ADAM TOOZE

Since onset of COVID-19 crisis corporate America has tapped nearly half a trillion of revolving debt in rush to liq… https://t.co/Ox6m1QLxUY

This, from @adam_tooze, should be the theme of the Spring Virtual meetings of the IMF and World Bank https://t.co/VbEDsnAx2H

South Africa’s surging deficit will test its ability to issue domestic government bonds. @OxfordEconomics via… https://t.co/CYUqyOTVc4

Now is different: Im so committed to “this time it's different” that I actually prefer “now is different” … "this t… https://t.co/BPi2vH2ePE

Ive been looking for a restrained way to comment on the Council to Re-Open America @JustinWolfers nailed it. https://t.co/DrIyDaJTsD

The Brazilian Real & other commodity exporting currencies rallied back hard after the global financial crisis, due… https://t.co/QjtTMVico2

.@TimDuy put it better and more succinctly than anyone could have. https://t.co/dFUe61NAF9

The Great Lockdown IMF World Economic Outlook out now! Just one chapter so far … the rest in May. May the force… https://t.co/f6TOS7qUt9

As a result of the pandemic, the global economy is projected to contract sharply by –3 percent in 2020, much worse… https://t.co/ZoPe45b22L

Fantastic @adam_tooze piece explaining the financial market meltdown, how even worse disaster was averted, and what… https://t.co/XPQsYSQ7fV

Lines for the drive-thru food bank at the Pittsburgh PPG Paints Arena in April 2020 with statuary to match!… https://t.co/M3i3FBPoIR

Stunning graphic from that @TheEconomist article (see previous tweet), illustrating how the number of coronavirus d… https://t.co/oc8jAuuqbK

#Syria: electric pylons being removed by Rebels from Jebal Zawiyah & border with M4 Highway (S. #Idlib). Typical of… https://t.co/MwmGVGiIZ0

‘In 2020, for the first time since the second world war, production around the world will contract.’ Welcome to the… https://t.co/5JlA4JLazJ

@OliverBullough Thanks Oliver. Totally agree. Very preliminary stock take that … Just wanted to see whether I coul… https://t.co/EldJhUA7Ma

Total social financing – the expansive measure of credit used to monitor macro activity in China – surged in March… https://t.co/DDxtrssWcf

IMF writes off an estimated $214m of debt for poorest countries .. yup millions not billions. But this is just prel… https://t.co/usTiP7pBJX

So when you join the inner core of the @FT team you have to take this test … it involves Irish stadium rock bands a…

This morning I have a @gdnlongread on efforts of central banks to stabilize world econ in March 2020.… https://t.co/LdRYFOO4Tq

Flattening the curve of financial panic. How the central banks won an essential but limited & defensive victory in… https://t.co/NVQaCw2lvB

A global financial meltdown during the Corona crisis has (so far) been averted by central banks taking decisions th… https://t.co/iBs1HEWY2u

I had a really interesting conversation with Czech journalist @DominikaPihova (the text in Czech)… https://t.co/ocuJC4EPn4

Michigan has seen ONE QUARTER of its workforce sign on for unemp insurance in a month! Still reeling from this amaz… https://t.co/2l1P82PCEQ

@zeithistoriker @LalehKhalili @HarvardGSD @VersoBooks Love everything about this thread! Fascinating, collegial and… https://t.co/QeJQDCHti5

@adam_tooze @gdnlongread Reads like a thriller. Really great. Especially remarkable is this: "The private credit s… https://t.co/ZA7dIgNeiv

Watching @LalehKhalili’s zoom lecture at @HarvardGSD. Great granular archival detail from McKinsey, Shell, Rothschi… https://t.co/j517IZgpP7

What happened in global financial markets in March 2020? In this @gdnlongread I try out a sketch narrative based a… https://t.co/pxN8m3A1iU

How coronavirus almost brought down the global financial system, by @adam_tooze https://t.co/LBFF7hvuZb

"This is the story of how global financial meltdown was averted by central banks taking decisions that, just a mont… https://t.co/PRsi01N00b

This is hard to take in: The state of Michigan, one of the hardest hit by the spread of the coronavirus, has seen… https://t.co/tTJS3JVCUM

ESSENTIAL reading from @DanielaGabor on situation of Romanian seasonal agricultural workers in Germany and Austria. https://t.co/4oGoCE0rlZ

Michael Foot's father Isaac, who served in government as Secretary for Mines in the early 30s, reportedly said he j… https://t.co/2e4jq7QZOj

This is hard to take in: The state of Michigan, one of the hardest hit by the spread of the coronavirus, has seen… https://t.co/63dZLgtjgE

ESSENTIAL reading from @DanielaGabor on situation of Romanian seasonal agricultural workers in Germany and Austria. https://t.co/4oGoCDIQur

Thread: In The Road to Wigan Pier, Orwell writes, "You could quite easily drive a car across the north of England a… https://t.co/TwDY9EzXSs