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Ones & Tooze: Is the U.S. Economy Really Booming?

February 11, 2022

The U.S. economy grew close to 6% in 2021, the strongest year in nearly four decades. On this episode of Ones and Tooze, Adam Tooze

Ones & Tooze: The Trouble With Cryptocurrency

February 4, 2022

Who really benefits from cryptocurrency and why the market has tumbled. The cryptocurrency market has lost some $1.1 trillion in value over recent months. On

Ones & Tooze: Boris Johnson and the Sordid Arithmetic of Partygate

January 28, 2022

Also on the show: How much will that midlife crisis cost you? If British Prime Minister Boris Johnson loses his job over the the scandals

Ones and Tooze: Why Do People Still Care About Davos?

January 21, 2022

Inside the Davos Bubble Season 1, Ep. 17 It’s been lampooned as a gathering of “the rich and the clueless.” U2 lead singer Bono referred

Ones and Tooze: How Would Sanctions Work Against Russia Over Ukraine?

January 14, 2022

Talks with Russia to resolve the Ukraine crisis hit a dead end this week. As Foreign Policy reports, top Biden administration officials have reiterated the

Ones and Tooze: The Economics of the Beatles vs. the Rolling Stones

January 7, 2022

Season 1, Ep. 15 After watching the Beatles: Get Back sessions, Cameron Abadi was inspired to dive deeper into the economics of the Beatles versus the Rolling Stones with Adam

Ones & Tooze – From the Archive: How Inflation Works

December 24, 2021

Season 1, Ep. 14 When we first aired this episode of Ones and Tooze on why prices are rising, analysts were warning of a possible

Ones & Tooze: The Pentagon vs. Walmart

December 17, 2021

Season 1, Ep. 13 Congress has approved a $768 billion defense budget for 2022. If the Pentagon were a private company, would it be bigger

Ones and Tooze: Is Democracy Better for the Economy?

December 10, 2021

Season 1, Ep. 12 With President Joe Biden’s Democracy Summit underway, Adam and Cameron discuss whether democratic principles help or hinder economies. The answer is

Ones and Tooze – How Sanctions Work (and Why They Often Don’t)

December 3, 2021

Iranians have lived with them for years but remain defiant. Representatives of Iran, the United States, and European countries met this week in Vienna for

Ones and Tooze – Do We Need to Worry About the Great Resignation?

November 19, 2021

In this episode, Cameron Abadi and Adam Tooze discuss the larger implications of the Great Resignation and the booming sales of pet food. On this

Ones & Tooze: electric vehicle charging and the economics of death.

November 12, 2021

…. I’m actually not kidding. New Ones and Tooze just dropped. Cameron and I talk about electric vehicles, chargers, the US and China …. and

Ones and Tooze on the bond market turmoil and Carney’s trillions

November 6, 2021

The latest Ones and Tooze posted Friday. Recorded from Lisbon, Cameron and I talk bond markets, central banks and big money at COP26. Listen below

Ones and Tooze: Jerome Powell vs. The Bond Markets

November 5, 2021

On this episode, Adam Tooze and Cameron Abadi discuss the moves and countermoves of the bond market and the Federal Reserve Chairman in response to

Ones and Tooze: the COP edition

October 30, 2021

… plus global food prices. This week on Ones and Tooze, Cameron and I give you a run down of COP26. Get the podcast here:

Ones and Tooze: Inflation, pasta and Maultaschen

October 21, 2021

When macro meet “mouth pockets”. This week Cameron and I discuss inflation and why Germans love Italian pasta and what it means! Sign up at

The Economics Revolution and the Nobel Prize

October 15, 2021

On FP’s economics podcast, Cameron Abadi and Adam Tooze talk about what three economists did to win the big prize. This week, Cameron Abadi and

The crisis at the IMF – the latest episode of Ones and Tooze is up!

October 8, 2021

Give the podcast a try. Hi friends, the latest episode of Ones and Tooze is up. Cameron and I tackle the background to the scandal

Chartbook Audio #7: Ones and Tooze on the German election

October 1, 2021

The latest Ones and Tooze is up. Cameron and I discuss the German election. Get the podcast from apple here. From Spotify here. Or straight

Chartbook Audio #6: Ones and Tooze for your weekend

September 24, 2021

Evergrande, taper talk and the TGV Ones and Tooze for your weekend just dropped. In this weeks episode, Cameron and I discuss Evergrande, Chinese urbanization,

Chartbook Audio #5: China Talk – Labor Day Holiday Listening

September 6, 2021

Jordan Schneider, Matt Klein and I talking economic history, China etc. Hope folks in the US are enjoying the holiday and are off to a

Chartbook Audio #4: Nazi-Soviet Pact

August 23, 2021

A grim anniversary My friend Duncan Weldon reminds us that today is the anniversary of the Hitler-Stalin Pact of August 23 1939. If there was

Chartbook Audio #3: China edition

August 22, 2021

Back in July I did a long piece for the New Statesman on China and its relations with the West.

One of the pleasures of doing this kind of writing is that it provokes further conversation and one of the pleasures of our new world of digital media is that these conversations can take place in public in a relaxed, unstructured podcast form.

The New Statesman China piece spawned two podcast episodes.

One with Jeremy Cliffe and Emily Tamkin of NS on their regular show.

The other – a particular privilege – with Kaiser Kuo of Sinica and SupChina.

The two conversations made for an interesting contrast. Jeremy, Emily and I, are none of us die-in-the-wool China experts, so the conversation goes to all sorts of interesting places.

Kaiser on the other hand is one of a cohort of brilliant folks devoted to the exchange of ideas and culture between China and the West. They face a break in their historical perspective and future outlook that is very profound – not a surprise, but nevertheless dramatic.

Chartbook Audio #2 – Talking history with Jordan Schneider and Matt Klein

August 11, 2021

In September 2020 I “sat down” with two of my favorite interlocutors – Jordan Schneider and Matt Klein – to talk 20th-century history and its implications for the present. It really was a very productive opportunity to join up the dots.

Chartbook Audio #1 – 2019 FT Alphachat with Mark Blyth and Brendan Greeley

August 7, 2021

Back in February 2019 I sat down with two friends – Mark Blyth of Brown University (he of “austerity” and “angrynomics”) and Brendan Greeley of the FT – to talk about political economy, the 1970s, the “China shock”. It was a really good conversation. Recalling the scene – I think it was in my Columbia office – it seem as though it comes from another world. But the content has stood up well.

ADAM TOOZE

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