ADAM TOOZE

On this day in 1975, the last U.S. personnel are evacuated from Saigon. It all happens just hours before the city f… https://t.co/2x5j6Q1bAB

Paul Romer apparently regards Burning Man’s Black Rock City as model for a future pop-up urbanism in which basic pl… https://t.co/7KgOviqDGm

China’s national champion oil producers are caught in a bind. The National Energy Admin demands expansions in outpu… https://t.co/MpilR0Lltn

Disaster for climate: China approved nearly 10 GW of new coal-fired power generation capacity in Q12020, roughly eq… https://t.co/yRHDuO3AuC

Fascinating memoirs of his time as a graduate student in early 1970s Moscow from @mark4harrison… https://t.co/K3CmWfgSEw

China’s national champion oil producers are caught in a bind. The National Energy Admin demands expansions in outpu… https://t.co/f4t9fV3sEd

Disaster for climate: China approved nearly 10 GW of new coal-fired power generation capacity in Q12020, roughly eq… https://t.co/b7DxoBY4Ge

China’s economy may be coming back, but not all of it is. Restaurants and clothing remain deeply depressed in March… https://t.co/Bt8VIUAuUG

The contemporaneity of the uncontemporaneous … or uneven and combined development. https://t.co/mcJDl7k3x7

Mexico, S Africa and Turkey have all seen the cost of insuring their sov debt against default surge. From… https://t.co/UaP9UtYJOY

I was hesitating to post this chart, so depressing is it. The lines here represent excess deaths. No other major Eu… https://t.co/NPPhulWRxs

Unlike its lending facilities, the Fed’s MBS buying program has been rolled out with spectacular speed. FRED via… https://t.co/yuyXvJ6sR3

The MSCI global equity index is now dominated by tech and health care v. Energy and financials which have crashed t… https://t.co/IThk0536iV

The market valuation of largest US tech stocks (FANMAG) now exceeds that of any national stock market except Japan… https://t.co/luY8oM1CV2

A study in understatement from @greg_ip on the question of Shelton’s nomination to the Fed Board. https://t.co/rM7flxA9nA

BREAKING: Saudi Arabia FX reserves plunged ~$27 billion in March, largest monthly decline in data going back two de… https://t.co/OSp6KmuuXd

Cargill, Conagra, JBS, Smithfield, Tyson et al – the slaughter house complex is shutting down across much of middle… https://t.co/4S2IQbes22

Who is most dependent on oil for state revenue? Iraq, Oman, Kuwait, Angola, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia… https://t.co/hV3Z0EMFpv

I'm struck by all the commonly-known brands that may not survive this crisis, or certainly may not survive as they'… https://t.co/9JUI4mjZXS

Tupperware increasingly appears to be on the brink of insolvency, based on where its bonds are now trading: https://t.co/rr0Tpzb13O

The loser from oil price war btw Saudi & Russia = US shale The winner = China Beijing is surging purchases for its… https://t.co/J9rDt6g8ZZ

Macy's financing costs are soaring as its bond prices plunge. The company's implied cost to borrow money for three… https://t.co/8cqbDNYDm1

As petrol consumption slumps in US -> demand for ethanol falls -> demand for corn collapses -> ag futures fall.… https://t.co/eOBAlZ80uZ

Political perceptions of the corona virus situation in the US are starkly polarized in partisan terms. On April 17/… https://t.co/hyPnBnegwW

Hier eine Serviceleistung für alle unsere Ordo-Freunde, die wider besseres Wissen behaupten, dass Italien keine Aus… https://t.co/9OEYayNi1W

Interesting that Sen. Shelby, who once deemed Nobel prize winner Peter Diamond “unqualified” for a Fed job, now app… https://t.co/L0J7U7wDRu

Greying planet! For the first time ever there are more people in the world older than 65 than younger than 5. Torst… https://t.co/Q4KM9WoiF0

@mcopelov @Neil_Irwin @jonsindreu @NickTimiraos @TimDuy Gotta check my Bundesbank bias here … 😉

Why did public trust in Fed decline so sharply under Greenspan? Was it aftershock of https://t.co/wtQyGSHxOC bust?… https://t.co/0DGaQARPbm

Given surge in unemployment -> surge in delinquency on consumer debt can only be a matter of time -> American Expre… https://t.co/GkQ5JHVbOK