ADAM TOOZE

Who loses? Missing rent payments helps businesses get through the crisis but hits the commercial real estate firms… https://t.co/BV6SnweUV7

84% of US small firms are paying less than 50% of rent due in May. 40% are skipping rent altogether this month.… https://t.co/zmrJpXvX9o

After 2008 there was no inflation but could post 2020 be different? 1. Stimulus not austerity 2. Fiscal stimulus di… https://t.co/owOfRWbGep

To brighten up your morning here is @RobinBrooksIIF update on “Armageddon narratives” out there … how about a yuan… https://t.co/TVTTMLBrNH

"Nobody much under 50 has any clear memory of what it’s like to deal with inflation as a serious problem.”… https://t.co/87ZxfXPzPw

In 2008-9 Warren Buffet was able to make handsome returns as a private investor/lender of last resort. This time th… https://t.co/F3WvjK9052

The last time ALL the major EM were growing strongly together was 2013. Since then it had been patchy. 2019 was ter… https://t.co/pFUNu2oaGj

"The Permian Basin, which stretches across Texas and New Mexico and is almost as big as Britain, accounts for one o… https://t.co/KMsbq5Y5m6

Uncanny valley: concept introduced by Prof Masahiro Mori in 1970 to describe our negative reaction to humanoid obje… https://t.co/rc0XUSLVgu

"Everybody involved in EZ policy knows that the monetary union owes its survival to successful rule-bending. The E… https://t.co/nldk4Up1Kz

Excellent thread (2) on the German constitutions court and its ruling on legality of Draghi’s QE, due Tuesday. https://t.co/zlaWGS7l05

Good thread (1) on the German constitutional court’s ruling on legality of QE, due Tuesday. https://t.co/w49Aq85XQO

"Many think of German judges as obstacles to modern monetary policy. I disagree. It is generally not a good idea to… https://t.co/g4aJnc5Tsj

December 1944. Few good German pilots left. Evasive actions of a Focke-Wulf Fw 190. In vain. #WW2 #HISTORY https://t.co/h6OBloHB8u

So I writ in the margin of the letter, “Returned as untrue,” and, by consent of the Board, did give it him again, and so

Unsurprisingly @McKinsey take on climate/COVID-19 is slick and smart but equally unsurprisingly it elides any issue… https://t.co/ndfmLj8v0L

The next one is another favorite of mine as an interpreter w/ Turkish in their language combination: simultaneous b… https://t.co/rSckIbI5qq

Unsurprisingly @McKinsey take on climate/COVID-19 is slick and smart but equally unsurprisingly it elides any issue… https://t.co/kWCwW2BPgT

Probably one of the last fighting German Tiger tank of the war, seen here near the Brandenburger Tor in Berlin, May… https://t.co/TLOx9PlJWy

@JohnPMerrick1 @broseph_stalin Congrats lovely looking space

"The cost to immunise people around the world against coronavirus is likely to exceed $20bn, far surpassing the ini… https://t.co/ikzcowMzIf

QE OK? Tuesday May 5th Germany’s constitutional court publishes its verdict on whether the ECB’s QE program is com… https://t.co/rw0Fz72Xsg

The consensus forecast for unemployment is now 16 % the highest recorded since 1948, sliding towards 20 % by the su… https://t.co/RdpZ091nQe

@Florian_Forster @SoberLook I think this is the Hartz IV changes to the labour market admin system that probably re… https://t.co/JqPzxzShor

How to handle COVID-19 debt burden? @TheEconomist argues “QE does not really neutralise public debt. CB buy governm… https://t.co/QMZuRGHroL

“In a crunch, will Chinese debt-holders be treated as senior to us pensioners?” Ken Rogoff Maybe don’t put the que… https://t.co/NIs5LfR5HO

Im very interested in this subhead in this rich @TheEconomist essay about debt and inflation! Violence inherent i… https://t.co/rqtvqLVX1n

Charles Goodhart BNP Paribas Asset Management Dario Perks TS Lombard Tim Congden have convinced themselves that inf… https://t.co/ss5Dsenp8c

“It would be a dream scenario for politicians that at some point inflation goes up,” Praet (ex chief econ ECB) What… https://t.co/8xT5oAKuLE

@ProfMESmith Hi Lakoff’s point, I take it, is that these are not just conceptual systems but sociological realities… https://t.co/XiWFOtOPsh

How do we turn a sudden stop into just transition? As result of COVID-19 crisis global CO2 emissions in 2020 will… https://t.co/7qkuYicKpA