ADAM TOOZE

Fed QE was in the past a complement to private buying of US Treasuries. Not so in the Euro zone. ECB QE in 2015/6 (…

Chinese economic activity is about 20 index points below where it ought to be at this point in the annual cycle.… https://t.co/HSLN6UUcLT

China’s stimulus in 2020 is remarkably small. Why? Worries about financial stability Years of unproductive investm… https://t.co/l0L5J8Zm06

David Teniers, dit le Jeune, né à Anvers le 15 décembre 1610 et mort à Bruxelles le 25 avril 1690. @dfweb75 https://t.co/k7abvHNGUK

As China’s economy shut down and blast furnaces are slow to close -> in February the steel inventory surged. It is… https://t.co/Skx982FmHw

"Macron issues ultimatum to Europe's German bloc: cough up Covid trillions or lose the single market" When Ambrose… https://t.co/p3vWsaEGSp

Prelude to stimulus? Local government in China was issuing bonds early in 2020, but the flow ebbed. Will this surg… https://t.co/VcL5VPN0sQ

Britain will likely sell 270 billion pounds ($333 billion) of gilts in the fiscal year that started this month v. P… https://t.co/3j18OVJIb2

Sudden stop funding squeeze suffered by middle and low income countries = c. $735 bn. G20 standstill for low income… https://t.co/mXmjeDLUwE

Sudden stop funding squeeze suffered by middle and low income countries = c. $735 bn. G20 standstill for low income… https://t.co/ozw4f6fNQV

It was great chatting with @MkBlyth on @RealVision https://t.co/50IoERyxnv

Covid-19: the rise of a global collective intelligence? Just One Giant Lab … even the name makes one feel optimisti… https://t.co/skFerxIJ8x

The reading list on COVID-19 published daily by @syllabus_tweets is a miracle of multi-lingual compilation. Bravo… https://t.co/VD2LZ8IK27

“I’m convinced that if this pandemic had hit three weeks earlier, Bernie Sanders would be [the Democratic] nominee.… https://t.co/nkdXKzazr6

S&P keeps Italy's ratings unchanged (BBB, neg outlook) as "ECB is backstopping additional borrowing". Could downgra… https://t.co/1AsiIqwmx5

Brazil's central bank has one of its busiest days in FX intervention this year, selling $3.175 bln in 4 spot auctio… https://t.co/1q9bS9XeLU

X-ray Dress rehearsal Dynamo @zeithistoriker offers three ways of understanding the challenge of COVID-19.… https://t.co/PBobvx4NfQ

The track of the US household savings rate since 1929 makes for interesting and not necessarily reassuring viewing.… https://t.co/XueLuT3VN8

A 3ppt increase in US saving rate to 11% would take $500 billion out of consumption by the end of 2021.… https://t.co/HhQ53XAxpn

Dental, marketing, therapy, media, admin, legal, customer service, architecture, banking, sales … if you had said i… https://t.co/OM2z9Cv89r

"As Qatar races to complete construction projects ahead of the 2022 World Cup, 2 million migrant workers from South… https://t.co/5IgRkUcmCE

Small size and low Labour productivity of West European farms leaves them heavily dependent on migrant labour from… https://t.co/l0iiv6dRE2

@JanLemnitzer Sorry … just came off @syllabus_tweets list …

"COVID-19 has the potential to tear through the Central African Republic at lightning spread if the country doesn't… https://t.co/9sKJo1C4gt

@danmucida @zeithistoriker Thank you @danmucida

The first two volumes of Etienne Balibar’s collected works are out. « Histoire interminable. D’un siècle l’autre.… https://t.co/umLSAVAMsI

@econgeoff @zeithistoriker @VersoBooks @MGSchmelzer Which means that BW really operates for the period … 1958 … thr… https://t.co/NE9Qr7CDiy

COVID-19: US vs Euro zone 1. Far bigger US fiscal stimulus & deficit (lhs, dots) 2. Full monetary financing of US d… https://t.co/xW3QU2L9SP

@bentleyballan @zeithistoriker And I still dont know how to read Lagarde’s moves between March 12th and 18th and I… https://t.co/Da4oYm4ydc

Great thread from @zeithistoriker on the politics of neoliberalism and floating exchange rates. https://t.co/a7JmvciVUF

The numbers here are pretty clear — the free float of German (and Dutch) government bonds falls well short of glob… https://t.co/7vKVOM7wIR

“Rona Rigs” is the name traders have given to improvised home office trading workstations. There are distractions b… https://t.co/20iMEEDoCK

Middle age has become pretty toxic for white people without college education in the US. Familiar point but data vi… https://t.co/lKiGzqW5lF