ADAM TOOZE

Luggables: those things were heavy. https://t.co/aWTwzCCD3u

Massive China Mobile contract for buildout of 5G networks: Huawei 57,2%, ZTE 28,7%, Ericsson 11,5%. Nokia = 0% Whe… https://t.co/vV3i6iUiQr

If this figure of 21k health care workers scrambling to support New York in the corona crisis stand up then that wo… https://t.co/VSBOHr17hK

NEW: In the middle of a pandemic, this week the Secret Service signed a $45,000 "emergency order" to rent golf cart… https://t.co/RxkZLAez26

More evidence of the vulnerability of South Africa amongst the stressed EM from the excellent @SergiLanauIIF https://t.co/iRxCVOnjo5

Self-employed and new businesses are extremely vulnerable to the corona hit. The effects will be spread across Euro… https://t.co/HvijafgQZ6

When we do eventually get net numbers, this period will probably look even worse than that stretch in 2009 because… https://t.co/HUCHqYUDSi

For a more apples-to-apples comparison: The 10 million claims filed in the past two weeks are more than in the wors… https://t.co/eOHGYQ7oyb

Why will it be difficult to ‘restart’ the economy? Because COVID-19 is hitting its most essential hubs the hardest… https://t.co/6ugYYOVTSz

Economic policy uncertainty in Germany follows an idiosyncratic track: 2008 less significant than EZ crisis but cor… https://t.co/tQPM06d4t0

Warning signs flashing today in the FX markets. Are we heading back to mid-March. Will the Fed’s interventions stan… https://t.co/3BhVKeSHTm

The position reduction foreign investors are experiencing in stocks and bonds is stabilizing EM flows. However, a d… https://t.co/9XZIROpRbT

To understand the magnitude of these claims, consider that in February, there were 17 million people employed in le… https://t.co/usiEU5F6KO

Great thread on the mind-blowing US unemployment number this morning, from top labour economist @hshierholz… https://t.co/1ALsBBk2fF

Great thread on the mind-blowing US unemployment number this morning, from top labour economist @hshierholz… https://t.co/pWF8tepWt2

What is the future of the EM beyond the immediate crisis? @RobinBrooksIIF & @IIF @SteveJohnson000 and now… https://t.co/tpXIQa1Lci

@voss_59 @poltheoryother Last week it went up! Let us see how today develops. FX looking quite unsettled.

@GeorgeAllister1 @poltheoryother thanks for your interest check out https://t.co/L1DizZeDdx

Nice piece from @adam_tooze – he is right!! https://t.co/dibFRUnGsF

6.6 m … I can’t process this. 6.6 m in a week! Thinking back to earlier moments in the crisis when this was not h…

“Der @RobinBrooksIIF” is indeed a Must-Follow on EM! https://t.co/UzxWMk5OUH

"internalize the enormity of the numbers and their implications” – this is precisely the challenge @elerianm https://t.co/xkDnimaLIL

Strange days: @MESandbu Invoking the economics of shortage, Soviet repressed inflation etc to make sense of the loc… https://t.co/py4v9Oogbz

The U.S. has now just in the past few weeks lost nearly 10 million jobs, more than the 8.7 million lost in the Great Recession.

Not even a log scale is enough to eliminate the vertical implosion of the US labour market. https://t.co/z8y4JSIs6W

"A collapse in the labor market that has never been seen before," @mckonomy. Sadly, the direct unfavorable effects… https://t.co/Z4TQaF3nIy

NY Fed: "It may be desirable for regulators to suspend the publication of bank-specific information during a crisis… https://t.co/ixOkvvBQ4I

Today’s unemployment number is TEN TIMES worse than the worst week in 2008-9! America’s broken public health system… https://t.co/b7YlmbANjZ

Have you heard ‘#83 A crisis like no other w/ Adam Tooze’ by @poltheoryother on #SoundCloud? #np https://t.co/FoMHYy5C04

Realism is a loaded term in our current predicament. I chatted with @ezraklein about pastiche realism a few days ag… https://t.co/gLPJDQdifG

The Virtues of Violence Democracy Against Disintegration in Modern France by @ktduoung88 Out with @OUPAcademic Look… https://t.co/uQZ5IQbMfP

We’ve got 99 problems right now … inflation should not be one. @MESandbu excellent as ever.… https://t.co/WzaqFGLbDF

Is MAGA consistent with US Fed role as steward of global $ system? We used to doubt it. But, now look at Powell!… https://t.co/UzsIxiVF0r

Italian manufacturing output is falling at rates not seen since 2008 and that hit the Italian industrial economy ha… https://t.co/OdmRhFwuhl

The fiscal impact of 2008 followed by COVID-19 in the US is beginning to look a bit like the double whammy of Great… https://t.co/aU2oS27QZi

Huge and unprecedented collapse in services consumption drives @GoldmanSachs shocking predictions for US GDP in Q2.… https://t.co/yeeLcElZEP