ADAM TOOZE

Pity the Swiss National Bank – struggling to manage the currency of Europe’s premier haven currency -> currently in… https://t.co/dmjYybpAzS

The ECB does have it within its power to prevent spreads from exploding. See graph from @SoberLook BUT it needs a… https://t.co/vdfdHkhSeY

Modern Library must have been furious at Bruce Cumings for writing so unusual a trade book-but thank goodness he di… https://t.co/kCEPk2rvWu

85 countries had approached IMF for short-term emergency assistance by last week — around double number that called… https://t.co/Ub4nA3lYlR

Heavy trucks make up a key part of the US logistical backbone. Sales are a great indicator of business cycle. They… https://t.co/3KFtGYgC9p

Reducing the scale of operations in the accommodation and food services industries not only reduces their employmen… https://t.co/DKOaPr1kln

Reasons to be cheerful? I enjoyed talking with Ed Miliband & @JeremyFarrar on their podcast @CheerfulPodcast Thoug… https://t.co/4MMy7Iyauo

We've seen a déluge of papers, opinion pieces and op-ed calling for a bold European response. Can the Eurogroup act… https://t.co/Vv1BNqEQeM

Counterintuitively, healthcare reeling as elective procedures ordered to be postponed; Ambulatory Health Care payro… https://t.co/fAjpE2tNas

Tracking the swap lines. In recent weeks @dan_hinge had been doing the job “by hand”. Thx Dan. Now @NYFedResearch… https://t.co/gMmiBLiW2I

Coronavirus: Is Europe losing Italy? @GuyChazan @MilesMJohnson @Sam1Fleming Alarming report on the difficulty maki… https://t.co/ub5jmN9BXp

New episode: we're talking about the need for global cooperation on coronavirus – with @lfspinney, @JeremyFarrar &… https://t.co/04EE65ybFz

The NY Fed is now publishing tables of all USD swap line drawings and all the repo operations by non-US CBs, so I'm… https://t.co/txYMMO7hoK

Even before the pandemic, many developing countries were struggling to service their debts despite the world’s hist… https://t.co/CXQ0TWeuFZ

“I hope everything can be fixed, but the loss of reputation is huge. We must save Italy, Spain and the whole of Eur… https://t.co/s8qvug9HYi

“Unless we can come up with a common crisis bond, I see a grim future for the EU,” @michael_huether is right And as… https://t.co/1XtmcznevM

Who are the 13% of Americans who are not really worried about the economy right now? From @FiveThirtyEight https://t.co/VaByD0npP4

An important platform for Europe to pursue a multi-pronged answer to COVID-19: to share some costs if impact asymme… https://t.co/vLzAzoyeMF

The corona crisis-response in the US is divided along party lines. https://t.co/g8Aj2KpTVt

The eight governors who have NOT issued stay-at-home orders 👇 Arkansas—Asa Hutchinson (R) Iowa—Kim Reynolds (R) Ne… https://t.co/IaH7swAQcU

@TVarmageddon @DeutscheBank Best to email Torsten Slok directly

This is the absurdity of the absent American national response to COVID-19. States reduced to demeaning rivalry for… https://t.co/3T1o3Stfb5

The US surgeon general demonstrating how to make your own face mask from an old t-shirt, using one of his old shirt… https://t.co/VrJLdb99Bu

The big news in the world of global $ liquidity last week was the Fed’s decision to open a repo facility for other… https://t.co/jiGkLaxD3R

@NathanTankus You are most welcome!

Folks were asking me to share my Global Capitalism syllabus, featuring @zeithistoriker, @Alden_Young, @adam_tooze,… https://t.co/gEI1gprDa4

Crashed to Corona 3: The Fed Beyond Swap Lines Another weekly round up on the dollar liquidity front featuring work… https://t.co/yRjtwdhunV

British politics, not least Labour politics, has an intimate relationship to history. But it’s often a version of h… https://t.co/FFABKNhBZp

Sharing the fiscal burden of the crisis: A Pandemic Solidarity Instrument for the EU Allow ECB/ESM to do their job… https://t.co/sqidgl31wb

In last 15 years population exposed to conflict is increasingly concentrated in Middle East and North Africa.… https://t.co/qV89BAy3Wm

A self-reinforcing polarization is developing in rural America between counties with young & rising populations wit… https://t.co/jFiS46keQO

Between 1918 and 1920, an estimated 18 million Indians lost their lives to influenza or its complications, making I… https://t.co/BtVYAKMB7t