ADAM TOOZE

Why is the smog in Beijing so bad despite the coronavirus shutdown? Steel production in Tangshan, a city neighborin… https://t.co/hntJrb5L9V

This is a fascinating thread on what China has done to stop the virus spreading. Very hard to imagine this working… https://t.co/KBWql7eBJ9

If we want to understand how powerful an opponent SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) is, let’s take a look what has been require… https://t.co/0M3UPlUXZ3

Macron is right to push for a large eurozone stimulus. Issue is not yet on political radar screens in Berlin. If Me… https://t.co/7MNKrcQH1U

South American drug cartels have long profited turned Guinea-Bissau — with its labyrinthine Atlantic coastline of i… https://t.co/YE0SpjJrTP

Remarkable thread on the impact of COVID-19 containment measures on air pollution and mortality in China. Compariso… https://t.co/8GdogsJZru

The Indian rupee is currently under severe pressure because of corona anxiety. If the RBI wants to fight a deprecia… https://t.co/HHJnzePFPv

During the Trump Presidency, net migration to the US has fallen by 40% despite a tight labour market. Torsten Slok… https://t.co/l79GmnCdf8

This is the new benchmark: it took China a month to provisionally contain the Whuan and Hubei corona outbreak. How… https://t.co/04pNlMhkjL

Corona tourism shutdown is very bad news for Portugal and Spain two of the Eurozone economies still recovering, ten… https://t.co/SwGABaCgs1

If you can’t visit a showroom you cant buy a car: China has seen a 80% fall in car sales since coronavirus crisis e… https://t.co/ckKWvseTN2

As of yesterday 78% of S&P 500 stocks now have a dividend yield that is above the 10yr Treasury. 93% of dividend-pa… https://t.co/7H2UjhBPrb

Yesterday was a terrible day for the S&P500. But it was truly awful for energy stocks highlighted here.… https://t.co/jgWhX1nGGr

"The most effective means against the virus is time”. Merkel on COVID19 articulating the case for public health mea… https://t.co/MaXmsOu4rD

“You’ve got a thin semblance of sanity in market today, but it is very thin indeed,” word from Tokyo. “There are so… https://t.co/nAmcN0eYVo

If you believe these numbers from China, we now know what you have to do to contain a coronavirus outbreak. Italy… https://t.co/uFwFRSE82N

With new infections in China virtually halted and S. Korea being slowed rapidly, Italy and Iran currently account f… https://t.co/GiaJ4LkQpY

Flattening the curve: French media and politics actually doing the essential work of explaining the logic of public… https://t.co/OSX1mGlE7y

“Speed of the deterioration is important because of the shock effect, and because it makes forecasting harder. We’r… https://t.co/bqqGCeirkR

Tightening of financial conditions “is happening at light speed … mostly because of credit spreads widening so much… https://t.co/1KCQJeijh6

The 1959 Tibetan uprising began on 10 March 1959, when a revolt erupted in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomo… https://t.co/9kvcwYuZjW

On current trends it will take South Korea only 3 weeks to get initial spread of COVID19 under control. But that re… https://t.co/BowGMQYJP2

This is the new benchmark: it took China a month to provisionally contain the Whuan and Hubei corona outbreak. How… https://t.co/zIzsSKEAkT

Yesterday was a terrible day for the S&P500. But it was truly awful for energy stocks highlighted here.… https://t.co/xk3wrDgNdt

If you believe these numbers from China, we now know what you have to do to contain a coronavirus outbreak. Italy… https://t.co/dMifbZInTr

Does a sudden increase in demand for the Fed's repo financing point to early signs of liquidity pressures?… https://t.co/eJ0mkhdyO0

With all oil producers under pressure, the winners and losers in the oil price war are likely to be decided by capi… https://t.co/FPhJKi6kDf

Several countries have tested more people for coronavirus every day than the U.S. has all month:… https://t.co/W9GUW2eWNc

Read this thread from an ICU physician in Bergamo Italy …. Read it through to the end! https://t.co/NAegUQCerW

Conditions such as HIV, diarrhea & malaria have seen precipitous declines south of the Sahara but diseases of the n… https://t.co/BSPViqnvYA

Nearly three-quarters of all deaths from infectious disease in 2016 happened in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and… https://t.co/Sc6byeH5QP

Grand coalition meets for seven hours and agrees “stimulus package”: 0.1% of GDP starting in 2021. Germany still ta… https://t.co/QbLd63dzk1

In 1985 when Saudi last unleashed an oil price shock like the one we are feeling today, Algeria was a prominent cas… https://t.co/sYlEtXgYJH

Bloomberg's broad commodity index hit the lowest level since 1986. @SoberLook This is going to be bad for a whole r… https://t.co/jNkUdrR26n

When oil prices fall the entire energy sector gets hit. US natural gas prices have fallen to multi-decade lows.… https://t.co/faRg7d1J4s