ADAM TOOZE

On general hospital beds per capita US stats are worrying, but in terms of ICU beds it leads world, followed by Ger… https://t.co/jRtUOvGwpW

What is the capacity of the hospital system to cope with pandemic? On general hospital beds the US does badly. On I… https://t.co/5Lo2bv9Xuk

If pandemic becomes critical the # of hospital beds will matter: US 2.8 per cap China 4.3 Germany 8 S Korea 12.3 H… https://t.co/5BtJWpi0im

Remarkable how like other port cities New York looked in 1849! https://t.co/DggJL6GcUM

Last year, emerging-market countries taking advantage of low euro i.r. sold a record €52 billion of government-back… https://t.co/YAP7yHfUbZ

just as a comment for how old the framework for a lot of contemporary discourse is, here is a Liberal Party (UK) po… https://t.co/ESChyZxvSn

On a personal note: I think my 1998 paper warning that Japan might be a harbinger for all of us was the best thing… https://t.co/seerKN8RZH

On average it takes 45 months to negotiate a free trade agreement with the US. But some take far longer!… https://t.co/pF4rRs6tIN

When Deutschland AG went global: Deutsche chairman Rolf E Breuer addresses staff by video in June 1999 when Deutsch… https://t.co/CMrIymsF4T

After the Great Depression of the 1930s what is the second most serious recession of modern American history? How m… https://t.co/Te8BgASbco

More than ever, postwar & contemporary art dominates the global art market. @mgerlis on the latest @ArtBasel UBS re… https://t.co/MoBeEkTOFC

How Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater fund management firm sees the transition in balance of global economy from USA/Europe t… https://t.co/jB7gO1btef

The value of the global art market shrank 5 per cent to $64.1bn in 2019, its first fall in three years, as trade te… https://t.co/UeFz2XSjMZ

In the aftermath of the 2008 crisis, EM corporates led by China began issuing bonds as never before. From interesti… https://t.co/uJV6Rnbt2m

The Taliban has a saying: “America has the watches; we have the time.” Great opening line from @EdwardGLuce… https://t.co/5bwGMpHYhk

Countries worldwide that are most dependent on tourism. Data from @WorldBank Slightly fishy thing is that no Africa… https://t.co/KOSkRRvp8r

Executive assistants once ran the office. Increasingly, the office runs without them. The decline of a solid career… https://t.co/3DUTLfGBs7

Wyndham Lewis The Surrender of Barcelona 1934–7 “I set out to paint a 14th c scene as I should do if I could be tra… https://t.co/B3WY7bJpy9

13% of China’s banks are rated high-risk by the PBoC. This is an alarming level of weakness in a sector that is goi… https://t.co/pXQnSvqvTd

Retail bankruptcies are taking their toll on one of America’s largest categories of employment – retail salesperson… https://t.co/UCzgM7Hacd

On average it takes 45 months to negotiate a free trade agreement with the US. But some take far longer!… https://t.co/bq2pkrveD4

How Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater fund management firm sees the transition in balance of global economy from USA/Europe t… https://t.co/GgxZzgtrcz

“Actually existing neoliberalism”: The decline in public investment in the UK since the early 1970s has been dramat… https://t.co/qIPuocwy1L

In the aftermath of the 2008 crisis, EM corporates led by China began issuing bonds as never before. From interesti… https://t.co/WbBg4ikTpE

Countries worldwide that are most dependent on tourism. Data from @WorldBank Slightly fishy thing is that no Africa… https://t.co/36BRYSYzOd

13% of China’s banks are rated high-risk by the PBoC. This is an alarming level of weakness in a sector that is goi… https://t.co/E2md5ZcsHT

Retail bankruptcies are taking their toll on one of America’s largest categories of employment – retail salesperson… https://t.co/GlHs0Oh1zp

To sustain oil output, Russia needs to invest in greenfield oil projects, which break even only on assumption of $5… https://t.co/PlwIdh5H2x

Btw 2020 and 2033 African borrowers face a wall of maturing debt. Will this be the trigger for a new debt crisis an… https://t.co/2DOeKDg7nf

Greenfield expansion in the global oil industry depends on prices staying comfortably above $40/barrel to break eve… https://t.co/xjCedvKdSZ