ADAM TOOZE

@heimbergecon Status quo powers in Eurozone kid themselves in thinking ESM is an actual crisis-fighting mech. Actua… https://t.co/tt0Uwvif7P

As long as member states are able to rely on national budgets only, recovery measures will necessarily be unequal a… https://t.co/CcQH4k1w3d

Coronavirus has stretched the Chinese government’s budget. That means the burden of bailing out smaller business an… https://t.co/7bUuj8XGs7

Those who argued against corona bonds on ground that this was not moment for a gratuitous innovation v. ESM-based s… https://t.co/E5H7Uwn6Y9

"As much as his detractors cast him as a Miliband redux, Starmer is rather more like the men and women Labour has l… https://t.co/m0FWgJUibe

@Shahinvallee @fwred @Lagarde I gather in fact that it came verbatim from Schnabel.

Integralists against “zombie Reaganism” I learned a lot from this fascinating piece by @nickburns about the intell… https://t.co/EUv2Uxl0FU

Morgan Stanley: “While we understand the desire for optimism, we also caution that the US outbreak is far from over… https://t.co/ptZhueDFcM

In maternity ward of Vienna General Hospital in 1847, Hungarian physician Semmelweis discovered frequent hand-washi… https://t.co/RQe1LzT5Hb

In 2012 Univ of Chicago surveyed 32 eminent economists about legislation that banned price gouging during a weather… https://t.co/CVI7XjTV3z

Pilgrimage to the gamma quadrant: Will COVID-19 consummate the increasing convergence between Joe Stiglitz and the… https://t.co/MlvfhZ8iSA

Should the IMF dole out more special drawing rights? Really helpful explainer on SDRs from @TheEconomist… https://t.co/nPk6aGsZTl

Since 1990s the Mexican Finance Ministry has cultivated special relationship with Wall Street Banks based around an… https://t.co/0Wlmjs4Wp3

The summer of 2019 sent talk of recession ricocheting around the eurozone. It now looks like a picnic by comparison… https://t.co/TxOv6kH7TX

“We could have these waves of flareups, controls, flareups and controls until we actually get a therapy or a vaccin… https://t.co/j5FmNzpYpp

Yup … you read correctly! Joseph Beuys … 1952. https://t.co/Ktq55KxtVU

"so long as interest rates are close to zero, whether liabilities of consolidated government are debt or money does… https://t.co/KYdAuEAxUa

They are indeed gorgeous and long may they rattle through the streets of two very stylish cities. https://t.co/3zRxZLnAkC

@MariusGhincea @hayrettinkofog1 Absolutely. If Trump were to take it into his head to actually pursue Erdogan’s ide… https://t.co/qjSb89j0me

Strange choices: "the governments of the euro area would rather accept a higher shared risk in the ECB than they wo… https://t.co/X90St50gnE

"The last time the IMF bailed out Turkey in 2001, the financial crisis at the time wiped out a whole generation of… https://t.co/AJccHdRrXk

"the only practical solution, normatively speaking, is an IMF program — no matter how unrealistic the politics of… https://t.co/LDkGuWyzmZ

Modern history is like a deaf man, answering questions no one has asked him. -Tolstoy, “War and Peace,” epilogue

Where’s Turkey's swap line? Erdogan’s people have been making calls looking for swap line with G20 members. To have… https://t.co/TMqMDY5asy

Terminal operators at Fujairah in the UAE are turning down requests for oil storage from traders and refiners as th… https://t.co/bgU9fEpw0l

When I was a kid reading my nerd-ass history books, I could never understand how a boring loser like Warren G. Hard… https://t.co/98Jz7XYn8R

A portable TV prototype created in 1967 by Walter Pichler. Check out for more pics: https://t.co/FL4y1SaViq https://t.co/8ihozFECh0

During a call with Trump on March 31, Turkey’s Erdogan floated idea that the Fed should expand its swap agreements… https://t.co/oB1yXnJDUF

The coronavirus pandemic is set to rob the global economy of more than $5 trillion of growth over the next two year… https://t.co/jesNRt5rWY

“It’s a make-or-break moment” "may be greatest global crisis we’ve faced in postwar period.” “reservoirs of disease… https://t.co/jAX2PdPR2x

Farewell to mathematician John Conway. For us, complexity scientists, he will be remembered by the invention of the… https://t.co/bbEoIJEL5N

Which of those two lines is the Dutch, which the Italian primary budget position? @alexandreafonso delivers a devas… https://t.co/BaIAcb4OEz

Wrote about the uses and limits of the war economy in fighting the coronavirus for @ForeignPolicy. We're in a state… https://t.co/4MPXZXga9u

Bid for autonomy via insurance – btw 2007-2017 Mexico bought hedges on global oil prices with notional value of $16… https://t.co/UD5XBCi0vN

@fwred @Shahinvallee @Lagarde Even on the spreads “gaffe” I have begun to wonder whether she was doing a reverse Tr… https://t.co/W5LSa5reij