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Adam Tooze

Professor of History; Author of Chartbook, Columbia University

Search every verified Adam Tooze interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Adam Tooze, an economics columnist for Foreign Policy and professor at Columbia University, has continued to co-host the podcast Ones and Tooze with deputy editor Cameron Abadi, discussing a range of economic topics. Recent episodes covered the record-high price of diesel fuel in the United States, which Tooze described as a fuel that moves the world economy's logistics, and the gridlock in the U.S. housing market amid high mortgage rates. He also discussed Brazil's presidential election, characterizing Lula administrations as beneficial for ordinary Brazilians based on economic data such as record-low unemployment. In other episodes, Tooze examined the memoir of political scientist Francis Fukuyama, AI regulation in the context of industry leaders' warnings about existential risks, and the electoral success of Germany's far-right AfD party, which he described as an "earthquake" in German politics. Beyond the podcast, Tooze participated in interviews and discussions on energy and housing policy. In an interview recorded at the World Economic Forum's Summer Davos in Dalian, China, he described the green energy transition as "the single most dramatic story in the history of energy" and discussed how China's leadership has credibly committed to climate goals. In a video with the German magazine Surplus, he discussed the potential for socializing large housing corporations in Germany, arguing that a mixed economy in housing is sensible and that the ideologically blinkered notion of property should be questioned. He also appeared on the German podcast Märkte, Mächte, Emissionen, where he discussed fuel pricing policies and criticized former President Trump's approach to diesel prices, saying Trump "can't get it together" to resolve the structural conflict between cheap fuel and profit.

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“one of the central legitimacy crises of the '08 financial crisis not widely felt and not on the streets and Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are raising this but inside the technocratic bubble is that these models were really not well designed to handle the '08 moment and a lot of the most interesting monetary theory we we're remembering today a I don't know whether you saw listeners may know that Perry Merling the gr”

“Yeah, this is fascinating stuff. It's very reminiscent of my own days of training as an economist in the 80s. And it's the most technical Nobel Prize in economics we've had in a while. So, you know, no, may the Lord forgive us for what we're about to do in trying to make sense of this and convey its general import. And part of the problem, in fact, is that Woodford and Hall's theoretizations are themselves very compl”

“I think the simple answer is that once again it seems the Europeans have the weakest hand. They have a large deficit of diesel. Anyone with refining capacity certainly is in a stronger position and that means you don't need to be an oil producer. You need to be the person that turns oil into something that people actually want because people don't want barrels of oil. They want diesel and they want so interesting the”

“The reason why everyone needs to be interested in diesel is that it is the fuel for the prime movers of the world economy. So diesel is logistics in short. It's everything everything you buy is moved and it's moved overwhelmingly with diesel. Um whenever you hear one of those truck chug chug type noises, that's a diesel engine that's moving your parcels or your food or your clothing or the container ship that's going”

“The way to think about it is that up until now our data center business has been almost entirely GPUs. Vera is our CPU, and you know what's really exciting is that Vera opens a brand new 200 billion TAM for NVIDIA, a market we have never addressed before, and every major hyperscaler is partnering with us to get it deployed, and that's huge for the company because for the first time we have a second engine of that sca”

“The big simple story is that Lula administrations in Brazil are very good for ordinary Brazilians and especially Brazilians at the bottom end of the extremely skewed income and wealth distribution. And the facts on this are just completely undeniable. There's an element here of COVID recovery. Brazil had a very bad COVID under Bolsonaro senior and it's bounced back but it goes way beyond that. So the current unemploy”

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