ADAM TOOZE

Every day, every day we should post this! Since 1995, the Italian state has posted a primary surplus in 24 out of 2… https://t.co/fumxWiOWku

In the first round of job cuts by 24-25 March the burden of unemployment due to COVID-19 fell most heavily on those… https://t.co/hfwrdGYXfY

For those interested: the historic communiqué of today’s meeting of #G20 Finance Ministers & Central Bank Governors… https://t.co/lx6s0NXJnT

Comparing stimuli – on discretionary spending basis US is ahead. Note the double asterisk on the Chinese numbers.… https://t.co/3MVtpGbDrq

Only 15 percent of Global fund Managers surveyed by @BankofAmerica still believe in the V-shaped recovery.… https://t.co/mHDi4FL9tA

US consumer is normally the regular pulse of the world economy. Hit to markets on 23 Feb and 9 March shows up clear… https://t.co/xhEOv4Wnfg

There is no precedent for the kind of shock from the consumption side that the US economy is going to suffer in the… https://t.co/uBqyO2FidS

Workers' hours at small firms are down over 60% from a year ago. Data generated by home base time tracking software… https://t.co/DQNuo0d2hN

I’d like to thank @adam_tooze, Jill Lepore, and Thucydides for their crucial technical support during the taping of… https://t.co/ezhX2TeR1X

A while back I did an interview for Bulgarian National Radio I have to say that working on Bulgarian history with… https://t.co/1HgOKINkWo

Forecasting the global economy at this moment is clearly a huge challenge. Here are the range of options outlined i… https://t.co/nnOy6TBbDq

“Put simply, in the Covid-19 pandemic, lack of international co-operation will mean that more people will die.”… https://t.co/KBdifPIETB

The emergency response to ensure global $ supply has worked to stop the surge in EM spreads. But, we are NOWHERE ne… https://t.co/HlGFACmf7t

Ninety per cent of all countries will experience negative growth in real gross domestic product per head this year,… https://t.co/bpPFX7ZPKk

In time for WB/IMF meetings European and African leaders join in call for concerted corona virus response. So far,… https://t.co/CO3yVvhNu6

@MaxJerneck @gideonrachman Depends what you do and where you do it!

Worrying about American decline? @gideonrachman Suggests two corrective questions: 1. what currency do you most tru… https://t.co/8MJ3n9ooNt

"At the height of the cold war, Ronald Reagan argued that rivalries between nations would vanish if the world was i… https://t.co/L6msMv9Doo

@RobinWigg Thank you Robin … truly appreciated!

“We have a huge domestic market. If we focus on expanding domestic demand and stimulate internal drivers, we can ce… https://t.co/UnfGA6iEj5

Some of us have been wondering when and where Trumpian nationalism and unilateralism would disrupt unified economic… https://t.co/oZMBkgyxJd

Very pleased to see this piece by @adam_tooze in support for coronabonds and a coalition of the willing and his exp… https://t.co/R9jnYe2U7n

I wrote this below based on a Goldman Sachs forecast of 9% and 34% contraction (at annualized rate) in the first tw… https://t.co/UokpXnykb3

@miotei Point taken. The alliance I would particularly like to see is a 9-country around corona bonds of the willin… https://t.co/VCARsEqyOt

“The advantage of an IMF short-term liquidity loan is that they can use the resources that are already allocated. I… https://t.co/Ct26RPtHNh

The Greater Trade Slump: If global trade contracts as badly as IMF predicts then the contraction will exceed that e… https://t.co/xdUnivMSB4

“The U.S. response for now is negative,” France Says U.S. Is Opposed to Increasing IMF crisis-fighting capacity by… https://t.co/8ZdzIKwv0p

a rift continues in the G7 over increasing the IMF’s funding to cope with the virus, with Mnuchin blocking a reques… https://t.co/xhjZmnS1LH

“What we have seen in the financial system over the past few weeks is a victory of sorts – but a defensive one. Onc… https://t.co/6pCrpJ5w1K