ADAM TOOZE

Fortress balance sheets? Big US banks are making huge loss provisions for corona crisis. Spanish/UK banks as well.… https://t.co/GSJmEscgVV

America is seeing a record 6-week surge in unemployment and the advice on the markets is BUY/BUY/BUY @WallStJesus v… https://t.co/YKNf7MKHwP

@RodZeidan @SoberLook Thank you!

Contrary to previous experience, since 2018 Brazil has experienced a dramatic devaluation shock with virtually no i… https://t.co/a27w9xdtbd

@RafaelMentges Idea of general price inflation is tied to notion of common causal factor e.g. money -> implies some… https://t.co/KkGzu8DPGg

@RafaelMentges My intuition is that classic notion of inflation involves a common factor driving all prices (allowi… https://t.co/2kPRXvhv0X

It is not just policy makers who are worried about the stability of China’s financial system. Markets think they un… https://t.co/V8TWGf6zsL

Not that this is a surprise but 14% occupancy rates at some Hong Kong hotels tells you all you need to know about t… https://t.co/iAHWXd46so

How far will the global economic contraction hamper Chinese recovery? Export orders are not looking good!… https://t.co/3VVVCv2rv9

@dsquareddigest @t0nyyates @csissoko @jonsindreu @dandolfa Well I guess its an empirical question … how much diverg… https://t.co/ltIaqVGAUi

My hypothesis was that classic notion of “general price movement” allows relative price movements but assumes those… https://t.co/BgQPLsfUCd

1.56 bn informal workers worldwide are severely impacted by lockdowns. More staggering numbers from the @ilo… https://t.co/2FV2yXkbs0

Q1 2020 US GDP contracted 4.8% on an annualized basis i.e. c. 1.2% for the quarter. On same basis in Q2 it is expec… https://t.co/3DmdVj5iXt

Is it too much to ask that the historic collapse in Eurozone GDP -worse than in 2008 – might concentrate minds on a… https://t.co/4weTyMZynQ

Unemployment has likely resulted in 12.65 m Americans losing employer-provided health insurance since start of COVI… https://t.co/HcBbf6Loyu

As catastrophic as America’s unemployment insurance filing numbers are, millions more have been deterred from filin… https://t.co/1E9nTEhrzS

With 30 m people filing for unemp insurance in US in 6 weeks in Hawaii this is 29.9% of the workforce In Kentucky… https://t.co/vB7sYSgAfK

1.56 bn informal workers worldwide are severely impacted by lockdowns. More staggering numbers from the @ilo… https://t.co/OZwCeO3eXD

Q1 2020 US GDP contracted 4.8% on an annualized basis i.e. c. 1.2% for the quarter. On same basis in Q2 it is expec… https://t.co/QcT4BkAgw4

I wonder how much introspection there will be in the West about people fleeing the richest countries in the world f… https://t.co/fWf3z3J3D9

Is it too much to ask that the historic collapse in Eurozone GDP -worse than in 2008 – might concentrate minds on a… https://t.co/VQgzXFR0RU

Unemployment has likely resulted in 12.65 m Americans losing employer-provided health insurance since start of COVI… https://t.co/RgRDqNPgde

As catastrophic as America’s unemployment insurance filing numbers are, millions more have been deterred from filin… https://t.co/Uyk8WgsrFG

With 30 m people filing for unemp insurance in US in 6 weeks in Hawaii this is 29.9% of the workforce In Kentucky… https://t.co/fSYQLEVqCm

'I wish it need not have happened in my time…So do I…and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not…

@adam_tooze @OECD @business @SoberLook I may be wrong, but it may also be that the stats measure different things,… https://t.co/OtzVtJMxlg

What is “law and political economy” scholarship, and how might it help us build toward a more genuinely equal and d… https://t.co/EpVRuNtA46

Self-employment is apparently not part attractive in the US. Is this because health insurance is such an issue?… https://t.co/4XPy9tecm5

Impressive effort from @TheEconomist to visualize emerging market debt vulnerabilities. https://t.co/iW3skfkV0e https://t.co/imkUZq1DPB

To judge by data from Apple the “lockdown” in Italy means something far more radical than that in US/Germany or UK.… https://t.co/Sa6rNCAnas

Far from being gung-ho about reopening the economy Americans are notably more cautious according to this… https://t.co/WnmuDz7BN7