ADAM TOOZE

Great thread from @michaelxpettis laying out his skepticism about prospect of CNY emergence as rival or replacement… https://t.co/cSDbDdktBR

In 2008/9 Dubai came close to bankruptcy. Then crisis-debt was concentrated in real estate and Abu Dhabi stepped in… https://t.co/ZVcm5QpCvm

How Europe splintered over contact tracing apps Centralized v. decent UK/France/Norway v. Germany/Italy States v. A… https://t.co/9cqKThVF9Z

The total number of medical staff deployed by China to Hubei is now up to 42,600. In US there has been some volunta… https://t.co/lJbebncb5p

4 ways of managing risk: 1. Individual – caveat emptor 2. Collective – looking out for your neighbors 3. Hierarchic… https://t.co/Ex1CPNMMqx

"In fact, politics – and specifically emancipatory politics – relies on the act of creation, affirmation, and inven… https://t.co/tktTV8CbBw

As social scientists Mary Douglas and Aaron Wildavsky pointed out in their seminal 1983 book Risk and Culture, “The… https://t.co/3GGUYavXJQ

"The United States’ decline is over-predicted and under-believed … many of those Americans who see the decay reject… https://t.co/zsdWnImXS3

Russia (221k) moves to 3rd in the world in reported Covid-19 cases, ahead of UK (220k) & Italy (219k). However, Rus… https://t.co/h8C8h9UErI

COVID-19 crisis augurs 3 watersheds according to @arvindsubraman 1. end of Europe’s integration project 2. end of a… https://t.co/UT11MWHK1b

@adam_tooze Pearl harbour https://t.co/6btBrObDGP

@adam_tooze That’s the USS Shaw at Pearl Harbor

"It has become increasingly obvious that 2006 was the peak year of globalisation.” It was followed by “dis-integrat… https://t.co/5j1ULG50Zc

"The largest 1 per cent of investment groups manage 61 per cent of total industry assets. This is 243 times that of… https://t.co/Ie7L42PrTd

To win the argument over future of euro "supporters of political and monetary integration must let go of the ECB as… https://t.co/wVZrkAGxDF

If the Fed loads “the bazooka with the kitchen sink and goes nuclear”, will it end up crossing the Rubicon like the… https://t.co/WQq4k3qZhG

Now Mitch McConnell is worrying about deficits. Larry Fink of BlackRock and Ray Dalio of Bridgwater are warning of… https://t.co/TVDzf1NQzZ

This lecture on Egyptian Army in disastrous 1967 war looks fascinating. Great slides! https://t.co/S8faBYCHha

@SDullien @therealchris_mk @ThomasSigmundHB @AchimTruger @jsuedekum @handelsblatt @PeterBofinger @BachmannRudi… https://t.co/UzOlFloa3E

The Fed's Unwritten Mandate: Liquidity at all Costs Crisis talk with @MkBlyth is, as you would expect, endlessly en… https://t.co/aioHHys1Ae

This is REALLY interesting on how the apparel supply chain is being reshaped around highly automated Chinese produc… https://t.co/0AbO84TD1r

Broad social theories of the increase in “deaths of despair” understate impact of regulatory failure in medicine, d… https://t.co/09virFuFl2

This is REALLY interesting on how the apparel supply chain is being reshaped around highly automated Chinese produc… https://t.co/8MpaS9JLxE

The Fed's Unwritten Mandate: Liquidity at all Costs Crisis talk with @MkBlyth is, as you would expect, endlessly en… https://t.co/b5sXJEMQzM

"There’s a strange denial — even in supposedly informed policy circles — about the scale of the wealth that’s been… https://t.co/aRdsg4XOFu

It doesn’t take much for a leader in a crisis to enjoy a positive bump in popularity. Some do. Some don’t!.… https://t.co/09IzgRFRSm

The F-35 procurement program of the Pentagon is an aircraft program like no other in the last generation.… https://t.co/ROPuvuFxqB

The Trump admin has unleashed a huge volume of military spending on procurement and development.… https://t.co/VwuRQPB9yW

"COVID-19 And Military Aerospace Markets The Closest The Industry Has To A Safe Haven” Well that’s a title to make… https://t.co/fFtlqWR8pP

Great Council on Foreign Relations call last week on COVID-19 shock, moderated by @gilliantett. @adam_tooze flagged… https://t.co/5w7aalSqJa

Truck-buying red states, like Texas and Florida, with less-restrictive lockdowns during the Covid-19 crisis are kee… https://t.co/VIXWEzCfkf

What if we took Disney Parks revenue as our indicator of “economic normality”? It tracked https://t.co/wtQyGSHxOC &… https://t.co/3VLVLSrvaq

"Some future autopsy of the pandemic might be called Strange Defeat, after the historian and Resistance fighter Mar… https://t.co/Ei8QKQKzs1