ADAM TOOZE

String Quartet No. 3 in G major, Op. 94, by English composer Benjamin Britten (1913–76) 5. "Recitative and Passacag… https://t.co/9NwgV4j1uA

Greens suffering a major hit in Germany with SPD recovering some lost ground. Still a six party system but rebalanc… https://t.co/2pApF6txtp

This may have been a New York show a few years ago, but printing the definitive Issigonis Mini sketch on a napkin w… https://t.co/xingAQcfK7

D Day Mulberry Harbour – Beatles, pontoons used to support the floating roadways. They could float and rise and fal… https://t.co/aKECUUG9mQ

Look all I want to do is hunt the last pockets of fascist resistance in some harsh mountainous setting can we just skip all the

“Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken pla… https://t.co/WxjWPHoGqx

“the writer who owns the largest part of the world right now is JG Ballard … much of our present reality now falls… https://t.co/WsNWHMAvhj

The write-down of low-income gov debt in early 2000s was dramatic. In aftermath of corona, there may have to be so… https://t.co/g88RiWvMeS

"A brutal new hunger crisis is emerging among laid-off workers in US that has begun to overwhelm the infrastructure… https://t.co/GOcYss9vW8

Almost 25% of the debt outstanding in € triple-B rated debt is only one or two one-notch downgrades from falling to… https://t.co/3OGdEDpvRq

As the lockdown grinds on and unemployment rockets, how resilient is American society? 53% of US households don’t… https://t.co/KohcSQV3Gq

Who is most vulnerable to corona? Only half of those in bottom quarter of US labour market have sick leave, paid va… https://t.co/lx4pPQjYlK

Loan delinquency is closely correlated with unemployment -> what will happen to US consumer credit by the summer of… https://t.co/rbmMdbbsDY

There is little if any systematic relationship between the stringency of anti-corona measures and compensating econ… https://t.co/QDg0AYsKLQ

“Whatever it takes”? National fiscal responses to corona will reinforce the dangerous asymmetries in the EZ. And s… https://t.co/SedgWFSn94

Comparing “stimulus” programs in response to 2020 is tricky but these are the broad outlines: US much stronger on d… https://t.co/dujTZBgZPO

The GDP loss from the virus crisis will be far worse than 2008 and even more comprehensive, including China (and re… https://t.co/NKh52XUddc

Todesspiel Part I “Volksgefängnis” – extraordinary reconstruction of Sep 1977 abduction of Hanns-Martin Schleyer by… https://t.co/xO0rimWBiC

One of the really big macroeconomic questions is how far a MASSIVE shock to the labour market will cause a surge in… https://t.co/l9EnlOEin9

At the peak of Bernanke QE Fed bought $120bn of Treasuries every MONTH. Today they are buying $70bn each DAY. Tors… https://t.co/1v7F5A1gLP

How vulnerable are markets to a redemption shock? Funds with estimated liquidity shortfalls account for half of all… https://t.co/qR9wM8Yhvd

As corporate bond market surged after 2008, stocks held by broker-dealers were run down under shock of crisis & pre… https://t.co/6okkoyoQ65

What is to come is a historic test of the bond market model of corporate finance which expanded from $2trn to $7trn… https://t.co/tVUCFVOkuQ

In the collapse of March 2020 global equity markets lost $20trn in value. From Torsten Slok’s latest chart book at… https://t.co/qZkiYGVEzk

The shock to prime money market funds in March 2020 was even more severe than in 2008. From Torsten Slok’s latest… https://t.co/PUAT7191Id

IF Europe and US are able to replicate Hubei timeline then we would expect them to begin lifting restrictions in th… https://t.co/BJikvrW0QO

Yield-curve control is in effect: The US suffers the most spectacular labour market shock ever 2 weeks back to back… https://t.co/lfcXTIaPkW

In the Informal Economy, There’s No Shelter: The biblical scenes in India remind us that 60% of worlds working po… https://t.co/lThG5d0vh5

Banks are in better shape than 2008 is one of the mantras of 2020. Their capital is stronger. But many are sitting… https://t.co/doKTJ2NmtE

As @Temple_West reports, ratings agencies are in the crosshairs in 2020 both for unhelpful (but honest) wave of dow… https://t.co/h2nGUbHnqK

@You_Shu_China You are right.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-controlled companies that guarantee nearly half of US mortgages, could r… https://t.co/QdB5hy6arH

Fact that ratings agencies are all choosing intellectual honesty over customer service—that they’re all rushing to… https://t.co/kCe9kBnABm

What does a lockdown mean if you are one of America’s almost 570,000 homeless, living on the street or in a shelter… https://t.co/GOTZr209tG

A month that felt like years. Looking back at a period of staggering volatility in financial markets:… https://t.co/y4TPa2Ik5Q

Mortgage banks and services have vociferously resisted adequate stress testing and regulation. Now corona has expos… https://t.co/Br4qlru0WD