their factories… https://t.co/8sKZw9TK1i

PHYSICAL MELTDOWN: North Sea window sees more than a dozen offers and no bids. In North America, physical oil grade… https://t.co/70qVetOs91

Another amazing colorization by @marinamaral2 remarkable picture. Thank you! https://t.co/PvvBkuBk7f

Credit where credit is due: On 27 March 2020 Trump admin proposed& US Congress approved the doubling of New Arrange… https://t.co/GUKQtLTsmj

To face the corona crisis the IMF has lending capacity of no more than $787 billion and this needs to be renewed.… https://t.co/BcqO7anmEa

Economists expect an additional 3.5 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week. That's after 3.3 m… https://t.co/NUwu8LVSgE

Moody's estimates that around 22% of non-investment grade debt in Europe will not be able to service their debt, vs… https://t.co/wUzoAwVOFZ

Go big and stay home: the ECB is surging QE purchases to gross monthly pace of €250bn. Remarkable data from @fwred https://t.co/oaO3viftM2

Almost 630,000 retail outlets in the US have been forced to close. National Retail Federation calculating that $430… https://t.co/DQsKG8JGiO

We need a global response to the global COVID-19 crisis. The Fed can do a lot. But this is a classic task for a 21s… https://t.co/zPTHZ4tLmP

Can China relaunch the world economy with an appropriately designed stimulus, stable exchange rate & current accoun… https://t.co/70H3N3PLzC

Now we're talking! The ECB bought €15.6bn of bonds under its emergency PEPP… in just TWO days. That'd be €39bn pe… https://t.co/EXFL1QUEiI

It is an oft-repeated point that US banks are stronger in 2020 than in 2008. Under Fed’s worst case stress test th… https://t.co/6A5sLUPYiO

Excellent addition to the Fed swap line corona dollar liquidity conversation from @NathanTankus https://t.co/9DaWfanOqk

Hilariously apt thread on confinement of Vichy diplomats in the Hershey Hotel Pa during WWII. Some very entertainin… https://t.co/jsImz4Fyzc

@humford @ediecontooze Sometimes I wish there was a downer button on twitter ….

The draw on the Fed’s swap lines has been driven by ECB and BoJ with the ECB taking less and the BoJ more than at p… https://t.co/A1YugdVQHx

@humford Haa … so that is what was exploding off my daughter’s screen! Hilarious. @ediecontooze

@induswaliarch @thewire_in @thecaravanindia Thank you. I am, somewhat predictably, a fan of @thewire_in Great thre… https://t.co/8vkQUV2PIf

“Keep moving, keep moving” – the roads out of Delhi are packed with migrant workers forced by the lockdown to retur… https://t.co/SvOGt8P1zt

"More than 1,400 bonds—43% of those tracked in an influential $2.1 trillion index of global junk bonds—are currentl… https://t.co/H810dsOFV8

“What is the difference between a Texas oilman and a pigeon? The pigeon can put down a deposit on a new Mercedes.”… https://t.co/MIvm1b6Jbr