ADAM TOOZE

I’m going to be doing this Twitter chat on the global economy and corona today at 2pm ET. My first time on one of t…

“Barefoot migration” – Indian gov estimates that in response to lockdown 600,000 migrant workers trekked on foot fr… https://t.co/iRngJvy4g5

What happens when you impose a lockdown with no notice on an economy of 471m workers, of which 2/3 have no contract… https://t.co/UykgZGbxax

“The first great crisis of the post-American world”? The GREAT problem with @carlbildt superficially attractive the… https://t.co/yR3P2KgEsU

Analysts cannot rely on tactics used in the 1987 crisis, the post-9/11 markets slump or the 2008 crash to recover a… https://t.co/VULiTle2bS

“March was like a bomb went off; two bombs, in fact, with the virus and [the oil shock], "central banks have tried… https://t.co/jdAJhdMJBY

Return to trend? @MorganStanley does not expect the US economy to return to trend by the end of 2021. More "tuning… https://t.co/7TL5P4EPrm

@BJMbraun this is so good and timely https://t.co/JCP2dSI5qx

ESSENTIAL reading for all of us interested in the dollar-based global financial system. https://t.co/WqzMFPM4wc

The recovery in consumer confidence has begun in China. But it is more “swoosh” than V-shaped. @GoldmanSachs via… https://t.co/doVcmRk3y7

This report on the situation in NYC’s hospitals makes hard reading. But here is the killer line. AT THIS POINT they… https://t.co/WGxRmQSvgo

It was not long ago that many of us worried that Trump’s admin and Congressional GOP would obstruct global stabiliz… https://t.co/jLKeTAga2P

Comparing the COVID-19 stimuli is difficult due to different types of spending. This is a sophisticated & well-docu… https://t.co/FiBv5F3GQm

Fed has stopped panic for now. It has backstopped IG -> corporate big names are issuing debt like crazy. But Damocl… https://t.co/fADJKiORd1

The explosion of the Fed’s balance sheet in the last two weeks dwarfs anything we saw in 2008 or after. Fed moved s… https://t.co/PEyktNcGb8

With China rolling back lockdown, quarantine efforts still cover countries & “regions that produce almost 50 per ce… https://t.co/kux9xIsZjQ

White House Economists Warned in 2019 a Pandemic Could Devastate America but leading officials like acting chair of… https://t.co/EZdJ9VhZid

This report on the situation in NYC’s hospitals makes hard reading. But here is the killer line. AT THIS POINT they… https://t.co/Xp6K7FYbja

@d_jaishankar @zevin_a @TheEconomist Thank you.

It was not long ago that many of us worried that Trump’s admin and Congressional GOP would obstruct global stabiliz… https://t.co/NfbjHU9sDy

Comparing the COVID-19 stimuli is difficult due to different types of spending. This is a sophisticated & well-docu… https://t.co/1WQ7k8CFyz

Fed has stopped panic for now. It has backstopped IG -> corporate big names are issuing debt like crazy. But Damocl… https://t.co/hJD145fWhL

The explosion of the Fed’s balance sheet in the last two weeks dwarfs anything we saw in 2008 or after. Fed moved s… https://t.co/eYs65X5ZYs

With China rolling back lockdown, quarantine efforts still cover countries & “regions that produce almost 50 per ce… https://t.co/aX44GFSGff

White House Economists Warned in 2019 a Pandemic Could Devastate America but leading officials like acting chair of… https://t.co/rwhMQF6h6i

Like a game level or a Christopher Nolan film. A few random pics of diamond factories in China stocked with huge “p… https://t.co/Fq6fRKuoXE

No kidding! This is happening in my lifetime!! https://t.co/6qOFCYHwqZ

Nextstrain is a remarkable resource mapping mutations of the novel coronavirus. H/t @edieconntooze… https://t.co/pIsgY1pqF3

NY-Presbyterian and Yale-New Haven hospitals are both facing financial squeeze as pandemic hits. Deficits running i… https://t.co/1LZGiIUJsJ

“To the Federal Reserve’s credit, it is playing the role of central banker to the world rather than denying it and… https://t.co/YaQSuth5PA

If you know the relationship between these two objects, then you are in a Covid-19 high risk category and you shoul… https://t.co/vCv5rlNJXy

The global lockdown is a giant social-economic-political experiment of which China and India are by far the most dr… https://t.co/kxOt1vCDM3

3. Mohammad Younas, a tailor in Kandahar, turned his shop into a small mask factory so he could hand them out to th… https://t.co/AQfh23QSWx