ADAM TOOZE

Many EM hold fx reserves far in excess of classic benchmarks like 3-months imports, 20% broad money, short-term ext… https://t.co/tJTntcN15n

A crucial element in the US strategy of "energy dominance” are LNG exports to Asia. Given the collapse in prices. T… https://t.co/AXs48m1JG4

In 2008 the Bank of Israel started FX purchases initiating a dramatic process of reserve accumulation. Must admit I… https://t.co/jGkpoWRcin

For an EM country with a rapidly growing population, South Africa’s declining electricity consumption is truly terr… https://t.co/CfcahmUfYx

The pace of Australian growth pre-2008 was truly remarkable. I did not appreciate that household income was going a… https://t.co/oYDEyLUoBK

BP will leave three U.S. oil-industry lobby groups after the new chief pledged to eliminate its greenhouse gas emis… https://t.co/TsGclD0Lan

With a deficit swelling to largest % of GDP since end of apartheid, Moody’s could downgrade South Africa to “junk"… https://t.co/Ou3NZ7JXd7

By hook or by crook 2/3 of young Africans have regular access to internet. 80% believe it ought to be a human right… https://t.co/ulm4VcApxz

Africa is a continent with a burgeoning younger population. According to new poll 2/3 say they are witnessing the s… https://t.co/W6uMzS89Ga

Missile proliferation: With help from China, Saudi Arabia has expanded its ballistic-missile force a lot and last y… https://t.co/sUmpjEQSxp

America’s Joint Direct Attack Munition, a guidance kit attached to bombs that is now over two decades old, is thoug… https://t.co/yPkjoV5bf1

Turkey has sharply increased its short-term borrowing of US dollars, adding to its depleted foreign-currency war ch… https://t.co/pWcQQaOxtk

How Clive Cussler lived the life of his fictional heroes and created the National Underwater and Maritime Agency to… https://t.co/ZlyPlVRdvx

America’s Joint Direct Attack Munition, a guidance kit attached to bombs that is now over two decades old, is thoug… https://t.co/gHi0AAEIxQ

“Although Krugman did so much to create the original Piketty phenomenon, the outspoken American now fears that the… https://t.co/iCx91vlZDD

@wissewords @AnnaSophieGross The assumption is that you regrow it and thus recaptures carbon within a time frame i.e. decades.

The fact that the ultra right-wing Fratelli d’Italia, heir to the “post”-fascist ISM, is now polling at 10% in Ital… https://t.co/k6NyQ6CTf0

Drax, whose giant power station at Selby supplies 5% of UK’s electricity, is to stop using coal in 2022, ahead of t… https://t.co/veFPabM3SL

Turkey has sharply increased its short-term borrowing of US dollars, adding to its depleted foreign-currency war ch… https://t.co/X99hudNmCl

@adam_tooze And "Time is the fire in which we burn" (Delmore Schwartz).

Energy dominance? Green New Deal? A typically caustic view on the disconnect btw US energy policy rhetoric & the r… https://t.co/N8Gc4TtXEQ

The Eurozone at Tannhäuser gate: @MacroButi DG Ecofin 2008-2019 starts his retrospective with Rutger Hauer’s partin… https://t.co/KwFimcF0G5

It was only a matter of time: Nigeria has reported the first case of coronavirus in sub-Saharan Africa, raising con… https://t.co/y3kInwm9bp

“Herzl did not reply, but four years earlier had written in his diary of emptying #Palestine of its “penniless”… https://t.co/RlwNov5fDJ

A "definitive addition” to Rashid Khalidi’s oeuvre on the Palestinian-Israeli question. David Gardner of the @FT re… https://t.co/Nm4Xgee64o

Coronavirus mortality surges above the age of 60. https://t.co/jQDUmDfqK4

Reuters is encroaching on The Economist's bug-eating turf https://t.co/aPkT6As40N

Africa is a continent with a burgeoning younger population. According to new poll 2/3 say they are witnessing the s… https://t.co/UgXFLvNZ96

By hook or by crook 2/3 of young Africans have regular access to internet. 80% believe it ought to be a human right… https://t.co/Qc281j0qch

With a deficit swelling to largest % of GDP since end of apartheid, Moody’s could downgrade South Africa to “junk"… https://t.co/Nuv7n4cbIm

16% of beer drinking Americans were confused about whether Corona beer is related to the coronavirus… https://t.co/LciuPF5Pmr

First hard copy of vol.2 arrived end of last week. After a long journey it is very moving to see them next to each… https://t.co/720LoOjDbK

Energy dominance? Green New Deal? A typically caustic view on the disconnect btw US energy policy rhetoric & the r… https://t.co/Tz5vikFP86